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A grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows smoke billowing from the Baba Amr neighbourhood in Homs.

Chef, author and food activist Bryant Terry's new cookbook, The Inspired Vegan, is loaded with unexpected delicacies.

Shortly before 1PM EST, Reuters headlined, "Russia, China veto UN resolution telling Assad to quit," saying: The diplomatic "setback" came the day after "Syrian opposition (elements) accused Assad's forces of killing hundreds of people (in) Homs, the bloodiest night in the 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab country."

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Slowly things are coming to a head. America, Israel, rogue NATO partners, and regional despot allies are itching for a fight with Syria. Russia and China stand firmly opposed.

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By Ali Abunimah - The Electronic Intifada

Comparing Omar Barghouti to Hitler and Jews and others who support human rights for Palestinians to Jewish collaborators at Nazi extermination camps is sickening...It is not only deeply defamatory against its targets but...[is] a form of Holocaust denial. Comparing a student conference at UPenn to a Nazi death camp says effectively that Nazi death camps were nothing more harmful than a student conference.

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By Robert Fisk - February 05, 2012

Nine years after invading Iraq...we plan to clap our hands as Israel bombs Iran because of more unprovable "weapons of mass destruction". Now I don't doubt that within seconds of hearing the news, Barack Obama's grotesque speech-writers will be groveling to find the right words to support such an Israeli attack. If Obama can abandon Palestinian freedom and statehood for his own re-election, he can certainly support Israeli aggression in the hope that this will get him back in the White House.

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Alan Dershowitz is a shameless bigot, a longstanding Islamophobe, a perverter of fundamental US and international law, an advocate of war, torture, targeted assassinations, and collective punishment, as well as a committed Zionist and apologist for Israel's worst crimes.

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Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

By Jorge Rivas - Colorlines

Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot and killed by a NYPD officer in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon after running into his home as undercover officers pursued him. He’s the third person the NYPD have killed in a week. According to the police spokesperson, he was unarmed.

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By Peter Symonds - WSWS

Even as the US and its European allies intensify punitive economic sanctions against Iran, there are growing signs that Israel is threatening military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in the coming months. While the Obama administration has cautioned Israel against military action at this stage, there is no indication that Washington has vetoed such an attack.

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Sunday 5 February - The Guardian

The government's focus on alleged fraud and over-claiming to justify cuts in disability benefits has caused an increase in resentment and abuse directed at disabled people, as they find themselves being labeled as scroungers, six of the country's biggest disability groups have warned...Some of the charities say they are now regularly contacted by people who have been taunted on the street about supposedly faking their disability and are concerned the climate of suspicion could spill over into violence or other hate crimes.

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By Pamela Palmater - rabble.ca

...[T]he way in which the gathering unfolded really showed how little consideration the Conservatives have for First Nations. The whole event was entirely controlled by the Conservatives, in terms of the rushed date, the very restricted agenda, the attendees, location, speakers, and timing. More than that, the entire meeting was steeped in symbolism, none of which reflected our peoples, Nations and histories, but was representative of the dictatorial and confrontational stance of the Conservatives vis-a-vis our Nations.

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The death toll from fighting between Syrian government forces and civilians rose Sunday, a day after the United Nations Security Council failed to approve a plan seeking to halt the violence.

A legal bid to free five orcas from captivity on the grounds they are enslaved in violation of the US constitution is a "strategic error", conservationists warned.

Diana Sanchez Barrios, the first transsexual woman to seek a seat in Mexico City's municipal assembly, says she is confident of winning.

Sen. Mary Landrieu , D-La., last week accepted the 2011 Humane Horseman of the Year Award from the Humane Society of the United States.

By Dave Zirin - February 3, 2012

This Sunday, the greatest multitude in the history of the United States will be tuning into the same television show at the same time...Popularity plus polarization will mean epic ratings. It also means a pox of sponsors branding Indianapolis’s Lucas Oil Field within an inch of its life. But while the high rollers will party down and Fortune 500 companies will have an unparalleled audience, the city of Indianapolis will reel under the weight of our national party.

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A panel board that Ruth Loving show's of her life through the World War II years through her social activism in Springfield.

A powerful anti-war indictment by Wolfgang Borchert: German, author, playwright, poet. His experience under Hitler and Wehrmacht service changed his life. Never a Nazi supporter, he deplored compulsory Hitler Youth time. Finally he got out. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested, then released him. His Wehrmacht conscription suspended his young theatrical career.

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