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Chinese soldiers wearing riot gear patrol the streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang on July 6, 2009.

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CHINA: AUTHORITIES WIDEN CRACKDOWN AFTER XINJIANG RIOTS

10 July 2009
Chinese president Hu Jintao’s threats of severe punishment for those who took part in the recent unrest in Xinjiang failed to address the serious human rights violations at the root of Uighur grievances, Amnesty International said... More

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Wang Lequan, left, Communist Party secretary in Xinjiang, and Nuer Baikeli, Xinjiang's governor.

A Strongman Is China’s Rock in Ethnic Strife

By MICHAEL WINES
Published: July 10, 2009
BEIJING — As ethnic Han gangs roamed the streets of Urumqi on Tuesday at dusk, seeking revenge against Muslim Uighur rioters who killed scores of Han two nights earlier, a balding Communist Party bureaucrat abruptly appeared on the city’s television screens to call for calm... More

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Washington Post: "Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse?" Full Story

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negations: Unorthodox reflections of a revolutionary

Friday July 3, 2009 By Christiana Voniati - AJournalist Living in Cyprus

An interview with pedagogue Bill Ayers, the black President’s “terrorist” friend... On my way to the “Kala Kathoumena” coffee shop, in the old city of Nicosia... Full Story

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Kill the Indian. Save the Man.
Thursday 02 July 2009
by: Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Manifest Destiny

In 1845, an American columnist, John O'Sullivan, writing about the proposed annexation of Texas, claimed that it was America's "manifest destiny to overspread the continent." Later in the same year, referring to the ongoing dispute with Great Britain over Oregon, he wrote that the United States had the right to claim "the whole of Oregon." More

Nicole Sadighi, an Iranian living in London, England, holds her dog Mishka as she rallies beneath a large pre-revolution Iranian flag during a protest against the election results in Iran. (Photo: AP)

US Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data obtained by IPS from the Pentagon itself. The new twist in the charge is that it is being made in the context of serious talks between NATO officials and Iran involving possible Iranian cooperation in NATO's logistical support for the war against the insurgents in Afghanistan." More

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Israel attributed civilian casualties to collateral damage in legitimate action

Amnesty details Gaza 'war crimes'
Amnesty report says Israel and Palestinians were guilty of war crimes in January's Gaza conflict.
Israel committed war crimes and carried out reckless attacks and acts of wanton destruction in its Gaza offensive, an independent human rights report says. Full Story

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a judicial ceremony in Tehran. Photograph: Str/AP

Battle for Iran shifts from the streets to the heart of power
Peter Beaumont and a special correspondent in Tehran
The Observer, Sunday 28 June 2009

Ayatollah Khamenei's support for President Ahmadinejad has led both moderates and hard-liners to start plotting against him. More

At Guantanamo Bay's Camp 5 detention center, a guard stands near the shadow of a detainee. The Obama administration plans to bypass Congress with an executive order allowing indefinite detention, according to government officials. (Photo: Getty Images)

White House Drafts Indefinite Detention Order

Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn, ProPublica and The Washington Post: "The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations." More

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US Policies Criticized by UN Rights Watchdog

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navanethem Pillay. (Photo: AP)

Colum Lynch, The Washington Post: "The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try them in a court of law, and said officials who authorized the use of 'torture' must be held accountable." Full Story

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Officers of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at a meeting with President Ahmadinejad earlier this year. (Photo: Rouholla Vahdati / ISNA / AP)

Protests of the June 12 presidential election are reportedly continuing in Iran, but U.S. intelligence agencies know little about what is happening on the ground due to a lack of staff in the country. Sipa via AP

For US Intelligence, Few Clues to Iran Turmoil

Mary Louise Kelly, NPR: "Generations of Western spies have tried, and mostly failed, to decipher events in Iran. Martin Indyk was among them. Working for Australian intelligence 30 years ago, Indyk, who has since served as a US diplomat, regaled a recent gathering at the Brookings Institution with his efforts to crack Iran in 1979." More

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Following an Israeli missile strike, a Palestinian man attempts to douse flames from a fuel t

ank. (Photo: Xinhua / AP)

Ira Chernus | Palestinian and Israeli Violence: Time to Change the Story

Ira Chernus, TomDispatch.com: "The Israel Project hired pollster Stanley Greenberg to test American opinion on the Middle East conflict - and got a big surprise. In September 2008, 69% of Americans called themselves pro-Israel. Now, it's only 49%. In September, the same 69% wanted the US to side with Israel; now, only 44%. How to explain this dramatic shift? Greenberg himself suggested the answer years ago when he pointed out that, in politics, 'a narrative is the key to everything.' Last year the old narrative about the Middle East conflict was still dominant: Israel is an innocent victim, doing only what it must do to defend itself against the Palestinians. Today, that narrative is beginning to lose its grip on Americans." More

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A nun stands vigilant at the gate of the School of the America's at Fort Benning, Georgia. (Photo: St. Anthony's)

Louis Wolf | A Thoroughly Un-American Institution

Louis Wolf, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "Today, Thursday June 25th Congress will to vote on an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act which would require the School of the Americas/WHINSEC to release to the public the names, ranks, countries of origin, courses taken and dates of attendance of all the students and instructors at the institute. The School of the America's, renamed WHINSEC, is an organization founded with the explicit purpose of teaching its students the science of torture and interrogation techniques. Its records have been concealed, and for the most part its dealings shrouded in mystery." More

De-Econo-Crap!

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor leader Maria Elena Durazo at a rally where she urged Fresh & Easy supermarkets to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement with a local coalition. (Photo: AP)

Recession No Time to Retreat, Says LA Labor Leader

Patrick J. McDonnell, The Los Angeles Times: "The state may be going broke, jobs may be vanishing like the morning mist, and the nation may be enduring its worst economic stretch in decades. But Southern California's top labor leader says this is not the time for unions to beat a retreat. On the contrary." More