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BANGLADESH: NGO Ban Hurting Undocumented Rohingya

"Since the NGOs stopped coming our kids don't get medicine. They don't get treated for what they need. They don't get the food they need," Sokeya Begum, 39, a undocumented Rohingya, said.

(COX’S BAZAR IRIN) - Some 40,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees are being adversely affected by a government ban four months ago on NGOs working at two makeshift sites in southeastern Bangladesh.

“If we get some rice, we eat. Otherwise, we don’t eat,” Anowara Begum, an undocumented Rohingya refugee and 40-year-old mother-of-four at the Leda makeshift camp outside Nayapara, one of two makeshift sites outside two official government camps for Rohingya refugees told IRIN.

UN Peacekeeping`s Dealings with General Shavendra Silva

At UN, Return to 38th Floor Presented as Almost Religious, Media Silence.

(UNITED NATIONS) - It was an almost religious experience, or treated like one...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon moved back into the 38th floor of The Organization's skyscraper Monday morning.

In Memory Of A People With A Land

A bereft generational repository mournfully binds together blood, tears and broken bones...

(LONDON) - A wailing poignancy tearing at the very heart of a much troubled core

Drenched in a blood soaked landscape incessantly scarred by murderous lore...

California Moves Forward

Most can clearly see that the old guard of prohibition is losing and we are winning.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Since 1996 medical marijuana patients, otherwise known as Proposition 215 patients have been fighting a battle for the rights to attain and procure their medicine.

The Compassionate Use Act of 1996, is a California Proposition that was enacted by 55.6% of votes in favor of qualified patients having the right to use marijuana as medicine.

400+ Rabbis, Cantors Oppose Israel`s E1 Building Plans

Open letter to PM Netanyahu says controversial settlement expansion could be ‘final blow to a peaceful solution’

(WASHINGTON DC) - In an open letter to Israel's Prime Minister, 400+ rabbis, cantors, and students warn that the move undermines the territorial contiguity of the future Palestinian state.

“We fear that building settlements in E1 would be the final blow to a peaceful solution,” the letter warns.

Tribute to the Teachers

During the early period of life, the family and the teacher act as the main reference for the child.

(MADRID) - The Spanish Foundation for Aid for Drug Addicts (FAD) has launched a new advertising campaign.

It highlights the important role played by the school teachers who, side by side with the families, are leading trainers in values.

Richard Falk: Understanding Hamas after Khaled Meshaal`s Gaza Speech

The lens through which Hamas is being viewed must be changed if we are to understand it going forward.

(PRINCETON, NJ Sabbah Report) - In the aftermath of Khaled Meshaal’s emotional visit to Gaza in celebration of Hamas’ 25th anniversary, commentary in Israel and the West has focused on his remarks at a rally as “defiant”.

The Israelis claim his words confirm “the true face” of Hamas.

Holocaust not Hope

Modern, diverse Britain, with its most precious asset, freedom of speech, is a wonderful thing - I came to this country because of it – and I am willing to fight for it.

(LONDON) - This week, a new Jewish ‘progressive’ text has been published which you simply must read and circulate around.

This is not because it’s any good, quite the opposite, it is, as usual, just a window into a tribal psychosis and a glimpse into morbid, Jewish, progressive nonsense.

Universal Responsibility

“O that there were some virtue in my tears...” —Shakespeare

(PORTLAND, OR) - One of the Dalai Lama’s first principles is something he calls “universal responsibility.”

However quick we are to place His Holiness on a saintly pedestal, it is only because the threshold of our own responsibility sometimes seems so very low...

`Tere Bin Laden` is Paralyzingly Funny! (Unlike the True Story)

Bollywood Flick goes to the heart of the 'bin Laden tape' controversy, minus the amazing 'cave dialysis' program.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The movie 'Tere Bin Laden' is as funny as it gets, though the subject matter itself could not be more serious.

What's funny is the tongue-in-cheek look at the whole notion of 'bin Laden Videotapes' that helped Bush launch two wars, and ensured Obama's reelection.