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Khaled K. El-Hamedi Files Lawsuit Against NATO for Killing his Family

NATO war crimes - Testimony of Khaled K. El-Hamedi...

(ROME) - The life of Khaled K. El-Hamedi turned into a nightmare on 20 June 2011, when NATO attacked his family’s home with seven bombs, killing his beloved pregnant wife Sala, his son Khweldi who was three years old, his daughter Khalida who was four and a half years old and Salam who was one and a half years old.

Khaled K. El-Hamedi is a Libyan who runs an international charity for children called the International Organization for Peace, Care and Relief (IOPCR).

When Hillary Clinton doesn`t make sense

Iran is a pacifist country in a boiling and tumultuous region that hasn't ever invaded nor attacked any country in the past century...

(TEHRAN) - U.S. President Barack Obama will be a lame duck next year.

Officials in his administration, especially his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are hilariously doing their best to make sure that they haven't spared any effort to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and sabotage the stability and security of those whom they call "enemies", like Iran.

Behind The Iron Wall
`The plan that never changed`

Apartheid and colonialism are particularly egregious crimes.

(LONDON) - The UN Cultural organisation (UNESCO) voted strongly in favour of membership for the Palestinians.

A vote opposed by Israel. There were 173 countries that voted, 107 in favour, 14 opposing and 52 abstaining. Great Britain was one of those in the latter category, thus bringing further disrepute to the word ‘Great’.

CIRCUMCISION as Attenuated Homicides

The great minds know very well that the object, so treated, is an artificial abstraction, that something of its reality has been lost. C. S. Lewis.[1]

(MONTEREY, Calif.) - Genital rituals are forms of play homicide without the intent of taking life. Thus, circumcision is a mock death ritual.[2]

The theory of initiation ceremonies is that a person, the initiate, must die from an existing life to be reborn into a proper social order.

Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO`s Libya

Even Libya’s NATO-managed NTC members are worried that they may be investigated by the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor said allegations of crimes committed by NATO in Libya would be examined “impartially and independently.”

(BEHGHAZI CounterPunch) - The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as “disappearance squads”. This is one of the rapidly developing consequences of the UN’s rush to “protect Libya’s civilian population” last spring.

And it is why human rights investigators are arriving in Benghazi, Libya this week.

Israel Will Not Attack Iran. Period.

“I shall repeat categorically: Israel Will NOT Attack Iran.”

(TEL AVIV) - Everybody knows the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. ‘Hold me back!’ he shouts to his comrades, ‘Before I break his bones!’

Our government seems to be behaving in this way. Every day, via all channels, it shouts that it is going, any minute now, to break the bones of Iran.

Ode to a Humble Hero of Sri Lanka: Dr Brian Senewiratne

We all can learn from men like Dr Brian Senewiratne. It doesn't have to be about the past and what religion or culture a person is part of, it is simply about being enough of a human being to speak out and deliver the truth.

(SALEM) - Last week, we carried an amazing article by Dr Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese Sri Lankan, who may be one of the most reasonable voices in this community when it comes to Lanka's history of ethnic cleansing. I was honored that Dr. Senewiratne dispatched the story to our newsroom.

He is a portrait of humility. Dr. Senewiratne does not hesitate to assess responsibility for the 2009 Genocide of Tamil people by the government of Majinda Rajapaksa.

Vulva Girl Serenades Foreskin Man on San Francisco Election Day

Africa’s intactivist superhero promises to help Foreskin Man “forget about those scars” in her new song from MGMbill Records.

(SAN DIEGO) - The group behind efforts to ban forced circumcision of boys has recorded a new dance tune entitled “Foreskin Man” to promote their comic book series of the same name. The song is performed by Vulva Girl, Foreskin Man’s female counterpart, and was released today by MGMbill Records.

The lyrics were written by Matthew Hess, president of MGMbill.org.

Veterans . . . a Debt Owed!

Veterans include those who have served and those who are serving.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - To me, the perfect way to understand what our country owes to our veterans is to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. This monument was designed not to be a memorial to the Viet Nam War but to the men and women who served there.

Memories of France on the Anniversary of Armistice or Rememberance Day

World War One's four years of deadly carnage ended on this day in 1918.

(SALEM, Ore.) - One of the most dangerous battlefields I have ever spent time on may not have been in Iraq or Afghanistan, where I covered present day combat operations; it likely was in France where I visited World War one battlefields in several locations, but primarily in the Romagne vicinity where many Americans fought and died.

I stayed in Verdun, a city where history is vast and thickly laden with blood and death and courage and honor.