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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 14:57:00)

What Is Food? - NYTimes.com

Is Bittman aware that corporations have actually redefined food as "stuff?"

(NEW YORK CITY) - Money and food Bittman's is correct that the drinks with sugar don't qualify as food - but much more extensively, in terms of being pervasive, GMOs don't qualify as food.

Bittman leaves off the fact that artificial sweeteners are as dangerous, if not more so, or that the "nanny" government isn't just telling people what they can or can't do for their own good...

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 14:28:00)

Mexico: Year of the Grasshopper

The four presidential candidates are scheduled to engage in what is expected to be their second and last nationally-televised debate on Sunday, June 10.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - grasshopper As Mexico enters the final weeks of the 2012 election campaign, the grasshoppers are hopping about the land.

In Mexican political lingo, a chapulin, or grasshopper, is a person who jumps from one political party to another, even if the two organizations are diametrically opposed in ideology.

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 14:10:00)

Confronting the Lords of the Land

Yariv Oppenheimer, Secretary-General of Peace Now, will not bring us peace. But he is the only one who is succeeding in blocking the settlers and preventing the expansion of the outposts.

(MA'ARIV) - Yariv Oppenheimer is secretary general of Peace Now in Israel A young committed man brimming with public courage stands today almost alone against the settlers, mainly those who reside on private Palestinian lands in illegal settlement outposts.

His name is Yariv Oppenheimer, and he drives the settlers mad because he has succeeded time and again in placing a few boundaries for this band of people.

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 05:23:00)

Israel: Illegal Arrest and Incommunicado Detention of Nabil Al-Raee

Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over the arrest of Freedom Theatre Director.

(SALEM) - Freedom Theatre and Nabil Al-Raee Many who keep up on the tragic saga of Palestine know the story of the Freedom Theatre in richly historic Jenin, a place recognized from the Bible, today a refugee camp for Palestinian people.

The theatre was raided at 3:00 a.m. by police from Israel and the matter has activists alarmed.

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 04:11:00)

The Forgiveness Fallacy: Standing by our Painful Truth; An Introduction to Aletheia Therapy

By way of an introduction: Why Do We Tolerate the Destruction of Children, and Those Who Are Responsible?

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Reverend Kevin Annett Homeless, starving, plagued by alcoholism and drug addiction; Harry Wilson is still alive, somehow.

Neither his present suffering, nor his childhood rape and torture by a United Church clergyman with an electric cattle prod, has caused him to collapse...

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 03:32:00)

Pakistan: ISI Plotted to Murder Asma Jahangir

Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts Catherine Ashton with the European Union, voicing concern over targeted Human Rights Attorney in Pakistan, Asma Jahangir.

(SALEM) - Asma Jahangir Threatening the life of Human Rights Attorney Asma Jahangir, who formerly chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, was a bad idea for Pakistani Intelligence (ISI).

They prove once again that ISI has no bounds or limitations to the degree of state terrorism it is willing to dish out.

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 02:42:00)

WFP Humanitarian Convoy Attacked in Parwan, Province

It's the first time a WFP-marked convoy was directly attacked in Afghanistan.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - World Food Programme trucks A convoy of WFP trucks carrying humanitarian food supplies was attacked by unknown assailants, 4 June.

The drivers are safe, but three of the trucks and their contents were burned.

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 02:24:00)

Precious Life of Asma Should be Protected But Asma Also Should Correct UN Report 2009

Asma as Rapporteur submitted UN Report as if she was working for Indian State.

(BANGALURO, India) - Asma Jahangir Leading media of India and Pakistan has rightly shown concerns about Asma Jahangir’s life and security which is allegedly being threatened by Pakistan State actors (Military and ISI).

They are reacting out of embarrassment regarding their anti- human rights activities which are routinely highlighted by Asma including support of Asma to human rights of the people of Balochistan

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 02:01:00)

How will the 2013 Defense Budget Cuts Affect Oregon?

“ ...get a copy of this report to see how it affects the economy and jobs in the country.” - Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

(WASHINGTON DC) - US soldier in Iraq, 2008. Salem-News.com photo by Tim King In September 2011, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta compared the mandatory Sequestration defense budget cuts to “shooting ourselves in the head.”

On Wednesday June 6, the Center for Security Policy launched the new 2011 data outlining the economic consequences of these cuts: the “Defense Breakdown Economic Impact Reports.”

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Salem-News.com (Jun-07-2012 01:43:00)

Occupy Presents: Mondragon and Salem Food Coop -Two Examples of Economic Democracy This free public forum will be presente

Here in Salem a new consumer cooperative is forming which will connect residents with local food producers and craft workers.

(SALEM) - Salem-News.com This free public forum will be presented by the Occupy Salem Education Committee and Marion-Polk Move to Amend at 6:30 pm on June 13, 2012, upstairs at the Ike Box, 299 Cottage Street, Salem.

In a world where excess corporate power benefits the wealthiest at the expense of the rest of us, cooperatives offer more equitable and democratic alternatives. Co-ops come in many shapes and sizes but have in common that members share economic costs and benefits and participate in decision-making.

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