1. Judge Rejects Blackwater Attempt to Dismiss Cases
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... hasn’t quickly decided to risk more of their lives in an Afghan war that is likely to be unwinnable. In a post-World War II world that has featured a non-traditional militarized foreign policy of pro...

2. Obama Steps Up Drone Raids Despite Death of Civili
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... October 2009 The US federal government is facing a lawsuit over $16bn in unclaimed bonds going back as far as World War II, with six states arguing that the US treasury department should pay them ou...

3. Deception, Spin and Lies
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...re has been a lot of discussion and debate on the continuing war in Afghanistan.  Lasting twice as long as World War II and with no end in sight, the war in Afghanistan has been one of the longes...

4. WW2 Start 70th Anniversary
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...ay, 01 September 2009 European leaders are gathering in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, amid a dispute between EU Baltic states and Russia over the Soviet Union's...

5. Health care reform may not be an option
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...sborn    Tuesday, 21 July 2009 Taboos preventing universal health care for AmericansTen years after World War II had ended, as the US was exercising economic hegemony over much of the worl...

6. How McNamara Lost World War II
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Dear [NAME] How McNamara Lost World War II Op_ed By Greg Palast    Tuesday, 14 July 2009 It's been a good week. Robert McNamara's dead and my book, Armed Madhouse, was released in trans

7. Against the Tortured Logic of Obama's Placebo Pres
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...ding the fact that the U.S. government prosecuted Japanese military personnel who waterboarded U.S. POWs during World War II. Their reasoning goes as follows: Since the president’s attorneys redefined...

8. Re: Drones: America\'s New Air Force
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...ed whether the U.S. can sustain its informal global empire in the wake of the most severe economic crisis since World War II. And the simultaneous quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading more an...

9. Sir Winston Peres
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...l statutes against torture, maybe this would be a good time to revisit the case of Tomoyuki Yamashita. He was a World War II Japanese army general in charge of troops in the Pacific. After the war, he...

10. Iraq Invasion 6th Anniversary
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...has predicted the global economy will shrink by as much as 1.5 per cent this year - its first contraction since World War II. CONTINUE... US concerned over seized reporters Global By Agencies &...