This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Up to 18 people have been killed in the latest u. S. Drone attacks on pakistans tribal areas. The strikes hit what pakistani officials described as separate compounds belonging to the Pakistani Taliban in south missouri stan. The taliban commander was reportedly among the dead. The ongoing drone attacks come days after a federal judge ruled the Obama Administration is under no obligation to publicly disclose their legal justification. The American Civil Liberties union and the New York Times had filed a lawsuit under the freedom of information act demanding u. S. Government disclose the legal basis for launching drone strikes overseas. The suit was filed after the u. S. Kill the americanborn cleric Anwar Al Awlaki in yemen despite having never charged him with a crime. In upholding the obama at the ministrations right to secrecy, u. S. District judge Colleen Mcmahon expressed misgivings about the Drone
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Left-wing financier George Soros is at it again. While he may claim he’s not behind the Occupy Wall Street protests, funding from his foundations says otherwise. Soros threw his support behind the movement at a United Nations panel on Oct. 3, “I can sympathize with their grievances.” But he does more than just sympathize, his foundations funded groups that back the protests and steer their “progressive” message. Reuters even posed the question “Who’s behind the Wall St. protests?” on Oct. 13, but downplayed Soros’s actual financial involvement. Even though “Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground,” the story added. But Reuters undersold the connection significantly.