Alfred Nobel's will, written in 1895, left funding for a prize to be awarded to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

Justice Kennedy, meet Sheldon Adelson -- a product of your cluelessness about how real politics work. For years, this casino baron has spent lavishly on right-wing front groups to advance his personal agenda, including pouring money into Newt Gingrich.

An apparent National assault against American's First Amendment rights to free assembly began this morning Sat, Feb. 5, 2012 when National Park Service police raided, barricaded, and began razing to the ground all tents at McPherson Park.

The practical implications of the State Department's conduct is that every U.S employer can now hire as many foreign workers as they desire to replace all American workers. U.S. business is "gaming the system." If no one is talking about the issue of importing immigrants to take American jobs away from Americans, then there is no problem. Will you stand with me to save the American Dream?

The Quaker Seminary is facing a serious challenge here. It has to decide whether to stand up for its precious principles or surrender to mammon seeking and face total moral bankruptcy. Interestingly enough, America faces the exact same dilemma. It has to choose between a fight for freedom or total surrender to a foreign materialist ideology conveyed by AIPAC, ADL and other Zionist warmongers.

As tensions between Israel and Iran rise to unprecedented levels, and Israel's leadership beseeches the US to join a military strike on Iran, Eliot Cohen's visions of regime change seem closer to realization than ever before. For him and the neoconservative policy elite, a Romney victory in November might deliver the next "big prize."

Some photos I took last week with my cellphone and finally succeeded in pulling out of cyberspace today.

The report points to shady armed gangs as responsible for hundreds of deaths among Syrian civilians, and over 1,000 among the Syrian army, using lethal tactics such as bombing of civilian buses, bombing of trains carrying diesel oil, bombing of police buses and bombing of bridges and pipelines.

ust as happened before the Iraq War, those who want to bomb Iran are scaring the American people with made-up scenarios about grave dangers ahead, new warnings as ludicrous as the "mushroom cloud" tales that panicked the U.S. public a decade ago.

When they're not blaming Obama for a bad economy, Republicans are decrying the federal budget deficit and demanding more cuts. But America's jobs deficit continues to be a much larger problem than the budget deficit.

As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being "the only nuclear power in the Middle East" is a great card for Israel to have in its hand. But -- in the real, non-propaganda world -- is USrael actually fearful of an attack from a nuclear-armed Iran?

Dark times lie ahead for the U.S. dollar as its future as the world's reserve currency looks to be in great jeopardy. For more than 50 years the U.S. dollar has been the chief monetary instrument used by the nations of the world to facilitate trade. But the times are changing and many of these nations, with China at the forefront, are finalizing trade agreements that utilize only their own currencies.

This is a highly summarized version of the interview that Rob Kall did with Rocky Anderson, Presidential Candidate via the newly-formed Justice Party, about two weeks ago. If you missed that, or couldn't get to it all, I recommend this summary.

Lava has been flowing out of two or more craters for 28 years. The picture is of lava making a 90 - turn to cover a favorite beach park. We, newcomers to this island tried everything to save a house, an ancient little church, a village. With our big machines we cut trenches, we built walls. Noting worked. Hawaiians shook their head, "lava goes where lava goes." We, humans, cannot control nature...

Warning: The video embedded here is a dramatization, but it is graphic and shocking. Please watch knowing it is not real. Now imagine the threat is not a tidal wave, rushing floodwaters, a violent tornado or some other natural disaster, and something that can wipe out life as we know it for years to come, destroying not just property, but everyone and everything in its wake.

By Bob Gaydos Floridians proved to be smarter than South Carolinians, but Republicans still have a mess on their hands.

That comedic genius, Flip Wilson, used to get a laugh with the line, "The Devil made me do it!" Now scientists are telling obese people, "The Dopamine makes you do it!" We should all be laughing hilariously.

Slowly things are coming to a head. America, Israel, rogue NATO partners, and regional despot allies are itching for a fight with Syria. Russia and China stand firmly opposed.

Forty cops on horseback and another forty on motor cycles roared into McPherson Park this morning at 5:35 AM Saturday Feb.4, 2012.

Wolfgang Borchert : German, author, playwright, poet. His experience under Hitler and Wehrmacht service changed his life.