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A View of the State of Working Oregon: The Economy and Income Inequality

The charts in this document show, among other things: how the income of Oregon's top 1 percent has soared, while median income has eroded...

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - OCPP has published two installments of A View of the State of Working Oregon, a series of occasional OCPP fact sheets issued to help explain Oregon's economy from the perspective of working families.

Rwanda Peoples Party statement to Ambassador Susan Rice

Rwanda Peoples Party to Ambassador Susan Rice, "Kagame has totally failed to reconcile Rwanda"

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Your Excellency, allow me to register my sincere thanks on behalf of my party, the Rwanda People’s Party (RPP) for your recent visit together with your family to Rwanda.

James Morris Discusses Planned U.S. - Israeli War Games

Playing war games with war criminals... a step in the wrong direction for U.S. troops.

(SALEM) - In the video below, Political Analyst and Correspondent James Morris in Los Angeles, talks to Press TV about scheduled U.S.-Israeli war games that will take place in 2012.

The 'war games' are obviously a move designed to raise tension with Iran and prove to the world that the U.S. not only participates in terrible war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan; but that it specifically and openly condones Israel's rampant war crimes, where accountability for crimes is less than zero.

US: Congressional Candidate Turns Himself In for Indefinite Military Detention

The right of people to defend themselves and their land, by any means necessary, against a foreign aggressor, is THE most fundamental human right.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - As someone who could be said to “substantially support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces,” I am writing to turn myself in under the new NDAA law.

Please send a US military brigade, preferably the Marines (semper fi, guys!) to indefinitely detain me.

Charles Ingabire, let down fatally by Uganda & UNHCR

Given the track record of Paul Kagame; and emerging evidences that exposed Kagame’s evil facade... it is simple to conclude that he’s behind the murder of Charles Ingabire.

(UGANDA) - In July, I was invited to make a presentation to a panel at the 13th International Association for the Study of Migration Conference held in Kampala.

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), sponsored my participation in the conference. Hence, I presented a paper titled “The double jeopardy Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in exile suffer.”

Cuba-ALBA lands are Tamils` natural allies

Following is the text of Ron Ridenour’s talk in Chennai, where Ron launched the Indian edition of his books “Tamil Nation in Sri Lanka”, “Sounds of Venezuela”, and “Cuba: Revolution in Action”.

(CHENNAI, India) - I start from the premise that Martin Luther King expressed: “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere”.

In the country of my birth, The Devil’s Own Country, I experienced similar injustice committed against the native peoples and the black people as Tamils suffer, especially in Sri Lanka where they are subjugated to Shinalese chauvinism.

Global March Places Focus on Israeli Violence in Gaza, West Bank

Activists in the Bethlehem area, the birthplace of Jesus, are planning a number of functions including functions that challenge the occupation and others that educate tourists.

(BETHLEHEM) - With some other activist Palestinian friends, I took two days to go to Amman to attend a conference for the Global March to Jerusalem. We met great people from around the world including Palestinians in exile. But every time we leave Palestine even for a very short time we feel like a fish out of the water.

We missed the funeral of Mustafa Tamimi, murdered with a tear-gas canister at a demonstration in Nabi Saleh. We missed the notice given yesterday of the demolition of a home in Beit Jala (near my village) and thus the actual demolition this morning.

Libya: Can We Have the `Lady Be Good` Back Now Please?

Do the spoils of war include this? If so is there enough left to worry about?

(SALEM) - I don't think it's easy to take a single story from the pages of aviation history and call it the 'best' or 'most interesting' because the competition is fierce, but the doomed crew of the World War Two B24 Liberator 'Lady Be Good' ranks for the title if any do.

The crew became hopelessly lost and because they were flying at night, they ultimately came to believe they were over the ocean, just about to run out of fuel, and this is what led to their decision to bail out.

Dead Forests, Dying People - Agent Orange & Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

"With the sole exception of nuclear weapons, never has such an inhuman fate ever before been reserved for the survivors..." — Dr. Ton That Tung

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - Making their way through Vietnam’s dense jungles, U.S soldiers heard a cacophony of squawking birds, chattering monkeys, and insects buzzing like high voltage wires.

We`re All Affected by the Weather

Unless meteorologists broaden their understanding of weather, and scientists embrace logical ideas, it will be years before the Earth's weather is fully understood.

(SAN DIEGO) - In a NASA program in February, 2001, Professor Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge, said: