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Complementary Actions Protect Both Rare Birds and Water Resources in Northern Peru

“This is a truly innovative project that benefits multiple communities by securing their rights to land and water resources” - Tino Aucca, President of ECOAN.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Four communities in Peru have agreed on complementary land actions that will protect 930 acres of vital cloud forest.

This will double the size of an increasingly popular bird reserve – generating benefits for all.

Oregon Senate Passes Driver`s Card Legislation and Delivers Victory to Latino Community

Causa Oregon Applauds Oregon State Legislature for Their Passage of SB833, Oregon’s Safe Roads Bill.

(SALEM) - Today, the Oregon State House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 833 – Oregon’s bipartisan Safe Roads Bill by 38 to 20.

The bill now goes to Governor Kitzhaber for a signature making Oregon the 5th State in the Nation to create a temporary driver’s card.

Special Report: The Fire this Time: Mexico`s New Revolt from Below

Rioters shouted: “When the people rise up for bread, freedom and land, the powerful will tremble, from the Gulf to the Sierra!”

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - On the eve of May Day 2013, the drum beat of protest and revolt beats loudly in southern and southwestern Mexico.

First beginning as a teachers’ strike against a new federal education law last February, the protest is now transforming into a broad popular movement...

U.S. Army Veteran `found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down and presumed dead`

His daughters refuse to take DNA tests to prove his identity.

(LONDON The Daily Mail) - Sgt. Robertson's name is etched along with 60,000 others onto Washington D.C.'s poignant Vietnam memorial, but now the documentary questions whether he is actually alive and well.

The filmmakers claim to have tracked him down to south-central Vietnam - where the 76-year-old is unable to remember his birthday, his American children’s names, or how to speak English.

Marijuana: Hidden Dangers of the Best Medicine

Treatment can cost $50,000 or more...

(PORTLAND, OR) - The US government anti-marijuana shills, the police, the sheriff's deputies, the district attorneys, the judges, the anti-marijuana psychologists, the anti-marijuana psychiatrists, and about half of the voting public, who have seen the movie "Reefer Madness."

They seem to believe that marijuana is dangerous with barely a shred of evidence...

Pappe`s Discomfort

Pappe knows the history of Zionism and Israel better than most people.

(LONDON) - Ilan Pappe is an important voice. One of those courageous historians, brave enough to open the Pandora box of 1948.

Back in the 1990s Pappe, amongst a few other Israeli post-Zionists, reminded Israelis of their original sin - the orchestrated, racially-driven ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine...

Let`s Let Asia Have This Century

Asia living standards rise, American watch theirs fall. If that continues, what's the point of an American Century. Maybe we should let the Asians have it.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Over the past two or three years a lot of ink has been spilled to explain that this the 21st century will be the Asian Century.

Yet, in a Washington Post article last Sunday, CFR President Richard Haass makes the argument that it's really going to be the second American Century.

Is District Judge Louise Relph Colonising England`s Children?

'Adoption Queen' judge seizes children over anonymous tips

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Doug and Sarah Sinclair have been fighting for the well being of their children from a distance.

They have not been able to cause a Salford County Court District judge to understand that she is making a regrettable mistake with heartbreaking, avoidable consequences.

CPS Takes Child After Mom Gets 2nd Opinion

The authorities are tight lipped about the story. By all accounts this one may set a record for tragic unwarranted govt. child seizure.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor.

The young couple thought their problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once they got home their problems got even worse.

Guantanamo Unrest Linked to Navy-Army Guard Switch

The new Army guards have attempted to break the hunger strikers' resolve by placing them in solitary cells.

(BOSTON) - There are currently 166 people imprisoned in Guantanamo, the majority of whom are known to be innocent.

86 of them have already been cleared for release by the US government since many years. Yet their indefinite detention without trial continues.