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LLRC calls for Rule of Law, not rule of men

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - More talks on the final report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) began last week just after President Mahinda Rajapaksa, returned from attending the Asia Pacific Democracy Forum in Bali, Indonesia

There was a change of mind over President Rajapaksa tabling the report in Parliament and making a statement as revealed exclusively in the Sunday Times of December 4.

Obama Ad Condemns Israel Aid Opponents

What is so bizarre about the Obama campaign’s hostility toward those who oppose aid to Israel is that Israel doesn’t need U.S. assistance to begin with.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - An ad on my Facebook page from barackobama.com reads, "Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich say they would start foreign aid to Israel at zero. Reject their extreme plan now!"

This struck me as odd for two reasons: First, it is disingenuous and misleading. The actual position taken by these Republican presidential candidates is that all foreign aid should initially start at zero as means of reducing the deficit, to be immediately followed by the resumption of aid on a case-by-case basis.

Is Fluoridation Safe?

About 70 percent of community water systems in the U.S. are treated with fluoride.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Fluoride is the name given to a group of compounds that are composed of the naturally occurring element fluorine and one or more other elements.

Egypt`s Activists Bid Farewell to the Revolution

“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Soldiers have stormed an anti-government protest camp in Cairo …Mubarak says he will not run for another term as president … violent clashes have killed at least seven people and injured more than 150 others- and still counting …Tahrir square is packed with millions of Egyptians.

Protesters set cars alight and threw stones at military police in the Egyptian capital …what inspiring scenes we are getting here from Tahrir square … a wounded activist said that he had been arrested and beaten by soldiers at a sit-in near the parliamentary building earlier…

Anatomy of a NATO War Crime

Graphics, links, videos added by Alex

(SORMAN, Libya) - It was a warm early Monday morning along the Libyan coast on June 20, 2011. At approximately 0200 GMT the next day in NATO Headquarters in Brussels and 30 minutes later in its media center in Naples, staffers finished tabulating NATO’s 92nd day of aerial attacks on Libya and began to post the data on its website.

Twenty four hours earlier an Atlantic Alliance command unit, located approximately 30 miles off the Libyan coast, in a direct line with Malta, and NATO’s targeting unit had signed off on 49 bombing missions for June 20th, the last day of spring and the last day of NATO’s original UN bombing mandate.

Video Explores Suspected Murder of Marine Colonel James Sabow

Jim Sabow was a career Marine, a Harrier pilot, third in command of El Toro, and he wasn't going to allow the illegal drug running to keep taking place on his base.

(EL TORO, Calif.) - In early 1991, something happened at the El Toro Marine air base that was so bad, so shameful, that it will not go away.

It's the highly controversial death of Marine Colonel James Sabow. A fighter pilot, a hero of the Vietnam War, a man considered by those who knew him, to be 'general material'.

IGNORING THE LURE: Materialism`s Backlash

Wealthy glitter does not impress me or define my inner value. There is no price tag to my principles. These remain the cornerstone of my reason for being.

(SALEM) - With Christmas Season in full swing and the jingle of cash registers growing ever louder, my sweet spouse asked me how I formed my attitudes about not being swallowed up by Mr. Materialism. If was a question I had never pondered before.

Most education really begins in the home rather than the school. Your parents become your de facto teachers in values education.

Ron Paul: `I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk any time you want to!`

Congressman Rob Paul- a rock star in New Hampshire.

(SALEM) - Ron Paul is scoring big points with those who decry government control of food products by declaring an end to regulations on the sale of raw milk in the state of New Hampshire.

The Congressman and Republican Presidential Candidate said, "The drug companies, the insurance companies, they are the big lobbyists and they promote things, and they would also prevent and would like to regulate all alternative care and vitamins and nutritional products and keep people from it."

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Scuffle at NRC Has Stench of Industry Influence Behind It

The latest roundup of stories about nuclear-related issues worldwide.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is at the center of the first three entries featured in this collection of the latest stories making headlines from the world of nuclear energy and power.

There is also a fight among nation's top nuclear regulators gets airing before Congress, as Christian Science Monitor reports. With an emphasis on the recent, ongoing tragedy in Fukushima, Japan, Daily Science covers 3 Reasons to Avoid Nuclear Power.

On Sri Lanka, Ban Has No Comment on LLRC Report, `It`s Up to Member States`

Nothing like a dose of quiet diplomacy...

(UNITED NATIONS) - Now that the Sri Lankan government's Lessons Learnt Reconciliation Commission report is public, with its claim that civilians were not targeted, Inner City Press on Friday asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's associate spokesman Farhan Haq for the UN's response to the report, and any moves for accountability.

Haq said "we'll need to study" the LLRC report and that Ban's UN "may respond in due course." He said, "We are continuing with our efforts at accountability... We hope and trust that member states will look to the contents of th[e] report.. led by Marsuki Darusman."