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Voting is Bad for You and the Planet

... we must keep planning and implementing sophisticated campaigns of nonviolent resistance to prevent wars, end economic exploitation and save threatened ecosystems..

(BLACKBURN, Victoria Aust) - Should Americans vote for Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, Gary Johnson, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney or Jill Stein in the presidential election on Tuesday?

There must be someone who will genuinely represent the interests of US citizens once they are in the White House. Surely.

ART AID - Dubai Based Photographer Shows How

"Photography in hard areas has its challenges, but someone has to do it..." - Fahad Bhatti

(LONDON) - In today’s world the role of humanitarian aid agencies and the need to effectively highlight the impact of their projects has become crucial and as a consequence so has the role of photographers who work alongside documenting the crisis and steps taken to aid the needy.

At a time of global recession with governments budgeting and less donors, disasters haven’t lessened, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Come Back President Carter!

In Israel, Carter said Netanyahu was not interested in a two-state solution.

(LONDON) - The U.S. Presidential debate was so lacking in real and relevant substance about foreign affairs that I had to struggle, several times, to resist the temptation to turn it off and go back to bed.

Romney’s message to America’s voters seemed to be something very like, “On foreign policy I’m not the ignorant, belligerent guy I had to pretend to be in order to secure my party’s nomination.”

World Social Forum Free Palestine

You can do your individual registration now and solve all your doubt about registration of organizations and self-organized events.

(RIO DE JANEIRO) - Individual registrations have already started for the World Social Forum Free Palestine, to be held from 28 November to 1^st December 2012, in Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil.

This registration is dedicated to those people who wants to take part at the different activities at the WSF but that are not delegates of organizations.

Planting a Bo Tree in Sri Lanka

Why do they not value the virtue of solidarity?
Or notice that there are dead to be remembered?

(LONDON) - In the aftermath of the publication of Frances Harrison's book Still Counting The Dead the discordant cawing of Sri Lankan male voices seem louder. I am hoping this is because the book is having an effect.

Oscar Wilde said there is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. So it’s good that Frances Harrison’s wonderful book is being spoken of.

BBC Radio Interviews Gilad Atzmon about `All that Jazz`

He is associated with the biggest names in musical history, but his heart is in the needs of the human beings.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Gilad Atzmon was interviewed by The BBC about what Gilad describes as, "all that jazz" and he is talking of course about Israel and Palestine.

When it comes to these critical subjects, particularly Jewish identity politics, there is not a voice more clear in this world that Gilad's.

Fatima Hajj: Every Palestinian Woman

Fatima hoped one day the Palestinians will return and together all people will live in peace in Palestine.

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut Lebanon) - Last May I attended the Nakba Day at Kass-Kass Park, just outside of Shatila Palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut.

I made a promise to a young Palestinian resident of the Shatila Camp who I interviewed earlier in the week—that I would attend the festival to see her perform her dance recital.

NYT to Obama v. Romney, `let`s you and him fight`

All each president can do it cope with the task at hand, a task that always includes having to deal with politicians ready to deal with anyone who will help them win a political fight.

(CHICAGO) - Scott Shane’s New York Times story Friday, linked President Obama to President Jimmy Carter. Shane maintains that Obama, like Carter before him, could also be a one-term president.

The New York Times must have gone into a panic mode for its editors to set Shane loose on such a comparison. There is a good reason for that panic.

World... Be Warned

A look at the road we are all travelling down...

(LONDON) - Here is the latest from Nahida Izzat, the Exiled Palestinian, who today lives in London but never travels a mile from Palestine in her heart.

Memo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon: The Door on a Two-State Solution was Closed 45 Years Ago

Israel’s hawks proceeded with their colonial venture come what may, in determined defiance of international law and no matter what the organised international community said or wanted.

(LONDON) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the General Assembly at the start of this week that “the door may be closing for good on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

He added: “The continued growth of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory seriously undermines efforts toward peace. We must break this dangerous impasse.”