BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 8, 2013
Tuesday, 8. January 2013
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“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.” – Somerset Maugham
International Newsworthy
MKO Terror Group Receives UK Support
Iran Begins Oil Production in Joint Field
Indian Medicines for Iran’s Patients
Dubai-Iran Patterns of Foreign Trade Switch Roles
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Afghan Water Infrastructure Threatens Iran, Regional Stability
NATO Soldier Killed by Uniformed Afghan
133 Children Die a Day in Afghanistan
Drone Strikes Claim Lives in Pakistan
India Accuses Pakistan of Killing Soldiers in Kashmir
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Syrian Government Peace Plan Rejected By Western Powers
Syria Goes from Periphery to Core
US Officials: Syria ‘Has Chemical Weapons That Could Be Used Within Two Hours’
Russian Banks Should Beware Blacklisted Syria Banks: US Official
Why Assad May Yet Claim Victory
Germany Begins Deployment of Patriot Missiles to Turkey
NATO Deploys Czech, Polish, Slovak Military Specialists to Turkey
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Ansar al-Sharia: Al-Qaeda’s Response to Arab Spring
Iraq to Close Border Crossing Point due to Sunni Protests
Iraq Central Bank Boosts Gold Reserves
Iraq MP Warns Security Forces Not to Attack Protesters in Niniveh
Turkey-Israel-Cyprus Triangle and Mediterranean Gas
US Gives Lebanon 200 Armored Vehicles
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Qatar Increases Aid to Egypt to $5bn
IMF Remains “Committed” to Supporting Egypt
Tunisia Releases Benghazi Attack Suspect
Malian Islamists Move South Toward Government Forces
Nigeria to Reduce Troops to Mali
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Russians’ Nostalgia for USSR is Dwindling – Poll
Georgia Promises To End Military Conscription — Again
Chinese Companies to Control Over 40% of Kazakhstan’s Oil
EU to Implement New Projects in Azerbaijan
All Kyrgyz Hostages Released From Uzbek District Following Rioting
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French Budget Minister Under Probe for Swiss Account
Eurozone Unemployment Hits New Record High 11.8%
National Newsworthy
Obama’s Drone Godfather Named as CIA Chief
Analysis: Will 2013 Be the Year of the Unmanned Drone?
Stanley McChrystal Criticizes Reliance on Drones as Strikes Hit Pakistan
Unwitting Sensors: How DOD is Exploiting Social Media
Congress Wakes up to Phone Apps that Track Your Life
Guantanamo Is a Place of Sometimes Puzzling Secrecy
Sen. Rand Paul Calls for Reduction in Foreign Aid to Israel
Hagel Says Critics Distort His Views on Israel, Iran
Giffords Launches New Gun-Control Initiative
Why are DNA Databases Available to Prosecutors but not Defense Attorneys?
Fiscal Cliff Winner: Tax Breaks for Oil & Gas Industries
What’s Inside America’s Banks? No One Knows, Says ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger
Big Banks Systematically Hiding Potential Losses: Report
Secret Goldman Team Sidesteps Volcker Prop Trading Rule after Blankfein Vow
Noteworthy Editorials
Mahdi Nazemroaya: The Endgame in Syria- Strategic Stage in the Pentagon’s Covert War on Iran
Chris Hedges: State of Fear
Net Hentoff: What Bush-Cheney-Obama Don’t Want Known on Torture
Glenn Greenwald: John Brennan’s Extremism and Dishonesty Rewarded With CIA Director Nomination
Paul Pillar: More Fences
Nick Turse: A War Victim’s Question Only You Can Answer
The Magician’s Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff Debates
Democracy, Terrorism and the Secret State
BFP Nightly Video-Podcast
BFP EyeOpener Video Report: Rings within Rings: How Secret Societies Direct World Politics
Video 1: Corbett Report- Meet Zbigniew Brzezinski, Conspiracy Theorist
Video 2: RT-.’Pacifist’ & ‘Assassination Czar’
Podcast 1: James Corbett-Taxes & False Flags
Podcast 2: Peter B Collins Show- Shahid Buttar Talks on FISA Extension, NDAA Detention Law & Other Attacks on Our Rights
Podcast 3: Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- The Hype that Gave Us the ‘Crisis’
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