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Costco Sting Operation

Had the Obama administration been successful, I am sure I would have spent the rest of my life in solitary confinement and cut off from the world.

(EUGENE) - In the Orwellian world we live in, one need not commit a crime to be arrested and thrown in prison. One only need discuss committing a crime or have it determined that one has the disposition for committing a crime.

The NSA searches the world for unsuspecting innocent victims so FBI agents can attempt to entrap them and send them to prison.

India Needs to Eliminate Gender Inequality: Zed

Continuing indifference to the maltreatment of women is not acceptable in the 21st century world. India needed to focus on urgent upliftment of women, forgetting her political battles.

(RENO) - India needed to take urgent steps to make women as equal partners in the society and eliminate gender inequality, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed stated in Nevada (USA) in his International Women's Day message.

Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that lesser gender gaps would also bring prosperity and economic competitiveness to the country besides fairness. Men and women were equal in the eyes of God, Zed noted.

Outrageous Oregon Contract Disasters

These sound like jokes, but they are what actually happens when public agencies must contract their projects out to for-profit contractors in the capitalist economy.

(PORTLAND) - Don’t Oregon public agencies need sharper lawyers and better due diligence to negotiate with private contractors? During the past few days, we’ve heard that

(1) Portland can’t collect more than $600,000 in penalties from screwups by the builder of its new streetcars...

Resisters of Sykes-Picot Land Grab Perform Key Fighting Roles in Syria

"Syria will not kneel to the Zionist-Arab project to destroy the unity and independence of the Syrian Arab Republic” - PFLI fighters

(NORTH OF LATAKIA, Syria) - Every school kid here in Syria learns at an early age about the various colonial land grabs that have lopped off key parts of their ancient country, and they receive instruction about their national duty to recover this sacred territory.

The concept applies equally to still-occupied Palestine, or at least it did before the 2011 uprising got started...

Putin`s Ukraine Adventure a Gift to Netanyahu

Netanyahu arrived with an empty bag – meaning a bag full of empty slogans.

(London Redress News & Analysis) - Binyamin Netanyahu is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is he good at anything else?

His father, an ultra-ultra-rightist, once said about him that he is quite unfit to be prime minister, but that he could be a good foreign minister. What he meant was that Binyamin does not have the depth of understanding needed to guide the nation, but that he is good at selling any policy decided upon by a real leader…

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Paying in Advance for Nothing at All

"Reactor Reax" is featured on www.NuclearBailout.org, a Web site maintained by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today in Reactor Reax, Crain's Chicago Business reports, "If Exelon's nuclear plants are losing money, the company has only itself to blame. Exelon chose a business strategy that worked well for a while but turned south as market conditions changed..."

Three years after, Quake or tsunami? Panels at odds over cause of Fukushima nuclear disaster. Obama budget puts SC's MOX fuel project on ice, these stories and more...

Parody For You

Small sheets of paper distributed in the store stated: “How is it legal? So is this a real business? Are you saying Starbucks is dumb?”

(LOS ANGELES) - On the weekend of Feb. 8 through 9, a coffee shop set up in the Los Angeles area had people speculating about whether Starbucks was starting a new trend. Though short and sweet, “Dumb Starbucks” was started up as a comedy act for comedian Nathan Fielder, who stars in a television series, Nathan for You.
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As the popularity grew for this new coffee shop, people wanted to satisfy their curiosity.

Debate on Escalation in Syria

Here's a liberal progressive war advocate employed by a center funded by a war profiteer pushing for "coercive measures" and "threats of force" without ever discussing the actual killing he wants done. I debate him below on The Real News.com.

(WASHINGTON DC) - I've never debated anyone who wants limited child abuse or small-scale slavery or carefully circumscribed rape. It's always war.

It's always the worst crime, the crime least susceptible to control once begun, and the crime that includes all the others, the crime defined at Nuremberg as the greatest of them all because it includes all the others. And it's always in blatant violation of the law.

Who Were the Kiev Snipers?

The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation which emerged online.

(PORTLAND) - This leaked 11-minute phone conversation of Feb 25, confirmed by the Estonian foreign ministry, is not getting the attention in the western media that the leaked phone call between Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador in Kiev got. Ashton refuses to comment so far.

It’s also worth noting that in that previous leaked call, Nuland bragged how former U.S. (now UN official) Jeffrey Feltman "got" UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to send Dutch diplomat Robert Serry to Ukraine.

Thoughts on the Ukraine Crisis

While the Russian occupation of the Crimea is regrettable, the U.S. hypocritical bluster about the intervention impressed no one, least of all Vladimir Putin.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Secretary of State John Kerry recently denounced Russia’s intervention in the Crimea by declaring, “It is not appropriate to invade a country, and at the end of a barrel of a gun dictate what you are trying to achieve.

That is not 21st-century, G8, major nation behaviour." Guess which country has a sordid history of invading countries. As the saying goes, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.