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2010`s Carl von Ossietzky Medal, Mordechai Vanunu and More MEDIA Failures

Vanunu is still waiting for Freedom NOW!

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - On September 15, 2010 I broke the following story but was asked to pull it until the official announcement was made on October 2, 2010. I did.

But on September 19, PRESS TV published "Medal for Israeli nuclear whistleblower". That story has been disseminated all over the World Wide Web, but NOT one reporter bothered to contact Mordechai Vanunu for details...

Faithful Circle - A Response to Noam Chomsky`s book `Fateful Triangle`

Hypotheses and Tests
"Israel has never fired a shot in the defense of American interests"
Jay Knott, August 2010

(EUGENE, Ore.) - "Dear Mr. President: We write to affirm our support for our strategic partnership with Israel, and encourage you to continue to do before international organizations such as the United Nations..."

Andrea Mitchell`s NBC Interview With Iranian President Includes Discussion of Zionism

In a nutshell, Zionism is the widely accepted belief that Israel belongs to the Jews because they are the chosen people; the belief has displaced millions who lived there first.

(SALEM, Ore.) - NBC Reporter Andrea Mitchell's interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke new ground with the American public, by actually allowing the idea of Zionist control to air on an American news network.

I'm not saying its has never been mentioned, but this is a real breakthrough.

Disbanding the Palestinian Authority Would Scupper Israeli Strategy

This may seem like a long shot but it is not, for the foundation stones of such a movement already exist in the civil society bodies that are established within Palestinian society.

(LONDON) - Often at seminal historical junctures the need to venture “outside the box” and think the unthinkable becomes critical.

Such a moment is now upon the Palestinians. At stake is whether they will survive as a people or dissolve into the oblivion of the banished...

Start Again with a Clean Sheet, Palestinians

Palestinians must win over outsiders if they are to make progress – that the future hinges largely on Hamas.

(LONDON) - So criminal within itself, it flinches from upholding the rule of international law. So corrupt, it happily outsources its foreign policy to terrorists in Tel Aviv.

The idea that America acts as an honest broker for peace between its fellow cut-throat Israel and their victim, Palestine, on whose neck the Zionist jackboot is firmly planted, is a joke that is only funny in the hysterical sense.

Religious Tolerance and Religious Wars

Diversity of religious thought is essential to a free society.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The United States by its constitution is a nation based on the principle of religious tolerance.

One of the foundational principals of the U.S. Constitution is that all citizens are free to practice their own religion according to their own conscience.

On Digital Martyrs

Hezbollah might further highlight its technical aptitude by introducing a digital timekeeping component to its own ubiquitous martyr posters.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - During my last visit to Beirut, I asked a Lebanese friend why the digital billboard downtown marking the number of days since the February 2005 assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri had been switched off if Hariri was still dead.

My friend suggested that stopping the clock gave the appearance that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon...

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant. Our commitment to one another, to human rights, and the ability to learn should always keep us connected no matter the severity and complexity of problems.

Does International Law Have a Future?

Lawrence Davidson considers how the application of international law has become “class based”.

(WEST CHESTER, UK) - Back on 23 August 2010 Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip.

Referencing the United Nations Environment Programme as well as the Palestine Water Authority, B’Tselem reported that the Strip’s underground water system is in such bad repair that, even if rehabilitation was begun immediately, it would take 20 years for it to be restructured as a modern system.

Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Urged to Abandon Israel Event

Both Carlos Santana and Elvis Costello have agreed not to play in Israel in response to human rights violations.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - There is a supreme test taking place each year for western entertainers. What do you do when asked to perform in Israel?

Many in the US and the UK live in a fog where they overlook the realities of what their tax dollars support when they fly overseas to Israel.