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Disinfo.com
| 12 months ago
For two days, world leaders gathered in Chicago to discuss what tens of thousands of activists described as the world's largest game of Risk, where the stakes amount to life and death for citizens around the globe...City officials and other higher-...
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The Economic Times
| 12 months ago
Summit in Chicago endorsed his exit plan from Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama today said that he would end the Afghan war by 2014. "Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to this country and al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Chicago in which...
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Truthdig
| 12 months ago
Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Chicago, which left him feeling heartened, was a powerful signal of international support for the Afghan-led process of reconciliation...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
Kerzai government is still not able to control even ten percent area in Afghanistan. Now high level security zones and government installations have become easy targets for militants. Same day when US president Barak Obama visited Afghanistan several...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
Renowned economist and Pakistan People's Party-Shaheed Bhutto Punjab President Dr Mubashar Hassan has said that May 21 was a historic day in the history of Pakistan and Afghanistan as 27 nations of the world during Chicago summit refused to continue...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
Chicago that the mission of the combat forces would come to an end in Afghanistan but some troops would stay behind to impart training to Afghan forces. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the coalition wanted to continue their operation under...
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Reuters
| 12 months ago
Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy and helping erase bad memories of the bloody street battles here during the 1968 Democratic convention.
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Pakistan closed the lines in November following a U.S. airstrike that killed two 24 Pakistani soldiers. Zardari and U.S...But relations between the two countries remain at an impasse...The president also emphasized that Pakistan wants peace and...
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Asia Times Online
| 12 months ago
Afghan security to local forces by the middle of 2013 and withdraw combat troops by the end of 2014. At a two-day summit in Chicago, the alliance also said it would leave behind a training mission and vowed Afghanistan "will not stand alone" after...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Nathan Weber for The New York Times Protesters marched from Boeing's corporate headquarters to the Obama campaign's headquarters in Chicago on Monday. It was a subdued ending for a city that had, for months, braced for chaos that a global summit...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Leaving Chicago with confidence and a clear roadmap, President Barack Obama said the US and its coalition partners are making substantial progress against defeating al-Qaeda and denying it safe haven, while helping the Afghans to stand on their own.
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Chicago Tribune
| 12 months ago
Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance's plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with peril.
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Toronto Star
| 12 months ago
And the protesters, notwithstanding spasms of police clashes that left a trail of gashes and a few broken bones, even they got out alive...Summit podium to confirm an irreversible course to end the Afghan war, the remnants of demonstrations that...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
Monday approved a plan, promoted by the US, to shift the command of combat operations to Afghan forces by next summer...Monday approved a US-promoted plan to shift the command of combat operations to Afghan forces by mid-2013.
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Truthdig
| 1 year ago
Chicago, at the end of which 50 former soldiers renounced the wars by throwing their military service medals toward the building where leaders were gathered. Democracy Now! captured speeches given by many of those former soldiers and spoke with Scott...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
French President Francois Hollande greets Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at Nato summit in Chicago (Reuters) President Barack Obama's hopes for an orderly withdrawal from the country may have evaporated after the election of Socialist candidate...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Monday endorsed plans to hand over to Afghan forces the complete responsibility of security in the war-torn country by 2013 as the military alliance gradually transitions in its role from combat to training before their final withdrawal in 2014...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. download: Dozens Killed in Yemen Suicide Bombing Dozens of people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a. Early reports say around 100 have died,...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans For Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people...We hear the soldiers' voices as they return their medals one by one from the stage. "I am giving back my global...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
Chicago. "I feel honored standing next to this veteran because in my opinion they are doing the right thing by speaking out against the occupation and war alongside us." Clumpner says, "I reject any affiliation with this war." [Transcript to come.
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
Chicago by Scott Olsen, who survived two tours in Iraq but almost died when he was hit with a police projectile at an Occupy Oakland protest last year...Olsen says, "I am going to make every effort I can to show them that we're doing the right thing.
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
Chicago. "People are here are from around the world searching for alternatives for war," Rev. Jackson says. "Now [the U.S.] seeks to expand a long-term commitment to Afghanistan $2 billion to $4 billion a week while we're laying off transit workers,...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
It spend $1 trillion a year we need this money for jobs, healthcare, education." [Transcript to come.
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan as a prolonged euro crisis slashes its capability...United States and Europe more broadly, should actually do from here. Skip to next paragraph
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Decides to Move Out of Afghanistan by Mid-2013 Defense May 21, 2012, Monday 10 views File photo. Chicago decided to hand control over security in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces by the middle of 2013...In a declaration adopted in Chicago , US...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Good morning and welcome to our live blog coverage of day two of the Nato summit in Chicago and the anti-Nato protests in the streets. Tom McCarthy here in New York; my colleagues Ewen MacAskill and Adam Gabbatt are in Chicago. Here's a summary of...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat. Sunday charted an outwardly confident path to a postwar Afghanistan, their talk tempered by a potential split in the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
Dozens arrested and reports of injuries as anti-war demonstrators rally on fringes of world leaders' meeting in Chicago...The two sides were locked in a standoff for nearly two hours, with the police blocking the protesters' path and the crowd...
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CNN Blog
| 1 year ago
Occupy Chicago, one of the groups that helped organize the demonstrations, took to social media to urge people to join in another planned demonstration at 10 a.m...Dozens were injured in a melee Sunday that came at the end of a largely, peaceful...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
protesters clash with police in Chicago video Peaceful anti-war demonstrations turn violent in Chicago when masked demonstrators charge towards the police line. US war veterans led the demonstrations and some threw away their medals to symbolise...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
As a Nato summit opened here amid protests, the US failed to strike a deal with Pakistan to reopen supply lines to Afghanistan casting a long shadow over talks to end the alliance's combat role in the Afghan war. US President Barack "Obama remained...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Four police officers were injured and 45 demonstrators arrested after baton-wielding police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the Nato summit in Chicago on Sunday, police said. A lawyer's group assisting protesters challenged police...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Chicago said some protesters were injured in a clash with police late Sunday after a day of mostly peaceful protests. Video televised by WLS-TV, Chicago, showed police striking protesters with batons. Occupy Chicago, an organizer of the...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Meredith Aby of the Anti-War Committee, who traveled from Minnesota...From Afghan istan to the Middle East, we demand justice, we demand peace. Also in the crowd was Ash Woolson, a former sergeant in the Wisconsin National Guard who was among several...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 1 year ago
Sunday vowed to bring thousands of demonstrators to Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention. One of the largest rallies in Chicago in years unfolded peacefully when an estimated 4,000 anti-war protesters marched and held an emotional...
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Chicago-Sun Times
| 1 year ago
Summit was taking place, and at another rally at which many of them gave back their medals. Army veterans Brock McIntosh and Scott Kimball said they joined the military to seek justice for 9/11 and peace and justice for the Afghan people. But...
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The Daily Herald
| 1 year ago
Paul Zikus, 60, a Vietnam veteran, leads the planned protest march through the streets of Chicago, Sunday, May 20, 2012, on the first day of the NATO summit. ASSOCIATED PRESS Demonstrators prepare signs in Grant Park before a planned march in...
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Canadian Free Press
| 1 year ago
The Drama of Obama, Summer of Anarchy, Suspended elections Summer of 2012 kicks off as Summer of Anarchy' in Chicago Act 1 of the completely orchestrated Tragedy, known by its insiders as the Re-Election of Barack Hussein Obama, is currently underway...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan even as the Western alliance met to chart a path out of an unpopular war that has dragged on for more than a decade. Chicago, a day after major industrialized nations tackled a European debt crisis that threatens the global economy. The...
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Chicago-Sun Times
| 1 year ago
Sunday, following a march in downtown Chicago and vowed to return their war medals as they called for the immediate withdrawal of foreign troops in the countries and help for veterans. Army veterans Brock McIntosh and Scott Kimball said they joined...
