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<div style="color: #323232; text-align: left; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; font-size: 11pt;" align="left"><strong>9-10-2014</strong></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Patrick Cockburn reports that the <span>United States is reluctantly but decisively becoming engaged in the civil wars in Iraq and Syria.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mike Whitney says <span>U.S. meddling in Ukraine dims the prospects for peace.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Trinity College professor Johnny E. Williams on why academics shouldn't remain silent about Israel's brutality. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Emily Cleath says we <span>should never say the word "poverty" without the words "inequality" and "injustice" being far behind.</span><br></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">W.T. Whitney Jr. on the <span>real agenda behind the detention of David Ravelo.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Sheldon Richman says <span>Obama has dusted off Bush's Iraq playbook.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Binoy Kampmark on the meaning of Scotland's vote for independence.</div>
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<div><span><strong>Jonathan Cook</strong> reports from the West Bank on How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israel's War Crimes; <strong>Jeffrey St. Clair</strong> on Why Israel is Losing; <strong>Nick Alexandrov</strong> on Honduras Five Years After the Coup; <strong>Joshua Frank</strong> on California's Water Crisis; <strong>Ismael Hossein-Zadeh</strong> on Finance Capital and Inequality; <strong>Kathy Deacon</strong> on The Center for the Whole Person; <strong>Kim Nicolini</strong> on the Aesthetics of Jim Jarmusch. PLUS: <strong>Mike Whitney</strong> on the Faltering Economic Recovery; <strong>Chris Floyd</strong> on Being Trapped in a Mad World; and <strong>Kristin Kolb</strong> on Cancer Without Melodrama.</span></div>
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<div><span><span>Upton Sinclair: "Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters."</span><br></span></div>
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