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TESO Conference Will Discuss Tamil Eelam, says Karuna

DMK has always been with the Lankan Tamils and the revival of TESO should be a step in this direction.

(CHENNAI Press Trust of India) - Insisting on non-violent means to achieve a separate Tamil Eelam, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said the now revived Tamil Eelam Supporters' Organisation (TESO) will discuss ways and means to fulfill it.

Karunanidhi said his party had stood by the Sri Lankan Tamils for the past 50 years and his government had even faced dismissal for the Lankan cause.

VA Supports Family and Friends Seeking to Encourage Vets to Get Mental Health Services

VA is also adding approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians as well as nearly 300 support staff to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Department of Veterans Affairs recently completed a media campaign for its call center “Coaching Into Care,” a telephone service.

The service allows family members and friends trying to encourage their Veteran to seek health care for possible readjustment and mental health issues.

Money problems of the 1%... The Midas Protocol

The over-logical fell for the witch - whose arguments converted them to stone...
And kisses brutalized the over-male. - W.H. Auden

(SASKATCHEWAN) - I arrived on Wall Street in 1951 like Horatio Alger, with my inappropriate B.A. and my cardboard suitcase.

The ratio of the remuneration paid a typical CEO compared to that of a drone in the trading department (such as me) was probably something like 50:1.

44 Senators Tell Obama To Do Israel`s Bidding

The signees include 25 Democrats and 19 Republicans. These senators represent AIPAC’s honor roll of loyalists.

(CHICAGO) - War, as General Sherman once said, is hell. It is also widely perceived to be a failure of diplomacy.

Which would explain why it is that when war-promoting lobbyists want to generate congressional enthusiasm for the next war, all short-term congressional memories must be wiped out.

Does Apple Discriminate Against Iranian Americans?

A young woman was recently refused service for speaking Farsi in a Georgia Apple store.

(WASHINGTON DC) - An Apple Store's refusal to see an IPad to an Iranian-American in Georgia last week, has been the cause of significant concern within the community.

It further escalates the possibility of Apple's discrimination against Iranian Americans.

Reactor Reax Top Stories

Nuclear Waste: Why Environmentalists Are Pressing NRC on Reactor Licenses.

(WASHINGTON DC) - This week in Reactor Reax: the DoE's loan guarantee programs are the focus of much public attention since Solyndra went bankrupt last year.

CSM explores Nuclear waste, asking why environmentalists are pressing NRC on reactor licenses. Also, feds say design flaw led to Calif. nuke plant woes.

Are Palestinians Being Scapegoated over Army Killings in Lebanon?

Everyone in Lebanon knows that the “incident” in Ein el Helwe was a direct and predictable result of the army’s killing in Nahr al Bared.

(BEIRUT Al-Manar) - The killings of three Palestinian refugees this past week, and the wounding of more than a dozen others by the Lebanese army were not “accidental security incidents”.

Militant Attacks on Afghan Forces on Rise: Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says militant attacks on the security forces have been increased in the war-torn country in recent months.

(KABUL Press TV) - Hamid Karzai made the remarks on Thursday, a day after killing of 21 people by a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Khost.

"I have noticed that these days, in the past one, two or three months, attacks on our soldiers, police and intelligence officers have increased," Karzai said.

Crucial Bird Conservation Programs Cut by 50 Percent by House

The bill will now move to the full House Appropriations Committee for consideration.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Bird conservation groups are attacking a new political move as “one of the most regressive wildlife appropriations” ever.

Crucial conservation programs were slashed by 50% of FY 2012 funding levels in a funding bill approved by the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2013.

Ed Milliband And His Phony Populism

Ed Milliband speaks about ‘immigration’ today because to him, the very concept of production and manufacturing is alien.

(LONDON) - In a desperate attempt to capture the imagination of patriots and nationalists, Labour leader Ed Miliband today promised new measures to prevent the British people being "locked out" of their own jobs by foreign workers.

But what jobs is he talking about? Everyone knows there are no jobs.