Browse All News Articles on Salem-News Page 1074

Rotary Peace Symposium: Conflict and the Role of the Media

"Peace is justice, equality, and freedom for all; when you leave your house you are back safely; when you have food." - Emmanuel Jal

(BANGKOK) - Emmanuel Jal, peace activist, musician, and former Sudanese child soldier, brought the reality of conflict to the conference hall at the start of the 2012 Rotary World Symposium in Bangkok.

US Has Always Been a Bully

What do Israel and America need to consider before further bloodthirsty expansion?

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - America has always been a bully. Americans are convinced that they have a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country’s borders from “sea to shining sea”.

Sins of Our Fathers

“We dance round in a ring and suppose/ But the secret sits in the middle and knows.”
(Robert Frost)

(LAVERNE, CA) - Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance.

`President Paul Kagame is to Blame for the Humanitarian Crisis in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo`

Open memo to the UN Secretary General, G8 Members, UN General Assembly, EU, AU, and all Representatives to the UN Security Council.

(WASHINGTON DC) - On behalf of the Rwanda National Congress, let me take this opportunity to bring to your kind attention concerns regarding the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in eastern DRC.

More than 300,000 internally displaced people in North and South Kivu in the first quarter of this year alone.

War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka

"We try to wean them away from sex work but they say they have no choice" - activist asking not to be named for fear of reprisal.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka IPS) - On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of their husbands who disappeared or surrendered at the end of the country's 30-year civil war.

According to government estimates, the ethnic conflict has widowed 59,000 women, the bulk of them in the Tamil-dominated north and east.

A Mother`s Day Manifesto and Shimon Peres

The hearts and minds that require the most transformation are the ones that hold the most political power; but power never gives any away without a fierce battle!

(CLERMONT, FLA) - Not often is the power of ONE able to make a damn bit of a difference in our Orwellian World, but a few mothers who did, were Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, who organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community.

Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace.

Astounding Revelations about the Port Orford Meteorite

Cosmochemical studies and dynamical models of hit-and-run planetary collisions suggest a new origin for the stony-iron meteorites called pallasites.

(SALEM) - Coveted, analyzed, eulogized, and resurrected, the Port Orford Meteorite is the nucleus of one of Oregon’s classic stories of unclaimed wealth.

International Bank Considers Ciudad Juarez Redevelopment Loan

While homicide rates have dipped since 2010, the Ciudad Juarez press routinely reports fresh murders, frequently several killings each day.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Representatives of the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank scouted out downtown Ciudad Juarez last week in anticipation of a possible loan package.

The tour was promoted by the Chihuahua state and Ciudad Juarez municipal governments as part of a $50 million investment drive to revive the Mexican border city’s long decaying downtown core.

Volcano of Lo Plus

Once the scientists revert to the established scientific methodology of basing their theories on proven science facts instead of their basic beliefs, many of the mysteries of the universe will be resolved.

(SAN DIEGO) - In a Sept. 30, 1998 UCSD television program titled: “The Moon of Jupiter”, pictures taken in 1997 were shown. One picture was of the moon Io with one half of the moon in daylight and one half in darkness.

The picture was taken to look at the surface details but when they stretched out the image to bring out the faint details, they realized these volcanic eruptions also glow faintly like fluorescent lights.

Pot Foe Dwight Leans Right but he`s Not Right

Our medical expert, Dr. Phil Leveque, says Dwight Holton's position on marijuana is a disservice to PTSD Veterans.

(SALEM) - A new article in US News & World Report explores the Oregon Gubernatorial race and Dwight Holton's hardline position over medical marijuana.

Mr. Holton has stated that he supports the state's voter-endorsed program, but I think that might be a wee stretch of the truth from Dwight.