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Journal: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Barack Obama, and the Washington Cesspool Update

Save Obama – by running against him By Michael Lerner The Washington Post Saturday, December 4, 2010 EXTRACT:  The basic platform for such a candidate is clear: Unequivocally call for an immediate end to the presence of U.S. troops, advisers and private U.S.-based security firms in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and replace the “war on …

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NIGHTWATCH Special Report: Afghanistan Taliban Numbers

NightWatch 29 November 2010 Special Report: October in Afghanistan Findings: The number of clashes in October in the NightWatch data base, which contains exclusively open source reports on fighting, remained elevated, at 701. The Taliban “victory” offensive continues. NightWatch estimates this number represents a fourth to a half of the actual total, but it includes …

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Journal: What is the Nature of the Shia-Sunni/Persian-Arab Confrontation?

Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice.  Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …

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NIGHTWATCH Extract: China Expands to the Seas

China-Burma: Construction of a high-speed rail link between China’s southwestern province of Yunnan and Myanmar will begin in two months. The line will link Kunming, Yunnan’s capital to Yangon (Rangoon), on the Indian Ocean, according to Wang Mengshu, an academic from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Wang said a China-to-Cambodia high-speed rail connection is under …

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Journal: Afghanistan Winds Down

Its over: US NATO formally announcing ‘transition’ to Afghan withdrawal Pakistan Patriot Posted on 14 November 2010 The Obama administration and its NATO allies will declare late this week that the war in Afghanistan has made sufficient progress to begin turning security control over to its government by spring, months before the administration’s July deadline …

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