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Eric Holder Held the Future of OxyContin and America`s Safety - and Let it Go

The AG's dirty secret led to thousands of deaths; now a Congressman is waging a battle against federal powers including the FDA, over deadly OxyContin.

(MYRTLE BEACH,SC) - Margaret Hamburg, MD, head of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has mastered "stonewalling talk tactics".

Sri Lanka`s Ghastly Child Killings

More than 100 children were among a huge number of Tamil civilians killed by the Sri Lankan Forces in a gory bloodbath in May 2009.

(COLOMBO TruthDive) - Even innocent and young children were not left behind in the blood bath staged by genocidal Sri Lanka.

Yet another horrid clip of a young boy killed in cold blood has surfaced, captured from the final hours of the gory 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels.

FDA Forced to Consider Bisphenol-A Ban

Among other precautions, the FDA is supporting the development of BPA alternatives for the linings of food cans and infant formula canisters.

(WASHINGTON DC LID) - Federal regulators will decide this month whether to ban use of the synthetic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in all food packaging, officials said.

Gaza Activists Prepare for Israeli Apartheid Week

As a global mobilization, IAW builds connections between Gaza activists, isolated by Israel’s siege, and their counterparts elsewhere.

(GAZA STRIP) - Israeli Apartheid Week has seen great success in its first two years.

The Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, together with the One Democratic State Group and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, are gearing up for Gaza’s third IAW.

Perceptions of the Syrian Uprising from Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp

The uprising in Syria has re-opened some old wounds in Shatila camp and between the Baathist Assad regime, now in its 41st year, and Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees.

(BEIRUT) - Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, despite being targeted over the past six decades for numerous crimes including massacres from various sources, in many ways is representative of all the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.

Located in South Beirut, Shatila was one of the first Palestinian refugee camps set up during the 1948 Nakba.

Geneva: The Tangled Web Of Many Deceptions

“This accursed shortsighted statecraft…” Heinrich von Kleist (Prinz Friedrich)
The Rajapaksas are the prime architects of Sri Lanka’s Geneva malaise.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - The US-backed Resolution on Sri Lanka does not urge Colombo to implement the Darusman Report (or recommendations by some international human rights group).

The Resolution merely urges the Rajapaksa administration to make a time-bound (as distinct from an eternally open-ended) commitment to implement the recommendations of its own LLRC.

Application to Adjourn Proceedings Ignored by Family Court

The Musa Parents get Adoption Statement for a ‘Final Hearing’ on 12th March 2012

(LONDON) - An application to adjourn civil procedures until the outcome of the criminal proceedings was submitted to the Royal Courts of Justice on 24th February on behalf of Nigerians Bishop Gloria[i] and Reverend Chiwar Musa.

So far, the application has been ignored.

Appeal to POSCO Shareholders

"Effectively, your company has declared a war on us. An illegal war in which they are using paid mercenaries to kidnap and torture protesters."

(DELHI, India) - Villagers of Dhenkia, Nuagaon, and Gobindpur, express concerns and grief because POSCO is behaving like a medieval marauder in their villages.

POSCO has influenced the Indian Government, police and civilian administration to acquire lands, destroying homes and livelihoods, terrorizing villagers over the last four years.

War Crime Court and its Conflicting Interests

Is it fair that nations be prosecuted by countries suspected of having committed the same crimes?

(SALEM) - This story poses an ugly reality about Sri Lanka and war crimes.

A quick review of the record will show that several of the countries occupying a seat in the world court; those tasked with bringing war crime suspects to justice; have their own share of unanswered and unaddressed questions in this same area.

EU Recommends Reversal of 2009 UNHRC Resolution Praising Sri Lanka

Cuba challenged the US Ambassador by asking her to submit a resolution on Guantanamo if they are so concerned with accountability issues.

(GENEVA) - UN Watch in Geneva, has reported that the EU has made recommendation to reverse the 2009 UNHRC Resolution that praised Sri Lanka’s conduct of the war.

The report also states that Sri Lankan Attorney-General challenged the premise and necessity of the draft.