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54 `Moral Monday` Protesters Expect Arrests in Civil Disobedience Over `Extreme Public Policy`

North Carolina NAACP leads fourth wave of direct action at state capitol to protest General Assembly’s Extreme Package of Legislation.

(RALEIGH, NC) - At least 54 individuals will assemble today to oppose extreme policies in the North Carolina General Assembly.

It's the fourth week of nonviolent civil disobedience, led by the NC NAACP. The “Moral Monday” pray-in and teach-in largely focuses on the constitutional right of equal protection under the law.

Ten Years After US Invades Iraq, Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two

John Kerry is doing his best to persuade Russia to help the US pull the Syria parties to peace talks before a civil war extends beyond its boundaries.

(CHICAGO) - Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states.

Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran.

Human Rights: More on Nakba

Single democratic state in historic Palestine, take two: A new Palestinian initiative seeks to revive the PLO's old-time strategy, abandoned following the Oslo Accords.

(BETHLEHEM) - "On the night of 22-23 May 1948, a week after the declaration of the State of Israel, the Palestinian coastal village of Tantura (population 1,500) was attacked and occupied by the Israeli army.

The village, about 35 kilometers from Haifa, lay within the area assigned to Israel under the UN General Assembly's partition resolution.

Is This the Best that Christianity Can Do?

The Holy Land needs advocates for the truth. “It is the truth, and only the truth, that will lead to peace and justice”

(LONDON) - When Israel launched Cast Lead, the horrific blitzkrieg against Gaza's Muslim and Christian communities in 2008, the strangest thing happened.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, joined Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in a visit to the former Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, to demonstrate their joint solidarity against the extremes of hostility and genocide.

POINT OF NO RETURN by Andre Vltchek

This rapid-paced book can inspire as well. Andre shows that people can change that dismal reality, IF they gather and fight.

(COPENHAGEN) - “Point of No Return”, a mixture of novel and autobiography, it is an engaging story of an intrepid war correspondent who resembles a saucy crime detective.

It is superb story telling.

Letting Murderers Go Free

If you are outraged that Florida’s serial killer Rick Scott and his legislative toadies are able to distort justice in these ways, take action.

(MIAMI) - Breaking News: In Florida, a murderer has made public his plans to kill three individuals in the next six weeks.

If all goes according to his plan, Elmer Carroll will die on May 29th, William Van Poyk will die on June 12th, and Marshal Gore will die on June 24th.

Justice Dept. Won`t Say Why it Seized Reporters` Phone Records

Boy, Big Government sure looks warm and cuddly this week.

(HARRISBURG Watchdog) - It’s one of those days where those of us who worry about handing too much authority to the federal government were proven right. Again.

The Associated Press this afternoon reports that the U.S. Justice Department seized records for more than 20 telephone lines assigned to AP journalists during 2012.

Admiral Joe Sestak for U.S. Senate

Admiral Sestak always supported our veterans when he was in Congress, and we need him now in the U.S. Senate.

(MEDIA, PA) - When Admiral Joe Sestak declared he would be running for the U.S. Senate this week, I was happy to hear it.

This is primarily because of one reason: he will take care of the veterans our Senators and Congressmen voted to send them to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bombing Kills 15 in Kabul, 6 Americans: Is this What Winning Looks Like? (+ VICE video)

A sad and realistic view of the Afghan war now.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Gulbuddin Hikmatyar’s Hizb-i Islami [the Islamic Party] guerrilla group bombed a military convoy in Kabul this morning, killing 15, including 6 Americans.

The Reagan administration gave Hikmatyar billions in the 1980s because he was effective in fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, but in 2001 the old guerrilla switched sides and allied with the Taliban in an effort to get the US back out of his country.

Church of Scotland Report Challenging Jews` `Divine Right` to Palestinian Homeland Unchanged

Impertinent complaints politely sidestepped...

(LONDON) - The Church of Scotland's revised report 'The Inheritance of Abraham?' has now been released ahead of their Assembly.

The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was "an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for...