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The Tea Party and America`s Return to the `Good Ole Days`

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

(CINCINNATI) - In Wisconsin, State Police cars are searching for missing legislators. The fist pounding on the door in the middle of the night, reminders of Germany, 1936.

A state governor is tape recorded taking orders from an Israeli billionaire. Children in state after state are being packed like cordwood into crowded classrooms as schools close.

Ciudad Juarez Mourns, Organizes

In Ciudad Juarez, people have two stark choices: they can either sit back passively and wait to be killed or extorted or do something in spite of the dangers.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Stunned by the murders of three people whose lives they tried to save, human rights activists in Ciudad Juarez vow nevertheless to press forward with their movement for justice.

On Saturday, February 26, Elias Reyes Salazar, his sister Magdalena Reyes and Luisa Ornelas, the wife of Elias Reyes, were laid to rest in the rural Juarez Valley south of the city.

Majority in National Poll Back Employees in Public Unions

71% of Democrats opposed weakening collective bargaining rights; 62% of Independents also opposed.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A New York Times and CBS poll has fund that a majority of Americans support the employees in public unions. The nationwide poll found that most Americans and most independents support the embattled workers.

Military Service, VA Mistreatment, Losing Battles with Cops and Getting Screwed Again by Mortgage Companies

I don’t know if a person gets used to being screwed over and over again. I sure don’t think so.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - When I volunteered for the Army in 1944, I wrongly assumed that I would be treated like a human volunteer – wrong. We were all treated like peons by our immediate superiors whether they had one stripe or 4 stars. It wasn’t fun getting shot at.

White House Requests Meeting with Seattle Times to Bully Against Pro-Pot Editorials

The ex-Washingtonian is expected Friday to discuss pot with the paper.

(SEATTLE) - The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy director Gil Kerlikowske wanted to fly to Seattle to speak personally with the paper's full editorial board after they ran an editorial supporting a bill to tax and regulate marijuana.

Bruce Ramsey, the editorial writer, says the White House called “right after our editorial ran, so I drew the obvious conclusion... he didn’t like our editorial.”

Search Underway for Snowbound Family in Oregon UPDATED

UPDATE: The family missing in deep snow in rural Yamhill County has been located.

(MCMINNVILLE, Ore.) - UPDATE: Though radio communications are still difficult: Yamhill County Sheriff Jack Crabtree confirms that the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office Search And Rescue has located and freed the family, which is now enroute off of the mountain.

An Empire of Lies: Why Our Media Betrays Us

Examining the role of mainstream media in defending Western imperial elites and peddling their narrative, and assesses the impact of new media in breaking the elites’ stranglehold on information.

(NAZARETH) - Last week the Guardian, Britain’s main liberal newspaper, ran an exclusive report on the belated confessions of an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi, codenamed “Curveball” by the CIA.

Eight years ago, Janabi played a key behind-the-scenes role – if an inadvertent one – in making possible the US invasion of Iraq.

Rare Bird Captured for First Time, Fitted With Tracking Device and Released

Yellow-billed Cotingas are about the size and shape of a pigeon and are strong flyers.

(WASHINGTON. D.C.) - American Bird Conservancy and Friends of the OSA today reported that three endangered Yellow-billed Cotingas were for the first time ever, captured and released unharmed near the Costa Rican town of Rincon.

This rare bird about which relatively little is known is endemic to the Pacific slope mangrove forests of Panama and Costa Rica.

Hot, Loud, Angry and Political for Justice

Music to rescue hearts broken by Israeli oppression.

(ORLANDO, Fla.) - It wasn’t just a hot one in O’Town on the last Sunday of February because the thermometer registered 83 degrees in the shade at Lake Eola during the first Arab American Cultural Festival.

Temperatures rose with the heat that emanated from voluptuous belly dancers, award winning Debkeh dancers, singers and passionate hip hop poets who energized the crowd of thousands...

Hasbara`s Smear Fell Apart Again

I would suggest to the Zionist advocates at Harry’s Place that the British law offers many means to tackle any form of racial incitement, and racism in general.

(LONDON) - As funny as it may sound, Harry's Place -- the infamous Israeli propaganda website and Neocon outlet that rushed to advocate Blair’s criminal wars -- is now desperately insisting on mounting pressure on venues to stop me from spreading the necessary message about Israel and its lobbies.

Harry’s Place -- The Zionist mouthpiece website that has managed to collate no less than 157 entries on anti racist watchdog Islamophobia Watch.