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`Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity` Calls for End to Drug War that`s Killed 60,000

Pro-Legalization Police Officers Join Poet Javier Sicilia and Other Drug War Victims to Make 6,000-Mile Journey Through 20 Cities to Honor Lives Lost to Failed Prohibition Policies, Culminating in International Day of Action in Washington, D.C.

(SAN DIEGO) - A broad bi-national coalition will join the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice & Dignity (MPJD) on a month-long “Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity” across the US.

The Caravan is led by renowned Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who emerged as a leader of the MPJD after his son Juan Francisco was killed in senseless prohibition-related violence last year.

Turkish Foreign Minister and Delegation are Welcome with Blood of Rohingya (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

Three of my friends had been trying to take photos and they got some which were sent to international media, after then all of my friends lost their lives, even I don’t know how they were killed.

(SITTWE Akyab, Myanmar) - I had learned in history that the ancient Maya people offered the blood of prisoners and slaves to their gods in order to please them by sacrificing human beings.

In this modern age, it is the first time Rakhine racists have offered the blood of Rohingya to improve their racist sentiment.

Joint Letter Calling for Dismissal of Phnom Penh Deputy Police Chief Phuong Malay

Cambodia is a party to the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; yet police are still allowed to abuse and torment female victims.

(PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) - Police abuse of peaceful protestors is a problem that spans the world. Occupy demonstrators in the U.S. have been harmed time and time again, many seriously.

Marijuana Legalization and Reefer Madness, or
Mad Cow Disease in Oregonian Editors

No state affiliated group would or could aid in any way to form the regulations to monitor or control marijuana dispensaries. We had to do it ourselves.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I don’t think I can have any other explanation of their article on Sunday, July 29th, 2012 entitled, “Flaws in the push to Legalize Marijuana.” and also a similar OPED denigration.

The Oregonian has been debasing medical marijuana since it became legal in 1999 but these two articles ‘take the cake’ in their vehement ignorance...

Deconstructing Avraham Burg

The true nature and deep cultural, ideological and spiritual bond between America and Israel is now clear for all to see.

(LONDON) - I respect former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg. Over the years, Burg has managed to extend the scope of the Zionist self-criticism; he has challenged the Zionist discourse, Israeli society and even Jewish identity politics.

A few days ago, in a New York Times opinion piece, he attempted to explore the reasons behind the collapse of Israeli democracy.

No Nice Wars

Includes many recent updates on resistance activity and regional politics.

(BETHLEHEM, Occupied Palestine) - An attack on an Egyptian army post in northern Sinai left 15 soldiers dead. The attack was denounced by all Palestinian resistance forces including mainstream ones and even marginal Jihadi forces.

But to most Palestinians, it was clear from its pattern and timing that this was another Israeli false flag operation...

My Enemy is My Ally: Lessons on Using the Opposition, and the Bigger Picture

We have pledged our lives to the fundamental shakeup of our society. And our looming common law court of justice is the first stage in that shakeup.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The nasty creep was named Phil Spencer, and his eyes shone with the same weird glow worn by the kid on our street in Winnipeg who used to take delight in smashing prairie dogs to death with a mop.

Phil was a fellow United Church minister.

German Court Circumcision Ban Correct in Parochial, Social and Secular Law

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl Jung.

(MONTEREY, CA) - As socialized beings, we are often unaware why we think what we think and why we do as we do. Exploring beneath the surface, we may discover we are not who we imagine we are.

Are our subtle perversions and aberrations so different from those of the ancients, or others we label primitive?

On the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of Iran`s Constitutional Revolution

"The only difference between me and these people is my place of birth, and this is not a big difference." - Howard Conklin Baskerville

(TEHRAN) - Howard Conklin Baskerville (April 10, 1885 – April 19, 1909) was an American teacher in the Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz, Iran, who died fighting for Iranian democracy. He has been called the "American Lafayette in Iran." (J. Lorentz)

Possible da Vinci Found in Scotland

French expert Michel Fraisset believes the background is the mountain of St Victoire by the city of Aix-en-Provence.

(SALEM) - In Scotland, a long ignored painting turns out to possibly be a lost work of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci.

If it is the real thing, this oil painting depicting a woman holding a young child that has been collecting dust in Fiona McLaren's home for decades, could be worth more than $150 million, The Daily Mail reported.