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Life Behind Wheel Propels Human Relations Roadmap

Maintenance is the key to management. Sloppy oversight reaps negative results.

(SALEM) - This writer was raised in suburban New York City and did not actually get a drivers license until I reached age 40. Thus I became a late bloomer behind the wheel.

Looking back, there are many invisible lessons to be gleaned. When we drive a car, yes indeed, we are interacting with an assortment of very diverse human beings out there.

A Message of Encouragement in Search for Truth and Freedom

Cuba must shape virtuous men in order to forge a nation of dignity and freedom.

(MADRID, Spain) - Pope Benedict XVI held a historic 3-day trip to Cuba. In the crowded Mass, which was celebrated in Havana, he stated: "If you follow my word, you are truly my disciples; know the truth and the truth shall make you free".

Benedict XVI took only the Word of God to encourage the Cuban people to find the truth, that is, freedom.

India`s Vote at UN Not Good for Sri Lanka: Chandrika Kumaratunga

"Much more can be done, for reconciliation, for physical reconstruction, its three years since the war ended... " - Chandrika Kumaratunga

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka IBN Live) - Former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga on Tuesday said that India's decision to vote against the country on a UN resolution is not good for the island nation.

Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Suhasini Haidar, Kumaratunga said something "serious must have happened" that India took a decision of not supporting Sri Lanka.

Both Sides of an Argument

In any debate, the most credible argument comes from one whose own interests are sacrificed for the sake of truth.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Rubbish! Someone characterized the arguments we made as college debaters.

Stars and Sexual Mutilation

"A song for human rights I can do." - Singer Carly Bryant

(PARIS, France) - I spoke to Joan Baez at the end of her 21 March 2006 Paris concert in Le grand Rex. I had been waiting for her at the artist exit.

After her formidable singing for at least two hours with an as powerful voice as when young, we glanced at each other over the barrier made by her nervous bodyguards.

Sri Lanka: Genocide and Poor Toilet Training

Sri Lanka's Buddhist tormentors force Hindus and Christians to play the ultimate humiliation game.

(SALEM) - A terrible history of murdering journalists who dissent from the government's grace isn't evil enough for Sri Lanka's continual conflict against the Tamil population in Jaffna.

A Chemical War Without End: Agent Orange in Vietnam

It is at the governmental level, and first at the level of the United States government, that the question of support for Vietnam must be raised and that the demand for just reparations must be made.

(PARIS, France) - The Vietnam War (1961-1975) is known for the massive bombings of North Vietnam.

More insidious, however, yet less well-known to the general public, was the chemical war waged from 1961 to 1971 against South Vietnam.

Traveling the World... For Free

The series is now airing on SCAN-TV Silverton.

(BERLIN, Germany) - In 2010, Wigge zigzagged across 4 continents and 11 countries in 150 days without a cent to his name, but resourcefulness to spare.

His adventures are chronicled in the upcoming television series "How to Travel the World For Free", which starts airing in late April on public and local access television stations in 70 markets across the U.S..

Jilted Sri Lanka Ups the Hate-Speak Against India

India has so far chosen to ignore the provocation.

(NEW DELHI First Post World) - Proxy-speak is a unique feature in Sri Lanka’s propaganda machinery, particularly during the present Rajapaksa regime.

Whether it is to defend its “war against terror” or cover up allegations of large-scale Tamil civilian casualty, or to take cheap potshots at countries that do not buy its line, the regime lets loose its proxies.

Putting Palestine Back on the Agenda

As Arafat once said to me, it could have worked if Rabin had not been assassinated by a Zionist zealot and if the U.S. and other major powers had insisted that Israel honoured the commitments it made.

(LONDON) - By asserting that Iran is a threat to Israel’s existence (a ludicrous assertion) and beating the drums for war with it, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has succeeded in getting Palestine off the political and mainstream media agenda and winning more time for Zionism to consolidate its occupation of the West Bank.