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Last week in Afghanistan, there were 400 insurgent attacks in one week, the highest level since 2001. [1] General Petraeus expects those attacks to increase, and they're getting ready to send in 21,000 more troops. There is no evidence that increasing the military presence will decrease violence, yet the Obama administration currently doesn't have a plan for how and when this war is going to end. We need to raise our voices now. Join our national day of action… Continue

Tehran rocked by suicide bomb attack as riot police use tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters
By David Williams
Last updated at 6:13 PM on 20th June 2009



A suicide bomber has attacked the Tehran a shrine to Ayatollah Khomeini, killing one person and wounding two others.
The first reports of the blast came from bloggers on Twitter, who immediately claimed it would be used by the regime to impose martial law.

Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands… Continue

A year of escalating violence: Updates on Tibet

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/011/2009/en

http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/china-amnesty-international-calls-chinese-authorities-open-tibet-2009030

UN Committee Against Torture Report covering the 2008 protests. Relevant section is pages 8-10:

www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf

Human Rights Watch report detailing those unaccounted for:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/03/09/china-hundreds-… Continue

Health Freedom Action eAlert


March 6, 2009

This a an urgent communication to our opt-in Action eAlert system.



Please open this link for the full eblast:


http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2220


From the eAlert -

Action Item: Protect your right to refuse medical experimentation
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26830
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The General's Communiqué
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III
(US Army,… Continue

HELP DEBUNK THE NAYSAYERS.


President Obama's bold first moves on Guantánamo Bay and military commissions have been met by brazen campaigns of misinformation from those who want to retain disastrous Bush administration policies.

Help get the truth out. Write a letter to your local media outlets debunking the Gitmo critics.

Go here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/643/t/8679/letter/?letter_KEY=1093

Myth #1: Closing Gitmo and transferring detainees to facilities in the United States will… Continue

Dear friends and colleagues,

I would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming On the Ground phone call and web presentation on Oxfam's response to the Zimbabwe Cholera Crisis. You'll hear directly from Oxfam staff members who have been working on this preventable disaster.

Please reserve your spot now for our On the Ground Phone and Web Conference.

You already know about Oxfam's emergency response in fact, you help make it happen. So please join us to hear about how Oxfam is respondi… Continue

On 1st February this year the current legal Prime Minister Olmert of Israel vowed to respond with 'disproportionate' force in response to Hamas rocket attacks during a cabinet meeting.

'Disproportionate' force is currently listed as a war crime. At the very least this represents sloppy use of language by the Prime Minister which if allowed to stand without rebuke undermines international law.

At worst this creates a dangerous precedent for nations picking and choosing which international laws… Continue

Promoted to Headline (H3) on 2/19/09:
United Nations Confirm What The Congolese Have Known For Years

by Kambale Musavuli



Since Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Congo in 1996, they have pursued a plan to appropriate the wealth of Eastern Congo either directly or through proxy forces. The December 2008 United Nations report was the latest in a series of UN reports dating from 2001 that clearly documents the systematic looting and appropriation of Congolese resources by Rwanda and Uganda, two of W… Continue

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted February 12, 2009.



A famous 1970s experiment was recently replicated, revealing what it takes for us to question and resist those in positions of authority.

Between 1963 and 1974, Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments that would become one of the most famous social psychology studies of the 20th century. His focus was how average people respond to authority, and what he revealed stunned and disturbed people the world over.

Under the preten… Continue

WE CONCERN ABOUT THE ABUSE AND TORTURE OF THE FOLLOWINGS :- DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS; NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS; MIND CONTROL WEAPONS; BODY AND BRAIN MANIPULATION WEAPONS; PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS; SPACE WEAPONS; NON-LETHAL WEAPONS; COINTELPRO; ANDany other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person) through the use of land-based, sea-bas… Continue