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Why Ukraine`s Next President Doesn`t Matter

Regardless of who wins the presidential vote, the Maidan will be disappointed.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Having ridden roughshod over Ukraine, Russia's annexation of the Crimea is now over and a new chapter in Ukrainian politics is about to begin—but it won't be much different than the last chapter, with the same old faces surfacing for May presidential elections.

In the aftermath of the Maidan protests that overthrew president Viktor Yanukovych in February and Russia's retaliatory annexation of the Crimea in March, Ukraine has moved presidential elections forward a year to 25 May.

Taiwan: Stop Violent Crackdown against Peaceful Protesters

We have also received reports that peaceful and unarmed protesters, as well as journalists, have been beaten by the police during the crackdown, resulting in scores injured.

(WASHINGTON DC) - We express particular concern over the Taiwanese police’s deployment of water cannons and use of violence, including in forcibly dragging and manhandling Protesters out of the government headquarters building where they were protesting on 23 and 24 March 2014.

We have also received reports that peaceful and unarmed Protesters, as well as journalists, have been beaten by the police during the crackdown, resulting in scores injured. We deplore the heavy-handed action of the police in dispersing the Protesters as well as the arrests of dozens of Protesters.

Petitioning Gov. Phil Bryant: Stop the Execution of Michelle Byrom

The jury did not hear that Edward Jr. had twice confessed that he actually murdered his father and there was no murder-for-hire.

(VALEN NORGE) - Michelle Byrom, 57, could be executed March 27 for a crime she did not commit. She was charged with hiring her son’s friend to kill her abusive husband. It is clear now that her son killed his abusive father.

Her son confessed in letters to her and to a court-appointed psychologist that he committed the crime. Byrom’s son is free on parole, and the man she supposedly hired is free.

Crimea is the First Bite in Russia`s Political Appetite Who is Next After Crimea?

"… only the full inclusion of the territory of Russian regions in Ukraine - namely Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhiya, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernigiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kiev, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions - to the Russian Federation can guarantee peace, security and prosperity for its population..."

(WASHINGTON DC) - Russia’s annexation of Crimea, calls for the federalization of Ukraine - these are not the last declarations made by the Russian President and his officials recently.

Defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow on Tuesday, March 18, making Crimea part of Russia.

529 Morsi Supporters Receive Death Sentences in Egypt Court

The court in Minya, south of the capital, Cairo, issued its ruling after only two sessions in which the defendants' lawyers complained they had no chance to present their case, the Associated Press news agency reports.

(CAIRO) - A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacking police.

The group, members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a larger trial involving more than 1,200 Morsi supporters. Egyptian authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since Mr Morsi was removed in July.

Free Vanunu: 3rd Annual Global Call for Public Actions

"Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year." - Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's nuclear Whistleblower

(CLEARWATER, FL) - The Third Annual Global Call for Public Actions in support of a Free Vanunu , [Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower] began last week with the reminder to recall what Mordechai Vanunu said:

"The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out.

Why is New York`s Mayor - A Self-Proclaimed ``Progressive`` - Challenging School Choice for Minorities and the Poor?

Giving poor and minority students a choice of where to go to school----a choice which more affluent students already have---should be a natural cause for a "progressive" like Bill de Blasio to embrace.

(WASHINGTON DC) - New York City's mayor, William De Blasio, repeatedly tells us that he is a "progressive," committed to making life better for minorities and the poor.

Yet, ever since coming to office in January, he has launched a crusade against a vehicle which has the ability to rescue poor and minority children from failing public schools.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - US Nuclear Site Fire was Preventable

The latest news about everything nuclear, from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON DC) - In this edition of Reactor Reax, BBC reports that the US nuclear site fire that shut down the only US underground nuclear waste repository in February 'was preventable'.

The report also cited problems with emergency response and oversight at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), outside Carlsbad, New Mexico. The state's two senators called the findings 'deeply concerning'.

Oregon Can`t Afford Another Job-Killing Trade Agreement

Much as with the TPP, the White House and other boosters claimed that the Korea Free Trade Agreement would expand U.S. exports and create American jobs. The reality has been just the opposite.

(PORTLAND) - There are lots of reasons to believe the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement will be bad for Oregon’s working families. Leaked texts raise concerns about everything from higher medicine costs to lower environmental protections.

Still, for most Oregonians, there is one TPP concern that likely rises to the top: jobs.

California Bans Retail Sale of Super-Toxic Rat Poisons

The order from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation targets products sold to the general public in retail outlets and limits super-toxic rodenticide use beyond 50 feet of manmade structures.

(SACRAMENTO) - California has approved a statewide ban on direct-to-consumer sale of some of the most dangerous rat poisons but loopholes still leave many wildlife species at risk.

The ban approved Tuesday, which will go into effect July 1, prohibits the sale of certain products by d-CON, the only second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide sold directly to the general public.