Clearing Air: An Interview With Wajid Shamsul HassanSource: IbrahimSajidMalick
The ISI had plotted a stint to malign the President of Pakistan when the Pakistani High Commisioner to Britain was intercepted in Geneva while retrieving documents for the National Acountability Bureau from Swiss attorneys. He was accompanied by Dr.
BBC News - Iraq shoe thrower Zaidi faces Paris shoe-ingSource: BBC News
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-throwing attack.
Muntadar al-Zaidi was speaking about Iraqi war victims at a news conference in Paris, but managed to duck in time.
Re-started collider smashes previous recordSource: IrishExaminer.com
The "Big Bang" machine with which scientists hope to re-create conditions at the dawn of the universe smashed the world record for accelerating subatomic particles today.
Why we have to talk with Tehran - The Globe and MailSource: The Globe and Mail
Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Should the Obama administration have a dialogue with Iran? Can we still talk to these people? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations?
Hoh, Oho!Source: Truth Spring
Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and who on September 10 this year resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war.
Blackwater's Unwritten Death ContractSource: Consortiumnews.com
Hats off to Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times for reporting that it was after CIA Director Leon Panetta's holdover lieutenants finally told him that, under President Bush, they had farmed out assassinations to their Blackwater subsidiary, that he abruptly stopped the project an …
The Key Teachings of John CalvinSource:
John Calvin was one of the pillars of the Protestant Reformation, and as such his teachings have had a tremendous influence on many aspects of society all the way to the present day.
Dissolve the Palestinian AuthoritySource: Information Clearing House
Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority's latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli …

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today most strongly condemned the suicidal attack on the World Food Offices in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. According to UN sources, a few have been confirmed dead while the critically injured are being treated in hospital.
Iran Nuclear Talks Begin in Geneva Source: Wall Street Journal
The U.S. and Iran had one of their highest level meetings in decades Thursday, when the State Department's No. 3 diplomat had a one-on-one session with his Iranian counterpart during talks in Geneva.
US urges Israel to probe Gaza crimes to boost peaceSource: Daily Star
GENEVA: The United States called on its close ally Israel Tuesday to conduct credible investigations into allegations of war crimes committed by its forces in Gaza, saying it would help the Middle East peace process.
Ritter Interview on IranSource: Democracy Now!
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.
West Raps Iran Nuclear SiteSource: Wall Street Journal
PITTSBURGH -- The leaders of the U.S., France and Britain charged Iran has built a secret nuclear facility designed to give the Islamic republic the ability to build an atomic weapon, a revelation that significantly raises the stakes in the West's intensifying face-off with Tehra …
U.S. Infection Rate Set at 50% with 90,000 DeathsSource: ABC News
Up to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 could die this season, according to a dire report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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The "annual death rate" for Afghan infants is about 7%, this proving what an utter sham "democracy" is in Occupied Afghanistan and the war criminality of the US Alliance Occupiers, the US, the UK, NATO and Australia.
H1N1 Pandemic Spreading Too Fast to CountSource: Reuters
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case.
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First 'Healthy' Swine Flu DeathSource: BBC News
"We've all been gritting our teeth, waiting for this to happen, and now it has. This doesn't necessarily mean the virus has mutated.
"Whether more patients with no underlying health problems die of the disease really depends on what the virus does next."
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The True Story Behind Psychology's Role in TortureSource: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo. He breaks down crying and says he wants his family. The interrogator senses the boy is psychologically vulnerable and consults with a psychologist.