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Cape Wind/How the Grassroots Won -`In the Trenches` Comment on Salazar Decision

Clean Power Now and Civil Society Institute Laud Role of “People Power” in Overcoming $20 Million Lobbying Campaign, and Federal Inertia; End Called For on New Stalling Tactics by Opponents.

(HYANNIS, Ma.) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to allow the Cape Wind project to move ahead means more Massachusetts jobs.

It is viewed as a real demonstration of what can happen when concerned citizens are mobilized through effective grassroots organization.

Special Feature: Solidarity with a Besieged Sister City

Ciudad Juarez has an estimated population of 1-1.3 million people.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - New Mexico State University criminal justice Professor Cynthia Bejarano has long heard the painful stories and seen the sorrowful faces from the violence raging away in Ciudad Juarez just forty-five minutes south of her Las Cruces campus.

Lately, students have had loved ones attacked and normal back-and-forth family visitations disrupted in their binational community.

Workers Memorial Day 2010 in Downey, California

Rallying behind the strengthening of OSHA through supporting the Protecting America Worker’s Action H.R. 2067

(DOWNEY, Calif.) - Downey Workers Memorial Day is held every year in April to commemorate all those workers killed and injured on the job.

The Laura Bush `Confession` is Far From Harmless

Her confession of complicity in fatal crash is part of decades long cover up.

(CINCINNATI) - Back in 2000, when the Bush machine was attacking John McCain for having fathered an inter-racial child and for being a homosexual, we thought politics had reached the lowest levels possible.

This was Karl Rove’s work. Ted Sampley, former Green Beret tells of Rove pushing him to expose McCain for wrongdoing while a POW.

Lao PDR Government and Hmong Chaofa Indigenous Resistance Clash in Xaysombun

It happened in Xaysombun Special Zone, Phou Bia Mountain, North-Central Laos‏.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - On April 24, 2010, around 2:30 p.m. Lao time, Northeast of Mountain Phou Bia, Xaysombune Special Zone inside sources reported that there is very heavy fighting.

The Lao PDR invaded Hmong Indigenous territories. Weapons used included 60 MM, 40MM, and DKA 81, and missiles were fired from helicopter at Hmong Indigenous citizens.

NSML Decries Suspension of UNLV Basketball Player for Adult Marijuana Use

Suspension highlights the way society treats individuals who make the rational choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol.

(LAS VEGAS, Nv.) - UNLV basketball player Matt Shaw has been suspended for one year — ending his career with the team — because of one positive test for marijuana.

Shaw, fourth on the team in scoring last year, tested positive during a random drug test administered during the recent NCAA tournament.

Poetry: Thank You

Some people know all too well how badly things have gone in the land now occupied by Israel, yet few realize the world-level criminal nature of it.

(LONDON) - In a world where we eternally observe the Holocaust and the tragic plight of the Jewish people during the Second World War, we often forget about history's innate ability to replicate itself.

What`s Happening in Thailand?

An Interview with Patrick Winn – American journalist in Bangkok.

(TEHRAN) - Nowadays, Thailand is witness to one of the bloodiest civil wars since the 2006 military coup which ousted the popular Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from office.

The supporters of former Prime Minister are calling for the dissolution of parliament and a new round of general elections.

Poem: Arizona Immigration Law & Senator John McCain

"As a former marine I am honored by your call to duty & sacrifice, But you and no one alive should deny any minority a better life."

(LOS ANGELES) - What do you think of John McCain's politics? Millions of Americans see Arizona's decision to have local police officers begin enforcing immigration law. as the last thing that this nation needs.

To some, the act of singling out people on a border with a Hispanic country without racial profiling is a cruel fantasy.

From War to Prison: a PTSD Documentary, Debuts Online

Documentary highlights conflicts between returning PTSD Combat Vets and a criminal justice system that often fails to consider their unique situation.

(LOS ANGELES) - Nathan Keyes served two tours in Iraq during his 8 years in the U.S. Army.

But when he came home from the war suffering from PTSD, everything went terribly wrong, and now this soldier is serving three years in prison.