Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314021/Middle-class-mother-Velma-Hart-confronts-Obama-meet-voters-event.html

President Barack Obama was left in no doubt as to the strength of ill-feeling among his most loyal supporters last night when he was openly attacked at a town hall meeting - with one woman telling him: ‘I’m exhausted defending you’. Staring intently at Mr Obama, Velma Hart told him she was ‘deeply disappointed’ and was losing patience waiting for him to deliver the change he promised. In an impassioned rebuke the mother-of-two said she fears returning to the ‘hot dogs-and-beans era’ of her life because he is not helping the financially strapped middle class.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/fbir-s22.shtml

A report issued by the Justice Department Monday reveals new details of illegal spying by the FBI on an array of environmental, antiwar and animal rights groups during the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the report clears the FBI of any deliberate violation of civil liberties, claiming that agents were motivated by concern over potential violent acts, not the leftwing political views of their targets.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/pers-s22.shtml

The currency conflicts that erupted last week between the US, China and Japan point to deep-going contradictions at the very heart of the world capitalist economy. Disputes between the US and China over the dollar-renminbi rate have been fuelling international monetary tensions for some time. But last Wednesday the conflict acquired another dimension when the Japanese government intervened in currency markets. Spending more than $23 billion, Japanese monetary authorities pushed down the value of yen by around 3 percent against the US dollar.

Link: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/22/chilean_economist_manfred_max_neef_us

While President Obama is reporting looking into tapping a former corporate executive to become his next top economic adviser, many economists question the path the United States is on. We speak to the acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef. He won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years after the publication of his book Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics. [includes rush transcript]

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m70028&hd=&size=1&l=e

More leukemia in Iraq than after Hiroshima as a result of the US-UK use of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and nerve gas in its weaponry. Bush and Blair lied about non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to justify their invasion of that country. Now the toxic effects of US-UK's own WMD bring a massive cancer scurge - particularly of childhood cancers - to the town of Fallujah. Women are now being advised not to have children...

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/22-4

The US military has drawn up plans to continue holding Afghan prisoners it deems a threat in a "unilateral" prison complex on Bagram airbase even after it hands control of the main detention facility to the Afghan government next year. US military authorities are expecting to retain control part of the existing Bagram prison to hold "security threats," as well as prisoners who were arrested outside the country and flown into Afghanistan on rendition flights, according to the admiral in charge of overseeing US detention operations in the country.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/09/201092294450124691.html

Will US government led initiatives compromise net activists who seek greater freedoms within authoritarian societies? Everything that is said and done by the corporate U.S. government and media harbors ulterior motives. Usually their goal is to profit from war or the further enslavement of the American people and the people of the world. The results of their actions are; massive environmental destruction, endless wars, mass death of the world’s poor and defenseless, and obscene profits for wealthy stock holders- corporations, the banks, and the military industrial complex. Once the people behind America's government get control of the Internet it's over. No more net for the people, no more freedom of speech and freedom of movement, the two things they fear most because they fear the people. Remember, Senator Joe Lieberman wants the 'internet kill switch'.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/gulf-seafood-health-risks-experts/

Despite repeated assurances from federal officials and President Obama, independent scientists and public health experts have serious concerns about the long-term safety of Gulf seafood consumption. In particular, experts tell Raw Story, contaminants from the massive oil spill and unprecedented use of the dispersants employed to dissolve the spill have the potential to cause cancer and neurological disorders.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52938

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22, 2010 (IPS) - As a three-day anti-poverty talkfest drew to a close Wednesday, the United Nations shifted its focus from the poor and the hungry to two of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in society: women and children. The mission: a "massive drive" to save the lives of more than 16 million women and children dying of deadly diseases every year, primarily due to the lack of basic medical care. Great idea! Does this mean that we here in America where 45,000 die needlessly each year due to a lack of basic medical care, will finally be able to see a doctor? In America where many states have laws allowing debt collectors to have debtors arrested, people avoid going to the doctor. In America a simple visit to the hospital to be examined for the flue in order to receive a prescription for erythromycin can cost as much as $2,250. This makes a doctors visit out of reach for most working class uninsured Americans, which is why so many good people are dying. Strangely, the American people don’t object to fighting endless wars based on lies, costing trillions of dollars and millions of innocent lives while their corporate government continues to deny them basic public healthcare.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/hallinan09222010.html

Accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is a centerpiece for the book “Merchant of Death” and the model for the Hollywood movie “The Lord of War.” Washington apparently traded military hardware to the Thais in order to get him extradited from a Bangkok jail. Major actor in the international arms trade, or a penny ante operator who can’t hold a candle to the real “merchants of death”?—the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Italy, and immense corporations like Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Dassault Aviation, Finmeccanica, Boeing, Rosoboronexport, and Northrop Grumman?

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26429.htm

Hardly any American can be comfortable with the assertion of a senior Pentagon planner, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, that “We’re in a generational war.” He predicted in 2006 that American conflicts would last another 50 or 100 years. Yet no one could be elected president who seriously questioned whether the United States must continue indefinitely to help police Iraq and Afghanistan, keep thousands of U.S. troops in bases strung around the world, and maintain enough nuclear warheads to destroy every major foreign city.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26424.htm

Let there be no doubt that the U.S. is at war in Pakistan. It’s not just the drone strikes. According to insider journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, the CIA manages a large and lethal band of Afghan fighters to infiltrate into Pakistan and attack al-Qaeda’s bases. What could possibly go wrong?

Link: http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/discolored-zooplankton-found-oceanographers-gulf-entire-food-web-risk

[While in the Gulf from September 17-19, reasearchers] found oil on the seafloor, evidence that it may be in the food chain, and signs that it may be hidden in large marine mammals.

Link: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/09/22/FBI-Massive-frauds-uncovered/UPI-57061285191980/

An FBI official told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday the bureau has uncovered "massive frauds" in its ongoing effort to fight financial crime.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2010/09/22/tears-of-gaza-film-review

Vibeke Løkkeberg's "Tears of Gaza" raises the question: Can any filmmaker do a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without antagonizing someone? Løkkeberg's film deals with the 2008-09 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military. Her strategy is to focus on the horrific impact this has on civilians -- mostly women and children; in other words, how war affects the innocent. Løkkeberg, a Norwegian actress, author and filmmaker, has scrubbed away all context, political or otherwise. This could be any war descended on an urban population.

Link: http://bloghumanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com:80/2010/09/22/excerpts-dialog-among-civilizations-between-a-pooka-rabbit-and-zahirebrahim/

But they must persist in fighting it precisely in the same way to create more of it, until the new détente arrives on the Grand Chessboard as predicted by Brzezinski that it invariably shall, when the World War IV will indeed miraculously vanish into a new multi-polar world, once again effectively stalemating each other with ‘MAD’ness!

Link: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/416.php

In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process. JRW and SS: Can you tell us a little bit about your political lives? GG: I am a co-founder of the radical web-zine aporrea.org and a militant in the radical left Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide) tendency within the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela). Marea Socialista is the furthest left current within the party.

Link: http://www.redress.cc:80/global/tcoles20100923

Using official sources, Tim Coles considers the role of weather weapons, especially the Alaska-based High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), in recent catastrophic weather around the globe. He argues that even if weather weapons did not play a part, they need careful attention because the UK Defence Ministry has stated that "weather modification will continue to be explored".