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Third Anarchist Announces Refusal to Testify Before Grand Jury

Jail Likely for Grand Jury Resistors; Committee Against Political Repression Calls for Fax Petitions and Protests.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Matt Duran released an open letter today unambiguously declaring his refusal to cooperate. He is the third person subpoenaed to appear before a secret grand jury investigating the anarchist movement in Seattle, Washington.

A local demonstration will take place in Portland at the Federal Court House (1000 SW 3rd Ave) at 12:30 p.m.

An Open Letter to the World Leaders Regarding Burma

Myanmar government has been deceiving the World Leaders since 1988, why don’t you try to take any action, what do we need to present to you in order to take action and solve the problems?

(SITTWE, Akyab, Myanmar) - The following letter from Aung Aung in Burma drives home the need for international intervention over human rights violations in this fledgling democracy.

Until very recently Burma was a locked down nation run by a military junta that has ruled for decades with a steel fist while deflecting calls to ensure that international laws are both observed and followed.

If it`s Important to Oregonians...

Bureaucrats at the State Board of Forestry, academics at the OSU School of Forestry and Oregon media and politicians were AWOL.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Today, PBS Newshour on OPB aired an interesting investigative report on the spraying of dangerous herbicides on Oregon clear cuts in private land owned and exploited by the $13B industry’s lumber barons.

Specifically called out were Weyerhauser, Roseburg Resources and Seneca Jones.

In Defense Of The Child

Parents who have their sons circumcised risk criminal prosecution in countries like Germany. Under some circumstances, religious practices aren't part of the private sphere.

(BERLIN The European) - Discussions of male circumcision have been heated, and have clearly showed the vault lines between the different camps.

When worlds collide, an amicable solution that pleases all interested parties is virtually impossible.

Israeli Filmmaker Triggers a Bloody 9/11 in Benghazi & Cairo

The film is backed by U.S. pastor Terry Jones, who inflamed anger in the Muslim world in 2010 with plans to burn the Koran.

(CAIRO) - On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the American ambassador to Libya got killed; the Benghazi consulate set ablaze and moreover, the Al-Qaeda flag waved over the premises of the US embassy in Cairo.

This, as thousands of Muslims were outraged by a film, written and directed and financed by Israeli Jews, they say insulted their prophet.

Eight Baloch Political Prisoners in Iran Face Imminent Execution

The Balochistan Peoples Party has appealed to international Human Rights Organizations to pressure Iranian government to stop mass execution of the innocent Baloch people.

(ZAHEDAN, Occupied Balochistan) - Iran has in the past executed hundreds of innocent Baloch, Azeriz and Ahwazi political activists without any fair trial.

Most of the executed men were charged with fake drug trafficking offensives or Mohre (enemies of God what Iran calls them).

An Israeli Film-Maker, 100 Jewish Donors and their Salafi Allies

As Andrew Brown said in the Guardian newspaper, it is "purely and simply an incitement to religious hatred".

(LONDON) - In Egypt and in Libya popular outrage at a film on the Prophet Muhammad has escalated into violence.

In Libya's second city, Benghazi, gunmen believed to be Salafis belonging to a group called Katibat Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law Brigade) stormed the US consulate and set it on fire, killing the ambassador and three of his staff.

AMP Offers Condolences to the Families of the Innocent Victims of Unacceptable Violence

AMP condemns the senseless violence and asserts that it is in no way sanctioned by Islam or by the examples of the way Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), the prophet of Islam, led his life.

(CHICAGO) - With heavy hearts the American Muslims for Palestine, a national grassroots organization, today offers condolences to the family of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff.

They were killed when people stormed the US embassy in Libya Tuesday.

Americans Ring the Death Bell for Supporting Islamic Radicals in Benghazi

A new tragedy for 9/11...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Here is an idea: next time leave a stable sovereign government like Libya alone. Another suggestion, don't hire people who hate you to overthrow someone you trusted for decades.

Let us remember the destabilizing attacks and whose decisions led to the deaths of thousands and thousands of innocent people, mostly at the hands of Benghazi rebels and western air raid attacks organized by the EU and UN

A New Hasbara Production

The film depicting Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and madman was funded by 100 Jewish donors.

(LONDON) - An anti-Islam movie sparked riots in Egypt, and an angry mob killed four American diplomats in a fiery and brutal attack in Libya.

It all ties back to the film made by Sam Bacile, who self-identifies as a Jewish-Israeli American real estate investor.