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Risking Peace

Urging a win-win-win-win for our budget and our health and our security and our environment.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Because we are the wealthiest nation on the planet, we have the luxury of being proactive in ensuring our future security.

Did Hillary Clinton Survive a Plane Crash?
The Rumor Mill is Burning

Even NBC's Chief Medical Correspondent Robert Bazell suggests we aren't getting the whole story.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Reports persist about US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton having been injured in a recent plane crash kept secret from the public because it happened in Iran.

Two Uninjured After Plane Loses Control on Snow Covered Oregon Airport Runway

The pilot was attempting a attempted a touch-and-go landing.

(CHILOQUIN, OR) - Two people were uninjured Tuesday afternoon when their plane received minor damage attempting a touch-and-go landing on the snow-covered Chiloquin Airport runway.

According to Trooper Aaron Boyce with Oregon State Police, on New Year's day at approximately 3:15 p.m.

Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA)

A Presentation at the Milwaukee Turkish Muslim Center on 12/29/2012

(MILWAUKEE, WI) - The Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) was recently formed by the Burmese Rohingya residents and American citizens living in the whole Milwaukee area.

The purpose is to advocate the suffering cause of ethnic Rohingya minority people of Arakan, Burma, with a peaceful and non-violent diplomatic means...

Mob Attacked Christians on Christmas day

Police have not arrested Muslim attackers but are twisting incident in communal riots.

(ISLAMABAD) - Christmas traditionally means carol singing, new clothes, and celebrations; unfortunately for Pakistani Christians things have become much more difficult since the blasphemy laws are hanging like a sward on the neck.

Its misused is clearly seen in Rimsha’s case in Islamabad. Christians living in the same neighborhood say they are facing a bleak and joyless Christmas, crushed b poverty and harassed by Muslims.

Lesser Evil, Democrats Agree to Protect War Spending

Chances are much more would have been won if Obama stuck to “non negotiable” position and held out until the new congress convened.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Lesser Evil and his Dems also agreed to drop their previously “non negotiable” position that the upper limit of “middle class” family income is $250M and cave to almost double it by $200M. So for the rich, Bush’s tax cuts are now permanent. Outstanding!

One positive outcome is that the dangerous 2% cut of SS revenue is ended, although it will end the brief break for those those earning less than $110,100.

Dating Dynamics: The Image Maze

Love is more a path than a destination. Hence, we must all tread with caution.

(SALEM) - As the Year 2013 rolls in, those in the Singles Scene have the chance to dump their guilt complex once and for all and bury it with the old year.

The Message from an Israeli Think-Tank all Pro-Palestinian Activist Groups Need to Hear

The right time for co-ordination and a unified agenda with a single, coherent message is now.

(LONDON) - One of the best articles I read in the whole of 2012 was published at the tail end of the year, on 30 December, by Ha’aretz.

As my regular readers know, I think Ha’aretz is the most honest newspaper in the world on account of its reporting and analysis of what’s really happening in the Zionist state).

Veterans Denounce Neoconservative `Swiftboating` of Chuck Hagel

In reality, those are all valid reasons to support him.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The “swiftboating” of Hagel is being mobilized by the likes of William Kristol, the “Weekly Standard” editor, who managed to avoid service in Vietnam but still believes that bloody tragedy was a great idea.

Kristol and his ilk have been so wrong about every policy issue over the past four decades that their angry opposition to Hagel is a sterling endorsement of him.

Avoiding a Fiscal Cliff

A temporary deal sees stock values surge.

(WASHINGTON DC) - U.S. President Barack Obama reached an agreement with Republicans and Democrats in Congress on the "fiscal cliff"

It prevents a tax hike on 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses, while fulfilling the President's promise to ask the wealthiest Americans to begin to pay their fair share to reduce the deficit.