Blair: I cried for Iraq victims

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News24   -   1 September 2010
London – Tony Blair’s long-awaited memoir says the former British prime minister doesn’t regret the Iraq war – although he wept for the victims – and carries revelations about the politician’s alcohol use, his interactions with the queen and his testy relationship with his successor.
Tony Blair’s A Journey was stirring political passions [...]

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America’s War: Uganda Will Escalate in Somalia, If US Pays

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Uganda Will Send ‘Up to 10,000′ More Troops
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum    -  August 31, 2010
Uganda’s military chief Gen. Arodna Nyakairima says his nation is ready to send up to 10,000 reservists to Somalia to prop up the US-backed, self-proclaimed Transitional National Government (TNG). That escalation of the war is predicated, however, on the US paying for [...]

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Video: Israeli settlements to be determining issue in peace talks

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AlJazeera.net     August 31, 2010

The building of new Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories will be one of the key and determining issues in upcoming peace talks that will be held in the US capital Washington DC.
Israel has been criticised by all sides, including the US, for its illegal construction of thousands of homes, which have been [...]

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Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail

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Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 30 August 2010
As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week’s US-brokered direct talks between the two parties for The Electronic Intifada.
Nora Barrows-Friedman: What are the [...]

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Max Blumenthal: How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Rabbis Defend Book’s Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews (with Video)

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Max Blumenthal is the author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books, 2009) has just been released. Contact him atmaxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
August 30, 2010

A rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has sparked an uproar in Israel and exposed the power a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the government.
When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central [...]

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Iraq Withdrawal: Amid Heat and Broken Promises, Only the Ice Man Cometh

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After seven years and $53bn of US reconstruction money, Baghdad still relies on slabs of ice to keep cool
by Martin Chulov in Baghdad
The Guardian - Tuesday, August 31, 2010
On a pot-holed backstreet in eastern Baghdad, Saad Turki is sweltering under a corrugated tin roof, manning a giant pulley. The grime of yet another merciless summer [...]

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B’Tselem invites theatre heads to field visit to view harm caused by Ariel settlement to Palestinian human rights

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B’Tselem   - August 30, 2010
B’Tselem wrote today to the managers of Israel’s theatres, calling them to visit the Northern West Bank and see for themselves the heavy damage to human rights inflicted by the continued existence of the Ariel settlement. B’Tselem’s letter followed the managers’ decision to perform plays for the first time in the West [...]

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Israeli universities condemn ‘witch hunt’ by right-wing groups

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by Saed Bannoura -
IMEMC News - August 29, 2010
In a joint statement released by Israel’s largest and most prominent universities, the academic leadership challenged a foreign-funded campaign to undermine academic freedom in the name of Zionism, led by radical Israeli rightists and Christian fundamentalists.
The pressure campaign against Israeli universities was launched last year, led by the [...]

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Rights groups sue to quash US order to kill Awlaki

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US civil rights groups move to stop government assassination order on Yemeni-American cleric.

By Rob Lever – WASHINGTON
Middle East Online  -   31 August 2010
Two civil rights groups filed a formal lawsuit Monday seeking to halt what they said was an illegal US government assassination order for Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, considered a dangerous terrorist by Washington.
The American [...]

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‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis

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The Jerusalem Post  -   Tue, Aug 31, 2010
Punishment for performance in front of “mixed audience.”
A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.
Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at [...]

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Leftist Jews set on launching flotilla to bust Gaza siege

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Palestinian Information Center – August 30, 2010
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Left-wing Jewish organizations active in Europe and occupied Palestine say they are preparing to sail a ship to break the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.
The scheduled place and time of departure will be announced shortly before the date to avoid the sprout [...]

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Five myths about mosques in America

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By Edward E. Curtis IV
The Washington Post – August 29, 2010
In addition to spawning passionate debates in the public, the news media and the political class, the proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York has revealed widespread misconceptions about the practice of Islam in this country — and the role of [...]

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