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44 Senators Tell Obama To Do Israel`s Bidding

The signees include 25 Democrats and 19 Republicans. These senators represent AIPAC’s honor roll of loyalists.

(CHICAGO) - War, as General Sherman once said, is hell. It is also widely perceived to be a failure of diplomacy.

Which would explain why it is that when war-promoting lobbyists want to generate congressional enthusiasm for the next war, all short-term congressional memories must be wiped out.

Reactor Reax Top Stories

Nuclear Waste: Why Environmentalists Are Pressing NRC on Reactor Licenses.

(WASHINGTON DC) - This week in Reactor Reax: the DoE's loan guarantee programs are the focus of much public attention since Solyndra went bankrupt last year.

CSM explores Nuclear waste, asking why environmentalists are pressing NRC on reactor licenses. Also, feds say design flaw led to Calif. nuke plant woes.

Buddhism: Secular America`s Religion?

It is not only Western Buddhists who must ask about the contextualization of the Buddha’s message to American culture.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I have often thought that Buddhism would become the secular American’s religion of preference. James Atlas’ Sunday opinion piece in The New York Times gives me reason to think there may be merit to what I have pondered for years.

It is often said that Buddhism is more about practices and ethics than beliefs.

Rodney King Dies at the Age of 47

There is no evidence of foul play.

(LOS ANGELES) - Rodney King, the man who became famous after his videotaped beating in 1991, is dead at the age of 47. He was reportedly found dead in his swimming pool. King’s fiancee Cynthia Kelly, called police at 5:25 am to report what she’d found.

King’s beating after a high-speed chase set the nation on fire, as well as much of Los Angeles. The four officers involved in the beating were acquitted, leading to a racial firestorm and debates for many years to come.

Aging Without Raging: It`s Perseverance Plus!

Human potential is ageless, whatever its source. Never minimize that maxim.

(SALEM) - All of us age by degrees. It is not an overnight process.

Nevertheless, we seem conditioned to ignore this life reality and indulge in a game called Manana-itis. We tend to be in denial.

An Apple Sprouts in Manhattan: Mr. John Goes to the United Nations, Unfortunately

Gangsters like Ed John don’t like drawing more attention to bad publicity about themselves – especially when they know it’s all true.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I first heard Ed John’s name mentioned when a large and nasty thug shoved his arm into my throat and bellowed in my ear, “Eddie John is pissed off at what you’re doing here, so cut it out now!”

The ruffian was named Dean Wilson, an enforcer with the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council in Prince George, British Columbia.

The Palestinian Kosher Place

Palestine Place, forget about them, it is taken over by the PSC and the BDS gang.

(LONDON) - We've learned that one of central London’s abandoned houses has been reclaimed and transformed into a “radical” centre for “discussion, action, and education around the issue of Palestine.”

It didn’t take more than a week for the ‘radical’ place to become yet another crypto-Zionist gathering engaged primarily in gatekeeping and even expulsion of some distinguished activists and thinkers.

Most Precious Gifts

A Springtime visit to PALESTINE

My Dad Would Have Turned 95 Today

Remembering a great man whose life reached many people.

(SALEM) - It's my dad's birthday today, and a few weeks shy of five years since he passed away.

He died just a few hours after my mom, it was a lot for my brothers and I and our families and friends to accept at the time, but also a blessing as they obviously had no plan of spending even a single day without each other.

New Jersey`s 9th CD Voters Say No to AIPAC

What makes the news from Passaic County so surprising was that Pascrell’s election to a House seat from New Jersey’s new 9th district was not supposed to happen.

(CHICAGO) - One election night victory in one New Jersey congressional district does not represent a major shift in American politics. But shifts do occur, and they must start somewhere.

On the night of June 5, 2012, this was the news the Star-Ledger reported from the Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ.