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NY Times: WASHINGTON – A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries’ computer networks. President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled [...]

“I cannot put my feeling into words. I can only express my sorrow for my country. The result is unbelievable. It is a blatant lie. And now we have this kid, this stupid child who claims that his election is a victory of the people.” The Independent: How can we withstand this man ruling us [...]

The Cramps

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Guardian: It was mid-morning on Vali Asr Street, in the heart of Tehran, and black-uniformed riot police were deploying as a crowd gathered a few hundred yards to the north. “Death to the dictator,” shouted the crowd. Then came a muffled crack followed by a white puff and a cloud of teargas that sent people [...]

Netanyahu defies Obama with harsh conditions for Palestinian ‘entity’ Times Online: Binyamin Netanyahu threw down the gauntlet to the US last night, grudgingly agreeing to a limited Palestinian state that would be demilitarised and not in control of its airspace or borders. The hawkish Prime Minister insisted that Israel would never give up a united [...]

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan ordered its army to go after the country’s top Taliban commander, a feared militant whose remote stronghold could prove a difficult test for troops but whose demise would be a major blow to the insurgencies here and in Afghanistan. The announcement Sunday of the operation in South Waziristan, rumored for weeks, came [...]

Press TV: The Islamic Hamas movement has criticized hawkish Israeli prime minister’s policy address, saying it reflects a ‘racist and extremist ideology’. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum described Benjamin Netanyahu’s Sunday night speech as a “slap in the face” of all moderate supporters of negotiations with Israel. The speech is a repeat of the policy of [...]

Agencie France Presse: Israel is headed for a clash with main ally the United States over the issue of Jewish settlements, former US president Jimmy Carter said in an interview on Sunday. Asked by the liberal Haaretz newspaper whether the Jewish state was looking at a “head-on collision” with the United States if it doesn’t [...]

Jerusalem Post: BERLIN – Basking in the glow of his spectacular election showing in last week’s European Union (EU) vote, Geert Wilders, the head of the Dutch Freedom Party, told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview on Friday that the EU is “one-sided and always against Israel,” adding that “nothing will happen” if Israel [...]

Politico: He’s riding high in the polls among his fellow Democrats, but President Barack Obama’s political sway within his own party is about to be tested. Two House Democrats, Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania and Carolyn Maloney of New York, are poised to defy the unambiguous wishes of Obama and challenge incumbent senators of their own [...]

Fox News: WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.” Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney “smells [...]