contributions

Medea Benjamin will speak at Random Row Books in Charlottesville, Va. at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 4th.
Random Row Books 315 West Main Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-295-2493
Free. Open to the Public.
Medea Benjamin is cofounder of Global Exchange and of CodePink: Women for Peace. She is the author of the new book "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control" and was an organizer of the Drone Summit held this past weekend in Washington, D.C.
Benjamin was forcibly removed on Monday (…)

Australia
Uranium miner Toro Energy promotes quack scientist Doug Boreham ’s speaking tours to preach the false gospel that low level radiation is harmless. Medical doctors call on Toro to stop this.
South Australia grants lease for Four Mile uranium mine - which is mainly owned by nuclear weapons making company. BHP Billiton and the Federal Government out to punish Aborignal elder Kevin Buzzacott, with legal costs for his one man battle against the planned Olympic Dam uranium (…)

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
On May 27th 2005, the U.N. working group on arbitrary detentions qualified as arbitrary the detention of the five Cubans Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino and René González, considering their sentence in Miami as unfair. Unfortunately, seven years later, (…)

Censorship violates human communication and fundamentally subverts science-based rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety. Censorship plays a major role in the transformation of Western democracies to neofascist, corporatist Murdochracies (Big Money buys public perception of the truth and hence votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality, and votes). As outlined below, censorship is entrenched in Murdochracy and (…)

by W’Lawpsh
2 Parts
The [U.S.] Constitution precludes imperialism as against ’foreign Nations and Indian Tribes’...Certainly those Americans who for their own power, prestige and profit persist in playing ’The Great Game’ of imperialism are ’Enemies’ in the treasonable constitutional sense...
Their success to date has terminated the existence of the United States as a constitutional democracy under the rule of law. That is the only right to exist that the country claims. Or can (…)

So let me get this straight. President Obama is asking Congress NOT to raise interest rates on student loans. Have I got this right, so far?
Well, that might look pretty good to US college students and their parents . . . expenses NOT going up and all.
Then there’s they "issue" of how the president "got the word out." He delivered the message in a "slow jam" on Jimmy Fallon’s show. From the "left" he gets points for style. From the "right" (party of Richard Nixon) he was"unpresidential" (…)

What is the definition of pornography? A) pictures or movies of naked people doing unspeakable things to each other. B) ART and LITERATURE depicting the lives of prostitutes. C) a disgusting Internet pastime of grown men who really ought to know better.
If you answered A or C you are quite mistaken. You might not like that but please read on to find out what the REAL pornography is.
The word pornography is derived from the Greek porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”) and is, (…)

Centre For Israel and Jewish Affairs Canada
"The objective of this trip is to develop leaders among First Nations youth,’ said Chief Ron Evans.’ I visited Israel for the first time last year, and I was overwhelmingly inspired. The Jewish people are the historic, Indigenous people of Israel. For Canada’s First Nations, Israel’s story demonstrates how an ancient people can maintain their heritage while embracing the modern world - and in so doing, achieve self-determination..."
Chief Of (…)

24 April is Armenian Genocide Day that commemorates the beginning of the World War 1 Armenian Genocide (1.5 million Armenians killed). The Armenian Genocide was precipitated by several months of months of shelling that culminated in the 25 April 1915 Allied invasion of Turkey in the Dardanelles at Gallipoli led by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), this being commemorated in Australia and New Zealand as Anzac Day.
The Gallipoli Campaign (aka the Dardanelles Campaign, (…)

On Sunday, as Israeli security forces were rounding up activists who were trying to enter Palestine, a racist conference was held in Ramle and a middle-aged woman was beaten for protesting racism. Welcome to a frightening Israel, where being non-racist is dangerous
Even though almost all of the “Welcome to Palestine” participants were prevented from reaching the West Bank, the campaign was a success. As the international and local media watched, 79 internationals were refused entry to (…)