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Each week, we cover the stories that are just left out of the US propaganda machine. News that the people in charge, the corporations and your government want keep from the public eye.
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Independent UK:
"Frank Wisner, President Barack Obama's envoy to Cairo who infuriated the White House this weekend by urging Hosni Mubarak to remain President of Egypt, works for a New York and Washington law firm which works for the dictator's own Egyptian government.
Mr Wisner's astonishing remarks – 'President Mubarak's continued leadership is critical: it's his opportunity to write his own legacy' – shocked the democratic opposition in Egypt and called into question Mr Obama's judgement, as well as that of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The US State Department and Mr Wisner himself have now both claimed that his remarks were made in a 'personal capacity.' But there is nothing 'personal' about Mr Wisner's connections with the litigation firm Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it advises the Egyptian military..."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/revealed-us-envoys-business-link-to-egypt-2206329.html
-->The NY Times covered this story on their blog, but not in print. Why let too many people know that the corporations run US foreign policy?
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PressTV:
"US embassies in the Persian Gulf states are using low-level staff whose employers illegally confiscate their passports and provide them with poor living conditions.
An internal US State Department report says employers who provide gardeners, maids, cooks and local guards to embassies in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates put the workers at risk of human trafficking.
Over three-quarters of the scores of workers at the embassies in question told investigators that they were forced to pay fees to get their jobs, which for more than 25 percent of them was equal to over a year of their salary, AP reported.
Some workers also told investigators they had not been paid wages.
All of the surveyed contractors held the passports of their workers, who were mostly from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/164269.html
-->US embassies treating third world workers like dirt? Not something the US media would ever explore. The NY Times, predictably, ran a story about immigrant worker abuse in Dubai without mentioning exploitation by US embassies.
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PressTV:
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed US plans to set up permanent bases in his country, enabling its troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 deadline.
The decision comes after negotiations between Karzai and US officials and senators on a range of strategic issues, including the establishment of permanent military bases in Afghanistan, DPA reported.
'Yes they want this (permanent bases) and we have been negotiating with them,' Karzai said at a press conference in his presidential palace on Tuesday."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/164268.html
-->Permanent military bases all over the Middle East? The US media never never gets around to informing the US public about our country's imperial ambitions.
