from Raw Story:
A visiting US lawmaker claimed Monday that Washington had been involved in Liberia’s “destabilisation” before and after a series of civil wars that killed tens of thousands over the past three decades.
“Our government was supportive of some things that happened in the destabilisation of this country,” US Congressman Benjamin Swan of Massachusetts told [...]

http://www.consortiumnews.com…
Jason Leopold
A high-ranking CIA official warned Condoleezza Rice in September 2002 that allegations about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger were untrue and that she, as national security adviser, should stop President George W. Bush from citing the claim in making his case against Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to new evidence released by a House [...]

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Method to Thomas Madness on Obama Birth Certificate
…Thomas’s legal meddle on the Obama birth certificate non-issue fits perfectly in with his jaundiced interpretation of law and its practice and his private vow to get revenge on his liberal tormentors.
Study: Nearly half of world’s jailed journalists come from Web…More [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk…
David Pallister and Rob Evans
-US freezes tobacco trader’s assets over allegations
-Raid in Johannesburg linked to BAE arms deal
The US treasury has frozen the American assets of one of Britain’s richest men after accusing him of financially supporting Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe.
Describing him as a “regime crony”, the US accused John Bredenkamp, 68, of providing [...]

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from Huff Po by Eric Margolis
November 24, 2008
They are ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and cute little Johnny Depps they are not. Somalia’s pirates tote AK-47’s and RPG rockets, chew the narcotic shrub qat, use satellite cell phones for their negotiations, and are just about the only people in strife-ravaged Somalia these days who have a [...]

1. British National Party membership and contacts list, 2007-2008…
British National Party (BNP) membership and contacts list. The BNP is a “far right” party, whose members are banned by the UK civil service from a number of government occupations. 12,801 individuals are represented. Contains contact details of all or nearly all party members and some other [...]

How Did McCain Escape Expulsion from the Senate?…
John McCain, according to a revelatory article in The New Republic, was almost certainly the source for illegal leaks during the Keating Five investigation — leaks that, if proven, would have been cause for his expulsion from the United States Senate for perjury. Additionally, according to [...]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com…
Five regional U.S. military commands

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. Africa Command, the Pentagon’s first effort to unite its counterterrorism, training and humanitarian operations on the continent, launches Wednesday amid questions at home about its mission and deep suspicions in Africa about its intentions. U.S. officials have billed the new command, known as Africom, as [...]

http://www.independent.co.uk/…
By Ian Evans and a Special Correspondent in Manicaland
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Foreign mercenaries have joined so-called “war veterans” and militiamen attacking opposition supporters in rural parts of Zimbabwe, human rights workers have confirmed.

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By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Posted on July 14, 2008, Printed on July 14, 2008
Whether or not we have fully arrived at peak oil can be left to the nitpickers and bean counters to decide. What we know for sure is that the cost of black gold has exponentially risen in just a few short years, and [...]