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Targeting Gaps in the Food Supply Chain: Going Beyond Agricultural Production to Achieve Food Security

Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet team highlights innovations in information technology, market access, and communication that improve livelihoods and food security.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Agricultural production is only the first step in moving the world's food from farm to fork, according to Nourishing the Planet, a project of the Worldwatch Institute.

Extending the House of Freedom - From the Middle East to the former Soviet Union

Freedom House’s successful wooing of the future “Arab Spring” protestors doesn’t bode well for the regimes in Iran and the former Soviet Union.

(OSAKA, Japan) - Not content with having helped in no small way in bringing “freedom” to much of the Arab world during the “revolutionary” spring of 2011, Freedom House is now setting its sights on what it sees as another “Outpost of Tyranny” — the former Soviet Union.

In a Foreign Policy op-ed piece, its president David J. Kramer and director of studies Christopher Walker argue:

Report on Eric Holder & U.S. Weapons Smuggling Program to Mexico Making Rounds

Obama's attorney general can't have that bad of a memory...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com revelations of Attorney General Eric Holder's knowledge about a federal gun smuggling ring - one that placed deadly weapons in the hands of already deadly Mexican drug cartels, has been making the rounds.

It might be the only story I know of that made the cut on FOX News and The Mike Malloy Show. That isn't easy to do.

Who is Rupert Murdoch?

A Word Or Two on What Isn’t Being Said

(CINCINNATI ) - Today the British papers not owned by Rupert Murdoch “rumored” that he might be jailed. Americans, even Brits, have little or no idea what is at risk here.

There is simply no one who can report it when the individual who, not only controls the world’s largest news organization turns out to be, well, what? Who is Rupert Murdoch?

Lawsuit alleges defamation of Canadian Tamil Congress by Rohan Gunaratna

“The CTC brought this lawsuit to combat the harm done to its reputation and ability to address issues of importance to Tamil Canadians as a result of Gunaratna’s statements.”

(TORONTO) - The Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) is suing Rohan Gunaratna for allegedly defamatory statements about the CTC in February 2011 to a newspaper published in Sri Lanka.

Gunaratna reportedly stated that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (“LTTE”) is “operating in Canada under the name of Canadian Tamil Congress, which is the main LTTE front Organization in Canada.”

Australians Set Important Legal Precedent for the Right to Visit Palestine

Israel has detained or deported more than 120 people who flew to Tel Aviv at the invitation of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative.

(TEL AVIV) - In a ground-breaking win which challenges the Israeli government’s unwarranted detention of hundreds of human rights campaigners from around the world, Sylvia Hale and Vivienne Porzolt have won their appeal from a deportation order and will be free in a few hours.

The two Australians were detained at Tel Aviv airport on Tuesday on orders from the Israeli Interior Minister when they said they intended to visit Palestine.

Migrant Heartbreaks on the Border

“They come here lacking everything, materially and spiritually” - Leticia Perez, migrant center director

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Crossings and detentions of undocumented migrants might be sharply down on the US-Mexico border, but many people stuck on the international line face stark conditions.

Despite the well-known dangers and difficulties in crossing the border without papers, migrants continue attempting almost Herculean feats to reach the US. And more than a few die on the journey to the Promised Land.

Staring into the abyss of a new Dark Age

Battle of Britain 2 is about to begin

(LONDON) - Churchill, in his Battle of Britain speech 71 years ago, said:

"If we can stand up to him [Hitler], all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."

Challenging Deportation and More

Court Challenges of the Deportation Orders Today and Tomorrow.

(BETHLEHEM / JERUSALEM) - Court dates have been set for noon today and tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. for the court challenges of "Welcome to Palestine" participants against the deportation orders of the Israeli government that they and their attorneys consider illegal.

The hearings will take place at the Central District Courthouse in Petah Tikva.

Egypt: Picking Up The Remains of a Revolution

“Could Mubarak’s impending death be a game changer in the Egyptian revolution?”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Things are not always what they seem. The Egyptian revolution lasted for amazing 18 days. The president was forced to step down.

The power was restored to the people. The mass crowd cheered and screamed in jubilation. Everybody returned home happy. A wonderful and thrilling story, but unfortunately far from true or over…