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Obama`s UN Call For `the right to practice free speech` Does Not Embrace Beit Ommar

As a statesman, Obama could have made a bold move and expanded Israel’s “right to exist” to include the “right to exist” of a new “independent, prosperous” state of Palestine. It did not happen.

(CHICAGO) - President Barack Obama was at his eloquent best when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly this week.

Until, that is, he inserted a jarring note that was anything but eloquent.  It sounded, in fact, like a left over paragraph from Obama’s last speech to AIPAC.

World... Be Warned

A look at the road we are all travelling down...

(LONDON) - Here is the latest from Nahida Izzat, the Exiled Palestinian, who today lives in London but never travels a mile from Palestine in her heart.

Thein Sein Leaves Door Open for One More Term, Praises Suu Kyi

Thein Sein acknowledges slaughter of Rohingya Muslims

(RANGOON Mizzima News ) - Burma’s reforms are “irreversible” and the country’s ethnic conflicts, including the Muslim Rohingya issue, will be resolved according to “international norms,” President Thein Sein told the 67th UN General Assembly in an address on Thursday.

Life and Death of the Gun

Guns kill the equivalent of about ten 9/11s every year. Where are their monuments and Freedom Towers?

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Every morning, 312 million Americans get up and begin what they expect to be a normal day. About 80 of those every day end up on a slab in a morgue from gunshots.

Aaron M Kenefick: A Marine Who Knew Too Much

Retired General Mark Kimmitt in the U.S. State Dept. is going to have some answering to do.

(OCEANSIDE, CA) - The oath that Aaron Kenefick held so seriously went far beyond the things that lead similar people to greatness.

He had to uphold his values against the malicious intentions of members of his own government who far outranked him. It would lead him to a mission that he would not survive, because the elimination of Aaron Kenefick was the real objective of the ambush at Ganjgal in September 2009.

Memo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon: The Door on a Two-State Solution was Closed 45 Years Ago

Israel’s hawks proceeded with their colonial venture come what may, in determined defiance of international law and no matter what the organised international community said or wanted.

(LONDON) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the General Assembly at the start of this week that “the door may be closing for good on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

He added: “The continued growth of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory seriously undermines efforts toward peace. We must break this dangerous impasse.”

Salam Fayyad, the World Bank and the Oslo game

Most Palestinian analysts currently maintain that the Oslo agreements are to blame for the collapse of the Palestinian economy.

(BETHLEHEM) - Most Palestinian analysts maintain that the Oslo agreements are to blame for the collapse of the Palestinian economy.

Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestinian taxi, truck and bus drivers in the West Bank observed a one-day strike, effectively shutting down cities.

Yellow Journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: Attack on Hina Rabbani Khar

Connections to organized crime?

(SALEM) - Yellow journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has recently propagated falsehood against foreign minister of Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar.

Palestinian President Abbas at United Nations on Thursday

Why does the U.S. have to fight the recognition of Palestine?

(CHAMPAIGN, ILL) - President Obama attacked the possibility of Palestinians seeking a vote on statehood at the U.N. General Assembly.

Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, Dr Francis Boyle, says it is only massive political pressure applied by the U.S. government that prevented European states from according de jure diplomatic recognition to Palestine.

Marine in Hospice Helps Other Veterans

Marine dying of pulmonary lung fibrosis reached out to help other veterans.

(HOLUALOA, HI) - There are no causality records of the dead and injured at Camp Lejeune. The Navy and Marine Corps strongly disagree that there’s any scientific evidence to support that the organic solvents and benzene in Lejeune’s wells caused injuries and deaths.