This video from the USA is called Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers.
Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies: here.
Britain: Cost-cutting consultants employed by the Ministry of Defence to find budget savings are being paid £3,950 a day each, the government revealed on Thursday: here.
Pakistan‘s Foundation for Fundamental Rights and British legal charity Reprieve will start an international dialogue in Islamabad tomorrow on the CIA’s bloody drone campaign in the country’s tribal regions: here.
US flying drones from Ethiopian base: here.
A series of recent articles by journalist Mark Mazzetti published in the New York Times have shed further light on the activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan. Mazzetti’s articles incorporate and summarize material from his recent book, The Way of the Knife, which in turn was based on dozens of interviews with inside sources both in Washington and Islamabad: here.
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10/27/2011 12:26 AM
Afghan president’s comments rile US lawmakers
DONNA CASSATA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is certain to be questioned about Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s recent statement that his country would back Pakistan if it went to war with the United States when she testifies before a House committee Thursday.
Clinton’s appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee is coming just days after her trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Lawmakers are expected to press her on a range of issues, including the violence in Syria, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the push for statehood by the Palestinians at the United Nations.
Several lawmakers were furious with Karzai’s comments, suggesting the Obama administration should rethink its commitment of dollars and American lives as well as the timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces.
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(Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Khan condemns US drone campaign
PAKISTAN: Cricket legend and opposition politician Imran Khan railed against the government and its alliance with the US before more than 100,000 flag-waving supporters on Sunday, establishing himself as a force in Pakistani politics.
“Our leaders owned this war on terror for the sake of dollars,” Mr Khan told the crowd assembled around the Minar-e-Pakistan. “Let me curse you. You sold out the blood of innocent people.”
Mr Khan’s rising popularity is rattling officials in Washington because he is a vocal critic of the illegal US drone assassination campaign.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/111385
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