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Marijuana: The Oregonian Positively Promotes Pot

Thank you Oregonian for free advertising.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I thought I was hallucinating when I read the latest Oregonian story March 17, 2013, boldly advertising marijuana as medicine under the risqué title: 'Rocky Mountain High'.

Of course they were writing about marijuana in Colorado, but as the saying goes, "Say anything but spell the name right".

Pakistani Christians and Western Interests

It’s time to think twice about what NGOs under Christian supervision, churches and political leadership are doing.

(ISLAMABAD) - It is general perception in the west that foreigners are helping Pakistani Christians, but the reality is different.

On February 6, 1997, a religiously charged mob attacked village Shantinagar; 800 houses including churches, hostels were torched. In November 2005, about 100 Christian houses, schools, hostels, and Christian Clinic were burnt in Sangla Hill.

Buddhist Racists Resume Fresh Riot Against Muslims in Meiktilar, Mandalay

Rakhine Buddhist continue to plague the Muslim minority in Burma.

(RANGOON Mayu Press) - An elderly Buddhist woman tried to pass low quality gold off as number one gold to a Muslim shop owner, but tests revealed it was now what she claimed.

The woman accused the shop owner of destroying her gold. Witnesses say it was a preplanned event with a goal of creating a communal riot of Buddhists against Muslims.

Extremely Graphic! Libyan Arab Spring: Making: Wine from Dead Bodies

Wish you would tell us more on the subject of making wine from the bodies of the dead and even the living, how could this happen? Is it fit for human consumption?

(TRIPOLI) - Here’s a shocking side of the ‘democracy’ the Arab Spring brought to Libya, remember Libya?

It’s an oil rich country north of Africa that the west intervened by itself to ‘protect’ its people from themselves...

Georgia-Pacific Responds To Supreme Court Decision In Forest Roads Case

"The court's ruling is a significant victory for the 2.5 million people and thousands of local economies that depend on forest products for their livelihood" - Mike Adams, Georgia-Pacific

(WASHINGTON DC) - The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court's decision in the case of Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. v. NEDC, Sup. Ct. No. 11-347, commonly referred to as the "forest roads" case.

The decision overturns a 2011 ruling that reversed 35 years of regulation governing management of rainwater runoff from forest roads.

In The Shadow Of The Baobab: Kagame Blows Cold And Hot On A Third Mandate

A report from 2010, suggests that this might only be one side of the story, that the reality of Rwanda’s traumatic recent history might be much more complex.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Paul Kagame: survived his annus horribilis in 2010 and looks to be preparing to reliquish power under his own terms.

In October 1990, after Fred Rwigyema’s death, Paul Kagame took over the command over the Rwandan Patriotic Front and led it to victory in July 1994.

Viral Occupation: Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank

When I film, I feel like the camera protects me. But it’s an illusion. —Emad Burnat, West Bank Palestinian and co-director, 5 Broken Cameras

(TEL AVIV) - When Israeli security forces arrived in the middle of the night at the Tamimi house in Nabi Salih, the occupied West Bank, the family was already in bed.

The raid was not unexpected, as news had traveled around the village on that day in January 2011: Soldiers were coming to houses at night, demanding that young children be roused from sleep...

Final Message from Tom Clements

Murdered prison director's final message to Colorado

(DENVER) - Many Americans already know that Colorado's Department of Corrections (DOC) Chief, Tom Clements, was shot to death at his own front door a few hours ago.

INDIA: TN Readies Biers for US Resolution, Demands Genocide Acceptance, Interim Set-up, Referendum

Students demanded India to acknowledge the Eezham Tamils' plight in the island of Sri Lanka as genocide and to call for a UN referendum at Geneva.

(MARINA BEACH TamilNet) - Despite the attempt of Tamil Nadu state to deter the upsurge by closing a section of government colleges, the student movement gained momentum during the weekend.

In the struggle demanding justice, the students' movement prepares biers to take the US resolution to ‘cremation’ on Monday, news sources in Tamil Nadu said.

VIDEO REPORTS: Iraq, Ten Years After...

For many the nightmare continues...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The dust has settled, somewhat, and the screams are fewer, as are the sounds of military aircraft thundering overhead, but Iraq remains a dangerous place.

People are hard pressed to simply raise their families and the United States is wholly responsible for killing up to 1.5 million people here during its terrible, decade long war based on bad intelligence.