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Why Bill O`Reilly Cheers the Death of Trayvon Martin

O’Reilly connects the president’s inability to help the black community to the proliferation of “gangsta culture” that glorifies violence and irresponsible behavior.

(SYRACUSE, NY YourBlackWorld) - Bill O’Reilly recently added himself to the list of commentators who made remarks about President Obama’s speech on the Trayvon Martin case and George Zimmerman acquittal.

O’Reilly gave Obama credit for “addressing the race issue,” but then proceeded to lecture the president about how he is incapable of correcting the real problems in the African American community.

Syrian National Council Says Hizbullah `Mass Graves` Unearthed in Syria

The conflict, pitting a Sunni-dominated rebel movement against Assad, has raised sectarian tensions in Lebanon and Lebanese Sunni fighters have also been killed while fighting alongside Syrian rebels.

(DAMASCUS) - The opposition Syrian National Council on Tuesday claimed that it has documented the presence of a number of mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of Hizbullah fighters who were killed in Syria.

“We have discovered a number of mass graves in which Hizbullah used to bury its members after every battle on Syrian territory, instead of repatriating the bodies to Lebanon,” SNC spokesman Mouayyed Ghizlan told CNN.

Rev. Jesse Jackson to Assist Gabby Calhoun, Honor Student Who Had Teeth Knocked Out by Police

Rev. Jackson says that as we remember the legacy of Trayvon Martin, we must realize that there are thousands of youth just like him all over the country.

(SYRACUSE, NY YourBlackWorld) - This is a quick update to those who are following the case of Gabriella Calhoun, the honor student who had her teeth knocked out by the Bloomington, Illinois police.

Gabby is being charged with two felonies, one alleging that she assaulted a police officer, the other stating that she resisted arrest.

NATO Data: Assad Winning the War for Syrians` Hearts and Minds

A report to NATO said Syrians have undergone a change of heart over the last six months. The change was seen most in the majority Sunni community, which was long thought to have supported the revolt.

(LONDON) - After two years of civil war, support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was said to have sharply increased.

NATO has been studying data that told of a sharp rise in support for Assad.

Letter to Another Dishonest `Peace` Broker

...bent on bypassing the justice process.

(LONDON) - Well John-boy, how do you think history will judge you?

The whole world has heard about your brilliant breakthrough - persuading trigger-happy US-subsidised Israel and the strangulated, unarmed Palestinians to agree "in principle" to resume the one-sided negotiations abandoned three years ago.

PETA Asks to Place Chicken Statue at Site of Deadly Truck Crash

Group Aims to Remind Haulers of Their Responsibilities When Transporting Animals as Well as the Public of the Suffering of Birds Raised and Killed for Food

(SALEM) - This morning, PETA sent a letter to Kevin Hottmann, city traffic engineer of the City of Salem, asking him for permission to erect PETA's 5½-foot tall statue of a chicken at the intersection of Commercial and Division streets.

It is the site of a July 9 crash of a truck that was hauling more than 5,000 chickens to slaughter, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of birds.

Caving to White House Pressure... Livni Squeals, Kerry Deals and the EU Picks Up the Tab

One of Livni’s demands was the EU doing what it did and targeting with the ‘terrorist’ label Hezbollah’s military wing.

(BEIRUT) - It was reportedly a hectic and intense past weekend in Washington and London according to an emailed report from a Capitol Hill source.

The Obama and Cameron administrations tracked down and button-holed the leaders of the 28 European Union delegations gathering in Brussels to finally vote on whether Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’ should be sanctioned...

The Threat of Offshore Seismic Blasts Provokes Opposition

Expanding seismic airgun testing to the Atlantic Ocean is the first step towards deepwater oil drilling, which endangers marine life and our beaches.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Imagine that you live next to a construction zone, where loud explosives occur every ten seconds, for days to weeks on end.

Next year at this time, thousands of marine animals in the Atlantic Ocean could be living this nightmare, due to a proposal that is being considered by the U.S. Department of the Interior to allow seismic airgun testing in an area spanning from Florida to Delaware.

Living In Multicultural America

I do not expect every American to look like me, talk like me, think like me or act like me. How boring would it be if we were all the same?

(NEWBURGH, Indiana) - I was eating lunch with a high school friend recently at an Atlanta airport restaurant. He has worked in customs for eight years.

He noted, "Everyone working in this restaurant is from someplace else." We were intrigued and started asking those in the busy restaurant their country of origin.

Egypt: What Now?

If this is the situation vis-a-vis the military, on the one hand, and the Ikhwan, on the other, what hope is there for the Egyptian people?

(KUALA LAMPUR) - In the wake of the military coup of July 3rd 2013, the question that is on the lips of many people is what is going to happen now in Egypt? How will the situation evolve? What is the future of the 80 million people who live in that ancient land?

It would be hazardous to try to predict the future, given the uncertainties that befuddle the present. There is however one possible scenario that one hopes will not be the fate of Egypt.