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APN Denounces New Round of Settlement Approvals

"...he Palestinians’ ability to remain in talks under current circumstances depends more than ever on the United States and the international community." - APN President and CEO Debra DeLee

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Americans for Peace Now (APN) today denounced the government of Israel's actions to move forward with yet more settlement approvals in both East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

APN once again urged U.S. officials – President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, and Special Envoy Indyk – to engage forcefully to convince Prime Minister Netanyahu to cease and roll back these reckless, destructive decisions.

Land, Migrants and Poets: The Day of the Dead 2013

Issues of land, water and climate loom large in 2013, conveying a special significance for a holiday that falls at the end of the harvest cycle.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - New Mexico and the borderland will come alive this weekend with activities related to the annual Day of the Dead celebration, which falls on Saturday, November 2, this year.

As befits a cultural boom that is drawing in thousands and thousands of people, this year promises bigger and broader events than ever before, encompassing art, music, literature, and culinary treats.

Wisconsin`s 2011 Blow-Down Area Provides Benefits for Imperiled Species

Storm Left Counties Buried in Wood but Created a Home for Declining Warbler

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Not far from the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, a massive 2011 wind storm struck and leveled trees for miles across northwestern Wisconsin, causing a variety of widespread problems, which for some are still an issue today.

Yet out of the wind-strewn wreckage comes a happy “re-start” for the tiny Golden-winged Warbler, one of the most threatened, non-federally listed bird species in eastern North America.

Rollin Gallagher`s Dark Alliance With Purdue Pharma and Prescription Painkillers

Narcotics prescriptions written by VA providers are up 259%.. VA prescriptions for Hydrocodone, OxyContin, Methadone, and Morphine have risen 270% in the last 12 years.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - TO: U.S. Senate Finance Committee

In May 2012 you announced an investigation being conducted by your Committee involving the rising rates of addiction and death throughout the U.S. to prescribed painkillers. Specifically you named pharmaceutical companies and their ties to pharma funded pain societies and paid physician spokespersons pushing painkillers for all levels of pain.

Chinese Police Shoot Dead Seven Uyghurs in Kashgar: Group

Chinese authorities usually blame outbreaks of violence in Xinjiang on the region's ethnic minority Muslim Uyghurs, who the government describes as "terrorists". But rights groups and experts say Beijing exaggerates the threat to take the heat off domestic policies that cause unrest or to justify the authorities' use of force against Uyghurs.

(HONG KONG RFA) - Seven ethnic minority Uyghurs have been shot dead by police in separate clashes in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang and nine others detained for protesting against some of the killings, an exile Uyghur group said on Monday.

The shootings underscore a trend of increasing violence in Xinjiang, where the Muslim Uyghurs complain of discrimination and religious controls under Beijing’s rule.

Medical Marijuana Focus of Seminar Hosting Dr. Phil Leveque

Dr. Leveque spoke to those learning the facts about the medical marijuana industry in Oregon.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Dr. Phil Leveque spoke to a group of medical marijuana enthusiasts Sunday in Portland, Oregon. This gathering was a part of the Portlandsterdam University curriculum. They provide the unique opportunity for the public to attend classes that teach the A to Z's of medical marijuana, with or without an Oregon Medical Marijuana Permit. Of course, those without a permit are “not allowed to touch”, during the hands-on labs.

The two-day seminar was held at the Monarch Hotel, near Clackamas Town Center, and is a regularly scheduled event created to educate those interested in the fast-growing Canna-Business industry.

MYANMAR: USDP Appears Divided as Rift Between President and Party Chairman Widens

Thein Sein and Shwe Mann are both former military regime generals and members of the military-backed USDP.

(RANGOON) - A spokesman of President Thein Sein has rejected remarks by USDP Chairman Shwe Mann, who has said that Thein Sein would not run for another term in office in Burma’s 2015 elections, local media report.

The public disagreement is the latest sign of an apparent rift within the USDP leadership.

Doughboys and Dumb Things Humans Have Done

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War by Richard Rubin is 500 pages of excellent history of World War I but without the appropriate rejection of the decision to go to war or the embarrassment one should feel for those who thought they could find glory or goodness by joining in that mass murdering madness.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - This November 11th at 11 a.m. will mark 95 years since World War I ended. Next July 28th will mark 100 years since it started.

The world war, the great war, the war for no good reason, the war of poison gas, the war to end all wars, the war of mass stupidity, the war that went on for days after the Germans agreed to end it, the war that continued until 11 a.m. as that time had been set to end it, the war whose last man killed in action was a suicidal American who ran at the Germans at 10:59...

The Struggle for Meaning in a World of Violence

How do we restore the highly individual search for meaning in life (which will also better enable us to deal powerfully with the enormous challenges to human survival)?

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - What is the measure of a human being? Is it their wealth? Their wisdom? Their spirituality? Is it something that can be measured from the outside? What if it is something else altogether?

Each human being is genetically programmed with a drive to seek and find meaning in life and it will endeavour to do this throughout its life if it is allowed to do so.

Expose: Full Text Of Sharma`s Buried 2nd Report: CJ Impeachment Was Unlawful

The whole matter was a complete cover up by Britain with the connivance of India, whose agent was Kamalesh Sharma. it is all an attempt to save Sri Lanka from international investigations into violations of Human Rights, in which India was complicit.

(MELBOURNE) - The Colombo Telegraph fully exposed the burial of the second report on the sacking of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake by Rajapaksa, requested by the Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma. Please read how he justifies his act.

His cover up of both the reports from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) paved the way for the holding of CHOGM in Colombo.