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Oct 05 2009
Fired UN Official Accuses UN of Helping Cover Up Afghan Electoral Fraud
By MWC News   

Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the top American diplomat at the United Nations in Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith. Galbraith had accused his boss at the UN mission in Afghanistan, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, of helping cover up electoral fraud and being biased in favor of Hamid Karzai. Galbraith has described the Afghan election as a “foreseeable train wreck” and says the election has “handed the Taliban its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners.”

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Tags:  UN Official Peter Galbraith Electoral Fraud Hamid Karzai
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Supreme Court to Review PATRIOT Act
By MWC News   

In its first-ever review of the PATRIOT Act, the Supreme Court has announced it will decide the constitutionality of a controversial anti-terrorism law that makes it a crime to give any form of aid, including humanitarian assistance, to groups on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. The Supreme Court case centers on a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the Humanitarian Law Project.

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Tags:  David Cole Supreme Court PATRIOT Act Terror List
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Scott Ritter on Iran Nuke Program
By MWC News   

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins us to discuss what he calls “politically motivated hype” over Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration has warned of sanctions unless Iran allows inspections of a newly disclosed nuclear site. Iran insists the site has been used for peaceful purposes. The row comes just after Iran’s test-firing of medium- and long-range missiles and before Iranian officials are due to hold talks with the US and five other nations in Geneva.

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Tags:  Scott Ritter Iran Nuke Obama administration
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Police State Raids Against Immigrants
By Stephen Lendman   

In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established its largest investigative and enforcement branch - the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm (ICE) "as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children (who are) criminal (and) terrorist" threats to the nation.

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Tags:  Stephen Lendman Police State US Immigrants Homeland Security
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Pentagon Taking Over U.S. Foreign Policy
By Sherwood Ross   

The Pentagon has virtually replaced the State Department in making U.S. foreign policy,  The Nation magazine charges.
 
“Quietly, gradually---and inevitably, given the weight of its colossal budget and imperial writ---the Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department at the center of US foreign policy-making,” reporter Stephen Glain writes in the Sept. 28 issue.

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Tags:  Sherwood Ross Pentagon U.S. Foreign Policy Nation magazine
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