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Tribute: Capt. Charles Gnanakone

The state political and intelligence machinery implicated Charles in the assassination of the Foreign Minister Luxman Kadirgamar in 2005 and put him through a harrowing experience.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - A thanksgiving Service to celebrate the life of Capt. Charles Gnanakone will be held at the Christian Life Assembly Church, 374-378 Blackburn Rd, Glen Waverley on MONDAY.

Capt. Charles Gnanakoon is the eldest son of the well known and wealthy Gnanakoon family.

Pakistan Hits Back in UK Visa Scandal

The NADRA chairman said The Sun story was totally incorrect, false and malicious. He said the story seemed to have been crafted to defame Pakistan.

(ISLAMABAD) - The federal cabinet has directed NADRA to immediately file a libel suit against Britain's The Sun newspaper in consultation with the Ministry of Law and Justice.

The authority on Wednesday claimed there was no fraud or illegality in issuing ID card and passport to The Sun's undercover agent, Muhammad Ali s/o Muhammad Anwer Siddique.

Ethnocentrist justice, racist justice!

"The alienated subject is mad in so far as he takes himself without mediation for what he identifies himself to."^[1]

(PARIS, France) - Once again in matter of excision, a French criminal court has brought in, against a whole family since the victims did not complain, a racist, ethnocentrist, ignorant of religious and cultural realities verdict.

Both parents got five years jailing. Such a judgment imposes the Western law in the imperialist spirit inherited from colonialism.

Human Rights and 650,000 Jewish Settlers

President Obama signed an enhanced "security" arrangement with Apartheid Israel the day before Romney's expected arrival.

(BETHLEHEM) - More than 15,000 Jewish settlers were added in one year to bring the total colonial settlers living in the West Bank to 650,000.

Settler violence increased multi-fold in the past few years and Israel is enjoying unprecedented Western government support from Obama, Clinton and other influential western leaders.

Special Feature: A Pecan Epithet

A common bond across species, pecans apparently inspire both birds and humans to go the extra mile.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Observant travelers on New Mexico Highway 28 that passes through the immense, shady corridor of the Stahmann Farms pecan orchard in Dona Ana County will notice something is not the same.

“Closed” signs now hang on the large white building off to the side of the road that was once the popular Stahmann’s Country Store...

The Suffering Grasses and the Crisis in Syria

In May 2012, director Iara Lee led a press delegation that spent weeks in the Turkish refugee camps housing Syrian exiles.

(RIO DE JANIERO) - Cultures of Resistance's new film, The Suffering Grasses, is now finished and available for screenings.

As the conflict in Syria continues to deteriorate, we want the voices of those most affected by the violence to be heard as widely as possible.

Hypocrisy over Hezbollah Arms

A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - Richard Henry Lee 1788

(BEIRUT) - In Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet al Baida beach in Beirut, near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, than the sun coming up like thunder out of Syria every morning.

And that might be the regularity of Washington, Riyadh, Doha, and Tel Aviv's drone: “Hezbollah must give up their weapons!”

Salem Clergy, Peace Groups Plan Syria Prayer Vigil

The Prayer Vigil for Syria will be held Wednesday evening, August 1, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. outdoors at Salem Peace Plaza, located between City Hall and the Public Library.

(SALEM) - A group of local citizens, deeply concerned about the strife that has been occurring in Syria for more than a year, invites our community together to pray for the people of Syria.

We will pay homage to the thousands of innocent persons that have been slain, and we will pray for a just, non-violent solution to the conflict.

The Queen of England Orders a Coverup, and other News from our very own Deep Throat

Top church officials asked the Canadian government to help conceal incriminating evidence of Genocide of Native Americans.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - It didn't happen late at night in a murky parking garage, like in All the President's Men.

The phone call from the inside informant came to me unexpectedly this week from someone claiming to be a former staff member at the head office of the Anglican Church in Toronto. I'll call him Sid.

Denying Rohingya as an Indigenous Race of Myanmar is Insulting Buddhism, Historians, and Democracy

Aung San promised the Rohingya community full indigenous rights in 1946.

(SITTWE, Rakhine State, Myanmar) - Five years ago, I met a Christain saint, Thomas Michel in a Church of Yangon, he asked me about my faith.

When answered Islam, he introduced me a book “Love and Tolerance by M Fethullah Gulen in which he wrote acknowledgement that inspired me toward a global civilization in Islamic perspective.