Browse All News Articles on Salem-News Page 1101

Lynching Charlie Lynch

Lynching Charlie Lynch finds many answers, and raises even more questions.

(BEVERLY HILLS, CA) - Directed by Rick Ray, Lynching Charlie Lynch is available On Demand and online today, April 20, 2012, from Brainstorm Media.

DVD copies of the film are now available for pre-order through Amazon.

`Never Again` is an Empty Slogan

If Obama is sincere, if ‘never again’ isn’t just an ‘empty slogan’ as he says, he better goes out of his way to restrain Israel’s genocidal inclinations and its belligerent pro-war Lobbies around the world.

(LONDON) - The United States must resolve that ‘never again’ is not just an ‘empty slogan’, said U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday, in a statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Yet, I am left bewildered, what does president Obama refers to? Is ‘never again’ a universal message pointing at genocides in general or did he refer to Jewish suffering only?

Why Was George Zimmerman Granted Bail in Killing of Trayvon Martin?

If the city of Sanford wanted to embarrass itself any further, it just did.

(SYRACUSE, NY YourBlackWorld) - What do you do when your municipality is holding arguably the most hated and notorious killer on earth?

You grant him bail. That’s exactly what Judge Kenneth Lester did for George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin.

Sri Lankan Mosque Forced to Abandon Prayers by Protesters

Last September a monk led a crowd to demolish a Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura, not far from Dambulla.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka BBC) - A mosque in Sri Lanka has been forced to abandon Friday prayers amid community tensions in the central town of Dambulla.

About 2,000 Buddhists, including monks, marched to the mosque and held a demonstration demanding its demolition.

Lessons Learned

Update of lessons learned in life, demonstration schedule, olive picking schedules, and some news and analysis.

(BETHLEHEM) - It has been over three years since I returned to Palestine from living in the US for nearly three decades. Those three plus years in Palestine have been truly phenomenal and inspirational.

Meet the Media Companies Lobbying Against Transparency

Large media lobbies against FCC measure that would require broadcasters to post political ad data online.

(WASHINGTON DC ProPublica) - News organizations cultivate a reputation for demanding transparency.

Now many of the country’s biggest media companies, which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations, are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.

Christianity -101

Unity through Diversity, with mutual respect for all, will produce greater results than absolute obedience to absolute authority the far right would impose.

(PASO ROBLES, CA) - Sixty to 100 years after Isaiah’s Prophecy The Gospels were written to promote Jesus as the visible Son of Jehovah.

Jesus provided a visible and spiritual - after his death - spokesman for the Fathers of Christianity made permanent by the magic of the Eucharist.

FNS Feature: The Surprise that Keeps Surprising

"Without economic development here, we cannot help our people.." - Javier Perea, elected Mayor of Sunland Park.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - It was a stunning political development.

The often-fractious Sunland Park City Council took action by a vote of 3-2, with one abstention, to install 24-year-old New Mexico State University graduate Javier Perea as mayor.

First They Come for the Muslims

Stephen F. Downs, a lawyer in Albany, N.Y., calls the process of condemning people before they have committed a crime “pre-emptive prosecution.”

(NEW YORK TruthDig) - Tarek Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced Thursday in Worcester, Mass., to 17½ years in prison.

It was another of the tawdry show trials held against Muslim activists since 9/11 as a result of the government’s criminalization of what people say and believe.

An American Tragicomedy: Brain Capital

Most men observe the white egret, as it stalks languidly
through the blue waters of a lagoon, and ask: “Why?”
I look at it and say: “Why not?”
And that has made all the difference.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - In 1945, Barney Bain was discharged from the U.S. Army Air Corps, at 23 one of the youngest Lt Colonels in history, with 50 missions in B-17's, a brace of English girl friends and a DFC.

He also had a soupcon of post-traumatic stress disorder, which hadn't yet been discovered by Army medics or anybody else.