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On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policies Studies. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations.

On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations.

On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was Matt Daloisio of Witness Against Torture. Medea Benjamin served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations.

http://www.iacenter.org/mumiapetition/
Mumia Abu-Jamal (*) was born on April 24, 1954. At the age of fourteen, Mumia is arrested and molested for protesting against a meeting of the ultra-racist candidate George Wallace, in Philadelphia. Very soon, he is registered by the FBI after trying to name his high school after Malcolm X.
In 1969,the young man is in charge of information at the local branch of the Black Panther Party. FBI regards him as one of the persons “to watch and lock up in (…)

While US Democrats are shocked at the surprising vulnerablity of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat—the Liberal Lion of the Senate—US observer Daniel Patrick Welch, who lives in and writes from Kennedy’s home state, is underwhelmed. Democrats have foolishly ceded the populist impulse to the right, and are now reaping what they have sown.
Why Martha Lost
by Daniel Patrick Welch
I’m sick of waiting for the post-election analysis where bobbling heads pick over the bones of what they already knew (…)

By PETRA BARTOSIEWICZ
Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from her hometown in Karachi in 2003, along with her three children, two of whom are American born. By some accounts she is Al Qaeda royalty, having (…)

Islam has 1.6 billion adherents and about 50 countries have a Muslim majority (see “List of countries by Muslim population”: ). It is accordingly important for both non-Muslims and Muslims to understand the attitudes of Muslims around the world as assessed by expert scholars.
"Inside Muslim Minds” by Riaz Hassan (Melbourne University Press, 2008) is a very important book written by an eminent and highly-honored Australian academic, Professor Riaz Hassan of the Department of Sociology, (…)

by Dave Lindorff
There are only two US media outlets that have reported on Cuba’s response to the deadly 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti. One was Fox News, which claimed, wrongly, that the Cubans were absent from the list of neighboring Caribbean countries providing aid. The other was the Christian Science Monitor (a respected news organization that recently shut down its print edition), which reported correctly that Cuba had dispatched 30 doctors to the stricken nation.
The Christian (…)

On Jan. 18, 2010, Baltimore City celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with its annual parade. Under sunny skies, Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley, aka Marty O’Gov, made an appearance; as did the current Mayor, Sheila Dixon. The President of the City Council, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was also there. She will succeed Dixon in the office of Mayor, on Feb. 4, 2010. Suddenly, the festivities were interrupted by a 30-Second police chase. Oh well, Hon, it’s Baltimore City! Why the (…)

The Letter reproduced below has been sent to Australian Media and MPs re Australian and various US Alliance involvements in ongoing genocidal atrocities against Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Muslims, Australian Aboriginals, and against the Developing World in general through the worsening Biofuel Genocide and Climate Genocide that are killing millions.
However the silence is deafening.
Apartheid Australia has recently enacted race-based laws specifically violating the human rights of (…)