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US to Delhi: Shut down Indian "Consulates" in Afghanistan– aftermath of RAW bombing of Peshawar hotel

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Indian RAW bombs Peshawar hotel, Indian terror on Pakistan

Senior US diplomat William Burns gave Indian officials a terse and cryptic directive on Thursday. ”Shut down Indian Consulates in Afghanistan, reduce presence in Kabul and stop sending mercenaries across the Durand Line.” This message was supplemented with a letter from President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The message in the letter was [...]

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Pakistan's Quickstrike Strategy: Hammer and Anvil squeeze RAWs Bait Mehsud

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Bait Mehsud, Pakistan, TTP

The Pakistan Army has launched Quickstrike Strategy against Bat Mehsud the fountainhead of the RAW sponsored TTP. The Pakistan Army has done in Swat what the US Army, NATO and and 47 nation coalition ISAF has been unable to do in Afghanistan. NATO has spent the best part of a decade without any results. All [...]

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Will Iran be admitted to the SCO next week?

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: China, Russia, SCO, Yekaterinburg

The rumors are at fever pitch in Yekaterinburg. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the new Warsaw pact, led not only by Russia, but also by China. It’s main audience are the Central Asian states. The US and Russia, both are trying to woo Iran. Of course Russia got a headstart when it supplied Tehran [...]

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What did Obama's letter say to Manmohan?

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Manmohan, Obama

In a highly unusual step the American Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan has handed over a letter from President Obama to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It has already been established that the meeting was about Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is widely understood in diplomatic circles that the US wants India to back off on [...]

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Who shot down the IAF jet in China's South Tibet "Arunchal Pradesh"?

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Arunchal Pradesh, China, McMohon line

An Indian Air force jet mysteriously exploded in mid air in South Tibet renamed Arunchal Pradesh by Bharat (aka India). South Tibet is Chinese territory which is occupied by Bharat remains a sore point of contention between Delhi and Beijing. India has recently been very provocative towards China. The bellicose statements out of Delhi have [...]

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Jeremy Scahill: Obama Bush war policies same-Exponential increase in mercenary contractors

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Exponential increase in Blackwater contractors, Jeremy Scahill, USA

JEREMY SCAHILL ON TODAY’S WAR From a billion dollars sought for embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to May’s highest casualties for US forces in Iraq since September, the wars abroad are taking their toll on our nation. Bill Moyers sits down with award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to examine the human and financial costs of [...]

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“We Cannot Afford These Wars”: Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Congressman Dennis Kucinich is one of those rare breed of individuals who has taken a principled stand against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike Obama who supports one war and does not support another, Congressman Kucinich is consistent in his philosophy. “We Cannot Afford These Wars” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2009 2:40 PM [...]

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Afghans to US: Yankee Go Home

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Afghan, US

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What Israelis think about President Barack Obama

Posted on 11 June 2009. Tags: Barack Obama, Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxt9HwfPwPo&feature=player_embedded Does this signal a one term presidency, or can he overcome the Jewish hatred from him Is this video an anamoly or do Israelis really hate him

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Kissan bachas: 40,000 Maharashtra farmers commit suicide in India

Posted on 10 June 2009. Tags: Kissan bachas, Maharashtra farmers

YAVATMAL, India – Eleven-year-old Digambar Rathod looks older than his age. Shy and uncertain, he stares disconcertedly at the garlanded photograph of his father Jaideep, a 42-year-old cotton farmer who committed suicide on Jan. 1, 2009 in Tiwsala village, in eastern Maharashtra state’s suicide-torn Yavatmal district. (Fawzan Husain for The New York Times)As the new [...]