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Letter Campaign - 25 Demolition Orders in a Small Village With 45 Houses Altogether

Urgent appeal – please write to Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak, by fax and email, and either use the sample letter in the end or make your own. Why it is needed, you find in the following press release.

(AQABA, Occupied Palestine) - Occupation rule's cynical game with the small village of Aqaba. Brigadier General Almaz makes a personal visit, promising to "look into the complaints".

Then, his representative issues 25 demolition orders - in a village consisting of 45 houses in all.

CAIR Welcomes Withdrawal of Anti-Islam Speaker from West Point Event

CAIR has been challenging Boykin’s un-American bigotry for a number of years.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the withdrawal of an anti-Islam speaker, retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, from an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

CAIR recently joined with VoteVets.org, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, in asking the academy to retract an invitation because of Boykin's Islamophobic views...

Canada Stepping Out in Front

Denial is not just a river in Egypt--it's also too real an attitude for too many Americans.

(Calgary, Alberta) - On a recent story, Stephen, a frequent commenter wrote:

I think it is an illusion to think Canada is a country. Canada is one of the 50+ states.

Tamils Await their Peace Dividend

Any positive outcomes that could flow from the LLRC report will likely remain theoretical...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - There has been an alarming increase in gender-based violence, including domestic violence, within the Tamil community, as well as forced prostitution and trafficking.

All of this is against a backdrop of credible evidence of wartime sexual violence by government forces...

Not Advertising as Usual

Empowered Energy Solutions Enters San Diego Ad Club “Addy” Competition with “Climate Change: Not Business as Usual” Campaign

(SOLANA, BEACH, Calif.) - On a January day with temperatures pushing into the 80's in San Diego County, a white van circles the block in San Diego’s Hillcrest district for a last minute drop-off of creative “boards,” panels displaying images of websites and short films.

Our destination: The San Diego Ad Club. This is an entry for the Addy Awards. I'm getting a creepy feeling as I'm driving--as I get closer to the deadline and as the temperatures keep rising on a hot afternoon.

YouTube Ignores Cop`s First Place Marijuana Legalization Video Question for Obama

Site Finds Time for Questions About Dancing, Late-Night Snacks and Playing Tennis.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - YouTube chose to ignore a question Monday, advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police.

The question won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President" competition on the Google-owned site.

Dismissing the Good Deeds of `Terrorists`

You've heard of African-Americans playing the 'race card', this is about warmonger states pulling the 'Terrorist Card'.

(SALEM) - Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress - was considered a terrorist by the U.S. and British governments all the way into the 1990's.

A Unique Beer Exclusively Savored by Dictators

The color of their beer called ‘Term’ is red!

(UGANDA) - A resourceful Ugandan friend who is adept at using computers emailed me a cartoon sometime back.

The cartoon portrayed President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni getting tipsy from a new brand of beer called “Term.”

Sea Tiger Commander Soosai`s Wife Satyadevi Speaks Out

Recently Chamara Lakshan Kumara interviewed Satyadevi for “The Nation” English Weekly published in Colombo. Satyadevi recounted some of her experiences as answers in that interview.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Thillaiambalam Sivanesan alias Soosai was the former commander and special commander of the naval division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) known as “Kadal Puligal” or Sea Tigers. This native of Polygandy in Vadamaratchy fought to the very end and died in Mulllivaaikkaal in Mullaitheevu district on May 17/18th 2009.

Soosai is a first batch tiger recruit who received training in North India. He was the former LTTE Vadamaratchy area in the 1980's.

At the Crossroads of War: Do NOT Say You Were NOT Warned

Only Israel can save itself or destroy itself, for as a Hebrew prophet once warned that those who live by the sword will die by it too.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Last week The New York Times published an opine by Ronen Bergman, who answered his own question in “Will Israel Attack Iran?”

“After speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012...”