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Is The US Hiding Secret Prisons In Afghanistan?

Investigators say they have uncovered ‘illegal and unlawful detention facilities run and operated by foreign military forces’

Common Dreams
Por Common Dreams

An Afghan government panel investigating U.S. and U.K. detention facilities in the country announced Saturday it had two secret and unlawful prisons operating at coalition bases in Afghanistan, The New York Times revealed. “We have conducted a thorough investigation and search of Kandahar Airfield and Camp Bastion and found several illegal and

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Obama Touts Philippine Pact Amid Concerns

A Filipino activist holds a slogan near the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, Monday April 28, 2014 during a rally to oppose the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement between the Philippines and U.S. The U.S. military will have greater access to bases across the Philippines under the new 10-year agreement signed today in conjunction with […]

Associated Press
Por Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama said a 10-year agreement signed Monday to give the U.S military greater access to Philippine bases will help promote peace and stability in the region and that he hopes China's dominant power will allow its neighbors to prosper on their own terms. Signed as Obama arrived in Manila, the Enhanced

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Taiwan Police Clash With Hundreds Of Anti-Nuclear Protesters

The protesters demanded the government scrap plans to begin operation of The protesters demanded the government scrap plans to begin operation of Taiwan’s nearly completed fourth reactor.’s nearly completed fourth reactor.

Global Post
Por Global Post
Taiwan Nuclear

Police in Taiwan fired water cannons on Monday to disperse hundreds of anti-nuclear protesters refusing to give up their campaign despite a government pledge to halt work on the island's fourth nuclear power plant. The protesters had been occupying a main Taipei boulevard since Sunday, demanding the government scrap plans to begin operation of

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Volunteers Quietly Help Families Of Ferry’s Lost

In this April 26, 2014 photo, Lim Jang-young, 58, volunteer and Japanese restaurant owner, right, ladles out a bowl of traditional beef soup to a relative of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol in Jindo, South Korea. A sense of national mourning over a tragedy that will likely result in more than 300 deaths, […]

Associated Press
Por Associated Press

JINDO, South Korea (AP) — The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock's edge and, as she weeps, chants Buddhist scriptures and sounds a wooden gong in a prayer for

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Egypt Sentences 683 To Death In Another Mass Trial

Egyptians help a woman overcome by emotion after a judge sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in the southern city of Minya, Egypt, Monday, April 28, 2014. Under the law, Monday’s verdicts in Minya have […]

Associated Press
Por Associated Press

MINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president, including the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, the latest in mass trials that have drawn international condemnation and stunned rights groups. The same judge also upheld the death penalty for 37 of 529

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Onward Christian Zionists

Who is the Israel lobby? It’s religious fanatics, to be sure, but maybe not the ones you think.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Por Jeffrey Cavanaugh
John Hagee

The HBO series “Vice” hit it out of the park again recently with its examination of how the rabid support of Israel by Christian fundamentalists here in the United States is undermining prospects for peace in the Middle East. For those rationalists here in America and abroad, this religious connection between America and Israel is an unfortunate,

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