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Terrorists Kill People

This is a fundamental issue, it is time to examine the government's use of a killer buzz word that can strip you of your rights as an American.

(SALEM) - Strange title I know, but we're in strange times. Terrorism is the use of terror in attacking or controlling a perceived enemy. Terrorism is understood by some people on some levels, but by and large it has been used to describe anyone who refuses to accept oppression, and fights back.

Those who the developed nations brand "terrorist" are almost always poor; they generally are getting the hell blasted out of them by U.S. made weapons and they violently resist with whatever they can place their hands on.

The Last and Gloomy Pages of Egypt`s Revolution

“Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won” – William Ralph Inge: The End of an Age

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Thomas Merton said, “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”.

Perhaps this time period best defines that statement, and it is likely Egypt's weathered attempt to shed tyranny and secure a future with liberty, is going to be the new definition.

My Occupy LA Arrest

Family Guy writer among those arrested for what used to be legal in the U.S.A., non-violent political protest.

(LOS ANGELES) - My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in.

Art is Activism for Jupiter Sculptor

According to Dulin, there is a growing movement in the United States and supporters speak out in a “myriad of ways.” For him, terra cotta sculpture is the primary medium to raise awareness.

(FORT LAUDERDALE) - Michael Dulin is passionate about penises—uncut ones. The 59-year-old Jupiter artist has long been an activist against infant circumcision and in recent years has focused his art on educating the public about the practice, which is common in the United States.

“It’s a human rights issue,” Dulin argues.

`Have Rabbis Forgotten The Experiments on Jewish Women at Auschwitz?`

Auschwitz was the largest and one of the most infamous of the camps and the site of numerous ‘medical’ experiments.

(LOS ANGELES) - Today, rabbis across the US are silent as the Nuremberg Code is being dismantled. From Nurses and the sterilization experiments of Auschwitz: a postmodernist perspective

Review of Day After Day - `heartfelt, sad and powerfully moving`

Will our children and great grandchildren sing the same song, before Justice is done?

(BOSTON) - Music and news make incredible partners and we call this fusion Newsic.

On that note, we are very pleased to release this new song by Agron Belica, Day After Day, who belts out the lyrics with Pat Dreier, addressing this painful subject that affects helpless babies all over America every day, claiming more than a hundred lives every year from mistakes and infections.

CIRCUMCISION AND EXTERMINATION: The Shoah, 09.11, Palestine, Oslo: `holy` wars around circumcision

On the collective – and unconscious – level, circumcision is felt as a threat of extermination...

(PARIS) - Psychoanalysis alone can link these slaughters and explain the one committed by Anders Breivik.

Freud showed himself to be shy in his condemnations of the individual outcome of circumcision; he did not publicly qualify it a threat of castration in his lifetime...

Joe Catron in Gaza Talks to Salem-News About Hunger Strike and Prisoner Rights

Joe talked about this current effort that he and two other ISM activists are participating in.

(GAZA / SALEM) - A Palestinian hunger strike initially launched more than two weeks ago to call attention to deteriorating conditions in Israeli prisons, grew immensely this week.

Around 2,000 prisoners held by Israel quickly joined the hunger strike demanding better conditions behind bars. In this interview, activist/writer Joe Catron talks about what it means, and why the strike is of prime importance.

Video: Sinaloa Cartel Traffickers Butchered Alive

The new video shows the execution of two alleged members of the Cartel de Sinaloa, 'Sinaloa cartel'. Two grim looking men, whose luck ran out, are butchered still alive in the most brutal way imaginable, "chainsaw massacre" style.

(SINALOA, Mexico) - Borderland Beat has released video of a chainsaw decapitation that might be among the most gruesome video clips ever released. The images tell the story and the video is available via the link below.

I don't think we can over-saturate people with images of the cruelty of the cartel members, and it is a lackadaisical view of this madness in America that has allowed the problems to spiral out of control. So much for the drug war, it is like a cruel hoax designed to fuel the illegal side of narco trafficking.

Hunger Striker Protesting a Crime Against Humanity

The Irish and the Palestinians share a history of occupation and oppression.

(DUBLIN) - Terence Barry says ‘we have a song here in Ireland called Only Our Rivers Run Free, but in Palestine the Israelis have even stolen the water supplies. In Palestine not even their Rivers Run Free.’

This week, Terence Barry said he wants his hunger strike ‘to highlight the Israeli genocide on the people of Gaza.’