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Can the President Have you Assassinated?

Who else is on the list of “dead men walking”?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Attorney General Eric Holder spoke recently at Northwestern University attempting to legally justify the assassination of US citizens, but constitutional scholars suggest he was selling snake oil.

Last year the President gave the death order for New Mexico born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for a reason we will most likely never know.

Perception is Reality in the Eyes of the Beholder!

While our leaders tell a good story about defending the defenseless, they support those who practice evil against the very same defenseless.

(HARRISVILLE, NH) - As one of what I believe is the vast majority of United States citizens who view all of the citizens of the world as brothers and sisters, it bothers me that we are perceived as a war mongering country.

What bothers me even more are our actions or lack of actions that spawn this perception.

There are No Fat Marines

From news media to Clint Eastwood films: accuracy in depicting Marines is dismissed; integrity shattered by illusion.

(SALEM) - A few months ago, reporters around the country took up the subject of young Americans being unfit to serve in the military, and I raise no question over it.

Marijuana Finally Recognized by The Oregonian, Part 2

More than five U.S. Presidents were known marijuana users.

(MOLALLA, OR) - I would guess that the Oregonian will not write a story about the 101 comments they received on this subject but it is necessary to do so.

I read all of the comments, in here is the first part of my critique. Thirty-three comments were quite positive for Marijuana. Twenty were against, some most vehemently (more later).

Wyden Challenges Obama`s Death Squads

These questions [about the program] should not be a matter of 'secret law' settled behind closed doors by a small number of government lawyers - Oregon's Ron Wyden

(PORTLAND, OR) - Oregon senator Ron Wyden has led the congressional challenge to the assassination program by demanding what he calls the "secret law" be made public.

After AG Eric Holder failed to mention the OLC document in a speech yesterday (and refused to answer questions about it).

UK Tells Lanka to Move Quickly

“We encourage the Sri Lankan Government to move quickly to implement the LLRC report’s recommendations” - Britain's Alistair Burt

(GENEVA The Sunday Leader) - Britain has urged the Sri Lanka government to move quickly on implementing the recommendations of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission.

In a written statement to the British House of Commons, Alistair Burt Britain sees a political settlement, respect for human rights and accountability for alleged war crimes as being essential elements in post-conflict reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

Rwanda: Authorities Continue Embezzling Public Funds with Impunity

Money disappeared, some was stolen; more went missing because tax laws were not properly enforced.

(KIGALI, Rwanda) - Over 20 billion (20,000,000,000) Frw or $40 million US dollars have been embezzled from Rwanda national treasury.

One gets these numbers by putting together figures and spreadsheets that were recently made public in a report written by Rwanda's Public Accounts Committee.

Bahrain: Release Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - Bahrain should immediately and unconditionally release Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja from prison.

Mr. Al-Khawaja has been in a Hunger Strike for four weeks, he is now suffering deteriorated health, entering his fourth week without nourishment. In an open letter, Al-Khawaja pledged to stay on hunger strike until “freedom or death.”

Towards Tamil Eelam: London Speech

I am rooted in Martin Luther King’s premise: “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere”.

(LONDON) - This speech has been unusually difficult for me to prepare, because I am so angry with the whole world, and most of the people in it, including many of the victims of oppression.

I will explain underway. I try to speak my talks and not read them, but this topic is too complex for me to rely on my spontaneity, so I have chosen to write it, and then rewrite it, and end up still angry.

America: On the Wrong Side of the World Revolution

While seeds of dissent are sprouting in America in the form of the occupy movements, the lack of vibrant political opposition remains truly striking.

(TEHRAN) - Almost half a century has passed since Dr. King uttered those dire but eloquent words of warning when the United States of America was engaged in a barbaric aggression against the Vietnamese people.

Since then, corporate greed, technology and consumerism have come to reign supreme in the U.S., and the inherent evils of racism, materialism and militarism as we were forewarned by Dr. King appear now to be invincible.