Rusty Tomlinson is a Dallas activist, working with North Texas for Justice and Peace, the Crawford Peace House and the al-Zeidi Society. He has written for ntimc.org and the Dallas Peace Times.
Canadian law allows the Prime Minister to close, or suspend a session of the Parliament for up to a year, a process called prorogation.. Prime Minister Harper is attempting to close the Canadian Parliament until March 3. It is scheduled...
It all started in Dallas. Cindy Sheehan stood at the podium of a sparsely populated lecture hall at the University of Dallas and announced that she was going to the Bush Ranch and camp there, until he met with her...
The Status of Forces Agreement, which was signed by Bush's ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari requires all US combat forces to be out of the urban areas by June, 2009, and...
On June 9, 2006, three prisoners died in Guantanamo.The military investigated, and the report they wrote was kept secret, until they were forced to release it by Freedom of Information requests.
The report, with large portions marked out by...
On Friday, this examiner warned that the government, in order to be able to honor him, felt the need to remake King's image into that of a a more "correct" person than who he actually...
On July 6, 1887, Lorrin A Thurston, lawyer, politician and businessman, wrote the Constitution for the Kingdom of Hawai'i. This constitution stripped the Hawai'ian king, David Kalakaua, of much of his power, and gave...
It was the night of December 27, in the village of Ghazi Khan, in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar. Schoolmaster Rahman Jan Ehsas said "Seven students were in one room. A student and one guest were in another...
The following was written by this examiner on December 15, 2003. It recounts the first time he met the Reverend Peter Johnson, . Reverend Johnson was sent to Dallas in 1969 by Andrew Young and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
Dallas activist leaders Hadi Jawad and Joshua Smith will speak at the protest against pilotless drones, at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The demonstration begins at one PM. Between noon and one PM, shuttles will carry people from...
Yesterday, this examiner related Walden Bello's view of events and dilemmas on the Gaza Freedom March Today, the views of three more freedom marchers, these from North Texas will be reported. On Tuesday evening, the Dallas Peace Center...