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Dabbling With Royalty: A Confession

Richard III was King of England, and there he has the advantage over me. But he was a hunchback, and there I have the advantage over him. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - My father was an imperialist.

He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the existence of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837. (Ontario history may not have been as dull as we thought.)

EPDP Accuses Occupying Sri Lankan Military for Inaction on Child Rape

More than 300 people, including the officials at the government offices and civic bodies, took part in the protest.

(JAFFNA, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - A strange turn of affairs has taken place in Sri Lanka.

Minister Douglas Devnanda’s Eelam People Democratic Party (EPDP), a paramilitary collaborating with Sri Lanka government, demonstrated against the rape and murder of a 4-year-old child, shouting slogans against the occupying SL military.

The Hagel Narrative the Neocons Want

The cabinet appointment of a highly qualified Republican senator would normally have been a no-brainer, until, in Elizabeth Drew’s perceptive phrase, “the press fed the narrative that the neocons wanted.”

(CHICAGO) - The >Daily Beast and the Los Angeles Times are reporting that President Obama will name Chuck Hagel as his next Defense Secretary. Sources in Washington say that the nomination will be announced Monday or possibly Tuesday.

Al Jazeera has purchased the struggling U.S. network, Current, which was created by former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. Current has failed to compete in the American market but it does have outlets which Al Jazeera covets.

Missing Woman Found Slain, Dumped Inside Well Near Sri Lanka Military Post

People around Jaffna are in shock after witnessing a series of brutal rapes and killings of women and children.

(KAARAINAKAR, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - Medical staff at two Sri Lankan hospitals told TamilNet that policemen visited their hospital with the mentally disabled female on 07 December seeking medical assistance.

However, the SL policemen later ‘explained’ that they had dropped the female off around 1:30 a.m. on 08 December.

Mass Murder of Dalits: Ethnic Cleansing in South Asia

The Recent History of Brahmin Massacres of Dalit Blacks

(LONDON) - History is usually written by the victors. The Dalits have not had a voice for thousands of years.

The Dalit discrimination has to be aired by all peace loving people on the planet.

Survive in Journalism

What it takes to make it...

(AUSTIN, TX) - What does it take to survive in journalism? Is it about multimedia skills? Or is it all about how well you write? Maybe it is about correct grammar usage?

I am sure everyone has their own four or five things they can rattle off to a student or young journalist that answers that question. I do not think there is a wrong answer and I think there are many right answers.

Rape In India: Why Are There No Mass Protests For Raped Dalit Women? OpEd

Special report explores problems faced by Dalit women and girls, lowest in India's archaic caste system.

(LONDON Eurasia Review) - The question is very simple.

While rape in any form is abhorred and should be severely punished by all nations what needs to be answered is what makes the recent gangrape by 6 men of a 23 year old on a bus in Delhi any different from the gangrape of a 16 year old Dalit women by 8 men who having taken photos of the crime had circulated it amongst the village leading to her father committing suicide out of shame?

Media Urged to Drop Term `Islamist` in New Year

Term 'currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context'

(WASHINGTON DC) - As many people make promises to themselves to improve their lives or their societies in the coming year, here is a suggested New Year's resolution for media outlets in America and worldwide: Drop the term "Islamist."

The Associated Press (AP) added the term to its influential Stylebook in 2012. That entry reads: "Islamist -- Supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam.

Labeling Chuck Hagel as an Anti Semite is Absurd

Sun may shine on Chuck Hagel nomination for Defense Secretary, even as other Republicans turn on former senator for a first allegiance to his own country.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) is likely to be nominated Secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama, after all.

The nomination could come as early as Monday of Tuesday, sources report. The nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense could be the dawning of a new day for integrity in American/Israeli policy which is badly needed.

Historic News: Oregon Removes Barriers to Transition-Related Care

News release from Basic Rights Oregon

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Insurance Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) just announced that insurance companies doing business in Oregon must end discriminatory exclusions of medically-necessary healthcare for transgender Oregonians.