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Flying the Flag; Faking the News - Truthout - All Articles

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book, "Propaganda," published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the "intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses was an important element in democratic society" and that the

Department of Justice Sues Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for Refusing to ... - truthout - compliance - Google News

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Department of Justice Sues Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for Refusing to ... - truthout

Davis Case Reignites Death Penalty Debate - Truthout - All Articles

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A federal judge in Georgia upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Troy Davis last week, following a special evidentiary hearing that was ordered by the US Supreme Court to determine whether he was innocent. The high court took the unusual step of directing the federal judge in charge of the case, US District Judge William Moore, to re-examine it after Davis and his lawyers presented evidence that the reliability of witness statements used by the prosecution was questionable. read ...

NAACP Monitors Tea Party 'Racism And Other Forms Of Extremism' - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

The Washington Post — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

NAACP leaders have a message for the members of the tea party movement: We're watching you....

Flood Refugees in Karachi Relief Camp Complain of Government Corruption and Inefficiency - Democracy Now!

mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

It's been a month since torrential rains triggered the worst floods in Pakistan's recent history. Nearly 20 million people are homeless or hungry, with one million people displaced in the past week alone. The official death toll is at 1,760 but is expected to rise as survivors are threatened by diseases. Madiha Tahir, a freelance journalist in Pakistan, files a report from the Razzaqabad relief camp in Karachi.

$547 Million Can’t Paper Over Failure of Afghanistan War - AlterNet

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Pentagon’s public relations machine is working overtime these days trying to sell a theme of “progress” in Afghanistan to push back against calls to end the war. The message machine behind this push is gargantuan, costing $547 million and employing more than 27,000 people. But, as our latest Rethink Afghanistan video shows, all that [...] ...

Guess who is the next terrorist? Your neighbour next door! - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

rabble staff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The recent arrest of four young men in Ottawa has been portrayed by the media and by some security analysts as a brand new threat: the radicalization of youth. The typical terrorist is no longer a sombre looking foreigner or an immigrant with a heavy accent immersed in martial arts -- instead he is a middle-class family man, funny, "well integrated," and well educated that you can never detect or almost never... read ...

5 Jaw-Dropping Stories in Wikileaks' Archives Begging for National Attention - AlterNet.org: Media and Technology

Nick Turse, AlterNet — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Many files, beyond the Afghan War Diary and the 'Collateral Murder' video, continue to hide in plain sight on Wikileaksâ€™ Web site.

d’Errico: Strategizing sovereignty - ICT: Columnists

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Charles Trimble and Sam Deloria recently called on American Indians across the land to begin coordinated discussions about sovereignty. Trimble’s column, “Pushing the envelope of sovereignty” [Vol. 30, No. 13], raised an alarm about the unplanned way Indian sovereignty struggles are being fought. Trimble argues that the current “national atmosphere of simplistic populism and revolt. … can escalate into. … widespread backlash” by non-Indians who have little understanding of indigenous sovereignty and see only casinos.

$547 Million Can’t Paper Over Failure of Afghanistan War - AlterNet

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Episode #17- [Migrant Matters Radio] Conservatives to require visas while denying human rights abuses: Part 1 - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

Scott McWhinnie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Part one of a three-part interview. Our guests are Eddie Huesca of Fuerza/Puwersa (a migrant justice advocacy group); Drew Garvie of Young Communist League-Guelph; and Ryan White, a Toronto-based employment lawyer. They talk about the implications surrounding the recent re-imposition of visa requirements on people of Mexican and Czech-Roma descent. These requirements were implemented to specifically target individuals seeking refugee status in Canada and are intended to block the large flow of Mexicans and Czech-Roma people into Canada. read ...

Feds Charge 6 In Forced Labor Of 400 Thai Workers, Largest Human-Trafficking Case In U.S. History - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

AP — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

HONOLULU — Six recruiters were accused of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal...

Prop 8: Court Won't Force Schwarzenegger, Brown To Defend Gay Marriage Ban - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

AP — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California court has refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a ruling that overturned the...

Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful - AlterNet

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The author of 'The Vagina Monologues' recently sat down with me, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to discuss New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Robert Naiman | Iraq/Afghanistan: A Promise Kept, a Promise Deferred - Truthout - All Articles

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

President Obama wants credit for keeping his promise to end the war in Iraq. Some credit is due: the president reaffirmed his commitment to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, as required by the agreement between the US and Iraq. But only partial credit is due, because the war-ending task is very far from complete.

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sued By Justice Department In Civil Rights Probe - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

AP — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

PHOENIX — The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over...

Jake Diliberto: Enough Is Enough: War Chatter From the Oval Office - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

Jake Diliberto — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

2010 is the deadliest year thus far in Afghanistan. How much war chatter do Americans have to endure? When does the President call it "game over"?

Flying the Flag, Faking the News - Commondreams.org Views

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by John Pilger

Federal Prosecutors Hiding Evidence in War on Gangs - AlterNet.org: War on Iraq

Tom Hayden, The Nation — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The revelations threaten to undermine the stateâ€™s case while raising serious questions about the legality of the US governmentâ€™s global war on gangs.

The (Anti-War) Surge Did Work - Commondreams.org Views

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Tom Andrews

While President Obama called on the nation Tuesday night to “move beyond our differences” on the disastrous US Iraq policy, the Congressional Republican leadership – John Boehner in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate- were delivering high-octane speeches attacking the president for opposing the military surge of US forces in 2007 that they claim turned the tide in the Iraq war.

Fight Tea Partiers with Fresh Voters - Commondreams.org Views

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Laura Flanders

Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix?

Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful - Commondreams.org Views

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Amy Goodman

Bald, brave and beautiful: Those words can't begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play "The Vagina Monologues" and the creator of V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls, told me how "cancer has been a huge gift."

Forum: Palestinian-Iraqi refugees and settlement in Australia. - Green Left Weekly issue #780

Melbourne — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:30:00 GMT

In 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by the Zionist forces becoming the world's biggest refugee population. The Palestinian refugees in Iraq experienced brutality from the hands of US forces and militia in 2003, resulting in a mass exodus from their homes in Baghdad. The meeting examines the question resettling them in Australia. Speakers: Yousef al Reemawi (refugee advocate), Robin Laycock (Palestine Solidarity Campaign), and others. 7pm. New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton. Event date: Thu, 09/09/2010 Event time: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 7:00pm Phone: 0431 738 271 read ...

LunchBox/Soapbox: Why So Frightened? Presenter Kon Karapangiotidis founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre - Green Left Weekly issue #780

Melbourne — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Asylum seekers have no connection to population boom, unemployment, debt, terrorism or interest rates, but you wouldn’t know it watching the nightly news. We receive so few refugees compared to the global community yet time and again we are told to be scared. Why do so many Australians feel a sense of entitlement to turn back people fleeing for their lives? What does it mean to be Australian if we offer no just sanctuary for refugees? Why have we allowed a moral issue to become a political one? Presenter: Kon Karapangiotidis established the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in 2001. Event date: Thu, 09/09/2010 Event time: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:45pm Website: read ...

Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters - AlterNet

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They’re more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix? In a country where 131 million people voted in the 2008 presidential election, a [...] ...