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Take Israel to the ICC, Abbas or GET OUT of the WAY

Abbas does not speak for Palestine. He cannot sign or agree to any “agreement” for the Palestinians. If he agrees to a U.S. Framework Agreement that gives away Palestinian rights, he is a Traitor.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - It is time for Palestine to Sign the Rome Statute and take Israel to the International Criminal Court. If it is necessary to be a member state at the U.N. in order to sign the Rome Statute, the UNGA will approve that.

These bogus “Peace Talks” are only used by Israel for propaganda purposes and used to further the occupation. The people must demand that the “Peace Talks” end.

Gilad Atzmon on Dieudonné and the Quenelle

The truth is devastating - Palestine is here and the French people are the Palestinians Du Jour...

(LONDON) - If the quenelle is loosely defined as an anti establishment salute, one may wonder why Jews are offended by it and regard it as an ‘anti-Semitic’ gesture? Is it because many Jews actually identify with ‘the establishment’?

And how do we explain the fact that the French government is happy to compromise the most elementary liberties just to appease the French Jewish Lobby (Crif)?

Justice Stephen`s Visit to Sri Lanka & US State Department Report 2009

Sri Lanka has resisted calls to investigate allegations that up to 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians were killed by the security forces during the final push that crushed the Tamil rebels...

(MELBOURNE TamilNet) - The US Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp is in Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes committed by both sides and the prevailing human rights situation in Sri Lanka. He will meet both the Sinhalese and Tamil representatives to get at the ground realities.

His visit is in conjunction with the US presenting the third resolution on Sri Lanka. All indications are the High Commissioner for UNHRC is preparing a tough resolution on Sri Lanka. Don't forget to down load and read US State Departments Report 2009, if you have the patience.

When Will They Ever Learn? The American People and Support for War

When it comes to war, the American public is remarkably fickle.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The responses of Americans to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars provide telling examples. In 2003, according to opinion polls, 72 percent of Americans thought going to war in Iraq was the right decision. By early 2013, support for that decision had declined to 41 percent.

Similarly, in October 2001, when U.S. military action began in Afghanistan, it was backed by 90 percent of the American public. By December 2013, public approval of the Afghanistan war had dropped to only 17 percent.

The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post: An Exchange with Executive Editor Martin Baron

Why not provide a sentence in the Post’s substantive coverage of CIA activities, to the effect that “The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos is the largest stakeholder in Amazon, which has a $600 million contract with the CIA”?

(WASHINGTON, DC) - "A basic principle of journalism is to acknowledge when the owner of a media outlet has a major financial relationship with the subject of coverage.

"We strongly urge the Washington Post to be fully candid with its readers about the fact that the newspaper’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. The Washington Post’s coverage of the CIA should include full disclosure that the sole owner of the Post is also the main owner of Amazon -- and Amazon is now gaining huge profits directly from the CIA."

NILC Protests Senate Conservatives` Attacks on Poor Children

On 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, senators cynically pit unemployed and veterans against kids

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In a cynical political ploy, conservative senators are pitting millions of children and their families against the unemployed and retired veterans by proposing to reduce the number of people eligible for the refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) in order to pay for extending unemployment benefits and repealing military pension cuts that were part of the recent budget deal.

The extension of unemployment insurance benefits has traditionally been considered an emergency item that does not require a budgetary offset.

There is No Religious Freedom: Christians are Persecuted

The Sunday Express magazine, said that about 200 million Christians in 60 countries live in serious risk of harassment.

(MADRID) - The Nusra Front, an Islamist group linked to Al Qaeda attacked the old part of the Syrian city of Maaloula. Islamic terrorists held several nuns in the convent of Santa Tecla, in the same town.

Moreover, Raimondo Wang Chonglin, who was Emeritus Bishop of Chaohsien (Zhaoxian), in the Hebei Province (China) has spent 20 years of his life in prison and had to fight against the various prohibitions of the Chinese government to exercise his pastoral work.

Oregon State Police Reluctant to Investigate Prison Racism Case

A Nazi movie played to please a prison's white supremacist population, drug dealing by guards, Murder, Attempted Murder; yet a former guard's documented exposure of crimes in the Oregon State Prison gains little merit with the state police?

(SALEM) - Former Oregon corrections officer turned Whistleblower, William Coleman, says he survived a nightmarish scenario after trying to expose, "extreme levels of official corruption, racism and hate crimes," while employed at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

Coleman says he has compelling evidence proving that inmate Terrence Kimble's civil rights were violated at the Oregon State Penitentiary by state officials, but the state police aren't interested.

New TV Channel; Truth Commission Petition; Official Story Crumbles, Washington Blames Saudi for 911

We will support any new investigation of the 9/11 attacks so long as it is run by uncompromised people with a range of opinion including those inclined to disbelieve the official 9/11 story, and follows the evidence wherever it leads...

(LONDON) - Welcome to the latest roundup of information from the group Reinvestigate 9/11 in London, where people are far less reluctant to discuss the real story of what happened in the United States on the 11^th of September 2001.

Ian Henshall with Coffee Plant in London has done a fantastic job in keeping the information flowing, below are the latest six news items relating to the group's efforts to raise awareness of 9/11 truth.

Help Prod the ICC Into Action Over Israel`s Illegal `Settlements`

It is imperative that these crimes and abominations are not only halted but reversed.

(LONDON) - The Palestinian leadership won't do it – will you?

Unbelievably, President Mahmoud Abbas and his hapless crew in Ramallah promised the US not to file charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court. Meanwhile the Israeli regime is accelerating its squatter programme on Palestinian territory even in the middle of so­ called peace talks, increasing its air strikes and generally upping its aggression.