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Suu Kyi Accused of Allying with Military Regime

No leader for peace or saving lives, Suu Kyi's popularity continues to plummet.

(LONDON The Independent) - Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is accused of being an "ally" of the military regime.

An opposition party in Myanmar has asked the world investors not to engage in any investment with the present dispensation until a "genuine democratic government" is elected.

The Guys from `One Direction` Refuse Drugs

Young performers in Europe are discouraging drug use among kids.

(MADRID) - Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson became famous thanks to a television contest, sponsored by producer Simon Cowell.

Their first album, “Up All Night”, has sold over five million copies, which led them to be number one in Billboard ranking.

Chomsky Statement on Israel`s War on Gaza

It is not a war, it is murder.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums.

It attacks a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army… and calls it a war.

Medical Marijuana: The Replacement for Very Dangerous Drugs

Marijuana is less addictive and less dangerous than Starbuck’s espresso.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Dr. Sanjay Gupta will be speaking on CNN Sunday night about the 'killer drugs'.

This article was first written in 2007; it still is found very easily on Google; I wonder where Dr. Gupta has been for the last five years!

Israel-Gaza Latest Escalation: Testing the Waters of Post-Arab Spring

“The diminishment of the national pride/consciousness is a very grave sign/sin of an evolving and looming (religious) extremism in the Arab-Israeli conflict”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - What is taking place right now in Gaza is being unwittingly blown out of proportion;

I don’t think the Israelis meant to turn this usual routine of aggression into an all-out confrontation with the Palestinians...

Let Us Now Speak Plainly

As has happened every time before, the world watches — and the world does nothing.

(FREIDBURG) - The most striking and significant quality of our national conversation "is one of overwhelming, oppressive and suffocating unreality.

It is as if everyone knows, but will never acknowledge, that we may speak only in code...

Israeli Defence Forces: `Operation Pillar Of Defense is Still Ongoing`

The Iron Dome missile defense system has successfully intercepted over 90 rockets aimed at major Israeli population centers today...

(TEL AVIV) - Since the beginning of the operation, over 380 rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns. One rocket directly struck a home in the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. Luckily, there were no injuries.

Additionally, rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Tel-Aviv and the Israeli capital, Jerusalem.

Israel Masses Troops Near Gaza, Continues Attacks

Israel's saturation air strikes peaked on Thursday, with a rate of one every five minutes.

(GAZA STRIP Oman Daily Observer) - Israeli tanks and troops massed outside Gaza and the military said yesterday it was calling up 16,000 reservists.

There are signs of a possible imminent attack on the Palestinian enclave after 48 hours of air strikes that left at least 22 Palestinians dead.

CalDesal 1st Annual Desalination Conference in Irvine CA

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.” Winston Churchill

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - I’ve intuitionally felt for quite some time the resonance of Churchill’s quote in regards to desalination in general:

We’ve drained our streams, our lakes and aquifers dry, that damned desalination is the last tool in the water supply pouch...

BREAKING: Palestinians Shoot Down Israeli F-16 Fighter Jet in Gaza

Israeli attack on Gaza civilians is causing the Zionist state to pay the piper.

(GAZA STRIP) - Palestinian fighters have downed an Israeli warplane flying over the Gaza Strip as retaliatory rocket attacks from the enclave continue to sound alarms across Coordinadora Boicot Israel En Chile.

It is reported that the Israeli F-16 fighter jet was shot down on Friday.