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Middle East Interfaith Peace Activist, Dr. Romano, to Jerusalem

Storm Over Morocco is a true story about the challenges of Dr. Romano's work organizing interfaith events including dialogues with Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of all faiths in Israel and the West Bank.

(WASHINGTON DC) - “Storm Over Morocco,” & “Love & Terror in the Middle East” by Dr. Frank Romano, author event:

Wed., Sept. 11, 6:30 pm, Tmol Shilshom Bookstore Café, 5 Yoel Salomon St., Jerusalem.

The Rule of Law: Unjust and Violent

Elite control of governments is now destroying hard-won human rights and civil liberties, as well as environmental protections...

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - The common phrase is 'law and order' but does the legal system deal with dysfunctional social behavior in ways that keep us safe?

While diverse but eminent historical figures such as Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas K. Gandhi all wrote critiques exposing the injustice and violence of legal systems, the delusion that the law is a neutral agency that delivers justice still widely prevails.

Canceling my Time Mag subscription... Fly Me Over The Cuckoo`s Nest

We have the best government money can buy. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Don't tell me it's not your fault that this country has gone stark raving bonkers.. If we've developed a sea-to-shining-sea Cuckoo's Nest, you and your ilk have functioned collectively like Nurse Ratchet.

Witness the most recent meds you've forced on us - for the second week in a row, you extolled that humble Argentinian godfather in Rome, with an eye, I suppose on your 40% Catholic readership. But that's just one small bilk by your ilk.

End Dirty Wars

The only thing America has to show for 11 years of war in Afghanistan and nearly nine years of invasion in Iraq are fewer American lives lost, thanks to their use of depleted uranium.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - All wars are dirty wars. One stands out for the number of lives lost in the minds and memories of Americans--the Vietnam War.

The American public had enough of both the meaningless domino theory and the seemingly useless deaths of 58,000 American servicemen.

Between Heaven and Hell

More than 25 million Pakistani Christians are living below poverty line.

(ISLAMABAD) - The Bible shows that there are two great commandments. The first commandment is to love God with all our being. The second commandment is to love our neighbors as ourselves. So how do we show that we love our neighbors?

Jesus said, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Peace Not Capitulation

To Mr Abbas and those at the helm in Ramallah I say, please, collect your papers, go home, dissolve the PA and put the burden of the occupation onto the occupiers not the occupied.

(LONDON) - Call me a cynic, but when it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck why do they insist on calling it a swan?

I am having a moment of déjà vu here. The talks about talks about how to conduct talks are underway in Washington and I cannot feel

Left, Arabs and The `Israeli Democracy`

The truth of the matter is that I don’t hold my breath, but I also hope to be wrong. And if I am wrong, we would have to congratulate Netanyahu for achieving the impossible – Bonding the Israeli elitist Left with Israel’s working class i.e. the Arabs

(LONDON) - In the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ the Government decided to get rid of marginal opposition.

The Knesset passed yesterday a bill that seeks to raise election threshold to 4%. The new law is set to block the Arab and Left parties in Israel from participation in the political game.

Afghan Peace Talks to Resume in the Near Future: Chaudhry

“We believe that close engagement between Pakistan and the Afghan government could help achieve the objectives of peace and stability in Afghanistan”

(KABUL) - The Foreign Office officials of Pakistan on Thursday announced that Islamabad is optimistic that the stalled Afghan peace process will be revived soon as differences between key stakeholders narrow down over the Afghan Taliban’s office in Doha.

Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, spokesman for the Pakistan Office said that the only achieve and stability in the region is through reconciliation between Kabul and Taliban group.

We Can Afford Peace -- Peace activists at Seafair on July 31, 2013 in Elliott Bay

Event will take place with or without U.S. Navy fleet.

(ELLIOTT BAY) - Local activists will stage a water-based nonviolent demonstration for peace at the Seattle Seafair festival.

Other peace activists will meet on land near Pier 66 and at Piers 62/63 on the Seattle waterfront at the same time for a nonviolent demonstration for peace.

Bradley Manning Wins Peace Prize

The medal is made of "peace bronze," a material created out of disarmed and recycled nuclear weapons systems, by fromwartopeace.com

(WASHINGTON DC) - U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.

A petition supporting Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize has gathered 88,000 signatures, many of them with comments, and is aiming for 100,000 before delivering it to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.