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`Death penalty is nothing but brutal murder by state`

K.T. Thomas, former Supreme Court judge, presided over the bench which awarded capital punishment to four convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

(CHENNAI The Asian Age) - The Indian President’s dismissal of mercy petition, unanimous resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly and J&K chief minister’s latest tweet on Afzal Guru have brought to the forefront the debate on capital punishment. It, in fact, finds its fuel whenever courts pass verdicts in sensational cases sentencing the accused to the extreme penalty. However, at other times, the subject remains dormant.

Interestingly, when a sessions judge of Madras sentenced to death all the 26 accused in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, it went without a debate.

9/11: Lingering Doubts

“The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitless.” -- Excerpt from the preface to the 9/11 Commission Report

(TEHRAN Tehran Times) - The attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 provided a dramatic pretext for American Islamophobes to pour out their venom on Islam and Prophet Muhammad (S). Right-wing evangelist Jerry Falwell declared that our Prophet (S) was “a terrorist.”

Franklin Graham, the son of Reverend Billy Graham, called our religion, Islam, “wicked, violent and not of the same God.”

Court Pleadings Point to CIA Role in Alleged `Cartel` Immunity Deal

Mexican Narco-Trafficker’s Revelations in Criminal Case Force US Government to Invoke National Security Claims

(COLUMBUS, N.M. The Narcosphere) - The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.”

US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed to assure national security information does not surface in public court proceedings.

Palestine`s Future - its Students - MUST be set FREE

Free to learn... free to train… free to excel... free to plan… free to travel... free to trade... free to govern…
And free at last from Israel’s reign of thuggery

(LONDON) - The last thing Israel wants is masses of bright and clever young Palestinians nextdoor in the shredded remains of the Occupied Territories.

But that's exactly what Palestinian youngsters are... bright and clever, given half a chance. So they need repressing. They need humiliating constantly. They need to be discouraged.

Monument Dedicated to Grandparents

Many families function better thanks to the help that grandparents provide.

(MADRID) - On July 26th, also known as the patron day celebration of Saint Joaquin and Saint Anne, is Grandparent’s Day.

Remember a Generation of `Willpower` and not a Generation of Popping Pills?

Pfizer disagrees with the FDA, but must turnover all of its data regarding adverse cardiovascular events to the FDA. Chantix serves as a reminder that a pill cannot cure everything.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Having a problem giving up smoking cigarettes?  Know that you are cutting years off your life with this unhealthy "habit?"

Tea Party Christians

Iraq and Afghanistan costs lives and billions of dollars which ruined our national economy - acts of Geo. W. Bush who, as a born again Christian.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Tea Party members who were elected to the House of Representatives in 2010 have made for themselves the name of sticklers for what the Tea Party stands for; less national debt and lower taxes, especially for the super rich, and no compromise. They demean the lower classes as being parasitic and unwilling to help themselves as did the rugged first arrivals on this promised land.

And they believe Jesus is God who favors them above all others who everybody should worship as they do.

Rounding Up Years of 911 Stories on Salem-News.com

We offer this list of critical reviews of the government's version of the 9/11 events from one year ago...

(SALEM, Ore.) - This roundup of stories about 9/11 represents the work of a large number of our writers who sometimes have a hard time sleeping over the nagging, agonizing facts that we do know about 9/11.

There is ample evidence to prove to anyone with a reasonable comprehension of science and physics, that little of what the government claims is even physically possible, and absolutely untrue.

Troubling Questions Lead to Demands for 9/11 Truth

"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." — J. Edgar Hoover

(LONDON) - At every 9/11 anniversary emotions run high, wounds rip open and the shock horror that changed our lives forever, resurfaces again.

What also resurfaces is the resentment and hatred against Muslims dividing societies ironically into Georges Bush’s ideal worldview of “us” and “them”.

Essence of the Suppressed Truth

Defenders of Israel right or wrong assert that Judaism and Zionism are one and the same; sometimes explicitly, sometimes by insinuation and smear, they label criticism of Israel's human rights abuse as anti-Semitism.

(LONDON) - The following is the text of a speech I delivered on 11 September to a conference in Freiburg, Germany, “Palestine, Israel and Germany - the Boundaries of Open Discussion”. The full title of my address was The mainstream media’s complicity in Zionism’s suppression of the truth of history.

I describe the conflict in and over Palestine that became the Zionist - not Jewish! - state of Israel as the cancer at the heart of international affairs; and I believe that without a cure this cancer will consume us all.