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Border Patrol Shooting Kills 15-Year-Old Mexican Boy at Ciudad Juarez / El Paso, TX border crossing

As in Palestine, even when residents are poor as dirt... They can still pick up rocks.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - The Mexican border is seeing a problem involving rock throwers aiming at U.S. Border Patrol Agents. In recent days, a 15-year-old Mexican boy was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent who retaliated to the apparent rock throwing with live fire, killing the youth and launching an international incident.

Only a Fool Would Let Their Kid Play in Irvine`s `Great Park`

Our Environmental Writer Roger Butow describes the conditions at our old base; MCAS El Toro, as "Toxic Soup de jour".

(IRVINE, Calif.) - I can't believe we're still talking about this, and that somehow, some way, the city of Irvine is still trying to place a kids park atop one of the deadliest and most contaminated military bases in the world.

In the past, El Toro was used to kill... I mean, facilitate aviation Marines, like myself and Roger Butow, featured in the interview below.

Salem-News.com Writer Arrested After Protest Near Bethlehem

Nobody should be arrested for peace activism, particularly when it involves a rogue soldier and a grudge.

(BETHLEHEM / SALEM) - We are alarmed and concerned in reporting that Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh PhD, has been arrested by border police while involved in a nonviolent political direct action in al Walaje, in Occupied Palestine.

Mazin is a regular contributor to Salem-News.com and an esteemed Duke/Yale Professor, who currently teaches in Bethlehem.

Tumbling Tumbleweeds - a Continuing Look at the Schneider Trial in Kansas

One witness testified that while being treated by Schneider she received pain narcotics such as -- methadone, Lortabs, Soma and Xanax; a combination similar to other patients who had died of drug overdoses.

(WICHITA, Kansas) - A former police chief, a firefighter, a truck driver and a mother were among witnesses testifying on behalf of Stephen Schneider this past week during the 6th week of trial.

Schneider, a former Haysville doctor, and his wife, a nurse, are on trial on federal charges stemming from their practices of prescribing painkillers leading to patients deaths.

`They Looked in my Hair and Under my Tongue`

"I only cried when I saw that journalist Cevdet Kılıçlar had been shot." - Turkisn journalist Ayşe Sarıoğlu

(ISTANBUL) - Yesterday I posted excerpts from the first part of the Turkish daily Taraf’s two-part interview with 27-year-old journalist Ayşe Sarıoğlu, recounting her experience during last week’s attack on the Mavi Marmara.

Following is my (rough) translation of excerpts from the second part of the interview, which starts with the boat’s forced docking at Ashdod port and recounts the imprisonment of the passengers on board.

The Bigot on Comedy Central: Jon Stewart
and the Crucifixion of Helen Thomas

He's no friend of veteran journalists, or the Palestinian people.

(SALEM, Ore.) - There is a reason Jon Stewart has such an intact comedy news throne. Right now his face keeps blurring with Ted Nugent's and the other heroes who have eventually shown their real colors.

All comedy aside, Stewart is terrible for ranking on Helen Thomas, the only real voice in her league with the guts and fortitude to tell the truth about what Israel has become.

Israel to Ease Blockade in Exchange for Weak Flotilla Inquiry

Israeli officials reportedly denied there was any direct link.

(Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies) - Israel is poised to accept a British plan to ease its blockade of Gaza in exchange for international acceptance of a watered-down investigation into last week's deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

Britain is understood to have taken a leading role in the negotiations and last week circulated a confidential document proposing ways of easing the blockade, according to Western officials familiar with a draft version of the report quoted by the London-based daily.

Oregon Voters` Voice

Our goal is to draft and agree upon arguments on major issues and candidates within the next two months, and then collect the signatures necessary to place them in the Oregon Voters’ Pamphlet by August 24.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - I am proud to announce, in partnership with Salem-News, the launch of Oregon Voters’ Voice: oregonvotersvoice.org.

April Scott on Micro Effect Radio: on GM Food

April Scott appears tonight at 11:20 p.m. west coast time, on the Micro Effect network.

(SALEM, Ore. / AUCKLAND, N.Z.) - One of our goals at Salem-News.com, is to fill the informational void created by corporate media's refusal to indict its sponsors.

If the networks and huge daily newspapers paid attention to what was really going on around them, they would be in for quite a shock. Americans are increasingly buying food that falls into the 'mad scientist' category; created in laboratories by essentially fooling nature.

`REMEMBER THE LIBERTY`? An Anniversary Day Apology

A 39th Anniversary of Israel's attack on the U.S.S warship Liberty.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Remember the Liberty: the pathetic battlecry of an Israeli occupied nation of ignorant, lazy, cornfed Zionist collaborators ---- like the French during WWII ---- at most the pitiful whining of "free press" media eunuchs and Quisling officials who haven't a free instinct in their entire being?

"REMEMBER THE U.S.S. LIBERTY"? Fat chance!