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Mona Eltahawy Recounts the Real Story of Egypt Revolution

“When Mona Eltahawy sneaked into the street where the fierce scuffles broke out between the pro-democracy protesters and the police forces little did she know that she was taking a leap into the real story of the battle of Egypt revolution.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - “She is an award-winning columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and she is now based in New York.” … With those words Mona Eltahawy introduces herself to the reader of her elegant website.

IAEA Exposed as Israeli Spy Front

America got suckered into invading Iraq, supposedly to find WMD programs. This is a cover story.

(CINCINNATI) - This week, the media, all of it, traced stories about Iran’s nuclear weapons program to its real source.

The IAEA, which has been unable to locate the vast Dimona nuclear facility in Israel or even begin to ask questions about Israel’s illegal nuclear arsenal, has put together a “rigged” report built of rumors and spin.

Transnational Govt of Tamil Eelam to establish monuments for martyrs in the Diaspora

"The Tigers [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] gave us the dignity and strength to fight. Today, however, the struggle is on the diplomatic plane...." - PM Rudrakumaran

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - “We Tamils, inside and outside the island of Sri Lanka, still want an independent state. And because the war crimes and severe brutality of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government against our people has become well known, our cause is being spoken about all over the world,” Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran told me recently in Manhattan, New York.

A positive sign of recognition for Tamil rights is the dramatic Channel 4 UK documentary, “Sri Lanka Killing Fields”, shown first at a June Human Rights Council session and then worldwide.

CAIR Decries Santorum`s Call for Profiling of Muslims

"We remind Mr. Santorum that the Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him), a man of Middle Eastern heritage, would fit his 'profile.'..."

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Republican Party to repudiate GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's call for profiling of American Muslims.

In a debate aired on CNN last night, Santorum was asked if he would support ethnic and religious profiling. CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the debate's moderator, asked Santorum: "So just to be precise, is it ethnic profiling, religious profiling, who would be profiled?"

Three Americans Arrested in Occupy Tahrir Square

The three American teens sympathized with the Egyptian protesters in their latest standoff with the police forces they decided to show some support and give them a hand to occupy Tahrir square!

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The state television in Egypt aired pictures of three American students who, according to Egypt interior ministry sources, were arrested by the police last Monday on rioting charges.

The American students are facing accusations of participating in Cairo riots and throwing Rocks &Molotov cocktail bottles at the Egyptian police forces near Tahrir square in downtown Cairo.

Seymour Hersh: Pre-War Propaganda Mounting on Iran

"They [JSOC] found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization" - Seymour Hersh

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - While the United States, Britain and Canada are planning to announce a coordinated set of sanctions against Iran's oil and petrochemical industry, longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh questions the growing consensus on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.

International pressure has been mounting on Iran since the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency revealed in a report the "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear activities...

Show Trials in Benghazi

Will the UN insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya?

(BENGHAZI, Libya ) - An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where in 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences.

Once, by firing squad against a Palestinian doctor, and once, in a case involving five Bulgarian nurses...

Salem Occupies Oregon State Parks

Any rewards for an Occupy movement that fully complied with officials?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Occupy Salem has been given a limited number of days to occupy Willson Park which is adjacent to the Oregon State capitol building.

What sets the Salem camp apart is the fact that relations have been good, the occupiers have not disrupted traffic patterns, they haven't been confrontational, but as expected in Oregon's capitol city, they have been very politically organized.

Police Lt. John Pike Pepper Sprays UC Davis Students Right Down the Throat

It is one thing to have a young inexperienced officer abuse members of the public, but an entirely different matter when the senior leader of a police agency is the one with his hand on the device.

(SALEM) - UC Davis students recently learned how police regard today's university crowd. Officers sprayed university students with pepper spray as if they were a row of vegetables.

Gaddafi Son Saif al-Islam captured in Libya`s south

Gaddafi was then taken by air back to Zintan, pending transfer to Tripoli.

(TRIPOLI ) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has reportedly been captured after three months on the run. He was disguised as a Tuareq hiding within the Tuareg near Ubari.

Sources say he was scared and down to his last few thousand dollars in cash when he was detained in Libya's southern desert.