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By MICHELLE YORK
On Veterans Day, John Hartlaub wandered into the newest cafe in Watertown, N.Y.
It was sparsely furnished, with three Internet stations, a black sofa and an offering of hot or cold cider. A customer who actually wanted coffee would have to buy it a few doors away.
Mr. Hartlaub stayed most of the afternoon anyway. He browsed a few dozen military books for sale, then pulled up a folding chair to watch "Poison Dust," a documentary about the health effects of depleted (…)

During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around the Indians. Homes built with the material silently pulsed with radiation. People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little
By Judy Pasternak
MARY AND BILLY BOY HOLIDAY bought their one-room house from a medicine man in 1967. They gave him $50, a sheep and a canvas tent.
For the most part, they were happy with the purchase. Their Navajo hogan was situated well, between a desert mesa and the trading-post road. (…)

By Joshua Mitnick
TEL AVIV - In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields.
In recent months, Israeli security forces have used telephone calls to warn Palestinian militants and others near alleged militant safe houses and weapons caches, giving them up to a half hour to evacuate. When militia (…)

The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one By Mary MacElveen November 20, 2006
With the newly elected Democratic controlled congress set to take power in January, one Congressman, Charles Rangel has called for the reimplementation of the draft. I really do not know how I feel at this at any given moment. I am just so sick and tired of these wars that we have been fighting and want us all just to sit down and breathe. Please remember that word breathe.
But, my (…)

On a warm summer’s evening on a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler we were both too tired of sleep So we took turns at staring out the window at the darkness Till boredom overtook us, and he began to speak He said, Son, I’ve made my life out of reading people’s faces And knowing what their cards were by the way they held their eyes So if you don’t mind my saying, I can see you’re out of aces For a taste of your whiskey I’ll give you some advice. So I handed him my bottle and (…)

Mexico, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina)
Oaxaca People’s Assembly (APPO) demanded on Saturday that Governor Ulises Ruiz resign his post before November 25 or they will undertake new actions against him in all the Mexican states.
Flavio Sosa, leader of that organization, reported at the national meeting of trade union, academic, artistic, social, and political organizations with the APPO, said Ruiz should be ousted, when "the legitimate president takes up his post."
He called on those who (…)

Borat, An Alternative Discourse Analysis
Some Things To Keep In Mind While Watching Borat
Gilad Atzmon, 8 November 2006 Proposed by the author
The film Borat : Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the funniest film of the year, has just come out. ItI will surely become a cult movie. It is not a film on Kazakhstan . Kazakhstan is only a pretext for Sacha Baron Cohen. An other adept of politcal satire, jazz musician and writer Gilad Atzmon, who is (…)

Andrés Manuel López Obrador for President (of the US!!)
by Daniel Patrick Welch
Synopsis: Every election cycle, the US antiwar left reconvinces itself that its best chance of advancing its agenda is to dive once again into an alliance with the Democratic Party. Poor Charlie Brown! Is Lucy going to yank the ball away again? No suspense here....
"The only game in town" is just one of the myriad cover stories used by the vestiges of the US left to justify continued support for the (…)

By Remi Kanazi
Over the last five years, the Palestinian people have faced a host of obstacles in their fight for sovereignty, preventing them the opportunity to create a life those in the Western world brag about. A principal impediment facing the Palestinian struggle today is the constant reaffirmation that the Palestinian people-deemed by Israel and the US-are “terrorists,” “militants,” or animalistic beings lesser than those of the “civilized world.” In Ramzy Baroud’s new book, The (…)

WomeninBlackLA@gmail.com
Dear members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
It is with great respect for classical music in general, and for the music of the Israel Philharmonic in particular that we, members of Women in Black, Los Angeles are writing you this letter. Some of us are Israelis now living in the US. We grew up attending concerts of the orchestra, and remember the experience with so much joy. We have the deepest appreciation for artists, musicians in this instance, and see (…)