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Students Denounce Demonization of Student Activism by Anti- Defamation League

On campuses around the country, groups promoting Palestinian freedom respond to attack by the Anti-Defamation League

(UNITED STATES) - Representing campus organizations at over 60 campuses around the country, university students promoting Palestinian freedom have responded to a vilifying report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) listing “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) and a variety of other American organizations as the “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in America.”

The report was released the same day the ADL honored Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who owns Fox News Network.

The Ken O`Keefe Family Values Tour

A Mother's Love for a man Israel calls a Terrorist.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Ken O'Keefe's recent whirlwind NW speaking tour featured a level of depth that one doesn't often see. His mom, Pat Johnson, accompanied her son

It was her first chance to see him, since his dramatic survival of a deadly Israeli commando attack aboard the Mavi Marmara, a passenger ship in last May's Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

US Boat to Gaza Will Launch Next Year

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, the U.S. Boat to Gaza will sail this Spring...

(NEW YORK) - US BOAT TO GAZA has released an update report on their plan to send a U.S.-flagged ship as part of the next Freedom Flotilla sailing to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The group has joined the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla II and are now deeply involved as part of the international team planning for the next mission.

Welcoming Our Troops

A memorable twenty minutes at the airport.

(DALLAS, Tx.) - I am picking up a Turkish friend from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.

His arrival happens to coincide with that of a planeload of U.S. soldiers back from a foreign theater of operations, in what appears to be a regular occurrence given the giant Welcome Home plaque permanently installed on the wall here in the arrivals hall, thanking troops for their service.

Haiti Still in Crisis

"Rape is a serious concern – in and outside the camps" - Walter Kaelin, United Nations

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Upon returning from the country, Walter Kaelin, Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, spoke about the continuous crisis in Haiti.

He urged that meeting the needs of the thousands displaced will require a shift in focus within humanitarian operations, to one that is easily accessible to those in the camps as well as sustainable.

Maidhc Ó Cathail: The United States Fights and Pays for Israel`s Wars

...to paraphrase the neocons, the road to Jerusalem leads through Washington. - Maidhc Ó Cathail

(TEHRAN / OSAKA) - Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published Irish author and journalist. He has been living in Japan since 1999. Ó Cathail’s articles and commentaries have appeared on a number of media outlets and newspapers worldwide.

Maidhc joined me in an exclusive interview and responded to my questions about the 9/11 attacks, the influence of the Israeli lobby over the U.S., prospects of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the prolonged controversy over Iran’s nuclear program and the freedom of press in the U.S.

Deadly Pandemic

In 2007, more than 33 million victims lived with the disease.

(MADRID) - According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) there will be a $ 25 million increase to continue and strengthen the fight against AIDS for 2010.

A study carried out by UNAIDS explains that what countries need, along serious actions, are serious investments in order to reach the goals set for 2010.

Everything is Connected and YouTube is telling the Vanunu Saga Now

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - People ask me all the time why I went to occupied Palestine-not just once-but 7 times since 2005 and why do I care so much about such a small plot of real estate.

I reply, that I went the first time to meet a little boy of Bethlehem who changed my life and to be the Christian delegate amongst the Palestinian and Jewish co-founders of the Olive Trees Foundation for Peace an interfaith non-profit dedicated to raising awareness and funds to purchase trees to replace those that have been destroyed by The Wall.

`Jews Brought About the Existence of the ENTIRE Creation` says Rebbe Meachem Schneerson!

This supremacist ideology is precisely the axiomatic nucleus of zionism; an ideology which tries to justify and authenticate to its followers the conquest of other people’s land and homes...

(LONDON) - Thank God I have listened to this before having my dinner, it left my stomach churning of sickness and disgust.

“Every Jew, men and even women and children, brings about the existence of the entire creation, they become masters over the world, and thus every single creation owes them recognition for this good."

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.