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On October 25, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore.”
It might sound odd that Feiglin saw the element of fear as critical to Israel’s well-being if not its very survival.
In actuality, the fear element is directly linked to Israel’s behavior and fundamental to its political discourse.
VINNIE DESTEFANO shares the miracle & joy of Julian Assange walking the beach, a free man, with his wife and kids.
TATANKA BRICCA reminds us that we still must free Leonard Peltier.
The great homeless activist SUSIE SHANNON rallies us for activism to solve this horrible human nightmare.
WENDI LEDERMAN adds her own heart-felt dimension to the tragedy of many fellow citizens living on the street.
MYLA RESON then introduces SETH & EMILY of Walk the Walk, which helps with funding for grassroots election activism.
EMILY LEVY follows by sharing the activities of her great Scrutineers organization.
At the one-hour mark we’re joined by GREG PALAST to talk about his “Vigilantes” film & this year's massive disenfranchisement of voters of color.
RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta-based Communities United for Justice describes the looming attack on Electoral College certification in Georgia.
Legendary journalist LUCIAN TRUSCOTT IV adds his unique perspective on the litigation of 2020 to what may happen again in 2024.
I stroke the unknown . . .
Bear with me as I finish my short walk. I was ambling through my neighborhood the other day, wielding a pair of walking sticks, “forcing myself,” you might say, to enjoy the beautiful afternoon but actually just plodding forward, in a hurry to get back to the house and be done with this bit of exercise.
But then, oh so briefly, I paused in my hurry-upness, took a deep breath and continued slowly, deliberately on my way. Suddenly I was no longer in a pointless hurry, but, my God, surprisingly awake and present in this beautiful moment of sky and grass and sidewalk concrete. I felt the air fill my lungs and revered every step I took, knowing that one of them — someday — would be my last.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Constitutional Court on Wednesday (Aug. 7) expelled from politics Thailand's most popular opposition politician Pita Limjaroenrat, plus 10 his executives, and dissolved their Move Forward Party (MFP) for repeatedly demanding the king's powerful legal protection against libel be weakened and "reformed."
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned this Buddhist-majority, U.S. military ally in Southeast Asia on Aug. 2:
“If the Move Forward Party is dissolved, this decision will effectively disenfranchise millions of voters who called for progressive change and democratic reform.
“This action threatens to undermine Thailand's commitment to democracy and human rights, shared values that have anchored our bilateral partnership for over 190 years,” Sen. Cardin said in a letter to Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa.
"I urge the Thai government to respect the will of its people and uphold the democratic values that have long been the foundation of our enduring alliance," Sen. Cardin wrote.
Trump had also asked for $65 billion to finance current war fighting, a bump of $5 billion; Congress approved $71 billion.
The National Defence Authorisation Act of 2018, which set the target budget for the Department of Defence at this high level, was approved by the Senate in a September 2017 vote of 89-9.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Air Force Sgt. David Price, disguised in civilian clothes as a Lockheed employee, was operating a "classified CIA" mountaintop navigation beacon in Laos for U.S. planes bombing Communist North Vietnamese troops when he was killed in 1968, aged 26.
For the past 56 years, Sgt. Price was listed as "killed in action" and his remains lay unrecovered.
In June however the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced discovery of Sgt. Price's remains in the tropical jungle and jagged karst rocks at the small former CIA landing strip.
The remains of fallen U.S. troops are occasionally found and returned home from World War II battlefields and elsewhere, but the discovery of Americans who died in Laos during the Central Intelligence Agency's "secret war" is rare because its participants are still shrouded in confidential documents.
"More than 280 Americans are still unaccounted for in Laos, with some of them in a 'non-recoverable' category," the DPAA said.
