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United We Stand and Shout and Dance and Make it Better

The Constitution was not intended to give rights to corporations or to equate bribery with the protected act of free speech.

(WASHINGTON DC) - I'm looking forward to speaking on Saturday, May 10, at the United We Stand Festival in Los Angeles where dozens of speakers and musicians will be standing together against such evils as:

"the PATRIOT Act, NDAA, NSA, war on drugs, drones, ... war, GMO, .. central banks, corporatism," and in favor of "Internet freedom, election reform, honest media/music/art, education/student leadership, the environment, ...."

President Barack Obama HD White House Correspondents` Association Dinner 2014

"Gridlock has gotten so bad, you've got to wonder, what did we do to piss off Chris Christie so bad," - Barack Obama

(WASHINGTON DC) - President Barack Obama at 2014 white house correspondents association dinner watch president Barack Obama joke the white house correspondents association dinner 2014 took aim at Republicans, the media — and himself — at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner - beginning and ending with the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov.

"I usually start these dinners with a few self-deprecating jokes, but after my stellar 2013, what could I possibly talk about?" the president joked.

BURMA: Arakan Conference Calls for Creation of ``Arakan Army``

This is a conspiracy against Rohingya Muslims and Arakan Army will be a threat to the life security of Rohingya Muslims. The world community should take measures against this conspiracy which aims to finish the Rohingya generation in Rakhine state. - Nurul Islam

(RANGOON The Irrawaddy) - At a conference in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township in recent days, Arakanese Buddhist politicians, monks and community leaders have called for the creation of an “Arakan National Defense Army” that would protect Buddhist residents from Muslim communities in the state, a conference organizer said.

The five-day Arakan National Conference, which wrapped up on Thursday, was the biggest gathering of ethnic Arakanese representatives in decades and was held amid an ongoing, deadly conflict...

With the Donbass Revolt, But Not With Putin

With a democratic and social alliance against the Kiev regime and NATO

(Kiev) - The resistance of the eastern population against the reactionary pro-western government in Kiev has to be supported both from a democratic as well as an anti-imperialist point of view.

Engineering Chaos: Mother Agnes-Miriam Lectures Neo-Cons on their Bad Behavior

Syria Solidarity Movement offers this excellent report about a recent visit from Mother Agnes-Mariam.

(MORAGA, Ca.) - I just went to hear Mother Agnes-Miriam, a Syrian nun dressed in a serious nun outfit, give a talk on the horrible situation that her country finds itself in today.

I ended up with ten pages of notes on the shocking details of what she said. Her talk can be summed up in just a few words. "[Western neo-colonial] powers have been engineering chaos in Syria..."

U.S. Claims of Nuclear Weapons Retirement, Dismantlement ``may be misleading`` GAO

According to GAO, any eventual retirement of warheads retired under New START is now contingent on the successful completion of 1) planned warhead modernization programs (i.e. Life Extension Programs, LEPs) and 2) successful acquisition of new warhead production capacity and infrastructure.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Yesterday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the results of a two-year audit of Obama Administration efforts to meet nuclear warhead dismantlement goals, a responsibility of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

#Twitter Diplomacy of William Nicholas Gomes

@wnicholasgomes is a source of news and a global voice of human rights

(WASHINGTON DC) - As the Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com, William Gomes advocates for people worldwide who are suffering injustice at the hands of their own governments.

Religious intolerance, violations of international human rights law, torture, murder, sex abuse and human trafficking; these are the topics that keep Mr. Gomes active and standing tall for world activists willing to stand for what they believe in.

Mayor From Okinawa to Bring Surprising Message to Washington

International Scholars, Peace Advocates and Artists Condemn Agreement To Build New U.S. Marine Base in Okinawa.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Imagine if China were stationing large numbers of troops in the United States. Imagine that most of them were based in a small rural county in Mississippi.

Imagine -- this shouldn't be hard -- that their presence was problematic, that nations they threatened in Latin America resented the United States' hospitality, and that the communities around the bases resented the noise and pollution and drinking and raping of local girls.

The Silence of Senators Wyden and Merkley on the Major Issues of Egypt and Russia

Why the lack of outrage on the part of mainstream media and the entire Congress along with the President?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Where are the voices of Oregon’s Senators Wyden and Merkley on Egypt? An elected government (isn’t that democracy?) was overthrown by the Egyptian military which is funded by the US government and can only survive with US money, and has established one of the most repressive governments on the planet.

An Egyptian judge, perhaps broke the world’s record by sentencing 683 members of the opposition party to death in an 8 minute trial.

Too Big To Blame

I never saw a city boy yet who was worth a damn.
- Ernest Hemingway

(DAYTONA BEACH) - The Dodd-Frank Bill, an Act to regulate the American financial industry and provide investor and public protection, was passed by Congress and the Senate some three years ago.

Since that time, at least one senator has observed that following the greatest heist in world history, all the known perpetrators are still prominent, richer than ever and even regarded as folk heroes in the financial media.