2011 Pot Legalization Push Begins At Hempfest Today
Giving up is not an option for Sensible Washington, the all-volunteer group that sponsored a marijuana legalization bill that didn’t make it to the Washington ballot this year. The 2011 legalization campaign kicks off at this weekend’s Seattle Hempfest, the largest annual pro-marijuana rally in the world.
WikiLeaks: Exposing War Crimes Shouldn’t Be A Crime In A Democracy
A growing number of peace activists are speaking out and demonstrating against the arrest of Private Bradley Manning, who is accused of giving classified documents to whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks. Some politicians and commentators have gone as far as calling Manning a “traitor” while anti-war activists are embracing his allege role in the documents disclosure […]
Pakistan Floods: Is Social Unrest, And A Take Over By The Taliban Next?
Pakistan has become a slow hell on earth under water: An estimated 20 million- 12 percent of the country’s population- people is affected by the three weeks of floods, which means more prosaically that they are homeless. About 20 percent of the country is under water, the crops and grain reserves have being wiped out […]
America’s Taliban And the Ground Zero Mosque
Religious tyranny, the violation of individuals rights and freedoms, and the oppression of minorities, are the same regardless of the name of the god worshipped, the lexicon of religious terminology employed, the language spoken, the clothes worn, or the scriptures followed. It is unacceptable in any guise and must be resisted.
Pakistan: Cholera Reported As 17 Million Affected By Floods
Today, the UN confirmed the first case of cholera in flood-devastated Pakistan. The UN refugee agency has identified at least one case of the water borne disease in Mingora, the main town in the Swat Valley. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection which causes watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and rapid […]
