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Stop Exploitation NOW -- Dignity to Our Workers!

Hong Kong workers on strike are from numerous parts of the waterfront, with different positions and employed by different contractors.

(YORK, UK) - Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes has co-signed a petition along with a growing number of international organizations In support of the Hongkong International Terminals Workers’ Strike.

On March 28th, more than 200 waterfront workers at the Hongkong International Terminals Ltd (HIT) owned by Hutchison Port Holdings braved terrible weather conditions and stood up to take industrial action in a courageous bid to demand rightful compensation for their labour.

AMAZING Aerial Footage of Arkansas Exxon Oil Spill

The government and Exxon are keeping the matter as quiet as possible...

(MAYFLOWER, ARK.) - Exxon does not want people to see this aerial video of the Arkansas tar sands oil spill.

Tens of thousands of gallons of oil have flooded the streets and yards of Mayflower, Arkansas.

Korea Del Norte - China`s Very Own Version of Israel

U.S. and China maintain an all-costs committment to back problem states...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - When viewing North Korea as China's Israel, we encounter many similarities and one profound difference. As an isolationist state, North Korea flaunts its nuclear arms.

Free Rohingyas from Genocide

Buddhist violence continues to plague Myanmar's Muslim communities.

(KUALA LUMPUR) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) received numerous urgent calls from Rohingyas in the Arakan State of Myanmar.

On 2nd April 2013 at 2.45 a.m. in Maung Nifara Village of Maungdaw Township, Rohingyas villagers saw 35 Rakhines Buddhists gathered near the mosques in the village.

Linn County Detectives Arrest Suspect for 1990 Murder of Rachanda Pickle

Rachanda's body has never been located.

(ALBANY, OR) - Linn County detectives arrested a man for murder related to the 1990 disappearance of Rachanda Leah Pickle.

In the early morning hours of July 10, 1990 John and Linda Ackroyd left their residence at the Oregon Department of Transportation shops at the Santiam Junction in east Linn County, Oregon.

Yashwant Joins Anti-Sri Lanka CHOGM Chorus

He said Lanka should vacate all its forces from the north and eastern provinces of the island.

(NEW DELHI ) - Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka from November 15 to 17.

Addressing a hall meeting on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue here, Sinha said India was the pivot of the Commonwealth body.

New Pew Poll Finds Majority of Americans Now Support Making Marijuana Legal

Statement below from the nation's largest marijuana policy organization

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Pew Research Center announced today that, for the first time in its 40 years of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans (52%) support making marijuana legal.

Just 45% said they think marijuana should remain illegal.

New Pew Poll: Majority Support for Marijuana Legalization

"A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, and you're going to start seeing more politicians running toward our movement instead of away from it" - Tom Angell, Marijuana Majority

(WASHINGTON DC) - A new national Pew poll just released shows majority support for legalizing marijuana (52% - 45%).

The poll also shows that 72% of Americans think that federal efforts to enforce marijuana laws cost more than they are worth.

Gas Starts Flowing from Israel`s Levant Basin, What Now?

Israel has the upper hand right now in terms of development and production, but it lacks the infrastructure without Turkey.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - The first gas has started flowing from Israel's supergiant Tamar gasfield in the Levant Basin.

Where it will go will redraw the Mediterranean energy map and the geopolitics that goes along with it.

Venture-Backed Security: Engine of the Entrepreneurial Blitzkrieg

Venture-backed security serves as impetus to massive job creation...

(COLUMBIA, MD.) - The main problem with the implementation of any sort of entrepreneurial blitzkrieg to reboot the flagging U.S. economy is that entrepreneurial ventures are inherently risky and investors are inherently risk-averse.

How then do we convince investors en masse to pour hundreds of billions into new business ventures in a sluggish economy?