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Corporate Interests Imposed On State Law/Drafts With Veto Power `Worth King`s Ransom` to Whole Crowd of Corporate Powers

While Legislator Members Paid Little, Reaped Political Benefits - ALEC Participants from Oregon Legislature.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - (Major portions of this three-part report are drawn directly from the original Special Investigation by the American Associates for Justice exposing ALEC first released in May 2010. See sidebar for full detail, link to original for download.)

For nearly forty years (since '73), by brazen manipulation, a large crowd of corporations have been imposing their private and very commercial interests on state laws set up for enactment by legislators from every one of our states.

Vietnam War Memorial Wall

A generation that is still persecuted by society and law enforcement still has a wall of memories.

(CLEVELAND) - It wasn't until the movie Rambo that the majority of Americans began to realize the extent of their country's military involvement in SE Asia, or the toll it was taking on its warriors after the bullets stopped flying.

Vietnam Veterans and their families were aware, many anti-war activists had a clue, but the 'average Joe' didn't have any idea how challenging it must have been for these young men and women to leave a place like war-torn Vietnam and return to the U.S.

The Darkest Hour of the Anti-Defamation League

The ADL used false information attributed to MLK, to influence UN human rights hearings, just prior to 9/11.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Publishing two stories Thursday about my friends at Veterans Today falling under attack by Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, I am partly amused and partly horrified that at the same time this attack was launched, I was exposed to one of the ADL's biggest lies.

Hunger Striker Protesting a Crime Against Humanity

The Irish and the Palestinians share a history of occupation and oppression.

(DUBLIN) - Terence Barry says ‘we have a song here in Ireland called Only Our Rivers Run Free, but in Palestine the Israelis have even stolen the water supplies. In Palestine not even their Rivers Run Free.’

This week, Terence Barry said he wants his hunger strike ‘to highlight the Israeli genocide on the people of Gaza.’

Hail to the True Victors of Rupert`s Revolution

Journalists were told Gaddafi was about to commit "genocide" when there was no evidence.

(SYDNEY) - On 13 September, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government.

Sri Lanka: Commonwealth Meeting and Human Rights

SRI LANKA: Foreign Ministers urged to make Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka conditional on significant progress concerning human rights

(COLOMBO) - We are gravely concerned about the ongoing discussions on holding the 2013 CHOGM in Sri Lanka.

At the 2009 CHOGM, Sri Lanka’s candidature for hosting the meeting was deferred from 2011 to 2013 because of concerns about human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan government.

Oklahoma Survivors Speak Out on Human Trafficking
- 3 survivors, 3 stories, 3 positive endings

The Governor's daughter, Cristina Fallin-Bacon, leads the "Chain Breaking Ceremony."

(OKLAHOMA CITY) - Oklahomans will be traveling from around the state to participate in the OKLAHOMA FREEDOM RALLY. Many will be wearing chains to symbolizing the fact that slavery still exist in the 21st century. Then at the end of the rally there will be a "Chain Breaking Ceremony."

Pro-Israeli Group Calls Pro-American Veterans Group Extremist!

The ADL, a non-government Zionist agent organization embedded in the USA posing as a philanthropic group, calls Veterans Today out as Extremists; Veterans Today responds and calls ADL a “threat to U.S. citizenry everywhere”

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - Congratulations, Veterans Today, Gordon Duff, Alan Hart, Alan Sabrosky, and Kevin Barrett … you have arrived! That you have been singled out for approbation and condemnation means that you are doing the right thing, and doing a good job of it. Abe is running scared!

Hats off to you!

Drug Czar Sends Mixed Messages on Marijuana Policy

Statements in latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health release contradictory, ignore available data.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In a press conference this morning, representatives from the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced the release of the latest results of the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Two Papers Examine Threat to Oregon`s Health Exchange Posed by `Adverse Selection`

OCPP has published two papers examining the threat that adverse selection poses to Oregon's health exchange.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Established by the 2011 Oregon legislature, the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange is a key part of the state's effort to create affordable, quality health coverage for all Oregonians. It's set to begin operating in 2014.

The laws that created the exchange, however, leave it exposed to a dynamic that has caused the demise of health insurance exchanges in other states: adverse selection.