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Raw Deal for Doing Right; Government Protection for Doing Wrong

Feds target Amish in bizarre sting operation?

(LONDON) - Raw milk is being used to heal Crohn's disease. The Crohn's bacterium is identical to the Johnnes bacterium found in sick cattle.

The bacteria goes through into the milk, carries by pus.  It can be cultured in PASTEURIZED milk and the FDA has known this for more than a decade.

Meet Your New Pot Dealer: Big Pharma

Generic cannabis pills planned for wide use.

(OAKLAND, Ca.) - Despite the US government's staunch opposition to medical cannabis farms in Oakland and elsewhere, the feds have begun licensing a whole lot of large legal pot grows throughout the country.

(DIS)Honoring American (Dead) Heroes

I would sooner fight a saber-tooth tiger but war is worse.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Salem-News.com posted Memorial and Veterans Day Hypocrisy by Stephen Lendman a few days ago, on 30 May. Who was it who said, "I disagree with you but I will fight to the death for your right to say it."

Revisiting The Gates Of Rafah

Whatever the forces behind the apparent back tracking, the people of Palestine are, yet again, held hostage to politics not of their making.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Last weekend, the interim Egyptian military government opened the border gates at Rafah a little wider allowing greatly improved entrance and exit for the people of Gaza.

For the past several years, Palestinians wishing to go to school or obtain medical care unavailable in Gaza have been out of luck.

MADD Urges Action on Legislation Closing Loopholes in Oregon’s DUII law

--HB 3075 and HB 3324 require more convicted drunk drivers to use ignition interlocks--

(SALEM, Ore.) - Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is urging Oregon lawmakers to act on HB 3075 requiring ignition interlocks for the 11,000 DUII offenders who receive diversion and HB 3324 expanding the use of interlocks for third and fourth time offenders.

HB 3075 requires interlocks in the 11,000 diversion DUII agreements. In Oregon, there are approximately 25,000 DUII arrests per year.

Prime BEEF improves living conditions in Afghanistan

"Prime BEEF has allowed me to go take care of my soldiers..." - Sgt. Major Reginald Coulter, Salem, Oregon

(BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan) - A small U.S. Air Force team known as Prime BEEF, traveled to forward operating bases to improve living conditions at combat outposts in SE Afghanistan.

Reactor Reax: Weekly Roundup of Nuclear Stories

Catch the latest media reports from around the world about nuclear energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - What is the world to do with an ever accumulating supply of spent, dirty radioactive waste?

Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue Groups Brace for Onslaught of Flood-Caused Pet Homelessness

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard called for all residents of threatened areas in Pierre and Fort Pierre to evacuate their homes by 8 p.m.

(PIERRE, S.D.) - Animal rescue experts are ready to take in pets projected to be affected by South Dakota flooding of the Missouri River this weekend.

Animal rescue organizations will rescue domestic animals affected by the floods and provide them with temporary shelter.

Israelis Rush for Second Passports

Stable residents fear the actions of religious settlers.

(BEIRUT) - Perhaps historians surveying the course of human events can identify for a land beyond Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to depart, while those with actual millennial roots; victims of ethnic cleansing, seek their right of Return.

Putting Lipstick on a Politician

When you think of the ethical and moral problems some of these elected Federal officials have gotten themselves into, it makes you wonder.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - The New York Times reported today that the pace of U.S. hiring slowed in May with 54,000 jobs added; the unemployment rate up to 9.1%.