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How to Deal with Legacies of Conflict in Afghanistan?

Certain initiatives—whether locally-driven or at the national level—have the potential to provide a measure of comfort to conflict victims while paving the way for a more enduring peace.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - There are millions of conflict victims in Afghanistan and the ongoing fighting creates new suffering every day.

With a complex and contested wartime history, how can a way forward be found that satisfies victims’ demands for justice and healing while delivering the peace that is so desired.

Can a Fatal Plane Crash Free the Schneider Pill Mill Team?

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King, Jr.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - An untimely plane crash recently killed key members of a team working on behalf of a convicted pill mill doctor and nurse team.

Now attorneys petition Appellate Court to toss out their convictions in the overdose deaths of 68 patients citing their trial lawyers were merely "mouthpieces" for Siobhan Reynolds, head of the Pain Relief Network who used their case to promote her own agenda.

Activists have their Say in Court for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

A retired Navy nuclear submarine commander testified that national security strategy based on the threat of nuclear annihilation is dangerous...

(SEATTLE) - Peace activists made their case for the abolition of nuclear weapons, specifically the Trident nuclear weapons system, while on trial in a Kitsap County courtroom on January 4th and 5th for blocking the entrance to a local nuclear weapons base.

The ten defendants in two separate trials were charged with being “pedestrians on Roadway Unlawfully,” a traffic infraction.

Reactor Reax: Nuclear Industry Report

Examining the risks and ongoing situations that today define nuclear power and energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This week in Reactor Reax we hear more about the ongoing problems in Japan based on the recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture.

An LA Times report details the short-circuiting of the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction.

Agent Orange: A Tragic Legacy

Until the US govt and the responsible corporations are held accountable in this bioterrorism war crime, victims will continue to be overlooked and unassisted.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In an effort to help tip the scales for the United States during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was developed by biotechnological companies in order to help clear dense fields, giving soldiers a clearer vision of their targets.

Along with the loss of vegetation, the was an additional hope that Vietnamese farmers would relocate to U.S. occupied cities, and no longer be able to grow and provide for the Vietnamese troops.

Fracking/Public Health Controversy - National Conference on Shale Gas Production Impacts to be Held in DC

The conference addressws industrial, geologic, toxicological, epidemiological, and health care factors.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, and the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment conference brings together experts from various research areas.

They will address the public health aspects of unconventional natural gas drilling, known as “hydro fracking”.

UK/IHRC - IHRC host Genocide Memorial Day 22 January 2012

“We hope that Genocide Memorial Day will continue to foster unity amongst people...” - IHRC Chair Massoud Shadjareh

(LONDON) - Islamic Human Rights Commission holds their third annual Genocide Memorial Day later this month at the Brunei Gallery, in Russell Square.

Speakers at the event will include Professor Ilan Pappe from the University of Exeter...

Is Intelligence Compromised by Working with FDA on Safety Issues?

It's obvious that intellectual ability is a threat to the tools working for the pharmaceutical industry within the FDA.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - With regard to Darvon or Darvocet, confirmed cause of 2,000+ accidental deaths, Dr. Sidney Wolfe:

“It is an extremely dangerous drug, and it's just reckless for any company to be selling it, and it's reckless in the extreme for the FDA to allow this...”

Has Sri Lanka`s Government-Sponsored Terrorism Hit the Lowest Low Ever?

British national murdered, Russian woman raped at Tangalla; allegedly by a local politician backed by a gang...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The murder of Kuram Shaikah Zaman, a prosthetic expert with the Red Cross who worked in Gaza, is alleged to have been carried out by a local politician.

The death has led to sharp criticism over the failure of the Sri Lankan government to maintain law and order and also for encouraging lawlessness and criminal behaviour.

A mistaken case for Syrian regime change

"War with Iran is already here," wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing "the combination of covert warfare and international pressure" being applied to Iran.

(ROME) - Although not mentioned, the "strategic prize" of the first stage of this war on Iran is Syria; the first campaign in a much wider sectarian power-bid.

"Other than the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself," Saudi King Abdullah was reported to have said last summer, "nothing would weaken Iran more than losing Syria."