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Israel`s Latest Battle Against Ken O`Keefe

One of the human race's leading activists addresses baseless allegations that thwarted an Overland Convoy to Gaza.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our writer Ken O'Keefe, one of the the world's most well known activists for Gaza, is constantly fighting snakes.

Regardless, 'undeterred' still addresses this champion for human beings who suffer under oppressive occupation.

Would a Credit Rating Downgrade Really be a Bad Thing?

Would times be tougher? Sure, they would... for a while.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - The two largest and most influential credit rating services in the country are Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s. Both of these organizations have intimated that a credit rating downgrade for the United States is likely whether the debt ceiling is raised by August 2, 2011, or not.

Let us examine this situation: These credit rating agencies and the world have watched the United States borrow and spend like greedy fools for too many years.

9/11: The Absurdity of the No-Planes-in-New York Theory

"If one scratches the surface of the commission report, one finds huge holes in the official story. There's also a lot of disinformation out there and oddball conspiracy theories that need to be debunked." - Rick Veitch, writer and artist, co-author of The Big Lie, Image Comics.

(BANGKOK) - Fetzer spouting his damaging no-planes-in-New York disinformation in an article hosted by Veterans Today has done just that.

So this is, largely, a critical review of the work of Dr. James H. Fetzer, one the staunchest proponents of the no-planes-in-New York theory...

What Can Love Conquer?

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink, said the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - There is a young couple, both 17, under threat of death in Afghanistan. He is Rafi Mohammed and she is Halima Mohammedi.

They met in an ice cream factory and exchanged furtive looks and hellos until one day she put her phone number on a scrap of paper and dropped it for him to pick up.

New Moves to Curb Criticism of Israel In US and Canada

“New legislation in the US threatens to conflate campus criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism” reports Kristin Szremski

(MELBOURNE) - Great ! This shows the immense power that “the Organization”, the major pro-Israel organizations such as the Zionist Organization of America and the Anti-Defamation League has to beat down, censor and muzzle popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle.

No More Faith in Colombo`s Peace and Reconciliation: Indian Women

"We strongly condemn the Indian government's silence and active participation in many of the human rights violations meted out by the Sri Lankan government..."

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Prominent women’s rights activists in India said this week that they had stopped believing in Colombo's periodic pledges to bring about reconciliation in the country, reports Indian Express.

The activists faulted the Sri Lankan government for not acknowledging the range of rights violations committed by its armed forces.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gordon Gekko

“You’re all pretty much f*cked. You don’t know it yet, but you’re the Ninja generation—no income, no job, no assets.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Gordon Gekko is a fictional movie character played by Michael Douglas (a role for which he won the best actor Academy Award).

At the end of the first movie, in 1987, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) has turned him in for insider trading and the viewer is left with the impression that GG will go to jail. It’s 1993 before he “actually” does and he is in for almost eight years—released just after 9/11.

Right-To-Work-For-Less Laws

Unions are the only large-scale movement left in America that persistently acts as a countervailing balance against corporate power.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - While vacationing in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this year, the local media were full of editorials critical of the April 20, 2011, complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board against Boeing Company.

Israeli and West Bank Women and Girls Violate Israeli Laws In A Rosa Parks Moment

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to obey a bus driver’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. The segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, made Rosa Parks a criminal.

(CHICAGO) - The New York Times‘ Ethan Bronner reports that West Bank Palestinian women and girls have again broken Israeli laws to go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. This is Rosa Parks country, folks.

Sri Lanka Faces Serious Threat to Already Worsened Democracy in Jaffna

Angered and humiliated by the verdict of the people, the government appears to have reactivated its paramilitary groups and killings squads to intimidate and carry out attack on local leaders and media as means of political reprisals.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The latest attack on the news editor of the Jaffna-based Uthayan newspaper, Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan should not be understood merely as an isolated attack on media freedom and freedom of speech in Sri Lanka.

It undoubtedly bears far reaching implications and reveals the vicious nature of the renewed and accelerated violent attacks on democratic rights of Sri Lanka's Tamil people.