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UN `Deplores` Israeli Approval of More Settlements in West Bank

Land taken without permission is being seen for what it is: wrong.

(WEST BANK, Occupied Palestine) - The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process today described as “deplorable” Israel’s announcement that is has given approval to a large number of new settlement units deep inside the occupied Palestinian territory.

“The Secretary-General reiterated the United Nations’ well known position that settlement activity is illegal, contrary to Israel’s obligations under the Road Map [to peace] and will not be recognized by the international community.”

Truth with Transparency Reveals Hidden Agendas

Ken O'Keefe's Trade Not Aid Mission for Palestine was derailed by once-allies in the fight for equality and freedom. Now they are known as the hijackers.

(LONDON) - I picked up most of my stolen property from the police yesterday, 3 months of having nearly all of my hard drives, my phone, my camera, reams of paperwork, what is the result?

Nothing but the disruption of the Trade Not Aid Mission and a bit more fuel to slander me. And that is the point really, to disrupt anything meaningful for Palestine.

Precedent-Setting Human Trafficking Case

Human trafficking also involves violations of other laws, including labor and immigration codes and laws against kidnaping, slavery, false imprisonment, assault, battery, pandering, fraud, and extortion.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - When most people think of human trafficking, they envision victims trafficked into the international sex trade.

Housing Inmates Who Make Death Threats... with their Intended Victims

"I don't want to be in there with that guy"
- Murder Victim Chris Lange

(SALEM) - Why did Oregon officials fail to report the beating death of a prison inmate at the Snake River Correctional Facility last year?

Inmate Clayton Howard, who nearly died in a similar situation, says Chris Lange was murdered and his death consequently blocked from the public, because he was placed with an inmate who had a sworn death threat against him.

Police Drug Dogs Outweigh Education at Beverly Hills High
Rights, what are those again?

The rights of these kids and their families were trampled on by dogs.

(BEVERLY HILLS) - Ever wonder what life is really like for the so-called privileged teenagers of Beverly Hills, California?

While known for its infinite riches, a recent press release issued by this agency tells of a multi-agency police raid on the city's high school with drug dogs.

U.S. Weapons Smuggling Program for Mexican Cartels Exposed Four Years Ago

Information about Fast and Furious was in Homeland Security's hands four years ago, it should have saved the lives of two U.S. federal agents.

(COLUMBUS, N.M.) - This memo represents the first time that the U.S. Border Patrol knew about guns going across the border at Columbus, New Mexico.

After three decades on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal won`t be executed

Reporters Without Borders continues to support Abu-Jamal, an international symbol of the campaign against the death penalty.

(PHILADELPHIA RFP) - Prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty for African-American journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia district attorney Seth Williams announced yesterday, two days before the 30th anniversary of Abu-Jamal’s arrest on 9 December 1981 for policeman Daniel Faulkner’s murder.

The announcement came two months after the US Supreme Court declined to consider the district attorney’s bid to uphold Abu-Jamal’s death sentence. The effect of yesterday’s announcement is to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.

Local News: Lancaster Drive Shooting Sends Man to Hospital

Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call the Marion County Sheriffs' Office Criminal Investigations Unit at 503.540.8007.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Marion County Sheriff's Deputies received a call of gunshots fired near the Pizza Hut Restaurant on Lancaster Drive NE in Salem last night. The call came in at 9:59pm.

Deputies Jacob Thompson and Nick Hunter arrived within four minutes of the call and found a male victim in his 20's in front of the nearby Bottoms Up Bar at 3082 Lancaster Drive NE. The victim had been shot.

Was Former DEA Agent Jailed for Exposing ATF Arms Trafficking?

Iran/Contra-era Whistleblower Cele Castillo alleged federal Agents were involved in gun smuggling in 2008.

(COLUMBUS, N.M. The Narcosphere) - Former DEA Agent Cele Castillo, who blew the whistle on the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade used to prop up the 1980s Contra counter-insurgency in Nicaragua, is now sitting in a federal prison.

Before Castillo reported to prison, he shared with this reporter a series of revelations concerning arms trafficking and corrupt ATF agents.

Texas. Iran. What is the theological difference?

Tried under Sharia law, she was sentenced to death by hanging, while Darabi got 95 lashes.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - I was sifting through some archived files today and two articles jumped off the screen, wanting to be together.

Although this may seem to be old news, it’s current because the overall cultural realities in both Texas and Iran, if they have changed at all, have only become more extreme through the intervening five years.