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Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant. Our commitment to one another, to human rights, and the ability to learn should always keep us connected no matter the severity and complexity of problems.

Headless Corpses Hung From Mexican Bridge in Wealthy Neighborhood

The death and violence of Mexico's drug cartels is reaching into new areas.

(CUERNAVACA / SALEM) - The headless bodies of four men were hung upside down by their feet from an overpass in Cuernavaca, an established, wealthy neighborhood outside of Mexico City.

The corpses in their macabre poses were found early Sunday in this area of rich, elite homes. The Morelos State Attorney General's office reports that the victims' heads and genitals were cut off, also missing from the victims were their index fingers.

EPA to End All Use of Bird-Killing Pesticide

Aldicarb Production to Cease in 2014; New Restrictions Implemented.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Environmental groups are welcoming the decision by the EPA and Bayer CropScience to cease production of the pesticide aldicarb in 2014, begin phasing out its more dangerous uses immediately, and end all uses by 2018.

Aldicarb, marketed under the trade name Temik® and produced by Bayer CropScience, is one of the most toxic insecticides on the market.

El Toro: The Perfect Environmental Crime

The Navy had the opportunity to inspect all of the wells before sealing them in concrete.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The death knell for Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, once the premier Marine Corps air station, was sounded in 1985 when trichloroethylene (TCE) was found in three wells during a routine well inspection by the Orange County Water District (OCWD). Two wells were off the base, the other on the base.

The Navy spent hundreds of millions in remediation of soil and groundwater contamination. Even so, the $650 million from the sale of base had to put them in the black.

Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team

Our motives were honourable, we did it for the children of Gaza...

(DUBLIN) - Nobel Peace Laureate Malread Maguire is one of the most respected world voices in the fight for the human rights of Palestinian people, who have lived for generations, under the oppression of Israel's apartheid laws.

We published a recent article detailing the most recent attempt by the BBC to defend Israel's attack on the vessel Mavi Marmara that took place in International Waters against an unarmed crew.

PTSD Psychosis: the Army and VA`s Miserable Mistreatment: Time Magazine Expose

It is known that the Army and VA treatment with anti-depressant drugs and morphine-like drugs can be both dangerous and lethal but they continue to hand them out.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - It is very comforting and reassuring that Time Magazine has finally joined the ongoing battle to recognize and to take care of the epidemic of possibly 1,000,000 PTSD Victim Veterans.

BP Gulf Oil Spill`s Walking Dead

"And I think the media now has to...tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf." - Hugh Kaufman, senior EPA analyst, admits millions have been poisoned in the Gulf states.

(CHICAGO) - A biochemical bomb went off in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010--as dangerous and destructive as a nuclear blast.

Review: Farce to Farce Negotiations

No matter what smoke and mirror tricks Obama and his cohorts attempt, their production bombs before the curtain rises.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - A “Quartet” Production (Coming to a closed backroom somewhere, soon) Starring: Benyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu as the sociopathic Prime Minister of Israel (An illegal state dropped somewhere in the desert) Mahmoud “Abu Mazen” Abbas as President for Life of West Bank (A non-existent state next door to the illegal one) George “Got the Runs” Mitchell as the overworked errand boy, Barack “Hussein” Obama as The Prestidigitator, Hillary "Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda" Clinton as the rabbit trainer and sidekick, Mr. Crowley & The Whitehouse Press Corp as the Jackals. And a cast of millions dead or soon to be dead.

Oh, yah... and Tony Blair as the Beaver...

Bolton Beats the War-Drum and Mordechai Vanunu`s Third Coming

When I became the spy for the world, I did it all for the people of the world. If governments do not report the truth, and if the media does not report the truth, then all we can do is follow our consciences..." - Israeli Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - A few days ago, John Bolton, Bush's Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001-2005, now reduced to the role of FOX News commentator, called on Israel to attack Iran "now".

He said Israel had "eight days" left to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility before Iran injects enriched uranium obtained from Russia into it.

Lebanon Puts Palestinians Underground to Keep Them From Phoning Home

The idea that Palestinian refugees in Lebanon should not be able to communicate with certain family members underscores the rootless existence to which they have been relegated by the Lebanese government

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - Earlier this year in Lebanon, I paid a visit to Roumieh prison outside Beirut to see a Palestinian friend who had ended up there thanks to a business endeavor involving a series of fake checks and a fake ambassador of Somalia.

My friend had additionally been suspected of false patriotism and had been removed from Roumieh last year for a weeklong interrogation session to determine if he was an Israeli spy.