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Petition Drive Hopes to Save India`s Dongria Kondh from Destruction

"The Indian government needs to know the world is watching. Tell the Indian PM to stop the Vedanta mine and save the Dongria Kondh people" - Care2 Petition site

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Dongria Kondh tribe in India call themselves the "protector of streams." But their streams -- and their entire way of life -- are threatened by a British mining company out to destroy their ancestral lands for profits.

The petition site Care2 is enlisting the help of those who want to help the Dongria Kondh save their home.

Will America Free Omar Khadr From Gitmo?

Realistically, Obama needs to score a few points with his American constituency to whom he made a lot of implied promises which they are waiting to see materialize.

(DUBAI) - Come August, a military commission in Guantánamo will try Omar Khadr, a Canadian national captured outside Kabul in 2002.

He was a boy, aged 15 then. Now a burly, bearded 23-year-old who has spent one-third of his life at Guantanamo.

Can General Petraeus Turn the Tide in Kandahar?

General David Petreaus can turn the tide in Kandahar if and when the Afghans, who have already contemplated this real home-grown predicament, have his ear.

(SEATTLE) - The southern city of Kandahar, the last Afghan territory to be handed over by the British in 1830, was also known as the center of greatest resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980’s.

Today it measures as the epicenter of intense political competition, drug trafficking and an operational nightmare for a U.S. led counterinsurgency campaign; once again proving its historic destiny as a make-or-break location for another Afghan war.

Israel Launches Operation Cast Lead Investigation

Israel has decided on legal action regarding a number of incidents that occurred during Operation Cast Lead.

(TEL AVIV) - The Military Advocate General has decided to indict a number of officers and soldiers for their conduct during the operation.

In one case, an IDF officer was summoned to a disciplinary hearing for having deviated from military directives pertaining to the prohibition on the use of civilians for operational activity.

The Black -Faced Ibis, Bandurria, Theristicus Melanopis

Within my barrio and around the pueblo, are various bands that tend to sleep in the same roosting spots every night.

(PATAGONIA, Argentina) - For me, the bird that symbolizes Patagonia is not my old nemesis the tero - who tried to spoil my pea crop last spring - but the goose-sized bandurria, or black faced ibis.

Morning and evening the plastic horn honk of the bandurrias tells me when it is time for their ritual gathering. A band of 26 roosts across the road in the bosque and they announce their intentions loudly.

Representative Kurt Schrader as an Afghan War Strategist

The same goes for DeFazio, Wu and Blumenauer.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Don’t think that I don’t have the greatest respect AND empathy for these people. Washington DC has about the worst climate in the U.S. – blazing hot and moist in the summer and miserable in the winter. Oregon is paradise by comparison.

Representative Schrader reminds us that Alexander the Great failed to conquer the place as did Britain and Russia.

What`s Good for the Goose Does Not Apply

Obama Maintains Israel is the Exception to Middle East Disarmament.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - President Obama has reaffirmed that Israel remains the exception to the rules each and every other Middle Eastern country would be expected to play by in pursuit of a “nuclear free” Middle East.

Far too many writers use the term “ambiguous” when writing about Israel’s response to questions regarding its program and nuclear capabilities. The appropriate term is “deceptive”.

Police Tasers and Excessive Force in America

Taser makes 'less than lethal' products that resemble real guns.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In August 2008, just before heading to Iraq for the first time to cover the war there, I wrote an article about police tasers in America; taking a speculative look at a practice but also citing many hard facts.

Armed 87-Year old Woman Dies After Being Tased by Clackamas County Deputies

Deputies say they disarmed a threatening woman who had a handgun with the use of a Taser; she was pronounced dead an hour later.

(BORING, Ore.) - PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CLACKAMAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE:

At 2:28 p.m. Thursday, July 08, 2010, Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Deputies were alerted to the report of a female waving a handgun at a male employee installing a water line to a residence in the Big Valley Woods, Mobile Home Park, located at 32700 SE Leewood Lane, #28, in Boring.

Riots Break Out in Oakland Over Police Involuntary Manslaughter Verdict

"We don't have to tear nothing up, the police goin' to jail, porky, is going to jail" - Demonstrator in Oakland

(OAKLAND / SALEM) - Thousands are in the streets of Oakland over the Manslaughter verdict entered against a BART Officer who shot a 22-year old man to death, later saying he confused his police revolver with a Taser.

The officer weeped as he testified that the shooting of Oscar Grant was a tragic accident caused by accidentally grabbing his firearm instead of an electric Taser weapon.