Palestinian Mother Dies from Israeli Settler Inflicted Immolation (tags)
Israel
Kiev's War Without Mercy (tags)
Ukraine
KIDS REPLANT WILSHIRE FRUIT TREES UPROOTED BY VANDALS (tags)
Dozens of fruit trees planted in the Westlake District by children have been uprooted. Kids worked to replant them Wednesday.
Angry leftists seek silver lining in debt deal and 7 videos (tags)
May we mend our own pockets and put the horse (14 million jobs and drying up the tax havens) before the cart (economic recovery/economic democracy)! Robert Kuttner speaks about this at http://prospect.org/.
Drugs are bad, unless the government is forcing you to take them. (tags)
The government shrinks say Loughner is nuttier then a fruit cake, but he is sane enough to voluntarily agree to take powerful psychotropic drugs the Feds want to force on him. Some fair trial!
Openly Gay Fort Worth City Councilmember Headlines Queer Democrats' Freedom Awards (tags)
As a boy, openly Gay Fort Worth City Councilmember Joel Burns was bullied by schoolmates and driven to thoughts of suicide. One of his friends, a boy from Oklahoma, actually did kill himself. As an elected official, Burns spoke October 12 in the Fort Worth City Council chambers and talked about his past in a speech that was heard 'round the world through YouTube and the power of the Internet. On November 13 Burns came to San Diego as the keynote speaker for the 35th Annual Freedom Awards of the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club and talked about teen suicide and the need for renewed commitment on the part of Queer Democrats and progressives to elect officials whose actions will make Queer teens safer.
CANDIDATE TO PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL CHOOSES IRRELEVANT VICE-PRESIDENT (tags)
The future of a nation in risk.
“There is No Apolitical Moment” – An interview with Majority Rules director Michael Burns (tags)
An interview with social justice filmmaker Michael Burns on his new series looking at how young people view democracy.
Israel Admits it Used Phosphorus (tags)
Israel Admits It Fired Phosphorus Shells in Lebanon The Israeli military has admitted for the first time that it fired phosphorus shells at Hezbollah targets during its month-long attack on Lebanon. The phosphorous shells were used despite widespread calls by human rights groups for a worldwide ban on the munitions because they cause undue suffering through severe burns. During the war there were reports that Lebanese victims had suffered serious burns from phosphorous. One doctor reported seeing three corpses entirely shriveled with black and green skin -- a phenomenon characteristic of phosphorus injuries. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/23/1425222
BTL:Filmmaker Ken Burns Condemns Bush Policies on War and Civil Liberties (tags)
Speech excerpt by Ken Burns, filmmaker and historian, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
An Interview with Michael Burns (tags)
Albert Marceau interviews Michael Burns, director of the new documentary Preventive Warriors, on the foreign policy of the Bush Administration.
The Sacramento Connection To 9/11 (tags)
In this excerpt taken from Kupferberg's article "Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11", Kupferberg looks at two copy-cat mass murder episodes in Sacramento which occurred just days before September 11.
Lawmaker disavows anti-Jewish comment (tags)
Rep. Max Burns (BA-R) tries to mend fences after failing to condemn supporter's "jew boy" remark about a political rival.
Media reporting from Iraq is one-sided and flawed (tags)
The vast majority of correspondents in prewar Iraq played ball with Saddam and downplayed the viciousness of the regime. That would include such notables as CNN's Christiane Amanapour, Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman, and other left leaning reporters.
Jeanne Merrill Confronts CEO and President of Safeway Supermarkets Steven Burns (tags)
Jeanne Merrill from Greenpeace stood up in a large crowd on April,23 at The M.I.L.K.E.N.Conference in Beverly Hills,CA and presented CEO of Safeway Steven Burns with "The Unsafeway Award"for Unsafe and Untested Genetically Engineered ingredients in the Safeway name brand products.The Crowd Applauds!She asks "Are consumers really in the drvers seat"? The majority of consumers want to know what is in a product. With no labeling of GMO`s your rights have been violated.
U.S. Envoy Calls Jenin Camp a 'Terrible Tragedy' (tags)
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - A U.S. Middle East envoy toured the ruins of Jenin refugee camp on Saturday after an Israeli army pullback, saying enormous suffering had been visited on Palestinian civilians there
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