World-News

In a wide-ranging interview, Major General Athar Abbas, the Pakistan army s chief spokesman, repeatedly criticised the Times' reporting and said it was part of a calculated plan by the United States to 'weaken the state'.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/pakistan-army-says-u-media-reports-direct-attack-164636427.html



With U.S. military aid cut, Pakistan eyes China

Pakistan s increasingly 'close and effective defense ties' established with China during the past decade will allow Islamabad to 'fill the gap' arising from the prospect of reduced military aid from the United States, a senior Pakistani official said on Sunday.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20078219-503543.html


From Information Clearing House

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Bungled US policy bearing fruit in rift with Pakistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10430/

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Next up: Pakistan

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

07/11/11

The ultimate prize for US imperialism in the Middle East - the jewel in the crown of the emerging American empire - is Iran, long the chief target of the War Party s attention. Yet they don t have either the resources or the political support for such an attack, and so the strategy, for the time being, is encirclement. First, Iraq and Afghanistan, buttressing the substantial US military presence in the Gulf - and now, Pakistan...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/07/10/next-up-pakistan/



Children of war

CounterPunch
by Missy Beattie

07/09/11

If only each of us could embrace all children as our own. If only we could ignore borders, ethnicity, religion, otherness. If only we were citizens of the world rather than supporters of American exceptionalism...

http://counterpunch.org/beattie07082011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Athar+Abbas
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Missy+Beattie
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