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Minister`s Threat to Tamils of `100 More Massacres`

The minister was responding to TNA leader Sampanthan’s speech at the ITAK convention in Batticaola last month.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka ) - Sri Lankan cabinet minister Champika Ranawaka has warned of “100 more massacres” if the Tamil people of the island were to follow the Tamil National Alliance, who he accused of calling the “nation” out to fight.

Addressing reporters, Power and Energy minister Champika Ranawaka from the JHU, a constituent party of the ruling coalition stated, "Does Sampanthan want to create 100 more Mullivaikkals?

Hate them for Me: The Politics of Rwanda

President Kagame: the architect of politics of hatred

(WASHINGTON DC) - A few weeks ago President Paul Kagame delivered the commencement speech at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa USA.

I attended this event to cover his speech as well as the protester that were there to peacefully object to a learning institution welcoming such a controversial leader.

Imam Musa Sadr`s Remains Discovered in Libya; Battle Over DNA use; Sheikh Yaacoub Alive or Dead?

Pressing questions over the case of Sheik Mohammad Yaacoub continue.

(BEIRUT Al-Manar) - In 1983, shortly before her death, American journalist Janet Lee Stevens proposed I visit Libya and meet some friends in the Palestine armed resistance.

In those days, ten Palestinian groups publicly associated, and half dozen more shadowy ones existed, sometimes in and sometimes out...

URGENT: Don`t Let the Biotech Industry Sneak This In!

Provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of illegal, potentially hazardous crops while USDA is assessing those potential hazards.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Congress is considering a sneaky, pro-GMO rider to a funding bill, and it may become law without anyone realizing it—unless you take action NOW!

The biotech industry has managed to insert a dangerous rider in support of genetically engineered crops into the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill.

Even in Israel, More and More Parents Choose Not to Circumcise their Sons

Because no systematic record is kept of the number of circumcisions performed in the country ‏(see below‏) there are no exact data.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - When their first child, a son, was born 11 years ago, it was clear to Eran Sadeh, now 42, and his partner, Maya, 40, that he would be circumcised.

“We arranged it with a mohel [ritual circumciser] and then I started to look for information and references about the man on the Internet,” says Eran, a former lawyer-turned-computer instructor in a software company.

Inside Mexico`s New Youth Rebellion

Weekend leafleting was just one of many actions carried out by a new youth movement that's shaken up the 2012 Mexican elections.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - In Aguascalientes, Mexico, a group of young people passed out leaflets to passerby in the city's busy downtown.

A young woman wore a homemade poster that protested the murders of women in the state of Mexico, while her companions distributed leaflets that flashed a satiric image of Enrique Pena Nieto.

Holding the Line for Tibet

My talk explains why Tibet is geopolitically strategic for USA and India.

(PRINCETON, NJ) - The Tibetan Youth Congress approached me to be their keynote speaker at the end of a large rally and hunger strike in front of the Chinese consulate in Manhattan.

Their peaceful event brought 10,000 supporters, mostly white Americans and Tibetans. Traffic was stopped for a few blocks. There was heavy police presence.

World`s Media Focuses on Burma and U.S. Potential for Oil Exploitation

As Burma’s military junta cracks down on pro-democracy protests, oil companies jostle for access to the country’s largely untapped natural resources.

(CHENNAI, India) - Our frequent contact and contributor in Chennai, has rounded up an excellent collection of stories that bring us up to date and big developments in Burma.

Myanmar (Burma), the Next U.S. War...

Hillary Clinton goes to Burma, why?

(ORLANDO, FL) - While Burma’s military junta cracks down on pro-democracy protests, oil companies are busy jostling for access to the country’s largely untapped natural gas and oil fields.

Just last Sunday – as marches led by Buddhist monks drew thousands in the country’s biggest cities – Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora was in Burma’s capital Rangoon for the signing of oil contracts.

The Diaspora Factor

War on terror revisited: a battle abroad.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - ‘President Rajapaksa is in a hell of a predicament also because as the Commander in Chief of the Military, he is alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

With mounting evidence, he is trying to negotiate, perhaps barter justice with a political solution as he knows that the day he relinquishes his position as head of state, he is likely to be arrested...