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Report from the Front Lines in Riverside, California

“Toni Eggebraaten has embezzled thirty thousand dollars and I am therefore executing a citizen’s arrest. Bailiff, take Ms. Eggebraaten into custody”.

(RIVERSIDE, Ca.) - Today in Riverside Superior Court, Department 8, I attempted to execute a citizen’s arrest of an attorney.

Toni Eggebraaten, the attorney for the Family Trust for which I am a beneficiary, filed an accounting in which she attempted to obscure her embezzling thirty thousand dollars.

When Seeing Leads to More than Believing

"My pain and suffering is the nursing log out of which so many and so much will grow."

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - What I held in my hand yesterday caused me to flee from the University of British Columbia library, and seek solace in the deep forest that surrounds the campus where I grew up, and where I have discovered the unimaginable.

It was an unusual reaction, for I had encountered much worse over the years.

Stemming the Tides of Protest

The only solution is revolution; organizing a mass political movement based in the working class that will overthrow capitalism and build democratic socialism.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - As the living conditions of ordinary people inevitably worsen under capitalism and as its wars cause increasing devastation, tides of protest rise up from the population.

The ruling elite then seek to stem these tides before they reach flood state.

US Envoys: Losing Lebanon - Visit by Visit?

Graphics by Alex

(BEIRUT Al-Manar) - It might require a semanticist with Noam Chomsky’s erudition to explain to some of us more obtuse the meanings, context and policy nuances of two similar and repeated phases heard in Lebanon earlier this month by two well listened to guests.

During over-lapping visits of top US and Iranian officials to Lebanon; one warned and threatened Lebanon, while the second praised Lebanon’s “achievements”.

Dying In Succession

He Said the Prisoners on Hunger Strike Would Eventually Succeed.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - A few days ago, Ma'an News reported on the family protests in front of the Presidential headquarters in Ramallah. Ma'an News was one of only a few outlets that bothered to report. Here, in the US, it took over 2 months before any mainstream media outlet mentioned the hunger strike among prisoners in Israel.

Still, such mention is but a whisper.

Arise, Then, Women of this Day!

Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Here again, lest we forget, is the original call spelling out the intent for what is now known as "Mothers Day"! Let us once again see through the lies and propaganda to the TRUTH - of Mothers Day this time.

Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Kosovo: Uphold Freedom of Expression and of the Media in Criminal Code

Our Human Rights Ambassador, William Nicholas Gomes, Contacts Kosovo's National Assembly with grave concerns over eroding media freedom.

(HONG KONG) - Kosovo's National Assembly should strike articles that stand in direct conflict with existing international standards on media freedom.

Article 28 of the 2003 criminal code would subject journalists to criminal prosecution for defamatory remarks in newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV, is already out of compliance and raises many questions.

War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka

"We try to wean them away from sex work but they say they have no choice" - activist asking not to be named for fear of reprisal.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka IPS) - On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of their husbands who disappeared or surrendered at the end of the country's 30-year civil war.

According to government estimates, the ethnic conflict has widowed 59,000 women, the bulk of them in the Tamil-dominated north and east.

Two Important Updates from Kevin Annett and ITCCS

An important radio show Saturday, and a recent sabotage of communications.

(BRUSSELS) - Saturday May 12: catch 'Banishing and Occupying a Criminal Church' - A special report from the front lines, on Hidden from History: Blog Talk radio program.

Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror

Israel test-fired a missile on November 2, 2011 which it said was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and targeting any part of the Middle East including Iran.

(TEHRAN) - Imagine a world plunged in darkness and extreme cold with the sunlight screened off by a thick pall of dust cloud.

According to Samson Option theory, Israel reserves the option to retaliate massively with nuclear weapons when its existence is gravely endangered by the military might of another country although the regime refuses to admit to the possession of a huge nuclear arsenal.