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By James Laxer - September 6, 2010

Harper's [Conservative Party] is inhabited by enthusiasts from the Christian Right, anti-government devotees, advocates of economic and political union with the United States, opponents of abortion, people fearful of gay pride festivities, haters of trade unions...lobbyists for the oil industry, and those who fear that global warming is a pointy-headed conspiracy. Binding them together is a proverb: To those who have much, more shall be given; to those who have not, less is only plenty.

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By Ajamu Nangwaya and Alex Diceanu - 09/06/2010

Organized labour in Ontario will continue to put forth a weak and ineffective response to attacks from the ruling class as long as it continues to ignore the reality of class struggle...[T]he recent crisis in the economy caught organized labour off-guard and ill-prepared to mobilize the working-class against that monumental failure of capitalism.

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praised the Palestinian resistance's military operation against illegal racist settlers in Al-Khalil on September 1, 2010, saying that it was a heroic action that reinforces that our people's resistance to the occupation and the settlers' crimes against our people and our land is steadfast, and that this action makes clear that the Palestinian people's resistance is the main road to restore our rights and liberate [our] land, not the path of negotiations, concessions, and liquidation of Palestinian national rights.

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Sunday, September 5, 2010 - Al-Jazeera-English

Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, medics and security sources say. Another person has been critically injured...The Israeli army launched three raids in the south of Gaza on Saturday after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket over the border.

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Insurers are stealing from the dead.

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Only a total ban on offshore drilling can work.

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Friday, September 03 2010 - Infoshop News

Since the G20 protests, we’ve waited breathlessly for a comprehensive account of the charges and investigations stemming from the summit. Despairing of finding one, we finally prepared this report for CrimethInc. It’s not all-inclusive; there is a tremendous amount to keep up with, and many important details are still being forcefully withheld.

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By Tim McSorley - September 3, 2010

Police continue to make arrests in relation to June's G20 protests in Toronto...The latest is 28-year-old Montreal resident Juan Lepore, who appeared in a Toronto court this morning on charges of mischief exceeding $5000, mischief endangering life, and assault.

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Saturday, September 4, 2010 - The Guardian/UK

DUBLIN - Violent skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at the first public signing for Tony Blair's memoirs, with shoes and eggs hurled at the former prime minister...Protesters shouted "Whose cops? Blair's cops!" as they taunted the gardai while Blair remained inside the bookshop. They also shouted: "Hey hey Tony hey, how many kids have you killed today?"

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His address to my graduating class inspired this article.

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By Lawrence Davidson - August 30, 2010

It is not the Palestinian national character that has been shaped by anti-semitism. Rather, it is the Israeli national character that has been shaped by a fear and loathing of all Arabs and Palestinians in particular. If you doubt this just go to Israel and keep your ears open. There you will find that too many of its Jewish citizens see Arabs as dirty, promiscuous, untrustworthy, and all the other things that we Americans once ascribed to Irishmen, Italians, Poles, African Americans, and the Jews as well.

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By MARGARET KIMBERLEY - September 2, 2010

In the same week in which the world was told about mass rapes taking place in the Congo, a report was released which detailed the prevalence of rape in prisons and jails across the United States. In 2008 and 2009, 88,500 adults held in jails and prisons reported being sexually assaulted. The rates of exploitation of juveniles is even higher...

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By John Pilger - September 03, 2010

...[T]he good news is that false realities often fail when the public trusts its own critical intelligence, not the media...For the rulers of the world, this is a conundrum, because their unaccountable power rests on the false reality that no popular resistance works. And it does.

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The welfare of many thousands was willfully destroyed.

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By Tom Wetzel - Sept. 01, 2010

The working class faces the dire circumstances of high unemployment, precarious income, and attacks on social services at a time when the level of collective self-organization and collective struggle by the class is at low ebb. Many of the organizations that do exist...tend to act as “service agencies” with decision-making authority concentrated into hierarchies of paid leaders, executives and professional staff...[T]his crisis is not likely to be overcome except through a protracted process of struggles, organizing, popular education and change in the mindset of increasing numbers of people.

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By Krystalline Kraus - September 2, 2010

For the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) recruited more than 500 Québéc police officers to assist with policing and security. These officers fell under the Integrated Security Unit (ISU) command during the weekend.

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By Vancouver Media Co-op - August 31, 2010

This issue covers the demo in solidarity with Tamil refugees, follows the boycott by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Committee against the Zim shipping line, looks at the protest against local mining company Pacific Rim, and takes an in-depth look at Short Term Incentives for Rental as used by developers to maximize profit at the cost of the public.

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America is on a fast track toward despotism.

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House and Senate bills to empower agribusiness, not increase food safety.

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By Bruce Levine - September 2010

...[Is] it just a coincidence that disabling mental illness and psychiatric drug use have been rapidly increasing at the same time?...[The] most scientifically identifiable factor for the increase of severe psychiatric problems is the increase in psychiatric drug use...[L]ong-term psychiatric drug use has caused children and adults with minor emotional problems to have severe and chronic disorders that result in mental illness disabilities.

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