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BBB Commends Oregon`s 2012 Business of the Year

Detailed Perfection Earns High Marks from Local Judges.

(LAKE OSWEGO ) - "How does your business impact the community?"

US Editor`s Lament for Israel Overlooks Zionism`s Inherent Racism

So-called "soft Zionists" are increasingly troubled by the fact that Israel’s behaviour contradicts their long cherished myths.

(LONDON Redress) - Israel’s anti-democratic and racist traits are not recent phenomena, located mainly among the settlers on the West Bank, but:

Rwandan Opposition Members Remain Under Attack

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza’s trial continues...

(WASHINGTON DC) - On 12 March 2012, the political trial of the opposition leader Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza resumed. About 200 people from all the folks attended the hearing, and some of them donned pink, a symbol of the prison uniform in solidarity with all Rwandan political prisoners.

The High Court decided to suspend all debates related to genocide ideology in this case until the Supreme Court rules on the defendant petition to nullify the controversial law.

`U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom` - a Tragic Failure

Group 'monitors global religious freedom' - somebody tell them the monitors in Israel and Sri Lanka are unplugged!

(SALEM) - I am horrified by my country again. I just received the latest news release for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Sounds like an important group doesn't it?

Christ at the Checkpoint

We must maintain our hope and our energy and move towards justice, freedom, and equality, and redemption.

(BETHLEHEM) - Israel has been paranoid about people finding out the truth of what it is doing. In an example of this, 55 Harvard students were expelled from Al-Walaja earlier this week.

Humbug Apology and Demand for Deportation

Lankan envoy apologises to Indian MPs.

(NEW DELHI) - The government on Thursday summoned Sri Lanka's envoy to India for a meeting during which he apologised to Indian MPs for his comments that sought to link those questioning Colombo's human rights record with the Tamil Tigers.

"I would like to apologise to MPs of Tamil Nadu if I have caused any discontent or concern or distress in their minds. I feel sorry about that," Kariyawasam told reporters here after the meeting.

Balochistan Ceasefire & Political Settlement Proposed at UN

Urgent need for a military ceasefire & political settlement in Pakistani-occupied Balochistan.

(GENEVA) - Speaking at the UN in Geneva, British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has “condemned Pakistan’s intensified repression in Balochistan.

He "urged the UN to send a fact-finding mission, called on the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Pakistani leaders and outlined proposals for military de-escalation and a negotiated political settlement in Balochistan.”

Mexico Mourns a Generation

Victims have been tortured, shot to death, decapitated and hanged from overpasses.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - As Mexico plunges into the crucial election season of 2012, the ongoing slaughter of young people continues to spark outrage, spill tears, destroy families and raise fundamental questions about the country’s future.

This month, the murders of two young men in Ciudad Juarez and Monterrey were protested by friends and loved ones with emotional postings on Facebook and other social media networks.

Barack Obama is a One-Term President: Yvonne Ridley

"This latest U.S. president, given a Nobel peace Prize because he was not George W. Bush" - Yvonne Ridley

(TEHRAN) - You would certainly know Yvonne Ridley or at least heard of her name if you have been a regular follower of Press TV, especially in Britain.

Ridley is a renowned British journalist, war correspondent and TV host. She made the headlines in 2001 when she was arrested by the Taliban members in Afghanistan while working for the Sunday Express.

Why don`t they love us?

And we wonder why people in the Middle East don’t appreciate what we are doing for them.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - In January, a video surfaced showing American Marines urinating on the bodies of Afghans they had killed, in February, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan "inadvertently” burned numerous copies of the Koran. In March, an American soldier murdered 16 Afghan civilians – mostly children – in their own homes.