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Little-known world war excuses slaughter of Panamanian civilians

"I would call up to the pilots and tell them bomb here, bomb here! They would call me back all anxious and say, ‘Did we kill anyone?’"

(PANAMA CITY) - Shortly after midnight, 20 December 1989, Don Felipe—a Panamanian man now in his fifties arrived at Río Hato military base, 52 miles west of Panama City.

He cannot remember why he went wandering outside at such a late hour, but he does remember what happened after he killed the snake that appeared in his path.

PTSD Can be Managed!

PTSD is not new. Evidence of PTSD has been around for centuries, going back to the time of the Greek Poet Homer’s Iliad and PTSD does not heal with time if not properly treated.

(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) - The American military provides the finest training and has the most sophisticated weapons in the world, and the men and women who serve in our armed forces know that personal sacrifice is inherent in the job of service to country.

Sometimes the sacrifice is exposure to trauma that affects emotional and/or physical health. Sometimes the sacrifice is life itself.

Abbas: A September Palestinian State or Lose World Support

“If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you” - American philosopher William Irwin Thompson

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas, must immediately stop the limping and lackluster effort and present their resolution this September to the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian State.

This will be the only worthy initiative that the PA has ever adopted since its founding in which the far majority of the world is supportive.

APN to Obama as Flotilla Sets Sail: Engage Israel to End Gaza Blockade

Foreign Minister Avigdor Leiberman's characterization of them as "terror activists" is reprehensible. It is consistent with a worrying trend of conflating unarmed protest with violence and terrorism.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Israel confronted an international flotilla seeking to challenge its blockade of Gaza, with tragic results.

At that time APN called on Israel to investigate the operation that led to these results and to reassess its Gaza policy. APN noted that the difficult situation presented to Israel by the flotilla underscored the extent to which the continued policy of blockading Gaza was untenable and increasingly indefensible.

Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake

A critical examination of Israel's close proximity to America's pivotal moment in history.

(JACKSON, Miss.) - Many years ago I read a fascinating discussion of the "tactics of mistake."

This essentially entailed using a target's prejudices and preconceptions to mislead them as to the origin and intent of the attack, entrapping them in a tactical situation that later worked to the attacker's strategic advantage.

Michelle Teheux: Proposed circumcision ban brings discussion

We don’t let parents decide to give their infants tattoos or similar body modifications. We quite rightly say these sorts of decisions should only be made by the individual upon adulthood...

(HAWLEY, Pa.) - The proposed circumcision ban in San Francisco has at least accomplished one thing: It has brought attention to an issue that is seldom talked about outside childbirth and parenting circles.

We got a letter to the editor from a reader upset about the proposed ban. People are talking about it, and that’s a good thing.

Israeli Morality

Freedom Flotilla II - their calls for peace are translated falsely as something they are not. This in fact may be the supreme sin.

(ATHENS) - This poem by a Gaza peace activist who uses the name, Eva for Equal Rights, cuts to the heart of the matter of human misery pitted against militant determination.

We hear in these verses the frustration of human beings filled with love, seeking to end suffering; who their own governments, in many cases, have turned their backs on.

Two-Year-Old Child Injured After Fall From 4th Story Window

The Portland Police Bureau would like to remind people to consider using a window safeguard to control the height or width of your window openings, especially in residences with small children.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Portland Police officers assigned to Central Precinct responded to a residence in the 3600 Block of Southeast 28th Avenue on the report that a 2-year old child had fallen out of a 4th floor window.

It happened this afternoon shortly after 3:00 p.m.

California`s Law Enforcement Capability has been Compromised; Precursor to big Change in Mexico

State budget cuts will likely eliminate 55 state-led task forces that coordinate the response to California's growing gang problem.

(SACRAMENTO) - I congratulate Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature for their success in passing California's budget bill.

However, I join California law enforcement leaders in expressing serious concerns over the passage yesterday of $71 million in cuts to the Division of Law Enforcement budget.

Balanced Budget Amendment: Still Flawed, More Dangerous

If turning recessions into depressions weren't bad enough, the current version of the balanced budget amendment also threatens to inflict extreme pain on middle-class and low-income Americans in the not-too-distant future.

(SILVERTON, Ore. OCPP) - In deciding how best to address the nation's deficit, Oregon's congressional delegation should follow the responsible, independent trail blazed by Senator Mark Hatfield in 1995.

Adhering to principle rather than partisan lines, Hatfield cast the deciding vote against a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.