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The Boomerang Effect

How can you teach students about unspeakable horrors, and yet curtail them from landing at the vital understanding that Israel is actually the ultimate racist expansionist state specialising in genocidal tactics?

(LONDON) - In case you didn’t know, in Britain the Holocaust is part of the National Curriculum. Thanks to the ‘The Holocaust Educational Trust’ our children are guaranteed to learn how bad the Nazis were.

Oregon Taxes and Spending Have Remained in Line With Oregonians` Pocketbooks for Three Decades

What has changed is who pays for public services, according to OCPP. Their report shows that over time corporations have shifted their responsibilities onto Oregon families.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Oregon's public sector is not growing relative to Oregonians' pocketbooks, notwithstanding what might be heard on Tax Day from the Tea Party movement.

According to a report issued today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy, Oregon revenue and spending have remained stable as a share of Oregonians' income over the past three decades.

Op Ed: Irrational Response Denies, Delays, Can Defeat Democracy

Facts Reduced to Futile Fantasies by Revanchists.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Surely symptomatic of this political age in our America, a favorite children's TV-show has become famed as “The Upside-Down Program”. There is no record of producer political-stance, but that title surely fits very tightly right onto GOPster revanchism.

The whole sorry story is reflected in the widely available public record--further illuminated by their own continuing self-praise for this naturally-negative “denialism” and for continued mindless “obstructionism”.

Time for Real Laws to Protect our Troops and Veterans

Doing nothing at all would be a huge improvement; allowing veterans to die quietly - it's better than the abuse.

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - America has been at war for a decade.

For most of the war, we financed massive corruption through cutting benefits to veterans, even destroying thousands of their files and through discharging wounded soldiers under the diagnosis of “personality disorder,” often brought on by a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) or PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) caused by multiple combat deployments.

Talking Palestine To Power

The Palestinians have nothing left worth calling a state and they are facing an existential threat on all fronts.

(MELBOURNE) - Today, there is no excuse for not knowing the truth about Palestine, especially what is happening in Gaza.

Even taking into account the disinformation spread in mainstream media, there are enough glimpses one gets of a ravaged Gaza and a brutalized people that should compel us to ask questions.

Medical Marijuana Expected to Qualify for Arizona Ballot

Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project will turn in more than 250,000 signatures today to place initiative on November ballot.

(PHOENIX, Az.) - Today, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project will submit more than 250,000 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office in order to place medical marijuana on the November ballot in Arizona.

The initiative requires 153,365 signatures to qualify for the ballot. Once the initiative qualifies, Arizona voters will be asked on November 2 to vote yes on the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.

The Other Heroes of the Pacific

Men suffered body and soul for more than a thousand days where no Geneva Convention rights were extended to them.

(LOS ANGELES) - Today, common knowledge of America’s WWII fight in the Pacific seems to have evolved into a set of bookend events called “Pearl Harbor” and “Hiroshima.”

Immigration News: Conservatives Back Reform

Changing social, economic and political realities underpin the participation of conservative and evangelical forces in immigration issues.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A different twist was added to the turbulent immigration reform debate this week.

Mayor Candidates Truly Merit More Policy Clarity

Do these candidates have what it takes to avoid the turbulent wreckage of rapidly sinking city revenues?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Among many others I attended the Salem City Club mayoral debate last Friday at which Bill Church of The Statesman did a great job moderating and injecting a welcome dose of humor.

Both Anna Peterson and Chuck Bennett were congenial, each with their own styles. They each presented their list of credentials from past jobs and volunteer undertakings.

When `Barack` Decides to Head a Barrack

Americans are having the wool pulled over their eyes about alleged nukes in Iran.

(TEHRAN) - "The continued presence of all options on the table"; this is the disappointing message which a Nobel Peace Prize laureate dispatches internationally.

In his latest interview with CBS news, American President Barack Obama refused to rule out the possibility of a military strike against Iran.