Link: http://www.truthout.com/verizon-strike-has-bigger-lessons-us-economy/1314366713

The 45,000 CWA and IBEW members are hopeful that Monday night's return to work at Verizon after a two-week strike will bring meaningful collective bargaining and a good result for all concerned. For us, the strike was about real collective bargaining rights as much as about preserving the standard of living for our families.

Link: http://www.truthout.com/fifty-four-protesters-arrested-environmental-report-tar-sands-pipeline-released/1314387572

As environmental activists were handcuffed in front of the White House on Friday, the State Department released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the massive Keystone XL pipeline that would pump crude oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada across six western states to stations in Oklahoma and Texas.

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/44283502

The world could be heading into another fully fledged credit crisis, according to Satyait Das, the author of Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk.

Link: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/08/26/nato-s-libya-war-a-nuremberg-level-crime-1

The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history's greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America's Constitution. The Nuremberg Tribunal's Chief Justice Robert Jackson (a US Supreme Court Justice) called Nazi war crimes "the supreme international crime against peace." His November 21, 1945 opening remarks said:

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28965.htm

Russia's Kommersant newspaper said that sources of the Russian delegation accompanying Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his visit to Venezuela confirmed that both governments want to create a bank. Russia and Venezuela are considering the possibility to create a new international financial institution, similar to the World Bank but on a more modest scale, according to Russia's Kommersant newspaper.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/152192/5_reasons_progressives_should_treat_ron_paul_with_extreme_caution_--_%27cuddly%27_libertarian_has_some_very_dark_politics/

He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start. There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. "The anti-war Republican," people say, as if that's good enough.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/201182603125823909.html

At least 40 people are dead after two dozen armed men burst into the premises and began dousing it with fuel. The attack in the third largest city is one of the deadliest against an entertainment centre in Mexico. At least 40 people have been killed and a dozen more injured after gunmen burst into a casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterey and set it on fire. Adrian de la Garza, the prosecutor for Nuevo Leon state, of which Monterrey is the capital, told reporters outside the massive casino that Thursday's attack had left 40 people dead, adding that the death toll could still rise. The incident at Casino Royale, represented one of the deadliest attacks on an entertainment centre in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against drug cartels in late 2006.

Link: http://www.rense.com/general94/nwoplans.htm

PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO GET USED TO CHANGE THE REAL AND THE STATED GOALS POPULATION CONTROL SEX EDUCATION AS A TOOL OF WORLD GOVERNMENT FUNDED ABORTION AS POPULATION CONTROL ENCOURAGING HOMOSEXUALITY
TECHNOLOGY FAMILIES TO DIMINISH IN IMPORTANCE EUTHANASIA AND THE 'DEMISE PILL'
LIMITING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICAL care PLANNING THE CONTROL OVER MEDICINE
ELIMINATION OF PRIVATE DOCTORS NEW DIFFICULT TO DIAGNOSE AND UNTREATABLE DISEASES SUPPRESSING CANCER CURES AS A MEANS OF POPULATION CONTROL
INDUCING HEART ATTACKS AS A FORM OF ASSASSINATION
BLENDING ALL RELIGIONS, THE OLD RELIGIONS WILL HAVE TO GO RESTRUCTURING EDUCATION AS A TOOL OF INDOCTRINATION MORE TIME IN SCHOOLS, BUT THEY WOULDN'T LEARN ANYTHING CONTROLLING WHO HAS ACCESS TO INFORMATIONS CHOOLS RESTRICTIONS ON TRAVEL THE NEED FOR MORE JAILS, AND USING HOSPITALS AS JAILS.CURTAILMENT OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL PRE-EMINENCE SHIFTING POPULATIONS AND ECONOMIES - TEARING THE SOCIAL ROOTS FALSIFIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FINANCIAL CONTROL SURVEILLANCE, IMPLANTS, AND TELEVISIONS THAT WATCH YOU HOME OWNERSHIP A THING OF THE PAST
THE ARRIVAL OF THE TOTALITARIAN GLOBAL SYSTEM

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28952.htm

"Pakistan Observer" -- Some years ago, in the Indian site www.bharat-rakshak.com, this columnist had written of the NATO militaries as resembling an army of simians. Such a force - if let loose within a confined space – can create immense damage, but are unable to clean up the resultant mess. This is precisely what the world has witnessed in Iraq. Despite more than a decade of sanctions that directly resulted in nearly a million extra deaths during that period ( because of shortages created by the UN-approved measures), the regime of Saddam Hussein was able to provide food, energy and housing to the people of Iraq, whereas eight years after “liberation” by key NATO members, the country and its population are worse off than before the 2003 invasion that led to the execution of Saddam Hussein.