BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February 26, 2013
Tuesday, 26. February 2013
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“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” – Major General Smedley Butler
International Newsworthy
The Making & Unmaking of Iran Sanctions
Researchers Say Stuxnet was Deployed against Iran in 2007
Pakistani President to Pay 2-Day Visit to Iran on Bilateral Ties
Afghanistan’s Partition Might Be Unpreventable
US-Led Hospital Raids Rise in Afghanistan
NATO Rejects Karzai’s Abuse Allegations
Pakistan: US Army Corps ‘to Operate from Karachi Airport’
Pakistan’s Energy Savior: Iran
Balochistan: The Rise of Human Rights Violations and Upcoming Election
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Syria’s Issue is Not Syrians, Rather ‘Regional & Neighboring States’
Hawks in Syrian Opposition Resist Dialogue Initiative
Syrian Spillover: Salafis Rumored to be Expanding ‘Holy War’ into Neighboring States
Hundreds of Foreign Jihadists Leave Syria amid Intensive Clashes
Syria Declares Readiness for Talks-Armed Opposition Respond with Blasts &Fighting
Syria Clears more Districts of Militants
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What is Behind Increase in Sectarian Killings in Iraq?
10 Killed, 22 Wounded in Iraq’s Violence
Kurdish Peace Process to Start after PKK Leave Turkey
United Arab Emirates Set to Buy US Predator Drones
Bahrain Bans Import of Plastic Guy Fawkes Masks
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NATO’s Pandora’s Box: W. Africa Flooded with Libyan Weapons
Obama Sends Troops and Drones to Niger
US Troops to Niger: A New Stage in the Scramble for Africa
France Rejects Talk of Mali Withdrawal
France: Over 100 mln Euros Spent for Mali Military Intervention
Egypt’s Opposition Bloc Boycotts Parliamentary Elections
Nigeria Losing Ground in Changing Oil World
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US State Department-Funded BBC World Service “Jammed” in China
Russia’s Troops in Tajikistan Not Ready for Action
Russian Gang Convicted of Coup Attempt
Second Coming of Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz
Tajikistan Open for Afghan Transit Business
Compressor Contract for Turkmenistan-China Natural Gas Pipeline
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Blackwater in Greece: Fears of Coup as Mercenaries Drafted for Guarding Govt, Overseeing Police
Our Right to Poison: Lessons from the Failed War on Drugs
BBC World Service Shortwave Radio Blocked in China
Multibillion Weapons Exports: Germany Arms the Persian Gulf Monarchies
John Kerry: US Won’t Back UK on the Falklands
National Newsworthy
UN Removes Osama bin Laden from Sanctions List
Lobbyist Demands Approval for “Lethal” Drones within United States
Court Won’t Allow Challenge to Surveillance Law
’Wave of ‘Ag-Gag’ Laws Aimed at Criminalizing Whistleblowers and Keeping Consumers in the Dark
Pentagon Suggests Sequester Would Impair Ability to Fight WikiLeaks!
Senate Intelligence Committee Drops bin Laden Film Probe
Lobbyists Fear Shakedown if Supreme Court Lifts Campaign Contributions Cap
Cryptome: Whistleblowing on Whistleblowing Oversight
JP Morgan to Cut Up to 19000 Jobs
Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year
Quantitative Easing: The Markets are Struggling with a Serious Drug Habit
Wash Post’s Samuelson: National Debt Is as High as $31 Trillion
US Already in Technical Default
Obama’s Paycheck Exempted from ‘Sequester’
Noteworthy Editorials
Ron Paul: Federal Agents Should Be Disarmed
Glenn Greenwald: Humiliation at the Oscars
Andy Worthington: America’s Disappeared
Paul Pillar: Is a New Intifada Imminent?
The Rise of the Drones
The War on Terrorism, the Constitution, Civil Liberties
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Obama’s Israel Trip: Four More Years of Settlement Growth
The Real Iran Hostage Crisis: A CIA Covert Op
BFP Nightly Video-Podcast
BFP EyeOpener Video Report: “Argentina: In the Shadow of the IMF” with James Corbett
Video 1: The FISA/Echelon Panopticon
Video 2: .War Lord- Germany Doubles Arms Export to Gulf Nations
BFP Podcast – Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson – “North Korea: Cold War Cash Cow or Legitimate Threat?”
Podcast: Radio Liberty-The Austerity Conundrum
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