Self-styled American Jewish leaders don't speak for me or the vast majority of American Jews. Stop giving them a platform to behave as arbiters of Jewish values, acceptable discourse about Israel or anti-Semitism.

I became very concerned about the fate of elephants and rhinos in the wild. Due to the insatiable demand for ivory and horns in Asian countries, China in particular, their numbers are dwindling by the minute and some direly predict that they'll go extinct in less than a decade. They are noble creatures and a vital part of our ecosystem, and we owe it to ourselves to preserve them for future generations.

America is struggling. We can't afford to feed, clothe, shelter and protect the rest of the world. We need to use our resources to take care of our own people in these tough economic times. Everyone talks about and argues about taxes, why in no one talking about the money sent outside our borders?

All of us have been adversely effected by state elected gov. officials becoming self important, corrupted by their positions of power and their loss of site of what is best for the state. They become concerned about being re-elected and overly influenced by special interest groups and large campaign donors . Term limits would go far in ending this cycle and would help to bring in fresh energy, ideas, and talent to these positions.

The issues surrounding the use of armed drones are many and complicated and the consequences of using them tragic and far-reaching. Do we as a nation really condone the loss of innocent life in the taking of terrorists by drone attack? What are we doing in Afghanistan? Are we at war? Are we an occupying force? The war on terrorism has become a morass into which we are dumping our humanity. We must re-think who we are as a nation and fellow human beings.

As a US citizen who has lived in Israel, I deplore the fact that our government sends billions annually to Israel as she continues to flout International Law and the Human Rights of her neighbors.

It's time to stop billion dollar yearly giveaways to Israel that allow the pursuit of illegl colonizing on the west bank and gifts to its military that have regularly rained down bombs on civilians in Gaza and encourage impunity for actions sucn as prison detainment without justification for thousands of palestinians. The uncritical support of Israeli exactions whether at the UN or in our media is backfiring both for Israeli citizens and for Palestinians who are yearning for peace, since there will shortly be no more Palestinian territory left to negotiate for.

Xenophobia and White farmer Genocide are serious problems in South Africa. Your vote can open the world's eyes and together we can make a change. Awareness first

The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is an international treaty that came into force on February 27, 2005 during the George W. Bush Administration. The FCTC seeks "to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke" by enacting a set of universal standards stating the dangers of tobacco and limiting its use in all forms worldwide. The United States is one of the 168 countries who signed the FCTC but has not ratified it yet. In 2008, Presidential candidate Barack Obama made a campaign promise that if he was elected he would submit the FCTC to the US Senate for ratification. We are still waiting.

What do Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan have in common? They are all on the U.S. government’s list of “state sponsors of terrorism”. Which one seems to be the oddball? Cuba? The presence of Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism symbolizes everything that’s wrong with our approach to Cuba. It’s based on a myth (that Cuban sponsors terrorist groups); it reinforces Cold War-era prejudices (that Cuba is an “enemy” who we must isolate and oppose); it helps lock our foreign policy in stone. It prevents the United States from taking sensible steps toward normalizing relations with Cuba.

President Obama has nominated John Brennan, whom the New York Times calls the "chief architect" of the secret drone war, to head the CIA. A bipartisan group of eleven Senators led by Ron Wyden and Dick Durbin has demanded that the Administration disclose its legal justification for using drone strikes to kill Americans overseas. In response, the White House leaked a "white paper" that summarizes its argument, but has still not released the legal memos, even to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Urge the Senate to demand answers to basic questions about the drone strike policy before Brennan is confirmed as head of the CIA. What is the legal justification for drone strikes? How many civilians have been killed? Will Brennan get the CIA out of drone strikes, as Human Rights Watch and the Washington Post editorial board have demanded? Is it true that the CIA has targeted rescuers with "secondary strikes," which the UN has said is a war crime?

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