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Alice in Chains Bassist Mike Starr Dies in Salt Lake City

Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr was born on the 4th of April in 1966.

(SALT LAKE CITY) - Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr was an American musician, best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993.

Can Erin Brockovich Rescue the Marines?

Brockovich has penned a fictional thriller about industrial contamination called, "Rock Bottom".

(SALEM, Ore.) - The old Marine air base at El Toro is a rotting toxic mess that politicians & businesses have tried in vain to manipulate into a park and subdivision.

Marines need the hand of a star player, and Erin Brockovich could really help.

America is Not Broke

The truth is, there's lots of money to go around. LOTS.

(MADISON, Wisc) - Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke.

Church v. Military Funerals, U.S. Supreme Court Rules 8-1

This week the Daily's Show's Jon Stewart took the Westboro Baptist Church to task, comparing their religious position's actual position as a church with 'Church's Chicken'.

(CLEVELAND) - Last week a Veteran wrote to Salem-News.com deploring the acts of these people who offend everyone from the most patriotic redneck, to the gay militant, equally.

This week the Daily's Show's Jon Stewart took the Westboro Baptist Church to task; comparing their religious position as a church with 'Church's Chicken'.

Benghazi Explosion - Tactical Nuke Use by Gaddafi Suspected

Were 'micro-nukes' in Israeli aid package to Gaddafi?

(CINCINNATTI ) - “A massive explosion that completely destroyed an area three times the size of a soccer field... photographers who arrived at the site of the explosion Saturday saw entire buildings, cars and trees flattened and smoldering as a result of the blast” - Associated Press

The explosion at the Rajma military base outside Benghazi; Libya’s second largest city leveled blocks, left fires burning through the night.

The Walls in Bethlehem, Baghdad and Afghanistan

The Hescos of Afganastan and the twelve foot high concrete walls in Baghdad are dwarfed by the 30ft high concrete ones in the 'Holy' Land.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Pink Floyd's Roger Waters speaks about his passionate campaign for the rights of the Palestinian people and why, more than 30 years after he wrote the globally-acclaimed album 'The Wall', he is focusing on another wall - the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank.

Coined by George Orwell in "1984" as 'doublethink' the Ministry of Peace wages war, the Ministry of Truth fabricates lies and the Ministry of Love tortures and kills any it deems threatening.

The Pirates of the Mediterranean

"We are shot at by Israeli warships almost daily" - Mustafa, a Gaza fisherman

(GAZA) - Government measures on the sea, even if they are illegal, are not an act of piracy, according to international law.

The actions of the Israeli military are not likely to have been considered in the implementation of this law. The cousins Mustafa, 42, Mahmoud, 30, and Hjazi ElLaham, 27, were on the morning of the 19th February 2011, like every morning, fishing with their boat off the coast of Gaza.

US Veterans Against The War

Action Alert: Tell WI National Guard to stand with public employees.

(MILWAUKIE, Wisc. ) - Iraq Veterans Against the War talked to the crowd in the occupied State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, expressing solidarity with students and workers fighting to protect public-sector unions.

Tell the Wisconsin National Guard to stand with public employees. Call or send an email urging Brigadier General Donald P. Dunbar of the Wisconsin National Guard to stand with public workers, not against them.

Time to Act Now for the Liberation of Gaza

The Revolution and Palestinian freedom.

(GAZA CITY) - Mubarak may have stepped down, but until the Mubarak era Egyptian blockade of Gaza is shattered, the Egyptian revolution is incomplete.

We must end this Zionist/American imperialist blockade once and for all.

Child Deaths

Even in death Ibrahim was still moving. Israeli soldiers were using his body for target practice.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - The nation was shocked by the horrific shootings in Tucson on Jan. 8. It is particularly tragic when a child is killed. Christina Taylor Green was a gentle 9-year-old whose dreams of helping others were ended by an assassin’s bullet.

Two years earlier, on Jan. 4, 2009, another 9-year-old was killed.