Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with death www.salem-news.com 2010 Blatantly false claims are published in Bangladesh over our human rights ambassador, a highly effective journalist / activist named William Nicholas Gomes. William has been under constant attack by pro-government media and they are dastardly in their methodical attempt to discredit our writer. It is not going to work out for them however. http://salem-news.com/articles/may242012/gomes-update-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242012/gomes-update-tk.php Thu, 24 May 2012 13:26:00 PDT "I might not be able to contest and vote, but still I can do politics," Fonseka, 61, told Reuters on Tuesday in a telephone interview from his home outside the capital, Colombo. "I can educate the people, I can talk to people and have meetings," he said. (quote from Reuters – on line 23 May) http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/new-sl-party-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/new-sl-party-kp.php Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:00 PDT Today, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and 6 netizens and citizen journalists have been killed since the start of 2012, many of them in war zones such as Somalia and Syria. This is a rate of one news provider killed ever five days. http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/journalist-deaths.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/journalist-deaths.php Wed, 23 May 2012 13:55:00 PDT As many visitors to Lebanon can attest, some Lebanese have the rather charming habit of asking them, “Do you love Lebanon?” One assumes they actually mean to inquire if the visitor likes Lebanon and is enjoying their visit. http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/lebanon-racism-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/lebanon-racism-fl.php Wed, 23 May 2012 00:08:00 PDT Eileen Fleming, author, reporter and now a candidate for US House of Representatives from Florida, began documenting the ongoing saga of Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower, in June 2005. In 1987, Vanunu was convicted of espionage and treason. Fleming contends he was only guilty of revealing Israel's nuclear Facility at Dimona. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/mordechai-vanunu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/mordechai-vanunu.php Tue, 22 May 2012 23:12:00 PDT UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on the verge of handing over the UN's Middle East policy to Jeffrey Feltman. On Tuesday Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky refused to respond to Press questions about whether this conflation harms or helps the UN. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/ban-lanka-mrl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/ban-lanka-mrl.php Tue, 22 May 2012 22:25:00 PDT Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with separatist rebels, thousands of people are still missing, according to the United Nations and Sri Lankan activists. Even in the wake of this tragedy, more continue to disappear. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/lanka-missing-thousands.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/lanka-missing-thousands.php Tue, 22 May 2012 22:14:00 PDT Your Congress is at work again bringing about the next war and spending more money on the military than the military wants. Congress is inching its way to a war with Iran by passing resolutions written and put forth by the powerful pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/wars-spending-jc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/wars-spending-jc.php Tue, 22 May 2012 19:59:00 PDT The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a document titled, “Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS Comments”. This document is being described as part of the agency’s dioxin reassessment. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/dioxin-risks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/dioxin-risks.php Tue, 22 May 2012 18:03:00 PDT According to Israeli military records, there are 2,700 deserters and 1,780 draft dodgers in Israel. In the last week alone, the IDF has arrested 474 of them as part of its largest-ever operation to apprehend them. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/idf-draft-hunt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/idf-draft-hunt.php Tue, 22 May 2012 17:38:00 PDT It all started with Mike Partain, a.k.a. Number One. A barrel-chested father of four with a goatee and a predilection for aviator sunglasses. Partain was born at Camp Lejeune, the North Carolina base where his father, a first lieutenant in the US Marine Corps, was stationed in the late 1960s. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/male-breast-cander-cp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/male-breast-cander-cp.php Tue, 22 May 2012 17:13:00 PDT Ram Vilas Paswan, the president of Lok Janshakthi Party from the state of Bihar and a former Indian minister, took part in a candlelight vigil Sunday. They signed on the list of the signature campaign calling for UN referendum among Eezham Tamils to assert their political destiny. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/tamil-referendum-2.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/tamil-referendum-2.php Mon, 21 May 2012 23:31:00 PDT My beloved husband, Ziad Jilani, was executed by Israeli Border Policeman, Maxim Vinogradov on June 11, 2010. There is undeniable evidence that my husband was lying unarmed and wounded on the ground, posing no threat when Israeli Border Policeman Maxim Vinogradov shot him point blank in the head. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gaza-death.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gaza-death.php Mon, 21 May 2012 22:58:00 PDT Gabriel Walling (1788-1857) is interred in the Amity Pioneer Cemetery which is a registered historic cemetery with the state of Oregon Parks and Recreation Heritage Programs. Until recently, Gabriel Walling was not recognized as a veteran of the ‘War of 1812.’ http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gabriel-walling.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gabriel-walling.php Mon, 21 May 2012 17:11:00 PDT My name is Jerry Ensminger, and I served my country faithfully for 24 years in the United States Marine Corps. During that time, I trained thousands of recruits to become honored Marines. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/lejeune-petition-je.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/lejeune-petition-je.php Mon, 21 May 2012 15:13:00 PDT In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people. The victims included nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a few words of condolence and apology nonchalantly strung together in order to appease the overwhelming public rage in Afghanistan. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/afghan-atrocities-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/afghan-atrocities-is.php Mon, 21 May 2012 14:58:00 PDT On the face of it, Baron Cohen’s The Dictator is a horrid film. It is vulgar, it isn’t funny and if it has five good jokes in it, they appear in the two minute official trailer. In short, save your time and money – unless of course, you are interested in Jewish identity politics and neurosis. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/baron-cohen-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/baron-cohen-ga.php Mon, 21 May 2012 05:41:00 PDT The V-Day celebrations were on, as this piece was written. A military victory being commemorated at the Galle face esplanade, celebrated as the 3rd anniversary of defeating the LTTE “terrorism”. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/sinhala-package-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/sinhala-package-kp.php Mon, 21 May 2012 01:34:00 PDT Since 1995 an institution called the ‘Transparency International’ [TI] has been publishing data on countries ranked from least to most corrupt based on “perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. Their definition: Corruption is essentially "the misuse of public power for private benefit." http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/illusion-corruption-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/illusion-corruption-as.php Mon, 21 May 2012 00:59:00 PDT Ethiopia has grown more authoritarian in nature since the controversial 2005 elections ended in bloodshed. Meles Zenawi is known for suppressing free speech, wrongful and arbitrary detention and arrest, and zero transparency. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/zenawi-obama-letter-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/zenawi-obama-letter-wg.php Sun, 20 May 2012 01:49:00 PDT The Bien Hoa military airport in the southern province of Dong Nai has the world’s highest Agent Orange/dioxin contamination level, a meeting heard Thursday. The office of the national steering committee tasked with handling the consequences of toxic chemical used by the US during the Vietnam War reported at the meeting that the airport has more than ten hectares of heavily polluted soil. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/bien-hoa-kc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/bien-hoa-kc.php Sun, 20 May 2012 00:55:00 PDT For the global community, there is nothing more consequential than the catastrophic failure after World War II to learn the correct lessons. Instead, the world continued with the business of war as usual (and war is business). One of the most destabilizing forces in the world was created and sustained for 100 years before the USA took on nurturing it after WWII. I am of course speaking of Zionism. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/nakba-actions-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/nakba-actions-mq.php Sun, 20 May 2012 00:26:00 PDT The Transitional Justice Coordination Group appreciates the ten-year achievements in government-building, and other fields that have been reached with the participation of the people by the government and the international community for fulfillment of democracy. However, those trends have not taken root in our country... http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/chicago-conference.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/chicago-conference.php Sat, 19 May 2012 20:58:00 PDT Suspicions are aroused when the founder of the discredited group Quilliam Foundation, Majid Nawaz who has strong pro Israeli supporters, heads off to Pakistan: “…to counter the spread of extremist ideology within Pakistan, predominantly amongst younger generations of Pakistanis, who now constitute 63% of the total population”. http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/pakistan-israel-ss.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/pakistan-israel-ss.php Sat, 19 May 2012 18:08:00 PDT The Rwandan tyrannical ruler, General Paul Kagame, is known for his excessive and brutal control of the media for his warfare. The former rebel leader will stop at nothing to grab ‘international recognition’ thanks to his complex and exorbitant public-relations and lobbyists network. http://salem-news.com/articles/may112012/rwandan-despot-ckkmk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may112012/rwandan-despot-ckkmk.php Sat, 19 May 2012 07:20:00 PDT Tamil Nadu based civil society group Youth Against War Crimes and Genocide demand for a UN referendum among Eezham Tamils. Tamils could determine the political future of their homeland. http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/tamil-referendum.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/tamil-referendum.php Sat, 19 May 2012 02:11:00 PDT William Gomes is a young, progressive journalist and human rights activist from Bangladesh. He has written widely about the human rights violations around the world and was recently declared as the Human Rights Ambassador for the U.S.-based news website Salem-News. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/william-gomes-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/william-gomes-kz.php Fri, 18 May 2012 22:25:00 PDT The Jewish philosopher Maimonides ascribes circumcision to a moral order that, under the guise of religion and/or tradition, pretends making supermen. That tyrannical order tries to dominate the child as the adult in the name of: "Hush, it’s for your own sake!" http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/sexual-mutilation-mhn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/sexual-mutilation-mhn.php Fri, 18 May 2012 21:42:00 PDT Postcolonial, feminist and gay studies share many similarities to the extent that some academics regard these fields as theoretically and ideologically complementary. These fields of study are primarily concerned with politics, the structure of hegemony, the oppressed and the mechanism that brings about injustice. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/whiteness-palestine-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/whiteness-palestine-ga.php Fri, 18 May 2012 17:10:00 PDT Neve Gordon, a 47-year-old Israeli-born professor and author, greeted this year’s 64th anniversary of the Nakba with an essay for CounterPunch that included this revealing confession: "I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a teenager, I was a member of Peace Now and was raised in a liberal home..." http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/neve-gordon-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/neve-gordon-jw.php Fri, 18 May 2012 13:21:00 PDT