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`Israel`s Intimidation Tactics Won`t Stop Us`: First Ship Sets Sail for Gaza!

More brave people set sail with relief for Gaza, knowing Israel will probably react violently.

(DUBLIN) - The MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of an 8-vessel Freedom Flotilla, is on its way to Gaza.

This past week reports from Israel have indicated that authorities will not allow the Freedom Flotilla to reach Gaza with its cargo of much-needed reconstruction material, medical equipment, and school supplies.

The Worm is in the CAN

For the racist, sectarian, destructive entity Israel, the ultra-orthodox “Hasidims” have become the core ideological fundament, "Chabad Lubavitch" being an essential component.

(LONDON) - Imagine for one moment the corridors of power and influence being populated by the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacists etc, who claim one race is responsible for humanity's great achievements, and better off running the world's affairs.

First Good News Emerges from BP`s Gulf Oil Spill

A siphon has successfully been repaired, CNN reports.

(VENICE, Louisiana) - The first good news to come out of the BP oil spill was reported by CNN today: the tube end has been reinserted successfully into the damaged oil pipe that lies almost a mile under water, below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

According to CNN, this means that a portion of the leaking oil is now being pulled to the surface, where it is being captured by a drill ship.

EXCLUSIVE: Beyond the Nuclear Mordechai Vanunu: Part One in a Series

"If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." - Emile Zola

(CLERMONT, Fla. ) - In June 2005, I was just a few days before my first of seven journeys to Israel Palestine.

A Palestinian American friend warned me, “Don’t visit Mordechai Vanunu, if you see him; don’t speak to him. He’s not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble.”

UNRWA Provides Laptops to Gaza School Children

From rockets and bombs to high tech devices, the kids in Gaza don't receive the things other kids see; in this case it is clearly positive.

(GAZA CITY) - "One laptop per child", it is a vision that has now turned into reality.

This is the first project of its kind to be created by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief Works Agency launched a plan to distribute some 200,000 laptops to children who attend school in Gaza.

Turkish Slaughters Hit My Greek Family as Well as the Armenians

Unfortunately, many resist recognition of the Armenian holocaust, and support Israel's effort to reserve that tragic identity exclusively for Jews.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Turkey is under fire around the world today for genocide it committed a century ago, and which it has tried to deny for almost as long.

Will Hezbollah Support the Right to Work for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon?

Local political pressures are mounting on the Party of God - Part IV of a series on the campaign to enact civil rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - The current relationship between Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as clear cut as many often assume

This, despite the frequent inspiring brotherly words of Hezbollah’s leadership and the fact that the Party enjoys the support of more than 90% of the camp refugees, none of whom can vote.

Career Politicians: It`s Time to Show Them the Door!

I think the voters of Utah deserve a huge “Attaboy” for getting the ball rolling.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - Three-term Republican Senator Bob Bennett was tossed out on his ear at the Utah GOP state convention on Saturday, May 8.

What happened in Utah is exactly what is needed! The army of career politicians (both Democrat and Republican) that supposedly represent us in Washington, D.C., have financially raped and pillaged the legal American citizen for too long.

Week 3 - Stephen Schneider Trial

"Half-remembered names and faces But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
In the autumn of goodbyes" Lyrics from Windmills (or Pill Mills) of your Mind

(WICHITA, Kansas) - In Week 3 of the Stephen and Linda Schneider trial in Wichita, Kansas, the jury heard Ted Parran, a physician from Cleveland, Ohio refer to the Schneider Medical Clinic as a "pill mill."

Dr. Parran is considered a nationally recognized addiction specialist.

Internationally Renowned Media Critic and Middle East Expert to Speak in Portland at Central Library

The event will include a lecture and slide-show by Alison Weir discussing "Israel-Palestine: Behind the Headlines" – what the news media are not telling Americans.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - As Americans move into a new age of understanding regarding Israel and the ongoing conflict with displaced Palestinians, an important voice will be heard in the state of Oregon.

Alison Weir will present a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today that a former US Congressman calls, "Intelligent, careful, and critical."