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Author to Speak at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in Brooklyn on 26 January

YouTube Video POSTED of panel on new book, Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Freda Utley Foundation announced today that a video of the National Press Club book event on RABBI OUTCAST:

Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism, by Jack Ross (Potomac Books) has been posted at a new Rabbi Outcast YouTube channel.

West Bank 2011: One year of Humiliation in a Two Minutes Video

A new year in the West Bank...

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Christmas... a rainy and great wind swept over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Trees bent and roofs rattled but the wind couldn’t carry away the suffering, vulnerability and the long 365 days of humiliation.

IN the so called Middle East’s only democracy, they do not do guillotines. But there are other innovative rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the Palestinians that every New Year could well be their last in the land of olive trees.

Activists have their Say in Court for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

A retired Navy nuclear submarine commander testified that national security strategy based on the threat of nuclear annihilation is dangerous...

(SEATTLE) - Peace activists made their case for the abolition of nuclear weapons, specifically the Trident nuclear weapons system, while on trial in a Kitsap County courtroom on January 4th and 5th for blocking the entrance to a local nuclear weapons base.

The ten defendants in two separate trials were charged with being “pedestrians on Roadway Unlawfully,” a traffic infraction.

Reactor Reax: Nuclear Industry Report

Examining the risks and ongoing situations that today define nuclear power and energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This week in Reactor Reax we hear more about the ongoing problems in Japan based on the recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture.

An LA Times report details the short-circuiting of the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction.

Police Drug Dogs Outweigh Education at Beverly Hills High
Rights, what are those again?

The rights of these kids and their families were trampled on by dogs.

(BEVERLY HILLS) - Ever wonder what life is really like for the so-called privileged teenagers of Beverly Hills, California?

While known for its infinite riches, a recent press release issued by this agency tells of a multi-agency police raid on the city's high school with drug dogs.

Agent Orange: A Tragic Legacy

Until the US govt and the responsible corporations are held accountable in this bioterrorism war crime, victims will continue to be overlooked and unassisted.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In an effort to help tip the scales for the United States during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was developed by biotechnological companies in order to help clear dense fields, giving soldiers a clearer vision of their targets.

Along with the loss of vegetation, the was an additional hope that Vietnamese farmers would relocate to U.S. occupied cities, and no longer be able to grow and provide for the Vietnamese troops.

Damascus `False Flag` Bombing Caught on Camera

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Dozens of people are reported to be dead after a blast in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Syrian state TV said at least 25 people died and 46 more were wounded in Friday’s attack which it blamed on a suicide bomber.

Fracking/Public Health Controversy - National Conference on Shale Gas Production Impacts to be Held in DC

The conference addressws industrial, geologic, toxicological, epidemiological, and health care factors.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, and the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment conference brings together experts from various research areas.

They will address the public health aspects of unconventional natural gas drilling, known as “hydro fracking”.

UK/IHRC - IHRC host Genocide Memorial Day 22 January 2012

“We hope that Genocide Memorial Day will continue to foster unity amongst people...” - IHRC Chair Massoud Shadjareh

(LONDON) - Islamic Human Rights Commission holds their third annual Genocide Memorial Day later this month at the Brunei Gallery, in Russell Square.

Speakers at the event will include Professor Ilan Pappe from the University of Exeter...

US Recalibrating Iran War Plan

It is apparent that Washington and Tehran are at crossed swords now and one cannot recall a time when Tehran was so boldly defiant in the face of the US cudgel-brandishing policies.

(TEHRAN) - From the recent massacres happening in Iraq and Syria, one can gather that Washington has adamantly trodden on a path which is to be seen as a way to redefine the war in Iraq, an effective stratagem to bring the regime of Assad to its doom and recalibrate a comprehensive plan to topple the Islamic government of Iran.

Immediately coinciding with the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, a coordinated string of deadly explosions gripped Iraq...