Campaigners say scores of Libyans were killed or injured in air strikes but Nato has not provided compensation Nato has failed to properly investigate or provide compensation for civilian deaths caused by its air strikes during the seven-month operation in Libya that helped bring about the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi,…

Reports say at least three killed in incident outside school in southwest city of Toulouse. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/2012319875423753.html

Is an Israeli strike agianst Iran avoidable or inevitable? from (author unknown) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-17387029

After more than a dozen deaths in two hospitals, prosecutors charge two male nurses after a two-month investigation. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/201231944448721310.html

With the Qur’an-burning scandal, the Panjwai massacre, repeated demonstrations against the United States, and Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai’s increasingly strident anti-American pronouncements, it seems clear that the US is likely to be withdrawing from that country soon. The Obama administration, its “counter-insurgency” strategy crafted by current CIA head David Petraeus…

Railway minister resigns after coming under fire from his own party for his proposal to increase passenger fares. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/03/201231955056813272.html

Gunfire and explosions rock Damascus neighbourhood, a day after a deadly car bomb killed three in city of Aleppo. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/03/201231933724565894.html

Karen J. Greenberg writes at Tomdispatch Ever More and Ever Less The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror By Karen J. Greenberg By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end,…

Jose Ramos Horta promises to hand over power to eventual winner after being placed third in Sunday’s presidential poll. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/201231932647243964.html

Reagan and Matalin skip who’s up-down in the GOP contest to debate spurting gas prices, the constitutionality of “Obamacare” and our exit strategy from Afghanistan post- massacre. Then: do presidential speeches ever matter, Mr. Reagan? Read more: Supreme Court, President Obama, Titanic, President Karzai, Mary Matalin, Newt Gingrich, Gas Prices,…