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By David Cronin - September 07, 2010

...[T]he [European Union] has become increasingly acquiescent towards Israel’s crimes against humanity. Under the terms of an EU-Israel association agreement...Israel is required to respect fundamental human rights in order to qualify for privileged commercial access to the Union’s markets. Heaps of documentation illustrating that Israel has not complied with this provision have been accumulated over the past decade, yet not only has the EU refused to rescind Israel’s existing trade privileges, it has granted further perks.

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Jim Leech, president and chief executive of Teachers', said there was more at stake then one company's stock: "The intended goal is the efficiency and integrity of Canadian capital markets" Photograph by: Brett Gundlock/National Post files, Brett Gundlock/National Post files Executives at Canada's largest pension funds say they don't want to be ...

By STANLEY HELLER - September 7, 2010

...[D]oes organized labor deserve automatic support while it has a big war stain on its collar, the stain from the support its leaders give to Israeli Apartheid? They support it in two ways, by opposing the growing...boycott, divestment and sanctions...movement against Israel and by buying huge amounts of Israel Bonds...Go to the [Jewish Labor Committee] website and see how [Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Worker's Union] and [American Federation of Teachers] leaders give cover to Israel for its crimes on the Mavi Marmara.

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By Annie Elation - September 6, 2010

In the last week alone, five people were killed in “officer-involved” shootings in the Puget Sound region. On August 31, John T. Williams became the first of this last string of killings by police. John Williams, age 50, was a native man from the Dididaht, Nuu Chan Nulth nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island. He was shot four times in the chest by Seattle police officer Ian D. Birk...

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By Friends of Juan Pablo Lepore - September 6, 2010

Juan Pablo Lepore, 28, was arrested on the morning of September 2 in Montreal, for participating in the G20 Summit in Toronto this June. Juan Pablo was transferred to Toronto the same night and appeared in court Friday morning. He has been refused bail...Juan Pablo is an Argentinian documentary film-maker and independent journalist, visiting Canada for several months.

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By Alheli Picazo - September 7, 2010

The battle between supporters and opponents of Sun TV News -- the Fox News style channel headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former communications director Kory Teneycke -- reached new heights when members of the 'Fox News North' team took issue with a growing online petition urging the [Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission] to reject Quebecor's (QMI) request to "make it mandatory for cable and satellite networks to provide access to the channel 'for a maximum period of three years to effectively expose and promote its programming to viewers across Canada'."

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The president of a Montana tea party group has been kicked out of the organization for an exchange on his Facebook page that appeared to condone violence against homosexuals.

Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe - a dead woman lay on his chest.

September 7, 2010

Erik Lankin was finally [granted] bail Friday, September 3, 2010, after serving two months in jail for alleged offences during the G20 Summit in Toronto; including being an alleged organizer of the protests. He is the last of the 18 alleged "ringleaders" arrested for their supposed role in organizing the G20 protests...

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By Tim Wise - Znet

In all the rancor over whether or not one group of Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural center and worship space near the site of the 9/11 attacks...there is one thing above all else that no one appears anxious to point out: namely, that for any white Christian to say "Ground Zero" is off limits to anyone is possibly the most deliciously and yet grotesquely ironic thing ever suggested.

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Police in Swaziland have arrested about 50 people ahead of protests against sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarchy, activists say.

As a battle rages behind the scenes over who will head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, we play a speech by bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren, who has emerged as a frontrunner for the position. [includes rush transcript]

We speak with veteran journalist and Truthdig editor, Robert Scheer, about his latest book, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. [includes rush transcript]

It’s the economy, stupid. As President Obama faces devastating unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy rates, with no end in sight, he’s begun a ten-week campaign around the country leading up the November midterm elections. We speak with John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, who says Obama should borrow a page from FDR and call for economic justice. [includes rush transcript]

• Obama Unveils $50B Infrastructure Proposal
• Pakistani Towns Face New Flooding
• Scores Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bombings
• 7 Killed in Mozambique Food Protests; UN to Hold Summit on Rising Prices
• Afghans Protest Church's Plan to Burn Quran
• NATO Seeks 2,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
• 12 Killed in US-Militant Gunfight in Baghdad
• Bahrain Intensifies Crackdown on Opposition, Human Rights Groups
• Israeli Foreign Minister: Peace Deal Impossible, Settlements to Resume
• Castro Gives First Speech Since 2006
• Blair Cancels London Book Signing over Antiwar Protests
• Muslim Workers Accuse JBS Swift of Mistreatment, Discrimination
• Regulators Exempted Mariner Wells from Environmental Review
• Jefferson Thomas of Little Rock 9 Dies at 67

Rwandaa s President Paul Kagame was yesterday sworn-in for a second term in office.

Hogansville philanthropist Holland M. Ware has given major gifts to several animal protection groups including a $1.4 million gift to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

And Washington fully supports it.

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At a recent climate camp in North America, activists began collecting signatures for a tar sands pledge of resistance. We invite you to sign on to commit to action against a fossil fuel pipeline and pumping project (”Trailbreaker”) that may bring tar sands bitumen through infrastructure across several American states and Canadian provinces. If we cannot overturn these industry plans, tar sands bitumen will be sent through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, Vermont, and Maine — before tankers bring this sludge to the Gulf Coast of Texas!

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Mining company's operations in India under scrutiny by shareholders following pressure from Amnesty and celebrities A woman sits with her child in a forest village near Vedanta's alumina refinery.