Link: http://www.citizensposse.com/

Insurance companies claim profits "shouldn't be focus", yet spend a million a day on ads to kill reform. The insurance industry is pushing their latest lie, claiming that only 1 cent of every dollar spent on health care goes to profits.

Link: http://www.redress.cc:80/palestine/slittlewood20100309

Stuart Littlewood looks at how Israel’s incessant abuse of the Palestinian people’s rights and freedoms, and its trampling on their dreams, lie behind almost every act of suicide bombing. ”Here in the West few of us can fully comprehend what turns a bright, intelligent person into a suicide bomber. But then, we don’t have a jackboot on our throat. We don’t have our front door battered down in the middle of the night by military thugs, our family abducted, our home bulldozed and our land confiscated.” The suicide bomber wrote that he began to live the day he came to know he was to die. Where did he get this passion to kill? – Mahesh Bhatt

Link: http://salem-news.com:80/articles/march092010/no-america-tk.php

Two of the most jaded, misdirected and agenda driven politicians in America, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, have introduced a bill to further the non-humanitarian arrest, detention and prosecution of individuals suspected to be 'enemy belligerents' who are believed to have engaged in hostile activity toward the United States.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7053903.ece

A senior Palestinian leader warned yesterday that Washington faced its last chance to broker an enduringpeace in the Middle East as Joe Biden, the US Vice-President, flew in to try to jump-start indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7054630.ece

Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/business/10regulate.html?ref=us

Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is playing a crucial role in bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation, pressed to remove a provision from draft legislation that would have empowered federal authorities to crack down on payday lenders, people involved in the talks said. The industry is politically influential in his home state and a significant contributor to his campaigns, records show.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/20103919176748560.html

Rights activists and residents have accused the Canadian owners of Guatemala's largest gold mine of exploiting local communities. Most worrying, they say, is the use of highly toxic cyanide to separate gold particles from the rock.

Ali Mahmoud Rajhi, a spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabab group, has told Al Jazeera that the group is not afraid of United States involvement in the battle against them. He said that the proposed US collusion with Somali government forces makes al-Shabab even more certain they are on the "right" path.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/education/10educ.html?ref=us

One of the world’s foremost experts on comparing national school systems told lawmakers on Tuesday that many other countries were surpassing the United States in educational attainment, including Canada, where he said 15-year-old students were, on average, more than one school year ahead of American 15-year-olds.