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Letter: Is the Navy Trying to Keep the Camp Lejeune Investigation Secret?

“The military and civilian families of Camp Lejeune deserve to know nothing short of the whole truth” - Angela Canterbury, POGO’s director of public policy

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Camp Lejeune will likely go down in history as the stage of one of the worst toxic contaminations in the country—and one of the most shameful cover-ups by the Marine Corps.

Between 1957 and 1987, as many as one million Marines at Camp Lejeune and their family members used and ingested water contaminated by extremely toxic organic compounds.

How Great Jewish Leaders Used to Think...

Albert Einstein Opposed Israel Terrorism and Zionism.

(NEW YORK) - The following is a letter Albert Einstein sent to the New York Times in 1948, protesting the visit of Menachem Begin.

It is clear when reading this personal view of Einstein's, written at the time of Israel's formation, that his remarks about Jewish Zionist Terrorists are more harsh and pointed than anything written by today's journalists.

Hundreds of Corban Students staff to Participate in MLK Day Volunteer Projects across Salem

Activities in Oregon's capitol city honor one of the nation's greatest leaders.

(SALEM) - On Monday Jan. 16, hundreds of Corban University students, staff and faculty will volunteer thousands of hours on more than 30 projects across Salem.

The full day of service will honor the contributions of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and his call to serve others and for people to make a difference in their communities.

Window for Palestinian state `rapidly closing` - European Union report

The study, entitled "Area C and Palestinian State Building", has been kept confidential until now.

(LONDON ) - A European Union study says that expanding Israeli settlement in the West Bank and limits imposed on Palestinian movement and building are eroding the chances of a Palestinian state.

The study calls on EU states "in coordination with other international actors" to "systematically voice objections" to measures to evict Palestinians from areas under Israeli control.

Palestine Tree Planting Campaign Focuses on Areas Targeted by Israeli Government and Jewish National Fund

Despite poor weather, there was a large turnout for the planting and the event was welcomed by those involved.

(ABERDEEN, Scotland) - Members of a Stop the Jewish National Fund (JNF) delegation joined with several groups to take part in a new project to re-plant trees in previously devastated areas of Palestine.

The group planted 111 trees, representing the number of years that the JNF has been in existence, playing a key role in Israel’s policy of displacing and dispossessing Palestinians.

U.S. Launches Another Deadly Drone Strike in Pakistan

A report in Pakistan indicates top civil and military leadership will shoot down any drone entering into Pakistani airspace.

(SALEM) - After a gap of nearly two months, American CIA drones have resumed operations in Pakistan and during the past 72 hours, two such attacks in North Waziristan have claimed nine lives.

The Thursday raid in Dogga area of NWA claimed five lives, while earlier on Tuesday, a similar attack had killed four innocent civilians.

Will a pro-Gadhafi `Green Revolution` topple the NTC?

The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile...

(TRIPOLI) - This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organizing, in countries bordering Libya.

One of them, in all earnest, asked me, “Do you believe there will be a counter revolution soon in the “Jamarariya (state of the masses)?”

A call from Gaza fishermen

Fishermen speak out to the world in hopes that their rights to work safely will be restored.

(Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine) - Palestinian fishermen of the Besieged Gaza Strip are calling on the world to force Israel to lift the naval blockade which restricts the Palestinian fishing area to 3 nautical miles.

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? & War with Iran or not?

“On occasions scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that’s a wonderful thing.” -

(LONDON) - The longer and complete form of the first question in the headline is - When is a terrorist not a terrorist in the eyes of the Obama administration (not to mention all of its predecessors) and the governments of the Western world?

Answer: When he or she is an Israeli Mossad agent or asset.

What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him in Prison to Keep Him from Telling?

Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administration's reason for going to war against Iraq.

(WASHINGTON D.C. ) - By all accounts, Ken Ford, Jr. reputed to be a computer whiz, was an upwardly mobile, trusted, young African American man who was so trusted that he worked his way into a security clearance that fewer than 150 people have in the entire United States.

His work reports were good. And Ken considered himself lucky.