BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December 24, 2012
Monday, 24. December 2012
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“The czar was always sending us commands – you shall not do this and you shall not do that – till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.” –Mark Antin
International Newsworthy
Iran Slams Canada for Delisting Rebel Group
Iran Warns of Cancelling $5bn China Deal
Iranian Businessman Denies EU Sanctions-Busting Accusation
Iran’s Conservatives Push for a Deal
Top Iranian University among New Sanction Targets
Rigorous EU Sanctions against Iran Come Into Force
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Afghan Policewoman Shoots Dead US Military Adviser
‘Foreign Firms Evade Afghan Taxes’
Pakistan: Defining Our War
US Wants Immunity for Pakistanis Implicated in Attacks that Killed 166
Three More Fall Prey to Balochistan Violence
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Chechen Militants Sent into Syria
Syrian Military: Militants Using Chemical Weapons
Iraq & Afghanistan Account for 35% of Last Decade’s Terrorist Attacks
US Delivers Two Support Ships to Iraq: Embassy
Lukoil Refuses to Take over ExxonMobil Stake in Iraqi Project
Turkey to Resume NATO Cooperation With Israel
Israel Preparing for Fall of Syrian Regime
Drone Strikes Kill Six in Yemen
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Why Africa is Turning to China
US Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
Blackwater Wins the Battle of Benghazi
Referendum Reflects Egypt’s Divisions
Nigeria: Army Officer, Oil Union Officials Fingered in Kidnap/Tanker Hijacks
Mali Intervention in 1st Half of 2013
Sudan on Edge amid Coup Rumors
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Russia Calls on US to End the ‘Battle of the Blacklists’
Russia Signs $3bn Arms Deals with India
Russia Calls for Full Probe into Shooting Down of U.N. Helicopter in South Sudan
Kyrgyzstan to Cede Gas Network to Moscow
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Germany Considers a Shift in Middle East Policy
Deutsche Bank Convicted in Italy in Widening Scandal
National Newsworthy
NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems in Secret Test
‘Abomination’: Rand Paul slams NDAA as bill passes US Senate
CIA Boss Slams Torture in bin Laden Film
SEAL Team Four Commander in Afghanistan ‘Commits Suicide’
Netanyahu Endorses Kerry as ‘Supporter of Israel’
FDA: Drug Companies Faked Thousands of Drug Documents
States Thumb Their Noses at the Drug War
Ron Paul Breaks with NRA on Armed Guards in Nation’s Schools
TSA’s Exemption Shell Game
Noteworthy Editorials
Sibel Edmonds: Wars, Czars and the Zombie Majority
Ron Paul: Government Security is Just Another Kind of Violence
Stephen Lendman: Institutionalizing Indefinite Detention
Andy Worthington: Torture, Torture Everywhere
Pepe Escobar: For Whom the Syrian Bell Tolls
Dr. James Petras: The Religious and Social Crises and Political Consequences
Torture an all-American Nightmare
Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
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