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The Next War on Washington`s Agenda

Washington is getting all of us in over our heads.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, “Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.”

Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet states in the Middle East.

Occupations and Rallies in Opposition to Citizens United Case

It won't be easy to stop big money from undermining our political process, but there is promising action at the state and local level...

(SAN FRANCISCO) - January 21st marks the second anniversary of the infamous January 21, 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case.

This is the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits government from placing limits on independent spending for political purposes by corporations and unions.

Death Drones from Hell, Coming to a Nightmare Near You

America's violence equates to militant depravity and an obscene refusal to see the real results of their warring ways.

(SALEM) - Sooner or later, Americans are going to realize the horrible extent of their government's military misdeeds. Support for the recent destabilization attack on Libya, where drones and rockets from afar injured so many civilians, was one more heinous and brutal crime against humanity.

Watch the video below and try to comprehend what is taking place with the assistance of U.S. tax dollars.

Human Rights and the UN: Progress and Challenges

Nonetheless, significant problems and challenges remain...

(GENEVA) - Enduring structural improvements in human rights are very difficult to achieve. Global indices suggest that the world is little different today from a decade ago.

In 2002, Freedom House, a non-governmental organization in the United States, recorded that 85 states were “free”, 59 were “partly free” and 48 were “not free”.

Salafis to Hindus & Buddhists: Reconvert Back to Islam

Nearly 2000 Salafis are planning to travel to Bangkok next week to protest against the huge number of Buddhists who were allegedly Muslims in previous lives but now either don’t remember or don’t seem to care.

(EL KOSHARY, Cairo) - The Egyptian Salafi movement has accused the Indian government of holding captive millions of Hindus and Buddhists who had allegedly been Muslims in a previous life.

“These people had converted to Islam at some point in the distant past and they are now being kept hidden inside Buddhist temples and ashrams all over South Asia,” said Salafi leader
Mohammed Hareeqa-

How to Deal with Legacies of Conflict in Afghanistan?

Certain initiatives—whether locally-driven or at the national level—have the potential to provide a measure of comfort to conflict victims while paving the way for a more enduring peace.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - There are millions of conflict victims in Afghanistan and the ongoing fighting creates new suffering every day.

With a complex and contested wartime history, how can a way forward be found that satisfies victims’ demands for justice and healing while delivering the peace that is so desired.

Obama`s Broken Promise on Gitmo`s Tenth Anniversary

In addition to the military prison at Guantanamo, the base also included CIA “black sites” where renditions or extrajudicial, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to overseas locations where torture was used.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - January 11, 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay prison, an extrajudicial detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo prison could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002.

West Bank 2011: One year of Humiliation in a Two Minutes Video

A new year in the West Bank...

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Christmas... a rainy and great wind swept over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Trees bent and roofs rattled but the wind couldn’t carry away the suffering, vulnerability and the long 365 days of humiliation.

IN the so called Middle East’s only democracy, they do not do guillotines. But there are other innovative rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the Palestinians that every New Year could well be their last in the land of olive trees.

9/11 and Israel: Alan Sabrosky`s Candid Interview

If you're American, this would arouse fierce anger, shock, and indignation and make your blood boil.

(MELBOURNE) - In this edition of the Autograph, Susan Modaress interviews Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a ten-year US Marine Corps Veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College.

A writer and consultant, specializing in national and international security affairs, who with astonishing candour discloses intriguing facts on the implication of Israel in 9/11 events that are by and large unheard of in mainstream media...

Tamils for Obama Seek Rejection of LLRC Report, Call for International Investigation of Sri Lanka Civil War

“We hope that you will recognize this incomplete report as the whitewash that it is and call for an international tribunal to investigate the matters that the LLRC chose not to find.” - Tamils for Obama

(NEW YORK) - Tamils for Obama wrote a letter to Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake in which they recognized his role in forcing Sri Lanka's govt. to create an investigating body—the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.

They asked him to denounce the commission’s final report as biased and inadequate, and to call for an international tribunal...