Endy Bayuni | The Jakarta Post.com The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a prestigious foreign policy think-tank organization based in Washington, recently launched its Southeast Asian studies department with funding from the widely diversified Bakrie Group, one of Indonesia’s largest business conglomerates. “Southeast Asian nations are critical players in the international community and global economy,” [...]

Agence France Press | Raw Story.com Iran’s main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic’s oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran’s oil exports to China fell by 30 percent in the first six months [...]

Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff | Project Censored.com The New York Times, Washington Post, and most other newspapers in the US are censoring or under-reporting the WikiLeaks documents that show US Task Force 373 (TF 373) is an out-of-control assassination unit responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan. Nick Davies’ lengthy article [...]

Dena Potter | Washington Times.com Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo told actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program, which aired Thursday. In a telephone call from a Southwest [...]

Daniel Tencer | RawStory.com A bill that would give law enforcement more leeway during interrogations of people deemed a public security risk would “gut” the rights afforded to people who have been arrested, critics say. The bill, put forward at the end of last week by US House Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), appears to have [...]

Lore Croghan | NY Daily News.com Sickened 9/11 responders vented their fury Sunday against lawmakers who failed to pass the Zadroga health care bill – and vowed to stage a massive protest rally in Washington when Congress returns from a six-week vacation. “We will not go away,” said now-retired NYPD squad commander Gary White at a Ground Zero [...]

Hamza Hendawi | MSNBC.com While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict — Iraq. New Iraqi government figures tell a different story, however, showing civilian casualties hitting their highest level in more than two years — figures the [...]