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“Peace” was celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009, on a sprawling farm located in the rolling hills of Carroll County, Maryland, near Westminster. What a breath of fresh air! If only the churches, synagogues and mosques would stop making their lame excuses and follow suit. The event honored the “International Day of Peace.” The organizers labeled it: “The 1st Annual World Peace Party.” One of the ways the occasion was marked was by a dedication of a “Peace Pole.” That ceremony also included (…)

Intercontinental Cry
In defense of Mother Earth and her Peoples against the commercialization of life, pollution and the criminalization of Indigenous and social movements. Marking the day Christopher Columbus first set foot on Abya Yala, 518 years ago. The mobilization will begin on October 12, 2009...
Protests in front of the offices of transnational extractive (oil, mining, timber, water) agrofuel and other companies;
Protests in and other (non violent) actions targeting (…)

Shakespeare said all the world’s a stage, and we are but players — bit players, he might have added, although he preferred to write about the high and mighty. I don’t know about the high and mighty, but to tweak the old bard a bit, I would say it is more like a novel we are living in, and a bad one at that. The Warren Report, the 9/11 Commission Report, the "news" as it is fed to us 24/7 by the mass media, what is it all but pulp fiction, a never-ending penny dreadful hacked together by (…)

13 Reasons for Major Gold Breakout
by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter | September 10, 2009
Before the Hat Trick Letter was launched, a little splash was made when a Jackass Nobody wrote “25 Reasons Why Gold Will Rise” in November 2002. It was so many years ago that the piece no longer appears in archives. The motive for the article was simple. Just too much pure nonsense and genuine rubbish had appeared in the financial press about why gold was rising. ‘THEY’ claimed the gold (…)

The World is facing a worsening climate emergency and a worsening climate genocide. Already 16 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease (see my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” , G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: and ) and this horrendous avoidable mortality is increasingly impacted by climate change. Top UK climate scientist Dr James Lovelock estimates that fewer than 1 billion people will survive the century due to (…)

On Saturday, at noon, on Sept. 19, 2009, activists from CodePink, a women-initiated Peace and Justice Movement, staged a protest action inside of and also in front of an upscale shop located in Union Station, in Washington, DC. The store, according to CodePink, carries products of Ahava, “Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories,” an Israeli company. CodePink charged in its press release, that it is time “to expose the dirty truth” about Ahava’s products, which are made in the “Occupied West Bank,” and (…)

From very young I received at my home, when I was living in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, many young Saharawi medical students and hear from his own lips the oppressive regime and violator of human rights are subjected to by the regime of Morocco for the simple fact assert to have expression of their national identity, talking or singing, I saw the sadness in his faces of the oppressed people and at the same time, the twinkle in her eyes of heroic hearts fearlessly fighting for the sovereignty and (…)

By David Glenn Cox
It is human nature that impels the majority of us to be followers. Normal people, after five or six years of wandering in the desert, will begin to ask questions of their leadership. But a faith-based leadership leans heavily on the desire not to be wrong. No one likes being wrong, and many, if not most of us, will jump through hoops to prove that we are not wrong.
This defines our political landscape today. The Republican party is aimless and wandering; they have lost (…)

GEAB N°37 is available! Global systemic crisis: In pursuit of the impossible recovery Public announcement GEAB N°37 (Septembre 16, 2009) -
Before this summer, LEAP/E2020’s team announced that there would be no recovery in sight in September 2009, and not until summer 2010 in any event. Well indeed, contrary to the claims of the media, and financial and political circles, we confirm our anticipation.
The slowdown in the speed of collapse of the global economy, at the origin of all the « (…)

(NaturalNews) The mainstream media is engaged in what we Americans call "bald faced lies" about swine flu. It seems to be true with this issue more than any other, and it became apparent to me recently when a colleague of mine — a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist — told me their column on natural defenses for swine flu was rejected by newspapers all across the country. Many newspapers refused to run the column and, instead, ran an ad for "free vaccine clinics" in the same space. (…)