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Stone Cold Justice

Several countries, led by Britain, are turning up the heat on Israel over the treatment of Palestinian children...

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - You hear them before you see them. The first clue that a new group of children is approaching is a shuffle of shoes and a clinking of handcuffs and shackles.

The door to the courtroom bursts open - four boys, all shackled, stare into the room. Four boys looking bewildered.

Abhay Sahu, leader of anti-POSCO movement arrested

The Central Government and the Odisha Government are complicit in this anti-national act of American and European banksters led integrated steel firm.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Abhay Sahoo, the leader of the anti-POSCO movement, was arrested over the weekend.

POSCO is a typical case of whether people's rights prevail over the predatory acts of a company largely owned by American and European financial interests.

DR Congo Polls Disrupted by Violence

About 19,000 candidates competing for 500 legislative seats, while 11 candidates are vying for the presidency.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - At least seven people killed in attacks on voting centres and vehicle carrying ballots in the city of Lubumbashi.
Seven people have been killed in two separate clashes on Election Day in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country's interior minister has said.

Although voting was scheduled to be completed early on Monday evening, the chairman of the country's electoral commission announced that voting would be extended at least until Tuesday.

Local News: : 2-Alarm Keizer Fire Leaves Family of Eight Homeless

The family of eight; Dad, Mom, and six children, ranged in age from 7 to 18 years old.

(KEIZER, Ore.) - A family in Keizer was forced to evacuate their home late in the night when the unknown odor in the home grew to the point- smoke drove them from the house. Keizer Police and Firefighters arrived to find a fully involved garage fire that extended into the house and burned to the second floor attic.

The calls to 911 began at 00:12:55 a.m. (12 minutes after midnight) and a Keizer Police Patrol unit arrived 4 minutes later and reported the house fully involved in fire.

Streisand`s Apparent Approval of Israeli War Crimes

She's doing a benefit expressly to support Israel's military.

(SALEM) - Celebrities who fail to object to Israel's atrocities and human rights violations are bad, but those who seek to directly benefit the over-funded government of Israel (That fails to take care of Holocaust survivors but kills Palestinians illegally every day) are in a category all by themselves.

As brave young Israelis increasingly refuse to partake in war crimes by resisting service in the Israeli Defence Forces, which is a commendable act, we learn that Barbra Streisand is going to raise money for Israel's soldiers.

What We Have Here Is A `Flagrantly Undemocratic Situation`

There are two population groups in one region, one of which possesses all the rights and protections, while the other is deprived of rights and is ruled by the first group. This is a flagrantly undemocratic situation.

(CHICAGO) - In the words of Ha’aretz publisher Amos Schochken, Gush Emunim has seized control of power in Israel and driven the state into a “flagrantly undemocratic situation.”

How was it possible for this much power to be seized by “a right-wing ultranationalist, religio-political revitalization movement”, as it is described in Israel: A Country Study?

Something`s Rotten in the Heart of Western Governments

Beware politicians cloaked in the American flag or diplomats sporting Union Jack kippahs…

(LONDON) - When Marcellus, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, famously says, "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark", he means that the body politic is rotting from the top down and the corruption stinks to high heaven.

410 years later the Bard's words are especially applicable to the so-called political élite of the Western world. The stench of their corruption is assailing the nostrils of more and more people and causing mass nausea.

A chip off the old block

Album includes the songs “I Got Vibe,” “Can’t Lose: Bully Proof,” and “Breathe DaDa.”

(BOSTON) - “A chip off the old block,” that is what they are saying about Jamal Aldin Belica, the wunderkind who has just released his first EP album, “I Got Vibe.”

What is remarkable about this, aside from the quality of the lyrics, music, and production, is that Jamal is only nine years old and a student in the fourth grade!

Discovery: Defining a Cyberbully

Social scientists struggle to characterize new form of harassment...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - "I was cyberbullied at age 40 by someone that tried to beat me up in high school," says a person posting on a website that chronicles stories of people intimidated through digital communications.

JNF delays eviction of Palestinian family from East Jerusalem home

JNF is now sidestepping the issue.

(EAST SERUSALEM Ha'aretz) - At the last minute on Thursday night, the Jewish National Fund announced a delay in the eviction of 12 members of a Palestinian family from the house where they've been living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. An eviction order had initially been issued requiring the Sumarin family to be out of the property by Monday.

Police and bailiff's office officials had already toured the house, preparing for the possibility that the family would have to be physically removed from the premises.