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Richard Falk Is Right on 9/11-Will Obama and Friends Forsake Falk for Telling the Truth

Did we miss something? What’s the problem here?

(MADISON, Wi.) - Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, is under fire for writing what is obviously true about the U.S. government and the media. Calls for his firing abound from the usual suspects.

Such commitments to truth as Falk possesses can pose problems for prospective careerists, but the 80-year-old human rights activist and scholar likely doesn’t care all that much about resulting slander.

ACLU Sues Seattle for Placement of Human Rights Ads on Buses

Lawsuit Claims King County’s decision not to publish the ad violates the First Amendment.

(SEATTLE) - The ACLU of Washington filed suit on behalf of the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, seeking a preliminary injunction to uphold the Campaign’s free speech rights to publish a paid bus ad expressing its views on actions of the Israeli government.

Filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, the lawsuit says that King County’s refusal to allow the ad on Metro buses violated the Campaign’s First Amendment rights.

On Jewish Identity

As soon as exclusivity or superiority is claimed for any ethnic or religious fraction of the human whole, there is implicitly posited a belief in the inferiority of ‘the other.’

(LOS ANGELES) - As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity.

The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend that I am a self-hating Jew, which implies that sharp criticism of Israel and Zionism are somehow incompatible with affirming a Jewish identity. Of course, I deny this.

UN Human Rights Official Claims 9/11 Was US Plot

A UN human rights official has been roundly condemned for suggesting that the US government may have orchestrated the September 11 terrorist attacks.

(LONDON ) - Richard Falk, a retired professor from Princeton University, wrote on his blog that there had been an "apparent cover up" by American authorities.

He added that most media were "unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events" on 9/11, despite it containing "gaps and contradictions".

`Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy` for Wounded Politicians, But Not Injured Troops?

Though top brain specialists have endorsed cognitive rehabilitation as an effective treatment for brain injury, Tricare officials have said that scientific evidence does not justify providing it comprehensively to troops.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was transferred today to TIRR Memorial Hermann, a premier rehab hospital renowned for its treatment of traumatic brain injuries.

The hospital calls itself “one of very few hospitals in the country designated as a model system for traumatic brain injury.” One technique is cognitive rehabilitation therapy. The treatment is denied to America's war injured...

Experts Say No Room for Nuclear, Coal in a `Clean Energy Standard`

So-Called “Clean Energy Standard” Highlighted in Obama State of the Union Speech, But Huge Health, Environmental Costs Associated With Nuclear, Coal.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - If Congress and the White House intend to move forward with a “clean energy standard” (CES), it will be a huge contradiction to include nuclear reactors and coal-fired power plants, according to three experts.

In the wake of President Obama’s State of the Union address embracing CES, the experts pointed to a long list of unresolved waste, water and proliferation risks associated with nuclear power, and unresolved problems with commercially untested “carbon capture & storage” (CCS) for coal-fired power production.

Corruption at Supreme Court, White House

Will the Tea Party and the newly invigorated Republican Party rush in to make government bureaucrats pay for their crimes? Or will charges ever be brought?

(APTOS, Calif.) - Tea Partiers, Republicans, and protectors of public morality are right about corruption in government. The only problem is they are looking in the wrong place.

Antonia Scalia is the latest to cross the line with an announcement that he plans to address the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives.

Free Tunisia

Today Tunisia stands at the heart of the fight for equality.

(LONDON) - Tunisia continues to dominate headlines and it should; popular uprisings have relieved nations of tyrants in the past.

When the power of the people leads to the removal of oppressive regimes, it is a form of democracy in action.

Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address

The U.S. President's annual State of the Union Address in its entirety.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Tuesday's remarks by the President in State of the Union Address were made at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. at 9:12 P.M. EST.

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new Speaker, John Boehner.

Stress, PTSD, Drug Dangers, Alcohol, Tobacco and Death - the Reality

Most people (Baboons included) are subject to various levels or severity of stress.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - For those who read my postings on this continuum of reality, you know what I am writing about. For any new readers let me put this together starting at square one.

I got my inspiration from a documentary on OPB called KILLER STRESS which is a very important and suitable name.