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by Bill Sardi
Late Friday, June 27, 2008, when news viewing is low and Americans are busy finishing their work week and getting home for the weekend, and with many Americans on summer vacation and away from their normal sources of news, the Justice Department announces it has settled a lawsuit with “a person of interest” [...]

http://www.chris-floyd.com/…
As we know from The Godfather — that seminal work of American political philosophy which serves as the Bible for policy-making in the Bush Administration — a horse’s head in the bed can be highly effective tool in difficult contract negotiations. Last Friday, Bush went his fictional mentors one better in the “negotiations” over an [...]

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The News Organizations Used an “Internal ICE Memorandum” on the Reyes Kidnapping Without Citing the Source
By Al Giordano
Publisher, Narco News
June 29, 2008
On Monday, June 23, Narco News broke the story of the kidnapping and subsequent release, in Mexico, of a relative of US Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas). In our ongoing coverage, on June 25, this newspaper published [...]

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By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 29, 2008; A14
Jawed Ahmad, a driver and assistant for reporters of a Canadian television network in Afghanistan, knew the roads to avoid, how to get interviews and which stories to pitch. Reporters trusted him, his bosses say.
Then, one day about seven months ago, the 22-year-old CTV News [...]

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The two most wanted men in the Balkans may not be too well hidden to be captured, but too well protected, writes the BBC’s Nick Thorpe.
“Look, isn’t that your friend?”
The Dutch journalist’s wife pointed through the glass window of the restaurant at a man sitting at an outside table.
Even from behind, the shape of the [...]

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by Seymour M. Hersh July 7, 2008
Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded “the coherence of military strategy,” one general says.

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Sun Jun 29, 5:53 AM ET
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.

guardian.co.uk
Israeli fighter jets flew 1,500 kms across the Mediterranean this month, in a dry run for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Tehran has threatened to treat such a raid as a declaration of war. As the Middle East braces itself for a stand-off of epic proportions, how close is the region to that nightmare [...]

metimes.com
Published: June 29, 2008
LONDON (AFP) Israel has one year to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme or it faces the risk of coming under nuclear attack, the former head of its foreign intelligence agency said in an interview published Sunday.

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Monday, June 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska incident in 1908, in which a meteor or comet fragment entered the atmosphere over Tunguska in Siberia producing an enormous explosion.