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Chilean Students Fight for better higher Education

Fifty people were arrested in the Chilean capital Santiago Thursday during a student demonstration over improving higher education. Authorities used water canons and tear gas against demonstrators who fought back with stones. The students, backed by professors and labor unions, are demanding President Sebastian Pinera’s conservative government guarantee free, quality university-level education for all Chileans. Read More

Military Prosecutors Claim Manning Aided Al-Qaeda

US military prosecutors claimed Thursday Private Bradley Manning aided al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula by leaking troves of classified information to Wikileaks. However, military prosecutor Ashden Fein refused to say exactly how Manning aided al-Qaeda, saying the State Department “has not completed its damage assessment.” Read More

Activists Say Leaked Emails Reveal Syrian Rulers Blasé

Emails revealed by the UK Guardian this week show Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his ruling circle were blasé about the uprising. The Guardian's website was blocked in much of Syria Thursday and the Pan-Arab satellite channel Al Arabiya, which also obtained the leaked emails, reported significant interference with its transmission. The UN estimates 8,000 Syrians have died since the uprising began a year ago. Read More

Assad's Father-In-Law offers advice on how to spin its suppression

The UK Guardian Friday disclosed emails from the British Syrian Society's co-chair Dr Fawas Akhras, Bashar al-Assad's father-in-law, in which he offers advice on how the regime should spin its suppression of the uprising, which has caused the deaths of at least 8,000 people. Read More

 Karzai Says US Not Cooperating in Massacre Investigation

Afghan President Hamid Karzai Friday said he is at the "end of the rope" because of the lack of US cooperation in probing the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians. In a meeting with families of those killed on Sunday, Karzai said the delegation he sent to investigate the shootings did not receive the co-operation Afghans expected. Read More

Whistleblower details unreported mercury spill at Utah military base

A whistleblower's claim that a 2007 spill of more than 60 pounds of mercury was not properly reported or cleaned up at a Utah military base has prompted a federal criminal investigation. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality concluded Hill Air Force Base failed to report the spill, improperly stored the cleaned-up material, improperly labeled storage containers that were not in good condition and failed to inspect containers storing hazardous waste. Read More

Israeli Troops Attack Anti-War Demonstrators

Israeli soldiers Friday shot a female Israeli demonstrator in the head with a rubber bullet during a West Bank demonstration against Israel's ongoing airstrikes on Gaza. At another demonstration, an Israeli army dog chased down a Palestinian protester and dragged him along the ground. Read More

State Department Sacks Whistleblower

Foreign service officer Peter Van Buren, who wrote a highly critical book about leading reconstruction teams in Iraq, was fired Friday by the State Department. Van Buren’s dismissal ... came days after a decision by the Office of Special Counsel to look into his case. The Office of Special Counsel is an agency that investigates government wrongdoing and complaints of retaliation by those who report it. Read More

Israeli Ambassador Beats Drums of War

Israel's ambassador to the US Michael Oren reiterated Thursday the possibility of his country striking Iran over its nuclear program. Oren dismissed criticisms by Israel's former spy chief Meir Dagan of a possible attack. Israel, the only country in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons, has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Read More