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Sugar coating bitter realities with laughable theatrics

Sri Lanka's compromised police, prosecutors, judiciary and public institutions.

(COLOMBO) - The moderates must claim the discussion to be predominantly about the abolition of the Executive Presidency. The debates must be about Sri Lanka's compromised police, prosecutors, judiciary and public institutions.

Sugar coating these bitter realities with laughable theatrics at international treaty sessions or putting forward reports of Commissions of Inquiry and unworkable National Action Plans on Human Rights must be rejected with the contempt that they richly deserve.

Rev Allan Boesak calls Israeli apartheid `more terrifying` than South Africa ever was

Dr Hanan Chehata interviews Revd Allan Boesak

(MELBOURNE) - It is quite incredible how Western governments honour people like Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu for their courage and determination in the struggle to ban Apartheid South Africa.

Yet when these same South Africans and many others call attention to Israel’s apartheid policies and practices against the Palestinians, they are ignored as if they have nothing to add from all their bitter experiences.

Occupy Oakland Re-camps at 19th and Telegraph, Calls for West Coast Port Shutdown 12 Dec

For today, the question will be whether the activists can hold their ground at the new encampment.

(OAKLAND, Calif.) - Following a rally and march from downtown Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza that may have been more than 2,000 strong, activists with Occupy Oakland tore down a fence that had been erected around Fox Square Park at 19th and Telegraph.

Oregon Progressive Party Nominates Steven Reynolds for U.S. Congress

Cody supports the platform of the Oregon Progressive Party, and says he values of service and compassion through volunteering and activism.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Oregon Progressive Party has chosen Steven "Cody" Reynolds as its nominee to run in the January 31, 2012, Special Election to fill the vacant seat of U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Oregon.

Saving Nutritional Supplements: A Battle For Nature, Truth, and Life Itself

The Rockefellers involvement with eugenics and genocide are well known.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - We know how hard people are fighting now to save the economy, to stop the wars, to prevent more nuclear power plants, mountain top mining, fracking, and more drilling, to stop genetic engineering, and incredibly importantly - save our farmers and ranchers.

But what is happening to supplements is little noticed but is of ultimate importance. The battle to save supplements is a battle to save nature and the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of using it to heal.

A Must-do Menu

The time is past due to use protest movements and social networks to educate the public. If you have a different “must-do menu” do it! Start now!

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - I'm writing this for people who will never read it without prompting: members of working families who relax by watching TV after a long work day and after they put the children to bed.

People without spouses and children, including students, don't often read articles like this either.

Gaddafi Son Saif al-Islam captured in Libya`s south

Gaddafi was then taken by air back to Zintan, pending transfer to Tripoli.

(TRIPOLI ) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has reportedly been captured after three months on the run. He was disguised as a Tuareq hiding within the Tuareg near Ubari.

Sources say he was scared and down to his last few thousand dollars in cash when he was detained in Libya's southern desert.

Protecting the Bankers` Health: Beating up Protestors, Sadistically Blocking A Cure for Cancer

Everyone in the country is affected one way or another by cancer.

(LONDON) - The government in various cities is using health as the justification for physically attacking Americans assembling to express their grievances. Michael Collins reports on the spurious use of health and to crush First Amendment rights being repeated in cities around the country, using New York Times words, verbatim.

Right Wing Reporters Attacked by NY Cops, Helped by Occupiers

The Daily Caller's Michelle Fields faced abuse from the NYPD and help from protesters.

(NEW YORK) - The right-wing Daily Caller website has been anything but kind to Occupy Wall Street, even going so far as to condemn the protest movement as generating riots, murder, and arson.

But when a couple of Daily Caller employees were at Occupy Wall Street this morning, it was the very protesters they had been demonizing who ended up helping them out.

Cry for Freedom by a Nude Egyptian Blogger

“In a culture that believes the devil’s lure and the route to hell lie in the naked face and eyes of a woman, stark nudity could very well be a revolutionary cry and a suicidal choice.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - For me the news is what we see on the streets and not what we read in the morning papers or watch on the TV news.

I believe that the street is the honest reflection to our economy, behavioral sociology, politics, faith, and sexuality, to our education, our sense of beauty and our respect for freedoms and human rights, or our lack of respect for them, for that matter.