Police in Afghanistan have confirmed that the US-led warplanes are to blame for the killing of six Afghan children in the country's volatile east. Police said on Friday that the children were collecting scrap metal in the mountain of eastern Kunar Province when a US-led plane dropped bombs on the area on Thursday.

"In the bombardment six children, aged six to 12, were killed. Another child was injured," AFP quoted a regional police commander as saying.

NATO confirmed in a statement that the US-led military alliance has carried out an airstrike in the mentioned area. The US-led attacks have left several Afghan civilians dead across the country over the past few days.

In a recent meeting with US Congressmen, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that the United States was not making progress in the war because of the growing civilian casualties. The issue of civilian casualties has long been a source of friction between Kabul and Washington. The UN has put the number of civilian casualties at nearly 1,300 so far this year. It blames a quarter of the deaths on foreign troops.

Antiwar: Bombing in Kunar Province Killed Children Collecting Scrap Metal. In the wake of an a revenge attack on an apparent Taliban attack on a police station in the Kunar Province, NATO warplanes bombed a group of small children between the ages of 6-12, killing six of them and wounding one other. The children were collecting scrap metal on a nearby mountain. There were apparently no Taliban at the site of the attack, according to local police. NATO said it was “aware” of the reports and is investigating.

Three weeks ago the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) published a notice, as it is legally required to do, announcing that Israel has ordered massive quantities of various fuels suitable for military use, and in the case of the order for JP-8 jet fuel, suitable only for military use. The massive order is valued at some $2 billion and, as well as the 284 million gallons (1.075 billion litres) of JP-8 jet fuel, the order also includes 60 million gallons (227 million litres) of unleaded gasoline and 100 million gallons (378 million litres) of diesel fuel.

The Israeli government has issued a statement warning Palestinians of the consequences of their efforts to extend a permanent appeal to the international community about Israel's occupation. Issued by the Foreign Ministry, the document warns against Palestinian efforts to draw the attention of various UN agencies to Israel's practices and human rights violations in the occupied territories and inside Israel itself. According to the Ministry's statement, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is also preparing to submit an appeal to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, asking for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and detention camps to be declared "prisoners of war". In a telling link to the current settlement "freeze", due to end next month, the document drew attention to the Palestinians' threat of what the Foreign Ministry calls "civil disobedience" in response to the expected resumption of settlement construction.

An article in Hebrew-language Yediot Wednesday reported the Palestinian Authority-led boycott of settlement-produced goods is having an economic effect on settlement industry, according to a translation by Israeli news blog Coteret. Officials and business owners from the Ariel settlement attested to the effects of both the Palestinian-led boycott of settlement goods as well as the impact from international solidarity boycotts like the divestment announced in Norway Monday.

Ted Clement-Evans introduces a detailed and forensic-like analysis of the transcript of the BBC Panorama programme “Death on the Med”, broadcast on 16 August 2010, which reveals chronic bias and lack of impartiality on the part of the BBC. An extraordinary document has been sent to the BBC – a carefully detailed and forensic-like analysis of the transcript of the Panorama programme “Death on the Med”, broadcast on 16 August 2010. Below is the transcript of this programme, together with the resulting dissection and complaint of bias and lack of impartiality which is now in the hands of the BBC.

Barrie Zwicker was the first journalist in the world to deeply question, on national television, the official story of 9/11. It was a great honor in 2003 for snowshoefilms to meet Zwicker in Toronto. We knew his courageous series of programs questioning the official story had cost him his career in journalism. Zwicker spent no time lamenting. He was organizing, with colleagues, a 9/11 truth movement, determined to expose the big lie: the false-flag inside job terrorist attack would be and was being used as justification for the 'war on terrorism', the war on Islam, the destruction of Iraq. If the 9/11 official story was so preposterous, how come it wasn't easily seen through? Zwicker, a professional media analyst, poses and answers that question in his book. He explains why the corporate media wasn't going to look at it. Another puzzler: Chomsky and most of the left academics and liberal media outlets accept the official story.

Zwicker to 9/11 truthers #4 snowshoefilms
AWIP/WRH: Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses.

Everyday it seems we get more and more proof that oil and dispersant are still poisoning the Gulf of Mexico. Project Gulf Impact recently took their second boat trip in the last week. The first trip brought us photos of freshly sprayed dispersant, totally destroying the myth that this disaster is reaching its end. Large oil and dispersant plumes still linger, continually poisoning and destroying our precious oceans. Internal BP documents show that there were not one but TWO wells, raising the possibility that the ROV cameras may have never been placed near the real leak.

The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States. American intelligence officers are poring over every detail of Gareth Williams's work and personal life to see if the circumstances of his death endangered U.S. national security. The Daily Mail can reveal that the 31-year-old codebreaker flew to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's listening post and the largest intelligence agency in the world, up to four times a year. He returned from his last trip to America only a few weeks before he was found dead. Questions also remain over why his body lay undiscovered for up to a fortnight at his£400,000 flat in a Victorian townhouse in Pimlico, central London, half a mile from MI6 headquarters. Mr Williams worked at the Government's listening post, GCHQ in Cheltenham, but had been on secondment to MI6 for the past year and was due to return to GCHQ next Friday. The body of the keen cyclist was found in a sports holdall in the bath on Monday afternoon. Express.co.uk: MURDERED SPY MAY HAVE MET HIS KILLER ON MISSIONS TO USA -Video

The US Federal Reserve Chairman has painted a grim picture for the US economy, saying there is still a long way for the country to achieve economic recovery. Addressing the Kansas City Federal Reserve Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, Ben Bernanke admitted "the task of economic recovery and repair remains far from complete." The recovery of output and employment has slowed in recent months, to a pace weaker than projected earlier this year, he said, ABC News report.

"We have come a long way, but there is still some way to travel," Bernanke said, adding, "Central bankers alone cannot solve the world's economic problems." "The economy remains vulnerable to unexpected developments," said Bernanke.

With the US government announcing a decline in manufacturing activity and the weakest rate of new home purchases in almost 50 years, experts say the US economy may be on the verge of yet another recession. Earlier this week, it was announced that sales of previously occupied homes fell last month to the lowest level in 15 years. Meanwhile, unemployment remains near double digits because job growth in the private sector has slowed, AP reported. Economists are predicting the government will announce that the economy grew from April to June even more slowly than previously thought, at an annual rate below 2 percent -- weak for normal times and especially anemic right after a recession.

Stephen Lendman: America Facing Depression and Bankruptcy.

In a program devoted to exposing the roots of the global warming scandal, Sean Hannity will feature author Brian Sussman tonight on his Fox News program. "This is the show Al Gore doesn't want America to see," said Sussman, author of the best-selling WNB Books titled, "Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Expose the Global Warming Scam." Hannity also will include a host of climate scientists who claim the science cited to support global warming trends is fraudulent.

"This is the television program that will pound the final nail into global warming's coffin," said Sussman. "Sean and his team at Fox News approached me earlier this summer, asking me to play a significant role in the show. Sean knows that my book reveals the Marxist foundation of fraud upon which the climate-change movement is built. He also knows that in 'Climategate' I call out the perpetrators of this con by name – and that's exactly what Sean will do tonight on national television." Along with Sussman, the hour-long special, titled "The Green Swindle," will include a rare interview with the two acclaimed researchers who "broke the crafty code used to fabricate the bogus hockey stick temperature graph used by Gore in 'An Inconvenient Truth,'" said Sussman. This measure also is cited by the United Nations, and the federal government, added Sussman, "to scare Americans into believing that they're experiencing the hottest weather ever."