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Political: Twelve members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — 11 Republicans and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut — have asked the committee’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), to hold hearings on President Barack Obama’s announcement that all U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of this year. In a letter released Thursday, the [...]

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(CNSNews.com) — Iranians demonstrated in Tehran on Wednesday in support of the Occupy Wall Street rallies in the United States, which some Iranian leaders are hoping will lead to the downfall of Western capitalism. Iranian media outlets described the protesters as laborers and said they displayed banners “condemning the suppression of Occupy Wall Street movement [...]

The Hill: Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Wednesday night said he is “ashamed” of the Oakland Police Department’s crackdown on protestors on the Occupy movement on Tuesday, and called on police across the country to act with restraint when dealing with those protestors. “A betrayal of American values occurred last night in Oakland, California, when [...]

New York Post: The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters. For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual [...]

Dallas Examiner: At the 26th annual Dallas Women’s Foundation’s luncheon, Mavis Leno, wife of talk show’s comedian Jay Leno, shared with the audience accounts about her journey into activism to help empower Afghani women and girls under the Taliban regime. “Global Women’s Voices: A Dialogue” was carried on by CNN Muslim journalist, Maria Ibrahimji, who [...]

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The Daily Caller: Frank La Rue, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression who made summer headlines when he proclaimed Internet access as a basic human right, conducted his research and delivered his conclusions with the support of organizations funded by liberal financier George Soros, The Daily Caller has learned. La Rue’s statements on [...]

TORONTO (AP) — The Palestinian Authority recalled their envoy to Canada this month for posting a link on twitter that included an anti-Semitic video. Linda Sobeh Ali posted a tweet this month with a link to a YouTube video featuring an emotionally distressed Palestinian girl shouting a poem in Arabic titled “I am Palestinian.” The [...]

North County Times: As the war in Afghanistan enters its 11th year, thousands of Camp Pendleton troops are getting much more detailed training in Afghan cultural practices. Years of lessons learned about roadside bombs also are being tapped to better prepare more than 7,000 base troops leaving for Afghanistan in about 12 weeks to spot [...]

SC Magazine: The hacktivist group Anonymous is making good on its promise of digital retaliation against the Oakland Police Department for the force it used against protesters this week. A distributed denial-of-service attack against the department’s website — www.oaklandpolice.com — is underway, and the website currently is unreachable. In addition, members of the collective have [...]

CBSNews: It only took seven hours — and one tree leap — for Michael Lohan to get arrested again. Tampa police said Lohan, 51, launched himself into a tree from his third-floor balcony when police came to investigate claims that he violated terms of his release from jail hours before. Just before 1:00 a.m., Lohan’s [...]

Fox Business: Wall Street plowed higher on Thursday, with the blue chips zooming past the 12000 level for the first time since August, after European leaders crafted a plan to stem the region’s sovereign debt crisis. Today’s Markets According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 339 points, or 2.9%, to 12,208, the [...]

Doug Singsen, part of the socialist alliance forum on on the Wall Street Occupation, warns of the influence of MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party on the movement.