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BOOKS: Refusing to be Enemies -- Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. By Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta (Jim Miles)
Refusing to be Enemies - Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press (Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK), 2011. Aug. 10, 2011 ...
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Gaza, Somalia: Humanity Lives On (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 10, 2011 -- I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had little to do with abstention ...
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Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 23, 2011 -- We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is ...
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BOOKS: Fast Times in Palestine. By Pamela J. Olson (Jim Miles)
Fast Times in Palestine. Pamela J. Olson. Mason Hill Press, New York, 2011. July 25, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- What can I say about such a well written book that has not already been said: well ...
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Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare (NASA)
An x-class flare began at 3:48 AM EDT on August 9, 2011 and peaked at 4:05 AM. The flare burst from sun spot region AR11263, before it rotated out of view. The image here was captured by NASA's ...
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Dow Drops 520 Amid New Europe Debt Concern (Stephen Kirkland)
Aug 10, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks slid, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the lowest level since September 2010, and Treasuries rose for a third day amid concern the European sovereign ...
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Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? (Noam Chomsky)
Aug. 9, 2011 -- (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid ...
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The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means (Paul Craig Roberts)
Aug. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- On Friday, Aug. 5, the credit rating agency, Standard & Poors, downgraded U.S. debt from AAA to AA+. Gerald Celente’s view that S&P’s downgrade of the ...
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Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption (Robert Jensen)
(An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.) Aug. 8, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- My title is ambitious and ambiguous: ...
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The Jobs Crisis Demands Attention (Shamus Cooke)
Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- When the big banks screamed "crisis," they were instantly rewarded with trillions of taxpayer money. Likewise, when rich bondholders -- some of them ...
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It's Time to put the Euro out of its Misery (Mike Whitney)
Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- We all know the drill. Bond yields start to spike in one of the smaller countries in the EU, and before you know it, the bigger countries are called in ...
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