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<div style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span><strong>NEWS UPDATE</strong></span></div>
<div style="color: #323232; text-align: left; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; font-size: 11pt;" align="left"><strong>9-11-2014</strong></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jonathan Cook says ISIS is Israel's key ally against a Palestinian state.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ramzy Baroud writes that <span>Netanyahu's war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Shamus Cooke explains why the fight for a living wage is a fight for survival.<br></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Binoy Kampmark on <span>ramping up the fear factor in Australia. </span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jan Oberg tells us why the <span>War on Terror is a (predictable) fiasco.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Norman Solomon on why the New York Times continues to support war, no matter the reason.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>SHOCK AND AWE OVER GAZA</strong></span></div>
<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>William Butler Yeats: "I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal, - that is they have ceased to be self-centered, have given up their individuality. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."</span><br></span></div>
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