Can you believe in the midst of this week of news flashes (Deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Steve McNair; resignation of Sarah Palin; Wimbledon and Federer; etc) we missed a big one:
Congresswoman on aid mission arrested in foreign country.

She was just released too!

Why didn't we hear about it?

Take a wild guess.

Lets see.... Which former congresswomen ran and lost against an opponent funded almost exclusively by the PACs of a foreign country?
Cynthia McKinney. (she has since been reelected)
And which foreign country was that?
Israel
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2009/07/05/mckinney_israel.html

She was on her way with a group of other aid workers to deliver needed aid supplies to one of the most afflicted areas of the world, the Gaza strip. The root cause of the crisis in the Gaza is the deliberate actions and occupation of the Israelis, which we unfortunately continue to subsidize (irrespective of the added debt it adds to us and the world shame it brings upon us). Truly a tragedy that the media, which is oh so fair and balanced, seems to have missed this story. Where's the outrage, where's the political pressure and action?

For more on the occupation, check out www.occupation101.com