Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/201182319543486546.html

Quake measuring 5.9 triggers flight disruptions and mass evacuations but spares east coast of major damage. An earthquake has hit United States' east coast, and was felt as far away as Canada, shaking buildings, delaying flights, and sending thousands of frightened workers into the streets. There have been no reports of any major damage or injuries from the earthquake, which measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. The US Geological Survey said the epi-centre of the quake was in Mineral, Virginia, at a very shallow depth of 1km.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/libya/2011/08/2011822235934828611.html

Gaddafi's influential son appears with supporters in Tripoli, disproving opposition claims that he had been captured. Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi who was reported captured by Libyan opposition forces on Sunday, has made a defiant public appearance in Tripoli. Television footage showed Saif, considered the most influential and politically active of Gaddafi's children, pumping his fists in the air, smiling, waving and shaking hands with supporters. At one point, he was pictured holding his arms aloft with each hand making the "V" for victory sign.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/23/israeli-video-games-in-gaza/

He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she’s the one who took the picture. Someone has written on the photo “kisses.”

Link: http://www.alternet.org/story/152140/cop_rapes_woman_at_gunpoint%2C_11-year-old_rape_victim_smeared%2C_accuser_sued_for_%242_million%3A_is_us_society_failing_victims/

What is it with our inability to find justice for victims? If events of the last few months have sent any sort of message to women in America it's this: if you're raped or sexually assaulted, justice won't be on your side. What happens when the people who are supposed to protect you are the rapists themselves--such as in NY, when cops on separate occasions have been accused of committing rape? ►NY Cop Rape Acquittal Shocks Many

Link: http://www.alternet.org/world/152146/details_of_secret_pact_emerge%3A_troops_stuck_in_afghanistan_until_2024/

If you thought President Obama was ending the war in Afghanistan, think again. Your children will be fighting it in 2024 if the Pentagon has its way. Maybe you thought we’d get out of Afghanistan this very year, the drawdown date President Obama set as he surged U.S. troops into the country in December 2009; or maybe you thought the Obama administration’s target for withdrawal might be the last day of 2014,

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/france-says-london-will-host-political-talks-next-week-on-libyas-future/2011/03/23/ABUKXew_gallery.html#photo=1

Rebels fight isolated pockets of resistance as special forces hunt for fugitive leader Moammar Gaddafi.