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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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Amnesty International has blasted Rwanda`s laws on genocide ideology, which the campaigning group said are being used to suppress political dissent.

Rubén Salazar was one of the most well-known Latino journalists of the twentieth century and one of the few journalists killed while reporting in the United States. This Sunday marked the fortieth anniversary of his death. He was killed on August 29th, 1970, when he was struck in the head by a tear gas projectile fired by a sheriff’s deputy into an East Los Angeles bar as he was covering the massive National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, a massive antiwar march that drew some 30,000 people to LA’s Eastside. For forty years, speculation and controversy have swirled around what happened. We remember the life and legacy of Salazar and the Chicano Moratorium. [includes rush transcript]

Rwanda is facing explosive allegations from the United Nations of committing war crimes and possibly even genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A leaked report from the UN high commissioner for human rights says that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Tutsi-led Rwandan troops and their rebel allies killed tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group inside the Congo. [includes rush transcript]

Nothing about Kheda Saratova's demeanor indicated the nature of her work when I first met her in Grozny five years ago.

• Obama to Declare End to Combat Operations in Iraq
• UN: Iraq Still Faces Humanitarian Crisis
• Gibbs: US Is Increasing Fight Against al-Qaeda in Africa and Southeast Asia
• Obama Administration Sued over Plan to Assassinate US Citizens
• 19 US Troops Killed Since Saturday in Afghanistan
• Anti-Mosque Rhetoric in US Reportedly Boosts Taliban Recruitment
• Candlelight Vigil in Tennessee Condemns Arson at Mosque Site
• Predator Drones to Begin Patrolling Texas-Mexico Border
• Suspected Drug Lord Captured in Mexico
• Obama Urges Senate GOP to Pass $30 Billion Jobs Bill
• One in Six Americans Now Enrolled in Anti-Poverty Programs
• Mice, Maggots, Manure Found at Factory Egg Farms Linked to Salmonella Outbreak
• Four African Union Troops Killed in Somalia

The bear that recently killed a caretaker in a Cleveland suburb was the latest example of animal violence in a state that has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them.

O n Dec. 30, 1970, Charlie Goodell, the man who had been appointed to Robert F. Kennedy's Senate seat and lost it to James Buckley two months earlier, spoke again, as he was often doing, about his opposition to the Vietnam War.

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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Candles are seen with photos of Neda Agha Soltan, shot dead at a rally in Tehran, at a rally in support of Iranian election protesters organized by Amnesty International June 26, 2009 in New York City.

Two New York-based civil liberties groups have sued the federal government, saying its targeted killings of U.S. citizens overseas is unconstitutional.

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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Canada's largest and most influential business organization has launched a lobbying campaign urging Canadian senators to kill legislation requiring the government to deliver a science-based plan to fight global warming and provide regular reports on its progress.

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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A Chinese AIDS activist jailed after a run-in with a hospital administrator is in poor health but has vowed to keep fighting for compensation after being infected by tainted blood during a childhood transfusion, his father said Monday.