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World Views of America

It wasn't very long ago when the world view of the United States was one of a country that represented justice, democracy, freedom and moral accountability, even if only in the minds of the naive. --Bernie Suarez

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Terms like justice, democracy, freedom and moral accountability are generalized with varied meanings.

They also mean something different for those who want to live in America.

The Freedom Bus, Jenin Refugee Camp, Occupied Palestine

International arrested by IDF during peaceful walk in South Hebron Hills, others injured.

(HEBRON) - Luke Nephew poet and activist from the Freedom Bus was arrested by IDF soldiers during a peaceful solidarity walk in the South Hebron Hills.

Nephew, from New York, US was hauled away from the group and arrested at approximately 10.40 a.m. this morning.

Big Wave Season Wrap Up, XXL Biggest Wave Entry and Upcoming Hip Surgery

Includes the XXL entry photo shot by Bryn Forbes and my GoPro Hero 2 footage that was shot from a board mount of that ride.

(GIG HARBOR) - I would like to take a moment to thank you all for your continued support during my big wave adventures.

For over 13 years now, most of you have been following and or supporting me in some way, shape or form.

Human Rights Ambassador Invites Leading Islamic Personalities to Discuss Islamic Theocracy vs Democracy

“No, #democracy is certainly compatible with #Islam” - Islamic scholar Usama Hasan

(SALEM) - Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes has invited leading Islamic personalities of of world to discuss the scope and issues of Islamic Theocracy Vs Democracy.

In a tweet, William Nicholas Gomes has asked a number of Islamic scholars from around the world, to comment and share their thoughts.

Look at the World from Behind the Wall

When did Americans decide that peaceful protests should not be allowed?

(LAVERNE, CA) - Indeed, “Look at the world through their eyes.”

Let Americans look at the state of Israel through Palestinian eyes to witness the monstrous injustice that exists in this “democratic state” that “shares America’s values,” America’s only “friend” in the mid-east.

When a Mother Dies For all Mothers

“The ultimate existential issue is, of course, death-and, like all other philosophical and existential questions, the matter of death avoided as much as possible.”
- (Fritjof Capra)

(LONDON) - When a mother approaches death in a small hospital, and, you are with her to meet that unacceptable end, one’s thoughts reel and collide with ‘God particles’ in your very own Hadron Collider.

Your mind alive with death. There in shadowed moments, where life and death meet, brilliant collisions of emotions splinter and cascade into a mind stretched against a darkening backdrop of approaching death, late at night, or early, too early, in claustrophobic hospital mournings.

Convention on the Rights of The Child

News from - The OtherSite - Truth? Justice? Peace?

(FREIDBURG) - The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights—civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights.

In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old often need special care and protection that adults do not.

Farmer Protesting Land Grab Crushed by Truck

The truck driver is in police custody and investigation is underway.

(HENAN PROVINCE, China Sina English) - A farmer was crushed to death by a truck in his contracted land for refusing to transfer the land to a local developer in Zhongmou County, C China’s Henan Province, on Mar 27.

The dead surnamed Song is a local villager, who has contracted the land for planting trees with another three, according to Song’s brother-in-law during an interview.

Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East

From the 2013 Edward Said Lecture, Friends House, London, March 18, 2013.

(LONDON) - Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique at the peak of the hideous atrocities of the apartheid era, when he saw a thin man walking towards him in ragged clothes.

“In his deep misery,” Mankell relates, the wretched survivor had “painted shoes on his feet. In a way, to defend his dignity when everything was lost, he had found the colors from the earth and he had painted shoes on his feet.”

UPS to Forfeit $40 Million in Payments for Shipping Illicit Online Pharmacies

News release from the Drug Enforcement Agency.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The DEA today announced that United Parcel Service and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement.

UPS agreed to forfeit $40 million in payments it has received from illicit online pharmacies, and also to implement a compliance program designed to ensure that illegal online pharmacies will not be able to use UPS’s services to distribute drugs.