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NewStatesmanJohn PilgerPublished 01 September 2010Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented ... [Link] [Cache]

Not exactly the conclusions reached at WINEP. Via WarInContext, this from MERIP"... But by its own reckoning, the attack has resurrected Hamas as a political player in the West Bank. In its attacks on settlers on two consecutive nights in different parts of the West Bank, Hamas demonstrated its reach ... [Link] [Cache]

Gamal Mubarak ... Old Guard? Not so enthusiastic! Carnegie:"... Gamal Mubarak thus faces a dilemma: if he breaks away from his current supporters to cultivate the support of the old guard, for example by cooling his enthusiasm for the neo-liberal economic course, he is in danger of turning the powerful ... [Link] [Cache]

Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 2 September 2010 Ingrid Jaradat Gassner The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a rights-based approach to crafting durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews BADIL ... [Link] [Cache]

On August 20, the Obama Administration announced that it will reconvene under its auspices direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations beginning on September 2.While the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation fully supports a just and lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace and hopes that the Obama Administration is successful in these efforts, it ... [Link] [Cache]

This was a front-page story today:Bedbug fears put bite on the hotel industryA feature of the paper right there.That sure is a lot of print space and ink for a nothing story, isn't it?Related: Boston Globe Bedbugs BiteSeeing as I am not going to get any sleep:"At NESN, a new ... [Link] [Cache]

Graphic courtesy of New America Foundation Welcome Steven Hill, Hosted by Masaccio. Don’t cut Social Security, DOUBLE It By Steven Hill In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a debate over Social Security is heating up. This debate raises fundamental questions about the kind of society in which Americans wish ... [Link] [Cache]

By David Swanson Lies aren’t used just to start wars, but also to escalate them, continue them, and even reduce or end them. And we got a pile of war lies from the ... [Link] [Cache]

The Anti-Empire Report September 1st, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Things which don’t go away. Things the American government and media don’t let go of. And neither do I. Iraq “They’re leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride ... [Link] [Cache]

The week leading up to Labor Day is always a quiet time politically. This short respite is the perfect time to listen to the current installment of The Agitator: Voices of PDA, our final installment ... [Link] [Cache]

General David Petraeus The day after Obama declared victory sort of in Iraq, the Administration announced a whole package of sanctions against the Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-e Taliban. The sanctions: Designate TTP as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Designate TTP as a Special Designated Global Terrorist Organization Designate TTP’s two leaders, Hakimullah ... [Link] [Cache]

I don't smoke, readers."Electronic cigarettes attracting ‘smokers’; But FDA says product should be regulated" by Michael Felberbaum, Associated Press | September 2, 2010RICHMOND — Electronic cigarettes look like the real thing and give him his nicotine fix but do not contain tobacco....As they become more popular, the battery-powered cigarettes have ... [Link] [Cache]

On Saturday September 11th, 2010, 30+ arts and music venues in London will be holding events to raise awareness about the true nature of the events that changed the world 9 years ago. In light of two wars in the middle east and ever increasing restrictions on our civil liberties, ... [Link] [Cache]

Literally and figuratively:"Michigan cancels its annual fair; Struggling state can’t afford to subsidize event" by Corey Williams, Associated Press | September 2, 2010 DETROIT — Governor Jennifer Granholm canceled the Michigan State Fair, saying debt-ridden Michigan could no longer afford to subsidize it.... Related:"Michigan, reeling under cataclysmic job losses and ... [Link] [Cache]

[Electronic Intifada] When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more over the ... [Link] [Cache]

He will really help your case, fart-misters:"Gunman dies in hostage standoff; Held 3 to protest Discovery Channel" by Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press | September 2, 2010 SILVER SPRING, Md. — A man who had railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at ... [Link] [Cache]

PNN – 01.09.10 World Health Organization WHO – Ahmed is a medical student. He cannot continue his training at an East Jerusalem hospital because his permit was confiscated. He recounts how the Israeli secret service asked him to work for them if he wanted his permit back. “As part of ... [Link] [Cache]

photo: NCFRR/White House It’s a fact of American life that veterans are seen as inviolate, and criticisms of veterans approaching treason. It’s one thing for Alan Simpson to call Social Security recipients greedy bastards, even though a chunk of them, a substantial chunk almost half , includes military veterans. It’s ... [Link] [Cache]

I'm tired of the MSM being an advertisement for alcohol -- as it decries teen drinking, blah, blah, blah."Cheers! Drinking linked to longer life; Study confirms a few can help" by David Olmos, Bloomberg News | September 1, 2010SAN FRANCISCO — Sipping two or three glasses of wine, beer, or ... [Link] [Cache]

Havana, Cuba, Sept 2.- The 17th World Festival of Youth and Students to take place December in South Africa will demand the end of the US economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba and the release of the Cuban Five from American jails. [Link] [Cache]

Havana, Cuba, Sept 2.- Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Frias visited on Wednesday the locality of La Higuera, in the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where Ernesto Che Guevara was assassinated in 1967. [Link] [Cache]

Havana, Cuba, Sept 2.- A group of 34 Cuban companies that stopped using ozone depleting substances in their productive processes will be acknowledged by the national Technical Ozone Office OTOZ . [Link] [Cache]

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[ISM] A military court of appeal yesterday 1st Sept. 2010 rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a leading activist from the West bank village of Bil’in, imprisoned in Israel’s Ofer military detention centre since 10th July 2009. The decision comes 8 days after the conviction ... [Link] [Cache]

By Yousef Munayyer | Permission to Narrate | September 1, 2010 This afternoon news began to break about the killing of 4 Israeli settlers near the Palestinian town of Hebron. Surely, the killing of any unarmed civilians, whether their presence in a particular area is legal or not, is condemnable ... [Link] [Cache]

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02/09/2010 On the eve of Al-Quds Day, the Israeli enemy called on the Lebanese government to be vigilant against what it called attempts by Hezbollah to create disturbances near the border on the occasion. Israeli Radio said that Israeli security authorities sent out these warnings to the Lebanese government for ... [Link] [Cache]