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Gilad Atzmon on Dieudonné and the Quenelle

The truth is devastating - Palestine is here and the French people are the Palestinians Du Jour...

(LONDON) - If the quenelle is loosely defined as an anti establishment salute, one may wonder why Jews are offended by it and regard it as an ‘anti-Semitic’ gesture? Is it because many Jews actually identify with ‘the establishment’?

And how do we explain the fact that the French government is happy to compromise the most elementary liberties just to appease the French Jewish Lobby (Crif)?

Justice Stephen`s Visit to Sri Lanka & US State Department Report 2009

Sri Lanka has resisted calls to investigate allegations that up to 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians were killed by the security forces during the final push that crushed the Tamil rebels...

(MELBOURNE TamilNet) - The US Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp is in Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes committed by both sides and the prevailing human rights situation in Sri Lanka. He will meet both the Sinhalese and Tamil representatives to get at the ground realities.

His visit is in conjunction with the US presenting the third resolution on Sri Lanka. All indications are the High Commissioner for UNHRC is preparing a tough resolution on Sri Lanka. Don't forget to down load and read US State Departments Report 2009, if you have the patience.

European Circumcision Debate Will Include Jewish American

Psychologist and Author Ronald Goldman Criticizes the Practice.

(BOSTON) - Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Circumcision Resource Center, a nonprofit educational organization in Boston, has been invited by the Council of Europe to participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue about circumcision at a meeting in France on January 28.

There is a growing European debate about circumcision. In October the Council of Europe, an organization of 47 member States, overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution that called circumcision, among other procedures, a violation of the physical integrity of children...

When Will They Ever Learn? The American People and Support for War

When it comes to war, the American public is remarkably fickle.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The responses of Americans to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars provide telling examples. In 2003, according to opinion polls, 72 percent of Americans thought going to war in Iraq was the right decision. By early 2013, support for that decision had declined to 41 percent.

Similarly, in October 2001, when U.S. military action began in Afghanistan, it was backed by 90 percent of the American public. By December 2013, public approval of the Afghanistan war had dropped to only 17 percent.

The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post: An Exchange with Executive Editor Martin Baron

Why not provide a sentence in the Post’s substantive coverage of CIA activities, to the effect that “The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos is the largest stakeholder in Amazon, which has a $600 million contract with the CIA”?

(WASHINGTON, DC) - "A basic principle of journalism is to acknowledge when the owner of a media outlet has a major financial relationship with the subject of coverage.

"We strongly urge the Washington Post to be fully candid with its readers about the fact that the newspaper’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. The Washington Post’s coverage of the CIA should include full disclosure that the sole owner of the Post is also the main owner of Amazon -- and Amazon is now gaining huge profits directly from the CIA."

WATCH: The Daily Show Blasts Cable Anchors Over Unwarranted Legal Pot Hysteria

Stewart: "I guess you could say, you’re a f*cking idiot”

(NEW YORK ) - On Tuesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart weighed in on cable news freaking out over Colorado’s decision to legalize recreational pot. Stewart blasted Fox’ Billy O’Reilly and his “old timey Americana restoration hour,” for saying pot-smoking is “literally Russian roulette.”

“I think the only difference between a bong hit and pointing a loaded gun at your own skull is that the gun can kill you instantly, and must never be criminalized or restricted in any way ever,” Stewart remarked.

NILC Protests Senate Conservatives` Attacks on Poor Children

On 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, senators cynically pit unemployed and veterans against kids

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In a cynical political ploy, conservative senators are pitting millions of children and their families against the unemployed and retired veterans by proposing to reduce the number of people eligible for the refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) in order to pay for extending unemployment benefits and repealing military pension cuts that were part of the recent budget deal.

The extension of unemployment insurance benefits has traditionally been considered an emergency item that does not require a budgetary offset.

How Jesus Returned To Toronto... The Second Conning
(A Passion Play in Three Acts) Act I

Jesus: Let he who is without sin cast the first – (He is interrupted by the arrival of a pair of security guards who hustle him toward the door. The Moderator calls after them:)

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Feodor Dostoievski, in his novel “The Brothers Karamazov,” recounted how Jesus might have returned to earth during the Spanish Inquisition, and how he would have been greeted by the Church.

Thinking about that, I immediately had those squiggly lines around my head, my head bent out of shape as some heavenly music swelled, indicating that I was day-dreaming about...

There is No Religious Freedom: Christians are Persecuted

The Sunday Express magazine, said that about 200 million Christians in 60 countries live in serious risk of harassment.

(MADRID) - The Nusra Front, an Islamist group linked to Al Qaeda attacked the old part of the Syrian city of Maaloula. Islamic terrorists held several nuns in the convent of Santa Tecla, in the same town.

Moreover, Raimondo Wang Chonglin, who was Emeritus Bishop of Chaohsien (Zhaoxian), in the Hebei Province (China) has spent 20 years of his life in prison and had to fight against the various prohibitions of the Chinese government to exercise his pastoral work.

Oregon State Police Reluctant to Investigate Prison Racism Case

A Nazi movie played to please a prison's white supremacist population, drug dealing by guards, Murder, Attempted Murder; yet a former guard's documented exposure of crimes in the Oregon State Prison gains little merit with the state police?

(SALEM) - Former Oregon corrections officer turned Whistleblower, William Coleman, says he survived a nightmarish scenario after trying to expose, "extreme levels of official corruption, racism and hate crimes," while employed at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

Coleman says he has compelling evidence proving that inmate Terrence Kimble's civil rights were violated at the Oregon State Penitentiary by state officials, but the state police aren't interested.