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US Veterans Against The War

Action Alert: Tell WI National Guard to stand with public employees.

(MILWAUKIE, Wisc. ) - Iraq Veterans Against the War talked to the crowd in the occupied State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, expressing solidarity with students and workers fighting to protect public-sector unions.

Tell the Wisconsin National Guard to stand with public employees. Call or send an email urging Brigadier General Donald P. Dunbar of the Wisconsin National Guard to stand with public workers, not against them.

McClatchy, the Sacramento Bee, Darrell Steinberg and Islamaphobia

Denying Nazi-Zionist Collusion.

(SACRAMENTO) - In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn’t cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn’t include a response from the flier’s authors.

It printed claims by powerful local figures that the flier was “an outrageous lie,” but refused to print information showing that the flier’s statements were factual.

Time to Act Now for the Liberation of Gaza

The Revolution and Palestinian freedom.

(GAZA CITY) - Mubarak may have stepped down, but until the Mubarak era Egyptian blockade of Gaza is shattered, the Egyptian revolution is incomplete.

We must end this Zionist/American imperialist blockade once and for all.

15 March Palestine: End of Division

Large numbers are ready to hit the streets in Gaza, Ramallah, Israel, and the world; ready to explode into a strong and rational demand for the “End of Division” i.e. the end of the division between Fatah and Hamas.

(GAZA CITY) - The mighty flow of blood and hope from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria and Libya has also washed over young Palestinian minds in Gaza.

What started as a stream has become a torrent and will soon spill it banks.

The Beacon that Is Israel: Self-serving by Delay and Denial

“Calls for democracy … stem from …an inner hunger for freedom.” - Tzipi Livni, Washington Post, 2/24/11

(LAVERNE, Calif.) - A beacon is a signal fire, a warning light to guide one out of darkness; as the former Foreign Affairs Minister for Israel noted in late February:

“These are days of momentous change in the Middle East …”

Has the Lebanon Tribunal Drama Become Farce?

It is clear proceedings get a bit wild in the Zahle Courthouse. They also appear to be getting out of control at the Special Tribunal of Lebanon.

(ZAHLE, Lebanon Al Manar) - This observer had a wild day in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley yesterday.

Then again, for one reason or another, it seems that every time I go to the Bekaa it turns into a wild day.

Friedman in Search of a Horse

As for Friedman’s own conception of the occupation of Iraq as a “rare exercise in the revolutionary deployment of U.S. power“, this just confirms the extent to which our hero is unequipped to evaluate legitimate regional revolutions.

(ISTANBUL) - Thomas Friedman’s latest analysis of the uprisings in the Arab/Muslim world has received the response it deserves from Sarah Carr.

In Friedman’s defense, however, it is presumably difficult for a foreign affairs columnist to devote his full attention to the goings-on in his alleged region of expertise when he is simultaneously penning his latest scheme for the glorious resurgence of the United States of America.

Sixth Prison Term for Conscientious Objector Ajuad Zidan | תקופת כליאה שישית לסרבן אג`וא זיאן

Ajuad Zidan is due to be released from prison in March, but will likely be imprisoned again soon after.

(TEL AVIV) - We have learned that CO Ajuad Zidan was sentenced to 30 days of imprisonment on 27 Feb. for his refusal to enlist in the Israeli Army. This is now his sixth (!) term in prison.

He has been going in and out of prison repeatedly, sentenced again and again for his refusal to join the military, and persisting in his refusal. By the time his current term ends, he will have spent a total of more than four months behind bars, with no end in sight.

How Far will Oregon Legal Officials go to Prevent Due Process?

The state of Oregon is in a real spot when it comes to relations with African-American prison guards and inmates.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon's unique legal and judicial response toward racial problems in the corrections department is a model program involving a great degree of transparency.

In fact the protection policies for inmates who disclose racism and hate crimes are so transparent that one particular black inmate under the gun for testifying against prison officials can't find a trace of it.

Medical Marijuana, Marinol and Ignorant Marijuanaphobes in the Legislatures

Dr. Leveque responds to proposed restrictions.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I wasn't surprised by the Oregon legislature hearings about Medical Marijuana and the shrill, ignorant posings of those trying to restrict its legal use.

Researchers, doctors and patients say cannabis works better and is safer than almost all of the FDA approved medicines.