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Murdoch, Petraeus and the US Media Matrix

The Murdoch story is one of the most important and far-reaching political/cultural stories of the past 30 years, an ongoing tale without equal.

(NAZARETH Sabbah Report) - Carl Bernstein, of All the President’s Men fame, has a revealing commentary in the Guardian today, though revealing not entirely in a way he appears to understand.

Bernstein highlights a story first disclosed earlier this month by Bob Woodward, about media mogul Rupert Murdoch trying to “buy the US presidency”.

International Boycott Day - Protests Held Globally Against Clothing `Made in Sri Lanka`

Protestors at the rallies urged American corporations to begin moving their production of clothing to other countries that do not commit rights abuses.

(LONDON) - Consumers and human rights activists across the globe staged protests in front of clothing outlets on December 15, 2012 to warn holiday shoppers to "check the label" and boycott products made in Sri Lanka.

Boycott Sri Lanka Campaign activists in U.S. cities handed out leaflets, held signs and talked to customers in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington, Raleigh, and San Francisco.

New Study Finds Population of Threatened Marbled Murrelet Down Almost 30 Percent in Last Ten Years

New study falls on the heels of a court ruling that stopped timber sales and logging in three state-owned Oregon forests that are home to Marbled Murrelets.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Federal conservation efforts haven’t come close to reversing or even halting the decline of the Marbled Murrelet, a seabird that nests in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.

That’s the conclusion of a major new peer-reviewed study of the status of the Marbled Murrelet...

Palestinian Leadership Still Asleep at the Wheel?

Empowered, emboldened… but what is the PLO doing with its new UN status?

(LONDON) - The Palestinian Embassy in London has just issued a press release under the heading "Pressing need to halt Israel’s illegal settlement colonization campaign via political, legal, and diplomatic means".

It complains about Israel's "flagrant disrespect of international law"....

Cowardly War Carried Out by Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka persistently maintains that there were only 70,000 people in Vanni when nearly three to four times more people.

(PARIS, France) - The latest reports of the UN Secretary General’s – UNSG, on its work in Sri Lanka tell us many genuine facts which are strongly evidenced.

Those who know the story of the battle between the Singhalese prince Dutugemunu and the Tamil King Ellalan (Elara) will see there is no difference between it and the war that ended on 19 May 2009.

A Winter Solstice Greeting

Modern western culture has set itself a drift from our natural moorings in our crazy belief that we are somehow above our own ecosystem...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The Winter Solstice arrived in Sacramento at 3:12 am this morning. This darkness outside my window was the longest night of the year.

Western scholars often misinterpret the fires and lights that marked this night among our ancestors, claiming that they were so primitive as to fear that the sun might not come back...

The Nation Chooses Merkley

A frequent ally of stalwarts like Sanders and Tom Harkin, Merkley has also been willing to strike out on his own to pick big fights for big reforms.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Among the new generation of Democratic senators elected in the past several years, none has been so steadfastly determined to forge progressive solutions as Oregon’s Jeff Merkley.

A frequent ally of stalwarts like Sanders and Tom Harkin, Merkley has also been willing to strike out on his own to pick big fights for big reforms.

Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble - Album Launch Tour

Announcing 'Songs Of The Metropolis'

(LONDON) - Maverick, award-winning saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble are back on the road with their latest album Songs Of The Metropolis.

For the last 12 years the quartet have been touring all over the world, stunning audiences with their firebrand performances packed with drama, pathos, luscious harmonies and wit.

Op-ed, Evaluation of US Power Grabs and Call for New Philosophy

Our World Domination...

(PORTLAND, OR) - After 9/11/01, Bush officials Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and others engineered a response from America that was in line with the neo-con Project for the New American Century.

The idea of this elite group of Republican policymakers at PNAC was to dominate Earth.

Oregon`s New Nike Tax Law Suggests Maybe You Can`t Just Do It

“The very first action required of every Oregon Legislature is to swear or affirm to uphold the Oregon Constitution” - Rep. Doug Whitsett, R-Klamath Falls

(PORTLAND, OR Northwest Watchdog) - Elementary school maps of the United States that depict each state by its major product — cars for Michigan, corn for Kansas, coal for West Virginia — might reasonably show Nike’s swoosh symbol for Oregon.

But there are signs the company’s authority over Oregon politics is incomplete.