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Four new species of miniaturized lizards have been identified in Madagascar.

Hackers of the Anonymous movement say they have conducted a cyber-action against a US security company whose tear gas has been used against Egyptian demonstrators.

The media are misinforming -- miseducating -- the American people in the most egregious way, preparing them for yet another pointless war of aggression and domination that will only degrade their own lives, and kill thousands of innocent people ... now what?

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says a key policy of the Islamic Republic is providing full support for resistance movements in Lebanon and Palestine.

Iranian patrol boats and aircraft have closely followed a US aircraft carrier strike group as it exited the Strait of Hormuz, says a US naval commander.

Israeli Hanging Judge Sentences Khader Adnan to Death   by Stephen Lendman   On Monday, military Judge Moshe Tirosh rejected Adnan's appeal as expected. Israel wants him dead. In his 59th day without food, his life hangs by a thread.   read more

The US military says a US assassination drone has crashed in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan due to technical problems, Press TV reports.

Mike Adams | Now a local elementary school in North Carolina is searching the homemade lunches of schoolchildren.

Dr. Mercola | Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War.

In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high.  So why are so many of our young adults jobless?  Why are record numbers of them unable [...]

It could be lurking in the foods you eat every single day and you would never even know it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that one of Monsanto's latest creations, a synthetic sweetener chemical known as neotame, does not have to be labeled in food products, including even in organic food products. A modified version of aspartame with even more added toxicity, neotame received quiet and unassuming FDA approval back in 2002, even though no safety studies have ever been conducted on the chemical (http://www.neotame.com/pdf...). In fact, an investigation conducted by Feingold.org found only four studies relating to neotame in the MEDLINE database.

Early reports from watchthevote2012.com showed that Ron Paul had won by quite some margin and even broke it down into counties. However the official result was a win for Mitt Romney by only a few hundred votes despite the fact that we don’t have 100% of precincts reporting their results.

The situation in Syria is akin to a football match wherein the opposing teams are incapable of defeating each other and the battle has moved to the managerial levels.

I asked frequent contributor Zeus Yiamouyiannis to comment on the coming Greek default. Here is his insightful response. Greece is the epicenter of a drama that threatens to unwind with all the intrigue and subterfuge of ancient Greek myths and tragedies. As with the legend of Icarus, big, and now bigger, transnational banks provoked the gods with their wax-and-feather financial fabrications to create the appearance of soaring wealth. Now that they have flown too close to the sun and their wings have melted, these banks are being brought to earth by the obligations and consequences imposed by their fabrications. Rather than take responsibility, these banks seek to appease the gods by sacrificing taxpayers. In fact, if one looks closely, these banks aspire to be gods themselves. They clothe themselves in their indispensability and shield themselves from accountability with tales about how many innocent citizens will be hurt if they don’t get their next bailout. It is as if they say,...

Palestinian inmates join Khader Adnan, who has gone 56 days without food or water to protest his pre-trial detention.

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Energy experts say India’s determination to continue importing oil from Iran despite Western sanctions on the country's oil sector has marred Washington’s ties with New Delhi and frustrated US officials.

The Pentagon has requested “urgent” upgrading of its military’s 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs amidst the escalation of Washington’s bellicose war rhetoric against the Islamic Republic.

Saudi protesters have held a demonstration in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province to call for an end to the rule of the Al Saud family, Press TV reports.

The leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, Ayman al-Zawahiri has joined the anti-Syrian campaign, reports say.

CFMA not only legalized the casino capitalism of super-risky "swaps' and collateralized toxic vapor, but also made it illegal to _regulate_ the casino. Ex-Sen. Phil Gramm had the audacity to accuse Americans of being "whiners" for objecting to the theft of their life savings and homes! He also authored the anti-regulation modification that was tacked on to CFMA before it snuck through the Senate at midnight.

Along with efforts to drug-test the unemployed and deny benefits to those without high school diplomas, Republicans now want to make "volunteer" work a requirement.

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Global Research | Pentagon plans US-backed War against Syria.

Amid violent anti-austerity demonstrations in Greece, the protesters set several buildings on fire and storm an arms outlet.

Steve Clemons | Where are the dollars going to come from?

450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet By Nick Turse, Tom Dispatch In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. The American military in Afghanistan doesn’t want to talk about it, but one day soon, it will be a new hub for the American drone war in the Greater Middle East. Next year, that empty lot will be a two-story concrete intelligence facility for America’s drone war, brightly lit and filled with powerful computers kept in climate-controlled comfort in a country where most of the population has no access to electricity. It will boast almost 7,000 square feet of offices, briefing and conference rooms, and a large “processing, exploitation, and dissemination” operations center -- and, of course, it will be built with American tax dollars. Nor is it an anomaly. Despite all the talk of drawdowns and withdrawals, there has been a years-long building boom in...