A federal district court judge in the state of Washington has dismissed a major lawsuit challenging alleged domestic military spying against antiwar activists. He made the choice not to do his job, admitted to lawyers representing activists that he had not reviewed all the evidence and issued a decision that could seriously jeopardize the ability of citizens to dissent in American society if it is allowed to stand.

The lawsuit is known as Panagacos v. Towery. It accused the United…

For the last few days, I've had the life of Patrick Mac Manus on my mind. I never met him, but I read many of his blogs and FB posts, friended him and we wrote back and forth for a few months. I admit that it wasn't until after he died that I realized the scale of his advocacy beyond his vast writing and efforts to reveal the situation in Palestine to the world. He was always kind, tender even, and generous with his time. I always felt honored to find his replies in my notices, because I…

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Mantiq al-Tayr

Not just for the birds

http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/is-cantor-leading-an-israeli-coup-against-the-united-states/

Isn’t it just one hell of a coincidence that Israel-Firster Eric Cantor (Likud, Virginia), is engineering a campaign to shut down the US government over the issue of Obama…

Dear Friends,

Next week Congress will vote on whether to wage war on Syria, a Middle Eastern nation in the middle of a civil war.…

Though the CDC denies a definitive causal link between SV40 and cancer, it implies that the virus, which was supposedly removed from all polio vaccines in 1963, was problematic in relation to cancer development. More than 98 million people, in fact, may have been exposed to SV40 as a result of receiving government-recommended polio vaccines back in the 1960s, and many of these may have…

"In March of this year, President Obama visited Israel to deliver, both in words and symbolic actions,the message  that the United States and Israel were essentially one, a vivid demonstration of Vice President Biden’s oft-repeated pledge that there must be “no daylight, no…

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If Pollard gets released "in exchange for Palestinian prisoners" there should be a run on DC. We are not the United States of Israel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23386162

The Palestinian president has said that Israel must freeze settlement-building before stalled peace talks can resume, while Mr Netanyahu has urged Mr Abbas to return to talks without preconditions.

Even if President Abbas were to go into talks without a "settlement" freeze, I imagine the talks would not last long as there would be a Palestinian…

Remember Obama playing all like "I'm not going to scramble planes over a 29 year old hacker?" Yea.

"Your argument is that the court has no role in this — none, none none,'' U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer told Brian Hauk, deputy assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Civil Division. "I find that a little disconcerting. The scope of your argument concerns me. It gobbles up all the air in the room. ... The most important part of the United States is that it is a nation of laws.''…

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/19-Jul-2013/us-agrees-on-aafia-siddiquis-extraditionThis is huge. If you don't know Dr. Siddiqui's story, it is surely one for the books. I've always thought that officials would only tell such an absolutely embarrassing story to cover up an even bigger…

http://mjayrosenberg.com/2013/07/18/bravo-palestinian-authority-tells-kerry-to-take-his-plan-and-shove-it/

Putin said Snowden in transit area of Moscow airport, wont be extradited to US & is free to leave. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/us-usa-security-flight-idUSBRE95M02H20130625

Birgitta Jónsdóttir ‏@birgittaj …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18326970

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