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Marijuana Use Increases While Arrests Approach Record Levels, Reports Show

Marijuana Now Accounts for Half of All U.S. Drug Arrests, But Enforcement Efforts Have Done Nothing to Reduce Use.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Marijuana arrests accounted for more than half of all U.S. drug arrests in 2009, while its use among Americans increased by 8 percent, according to two reports released this week by government officials.

Alcohol Lobby Teams with Law Enforcement to Fund Anti-Marijuana Campaign

California Beer and Beverage Distributors Give $10K to “No On Proposition 19” Campaign in Attempt to Kill the Competition.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - On September 7, a major new front opened up in the campaign for Proposition 19, the ballot measure to tax and regulate marijuana in California.

On that day, the California Beer and Beverage Distributors made a $10,000 contribution to a committee opposing Proposition 19.

AOI Anti Medical Marijuana Campaign Benefits Insurance Companies, Burns Oregonians

Associated Oregon Industries opposes the wishes of Oregon voters and sick people by attacking Measure 74.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Military veterans are one of the largest user groups of medical marijuana in Oregon.

Negotiations While Ethnic Cleansing Continues

Popular resistance is growing and more people are getting involved.

(BETHLEHEM) - Seven million of the 11 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced people.

Salem YMCA Supports Military Families as part of $31 Million National Initiative

Armed Services YMCA and Department of Defense partnership gives military families access to youth development, family strengthening, and health and well-being programs.

(SALEM, Ore.) - As part of the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Outreach Initiative, the Salem Family YMCA will provide military families with access to youth development, family strengthening, and health and well-being programs.

Andrea Mitchell`s NBC Interview With Iranian President Includes Discussion of Zionism

In a nutshell, Zionism is the widely accepted belief that Israel belongs to the Jews because they are the chosen people; the belief has displaced millions who lived there first.

(SALEM, Ore.) - NBC Reporter Andrea Mitchell's interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke new ground with the American public, by actually allowing the idea of Zionist control to air on an American news network.

I'm not saying its has never been mentioned, but this is a real breakthrough.

Two tons of Marijuana seized in 24 hours by Arizona Border Patrol

(Tucson, Ariz) - In two separate incidents in the past 24 hours, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Ajo, Ariz. station seized marijuana with a combined weight of approximately 4,000 pounds and an estimated value exceeding $3.1 million.

Border Patrol agents in Ajo, Ariz. found more than a ton of marijuana being transported into the U.S. via these backpacks.

Disbanding the Palestinian Authority Would Scupper Israeli Strategy

This may seem like a long shot but it is not, for the foundation stones of such a movement already exist in the civil society bodies that are established within Palestinian society.

(LONDON) - Often at seminal historical junctures the need to venture “outside the box” and think the unthinkable becomes critical.

Such a moment is now upon the Palestinians. At stake is whether they will survive as a people or dissolve into the oblivion of the banished...

Does the Palestinian Diaspora Care Enough To Become Engaged?

Will future historians conclude that the Palestinian diaspora betrayed its occupied and oppressed brothers and sisters?

(LONDON) - The real history of the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel invites the conclusion that the Arab regimes – more by default than design in my view – betrayed the Palestinians.

Start Again with a Clean Sheet, Palestinians

Palestinians must win over outsiders if they are to make progress – that the future hinges largely on Hamas.

(LONDON) - So criminal within itself, it flinches from upholding the rule of international law. So corrupt, it happily outsources its foreign policy to terrorists in Tel Aviv.

The idea that America acts as an honest broker for peace between its fellow cut-throat Israel and their victim, Palestine, on whose neck the Zionist jackboot is firmly planted, is a joke that is only funny in the hysterical sense.