US News, December 11, 2009

	Obama to Nobel Committee: Peace Doesn’t Work
	House Passes $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill   Judge Finds Pentagon in Contempt in Gitmo Case   ACLU: Obama Creating 'a Sweeping Immunity Doctrine for Torturers'

• Blackwater Helped CIA ‘Snatch and Grab’ Ops 
• Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize 
• US Military Spent $32.8 Million Making Video Gam

Viewpoints

The Afghan 'Experiment'Justin Raimondo: mobilize the social scientists!
The Nine Surges of Obama's WarTom Engelhardt on how to escalate in Afghanistan
Mr. President, War Is Not PeaceNorman Solomon says eloquence can't change war's reality

The Wrong Prize at the Wrong Time  by Gabor Steingart

The War at Home

	Accused 9/11 Plotters May Face NY 'Guantanamo'
	Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Government Docs
	Suspicious Powder Found at Amex Headquarters in NY
	Federal Budget Deficit for November Hits $120.3 Billion

News

	The Nobel Prize for Irony
	Petraeus Warns of Long, Expensive Afghan Stay

US Continues On Path Toward War With Iran
Viewpoints

	Afghanistan: No More the Good War  by John J. Mearsheimer
	Land Mines Are Latest Attempt by Obama to Distance Himself From Peace Prize  by Russ Wellen

The New Antiwar Right  by Reihan Salame

Frontline

	Slim Majority Back Obama's Afghan Escalation, Bolstered by GOP Enthusiasm
	White House Reviews No-Letter Policy for Military Suicide
	Obama to Note Irony of Peace Prize in Wartime
	Iraq's Other Security Threat: Politics
	US Wants Tough Bioweapons Ban, but No Verification
	Gordon Brown Snubbed by Soldiers' 'Curtain' Protest

'War on Terror'

	US National Denies Mumbai Attacks
	Homeland Security Embarks on Big Brother Programs to Read Our Minds and Emotions
	Terror Charges for Man in Germany Over US Targets
	Cleric Linked to Fort Hood Attack Grew More Radicalized in Yemen
	3 Convicted in Plot to Blow Up Trans-Atlantic Passenger Jets
	US Attorney General Goes to NY for Meetings on 9/11 Trials
	Gitmo Detainee Is Returned to Kuwait
	$100k Reward for Moussaoui Tipster; 2nd in Case
	TSA Puts 5 Employees on Leave Over Online Posting

US Military

	2 Army Rangers Under Felony Charges Allowed to Deploy
	Two Studies: PTSD Is Chemical Change in Brain

Headlines

	Mullen: No Plan to Put US Troops into Pakistan
	Police: Attack on Pakistan Intel Office Kills 12

	War Bonds Proposal Introduced in Senate
	North Korea Seeks US Peace Treaty

	Gates Eyes 'Several Years' of War in Afghanistan
	Mullen: US Losing in Afghanistan   Karzai Says Afghan Army Will Need Help Until at Least 2024   Afghans Protest as NATO Raid Kills at Least Six Civilians   McChrystal: Getting bin Laden Key to Defeating al-Qaeda

Other News
    Obama Envoy Seeks North Korea's Return to Nuke Talks

	Japan Suspends Talks on Where to Move a US Air Base
	US Envoy in Sri Lanka, Washington Mulls Change in Ties

Americas

	Amnesty Accuses Mexican Military of Torture in Drug War
	In Chile, Case Resurrects Ghosts of Bloody Pinochet Dictatorship
	Cuban Spy's Prison Term Cut From Life to 30 Years

The War at Home

	Ex-FBI Director to Examine Fort Hood
	Judge Sets 2011 Trial Date for Iraq Rape Case
	Loophole Let Army Hire Retired Generals as Defense Contractors
	Army Mentoring Deals Bypass Ethics Law
	Obama Admin. Takes a New Approach to Biological Weapons
	Naval Academy to Add Lesson on Cyberwarfare
	Two Top Aides Show Unity on Afghan Strategy

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