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Humiliating Israeli Rejection Leads to Further US Diplomatic Isolation

“If the past 43 years have taught us anything, it is that a Palestinian state through negotiations is anything but inevitable” - The Palestine Monitor

(CHICAGO) - Leave it to linguist Noam Chomsky to provide a precise description of President Obama’s latest diplomatic failure.

Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. diplomatic history.

The Bizarre, Undiagnosed Illness of One Poor Little Girl in Gaza

At the end of the video there is information about how to make donations directly to her family and help her with possible medical attention in Europe or elsewhere.

(GAZA CITY) - Areej is a four-year old girl from Sabra in Gaza. She is an orphan whose father was a killed by an Israeli bomb. The story of Areej is one of so many in this war ravaged place.

Holidays at the Oregon Capitol Feature Choirs of Schoolkids

Pringle Elementary's choir was one of many that performed for visitors Friday at the Capitol.

(SALEM, Ore.) - An Oregon family tradition continues through December 23rd at the state Capitol. Choirs from schools throughout Oregon are appearing in the Rotunda, where the acoustics are especially unique for the unforgettable performances.

OxyContin Addiction in Ontario Canada, as in Many Other Places, is Increasing

"If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time" - Marian Wright Edelman

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Nearly five hundred deaths in five years have been attributed to OxyContin addiction in Ontario, reported the Toronto Star.

In 2009 OxyContin addiction in Ontario increased because prescribing doctors had no online access to what other OxyContin prescriptions had been made out for a person and prescriptions were easily forged.

Book Review: Coffee with Hezbollah

The satire is harsh, and nobody escapes the treatment, including the author.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Here’s a strange and sparkly, jumpy and tightly-packed little book by PULSE’s own Belen Fernandez, in which our heroines (Belen and the photographer Amelia Opalinska) hitch-hike through Lebanon and Syria a few weeks after the war of summer 2006, consuming far more caffeine than is good for them.

Beyond Gonzo, it doesn’t pretend to journalism at all. Instead it recounts a fairly lunatic, fairly random sight-seeing tour towards ‘the dark force’ Hezbollah.

Debt Collectors, Debt Collection Law Suits, PayDay Loans

Don't be sharkbait; learn your rights...

(CLEVELAND) - We are living out a real time scenario of human trial and tribulation for in the United States right now and those who haven't felt the impact of the nation's failing economy are few and far between. And those who haven't felt the pinch yet might just as well steady themselves.

Demise of the Celtic Tiger

The question Irish citizens should have asked: Why did the Irish state, which is solvent, link itself to the bust banks?

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Last year, my wife and I visited the Republic of Ireland. While the Irish newspapers hinted at economic difficulties, tourists and probably most Irish citizens still saw Ireland as the Celtic Tiger. Perhaps it was mass Irish denial.

While I am not an economic expert, I offer my brief layman's comments on Ireland's dire economic situation or the demise of the "Celtic Tiger."

Fables of the Great Irish Famine

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality—counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical - Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

(SALEM, Ore.) - A spin through Wikipedia under the search term 'Irish Potato Famine' leads to a page that describes a heartbreaking historic event; a potato disease that ravaged Ireland killing a million people, as million fled to places like the USA as starving refugees

Mother nature can deal man a hard blow; recent tragedies that spun out of control have clearly illustrated this; but they are very different from the Irish famine.

California Officials Close LA Porn Industry`s Clinic

For its part, AIM has defended the care it provides to adult performers; stating that claims are “not truthful and are self-serving."

(SACRAMENTO) - Officials closed a health clinic that serves the adult film industry there, shuttering the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation two days after the state Health Department said it will not license the facility as a community clinic.

The clinic was served with a cease-and-desist order. The clinic posted on its website a message that it would be open for business Dec. 10.

US OK`s $17 Million for Agent Orange Cleanup in Post-War Vietnam

Meanwhile, two other dioxin "hot spots" in Vietnam - former US air bases at Bien Hoa and Phu Cat - have yet to be cleansed...

(DA NANG, Vietnam VietNamNet Bridge) - The US government has earmarked US$17 million to partly clean up a former US air base from toxic defoliant Agent Orange in the central Da Nang City next year.

Considered to be dioxin "hot spot," the Da Nang Airport will be decontaminated in the summer.