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US Accelerates Preparations for `No-Fly Zone` in Syria

Murmurings come less than two weeks after Sen. Lindsey Graham called for the implementation of a no-fly zone.

(ROME / MOSCOW) - The US may soon take on a formal role in the Syrian uprising after reports this week that suggest the White House wants an air offensive targeting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

After over a year of unrest in Syria, Israel’s Debka news agency reports that US President Barack Obama has asked the US Navy and Air Force to accelerate plans...

Russia Slams Saudi Arabia, Qatar for Funding Syrian Rebels

Syria has rejected a report by the opposition council that alleges security forces killed dozens of people in Hama.

(ROME / MOSCOW) - The Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, has slammed Saudi Arabia and Qatar for funding and supplying weapons to armed Syrian opposition groups.

“We hear Saudi Arabia and Qatar openly speaking about their financing of the armed opposition and supplying weapons to the armed opposition… So, we do not like that,” Churkin said.

New Jersey`s 9th CD Voters Say No to AIPAC

What makes the news from Passaic County so surprising was that Pascrell’s election to a House seat from New Jersey’s new 9th district was not supposed to happen.

(CHICAGO) - One election night victory in one New Jersey congressional district does not represent a major shift in American politics. But shifts do occur, and they must start somewhere.

On the night of June 5, 2012, this was the news the Star-Ledger reported from the Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ.

`Letter From Urbino` Debuts this Friday in London

‘A people does not carry the memory of its humiliation as an individual does.’ André Chamson. 1940.

(LONDON) - Letter From Urbino is a film about a Sri Lankan refugee working as an attendant at the National Gallery in London.

Each day he gazes at the paintings there and watches the faces of the people who come and go through the rooms.

Subversive Thrills

A Review of Gaither Stewart's new novel, The Trojan Spy.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Gaither Stewart's >i>The Trojan Spy takes the thriller genre an important step forward, advancing it from the work of his predecessors John le Carré and Robert Ludlum.

Le Carré and Ludlum rebelled against the conventions of the classic spy thrillers, which assumed that we're the good guys who are under attack by bad guys so evil that we're justified in bending the rules to save ourselves from them.

Drug Czar Kerlikowske: Misinformed Anti-Cannabis Attack Pit Bull

Punishing the sick & PTSD Veterans.

(MOLALLA, OR) - I just don’t know where this guy came from. I have read much garbage about him and I can distill it into two words, “IGNORANT SCOUNDREL”.

His latest diatribe before Memorial Day made me sick.

Vanunu`s Invite, Israel`s Nuclear Apartheid and The Real Deal About Iran

Today from east Jerusalem, Mordechai Vanunu issued the following Global invitation: "The court hearing June 6, Wednesday 11:30, Israel Supreme Court. It is open for all. See you there."

(CLERMONT, FLA) - The day before his latest historic trial, Mordechai Vanunu issued the following Global invitation:

"The court hearing June 6, Wednesday 11:30, Israel Supreme Court. It is open for all. See you there."

William Gomes, Poetic Point Man on Human Rights, Battles Censorship: Experts Share Thoughts

"Very sorry to hear about the blocking of your site, surely an intolerable act. Very powerful words"
- Noam Chomsky

(SALEM) - Comments on the poem 'Anti State' and Bangladesh's blocking of William Gomes Website for this radical expression, are for the most part, incredibly supportive.

However there are those who believe he is 'rocking the boat' for a lack of better terms.

FUKUSHIMA: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water

According to Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report

(WASHINGTON DC Global Research) - The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean.

Remember, the reactors are “riddled with meltdown holes”, building 4 – with more radiation than all nuclear bombs ever dropped or tested – is missing entire walls, and building 3 is a pile of rubble.

Minutes From Behind Reuters Firewall Censor ICP on France, Sri Lanka

Reuters is going after a small media reporter who criticized the UN's use of a war crime suspect on a human rights panel.

(UNITED NATIONS) - Ten minutes after Inner City Press exposed Reuters' involvement in hosting the UN Correspondent Association minutes used to indict it, the link was changed away from Reuters.

But the screen-shot remains, even as Reuters brass continues to be unreachable as the company leads a purge of independent media at the UN.