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14 January 2010
The Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) report published on January 10 makes clear that the carnage from the fighting between the Pakistani military and anti-government Islamist and tribal militants more than matches that taking place in neighbouring US-occupied Afghanistan. In 2009, the low-level civil war in... » read this article
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John Roberts , WSWS
12 January 2010
A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China came into effect on New Year’s Day, creating the world’s third largest free trade bloc behind the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). While limited in... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
31 December 2009
In the five days since the abortive attempt by the 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device onboard Northwest Flight 253, information has surfaced that indicates an ostensible breakdown in US intelligence and security that is extraordinary in both its character and scale.... » read this article
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Patrick Martin , WSWS
Editor's Note: It's no surprise that 2010 will end the decade with more of the ever expanding "war on terror". Below, Patrick Martin reports on the preparation of public opinion for opening another front on the U.S./Israeli 'war on terror', this time in Yeman. The recent arrest of the 'Christmas Bomber' in Detroit is an... » read this article
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Barry Grey , WSWS
28 December 2009
The nearly catastrophic attempt to blow up a US passenger jet during its final approach to Detroit Metro Airport on Christmas Day raises a number of serious questions.
While many details of the attempted terror attack and the biography of the would-be suicide bomber remain sketchy, widely-reported... » read this article
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TamilNet , News Article
December 2, 2009
Over a 150 people marched through the streets of Sydney on Sunday
[November 29, 2009] calling upon the federal government to abolish its harsh stance on
refugees and grant asylum to hundreds of Tamil refugees currently being
detained in Indonesia at Australia’s request. Citing persecution faced
by... » read this article
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Arif Ayub , The Nation
Editor's Note: This is an interesting profile of the man who leads the Taliban against the United States. "Elusive but a commander par excellence", as Pakistan's General Hamid Gul remembers him, "Mullah Omar has wrapped the mightiest country in the world around his little finger."
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WHERE IS MULLAH... » read this article
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Tom Eley , WSWS
24 November 2009
Four US soldiers died in three separate incidents in Afghanistan on Monday, as President Barack Obama’s “war council” is reportedly finalizing its plans to substantially increase the number of soldiers participating in the eight year old occupation.
In southern Afghanistan, two soldiers died in a bomb attack... » read this article
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