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Palestinian Sisters as Keepers of Their Brothers
Inside Emergency Damascene Shelters

Prior to the armed conflict in Syria, Yarmouk, a suburb just south of Damascus city, was home to over 160,000 Palestine refugees.

( AL ZAHERA NEIGHBORHOOD, S Damascus) - This brief update is not focused on the ever deteriorating grave conditions of Palestinians and Syrians displaced and often trapped inside dangerous areas on Damascus, where this observer had been visiting some of the 24 former Damascus public schools currently being used as shelters.

Rather it seeks to highlight the esprit de corps, solidarity, resistance, and good will among Palestinians here is Damascus who were forced from Yarmouk and other camps and how they are huddled and preparing for a harsh winter which one senses these frigid nights it not far off.

1 Million Christmas Cards for POW Sgt. Bowe R. Bergdahl

Five years later, an American Prisoner of War in Afghanistan is remembered.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Bowe Robert Bergdahl is a United States Army soldier who has been in the captivity of the Taliban-aligned Afghanistan Haqqani network since June 2009. This will be Bowe Bergdahl’s fifth (5th) Christmas in captivity.

Bowe supporters started a campaign to let the White House know, we have not forgotten him.

Feeling So Lonely

I write for the people who suffer for nothing, Christians are the marginalized segment of the society, like me.

(ISLAMABAD) - Pakistan - with a Muslim majority, the country’s Christian population is quite small, about 3-5 percent is Christian. Among them, 98% are living below poverty line. In rural areas, they live under the pressure of their landlords and in urban areas most of them work as laborers and could barely make ends meet. In the capital, Christians live around the seasonal drainage and flood during raining seasons.

I know I cannot eradicate poverty or change their social status.

Sheriff Meyers Named to National Committee

Members of the Session include leaders in probation, parole, corrections, judiciary, policing and prosecution, advocates, scholars, elected officials and experienced observers of U.S. correctional policies.

(SALEM) - Marion County Sheriff Jason Myers has been selected as a member of the new Executive Session on Community Corrections convening over the next three years at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

This prestigious panel, consisting of approximately thirty of the leading policymakers, practitioners and researchers from across the nation, will help shape the meaning and future of community corrections in the United States.

Did Zapruder Kill JFK?

President Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney Robert Kennedy, were set on eradicating organized crime from the United States.

(SALEM) - It has been fifty years since U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Since that time, many theories have abounded that seek to resolve the issue of whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or if at least one more gunman participated in the November 22, 1963 murder.

Until now, no clear picture has emerged that would satisfy all parameters, both within the government and without. I believe that I can change that.

U.S. Army Pfc. Eugene Dinkin Intercepted Cable About JFK Assassination

He was 1963's incarnation of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning; Dinkin intercepted cables in France and tried to prevent Kennedy's death.

(SACRAMENTO) - The sweeping view from "Garden of the Gods" above Colorado Springs was breathtaking in September. I sat with Robert "Tosh" Plumlee, a former CIA operative, taking in this panoramic scene, listening to his recollection of the day this country lost one of its most important national leaders, President John F. Kennedy.

Tosh was in Dallas that fateful day, 22 November 1963, as part of a CIA team dispatched to prevent the assassination of JFK. The story has always been here, yet few Americans know the dark saga of Private First Class Eugene Dinkin and his prediction of the assassination of President Kennedy.

Colorado Store Makes History as First to Offer Recreational Marijuana in the US

At the same time, authorities in Colorado have conducted the largest raid on dispensaries since medical marijuana became legal Thursday, with officers executing search and seizure warrants at more than 12 stores in the Denver area alone.

(DENVER) - A small store in Central City, Colorado has made history by becoming the first establishment in the US to be granted a license to sell recreational marijuana.

Annie’s Central City Dispensary, located in a city founded during the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, posted on social media earlier this week that its license application had been approved.

`Necessary Illusion` by Noam Chomsky, Has Been Applied Forever

We have inherited a beautiful planet and nature, which sadly is being destroyed in so many ways, because Neanderthal mentalities, and beads and trinkets are ruling and ruining our planet.

(KELOWNA, BC) - It’s been more than 50 years since I’ve read the Bible, out of curiosity, and the recent news that “Winemaker brings sacred scroll (the Torah) to the Okanagan,” peaked my interest to read some of it again.

As a well-informed adult, I’ve read with amusement about this unjust and bloodthirsty god in the Bible, which could only have been fabricated in the minds of superstitious and uninformed people of thousands of years ago.

Switzerland Shows U.S. How to Handle CEOs

Two major parts of the answer are obvious. Switzerland doesn't fight wars, and it doesn't redistribute its wealth upward creating an overclass of multibillionaires.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In Switzerland a petition from 100,000 people, or about 1.25% of the population, creates a public referendum. By this means, last March, Swiss voters created strict limits on executive pay.

On November 24, the Swiss will vote on whether to take a further step -- limiting executive pay to no more than 12 times the lowest salary in the company. Such a maximum wage policy allows the CEO pay increases, but only if workers get at least a twelfth as much.

Christians of Pakistan Under the Blasphemy Law

The National Commission for Justice and Peace reveals during the last 25 years, 1,058 cases of blasphemy were registered. From 1927 to 1986, only seven cases of blasphemy were registered in the subcontinent.

(LONDON) - Living in a land of 97% Muslims, the Christians in Pakistan have the fear of persecution all the time in the guise of threats, discrimination and hatred but one intimidation that hovers on them every time is the blasphemy law.

Pakistan got independence in 1947 from the British rule and the Christians living in the subcontinent decided to be the part of Pakistan although many have decided else and preferred to live in India.