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Joe Sudbay (DC)
Now Dick Cheney and John McCain were in Iraq last week telling us all how great things were going, although Cheney had to sneak into Iraq without being greeted as a liberator, five years later, and McCain repeatedly didn’t know the basic facts about the n Sunnis and Shiites. George Bush, [...]

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RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday March 25, 2008
Hallburton subsidiary KBR told employees at a water injection plant in Iraq a sand-like substance scattered around the plant was just a “mild irritant,” workers recall.
It turns out to be sodium dichromate — a highly toxic chemical which can lead to cancer even with limited exposure.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/…
The incoming Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has said his country is not happy about the prospect of Ukraine and Georgia joining Nato.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/…
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 18 minutes ago
The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear components for an intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan but has recovered them and launched an investigation.

http://www.atlargely.com/…
Dick Cheney said today that Hamas was responsible for the peace talks failures between Palestine and Israel:
“ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney, concluding two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, said Monday that Hamas militants and their backers in Iran and Syria are playing the role of spoiler in Mideast peace [...]

http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/…
I’ll bet the parents of the kids who are bullying Billy Wolfe fancy themselves to be good Christians who go to church on Sunday. But whatever they are, there is something profoundly wrong with a society in which beating up a kid for being different — whether “different” is gay, short, tall, glasses, fat, skinny, [...]

http://www.reuters.com/…
Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:45am EDT
MINSK (Reuters) - The intelligence agency in Belarus, an ex-Soviet state locked in a diplomatic row with Washington, confirmed on Tuesday that a espionage ring working for the United States had been uncovered in the country.

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Scientific American Mind
by Jim Miles
Global Research, March 25, 2008
Sometimes the science community, hiding behind the guise of empirical research, cannot see its own bias even while correctly analyzing a situation. The latter statement may seem contradictory, but given the manner in which it studies ‘terror’ and then applies those findings and definitions only to [...]

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Richard M Bennett
Asia Times
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:01 EDT
Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place outside of Tibet and that the direction of the protesters is similarly in the [...]

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By PAUL SCHEMM
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — An American cargo ship under contract to the U.S. Navy opened fire on a small Egyptian boat while moving through the Suez Canal, the U.S. military said Tuesday in a statement. Egyptian authorities said at least one man was killed, but the U.S. said it had no [...]