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OIC: Save Myanmar Muslims from `Genocide`

“We would like the international community to act immediately to stop the ethnic cleansing,” - Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf

(DJIBOUTI Agency France Presse) - The world’s top Islamic body urged US President Barack Obama to look into the plight of Muslims in Myanmar’s unrest-hit Rakhine state.

Both Obama and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton are making a landmark trip to the Southeast Asian country.

UN Has a Second Chance to Right Wrongs on Sri Lanka

Article by Gordon Weiss of The Australian

(MELBOURNE, Aust) - THERE is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide - and got away with it.

Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone.

Prof. Mearsheimer: Iran and US should Work toward Reconciliation

John J. Mearsheimer has written extensively on the international relations and security issues and published five books.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - Prof. Mearsheimer took part in an exclusive interview with Iran Review and answered a number of questions.

Mearsheimer addresses Iran’s nuclear program, Iran-U.S. relations, Western media propaganda against Iran and Obama’s Middle East policy.

Israeli Defence Forces: Pillar Of Defense: Fourth Day of Fighting

Today, another long-range rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards Tel-Aviv.

(TEL AVIV) - The fourth day of Operation Pillar Of Defense is drawing to an end.

Since the beginning of the operation, over 500 rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns. Today, four rockets fired from Gaza struck the Israeli city of Ashdod.

Protest Outside Israeli Embassy in London, Condemn Gaza Violence

“We are insisting that the British Government uphold international law and human rights and tells Israel to end its war now. - Sarah Colborne, Palestine Solidarity Campaign

(LONDON) - More than three thousand protesters demonstrated near the Israeli embassy in London on Saturday.

They waved placards and chanted slogans, over the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip.

Peace of the Wicked

A poem observing the suffering in Gaza.

(LONDON) - Though they continue to strike
With a sick style of apartheid
All is excused in the name of security

As world powers turn a blind eye
And petty politicians recycle lies
Murder is justified with a sense of superiority

Welcome to the peace of the wicked...

Hitler & Zionism -1933 The Transfer Agreement

Israel and Nazi Germany both functioned from the premise that a race or culture must stick together and fight those who are different.

(LONDON) - Hitler's attempt to eradicate the Jews is the largest reason that Israel exists in the state that it does.

In an interview for Book TV, investigative journalist Edwin Black talks about his extraordinary book, "The Transfer Agreement" and its 25th Anniversary republication.

Cold War Relics

“ by the Truman Library’s willingness to consider that president’s decisions at the dawn of the Cold War as possibly mistaken. Maybe Henry Wallace was right after all!” - Harvey Klehr

(PORTLAND, OR) - What started as a $100M “Victims of Communism Museum,”authorized by Congress in 1993 fizzled out into a ten-foot-high replica of the Goddess of Democracy from Tienanmen [sic] Square on a traffic island in Washington, D.C.

The “The Whittaker Chambers National Historic Landmark” in Westminster, Maryland is so obscure that even the county visitor center doesn’t know where it is.

GoPro Big Wave Addicts 2011/2012 Episode 2

Featuring Greg Long and PNW Crew.

(GIG HARBOR, WA) - When professional big-wave legend Greg Long calls and says he needs to get away and surf some big waves because he hasn't had any worthy swells since the historic paddle session at Pe'ahi last month, then what else can you do.

IHH Calls People Around the World for Help for Palestinians

It is time for the world to stand up for what is right.

(Istanbul, TR) - Gaza is under Israeli attack since last Wednesday. As death toll rises hour by hour the humanitarian crisis is also increasing in Gaza Strip.

The Istanbul-based Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH) makes a call for people around the world to urgently take action against Israeli attacks.