Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/pers-f13.shtml

New studies reveal that the social divide between rich and poor in the US has grown much starker in the current economic crisis, and that even before it hit the country was the most unequal of the advanced economies, with great wealth and extreme poverty having become virtually hereditary conditions.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/pers-f13.shtml

New studies reveal that the social divide between rich and poor in the US has grown much starker in the current economic crisis, and that even before it hit the country was the most unequal of the advanced economies, with great wealth and extreme poverty having become virtually hereditary conditions. President Barack Obama has done nothing to reverse decades of wage stagnation, mounting poverty, and attacks on the social welfare system. On the contrary, following George W. Bush, he has seized on the crisis to redistribute wealth to a tiny financial elite through the ongoing bailout of the finance industry.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/israel-conducts-covert-assassination-campaign/

Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, Damascus and Beirut. While Israel’s Mossad spy agency has been suspected of staging assassinations across the world since the 1970s, it does not officially acknowledge or admit its activities.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/02/201021223515399305.html

At least three people have been killed and several more injured in shootings at a science building at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus, officials say. A female suspected shooter was in custody, a university spokesman and police said on Friday

Link: http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118556&sectionid=351020403

More international troops die as they launch a major operation against Taliban. As thousands of US-led forces have launched an operation in southern Afghanistan, the number of those foreign troops killed in the assault is rising. According to the latest statement by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), seven troopers were killed on Saturday.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=12157

Baroness Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat frontbencher in Britain, has been sacked as the party's health spokeswoman after urging an inquiry into charges that Israeli forces in Haiti harvested the organs of victims, British media outlets reported Saturday. Tonge, who served as a Liberal Democrat spokeswoman in the House of Lords, has been removed from the post.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7025159.ece

The controversial American security company Blackwater is facing new allegations of gross misconduct after two former employees said that it had repeatedly defrauded the US Government, including charging it for the use of a Filipina prostitute in Afghanistan.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-new-mccarthyism-sweeping-israel-1898156.html

It's hard, sitting on the other side of the office table from which Naomi Chazan is picking at her modest hummus and salad snack lunch, to believe that the amiable 63-year-old university professor with a self-deprecating sense of humour has suddenly become the most discussed, not to say demonised, woman in Israel.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7025821.ece

Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.