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Today, Iraqi journalists, Raed Jarrar and his mother, Faiza Al-Araji, will present a talk at the LOUDEN NELSON CENTER in Santa Cruz. Mr. Jarrar, who writes a weblog known as "Raed in the Middle" has outlined a plan for withdrawl from Iraq. Read an Iraqi's perspectives on occupation and national sovereignty....

We can and should support troops-to-be, but do so before they become troops. We should post a warning sign, and disclaimer, in all recruiting stations. Prospective enlistees should be told that their new employer will not be the Department of Defense, but the Department of War; and that their service will not be in the defense of freedom and democracy, but in the building of an empire for America's powerful elite. And that their countrymen, for all the yellow ribbons and pseudo-patriotic talk...

I see only one way out; a metamorphic leap of faith, an about face in the way we think, a decision to let go of everything that we, as a nation, once held dear, an understanding that the world will surely end unless we recognize the fact that we have no choice but to embrace our enemy as our brother, the one, without whom, we will never find peace, a brother-in-arms, enchained from head to toe, with whom we will either drown, or, together, might be allowed to live for yet another day.......

Whatever happened to empathy? How did the world suddenly become inhabited by good, red-blooded Americans and a bunch of gooks, slopes, ragheads, hadjis and any other pejorative which makes them seem less than human? How did the world suddenly become us and them? How is it that no one's beliefs and concerns have validity except ours? How has it come about that the world is now divided between us, our few allies, and a world of terrorists?...

The right to abortion was won in the United States in 1973 through a mass struggle in the streets that culminated in the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion....

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....

The Green Donkey is a political newsletter, created by and for teens. Covering political commentary, humor, and economic and racial issues. We are always looking for teens interested in submitting an article for publication. This latest issue of the Green Donkey includes an interview with retired General James Cullen, on the US policy for torture. Also, a critique of Bush's latest State of the Union Adress....

The average radioactive dose, according to official government index based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the average adult male in Britain and Europe....

In 1978, the United States became a party to an international treaty banning the use of weather modification and since has went underground and has been a part of their black operations....

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