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Insight Live on Sahar TV Interview with Mohamed Ibrahim

The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted communities in the world...

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Myanmar has a Buddhist majority.

The Muslim minority in Myanmar mostly consists of the Rohingya people and descendants of Muslim immigrants from India...

Recalling What President Mahinda Rajapakse Said

Based upon past statements, Sri Lanka's President outlined why a war on Tamils was a bad idea.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka) - "Ladies and Gentlemen, our goal remains a negotiated and honourable end to this unfortunate conflict in Sri Lanka.

"Our goal is to restore democracy and the rule of law to all the people of our country. 54% of SriLanka’s Tamil population now lives in areas other than the north and the east of the country, among the Sinhalese and other communities."

WikiLeaks Cable Reveals US Embassy Strategy to Destabilize Chavez Government

USAID organized 3,000 forums that sought to essentially reconcile Chavez supporters and the political opposition.

(WASHINGTON DC RT) - In a secret US cable published online by WikiLeaks, a former ambassador to Venezuela outlines a comprehensive plan to infiltrate and destabilize former President Hugo Chavez' government.

The document outlined his embassy’s five core objectives in Venezuela since 2004...

`Benchmark`

Wars are fought on the battlefield, not at the beach, nor in the park, Whether you lead or follow make sure victory sets the, "Benchmark."

(CLEVELAND) - “A standard by which something can be measured or judged,” When on that premise under no circumstance will you budge,

Measured according to certain standards in order to compare, However, not by just arriving first class but to keep you there.

Shift in War Hawks

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” --Noam Chomsky

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Watch out for a shift in war hawks. Before the Iraq war, at least a dozen in the U.S. Administration and major media spread enough propaganda to silence the majority of Americans.

These hawks, acting more on behalf of Israel than America had a natural shill in the Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi who fabricated evidence about WMDs and al Qaeda in Iraq.

Third Major Oil Spill in a Week: Shell Pipeline Breaks in Texas

Similar spills are underway in Arkansas and Canada.

(WEST COLUMBIA, Tx. RT) - Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week.

Shell Pipeline, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, shut down their West Columbia, Texas, pipeline last Friday after electronic calculations conducted by the US National Response Center showed that upwards of 700 barrels had been lost, amounting to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil.

Time to End the Adult War on Children

It is time to end the adult war on children so that all of the other violence that emerges from this cause can end too.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - Perpetrators of violence learn their craft in childhood. If you inflict violence on a child, it learns to inflict violence on others.

The terrorist suffered violence as a child. The political leader who wages war suffered violence as a child. The man who inflicts violence on women suffered violence as a child.

When two Presidents are Murdered and the UN Remains Silent

Why has there been no serious UN investigation into this crime?

(WASHINGTON DC) - Nineteen years ago today, the Falcon 50 Jet carrying two heads of state in Central Africa was shot down by a surface to air missile.

Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi were both killed along with their aides and the French crew members.

Confronting the `Moral Bankruptcy` of Iraq War`s Liberal Supporters

The liberal class fueled a rabid, irrational hatred of all war critics.

(CHICAGO) - Prior to the start of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003, New York Times journalist Chris Hedges occupied a lonely perch among major media journalists. He opposed the war.

Today, Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winner and now a columnist for the website Truthdig, continues to write with the passion of a man set free from corporate control.

What Tea-Baggers Want

The Republican Heritage Foundation's Jim DeMint believes the universe is divided up into good and evil, black and white, government and business.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - When observing your surroundings, it is critical to pay attention to everything. Let’s suppose you do a good job making your observation noting every little detail.

Now you’re ready to make your analysis, draw some conclusions, and say something smart about what you have observed.