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America Keeps Forgetting its Heroes, but California Remembered Daniel Foster

Apple pie, Chevrolet, and a government that cashes in on heroes before throwing them to the curb.

(COSTA MESA) - Here we are on Thanksgiving Day in America. While we are among the most fortunate in this world in a general sense, for some, America has become a place of increasing hardship. For some, it has been much worse than that.

The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?

Netanyahu blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the demands for change in the Arab world.

(LONDON) - Israeli democracy fades to black (the black of the blank screen at the end of a film). That was the headline over a recent article by Lawrence Davidson, an American professor of Middle East history.

He says the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel is coming full circle with PM Netanyahu’s Likudniks & settlers targeting the rights of Jews.

Thanksgiving, Evacuation Day and Wall Street

A little known U.S. holiday was replaced, more or less, by Thanksgiving, thanks to Abe Lincoln.

(SALEM) - Like most Americans, I understand the general concept of Thanksgiving, a holiday honored and celebrated every year in the U.S. and in other countries on their respective days.

The observation in the U.S. involves tribute toward Native American culture and people, and that amplifies its importance in my book. What I did not always know, is that the observation owes its existence to a decision made by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Impossible Afghanistan

Taliban has it all Under Control...

(SALEM) - Guardian UK reports: The Afghan government is prepared to resume negotiations with the Taliban despite the assassination of its chief peace envoy, Burhanuddin Rabbani, the senior official responsible for organising the talks has said.

Ever hear the term sh*t or get off the pot?

They must feel confident these days- those Taliban- people who make a sport out of violating the established rules as set forth in the Qu'ran, according to which, one of the most grave sins is the intentional taking of a life.

`Deja Vu` All Over Again Reflects National Mood

Cycle Comes Full-Circle With “Negative Factors” - This Time Sure to Force Positive Changes.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Anyone well acquainted with our American history will see many and essential parallels in paramount parts of our whole “American Story” from the Continental Congress on through the Gilded Age and the Civil War --and with increasing rapidity-of-incident ever since.

We’ve had our run of everything from true revolution to paltry substitutes for the true gold of tested and proven patterns, protocol and programs --and we are still continuing to learn.

Poetry Double Shot: Ashu Kavi and Egypt (Is also a state of mind)

Everyone has something to offer, and no one has a natural or inherent right to make life difficult for others because they are different.

(CLEVELAND) - It may be all too common for we members of this world, supposedly divided by east and west, to overlook our vast similarities and common origins. They are everywhere if you just look, even sometimes by what appears to be coincidence.

Religious strife should not be a term; surely it would be the most sorely disappointing one to our Creator.

The all-out hypocrisy of Arab League and the West

94 Yemenis were killed and over 800 injured since UN Resolution 2014 was issued...

(TEHRAN) - After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the U.S., the resurgence of violence in Egypt and Bahrain and Yemen and the unrelenting massacre of innocent civilians by the barbaric regime of Al Khalifa and Ali Abdullah Saleh once again attracted the attention of conscientious observers in the international community.

So far 44 Bahraini citizens were killed at the hands of the mercenaries of Al Khalifa regime.

Transnational Govt of Tamil Eelam to establish monuments for martyrs in the Diaspora

"The Tigers [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] gave us the dignity and strength to fight. Today, however, the struggle is on the diplomatic plane...." - PM Rudrakumaran

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - “We Tamils, inside and outside the island of Sri Lanka, still want an independent state. And because the war crimes and severe brutality of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government against our people has become well known, our cause is being spoken about all over the world,” Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran told me recently in Manhattan, New York.

A positive sign of recognition for Tamil rights is the dramatic Channel 4 UK documentary, “Sri Lanka Killing Fields”, shown first at a June Human Rights Council session and then worldwide.

Mexico: Long, Hard Drought Expected

The Calderon administration is challenging doom-and-gloom forecasts.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Mexico’s National Weather Service (SMN) has predicted that a drought afflicting more than half the country will likely last at least three more years. And according to the SMN, the upcoming winter rainfall could range between 20 and 30 percent of normal, especially in the northern, western and central parts of the nation.

Considered by the National Water Commission to be Mexico’s worst drought in 70 years, the dry spell is causing serious problems in the agricultural and ranching economy as well as threatening the viability of rural communities.

Occupy El Bolson

Public protest is firmly entrenched here as one of the central pillars of Argentine political life.

(EL BOLSON, Argentina) - I thought we were going to have occupy el bolson, but it turned out to be just more of the same ordinary everyday protest that we live with down here. If you are interested in the story, it is here for your disposal.

Last week we got word from our barrio information network that the occupy movement was to come Patagonia with a special edition of “Occupy El Bolson” this past Saturday.