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Not if it isn`t True

Burying the hatchet is always a good thing for those with the bigger hatchet, much as the law is good for the man with property, and terrible for the one without it.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Being Christmas, this is the season of lies; so it's a good time to talk about healing and reconciliation.

Murdering the Truth

Israelis haven’t wanted the gory truth out.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Palestinian journalists have been doing their best to get the news reported.

Christmas Behind the Wall

This year donate to a charity that deals with children.

(BETHLEHEM) - We remembered the 20 children killed in Connecticut (where I last lived in the USA).

We remembered them and we also remembered the 33 children killed last month by US funded Israeli war machine and the hundreds of Pakistani and Afghani children killed this year by US drone attacks.

Rebel Controlled Yarmouk Palestinian Camp Empties Pending a Government Counter-Attack

Damascus Street Notes...

(YARMOUK CAMP, Damascus) - A distraught looking woman sitting alone, tightly holding two babies,sat at one corner of the vast parking lot of the central Damascus bus station known as Al-Soumariyeh.

It is from here where inexpensive transportation can be had for those traveling west, east, north and south.

Which is the greater NRA failing: Clinical Paranoia or Willful Blindness?

Of the 12 deadliest mass shootings in American history, six have occurred since 2007.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Wayne Lapierre, CEO and executive VP of the NRA in his statement on Friday morning said: 'Now, I can imagine the shocking headlines you'll print tomorrow morning: ‘More guns,’ you'll claim, ‘are the NRA's answer to everything!’”

It's nice for the NRA for once to be truthful.

Simulated Buddhists, Sinhala-Buddhist Schools to Accelerate Colonisation, Genocide

Colombo is now reviving the project in an enhanced and accelerated way in Jaffna and Vanni.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - Colombo has now engaged a person, Mr. SL Ramachandran, a native of Vara’ni in Jaffna and Mr. Ravikumar a trader in Jaffna to organize a ‘Tamil-Buddhist’ community in Jaffna.

They are fully backed by the occupying military and the Sinhala-Buddhist priests deployed in the North.

Tortured in Sinai, Imprisoned in Israel

Israel spurns international law with impunity. It does what it wants unaccountably. It ignores international law.

(CHICAGO Sabbah Report) - A new Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) report is titled “Tortured in Sinai, Jailed in Israel.” More on it below.

Separate and unequal defines longstanding Israeli policy. Arabs aren’t wanted. Neither are non-Jewish immigrants or asylum seeker. Discriminatory laws target them. Fundamental rights are denied.

Hagel for Secretary of Defense

Hagel is an honorable person who has bled for his country and served it above and beyond the call of duty.

(WASHINGTON DC Foreign Policy) - In 1963, my senior thesis in college was a paper criticizing the Domino Theory rationale for the Vietnam War that was then getting started.

According to the theory, if South Vietnam went communist, all of Southeast Asia and perhaps all the rest of Asia as well was destined automatically to follow.

Petition for Eradication of `Manual Scavenging`: Maila Mukti Yatra

'Manual Scavenging' is a gross human right violation under various legislation and International human rights laws.

(LONDON) - In recent European parliament session, resolution was pass on caste discrimination in India, also highlighted the inhuman practice of manual scavenging.

On 3rd September 2012, “The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012" has been introduced in the Lok Sabha. As it awaits discussion, we put forth our recommendation and demand in the bill.

Ray Gun Feared as America`s Biggest Threat

Conducting interviews on this topic is the former security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the author of the newly released book "A Nation Forsaken", F. Michael Maloof.

(WASHINGTON DC WND) - The nation's attention of late has focused on a nuclear bomb or an intense solar storm as the source of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, assault on the nation's vulnerable electrical grid system that could fry our electronics and wreak havoc on critical infrastructures.

Estimates are that tens of millions of fatalities could occur in the aftermath of such an event as food, fuel and power supplies evaporate and the nation is transported instantly back to the 18th-century lifestyle without a power grid or anything else electronic.