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Motorcyclists Have Chance to Meet Senator Ron Wyden in Northeastern Oregon

Includes list of meetings, locations and times.

(PICKERINGTON, Ohio AMA) - Senator Ron Wyden is hosting a series of town hall meetings in northeastern areas of Oregon and wants to hear from motorcycle riders in Oregon.

Gerald Gahima: `Root Causes of Conflict Must be Addressed`

“... we’ve not addressed the root causes of conflict in our society.”

(WASHINGTON DC) - A former Rwanda chief prosecutor has warned that the likelihood of renewed conflict, even conflict along sectarian lines, is very real in Rwanda.

Gerald Gahima said the Rwandan society has the challenge of ensuring that violence like that experienced in the past does not recur.

Medical Teams International Helps Children in Areas Brutalized by Joseph Kony

In 30 days, efforts are already showing results.

(PORTLAND, OR) - One month after launching a campaign to help Ugandan children affected by Nodding Syndrome in areas brutalized by Joseph Kony, Medical Teams International is seeing measurable progress among hundreds of children and their families.

Nodding Syndrome is a mysterious disease affecting more than 4,000. Specialists are working hard to determine the cause of the syndrome, which involves convulsions, malnutrition and disorientation.

Holocaust Memorial Week Observed April 16-20

One of the highlights of this year’s program is a public exhibit based on a collection of more than 300 letters dating from 1940-45 from Holocaust survivor Garncarz.

(CORVALLIS, OR) - Oregon State University will observe Holocaust Memorial Week April 16-20 with a series of events.

These include an exhibit of letters from Holocaust survivor Sala Garncarz, a theatrical performance highlighting Garncarz’s struggles in a concentration camp, a talk about the genocide of native peoples and a concert by an acclaimed flutist.

Counterpunch print edition: In Defense of Gilad Atzmon

Muslims, are regularly attacked in public, the great merit of Atzmon is to recognize the existence of Jewish identity politics and to criticize it – something practically nobody else dares to do.

(BRUSSELS) - Pro-Palestinian friends had repeatedly warned me: Gilad Atzmon is anti-Semitic, he is bad for the Palestinian cause, he may even work for Israel.

How Rome Didn`t Decline and Fall (Yet)

The Vatican Occupation of America - A Tragi-Comedy In Three Acts III The Vatican Numbers Game.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - “Catholic Education,” is held high as a beacon and often referred to in hushed tones by distinguished politicians, celebrities and talk-show hosts, along with emotional nostalgia over Knute Rockne, the Gipper himself and the football supremacy of Notre Dame.

As a result, the priestly control of education in Catholic America has a subliminal but huge implication for intellectual freedom, that handmaiden of “religious freedom.”

The NSA: Operation Enduring Eavesdropping

The extent of NSA’s reach goes far beyond mere espionage, since the agency plays a crucial role in computer research and development.

(DENVER, CO) - “A large measure of sacrifice and discipline will be demanded of the American people.

They will be asked to give up some of the benefits which they have come to associate with their freedoms,” wrote the authors of United States National Security Council Report 68 dated 14 April 1950.

An Appeal From NSSP of Sri Lanka to World Media to SAVE Those Who Are Being Abducted

The Nava Sama Samaja Party demands the immediate release of the comrades of the Frontline Socialist Party.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Two leaders of the Frontline Socialist Party were separately abducted in the early hours of Saturday 7 April 2012 from Kiribathgoda and Godagama respectively (suburbs of Colombo).

They are prominent representatives of a new Left party that has broken away from the JVP in opposition to coalition politics and in solidarity with the Tamil peoples struggle for justice and equality.

Gunter Grass Exposes Israel As a Nuclear Power that `Endangers` a Fragile World Peace

Through this deep concern, Grass wrote his poem, This Must Be Said, breaking decades of silence. Grass, now 84, says in the poem that he wrote with his “last ink”.

(CHICAGO) - A stunning new poem by German novelist Gunter Grass, has “broken the silence” on Israel as a nuclear power.

Womb Producing Terrorism Must be Surgically Removed

White van abductions, random shootings, blackmail, threats and intimidations are part of this deterioration.

(LONDON Sri Lanka Guardian) - In an egg and chicken argument, Sri Lanka stands nakedly exposed of giving birth to illegitimate babies of terrorism for many decades.

Sri Lanka has seen state violence against the Tamils who are its national minority that led to three decades of unprecedented warfare between the government and Tamil group LTTE.