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`Poopgate` - Media Makes a Stink at Occupy Eureka

A reporter stomps through Occupy Eureka demanding to know, "Did you poop and pee on the bank?"

(EUREKA, Calif.) - A corporate media monster is trolling the Occupy Eureka camp and never has such a horrific display of 'journalism' been recorded and actually released by a station.

'Poop and pee' are the operative words in this story. It just might be the silliest story in history, or perhaps it is a look at the lower rungs of corporate media gone wild.

Iran`s UN Inspectors are Repeating the Iraq Mistakes

If Amano and Heinonen want to take the same road that once Hans Blix took, then we already know what the end result will be: No matter what Iran does there will be no end to inspections, questions and alleged "gaps in knowledge."

(MIAMI) - The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency under Yukiya Amano is adopting toward Iran the same approach as the UNMOVIC and Hans Blix chose with regard to Iraq.

The methods and arguments are very similar and the result will be similar too: No matter what Iran does there will be no end to inspections, questions and gaps of knowledge. Iran needs to adapt accordingly.

EGYPT: Gynecologist & Cairo woman discuss female mutilation

Circumcision is known to cause psychological blockings due to the physical pain and unease that is connected to the genital area by memory.

(CAIRO WNN) - Myself I never performed a circumcision, but my colleagues tell me that it was a fairly ordinary practice here until the 1997s,” he says ”but in the years from then and until 2008, where it was made illegal, it became less ordinary.”

“I have only been repairing,” he says, referring to those one or two times a week, when a young woman will be brought in with a ‘traumatic case,’ as he calls it.

Is Israel preparing an assault against Iran?

The IAEA report on Iran's alleged nuclear programme was surrounded by a media frenzy in Israel supporting an attack.

(BEER-SHEVA, Israel) - kimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack against Iran.

"[United States Secretary of Defence Leon] Panetta Demanded Commitment to Coordinate Action in Iran" read one headline, and "A Bomb at Arm's Length" read another.

Oakland, Drug Kingpin Strategies and COINTELPRO Reborn

Drug-fanned violence spread like wildfire and the streets of Oakland became the burial grounds of a social tragedy that many in the US conveniently forget as they pontificate about Mexican violence.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A friend and I were having a conversation when he raised the issue of why the US never seems to detain its own big drug lords.

I held that control of the US drug market was more diffuse, less centralized than in places like Mexico, where big traffickers come to dominate entire regions and even compete with state power.

Wahhabis weave web of plot in Syria

There are times when you marvel at how events happening in one place are twisted to the benefit of one group and to the loss of another.

(TEHRAN) - In an unprecedented move, the Arab league decided to suspend Syria and call for sanctions on the country, an act which evidently reeks of the influence the West and others exercise on those who should be the main game players rather than being merely influenced by others. What a shame!

It is not difficult to conjecture that the move is a prelude to a US-led military invasion of Syrian in the style of Libya war and an eventual war in the region.

What About Salem?

Columbia Journalism Review examines the lack of progressive media coverage in places like Modesto, and we explain our experience trying to implement local news in a medium-sized U.S. city.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Almost eight years have passed since the launch of Salem-News.com; which we hoped at the time would provide significant balance to the capitol city's traditional lack of news coverage.

Is New Age Spiritualism Really New?

Availability Cascades - Is New Age Spiritualism Really New?
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - First, ODD MAN OUT wants to assure readers that although not a Christian, I did spend the night at a Holiday Inn® recently that turned me into a New Age spiritual expert.

And like every other self-absorbed American, from Baby Boomers to the present Generation What-ev-er, I didn’t bring a book so I perused the Gideon Bible when my wi-fi didn’t work and the Playboy channel was blocked.

American Nightmare: Return of the Luddites

“At this moment nothing but the army preserves us from that most dreadful of all calamities, an insurrection of the poor against the rich…”

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The Luddites of the early 19th century in England have been given a bum rap. The term is now used to refer to people who are against progress or resist change, which was not the case, at all.

The Luddites of the early 19th century were desperate English workers. The Poor Law had been passed in 1601 and frequently amended, offering some help to the destitute.

Former Sri Lankan President Talks Peace

One "major mistake" that exacerbated identity politics was the now-defunct Sinhala Only Act

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) - Chandrika Kumaratunga, the former president of Sri Lanka, painted a sobering picture of an island nation recovering from civil war during a talk at CGIS yesterday.

Kumaratunga, who led Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005, described her administration’s unsuccessful attempts to resolve through peaceful negotiations the long-standing conflict between Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil populations.