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Iran Looks for Meaningful Negotiations with the US

Negotiation is meaningful when the two sides negotiate with good will, equality and without any intention to deceive the other side.

(TEHRAN, Iran) - Joseph Bidden, the US Vice president, announced that we are ready for direct negotiations and the ball is in Iran court.

A few days later on Feb. 7th Ayatollah Khamenaei announced that the ball is in the US court and the US should look for a meaningful negotiations.

16th Annual World Beat Festival to Celebrate Japanese Culture

Takafuji Dance Company to Headline World Beat 2013.

(SALEM) - The Salem Multicultural Institute today announced the focus of the 2013 World Beat Festival is Washoi Japan! Celebrate Japan! The festival, which showcases cultural traditions from throughout the world, takes place this June 29 and 30 at Riverfront Park in Salem.

The Takafuji Dance Company will travel from Kanazawa and Tokyo to headline the festival with traditional geisha and lion dance performances.

The Oyster World

Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny.
Pistol: Why then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. - William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Barack Obama, it's suggested, had a marvelous opportunity in 2009 – having won the world's attention and expectations - particularly that of the Arab world – that he would change the course of American involvement, influence and dominion in the Middle East.

In the event, what has transpired has fatally fallen short of what had been dreamed about.

End the Torture Chambers

Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.--Edward Kennedy

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - I grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, an American steel town on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. The steelworkers in our town came from all over the world, but mostly from Eastern Europe.

Though I grew up among dozens of accents, there was never a thought that those differences made anyone better or worse.

Controlled Opposition - From Goldstein to Soros and Beyond

Contrary to popular belief, it is not ‘right wing’ Zionists who facilitate Jewish power, It is actually the ‘good’, the ‘enlightened’ and the ‘progressive’ who make Jewish power the most effective and forceful power in the land.

(LONDON) - Jewish power is the unique capacity to stop us from discussing or even contemplating Jewish power.

It is the capacity to determine the boundaries of the political discourse and criticism in particular.

How Damascene Jews Hope to Return... to Normalcy

Zionism and its corrosive effects on Judaism as a philosophy is absent among Jews here.

(DAMASCUS, Syria Al Manar) - Bab Touma Jewish Quarter, Damascus -- Growing up in the small town of Milwaukie, Oregon and until after graduating from high school, I never knew or knowingly met a Jew.

Not until my first post-high school job as a swimming instructor and life guard at the Portland Jewish Community Center...

Commemorating the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

"The deeds were monstrous, but the doer ... was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous." - Hannah Arendt, in a report in The New Yorker

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The UN General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi death camp in Poland—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This annual day of commemoration is to honor the victims of the Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.

Ode to One of Our Fathers

Last week I learned from my friend Agron Belica that his father Selamin wasn't well. I decided yesterday to play an Astor Piazzolla's Libertango here in the street of Buenos Aires for Selamin Belica and his three sons. -Gilad Atzmon

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - News that the father of one of our team members was diagnosed with a serious illness this week, stirred the Salem-News.com family into action.

Selamin Belica, father of Agron Belica, is a well-loved man, but we can never offer too much love, respect and support to one of our own in a time of need.

A Tamil Spring?

Political parties no longer lead but are being led – at least for the moment.

(CHENNAI) - A new generation of college students in Tamil Nadu has taken up the cause of the Tamils of Sri Lanka.

Articulate, well informed and uncontaminated by the influence of time-serving politicians they have successfully forced an agenda on the three main political parties in the state.

INDIA: Indira Government Acted Tough Against Catholic Bodies: WikiLeaks

India imposed strict conditions on appointment of bishops in the country after they opposed the mass sterilization drive.

(NEW DELHI) - A recent revelation by WikiLeaks states that the former Indira Gandhi government in India acted tough against Catholic bodies for resisting the compulsory sterilization program.

This was revealed after the WikiLeaks released the Kissinger Cables, a cache of US diplomatic cables.