[Peace-discuss] Fwd: US Middle East Policy is Fraught with Danger

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

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> NEWS UPDATE
> 9-10-2014
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> US Policy Fraught with Danger
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> Patrick Cockburn reports that the United States is reluctantly but decisively becoming engaged in the civil wars in Iraq and Syria.
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> Uncle Sam Does Ukraine
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> Mike Whitney says U.S. meddling in Ukraine dims the prospects for peace.
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> Academics and Israel
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> Trinity College professor Johnny E. Williams on why academics shouldn't remain silent about Israel's brutality. 
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> True Poverty Rate in America
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> Emily Cleath says we should never say the word "poverty" without the words "inequality" and "injustice" being far behind.
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> A Colombian Prisoner of Empire
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> W.T. Whitney Jr. on the real agenda behind the detention of David Ravelo.
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> Return to Folly in Iraq
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> Sheldon Richman says Obama has dusted off Bush's Iraq playbook.
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> Scotland's Drive for Independence
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> Binoy Kampmark on the meaning of Scotland's vote for independence.
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> SHOCK AND AWE OVER GAZA
> Jonathan Cook reports from the West Bank on How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israel's War Crimes; Jeffrey St. Clair on Why Israel is Losing; Nick Alexandrov on Honduras Five Years After the Coup; Joshua Frank on California's Water Crisis; Ismael Hossein-Zadeh on Finance Capital and Inequality; Kathy Deacon on The Center for the Whole Person; Kim Nicolini on the Aesthetics of Jim Jarmusch. PLUS: Mike Whitney on the Faltering Economic Recovery; Chris Floyd on Being Trapped in a Mad World; and Kristin Kolb on Cancer Without Melodrama.
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> Quote of the Day
> 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."
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> Today in History, 1963
> Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace.
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> Video of the Day
> Henry Giroux on 'Zombie' Politics
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