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Vetoes, Leaders and Gaza

When 'leaders' fail-the people must and will lead!

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - As expected, the US has vetoed the Arab resolution at the UN Security Council that condemned the ILLEGAL Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories citing them as obstacles to peace.

All 14 other members of the Security Council backed the resolution, which had also been endorsed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

The Abu Salim Massacre: Cables on Libya`s Continued Impunity for 1996 Killings

Wondering how this all came about? The Libyan people are done with corruption.

(LOS ANGELES) - Two days ahead of calls to protest the Gaddafi regime in a “Day of Rage” on February 17, members of the Committee of the Families of the Victims of the Abu Salim Massacre came out to protest.

Libyan attorney and human rights activist Fathi Terbil, who represents families that had family members massacred in mass prison killings that took place at the Abu Salim prison in 1996, was arrested. Terbil’s arrest led to an eruption of protests ahead of the planned “Day of Rage”.

Rebranding Egypt`s Revolution

In a truly democratic Egypt, political parties will have a place, the strength of which would be determined by the ballot box.

(LONDON) - The revolution in Egypt came in spite of (or perhaps because of) a long-standing US backing of the dictatorship there.

It was clear from the beginning that the protesters were united on one demand: namely that the unelected regime stand down or allow genuine political reform to be carried out.

Wisconsin Revolt Reflects `Road to Cairo` In U.S.

Education, agency workers near strike-readiness prompted by unwarranted, unfair political attacks.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Fair questions, fairly asked as demanded by any rational approach to a controversial subject, must be applied to honestly evaluate any one person's "opinion" about the menacing manipulative Wisconsin attacks on state/agency workers.

The honest answers, from personal experience rather than manipulative political sources, is more-desperately demanded these days than since the pre-Civil War era.

The Junk Bond `Teflon Guy` Behind Egypt`s Nonviolent Revolution

Since the ouster of Milosevic in 2000, Popovic has been busy spreading the gospel of nonviolent warfare.

(OSAKA, Japan) - On February 9, Al Jazeera aired an episode in its People and Power series entitled “Egypt: Seeds of Change.”

The programme offers a revealing behind the scenes look at a core group of activists from the April 6 Youth Movement who played a crucial role in Egypt’s nonviolent revolution.

Wake Up Hillary: We The People of the Internet Have Risen Up!

"HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - During a speech about Internet freedom a heckler interrupted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was hauled away in a lame attempt to silence him, for within hours this YouTube went viral.

I knew not to drink from Obama's Kool-Aid of so called change as soon as he chose as his VP, Joe Biden, a blatant and pandering 'Christian' Zionist.

Gaza`s Forgotten Children

"We, the children here in the buffer zone," says Heba, the black-haired girl with the blue ribbon from Khuza’a’s school, "we carry our souls unprotected on our hands."

(GAZA) - On a sunny day in March 2009, Wafaa Jehad Elnagar, now 17 years old, did something that millions of children did on that day, and do on every day: she went home from school.

But unlike other children in this world who do that safely every day, for Wafaa walking home is a serious danger.

Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone?

"This forceful documentary...introduces us to Jerusalemites we rarely hear from." —San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

(LONDON) - This is a tribute to the thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem without access to life's most basic amenities.

Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth details the devastating effects of Israel's urban planning policies that, according to many, aim to uproot the Palestinian presence in the Holy City. It was made in 1995.

Wael Ghonim and Egypt`s New Age Revolution

New names, new labels, new titles, same old business and government as before.

(DUBAI) - Like he says in the interview posted below…. without the advent of the technical means of modern communication available today, this would not have happened. But, those are but the tools.

Revolutions are founded upon and fueled by the naiveté, spirit and the dreams of innocent young idealists such as he.

First Part of Three in New Series: Waves from Seaside: What We Must Learn from Egyptian Revolutionists

CHOICE: What YOU DO Shapes Actions by Others- IF YOU don't ACT, THEY will "Make your day" By What THEY DO.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Freedom to choose among political options open to all is the essence and operating heart of all true democracy.

In recent days we've witnessed one of those extremely rare, deeply revealing revolutionary demonstrations of overwhelming populist choice by which the world has always been shaped.