Jun
30
More on McKinney
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[From Green Party Watch] Posted by Gregg Jocoy at June 30th, 2009 First, I got a return call from the Israeli consulate in Atlanta and the consulate employee told me that the Israeli Defense Force and Israeli Foreign Affairs office has released information he read which says that Cynthia McKinney is not being detained by [...]
Jun
30
Israelis intercept Gaza aid ship
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[From BBC NEWS] Israeli forces have boarded a ship trying to carry aid and pro-Palestinian activists to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel‘s blockade of the territory. The 20 passengers include former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney [2008 Green Party presidential candidate] and Nobel Prize winner Mairead Maguire. Ms McKinney described it as “an outrageous [...]
Jun
25
Used in gardens, farms, and parks around the world, the weed killer Roundup contains an ingredient that can suffocate human cells in a laboratory, researchers say By Crystal Gammon and Environmental Health News Image by David_Reverchon via Flickr Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have [...]
Jun
23
Should Obama Control the Internet?
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A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data. [From Mother Jones] Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to [...]
Jun
23
James Hansen getting arrested on June 23 at an anti-mountaintop-removal protest. Antrim Caskey Ken Hechler, the 94-year-old legendary West Virginia congressman and coal miner hero who has been battling mountaintop removal since 1971, was arrested in a non-violent protest with NASA’s celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, Michael Brune (the executive director of [...]





