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by JONATHAN BECK
Israel’s newest weapon on the public relations front is "an army of bloggers," according to a statement issued by the Absorption Ministry Sunday afternoon.
In cooperation with the Foreign Ministry’s Public Relations Department, the Absorption Ministry has initiated a statewide effort to locate volunteers who speak other languages, to take part in the country’s PR efforts over the Internet.
The volunteers will post comments in their native languages - including English, (…)

Addiction and Control
Morton S. Skorodin, M.D.
Like many other Oklahomans I watched a widely-publicized TV program on January 13 of this year, Crystal Darkness, which dramatized the problem of methamphetamine (meth) use. Clearly, it is a serious problem. The medical complications of this drug as depicted are real and I can attest to that since I saw patients with strokes, high blood pressure, and brain and kidney damage as a result of use of this substance as early as 1970.
The (…)

These are 30 photos from the “Arrest Bush” rally and march in Washington, D.C., held on Jan. 19, 2009. For background, see: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/38908 and http://shoebush.org/ and http://arrestbush2009.com/ and
http://www.codepink4peace.org/. Check out related video on the rally and march to the White House, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRvTLUls2NY&feature=channel_page.

Edmund de Rothschild, Ex-NM Rothschild Chairman, Dies at Age 93
By Jacqueline Simmons and Ambereen Choudhury
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) — Edmund de Rothschild, who oversaw the family’s London-based investment bank NM Rothschild & Sons in the first half of the 1970s, has died at the age of 93.
Rothschild, who became a partner at the bank in 1946 before taking over as chairman in 1970, died on Jan. 17, the bank said today. He stepped down as chairman in 1975.
During the 1960s, he helped (…)

On Jan. 19, 2009, a huge, inflated doll figure, about 20 feet tall, of President George W. Bush, was set up in DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C., by antiwar activists. It was dressed in the outfit that Dubya wore when he did his stupid “Mission Accomplished” stunt a few years back. The figure was used as shoe and boot target practice by the protesters. Like Pinocchio of the Italian fairy tale, the Bush character, “Bushoccio,” had a very, very long nose. A recent study indicated that the (…)

you have some hard choices. but to overlook the crimes of the last 28 years would be the same as doing it yourself. its time to get america back on track. use rico charges against the organized criminals who have been in charge of the government robbing the treasury. then treason against the ones,speaker of the house included who had the authority to stop the crimes against the constitution that leaders were committing. bipartisanship or not crimes were committed that are too gargantuos to (…)

“When a nation goes down...they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.” - Carl Sandburg
On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists got a chance to shout “good riddance” to George W. Bush—one of the worst presidents in all of American history. They did it by blasting him for his eight warmongering, torture-approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The lively rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. Besides (…)

http://gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=27

The Beginning of the End for Israel
By Yvonne Ridley
January 19, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" — - TRY as he might, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert can not snatch any sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat that are closing down on the failed Zionist project.
This, quite simply, is the beginning of the end for Israel.
The only thing Israel has proved it can do militarily better than anyone else is kill innocent women and children. And in its genocidal drive to wipe the (…)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reaffirmed on January 18, 2009 its position on the so-called "ceasefire" stating that the PFLP regards with the utmost respect, the decision of our brothers and sisters in the resistance of declaring a one-week ceasefire with the enemy.
As we share in the declarations of victory with all of our people today, we want to reaffirm our rejection of any ceasefire and the politics of the so-called "calm"...the politics of "calm" becomes a trap (…)