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A Sit Down with Top Underground Artist Gambino yA bOi

In this interview we talk about the music industry today, Bino's personal life, and plans for next year.

(SALEM / PITTSBURGH) - Albanian-American author Agron Belica and Poet Christopher DelOrfano, who is also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, conversed briefly at an undisclosed location in Boston, MA about promoting future projects they are putting together.

Because their projects include music, DelOrfano suggested they contact his long time friend and associate for advice, Gambino of La Familia Entertainment out of Pittsburg, PA.

Iraq was a Happy Accident

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Perhaps because I have been reading too much Thomas Friedman lately, I feel compelled to mention a recent experience I had on an airplane.

I promise the experience did not involve deciding based on a word written on the back of a fellow passenger’s jacket that Pakistan is either the Titanic or the iceberg.

Kosher Oxymoron-Jewish Democracy

The Israeli cabinet better decide whether they want their state to be Jewish or democratic, for the two, clearly contradict each other.

(LONDON) - Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak is expected to back amendment to Citizenship Act.

The Corporate Industrial Military Media Security/Surveillance Complex and Diamond`s are NOT a Girl`s Best Friend!

2010’s Big Brother is The Corporate Industrial Military Media Security/Surveillance Complexy.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Totalitarian regimes control their people with FEAR and propaganda and we are NOW living George Orwell’s nightmare.

Vietnam War Photographer Tim Page Hospitalized in Bangkok

Ever see Apocalypse Now? The combat photographer that Dennis Hopper portrays at the end of the movie, is based on Tim Page.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Tim Page, infamous and notorious Vietnam War Photographer and noted world traveler, has been hospitalized after taking a fall in Hanoi. Thanh Nien News reports that Page was transported for treatment of a broken pelvis.

The legendary 66-year old native of the UK reportedly fell in front of a hotel, according to local news Website Dan Tri. A substantial heart problem was detected after Page was transported to a Hanoi hospital.

Survivor Speaks About the Attack on the 2010 Gaza Flotilla

O'Keefe spoke in BC’s capital Sept 30 at the Douglas St. Union Hall accompanied by his mother and his film crew from Salem News.

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - During the tragic 2010 Flotilla attempt to bring humanitarian supplies and political goodwill to the people of Gaza, Ken O’Keefe was taken prisoner and wrongfully beaten by the Israeli army.

On May 31, 2010 O’Keefe was on board the Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, aiming to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

No Arms no Legs No Worries: the Amazing Motivating Story of Nick Vujicic

Very moving and inspiring story. Impossible is nothing.

(AGOURA HILLS, Ca.) - Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet.

Season Opener Provides Solid Swells for Pacific Oregon Big-Wave Crew

The first swell of the season was a solid 12’-13’...

(LINCOLN CITY, Ore.) - When you think of the Pacific Northwest surf scene, the thoughts that come to mind are; freezing cold waters, unpredictable and extreme weather conditions, dense coastal fog, huge tide changes, heavy rip currents, unfriendly ocean life and lots of driving.

This is why when it gets really big there are usually only a handful of local big-wave surfers in the water.

Children`s March & Rally for Immigration Reform today in Salem

Today at noon the rally will gather for a Children's March & Rally for Immigration Reform at the Oregon State Capitol.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Over the last several months, immigration restrictionists and right-wing politicians in Congress have been calling for a change in the 14th Amendment eliminating citizenship to babies born on United States soil.

Instead of promoting immigration reform that would overhaul a severely flawed and broken system, they see it politically opportune to deny citizenship and promote deportation of infants and children.

John Lennon`s 70th and the Vanunu Connection

I asked Vanunu, "Did you listen to music? Did you know the Beatles and Bob Dylan?"

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - John Lennon would have celebrated his 70th birthday on 9 October 2010.

During my first of seven trips to Israel Palestine, in June 2005, Mordechai Vanunu, the man who blew the whistle on Isreal's nuclear weapons program in the mid-80's told me about the last time he set foot inside of Israel’s clandestine weapons of mass destruction facility...