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Salem-News.com (Nov-03-2010 10:12)

In Limbo in Libya: Gaza Road to Hope Convoy Urges Contact with Egyptian Embassies

"The Road to Hope convoy has been sitting on the Libyan/ Egyptian border for over 1 week now. We demand the immediate and safe passage so the Road to Hope convoy can deliver humanitarian cargo to the people of Gaza." - Ken O'Keefe

(TOBRUK / SALEM) - Egypt border I don't understand why Egypt has become a roadblock in the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

There are a number of historical reasons that Egypt might seek to help Gaza; and only one reason Egypt would not, and that is Israel.

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Salem-News.com (Nov-01-2010 17:50)

Road to Hope (R2H) Convoy in Positive Dialogue with Egyptian Officials

Access to Gaza via Egypt looking likely...

(TOBRUK) - Road to Hope Convoy Arriving at the Libyan/Egyptian border on several days ago, the Road to Hope Convoy continues to wait at the border.

However, over the last two days increasingly positive communications with Egyptian officials gives us reason to be optimistic and the final manifest of vehicles and convoy members has been requested and received by the Egyptian Government in Cairo. We now await final approval.

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Salem-News.com (Nov-01-2010 16:03)

Marijuana is a Hot Topic for Voters

Cannabis advocates say prohibition's days are numbered

(SALEM, Ore.) - cannabis GQ With governor races and other tight contests fighting for that last minute of "TV time" or spinning their wheels vying for another column inch of ink, voters are noticing that they're spending their time not talking about politicians nearly as much as they're discussing... pot.

The whole country's gone to it, or is clearly on their way. And now that most of the propaganda smoke has cleared, it seems the general public is coming to the same conclusion: marijuana isn't the villain it was cut out to be.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-31-2010 22:32)

Falk Endorses One State in Israel-Palestine

Dr. Richard Falk’s Message to the Conference on One Democratic State in Dallas, TX.

(HOUSTON, Tx.) - Dr. Richard Falk Dr. Richard Falk: I am very honored to have this opportunity to talk with the audience that is attending this important conference that considers the Houston Declaration on an peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

I wish that I could be there with you in person, but scheduling conflicts prevent this, including my obligations as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories to make a presentation to the United Nations General Assembly at the end of next week.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-31-2010 18:49)

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Faces of Morocco Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant. Our commitment to one another, to human rights, and the ability to learn should always keep us connected no matter the severity and complexity of problems.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-31-2010 14:37)

Zionist Tolerance for a Change

To a certain extent it is clear that Jewish anti Zionism, is, in itself, still just another form of Zionism.

(LONDON) - Zionism is not healthy I have spent the last ten years elaborating on Jewish national ideology and tribal politics.

During my journey of grasping what Zionism and Israel stand for, I came to realize that it is actually the Jewish left -- and Jewish Marxists in particular -- that provide us with an adequate glimpse into contemporary Jewish identity, tribal supremacy, marginal politics and tribalism.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-29-2010 18:06)

Californians Against Steve Cooley for State Attorney General led by Patient Advocates

New Website Highlights Cooley's Poor Record on Medical Marijuana, the Environment, and Equal Rights

(LOS ANGELES) - Steve Cooley The medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans forSafe Access (ASA) stepped up its campaign this week to oppose Steve Cooleyin his bid for California Attorney General.

Hoping to convince Californians against voting for Cooley, ASA has launched the website www.NotCooley.com to highlight the ways in which Cooley would be bad, not only for patients and their providers but also for those who are concerned about the environment, equal rights, and criminal justice issues.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-29-2010 06:00)

A Witness With No Credibility

"Beating down a woman for twenty years consistently. Threatening the lives of his kids" - William Coleman describing Joseph 'Joe' Salazar Jr.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem's Statesman Journal Newspaper story title quickly establishes the intent of  reporter and newspaper. Police and news media in Salem used the testimony of a known criminal to hang a pair of African-American state security officers out to dry in November 2008.

Now that same convict, Joe Salazar, once the star witness of a Statesman Journal article, is facing years in prison for a life of criminal domestic abuse.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-29-2010 02:18)

Israeli Police Shoot `Hated` Arab Legislator in Back

Israel police used special paramilitary forces against an Arab demonstration provoked by ultra-right-wing Jewish extremists staging a march through an Arab town in northern Israel.

(LONDON) - Israeli Arab MP Haneen Zoubi is among the injured. Israeli police on 27 October injured two Arab legislators in violent clashes provoked by Jewish right-wing extremists staging a march through the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.

Haneen Zoubi, a parliament member who has become a national hate figure in Israel and received hundreds of death threats since her participation in an aid flotilla to Gaza in the summer, was among those hurt.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-28-2010 00:05)

American Democracy: Pro-Israel Tweedledum and Tweedledee

(OSAKA, Japan) - Salem-News.com Helen Keller’s pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice “between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth congressional district of Illinois.

In a district which includes the affluent northern suburbs of Chicago along the shore of Lake Michigan, the central issue is not the two wars—or is it now three?

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