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Our Walls Bear Witness: The Plight of Burma`s Rohingya

US Holocaust Memorial Museum honors Burma's Rohingya Muslims; victims of ongoing Genocide.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Denied citizenship and rendered stateless by the Burmese government, the 800,000 Rohingya lack basic rights, including the right to work, marry, and travel freely, and they routinely suffer severe abuse.

Following violent attacks in 2012 that destroyed numerous Rohingya communities, more than 100,000 are now confined to displacement camps and segregated areas, where they continue to be subjected to violence, including crimes against humanity.

Florida - Veterans - Cannabis

I had a primary role in the establishment of VHA medical marijuana policy but up until today I had never taken the work, that started in my doctors’ office and had reached Washington DC, back to the various facilities to educate staff and connect the final dots.

(ORLANDO) - The morning came quickly on the road. Our gracious host Joe Sisco, Fla-NORML Outreach Chair has opened his winter rental property to our use for the first leg of this amazing journey.

The thick ocean air, here a block or so from the coast, is like a warm hug after experiencing the first days of November’s chill back in Virginia.

My Promise to Children

Violence does not 'just happen'. It is perpetrated by damaged individuals, including ourselves.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - Every day, human adults kill 35,000 of our children. We kill them in wars. We kill them with drones.

We kill them in our homes. We also kill children in vast numbers by starving them to death in Africa, Asia and Central/South America because we use military violence to maintain an 'economic' system that allocates resources for military weapons, as well as corporate profits for the wealthy, instead of resources for living.

BETRAYAL: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up - Costa Rica Sun

“Colonel Sabow’s death could not have been a suicide but had to have been a homicide inflicted by the hands of another.” - Michael A. Jacobs, former Orange County prosecutor

(SAN JOSE) - Six years after Kiki, a former Marine and DEA agent, was murdered in Mexico, Col. James E. Sabow was murdered at Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California.

He was a threat to blow the whistle on the use of El Toro to service CIA proprietary C-130’s to fly cocaine into the US.

Medal of Honor Recepient Dakota Meyer and Gunnery Sgt Aaron M Kenefick, USMC Ganjgal

If the U.S. Army had had its way, there would have been no survivors at all

(SACRAMENTO) - Dakota Meyer grew up as a country boy amongst the corn and tobacco fields in the rolling hills and lush farmland of Columbia, Kentucky.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest honor for courage and valor, during a terrible event in Afghanistan just more than four years ago.

Human Rights News: Mexico Forced Displacement on OAS Agenda

Since 2007, violence from organized crime has transformed forced displacement into a national phenomenon.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - The growing issue of people forcibly displaced by violence in Mexico is getting scrutiny from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

At a November 1 session of the Organization of American States’ commission in Washington, D.C., a representative of the IACHR asked the Mexican state to enact “specific” policies for forcibly displaced persons.

Mediating the Media... Hosannas For Jorge (Pronounced Whore-hey)

The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light. -Matthew 4:16

(DAYTONA BEACH) - A field day is being had by the media these days, singing the praises of Francis The Humble. And I for one think it's just peachy-keen. I mean, if we can't actually have a Second Coming, the next best thing is a humble Pope.

What I mean is. a Pope for the Poor, who doesn't do extravagant stuff like wearing red loafers or cruising around in that Mercedes Popemobile.

India Shouldn`t Have Denied Visa to Callum Macrae

No Indian visa for Sri Lanka war documentary maker.

(CHENNAI Times of India) - India has denied a visa to Callum Macrae, the director of a documentary that exposed war crimes in Sri Lanka.

Macrae, whose team was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, made news again last Thursday when UK's Channel 4 telecast footage acquired from him showing LTTE TV anchor-actor Isai Priya's capture during the last phase of the Lankan war. Priya was found dead on May 18, 2009, with visible marks of torture.

`Desperate Times, Desperate Measures`; That`s the Way!

Western governments used to go to great lengths to say they were standing up for human rights in China. Now, trade ties with Beijing are so lucrative that Western leaders no longer need to lie.

(LONDON PFLT) - Western governments used to go to great lengths to say they were standing up for human rights in China. Now, trade ties with Beijing are so lucrative that Western leaders no longer need to lie.

George Gideon Oliver Osborne, a British Conservative politician, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the country's second-ranking official, says officially, "China is what it is. We have to be here or nowhere". It's business; you see, just business. After all, "Who's Afraid of Chinese Money?"

Shir Hever on Israel`s Weapons Industry

A lecture by Shir Hever, Jerusalem/Göttingen "Israel's Weapons Industry, Arms Trade and Military and Surveillance Co-operation with the European Union" (in English)

(JERUSALEM) - The European Union is Israel's most important trading partner. An increasingly important part of that trade is in goods and services of the defense and homeland security industries. These have become a pillar of Israel's economy, and also play a big role in a number of EU countries.

Israel touts its "battle-proven" technologies such as electronics and drones used in surveillance and assassinations, as well as the expertise and equipment it uses to repress popular resistance activities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.