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Can Russia Offer Freedom and Security to Europe?

Mother Russia’s opportunity?

(LONDON) - Christopher King argues that Russia under the leadership of President Dmitriy Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has enormous potential for setting a course toward a positive future with Europe.

The notion of Russia offering freedom and security to Europe will appear odd to most Europeans and laughable to Americans.

New Press Law Gives Sweeping Powers to Fiji`s Military

The decree also includes repressive, even bizarre, demands that add great difficulty to journalists' day-to-day jobs.

(SUVA, Fiji) - New media legislation in Fiji permits government-appointed officials to arbitrarily seize media equipment and documents, force journalists to reveal their sources and fine media organisations.

The List of Murdered and Exiled Journalist in Rwanda Continues to Grow

The recent loss of one Rwandan journalist is fresh in the minds of many, and far from the first.

(BRUSSELS / PORTLAND) - The murder of journalist Jean-Léonard Rugambage on the night of June 24, is another suggestive inclination for the Kagame regime.

This adds to an increasingly long list of questionable acts that are ever exasperating tensions inside Rwanda.

Afghanistan: Rampant Corruption Ignites Conflict and Hampers State Legitimacy

Both English and Dari versions included in this report.

(NEW YORK) - Integrity Watch Afghanistan will be launching the very first National Corruption Survey on Thursday 8 July 2010 at IWA’s office in Shahr-e-Now at 10:30 a.m. English (9:30 a.m. Dari).

Special Report - A Mexican Political Era Ends

Looking past the short-term political scorecard, unsettling and ominous trends resurfaced or strengthened in the July 4 elections that seriously call into the question the future of democracy in Mexico.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - On July 4, while oil continued to pour out of British Petroleum’s crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico and spread its contamination to new shores, a rupture of political sorts was consummated in Mexico.

In state and local elections, Mexicans ended one political era, sowed the seeds for the possible rebirth of an old one and cast new doubts about the future of a fresh one.

Foreclosure Rates in Salem Increase

The latest in Salem, Oregon real estate trends.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Foreclosure rates in Salem have increased for the month of May over the same period last year, according to CoreLogic.

YouTube Channel Launched in War on Illegal Pornography

Former porn stars, activists and politicians are trying to bring about needed change.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography today announced the launching of a new YouTube Channel in its efforts to educate the public on the harm from pornography.

The site provides a wide variety of educational videos on the harm from pornography to children, the extreme violence against women prominently depicted in popular porn today, the significant incidence of addiction to pornography, the links between sex trafficking and pornography and many other damaging effects of pornography.

Common Sense Wins Important Initiative Rights Case

"The city of Newberg spent a lot of taxpayer dollars to have Judge Easterday tell the city what we have been telling them all along..." - Attorney Ross Day

(SALEM, Ore.) - Today, Common Sense For Oregon won an important case for initiative rights in Oregon.

Mendonico County Sheriff on Radio Station KZYX

"The Truth about Money" returns on Friday, July 9, at 9 AM, with host, John Sakowicz, and guest, Mendocino County Sheriff, Tom Allman. We will be talking about the new medical marijuana cultivation permit and inspection permit.

(MENDOCINO, Calif.) - On March 23, 2010, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors enacted an ordinance that quadrupled the number of medical marijuana plant that can be grown on a parcel of land.

The new ordinance allows gardens up to 99 plants, if growers apply for a variance to the county's 25-plant limit. In other words, the new ordinance requires proper licensing and law enforcement scrutiny.

Oregon Green Free to Open New Clinic for Medical Marijuana Patients

Oregon Green Free Clinical Services welcomes OMMP cardholders to grand opening

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Oregon Green Free (OGF), a 501 (c) 3 federal nonprofit, and Oregon’s largest medical marijuana organization is pleased to be opening a clinic at 10209 SE Division Ave, Building B, in Portland, Oregon.