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August 28, 2010 - Vancouver Media Co-op

...[A] division seems to have been created of “junkies”, and “drug dealers” versus “families”. What needs to be recognized is that this is a division that is created in the interests of the businesses and wealthier (newer) residents of [Commercial] Drive. The fact is that as the working class residents of this neighborhood, we are all under attack together. When they wipe a few of us out of the picture based on whatever racist, classist suspicions we are all left standing on our own.

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Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message.

Recover was an illusion. The worst is yet to come.

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By James Carroll - August 23, 2010

...Israeli leaders happily collaborate with a reactionary American religious movement which, while having learned to downplay its Jew-denigrating End Time theology, nevertheless aims in its very essence at the elimination of Jewish faith. Israeli leaders, in their dependence on such Christians, exchange short-term benefit for long-term jeopardy. American Christian Zionism is a particularly lethal form of contemporary fundamentalism.

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25 August 2010 - The Electronic Intifada

This violence meted out by [Palestinian Authority] forces...comes amidst growing dissent within Palestinian political parties against the leadership of PA President Mahmoud Abbas...His decision to attend US-brokered direct talks with Israel -- despite the continued construction of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land and the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, amongst other rights violations -- has been greeted with condemnation.

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Some experiences and photos from an August climate camp gathering and protest in Dunham, Quebec -- just north of Vermont. A tar sands pipeline ("Trailbreaker") and pumping station project was our main target at the camp. That campaign is a way of blocking tar sands expansion, while helping out local victims, at the same time. The pipeline project cuts across Maine, Quebec, Ontario, Michigan, Chicago, and other areas -- so there are plenty of points of intervention, and plenty of grounds for solidarity.

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By Seth Klein - August 27, 2010

Among the common reactions to the arrival of the MV Sun Sea is the proposition that Canada's alleged lax immigration laws make us a global sucker — a target for many of the world's migrants. This is absurd.

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It's been 33 years since Raye Fleming's arrest outside Southern California's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, near the height of the anti-nuclear power furor.

08/27/2010

Hamilton, Ont. - On Thursday August 26, the Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Area (SACHA) organized a protest outside the Hamilton Court House after a rape trial was stopped and the accused was set free..."I think the evidence that I heard yesterday, particularly from the complainant...was quite unbelievable. The demeanor of (the woman) was off the wall ... I don't know whether that was because she was strung out on drugs. She certainly had that appearance..."

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Author's note: An earlier article explained America's longstanding political repression agenda.

REAL AVATAR TRIBE: Members of the Dongria Kondh tribe gather on top of the Niyamgiri mountain, which they worship as their living god.

Nemtsov, front, carrying a Russian flag on Novy Arbat on Sunday with about 100 activists, including Ponomaryov.

By Yavar Hameed and Jeffrey Monaghan - August 25, 2010

Canadian military officials have undertaken a comprehensive effort with their Israeli counterparts to “pursue deeper relationships,” to borrow from Israel’s weapons, war training, and counter-insurgency strategies, and to strengthen diplomatic ties, according to documents obtained through access to information (ATI) requests.

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Japanese media representatives have for the first time been allowed into the execution chamber at a Tokyo jail.

By Joseph Jones - August 26, 2010

...[P]oliticians boost developer profits by no longer collecting ordinary municipal revenue, and leave (often low income) renters who live in Vancouver to cover the resulting financial gap. Then, they use "expedited processing" (aka queue jumping) to let developers glom onto major financial concessions...The City of Vancouver has shackled its finances to the shaky foundation of development activity. While manufacturing declines, the city's remaining industrial land provides rich soil for sprouting lucrative condos.

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As a federal inspector watched, a young girl fed a mixture of Lucky Charms and cat food to a six-month-old bear cub at a private exhibit in western North Carolina, when the animal bit her, leaving tooth marks on her wrist.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - August 27-29, 2010

Encouraged by its success in breaking the law, the executive branch early this year announced that the Obama regime has given itself the right to murder Americans abroad if such Americans are considered a “threat.” “Threat” was not defined and, thus, a death sentence would be issued by a subjective decision of an unaccountable official.

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Mario Santos likely never made it to the United States. The 18-year-old set out 10 years ago from his native El Salvador in search of opportunity and a better way of life.

The Lobby's influence is sinister and harmful to American interests.

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A campaign declaring solidarity with 33 detained Mapuche hunger strikers has attracted substantial local and international attention to the Mapuche struggle.

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