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Dumbocracy By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
"You don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate,” Senator Mark Pryor once said. If ever there was one word of truth emitting from the halls of congress, this was it. I’ve heard it said that democracy works best in small groups, but you couldn’t prove it by me. With my family of four in tow I would take them out to dinner using the democratic model by which we would decide on pizza. Then the discussion would begin on (…)

...No one has the right to put the blame of the oppressor on the victim. No war criminal has the right to hold the family of his victims responsible for being close to the alleged military target. There is no duty for those who are not criminals but to chase the criminals. No one has the right to condemn resistance while awaiting its triumph no matter how great his political or symbolic capital is...
Gaza: In Defense of a statement never written:
http://www.uruknet.info?p=50305
Sign IAC (…)

Commondreams.org
Published on Friday, January 2, 2009 by Agence France Presse
SYDNEY - A sharp slowdown in coral growth on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef since 1990 is a warning sign that precipitous changes in the world’s oceans may be imminent, scientists said Friday.
Source: myclimatechange.net
Strong evidence points to the cause being a combination of warmer seas and higher acidity from increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, Australian Institute of Marine Science (…)

http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-25690569.html

On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. One of the speakers was Orthodox Rabbi Dovid Feldman. He is associated with “Jews United Against Zionism,” and is a member of “Neturei Karta International.” For background, please see, http://www.nkusa.org/. In his remarks, Rabbi Feldman was sharply critical of the (…)

On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. The activists then marched on to the Egyptian Embassy a few blocks away to stage a demonstration at that site. That part of the protest wasn’t covered by this presenter.
Emergency demonstrations on this issue are continuing to take place across the United States. For (…)

On Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, Human Rights activists staged a demonstration and march, in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally began at the Israeli Embassy. Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, was one of the featured speakers at the rally. The activists then marched on to the Egyptian Embassy a few blocks away to stage a demonstration at that site. That part of the protest wasn’t covered by this (…)

The pair joined a panel of public figures, which also included Ken Livingstone, Bianca Jagger and George Galloway, in a news conference demanding that Israel stop its ’siege’.
An almost tearful Annie Lennox described the sadness she felt when she watched news of the Israeli strikes on Gaza - attacks which Israel says were in response to rocket fire by Hamas and its allies.
"I was thinking as a mother and as a human being - how was this going to be a solution to peace?" she said.
"How (…)

This week CUBA has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fidel Castro-led Cuban Revolution that kicked out the US-backed Batista dictatorship.
The lessons that Free Cuba gives to the World are that a medical miracle follows from good governance, good primary health care and high literacy (especially high female literacy) – but to achieve those things it is FIRST necessary to throw out anti-humanitarian US puppets that put the interests of themselves, their cronies and of their (…)

Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections nearly three years ago, the story in Israel has been that a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was imminent. But even when public pressure mounted for a decisive blow against Hamas, the government backed off from a frontal assault. Now the world waits for Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to send in the tanks and troops as the logic of this operation is pushing inexorably towards a ground war. Nonetheless, officials have (…)