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2010-07-31: Headlines

• New Europe: Andy Carling: WikiLeaks founder uploads mystery file 2010-07-31

  Keywords: google_analytics: 'true' | There has been criticism over the leak of the Afghan war logs, with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates pleaded for an end to the disclosures, "The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies, and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world."

• Ottawa Citizen: Cuts to aid a good idea? Dialogue amongst yourselves 2010-07-31

  Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. | More than 300 people lined up outside the Apple Store in the Rideau Centre early Friday morning to get their hands on Apple's latest product, the iPhone 4. | Doomsayers relax: we can, in fact, feed the population of nine billion the world is expected to have by 2050. But to do this, we'll have to abandon our irrational prejudice against genetically modified... | I just called, to say, I'm ...

• Daily Beast: Jewish Group Fights Ground Zero Mosque 2010-07-31

  The planned mosque and Islamic community center two blocks from where the World Trace Center attacks took place on September 11, 2001, continues to get fl...

• Spectator.co.uk: The past few weeks have made the struggle in Afghanistan even more difficult 2010-07-31

  Pakistan have been wavering on that front. But we shouldn't underestimate it either. | West's enemies, could make those concessions even greater. | Afghanistan (195 more articles) | Coalition (288 more articles) | David Cameron (643 more articles) | Defence (148 more articles) | Intelligence services (13 more articles) | International politics (195 more articles) | Pakistan (24 more articles) | Terrorism (151 more articles)

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• Al-Arabiya: Tarik Al Maeena: Taking charge of destiny: Enough is enough 2010-07-31

  It is a country that has been racked by strife and uncertainty.

• Walta Information Center: Editor: Eritrea and the African Union 2010-07-31

  In its July 30, 2010 "A Week in the Horn" report, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) raised issues on the Fifteenth Assembly of the Heads of State and Government in Kampala, the decisions on Somalia, Terrorism, a consultative meeting of The US on Somalia, and the "Constructive disengagement"

• Dallas Morning News: July becomes Afghanistan wars deadliest month for US 2010-07-31

  With the deaths of six more American troops on Thursday and Friday, July became the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nine-year Afghan war. | The killings came in a manner and location that has typified the recent increase in violence in Afghanistan.

• Jewish Chronicle: An open letter to David Cameron 2010-07-31

  Many congratulations on achieving high office. I wish you much success in the enormous task of getting Britain back into healthy growth with a substantially diminished deficit. | Many years ago I studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and this June I returned to attend a conference of governors and friends of the university. After dinner of the first evening we were addressed by the former head of Mossad, Efraim Halevy.

• Updated News: July was deadliest month for US in Afghanistan 2010-07-31

  WASHINGTON — A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could be facing an ethics trial this fall, further complicating the midterm election outlook for the party as it battles to hold onto its majority. | People familiar with the investigation, who were not authorized to be quoted about unannounced charges, say the allegations could be announced next week.

• New York Daily News: Deadliest month for U.S. in Afghanistan marked by riots outside embassy; Obama to review strategy 2010-07-31

  The U.S. monthly death toll in Afghanistan rose to its highest level in nine years of war yesterday as Afghans rioted outside the American embassy in Kabul.

• Las Vegas Sun: Bus hits roadside bomb, killing 25 in Afghanistan 2010-07-31

  A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. service member died in a rapidly rising monthly death toll. | The passenger bus was traveling in Nimroz province on a main highway toward the capital, Kabul, when it struck the explosive about 7 a.m., said Nazir Ahmad, a provincial government spokesman. Another 20 people were wounded, he said.

• firedoglake.com: TIMEs Epic Distortion of the Plight of Women in Afghanistan 2010-07-31

  Help us push back against TIME Magazine's distortion of women's issues in Afghanistan. | Tomorrow, TIME Magazine will treat newsstand customers everywhere to one of the most rank propaganda plays of the Afghanistan War. The cover features a woman, Aisha, whose face was mutilated by the Taliban, next to the headline, "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan."

• Pioneer Press: Afghan women fear loss of modest gains 2010-07-31

  MAHMUD-E RAQI, Afghanistan — Women's precarious rights in Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls' schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their daughters to home. | For women, instability, as much as the Taliban themselves, is the enemy.

2010-07-30: Headlines

• www.worldbulletin.net: CM BiliÅŸim: China jails more Uighur webmasters: Activists 2010-07-30

  Keywords: if (window.attachEvent) | The Diyarim, Salkin and Shabnam websites were among the most popular Uighur-language sites, which were all blocked in China following the deadly unrest. | Between two masters: Qur'an or Science? | Turkey: still America€™s best ally in the Middle East? | Publishing Principle .

• Online Journal: Obamas treachery from Afghanistan to Shirley Sherrod 2010-07-30

  Keywords: this should come as no surprise. | explicit treachery and betrayal. | served the interests of everyday people, nor will it ever. | would propagate horse manure if he deemed it to be to his personal advantage; | This is the ‘Mr. hope and change,’ Barack Obama. | honesty and candor -- for which she was made to pay dearly by the Obama regime. | despicable, though not in the least bit surprising.

• msnbc.com: July becomes deadliest month for US forces in Afghanistan 2010-07-30

  Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.

• Times of Malta: Come Visit Afghanistan 2010-07-30

  Afghans using a paddle-boat on Band-i-Amir lake outside the central Afghan province of Bamiyan during a local annual festival aimed at promoting tourism in the central highlands, yesterday. Bamiyan, some 200 kilometres northwest of Kabul, stands in a deep green and lush valley stretching 100 kilometres through central Afghanistan, on the former Silk Road that once linked China with Central Asia and beyond.

• Duluth News Tribune: Local view: Americans continue to be ignorant of our nations ideals of freedom 2010-07-30

  A recent controversy over plans of the Cordoba Initiative to build a community center complex, including a mosque, near Ground Zero in Manhattan has demonstrated that ignorance and hatred are vices to which a large number of Americans continue to adhere. Opposition to this project is fundamentally un-American, and nobody who values the ideals of freedom, upon which this country was founded, should be in the opposition camp.

• DAWN.com: CM BiliÅŸim: Point of rupture 2010-07-30

  Keywords: if (window.attachEvent) | The Diyarim, Salkin and Shabnam websites were among the most popular Uighur-language sites, which were all blocked in China following the deadly unrest. | Between two masters: Qur'an or Science? | Turkey: still America€™s best ally in the Middle East? | Publishing Principle .

• Global Times: Three NATO soldies killed in S Afghanistan 2010-07-30

  Three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in two separate roadside bombings in Afghanistan on Thursday, a press release of the military alliance said Friday.

• Seattle Times: Sailor slain in Afghanistan recalled as always upbeat 2010-07-30

  Sailor slain in Afghanistan recalled as 'always upbeat' | The body of sailor Jarod Newlove, 25, of Seattle, has been recovered from Afghanistan after he had been missing. | A sign asking for privacy is posted Thursday on the front door of the Seattle home of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, who has been found dead in Afghanistan.

• WETM-TV: Marine Killed in Afghanistan 2010-07-30

  A U.S. Marine from Williamsport Pennsylvania was killed overseas this week.

• Thaindian.com: July Becomes The Most Lethal Month For The American Military In Afghanistan 2010-07-30

  July Becomes The Most Lethal Month For The American Military In Afghanistan July 30th, 2010 - 3:20 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire ( Leave a comment ) | A declaration of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has mentioned that three personnel of the services were slaughtered in two unconnected detonations in the southern region of Afghanistan on Thursday. The declaration of NATO has not bequeathed the nationalities of the fatalities.

• TIME: Three US troops Die in Afghanistan 2010-07-30

  Three U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-wa...

• Pakistan Patriot: Indias field day 2010-07-30

  Bharat (aka India) has been face colossal reverses in its Foreign Policy. Will the orchestrated Leaks give it a respite? | While the Wikileaks were on a 96 hour news cycle, and most US sources after having discussed them threadbare are beginning to move on to new subjects–the Bharati (aka Indian) media is clinging on to them and the orchestrated immature statements by the British Prime Minister.

• Herald Scotland: Scotland set to face Zimbabwe pressure 2010-07-30

  A recent controversy over plans of the Cordoba Initiative to build a community center complex, including a mosque, near Ground Zero in Manhattan has demonstrated that ignorance and hatred are vices to which a large number of Americans continue to adhere. Opposition to this project is fundamentally un-American, and nobody who values the ideals of freedom, upon which this country was founded, should be in the opposition camp.

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Socialist Worker Online: The terrible truth about the 'good war' 2010-07-29

  WikiLeaks' release of thousands of documents on Afghanistan has left the Obama administration and its war partners trying to defend the indefensible.

• firedoglake.com: A Cry from Guantanamo: Omar Khadrs Letter to his Attorney 2010-07-29

  The full text of Omar Khadr's letter to his attorney from Guantanamo, with commentary. "Dennis you always say that I have an obligation to show the world what is going on down here and it seems that we€™ve done every thing but the world doesn€™t get it...."

• TIME: Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban 2010-07-29

  As the U.S. searches for a way out of Afghanistan, some policy-makers suggest negotiating with the Taliban.

• globalresearch.ca: The Practice of Neoliberalism: How Think Tanks, Foundations, Big Oil and the CIA Undermine Democracy 2010-07-29

  9/ 11 & 'War on Terrorism' | reddit_url='http:/ / www.globalresearch.ca/ index.php?context=va &aid=20336' | reddit_title='The Practice of Neoliberalism: How Think Tanks, Foundations, Big Oil and the CIA Undermine Democracy' | How American right-wing foundations, Big Oil and the CIA collaborate to undermine the social democratic systems of Canada and other countries around the world.

• New Statesman: Charity must not stop at home 2010-07-29

  The International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, defends the decision to ring-fence overseas aid.

• Register Pajaronian: Is Guatemala a toxic place for women to live? 2010-07-29

  About 15 years ago, when I was running the United Nations Association in San Francisco, I was asked by women immigration lawyers to address their legal society to convince the male lawyers that women could qualify as a category suffering state persecution. This would make them eligible for U.S. immigration and such eligibility would lead to a flood.

• TIME: Beyond the Leaks: Our Pakistan Problem 2010-07-29

  Forget the secret documents and even Afghanistan.

2010-07-27: Headlines

• Though Cowards Flinch: Wikileaks war logs and the true extent of our disempowerment 2010-07-27

  Reading the Guardian this morning, there were several key points that contributed to this. The capricious treatment of the relatives of civilians killed by coalition forces is high on my list. | The war logs document that occasionally relatives would be paid some sort of compensation for the death of a family member; in other cases they were ignored or bullied into silence.

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The Almanac -- weekly 2010-07-27

  The weekly UPI Almanac package for Aug. 2-8, 2010.

• News.Az: US-Azerbaijan relations at risk of failing? 2010-07-27

  Tue 27 July 2010 | 14:27 CATEGORIES Home Latest news Politics Economy Society Sports Culture Tech Interviews Photos Weather Forum Archive IN THE REGION Armenia Georgia Turkey Iran Russia OUR PROJECTS Armenia.Az Mugam Radio FORUM TOPICS Personal photography exhibition of Fakhriyya MammadovaAustralian in BakuConcert of Haddaway in Baku!

• 10 Downing Street: PMs speech in Turkey 2010-07-27

  A transcript of a speech given by Prime Minister David Cameron in Ankara, Turkey, on 27 July 2010.

• Amnesty International USA: Afghanistan leak exposes NATOs incoherent civilian casualty policy 2010-07-27

  Amnesty International is calling on NATO to provide a clear, unified system of accounting for civilian casualties in Afghanistan, as leaked war logs paint a picture of an incoherent process of dealing with civilian casualties.