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By JONATHAN COOK - June 28, 2010

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, [has] set out...what he [calls] a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders...He accused many of Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of acting against Israel while their leaders “actively assist those who want to destroy the Jewish state”.

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By RUSSELL MOKHIBER - August 30, 2010

Move over Animal Farm...Here comes Animal Factory...Making us sick and poisoning the environment...“[W]hen you cram thousands of animals into a single confined space without access to fresh air, outdoor sunlight, pasture, natural animal behaviors – you are asking for problems in the form of diseases that attack people.”

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By Roslyn Cassells and Grant Fraser - August 29, 2010

The year-long closure of Vancouver's most visited park has illustrated the push for gentrification in one of Vancouver's poorest neighbourhoods, and the determination of the civic government to serve their political masters in the face of strong grassroots opposition to the plan.

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By Toronto Community Mobilization Network - August 31, 2010

Many people that spent the last year as the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, putting together the infrastructure for the Convergence have been arrested, beaten, and intimidated. Many of our most beloved and central organizers are under house arrest conditions while many others in the city have leaped forward to join the resistance...A new organizing space, the Community Solidarity Network, has just been formed. We see ourselves as the central networking, trust-building and organizing hub for the post-G20 defence happening in different spheres across Toronto.

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By Frances Russell - August 31, 2010

Canadian Press reported last June that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had lunch with Rupert Murdoch...Kory Teneckye, Harper's recently-retired communications director, was also present...Teneycke has become the point man propelling...[the] plan to create a right-wing television network modeled on Fox News..."The new network is a high priority for Harper, for whom controlling the message has always been... of paramount importance..."

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Lawless killing is now US policy.

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By Jillian Kestler D’Amours - August 30, 2010

“[Male Palestinian prisoners] can organize themselves in such a way and actually negotiate and resist and struggle to have certain rights and to have a certain level of relations because of the larger number...With Palestinian women, it's harder to be able to organize because of the smaller number. Whenever they try to [negotiate] they are subjected to harsh treatments."

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By Ian Sinclair - August 31, 2010

With the coalition government sharpening its knives in preparation for...the "longest, deepest, sustained period of cuts to public services since World War II," it was only a matter of time before the [Conservatives-Liberal Democrats] turned their attention to the benefits system..."Tougher penalties for fraud" and "more prosecutions" were just two of David Cameron's proposals in his widely reported recent "uncompromising" clampdown on benefit fraud.

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By PATRICK BOND - August 23, 2010

The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership fresh from hosting the World Cup...In several confrontations with police at town centers, clinics and schools...workers were shot with rubber bullets and water cannons.

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

NEW ORLEANS, LA - In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the department.

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By Krystalline Kraus - August 30, 2010

In wake of the 73 G20-related charges dropped or settled in court, in an effort to shape public opinion, Toronto cops have released a so-called G20 Most Wanted list "Worst of the Worst".

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More evidence of a pariah Israeli state.

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By No One Is Illegal-Vancouver - August 29th, 2010

The mainstream corporate media has played a crucial role in stirring public frenzy by uncritically parroting government rhetoric such as “homegrown terrorists” and “Jihad generation” and that the suspects were “inspired by Al Qaeda”, without providing any evidence to substantiate such a claim. Such stigmatizing statements will have a permanent damaging effect on the men and their families and their “guilt” will surely continue even if the charges are dropped or the men are acquitted.

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By Neve Gordon - August 30, 2010

...[P]ersonal attacks are part of a much broader assault on Israeli higher education and its professors. Two recent incidents exemplify the protofascist logic that is being deployed to undermine the pillars of academic freedom in Israel, while also revealing that the assault on Israeli academe is being backed by neoconservative forces in the United States...Numerous forces in Israel are mobilizing in order to press forward an extreme-right political agenda.

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Yale's three-day bigotry and hate fest.

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By Sharmeen Khan - August 29, 2010

...I don't mind suggestions of moving forward or reflections, and I appreciate all the attempts to sit down and discuss various debates. But I grow increasingly impatient when a sentence starts with, "You know, what YOU should have done is this"...[As] we reflect, I figure I would respond to my top five favorite post-G20 suggestions:

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29 August 2010 - Al Jazeera

The spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas party denounced upcoming talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and wished for the death of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas...Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli chief rabbi, called Palestinians "evil, bitter enemies of Israel"..."[PA President Mahmoud Abbas] and all these evil people should perish from this world...God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians."

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With the melting of the polar ice cap and the opening of the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans for the first time in recorded history, the scramble for the Arctic - reported to contain 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 13 percent of undiscovered oil according to last year's US Geological Society - is underway in earnest. The military value of the navigability of the passage is of an even greater and more pressing significance...

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This heroic man is serving a life sentence on bogus charges - for his activism.

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By Anthony Dimaggio - August 28, 2010

Anyone who has listened to right wing radio...or to Rush Limbaugh 'dittohead' true believers should be familiar with the “free market can solve all America’s problems” rhetoric...I thought this rhetoric was so discredited following the economic collapse that it would be a while before it resurfaced, but that turned out to be a poor assumption. Being a conservative with a megaphone, it turns out, means never having to say you’re sorry or consider alternative evidence and points of view.

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