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A World Class Golfing Experience at Salem`s Creekside Golf Club

The Pacific Northwest is a golf destination for people around the world.

(SALEM, Ore.) - If you are a keen golfer living in the Salem area and have never visited Creekside Golf Club, you have been missing out on a top quality golfing experience!

The club, which is located amidst the beautiful Willamette Valley, offers a world class golf course, fully stocked golf shop and a restaurant with beautiful lake views.

Never Again: Remembering `83

It bears reflection today, 29 years after the horrible events of July 1983.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Groundviews) - First broadcast on aired on the MTV, Shakthi and Sirasa terrestrial TV channels in Sri Lanka from 23rd to 30th July 2008, Never Again in Sri Lanka featured 22 videos in Tamil, Sinhala and English on the anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983 in Sri Lanka.

The 30 second videos on the site featured well-known Sri Lankan civil society, film, teledrama, entertainment, academic and religious personalities...

Farewell, Alex, My Friend by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

Alex kept his illness a tightly guarded secret...

(LONDON) - Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: I have learned today that the widely admired Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of the invaluable Counterpunch Magazine, passed away last week.

Alex was, no doubt, amongst the leading voices of dissent and Counterpunch, which he founded with Jeffrey St. Clair, has been the prominent English alternative media outlet for more than a decade.

FNS: Truckin` in Zeta Land

“We truckers are invisible to Mexican society. We are indispensable but invisible.” - Mexican trucker

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Rafael yanks out the old billfold and displays a lone 200 peso bill, a denomination which is roughly worth $16 and declining in value every day as fuel, food and more keep going up and up and disposable income down and down.

With more than a glint of regret in his eyes, he remarks how in the old days his wallet would bulge with as many as 10,000 pesos.

Daughter with Downs Syndrome Needs Her Father - Let Enrique Gonzales Go

As is typical all too often, as an inmate, Enrique has been denied adequate medical treatment.

(SALEM) - Since 2000, Enrique Gonzales and his family; four children, 13, 5, and two 2-year old twins, have been living in Florida, but now his family is suffering without him as he sits in jail where he became developed a kidney condition.

Enrique was pulled over by police in mid-June as he left his place of employment; a construction site, for allegedly driving on a private road.

Christmas in July? Bah Humbug!

Christmas in July? Could it work? Of course it can. It can work in every month, in every day, in every hour.

(WASHINGTON DC) - July finds me in one of the biggest churches in Washington, D.C. during their First Annual Children’s Book Fair.

All around me authors are selling books: some teaching children about business and saving money; others about self-esteem; another about a girl’s entrance into puberty; a few titles about bullying.

Your Tax Dollars Pay for a Study to Study Other Studies

Unknown Amount of Tax Dollars Spent for Study that Determined Wind Turbine Blade Shadows Don’t Trigger Epileptic Seizures.

(SALEM) - Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation says Petunia the Pork Detective’s first ever ‘Porker Award’ was given to the Oregon Health Authority.

It's over a wasteful study to determine if giant wind turbine blade shadows trigger epileptic seizures in humans.

Blowing the Lid off the `Humanitarian Intervention` Fraud...

The Illegal War on Libya - edited by Cynthia McKinney

(WASHINGTON DC) - In 2011, former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, took a delegation of observers to Libya to monitor NATO’s purported humanitarian intervention. They were in Libya during the 2011 NATO bombardment of Libyan cities, and were among the few independent voices to report on the tragedy.

This collection of essays includes personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO assault on a helpless civilian population it had a UN mandate to protect, as well as analysis of the massive media propaganda campaign and manipulation of international institutions and human rights NGOs that made it possible.

What if My Child Gets Caught in a Social Network?

The public now has all the power through social networks.

(MADRID, Spain) - The International Communication for Children Festival 'The Pacifier' was born to channel communication that targets children and improve the quality of the information that is transmitted.

It awards the best works of communication for children.

VerticalNews Applauds PMU`s Aramco Endowed Chair Professor Research

VerticalNews promotes news about various scientific streams including information technology viz software engineering.

(AL-KHOBAR Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) - US based Journal of Technology and Science/VerticalNews lauded scientific research at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.