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Scott McClellan and the Public-Sector Privateers | MediaCulture | AlterNet : "So here we go again. Thanks to Scott McClellan, we now have what we already knew but people like him were afraid to tell us. Everybody lied. No surprise here. McNamara did it, Powell did it -- all these public servants, paid by our tax dollars while working, cashed in by selling books when they got off the payroll. That is the morally bankrupt mess we're in. People of conscience, like Daniel Ellsberg, have been replaced by co-conspirators who only find the truth when they are paid to do so through book contracts. They may refuse to go before Congress while working for us, citing executive privilege, but once they are gone, it's 'Sign me up and send me on a book tour!'"

Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control - Middle East, World - The Independent A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November. The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq's position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.

blackagendareport.com - Obama Resigns From Black Nation "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country," said Obama, in banishing Trinity's retiring senior pastor Jeremiah Wright from his inner circle, in April. Obama believes in One-Love - of the white fairy tale kind that despises the "use [of] incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation." Barack Obama is true-blue to the slaveholding forefathers and heroic blond mothers of the storybook U.S. of A. His intense (white) nationalist fealty to the Indian-killer and slave-whipper compels him to reject out of hand the African American version of U.S. and world history - to compulsively dismiss both the Black counter-narrative and narrators, like Rev. Wright. And if some stray white man in a clerical collar wanders in, assaulting white sensibilities with denunciat...

allAfrica.com: Somalia: Islamists Seize Military Base Close to the Government's Seat - Spokesman (Page 1 of 1) : "The Islamic courts union has claimed that their fighters have captured Manas military campsite that situated 45km southwestern Baidoa town the temporary base of the transitional government. The military operations spokesman of the UIC sheikh Abdirahim Isse Addow who contacted to Shabelle radio has declared that armed fighters from the UIC have driven out the government troops from Manas military base. 'Glory to God in the highest our fighters have seized the (Manas) military base from the 'Puppets' they barefooted fled on the way to Baidoa' Addow said' we entirely made them killed, injured, fled' As Shabelle made contact with the government commanders at Manas no comments could be reached from them for the reason that their phones were off the air."

Al Jazeera English - News - Aid 'Lottery' For Myanmar Survivors : "More than a million survivors of the deadly cyclone in Myanmar have yet to receive any aid a month on, with reports from refugees fleeing the disaster zone speaking of military-run lotteries to determine who receives food and who will go hungry. Aid groups say more than half of the 2.4 million survivors needing help have yet to be reached."

Al Jazeera English - News - Obama Pledges Support For Israel : "'Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided,' Obama told the vast annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC). Obama drew a standing ovation as he arrived to address the mighty US-Israel lobby, and also addressed perceived suspicion of him in some sectors of the Jewish community."