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Mass Execution of Children Alleged

A probable site of this mass burial of the executed children has been located, and is now under the protection and jurisdiction of the Onkwehonwe Mohawk Nation and its clan mothers.

(BRANTFORD, Ontario) - "My brother Rufus saw them take all those children and stand them up next to a big ditch, and then the soldiers shot them all and they all fell into that ditch. Some of the kids were still alive and they just poured the dirt in on top of them. Buried them alive."

Busan summit must not miss vital opportunity to end aid dependency says ActionAid

Currently just 55% of aid worldwide is 'real aid' according to ActionAid’s Real Aid 3 report released earlier this year.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The international community must seize the chance to put countries in the driving seat of their own development, anti-poverty agency ActionAid says, as the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness opens in Busan, Korea.

ActionAid is calling for donors to agree to fund developing country government plans which directly benefit poor communities and enable citizens to hold their governments to account.

Crisis Clobbers Mexican Immigrants

Many immigrants and their families were dependent on construction and other hard-hit sectors of the economy.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The last four years have been a rough road for Mexican immigrants in the US. Anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama and other states have disrupted lives and sent people packing, while record deportations have uprooted longtime residents and divided families.

Undisciplined U.S. Military Attack in Pakistan?

Amid fierce resentment, a growing number of Pakistanis fear the U.S. may be losing its chance to secure peace in Afghanistan.

(SALEM) - 24 Pakistani troops were killed and 13 others injured in deadly airstrikes by U.S. and NATO forces on two of the country's military checkpoints.

Local News: Lancaster Drive Shooting Sends Man to Hospital

Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call the Marion County Sheriffs' Office Criminal Investigations Unit at 503.540.8007.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Marion County Sheriff's Deputies received a call of gunshots fired near the Pizza Hut Restaurant on Lancaster Drive NE in Salem last night. The call came in at 9:59pm.

Deputies Jacob Thompson and Nick Hunter arrived within four minutes of the call and found a male victim in his 20's in front of the nearby Bottoms Up Bar at 3082 Lancaster Drive NE. The victim had been shot.

Businesswoman alleges 13-year affair with Herman Cain

Cain acknowledged to CNN that he knew White and had considered her a friend.

(WASHINGTON D.C. Press TV) - An Atlanta businesswoman said Monday she and Republican presidential contender Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair that ended right before Cain announced his campaign.

Ginger White told Fox 5 in Atlanta she met Cain in the late '90s while he was chairman of the National Restaurant Association and that the relationship was "pretty simple."

O Captain My Captain
America`s Aid for Israel`s Political `Continuum`

A military conquest

(LONDON) - “… We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours … When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry round like drugged roaches in a bottle.” (Rafeal Eitan)

A ‘moral articulation’ by successive American administrations as to the primary reason for their unilateral support of 0.001% of the world’s population, namely Israel, is not standing up to international law or American scrutiny.

The Real Definition of Saturn`s Dust Particles

...it is clearly atoms of gases that were energized by the strong magnetic fields of Saturn and the Sun that I have been writing about for over 30 years.

(SAN DIEGO) - NASA reported the detection of both the creation of particles and the repelling characteristic in a 17 Nov. 2011 advisory with an article titled “Kicking Up Dust- Saturn and the Solar Wind Sent Tiny Particles Flying.”

Letter to Editor: `Cuba`s Contradictory Stance on Tamil Struggle`

North African and Arab countries do not have the luxury of conducting an unwitnessed war the way Sri Lankans did.

(FRANKLIN, N.C.) - Mr. Ron Ridenour's "Cuba's Contradictory Stance on Tamil Struggle' (Havana Times, November 25, 2011) is a strong message that needs to be spread widely around the countries which have two set of different standards for themselves.

Not only does this apply to the Cubans, it also applies to many of the 'pretended champions of the Palestinian cause' who voted in favour of Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council in 2009 and helped Sri Lanka to continue to detain over 300,000 Tamils behind barbed wire fences.

Medical Marijuana: the Government`s (Cockeyed) View by an Ignorant Staffer

Maybe the Food and Drug Administration has not found marijuana safe and effective, but everyone else has!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The staffer is Rafael Lemaitre who is associate director of the office of National Drug Control Policy.

The New York Times has a motto, 'All the news that's fit to print'. This may be the first time of such a colossal goof.