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U.S. Seeks War Against the Wrong Country

If Israel's "right of existence" and "right to self-defense" is important, then Iran's right of "peace and tranquility" is important, as well.

(TEHRAN ) - Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military strike against Iran are being renewed these days.

President Obama, to whom I still wonder why the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, is confessing that former President Bush was right in his belief that Iran poses a serious threat to the international community.

Israel and the `De-Legitimization` Oxymoron

The UN never had the right to partition Palestine.

(LONDON) - For readers who may not be intimately familiar with English terminology, an oxymoron is a figure of speech by which contradictory terms are combined to form an expressive phrase or epithet such as cruel kindness and falsely true. (It’s derived from the Greek word oxymoros meaning pointedly foolish).

For my contribution to the De-legitimizing Israel series, I’m going to confine myself to one question and answer.

The Antonov

A complete disassembled Boeing 737 can be fitted in the hold.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 (Americans, eat your hearts out) flew out of (Alberta) Edmonton International Airport, last Wednesday evening headed for Afghanistan with three helicopters and 40 tonnes of supplies on board.

On this trip it carried one Sikorsky S-61N and two Bell 212 helicopters for “non-military use” to the U.S. military—primarily to transport people and freight.

Israeli Defense Forces on Good Friday: Friend arrested, Windshield Smashed

A former Yale and Duke Professor's ongoing observations from Palestine.

(BETHLEHEM) - 10 friends have been released from Israeli jails on bail pending "trial" for their role in a recent non violent demonstration.

Those kidnapped from the peaceful march in Bethlehem area on Palm Sunday attended a press conference in Ramallah and passed by Beit Sahour late Friday.

Police Search Warrants: a Thing of the Past in Bakersfield California?

Just as Every Cop is a Criminal, and All the Sinners, Saints... - Rolling Stones

(BAKERSFIELD) - When police become sanctioned criminals, you can bet that you are watching the final act in a very deceptive play- one that never was anything close to what it seemed.

Hit and Run Driver Kills Pedestrian in Hubbard

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to call the Sheriff's Office Tip Line: 503.540-8079.

(HUBBARD, Ore.) - Marion County Sheriff's Office detectives have been called in to assist with the investigation of a fatal hit & run pedestrian collision that occurred Saturday night, 3/4 of a mile south of Hubbard.

Deputies Ryan Clarke and Tom Croft were called to the scene in the 17000 block of Front Street NE at 8:59 p.m., according to Don Thomson with the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Reporters Without Borders:`Palestinian Journalists Repeatedly Targeted By Israel`

Israel is trying to silence the press.

(JERUSALEM) - It stated that these incidents “continue without impunity”, and that the soldiers involved in the attacks are rarely brought to justice, and that the superiors of the soldiers endorse this violence.

The movement added that it is time the army stops these violations against the reporters.

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant.

Who`s Afraid of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” —Queen Gertrude, Hamlet

(OSAKA, Japan) - Whenever someone insists too strongly about something not being true, we tend to suspect that maybe it is. In their denials of involvement in 9/11, do Israel’s apologists “protest too much”?

While it would take a small book to adequately document the Israeli connection to 9/11—as Antiwar.com editor Justin Raimondo has attempted in The Terror Enigma—let us briefly recall some of the more intriguing facts as reported in the mainstream media...

Easter 1969: One Crazy Night in Vietnam

Puff the Magic Dragon Meets the Easter Bunny.

(SALEM, Ore.) - War stories: regular Salem-News.com visitors have viewed and read many over the years here. These are sometimes gripping and often tragic; frequently there is something to be learned.

One story that Tom Zangla of Kecksburg, Pa. recalls each year around this time, happened Easter Sunday in 1969, when a 122mm rocket didn't blow him to smithereens, at his base in Pleiku, Vietnam.