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Anti-Globalization to Organize Massive Solidarity March to Gaza

A number of rallies, peaceful demonstrations and activities will be organized in Europe and North and South America on the first anniversary of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

(GAZA STRIP) - The international anti-globalization movement is planning a massive solidarity march on 27 Dec. 2009 that would start in Cairo and end in the Gaza Strip with the participation of former presidents Jimmy Carter of the USA and Nelson Mandela of South Africa.

The movement, which also against Zio-American hegemony, said in a press release on Saturday said that the event was dubbed "The Big Freedom" march and would carry the slogan of "Gaza the world conscience".

Edward Said and Barack Obama: A Letter from Gaza

Our only immediate demand is that your administration insures that Israel fulfills its obligations in terms of international law. Is that too much to ask?

(GAZA STRIP) - You will probably not read this letter due to your busy schedule and the huge number of messages you receive from Presidents, Kings, Princes, Sheiks, and Prime Ministers.

Who is a Palestinian academic from GAZA, after all, to have the guts and write an open letter to the President of the United States of America? What has triggered this letter is a picture of your Excellency sitting with the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said.

Jailed Laotian Group Wanted Help From Government

Several hundred Lao people detained on their way to the capital weren’t dissidents, one man says.

(BANGKOK) - An ethnic Lao man briefly detained this month as he and several hundred others converged on the Lao capital to petition the government, says the group was planning to seek help from the authorities rather than stage a political protest, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

“What have we done that is so wrong, that we had to be detained? All we were doing was asking the government for help. I want to live with dignity even if it costs my life,” the man, 47 and an illegal migrant worker in Thailand, said in an interview.

Was Homeland Security Created to Protect Those Who Deceived the U.S.?

U.S. deaths in Iraq could top 4,300 this month with more than one million Iraqis dead from the war and from violence unleashed by those who manipulated this alliance to induce an invasion.

(TEMPE, Az.) - Was Fort Hood really the target of a terrorist attack? The first clue to the real culprit emerged when Senator Joe Lieberman sought to blame this mass murder on the U.S. military.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, he promised hearings on how the Pentagon protects its personnel from domestic terrorists.

Images Capture Spirit of 35th Annual Veterans Day Parade

35th Annual Parade is Portland's only event honoring Veterans Day.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Portland residents gathered to pay their respects to the people who serve the United States in uniform on Veterans Day, as the nation remains bitterly engaged in two Mideast conflicts.

Portland's only parade held to honor America's veterans, The 35th annual Veterans Day Parade was held in the Hollywood District Nov. 11, 2009.

Gilad Atzmon: From the River to the Sky

Unlike most Israelis who dismiss the Palestinian cause, Netanyahu admitted today that Palestinians were indeed expelled.

(LONDON) - Let’s once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of Zionist spin. It is there to divert attention from the root cause of the conflict:

The robbery of Palestine and Palestinians in the name of a ‘Jewish home coming’. The call to stop Israeli construction in the West Bank is there to leave us with the false impression that the robbery of Palestine started in 1967.

PAAIA Releases 2009 National Survey of Iranian Americans

Ties between Iranian Americans and Iran remain strong.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In August of 2008, the Public Affairs of Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) commissioned Zogby International to conduct a national public opinion survey of Iranian Americans to gather, for the first time, accurate and timely information about the demographics and views of the Iranian American community.

The purpose of the 2008 survey was to provide PAAIA with the knowledge required to more effectively represent the Iranian American community, and to further inform and educate the American public at large, as well as U.S. policy makers and opinion makers about Iranian Americans.

Israel`s Destabilization Strategy Unveiled

What is Israel's Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan?

(TEMPE, Az.) - When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.

Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. In combination, the two often prove persuasive.

War With IRAN?

America's Titanic Rushes The Iceberg.

(JACKSON, Miss.) - A very strange thing must have happened to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), on his way to his recent talk at Washington's National Press Club.

He oddly asserted that Iran was indeed an "existential threat" to Israel (nice of the Israelis to have provided that sound bite), that he was open to a US attack on Iran (which is no threat whatsoever to the US) to forestall that supposed danger to Israel, and that the attack "would also be incredibly destabilizing."

Marking Berlin Anniversary, Palestinians Breach Israel`s Wall

The barrier, in reality a network of walls, fences, watchtowers and checkpoints, snakes through the interior of the West Bank, looping around Israeli settlements and fragmenting Palestinian communities.

(RAMALLAH Ma'an) - Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian demonstrators breached Israel's concrete barrier near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.

Reporting from the scene, Ma'an's correspondent said the protesters, once they reached the other side, set fire to tires. Israeli forces also opened fire, the reporter said.