Jul 15, 2:42 PM EDT
Mayhem rivals border in Mexico's 3rd-largest city
fear is starting to fray the social order
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/ ... 5-14-42-18====
Jul 15, 3:18 PM EDT
S&P warns it may downgrade Fannie, Freddie credit
S&P says government-controlled Fannie and Freddie, along with certain Federal Home Loan Banks and Farm Credit System Banks, could also default on their debts because each institution is in "direct reliance on the U.S. government."
FAILED STATE
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 5-15-18-44====
Jul 15, 11:44 AM EDT
Down on the farm, investors see big potential
smart investment because food will only get more expensive around the world.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 5-11-44-18====
15 July 2011 Last updated at 15:31 ET
Turkey vows crackdown in response to Kurdish attack
Soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships began a major offensive in south-eastern Turkey on Friday
ERDOGAN = KADAFFI ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14170418PS:
main Kurdish political party, the DTP, is currently boycotting parliament, demanding the release from prison of several of its members who won election to parliament last month.
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Crunch European bank tests fail to quell doubts
LONDON/MADRID | Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:25pm BST
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/1 ... FX20110715====
Explosion in Israel injures several people - police
JERUSALEM | Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:41pm BST
an electrical short-circuit may have caused the incident, rather than criminals or Palestinian militants
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/1 ... H420110715====
The fight to rescue the Arab spring
Friday 15 July 2011 19.51 BST
Six months after the Arab spring claimed its first dictator, the main squares of Cairo and Tunis were again alive with protest, teargas and fury at the resistance to change shown by interim authorities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ju ... protesters====
Campaigners seek arrest of former CIA legal chief over Pakistan drone attacks
Friday 15 July 2011 15.57 BST
Now retired, Rizzo, 63, is being pursued after admitting in an interview with the magazine Newsweek that since 2004 he had approved one drone attack order a month on targets in Pakistan, even though the US is not at war with the country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/15/cia-usa+
Inside the Killing Machine
President Obama is ordering a record number of Predator strikes. An exclusive interview with a man who approved ‘lethal operations.’
February 13, 2011
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/13/insi ... chine.html====
US debt: how big is it and who owns it?
15 July 2011 14.05 BST
A MAJOR EFFORT BY THE GUARDIAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog ... g-who-owns====
Julian Assange a great dissident, says his father
Friday 15 July 2011 16.29 BST
"There are many intelligent people in the world, but most seem to be wicked,
THE PSYCHOPATH PERIL
while Julian seems to have the moral courage and ability to carry his vision through. He seems to have an immense desire for justice in the world."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/ju ... -interview====
Weekend Edition
July 15 - 17, 2011
NATO's Debacle in Libya
By Alexander Cockburn
The reports from Istanbul of the deliberations of NATO’s Contact Group have a surreal quality, as Secretary of State Clinton and British foreign minister Hague gravely re-emphasize their commitment to regime change and the strengthening of ties to the Transitional Council in Benghazi,
while the humiliation of the entire NATO expedition is entering the history books as an advertisement of the dangers of political fantasy in the service of “humanitarian interventionism”, appalling intelligence work, illusions about bombing and air power, and some of the worst press coverage in living memory.
--from first part of CounterPunch Diary
http://counterpunch.org/====
Abu Kamal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Kamal(map)
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Armed Groups in Abu Kamal Area Burn Public Establishments, Attack Area Directorate Building and Steal Weapons
Jul 16, 2011
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/07/16/358720.htm
