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A Curveball Hits Home: Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi`s Dirty Secret, WMD and Iraq

Defector admits to lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction that triggered the Iraq war.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Iraqi defector who caused the White House to believe that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme, has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story.

Reporters with the Guardian revealed how Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials, never expected the resulting war on Iraq...

Blind Boys of Alabama Record Country Gospel Album

'Take the High Road' is produced by Jamey Johnson; features guest performances by Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Lee Ann Womack and the Oakridge Boys.

(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - Five time Grammy Award and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners The Blind Boys of Alabama will release a traditional country-gospel album for the first time in their 70-year career.

First Part of Three in New Series: Waves from Seaside: What We Must Learn from Egyptian Revolutionists

CHOICE: What YOU DO Shapes Actions by Others- IF YOU don't ACT, THEY will "Make your day" By What THEY DO.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Freedom to choose among political options open to all is the essence and operating heart of all true democracy.

In recent days we've witnessed one of those extremely rare, deeply revealing revolutionary demonstrations of overwhelming populist choice by which the world has always been shaped.

How Valentines Day 2011 was Honored by President Obama, a few Americans of Compassion and This Citizen of Conscience

“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(WINTER PARK Fla.) - President Obama broke my heart again-this time on Valentine's Day 2011 when he sent his 2012 ‘budget’ request to Congress.

It adds to our current debt of $14 trillion and Obama’s $3.7 Trillion Budget Calls for Military Spending Increases and Deep Cuts to Social Service Program.

I Only Have You

"I am an old man," Nasser Abu Said says, 37-years old, "to me it is no longer important, but what about my children? Don’t they have the right to life, the right to grow up in safety and with some joy?"

(GAZA) - "I only have you to count on. From now on, my children depend on you ". This is the desperate call of a man who sees no way out for himself and his children, and we ISM members who came to his phone call, receive it in helpless silence.

It is not the first time that we visit this family, and every time we go home more horrified.

The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza - March 4, 2011 March to Gaza

To everybody who knows injustice, everybody who knows tyranny, we are all brothers and sisters with the people of Palestine. Let us act like it!

(GAZA) - Egyptians have just shed their puppet dictator; they rendered his weapons and henchmen impotent. We can now remove one of the most shameful policies of this dictator.

I say shame on us all if we do not march on Gaza with significant numbers. If our lives or the lives of our loved ones depended on it, we would mobilize by the thousands. Just consider the global family as one, for a moment.

Police Investigate Suspicious Death in Keizer

Includes video of the scene by Jerry Freeman.

(KEIZER, Ore.) - On Monday, February 14, 2011 at 2:07 p.m. officers from the Keizer Police Department and members of the Keizer Fire District responded to 1143 Orchard Court North #C on a report of an unconscious person who had been found inside the apartment.

Responding officers and paramedics found an adult female inside the apartment and confirmed she was deceased. The death is suspicious in nature at this time.

US Port Official tells ABC News Smuggled Nuclear Devices Discovered in Past

Terrorists have already tried to smuggle nuclear devices into the United States.

(CHICAGO) - US port official tells ABC News smuggled nuclear devices discovered in past

A San Diego Port Authority official has made a stunning admission: nuclear devices have been discovered being smuggled into the United States.

EPA`s Superfund Website Can Save Veteran`s Lives

Veterans are not provided the choice of military assignments.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Thousands of veterans and their dependents lived and worked on military installations that are now listed as EPA Superfund sites.

Former MCAS El Toro was once a proud Marine aviation base; today it is a demolished wreck. The soil and groundwater was terribly polluted over the years and many have paid the ultimate price over it.

White Supremacists Arrested for Smuggling Heroin Secreted into California Prison

Reported gang members said to have imported drug in Glue Strips of Envelopes into Susanville State Prison.

(YUBA CITY) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced today the arrests of five members of a white supremacist gang based in Yuba County.

The gang members were arrested on charges of smuggling heroin into Susanville State Prison in the glue strips of letters mailed to inmates associated with the "New Order" gang.