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Obama Plans to Create 2.5 Million New Jobs by 2011

by: Agency France-Presse

Barack Obama wants plan for 2.5 million new jobs.

President-Elect Barack Obama wants his advisors to develop an economic recovery plan that will include 2.5 million new jobs by 2011. (Photo: Getty)



    Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama announced Saturday that he had ordered his economic advisers to produce an economic recovery plan to create 2.5 million new jobs over the next two years. »

Megaphone in shadows.

Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

by: David Sirota, Creators Syndicate

    If you're having trouble remembering what the recent election was all about, rest easy: you're probably not going senile - you're likely experiencing the momentary effects of brainwashing. For weeks, your television, newspaper and radio have been telling you America is a "center-right nation" that elected Barack Obama to crush his fellow "socialist" hippies, discard the agenda he campaigned on, and meet the policy demands of electorally humiliated Republicans. »

Afghan school girl after acid attack.

Once More Fear Stalks the Streets of Kandahar

by: Robert Fisk, The Independent UK

    Five years after his last visit, our correspondent finds the Taliban back in charge of their spiritual home - and girls attacked with acid simply for attending school.

    There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. Then there is another girl, a beautiful child, Khorea Horay, grimacing in pain, her leg amputated, her life destroyed after her foot was torn to pieces. »

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