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Why Struggle to Understand What Goes on Half a World Away?

The problem is that hatred begets more hatred and so becomes a self-sustaining cancer that decimates the entire body, not just one side or the other.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - I am trying to understand what is happening in the Middle East... the turmoil, the violence, and what appears to be the never-ending hatred.

I am guessing that there are others who are struggling to understand this as well.

Pharmaceutical Industry Greed and the Greatest Medical Disaster in Human History

The 1918 flu epidemic was probably the deadliest plague in human history, killing more than 50 million people worldwide. - NY Times

(LONDON) - Playing on fear of the 1918 flu and terrorists, GW Bush had Pandemic Preparedness laws passed in states across the country, just as he used 9/11 to get the Patriot Act passed. Both were written long before September 2001.

Those laws remove all rights and include mandatory vaccination with unknown and untested vaccines, forced diagnostic testing, forced taking of bodily samples and worse...

Judge Goldstone Selling Out

It's a serious concern, how many others are being exposed to serious bribes or blackmail to sell their soul?

(SEOULE, South Korea) - Judge Goldstone is suddenly changing his tune, the question is why all of a sudden would somebody throw their reputation down the drain and sell themselves out, what kind of pressure has he come under and from who?

It was clear just watching the News coverage of the Gaza war how Israel's leadership had an attitude of just get rid of the Arabs, and how this was filtered through to the military with absolute reckless and irresponsible aggression & blood shedding towards the Gaza people

A Paralyzed Veteran`s Way of Paying it Forward

We need your help more than ever to help America’s paralyzed veterans get the care, benefits and jobs they earned and deserve.

(WOODWARD, Okla.) - Those of us who have had the honor of wearing our nation’s uniform can often find ourselves using the phrase: “I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for…” and we name a battle buddy who literally saved our life.

I can honestly say that I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Paralyzed Veterans of America. It’s the organization that saved my life when a serious injury left me paralyzed.

Immigration News: Nobody`s War, Everybody`s Struggle

Kidnapping, extortion, torture, even kidney and eye extraction; tough to fight with gangs, police and local residents working in collusion.

(LA CRUCES, N.M.) - Shrouded in burka-like attire, the anonymous woman was suddenly transformed into “nobody.”

Comets, Dark Energy and the Mysterious Forces of Space

Remember Einstein’s statement, “Energy is mass and mass is energy.”

(SAN DIEGO) - In a discussion on the “Daily Show” recently with Jon Stewart, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, said:

“When you are on the frontier of knowledge between what is known and unknown and reaching into that abyss, imagination is more important than knowledge. This is the creativity of discovery that not everyone has“.

Losing Juliano

The best answer to violence is to intensify our work and build on the vision thus never allowing these forces of hate to destroy the future.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Humanity mourns. We are shocked. Juliano Mer-Khamis, a friend and fellow peace activist, was murdered in Jenin. The masked killer(s), whoever they were, were cowards whose madness will not deter those of us who continue to work for justice and peace for all.

If they thought they could kill coexistence and love in the holy land by killing a symbol and a great activist, they are mistaken.

IDF Unit Commander Will Testify Over Rachel Corrie`s Death

National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee to Observe Resumption of Trial Brought by Family of Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel.

(HAIFA) - The National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee has joined with other civil and human rights organizations around the world to send a legal observer to monitor the civil lawsuit brought by the family of peace activist Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel for Rachel’s unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza in 2003.

The Evergreen college student was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9R bulldozer while nonviolently attempting to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes.

The Infantry: The Most Dangerous Lethal Game

See recent Military Deaths in Salem-News.com.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I believe any Dogface Combat Infantryman would give a hoohah to my statement that being a Combat Infantryman was a game.

Well, look at this way, way behind the mud, blood and guts and chickenspit were a bunch of guys with metal on their shoulder boards playing a lethal kind of chess.

Goldstone`s Rethink: Cleansing Israel`s War Crimes

Strangely, Goldstone appears to base his revised opinion on Israel’s own military investigations

(NAZARETH) - Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in the Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaza in winter 2008.

For the past 18 months the Goldstone Report had forced Israel on to the defensive by suggesting its army – as well as Hamas, the ruling faction in Gaza – had committed war crimes.