BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 9, 2011


Pepe Escobar: ‘US Shocked & Awed by Taliban’, Top US Officials Paid to Endorse Iranian Terror Group, Military Coup in Sverdlovsk, Obama Increased Warrantless “Emergency” Spying 400%, The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex, Hollywood to Glorify Obama in Movie (Operation Kill Bin Laden!), The Refusal to Think, A “Humanitarian War” on Syria? & More!

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“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” - George Orwell 

International Newsworthy

Did Russian Secret Service Avert Military Coup in Sverdlovsk?

Pepe Escobar: ‘US Shocked & Awed by Taliban’

Iraq Haunts Plans for Post-Gaddafi Libya

US Stalls on Russia’s Iran Plan

Arab Spring & the Question of Spontaneity

Uyghur Militants Threaten Sino-Pak Ties

International Press Reaction to UK Riots

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