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Lady Gaga: A Platform for Self Expression through Photography

By analyzing Gaga`s approach, we explore conceptual and technical approaches to photographic self-expression.

(NEW YORK CITY) - This summer the School of the International Center of Photography will offer a new course focusing on an artist whose image is often discussed more than her music.

Jamie Leigh Jones, Assaulted Twice?

Two smiling faces were taken away, and the government and its courts add insult to injury.

(CLEVELAND) - The court order against rape victim Jamie Leigh Jones is another example of our societal regression. It is a stunning example of what has become of something once adequately titled: 'the American justice system'.

Today it is a mindless program that still allows women who serve their country to be treated like objects and raped and killed without consequence.

Passage of Additional Components of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights

The bills guarantee struggling homeowners a single point of contact at their lender with knowledge of their loan and direct access to decision makers.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that the non-conference committee components of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights have passed out of legislative committees.

“The entire Homeowner Bill of Rights legislative package will create a level playing field for California homeowners,” said Attorney General Harris.

I`m Sick of the Gary & Sara Harvey Case - Time to Move On

In September 2011 (or there about), when someone called the police and said that Gary Harvey’s life was in danger. His wife is blocked from visiting him because of it.

(RAPID CITY, S.D. Dakota Voice) - Sara Harvey apparently submitted a report alleging neglect (regarding a visible wound/sore on her husband) sometime around May 31, 2012.

She was immediately accused of breaking the visitation and privacy rules (whistle-blowing?).

Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives launched

Torture is the result of a long and systematic process of social control, which uses old tactics of the powerful and unaccountable, without respect for past or present.

(HONG KONG) - The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched its new initiative, Torture: Asian and Global perspectives.

History of the US-Israel Relationship, Part I

Alison Weir: How the "Special Relationship" was created.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - While many people are led to believe that US support for Israel is driven by the American establishment and U.S. national interests, the facts don’t support this theory.

Thoughts of an American Muslim on Independence Day

American liberty is about going before a judge, providing reasonable suspicion and getting a warrant, not about unchecked government power to intrude into a person's life.

(WASHINGTON DC CAIR) - As we mark one of history's most triumphant acts of liberty, I want to share with you some of the many things America's Muslims are doing to preserve this fundamental principle of the American identity.

The revolution we honor each year on July 4th was in part sparked by unreasonable government intrusions into individual liberty.

News Flash: The South Won the Civil War After All

We are withdrawing government investments in public education, libraries, infrastructure, health care, and technological innovation—in many areas, to the point where we are falling behind the standards that prevail in every other developed country

(BELLINGHAM, WA) - It’s been said that the rich are different than you and me.

What most Americans don’t know is that they’re also quite different from each other, and that which faction is currently running the show ultimately makes a vast difference in the kind of country we are.

Data Reveals Scheme for Sinhala Military Colonies in Country of Eezham Tamils

The Sinhala genocidal state is nakedly setting a paradigm on how to conduct genocide by openly naming Sinhala military colonisation schemes as ‘War Heroes villages’.

(JAFFNA, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - Details emerging from four divisional secretariats of Mullaiththeevu district in Vanni, indicate a concerted and structural move by the occupying Sri Lanka military establishment there.

20% of Mannaar Faces Genocidal Land Grab, TNA Activists to Protest on 07 July

Some of these lands occupied by the military, have been recently subjected to legal transfer from the owners to the SL military.

(MANAAR, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - The Secretary of Youth Affairs of Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi and a TNA political activist in Mannaar, VS Sivakaran, say Colombo has appropriated at least one fifth of the lands in Mannaar district.

It is being taken for military purposes and a long-term Sinhalicisation and colonisation of the district.