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In this Tuesday, April 22, 2008 file photo, a Christian Greek Orthodox priest bathes in the Jordan River after it was blessed during a baptism ceremony in the waters of the Jordan River at Qasr-el Yahud near Jericho, in the West Bank, during Holy Week.

An animal rights group wants to help pay for a dog park that the Girl Scouts of Troop 74 hope to create in Borough Park.

By PATRICK COCKBURN - July 27, 2010

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.

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Cuban opposition activist Guillermo Farinas returned home from the hospital Thursday three weeks after ending a 134-day hunger strike that left him sluggish, with neck pain and difficulty walking.

By Yifat Susskind - July 29, 2010

In its bid to maintain its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli government has launched a new offensive, this one against its own citizens. A bill that is currently before the Knesset would allow Israelis who support boycotts against Israel to be sued for damages. The bill is part of a government backlash against a small but growing number of Israelis who have taken up the tactic of boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) to bring about an end to their government’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

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After obtaining the investigation file of the Orange County Sheriff's Office on the Feb.

Honest reports will document the massacre accurately.

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By CONN HALLINAN - July 29, 2010

Winning “hearts and minds” is just a tactic aimed at insuring our paramount interests...Be nice to the locals unless the locals decide that they don’t much like long-term occupation...Then “hearts and minds” turns nasty. U.S. Special Operations Forces carry out as many as five “kill and capture” raids a day in Afghanistan and have assassinated or jailed more than 500 Afghans in the past few months. Thousands of others languish in prisons.

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The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. In a historic vote Wednesday, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over forty countries abstained from voting, including the United States, Canada and several European and other industrialized countries. There were no votes against the resolution. We speak with longtime water justice activist, Maude Barlow. [includes rush transcript]

In Iraq, an official audit by the US Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction found that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $9 billion taken from Iraqi oil revenues between 2004 and 2007 for use in reconstruction. Meanwhile, a new medical study has found dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004. We speak with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. [includes rush transcript]

A federal judge in Phoenix blocked key provisions of Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant law on Wednesday, hours before it was scheduled to take effect. US District Judge Susan Bolton ruled a partial injunction would apply to the portion of the law that requires police officers to stop and interrogate anyone they suspect is an undocumented immigrant. The law sparked mass protests across the country and a boycott of Arizona. We speak with Isabel Garcia, co-chair of the Tucson-based Coalition for Human Rights. [includes rush transcript]

• Federal Judge Blocks Part of Arizona Immigration Law
• US Seeks Access to More Internet Data Without Court Order
• House Reduction of Drug Sentencing Disparity
• EPA Blasted over Handling of Michigan Oil Spill
• Coast Guard's Role in Fighting BP Oil Rig Fire Scrutinized
• Texas Launches Probe of Toxic Release of BP Refinery in Texas City
• Local Afghan Media Outlets Paid to Run US Propaganda
• Pakistan Declares Day of Mourning After Plane Crash
• 2000-2009 Marked Warmest Decade on Record
• Israel Refuses to Pay Medical Bills for Emily Henochowicz
• Peace Activist Art Gish, 70, Dies
• Israel Demolishes Bedouin Village in Negev Desert

A community member alerted the International Fund for Animal Welfare to the planned shoot.

For Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner , work and play are one and the same. As figurehead of the men's magazine since its launch in 1953, Hefner has embodied the publication's spirit with his silk-pajama lifestyle and revolving cast of simultaneous girlfriends.

Amanda Hiscocks will live under house arrest at her sister's residence in Ottawa and will continue to make required court appearances in Toronto.

By CrimethInc. - Wednesday, July 28 2010

Looking back over the past decade, it appears that North American law enforcement agencies are increasingly utilizing conspiracy charges to target anarchists and others involved in radical communities. We’ve composed this review of recent conspiracy cases in hopes of analyzing this phenomenon. If conspiracy charges are becoming central to the state's strategy against anarchists, it is imperative that we develop a strategy of our own to respond and seize the initiative rather than simply reacting over and over to individual cases.

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It's been interesting to watch the discourse around the Afghan War Diary in the Canadian corporate press, and to see what they're talking about, and what they're not...On Sunday, Wikileaks released 91,731 documents about the war in Afghanistan. This is the biggest leak in US history. It'll take some time for analysts to comb through it all, but some reporting trends are already emerging.

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Amnesty International accused Iran of harassing the lawyer of a woman sentenced to death by stoning, saying Wednesday that he has gone missing and two of his relatives have been detained.

By DTES Power of Women Group

Over one hundred [Downtown Eastside] residents and concerned people across Vancouver gathered for an emergency rally to denounce police violence. This was in direct response to the recent controversy surrounding a [Vancouver Police] officer’s physical assault of a 26-year old woman with cerebral palsy in the Downtown Eastside...Shortly after the protest...the VPD announced that the police officer responsible was taken off the DTES beat and reassigned.

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