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On Saturday, September 25, 2010, Max Obsuzewski, a peace and justice activist, based in Baltimore, MD, discussed the planning and objectives for the rally and march for Jobs, Peace, Justice, Education for All, and a Single Payer Healthcare System, etc., to be held in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, at the Lincoln Memorial. For background on the event, please go to: http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/content/main

The issue of immigration was brought to the forefront recently by Arizona’s discriminatory immigration law SB 1070, which would require police and other public officials to ask all or any Latino looking people to show their ID’s. This demonstrates an attitude oriented towards criminalizing immigrants in general and a hostile outlook towards Hispanics in particular. The anti-immigrant attitude was also evident in Utah a few months ago when a list was published and widely distributed with (…)

JARRATT, VA. - Teresa Lewis, who plotted with her young lover to kill her husband and stepson for insurance money, became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years Thursday night when she was killed by lethal injection.
Lewis, 41, was a mother who became a grandmother behind bars. Wearing a light blue prison-issued shirt and dark blue pants, Lewis looked anxious as she was led by officers into the death chamber at 8:55 p.m. She was placed on a white gurney, with leather (…)

Before a sparse audience, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used 10 minutes on the world stage Tuesday to declare capitalism near death while urging world leaders to "spare no effort" in starting to plan for a new world order.
The Iranian president reserved his most pointed language to condemn "unjust government structures" and "transnational corporations," which he blamed for "suffering" around the world. But the brief address was most notable for its lack of fiery rhetoric aimed at (…)

by Yves Engler
"Part of the US Security Coordinator office in Jerusalem, the Canadian military mission in the West Bank (dubbed Operation PROTEUS) now includes RCMP officers as well as officials from Foreign Affairs, Justice Canada and the Canadian Border Services Agency. According to deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Kent, Operation PROTEUS is Canada’s ’second largest deployment after Afghanistan and it receives ’most of the money’ from a 5 year $300 Million Canadian ’aid’ program to (…)

CBC News
"Two criminal investigations launched by military police into the actions of Canadian special forces into the actions of Canadian special forces soldiers in Afghanistan probed the alleged improper killing of Afghans, CBC News has learned...Throughout the Afghan engagement Canadian special forces operated jointly with those of other nations, including Afghanistan and the US. The JTF2 unit was attached to an American special forces command based in Kandahar. JTF2 took its tactical (…)

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — The U.S. soldiers allegedly floated a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it.
For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, hatched the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. The "kill team" activated the plan.
One soldier created a (…)

GEAB N°47 is available! The Global systemic crisis – Spring 2011: Welcome to the United States of Austerity / Towards a very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system Public announcement GEAB N°47 (September 16, 2010) -
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 last February in the GEAB No. 42, the second half of 2010 is really characterized by a sudden worsening of the crisis marked by the end of the illusion of recovery maintained by Western leaders (1) and the thousands of (…)

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Friday he had not been aware of a discussion in Brussels on the Roma issue between President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that has led to a bilateral row.
“I did not witness (such a discussion), although I was present the entire time,” Mr. Kouchner told Europe 1 radio. “The president also did not tell me anything about it. I don’t know if it took place somewhere off on the side.” Mr. Sarkozy told journalists in (…)