Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with peace http://salem-news.com 2007 With no end in sight, Haitians continue to be challenged by the devastation of January’s earthquake, the rains and the forthcoming hurricane season. Many are just trying to survive today and hoping for tomorrow. The need and continued commitment hasn't been lost on students and small communities in the Portland area. http://salem-news.com/articles/march142010/haiti-aa-sa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march142010/haiti-aa-sa.php Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:38:00 PDT This afternoon we're going to have a vote on whether or not the United States gets out of Afghanistan or stays there indefinitely. It's time that Congress weighed in. The Constitution makes it very clear that the War Powers are vested in the Congress. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/kucinich-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/kucinich-afghanistan.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:00 PST In the face of expected Republican gains this year, receiving the support of MoveOn.org, one of the country's largest progressive advocacy groups, is of particular importance for Democratic candidates. One of only a handful of House incumbents to receive the coveted endorsement by MoveOn's political action committee is Democrat John Hall, who represents the 19th district in upstate New York. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/hall-israel-ss.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/hall-israel-ss.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:33:00 PST Nationalism is a dangerous product in the wrong hands, and when you toss in a dose of religious extremism, the kind that leads to the genocidal decimation of an entire culture, you are on dangerous ground. Welcome to Israel. This is a place where you can't run your own business, the Israeli military runs it. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/azad-protest-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/azad-protest-tk.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:38:00 PST Sudan is expected to participate in the country’s first elections; some say the first in 24 years, many Sudanese declare the first EVER. To pronounce these elections free and fair is as far from humorous as it is from reality. Running for presidential re-election, is the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted war criminal, Omar Al-Bashir. http://salem-news.com/articles/march072010/sudan-elections-aa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march072010/sudan-elections-aa.php Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:35:00 PST The principal propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Daily Alert, has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination. In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US Congress), they slavishly back any brutal murder committed by the Israeli secret police. http://salem-news.com/articles/march032010/mossad-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march032010/mossad-jp.php Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:52:00 PST I've had time to reflect on the flap about assorted Israeli ambassadors being called on the carpet in various countries (UK, France, Australia, etc.) because Mossad apparently used the passports of a number of Israeli dual citizens in their hit. Some people on our side seem pleased by this development. I smell something rotten in the exercise. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012010/israel-ambassadors_as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012010/israel-ambassadors_as.php Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:21:00 PST I just arrived in the US to give a series of talks on Palestine as part of the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week. The day I left Palestine was a bizarre/strange day to say the least. The second Sunday in Beit Sahour to hold events to protest the increased military presence was to contain a land reclamation activity. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012010/mazin-folo-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012010/mazin-folo-mq.php Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:31:00 PST In spite of all the hardship, Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories find ways to survive. But the owner of a cafe in Haifa called 'Azad' is learning that the quest for peace is very fragile. His policy against uniforms and guns in his business is leading to death threats and massive protests by Israelis. http://salem-news.com/articles/february272010/haifa-azad-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february272010/haifa-azad-tk.php Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:16:00 PST Every day here sees new injustices and no one escapes them. On Wednesday, my wife, I, and a graduate student drove up to Salfit area where my student is doing a master's thesis on the impact of the Burqan Industrial settlements on the health of the Palestinian villagers. The Israeli industrial settlement dumps daily hundreds of cubic meters of industrial waste water laden with heavy metals and other chemicals... http://salem-news.com/articles/february262010/israel_police_mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262010/israel_police_mq.php Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:12:00 PST Some 100 people gathered at Ush Ghrab in Beit Sahour to pray for peace and protest the planned military presence there. As we were gathering in peaceful contemplation and prayer, Israeli army jeeps quickly rolled in between us and one officer barked orders in Hebrew. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212010/west_bank_mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212010/west_bank_mq.php Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:32:00 PST My wife Glenda and I live in the coastal town of San Blas in the state of Nayarit, Mexico about 1000 miles from the US border. This is not a Cancun or Cabo, this is the real deal, a Mexican fishing town relatively untouched by tourism. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212010/mexico_vp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212010/mexico_vp.php Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:06:00 PST Settlers come to Ush Ghrab in Beit Sahour every week and the army lies to the mayor by claiming that their presence deters the settlers. The reverse is true and settlers of course get army permission and protection which emboldens them. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212010/settlers_mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212010/settlers_mq.php Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:15:00 PST Now, I was going to write a whole story in comparison to other police all over the world, it was huge undertaking that I was very reluctant to begin. My good American friends always talk about the police system, even more so my very best friends who are top L.A American defense attorneys and judges, which can be very amusing to say the least. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192010/police_abuse_dp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192010/police_abuse_dp.php Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:46:00 PST Continuing attacks on Iran by politicians and mass media, are smokescreens for the real danger to world peace: Israel and more lies about WMD's. Mainstream media accepts anything fed to them, and repeat it, like parrots, to their mass audiences, accurate or not. http://salem-news.com/articles/february152010/iran_video_al.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february152010/iran_video_al.php Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:57:00 PST A militiaman shouts: “Open the door right now! Open the door or I’ll shoot! Open the door!” Another yells: “What are you doing in this place?” Tammy Hall is a Senior Technical Advisor for Mine Action: “We’re just setting up a coordination centre for the United Nations. We’re just humanitarian workers.” http://salem-news.com/articles/february132010/landmines_un_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february132010/landmines_un_tk.php Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:14:00 PST Midnight arrests. Defamation of human rights organizations. Expulsion of journalists. Human rights demonstrations broken up with violence. Censored films. Confiscated laptops. That's just a fraction of the reality on the ground in Israel/Palestine that stands in contrast to the official story about 'the only democracy in the Middle East.' That's the story we hear when AIPAC tries to justify the billions of dollars in military aid Israel receives. That's the story many of us grew up with. http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/jvp_new_blog.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/jvp_new_blog.php Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:37:00 PST There are many of us who have to draw our line in the sand in this life, and it often isn't comfortable. It is very situational and largely circumstantial, but when we take any position that only fits outside the societal norm, we risk many things that more sheep-like people can legitimately expect to have on a daily basis. I knew from day one in this that I had a mission in this life. Then I could not have said what it was, but today as the editor of Salem-News.com I see it as quite obvious. http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/zionism_series_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/zionism_series_tk.php Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:00 PST A U.S. politician whose amazing deeds were chronicled in a book and movie starring Tom Hanks, Charley Wilson, died today, February 10, 2010, at Lufkin Memorial Hospital in Lufkin, Texas. Reports indicate that the former U.S. Congressman suffered from cardiopulmonary arrest, and was pronounced dead at 12:16 P.M. Central Time. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/wilson_passes_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/wilson_passes_tk.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:39:00 PST Most Jews of the world (and probably many Gentiles) believe that Zionism is the return of Jews to the land promised to them by God. At the risk of offending some readers of all faiths for saying so, I must confess, and do so cheerfully, that I don’t buy this concept because the Gentile me does not believe in the God of organized, institutional religions. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/zionism_as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/zionism_as.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:30:00 PST While Zionism is clearly a nationalist ideology, that narrow framing does the term an injustice as it is so much more. Zionism is more accurately described as a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behavior. Naïve Jews were its first victims when induced to identify with an enclave in the Middle East that President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was induced to recognize as a “state.” http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/zionism_jg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/zionism_jg.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:30:00 PST This story begins in Haifa, Israel, during the summer of 2006, when I was covering the fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces as a freelance news photojournalist. --- After standing around wondering what to do next, I looked for the taxi driver, and saw him standing by the police line looking at me in a curious perplexed way, wondering what I was going to do next. I walked over to greet him. Soon I was pushing myself through the gathering sweaty crowds towards his parked taxi. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092010/israel_dp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092010/israel_dp.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:00:00 PST Ahead of the anniversary ceremonies of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, its Leader said Monday threats against Iran emanate from the enemy's inability to comprehend the divine roots of the Islamic Republic. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the enemies of the country as well as the imperialistic and Zionist organizations are not capable to understand this reason and that is why they continue to threaten the nation. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092010/iran.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092010/iran.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:48:00 PST Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1 February, many attending in a shift system, with missing textbooks, stationery or uniforms. "I don't have a school uniform because my Dad doesn't have a job and said he doesn't have enough money to buy me one," said Mohammed al-Khouli, a nine-year-old at the government-run al-Mu'tasem primary school in Gaza City. "I have to borrow pens and pencils from other kids in my class because I don't have any." http://salem-news.com/articles/february082010/gaza_kids.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082010/gaza_kids.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:38:00 PST Over the last four months, 196 families have occupied an area called Villa Dignidad on the outskirts of Barrancabermeja in search of better living conditions. These families were all unemployed and had no means of paying rent. In December 2009, police evicted them, but they returned within a few days. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/colombia_cpt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/colombia_cpt.php Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:28:00 PST Breaking the Silence published a new book of testimonies by women who served in Palestine's occupied territories, from the outbreak of the second intifada until now. The book includes 96 testimonies and contains interviews with dozens of women who served as combatants, medics, scouts, officers, noncommissioned education and social welfare officers and more. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/idf_women_testify.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/idf_women_testify.php Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:28:00 PST The confusion surrounding the nature of God is due to the difference between the Universal concept of an unknowable God vs. Christianity‘s “Institutional God” Christianity evolved out of Judaism as a cult within the Judaic tradition. Christians devised a plan to supersede Judaism with a more universal religion; the Catholic Church and Jesus [when he agreed to die for the cause] was anointed the Christ, symbol of Christianity from whom the coterie took its name. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/god-neutrality_kr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/god-neutrality_kr.php Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:28:00 PST In the 1950's and 60's, banks were not permitted to operate beyond state lines. All that changed, and we have seen what happened; banks too large to fail have also become obscene payers of bonuses to employees that adds them to a list of nouveau-rich at the expense of ordinary people. It is time to get back to basics. Billions of dollars that should more wisely be spent may not be. And now the Supreme Court has added its voice in the interest of bigness and aristocracy, to what once was the best defense against such intended prolificacy. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/basics_kr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/basics_kr.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:47:00 PST One of the many things that we try to teach our children is how to make a good decision. Sometimes the problem can be that we may not always make good decisions ourselves or we may allow emotions to influence our choices. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/decisions_bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/decisions_bs.php Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:00:00 PST The brutal ugliness of the collective Israeli mentality seems to know no limits. Indeed, one wouldn’t go too far by arguing that the patterns of Israeli behaviors, nearly at all levels, reflect a real mental sickness. In recent days, three observations of Israeli behaviors attracted my attention. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242010/chutzpah_ka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242010/chutzpah_ka.php Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:27:00 PST