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After the serious incidents yesterday in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, the provisional balance is 11 Saharawi civilians dead, 5 Moroccan policemen dead, 723 injured Sahrawi, 159 missing and 65 Sahrawi Sahrawi detainees. This morning the riots returned to the neighborhood of Colomina between Moroccan settlers & Sahrawis. The city is taken by the Moroccan army and police, which in turn have armed Moroccan settlers to assault the houses of the Saharawis. About the missing, (…)

Top climate scientists argue that the world must reach zero carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution by 2050 and that world leading annual per capita GHG pollution countries like the US and Australia must reduce to zero by 2020. The Republican victories in the mid-term Congressional elections (they now have a majority in the House of Representatives) are widely seen as a huge setback for the Cancun Climate Change Summit (Mexico, 2010) and for any effective US cutback on its enormous greenhouse gas (…)

The Dignity camp of Gdeim Izik (near El Aaiun) have been dismantled by force by the Moroccan Army, who burned the jaimas (Sahrawi tents) and attacked the people with gas grenades and rubber bullets. The people had to leave the camp and go by foot through the desert to the city of El Aaiun, where the young Sahrawis are confronting the violence of Moroccan Police and Army. There are reports of several people dead in the streets or in the camp (between 5 and 12 dead killed by Moroccan troops). (…)

In one of the most striking political comebacks in U.S. history, the Republican Party marched in lockstep to victory in the midterm elections and seized control of the House of Representatives and state houses across the nation. Republicans made a battle plan, they disciplined their troops, and the corporations paid for the ammunition.
Unless the Democrats do something drastically differently during the next two years, the rich and powerful will cement their victory around the body of (…)

According to the first statement issued by dialogue committee and the media committee in agdim izik camp for the displaced Sahrawi, And after a series of negotiations with the governors from the central administration of the Moroccan Ministry of Interior in order to reach a just solution to the demands of the displaced Sahrawi protesters; the dialogue committee release the second statement To inform public opinion on the latest developments and to clarify its view on the outcome of what’s (…)

Most Italians thought Silvio Berlusconi could not drag their country’s reputation any lower. But on Wednesday the sleaze allegations against the Italian prime minister plumbed new depths when a call girl claimed that his private jet was used to supply marijuana to sex parties at his villa in Sardinia.
Nadia Macri’, 28, has told investigators the billionaire premier paid her €10,000 (£8,738) for intercourse when she visited him at Villa Certosa in Sardinia last year and at Arcore, his (…)

World Federation of Democratic Youth
This weekend, October 30-31, the President of WFDY and Coordinator of the International Organizing Committee of the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students, comrade Tiago Vieira, was expelled from Morocco by the national authorities without any consistent explanation.
Comrade Tiago entered Morocco on October 30 to visit the occupied territories of Western Sahara, Laayoune, where, during the last week, the Saharawi people’s protest against the (…)

Mister President Obama November 2nd, 2010 The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500
Mister President,
In a previous letter, I wrote to you: “The United State’s hypocrisy is flagrant; it condemns the Cuban government’s actions while sweeping their own crimes under the rug”. This is not an unfounded accusation, I have been striving to show this in every letter that I’ve been sending you every month.
While the five Cuban patriots, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio (…)

On Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” hit the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. One of the activists in attendance at the spirited event was Louis Wolf. He’s an author and a peace and justice activist from the Washington, D.C. area. He shared with me his views on 9/11. Mr. Wolf said: “9/11 was an inside job!” See for background on this issue: http://dc911truth.org and also check out my review of Phil Shenon’s insightful book: “The Uncensored History of the (…)

On Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” hit the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. One of the activists in attendance at the spirited event was Baltimore’s Dr. Margaret Flowers. She said: “The National campaign for a single payer [health care system] is growing!” Dr. Flowers is a staunch advocate for real and substantial changes in the way health care is delivered in the U.S. Millions of Americans are currently without any health care coverage andor don’t have (…)