BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 14, 2013
Thursday, 14. March 2013
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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” –Woodrow Wilson
International Newsworthy
Iran and Egypt Chart New Course in Relationship
US Renews Iran Sanctions Waiver for Japan and 10 EU Countries
Arabs Accuse Iran of Aiding ‘Terror’ in Bahrain & Yemen
Former Nuclear Negotiator to Run for Iran’s Presidency?
Iran Test-Fires Short-Range Missiles
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Afghanistan Faces Cash Hole
US Commander Warns Karzai Remarks may Fuel Violence
China Defends Gwadar Port Deal at UN Forum
Ex-Spy Chief: Pakistan Sees Afghanistan as ‘Sub-Nation’
Speculation over Fate of Balochistan Government
Bangladesh Political Crisis Deepens
India Imposes Fresh Curfew in Kashmir
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Conflict in Syria Creates Wave of British Jihadists
Syria Anti-Regime Protesters Demonstrate against Al-Nusra
Gaza Salafists Take Fight to Syria
Kurds in Syria Hoping for Oil Discoveries
Arming Opposition in Syria is Violation of International Law – Lavrov
Ambassador: US Providing $114 Million More in Aid to Syrian Rebels
How the New $60 Million of Syria Aid is Being Spent
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Iraq War Could End Up Costing $6 Trillion
Waste in Iraq Reconstruction
Baghdad’s Residents Fear Renewed Civil War
21 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
Cozy Up to the Kurds
Turkey & the Kurdish Conflict: Domestic Agenda Meets Regional Concerns
Turkey Remains a Significant Transit for Heroin
Yemen’s Southern Intifada
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Deadlock in Cairo
Egypt’s Brotherhood Struggles to Govern
Egypt Report on Protest Deaths Blames Police
GOP Lawmakers Threaten to Subpoena Benghazi Survivors
Malian President Plays Down UN Atrocities Accusations
Nigeria: We Are Not Ghosts- Boko Haram
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‘China to Spend More on Domestic Security’
Russia: Think Tank Claims Communists Won 2011 polls, Officials Call in Shrinks
Russia Starts Preparing Zapad-2013 War Games against Deployment of NATO Missile Shield
Putin, Abbas See Firm Foundation of Russia-Palestine Relations
Key Suspect in Russian Spy Murder Refuses to Cooperate
Turkmenistan Offers Huge Potential in Oil & Gas Sector
International Organizations in Azerbaijan Must Observe its Laws
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Italy: NATO Response Force Trains For Next Libya-Style War
U.S. Welcomes NATO’s Absorption of Cyprus
Britain’s Labour Party Suspends Lord Nazir for ‘Anti-Semitism’
British Double-Standards in the Falklands
Dutch Raise Terrorism Alert Level to ‘Substantial’
National Newsworthy
U.S. to Let Spy agencies Scour Americans’ Finances
All U.S. Intelligence Agencies – Including CIA and NSA – to Spy On Americans’ Finances
U.S. Spy Chief: Cyberattacks More Threatening than Al Qaeda
Pentagon Creates 13 Offensive Cyber Teams for Worldwide Attacks
‘Lean Times at the Pentagon’: US Air Force Considering Building Network of Tunnels for Mobile Doomsday Trains
Drones to Be Deployed as Nuclear Fallout Detectors
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As Real Threat from Al-Qaeda Fades, Is FBI Stepping Up Set-Ups?
TSA: Hostile Work Environment in Syracuse
Obama Officials Offer OAS Panel No New Date for Closing Guantanamo
Major US Federal Agencies Not Obeying Freedom of Information Law
Oklahoma House of Representatives Passes ObamaCare Nullification Bill
Former Rep. Berman Heads to K Street
Senate Real Estate Prices Up
Bill Gates: Obama Needs to Have More Power
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New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto Power over US Government
The Fracked-Up USA Shale Gas Bubble
Remington Arms Awarded $80 Million Federal Contract for Sniper Rifles
Jobless Claims Data Brightens Jobs Picture
Federal Transportation Funding May Be Running Out of Gas
The Fiscal Cliff and Israel’s Appetite for US Welfare Funds
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Cryptome: Masterspy Testifies Spies Like Us Threaten US
Noteworthy Editorials
Glenn Greenwald: The NYT and Obama Officials Collaborate to Prosecute Awlaki After He’s Executed
Stephen Lendman: Obama’s Commerce Secretary Nominee: Billionaire “Penny” Pritzker
Will Grigg: Only an Incipient ‘Terrorist’ Denounces State Murder
Steve Chapman: Targeting Drones
Andrew Napolitano: What If Nanny Is a Thug?
Kill Anything that Moves
The Coming Collapse of the Middle East?
Remembering Those Responsible for the Iraq War
BFP Nightly Video-Podcast
BFP EyeOpener Video Report: Chile-Contra: The CIA’s Latest Latin American Scandal
GRTV’s James Corbett- Terror in Central Asia: NATO’s Great Game
Video: Corbett Report- Fukushima Anniversary, UN Narcotics, Lobbying For Labeling
BFP Podcast 1: The Reality Principle with Eric Draitser- “The New Asia: Power and the Pivot” Presenting Nile Bowie
BFP Podcast 2: Empire-Power & People w/ Andrew Gavin Marshall- “Think Tanks & Corporate Dominance”
Podcast1: Peter B Collins Show- Details Emerge on Case against Awlaki
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simon Says:
Political waters in Bangladesh turned murkier following the February 28 verdict by International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) against Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Nayeb-e-Ameer of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the parties in the 18-member alliance. During the bloody independence of Bangladesh in 1971, most of the top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami collaborated with the Pakistani armed forces to wreak havoc on the Bangladeshi populace. Jamaat, a faction of the original political party in Pakistan, in 1971 officially rejected Bangladesh’s desire to split from Pakistan (at that time was known as West Pakistan).
Bangladesh political crisis deepens
By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury
“wreak havoc” is almost like ‘collateral damage’ Over 2 million Bengali’s were murdered! Now with Pakistan threatening to continue the pipeline to Iran, this becomes of enormous import. Last year I was performing with Sezan Mahmoud, a noted Bengali song writer. He was playing harmonium and singing in Bengali. I was playing Sitar, and Channing was playing tabla. Sezan began to weep. We did not understand. The song was beautiful, evoking a high mountain stream. It was two days before he was to return to Calcutta for the remembrance of this tragedy in 1971.
Yesterday I was working with Ganem, another Bengali, whose father is a physician. Had Ganem’s father not been sick the day his militia was called up, there would be no Ganem. Ganem works as a dishwasher with a degree in IT. We are building aquaponics systems that he can take back to Bengal. I am tired of *** oil wars initiated by the banking elite. Let them eat dirt.