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CHAOS AT THE BALLOT:
Demonizing the Opponent, Distracting the Electorate

When do exaggerations take on the shape of outright lies?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Can an aggressive politician play the game of "destroy-and-decoy" at the same time? It certainly seems to be the latest sport in this political hunting season.

Take a good look at the airwaves. You probably cannot help it as the barrage of vile negative political propaganda is dished out your way.

US Boat to Gaza Will Launch Next Year

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, the U.S. Boat to Gaza will sail this Spring...

(NEW YORK) - US BOAT TO GAZA has released an update report on their plan to send a U.S.-flagged ship as part of the next Freedom Flotilla sailing to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The group has joined the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla II and are now deeply involved as part of the international team planning for the next mission.

Deadly Pandemic

In 2007, more than 33 million victims lived with the disease.

(MADRID) - According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) there will be a $ 25 million increase to continue and strengthen the fight against AIDS for 2010.

A study carried out by UNAIDS explains that what countries need, along serious actions, are serious investments in order to reach the goals set for 2010.

How Drug Money is Buying Our New Congress

Supreme Court ruling is a drug baron's dream...

(CINCINNATI) - Republicans and “Tea Party” candidates are expecting to take over congress in a very few days, a “big win” totally underwritten with drug money. There is no secret about it. By June, $200 million in “foreign” contributions had already come into the GOP and Tea Party and not one cent of it is accounted for.

It is “corporate” money, money that doesn’t have to be American, doesn’t have to be legal, money that would put any normal American in prison for years if they had one cent in their pockets.

Israel, ADL, ICNC and Human Rights

The ADL did me the honor of writing a report targeting me personally, as well as targeting my employer; Yale University at the time.

(BETHLEHEM) - The Arab Defamation League (A.K.A. as Anti-Defamation league of Bnai Brith) is an American Zionist organization which focuses on defending Israeli apartheid policies even when those are harming Jews by attacking Arabs and Muslims and anyone who speaks for human rights.

ADL just named the top ten groups in the US that they say are most organized in their "anti-Israel" stances in the US (see: ADL Identifies Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups In America - ADL; they even included Jewish Voice for Peace).

Pentagon Author Exposes Zelikow`s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up

(OSAKA, Japan) - In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and the author of Operation Dark Heart, a much-hyped new book on the war in Afghanistan, spoke about his mid-October 2003 encounter with Dr. Philip Zelikow, then executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.

On the Road with Ahmadinejad in Lebanon

"If President Ahmadinejad asks my opinion, I shall tell him: A stone? My dear brother, you are capable of throwing much more than a stone." Hassan Nasrallah (AFP 10/12/10)

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - He came, he saw, he conquered.

As he watched the Iranian President blow kisses to cleaning workers at Beirut’s airport during his departure for Iran early this morning, a Lebanese Christian historian commented “This Persian’s glory at the moment is arguably greater than Caesar’s following Rome’s second conquest of Britain”.

Anarchy 101: Time to Begin Ignoring Law?

Food for thought on our national military/legal industrial complex...

(SALEM, Ore.) - We have tried and failed as a nation. The United States has reduced itself to the point of ridiculous exasperation.

Support for the murderous politics of Israel, two poorly selected wars based on false flag information, stolen presidencies; laws designed to purely favor the insurance and pharmaceutical industries; endless greed- these things take their toll.

MPP Says Attorney General Holder is Wrong to Oppose California`s Marijuana Initiative

The group says Proposition 19 offers California voters an alternative to the failed policies of marijuana prohibition

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - According to the Associated Press, U.S. AG Eric Holder sent a letter earlier this week to former heads of the Drug Enforcement Administration in which he promised that the Justice Department would continue to enforce federal marijuana laws in California even if the state’s voters approve Proposition 19.

In response, Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, offered the following statement...

Ahmadinejad Abandons Nuclear Aspirations, Sets Sights on Israel`s National Water Carrier

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Traveling in south Lebanon in the wake of the July War of 2006, I often acquired water bottles with labels depicting the variety of unexploded cluster munitions that one should keep an eye out for when walking in certain areas, such as in one’s yard.

Thanks to the state of Israel, it was thus possible to engage in the fundamental life process of hydration while simultaneously contemplating the sudden termination of all such processes. As for other regional water-related Israeli operations, these have enabled affected populations to not hydrate themselves.