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To Jon and Colbert: From Activist Reporter Looking for a District to Serve

Let's fix this country...

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Generations of children grew up watching Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite and many dreamed of growing up and being them. My dream was to grow up and be Brenda Starr, the redheaded ace investigative journalist of the Sunday Comics.

Edward R. Murrow turned public opinion against the extremism and fear mongering of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

John Lennon, Dorothy Day and Christmas 2010 in the UK

Jesus envisioned a society based on love and tolerance, which is completely incompatible with war and all violence.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - In Ray Coleman's biography of John Lennon, he quotes the artist circa 1969, “I'd like to be like Christ, [he described himself as a Christian communist] in a pure sense, not in the way Russia or Italy think of Christianity or communism...

West is Experiencing Serious Problems in the Area of Morality and Community: Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton discusses a variety of topics and issues concerning philosophy, art, literature, travel and architecture.

(TEHRAN) - Alain de Botton is a Swiss public intellectual, author, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur living in the United Kingdom.

He has written several books on literature, philosophy, art, travel and architecture. In August 2008, he established a new educational enterprise in London called "The School of Life". Among his prominent books are "How Proust Can Change Your Life", "The Consolations of Philosophy" and "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work".

Book Review: Coffee with Hezbollah

The satire is harsh, and nobody escapes the treatment, including the author.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Here’s a strange and sparkly, jumpy and tightly-packed little book by PULSE’s own Belen Fernandez, in which our heroines (Belen and the photographer Amelia Opalinska) hitch-hike through Lebanon and Syria a few weeks after the war of summer 2006, consuming far more caffeine than is good for them.

Beyond Gonzo, it doesn’t pretend to journalism at all. Instead it recounts a fairly lunatic, fairly random sight-seeing tour towards ‘the dark force’ Hezbollah.

Could Israel Be Using Wikileaks to Prepare US for Air Strike Against Iran?

Most Americans were duped into supporting the Bush war strategy in 2003.

(CHICAGO) - Could Israel be using Wikileaks to prepare the US for an Israeli air strike against Iran?

This nation is moving toward a repeat of the US rush to invade Iraq in 2003. Mass media coverage of the Wikileaks story is performing the same function the media played to make the case for the 2003 US invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq.

`Coffee with Hezbollah` review by Mary Rizzo

Following is a review of Belén Fernandez' book Coffee with Hezbollah, written by Mary Rizzo for Palestine Think Tank.

(ROME) - Before reading the wonderful book by Belén Fernández “Coffee with Hezbollah”, I never would have imagined it possible to read about the post-destruction aftermath of Lebanon and smile at the same time.

The pretext alone, a hitchhiking trip from Turkey to southern Lebanon simply “feels” dramatic, especially when the memory of Brides on Tour, was still fresh.

Addressing TV Professor Michael Shermer`s Unscientific Analysis

Canadian professor counters Shermer's watered down response in Scientific American article to 9/11 realities.

(ALBERTA) - I am responding to Michael Shermer's most recent column, wherein your regular columnist misrepresents my positions and my spoken intervention when he was at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada.

For starters he wrongly quotes me as saying I accused him of being a disgrace to the economy whereas I clearly said Mr. Shermer is a disgrace to the academy.

Science Fiction is the most Powerful and Imaginative Mode of Writing: Adam Roberts

Science fiction, history; and the path of success in the science fiction genre.

(TEHRAN) - Adam Roberts is a British academician, literary critic and science fiction writer.

Violence and Hope in Ciudad Juárez, México

Another writer specializing in the subject will now be featured on Salem-News.com.

(CIUDAD JUAREZ) - Salem-News.com welcomes the Professor Guillermo Cervantes Ph.D. of El Paso, Texas to our team of writers.

He is the author of Ciudad Juárez 2008 - 2010 A photographic testimony of our pain, and a tireless advocate for peace in the border region dividing the U.S. and Mexico.

A Good Science Fiction Book Expands the Mind: Tobias Buckell

(TEHRAN) - Born in Grenada in the Caribbean, Tobias Buckell is a New York Times Best-Seller science fiction and speculative fiction author. Having lived in Ohio since 1995, Buckell started submitting his writings to magazines and newspapers since he was in high school.

He sold his first short story in an early age and continued selling stories to the American magazines since then.