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https://tumeke.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-west-built-osama-bin-laden.html What a dreadful waste of a decade for the West’s ‘war of terrorism’. Over a Trillion dollars in direct costs and anywhere between 100 000 and a million dead civilians (we’re not sure because we don’t count ‘them’ when they die). The biggest waste has been that we don’t […]

Following the recent announcements of Egypt’s intention to open the Rafah Crossing with Gaza, Richard Lightbown describes some of the hypocrisies behind Israel’s objections and speculates on what might follow. Egypt announced last week that it intends to open the Rafah Crossing to the Gaza Strip on a permanent basis. […]

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1242259/US-Offered-To-Draft-NZ-3-Strikes-Law-Fund-Copyright-Initiative An anonymous reader writes “Wikileaks has just posted hundreds of cables from US personnel in New Zealand that reveal regular government lobbying on copyright, offers to draft New Zealand three-strikes-and-you’re-out legislation, and a recommendation to spend over NZ$500,000 to fund a recording industry-backed IP enforcement initiative. The funding raises […]

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