BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 17, 2012
Friday, 17. February 2012
BFP Nightly Quote
“Look at the tyranny of party — at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty — a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes — and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, honestly unconscious of the fantastic contradiction; and forgetting or ignoring that their fathers and the churches shouted the same blasphemies a generation earlier when they were closing their doors against the hunted slave, beating his handful of humane defenders with Bible texts and billies, and pocketing the insults and licking the shoes of his Southern master.” – Mark Twain
International Newsworthy
US Presses EU to Close SWIFT Network to Iran
Iran Gets Support Pledge against Foreign Aggression from Pakistan
Israel: “Iran Plotting more Attacks”
Afghan Heroin Output Sours
Pakistan-Iran-Afghan Talk: A Message of Defiance to the US?
Pakistan: US Drone Strikes Kill 21 “Suspected” Militants
Suicide Bomber Kills 21 in Pakistan’s Kurram Province
US Used Quake to Send Special Forces Spies into Pakistan
How the CIA’s Fake Aid Projects Put Real Humanitarian Workers at Risk in Pakistan
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UN Passes Symbolic Condemnation of Syria Government
Syria: Policy of Targeted Killings in Damascus
Gunmen Attack Gas Pipeline in Homs
China Sits Out Syria Regime Change Tango
Iraq VP Ran ‘Death Squads’ for Years
US Embassy to ‘Localize’ Iraq Operations
Turkey: Using Pretrial Detentions to Silence Critics
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Backs Military in Dispute with U.S. Over NGOs
Nigeria: 72 Generals Redeployed in Army Shake Up
Somali Government Building Hit by Bomb Attack
Yemen: 21 Al-Qaeda Members Captured in Security Raid
Libya’s Security Depends on Former Rebels- For Better or Worse
Amnesty International Details Torture & Murder in Libya
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Russia: Shady Money-Money Laundering still Taints Russia
Azerbaijan: Evaluating Baku’s Attitude Toward the Gulen Movement
Uzbekistan Adds Wikipedia to Internet Blacklist
Armenia-US to Hold First-Ever Joint Military Drills
NATO Consolidating Global Interoperable Military Forces
German President Steps Down over Scandal
UK Banks Told to Reform or Face Breakup
National Newsworthy
Facing Subpoena Threat, White House Allows Officials to Testify on Solyndra
Drone Industry’s Lobbying Plan to Expand over Domestic, Law Enforcement Market
Lobbyists Sue to Reverse Ban on Serving on Government Advisory Committees
Cybersecurity Bill Blocked by Top GOP Senators
FEMA Wants to Monitor News Coverage of its Activities Nationwide, 24/7
Obama Allows Bigger Businesses to Qualify as Small Businesses
Astronomic Compensation Remains Norm on Wall Street
Super PAC Spending Boosts Santorum
Cryptome- GAO Report: Nuclear WMD Mismanagement & Oversight
More Questions Regarding Twitter’s New Censorship Policy
Noteworthy Editorials
Andrew Bacevich: The New American Way of War
Jacob Hornberger: Who Won World War II?
Why Hawks Should Vote for Obama
Syria: Feeding Off the Carcass
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