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Shocking Torture Video from Darfur

Another U.S. supported government caught camera torturing boys.

(UMSAUNA, South Darfur / PORTLAND, Or) - This video smuggled out of Umsauna, South Darfur, shows government soldiers (GoS) beating and torturing innocent civilians, asking them where JEM leaders are located.

After two days of a deadly battle, fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) managed to claim Umsauna back from the GOS, 5 days ago - the town is now in their full control.

Peruvian Government Ramps up Habitat Protection for Endangered Bird Species

Three New Private Conservation Areas Approved.

(WASHINGTON D,C.) - The Peruvian government has announced the creation of several new conservation areas that will have significant ramifications in the ongoing efforts to protect habitat for endangered bird species in the country.

The Peruvian Minister of the Environment, Antonia José Brack Egg, recently announced his government’s approval of three new, community-owned, private conservation areas encompassing 8,438 acres on community owned lands to protect Polylepis forest in the Vilcanota Mountains of southeastern Peru, near Cusco.

Iran was not what we had Thought

"I found a community of like-minded, hospitable, curious people, including complete strangers who approached me with great energy and kindness." -Shannon Kelley, Morelia International Film Festival

(TEHRAN) - Although the relentless and incessant spates of mainstream media's psychological warfare have turned Iran into a hazardous and insecure region in the eyes of global public opinions, thousands of Western tourists "take the risk" of traveling to Iran each year to behold in person the concealed and withheld realities of the peaceful and magnificent Iran which a hawkish leader had idiotically categorized as a part of the so-called "Axis of Evil".

The American, French, German, British and Australian citizens who voluntarily travel to Iran to discover the veiled face of this ancient land usually confess identically that Iran had not been what they had thought.

Open Letter to the Organic Community

It takes real effort to get the right information out to people. Salem-News.com is a steamroller in accomplishing this.

(SALEM, Ore.) - To the entire organic community and those farmers that support them. I would like to share with you my passion for organic living and my commitment to spreading the word to anyone who will listen.

It has become my life’s purpose to discuss the truth about the modern food supply in real terms.

Human Rights News: Mexico`s Other Disappeared

In the aftermath of a mass disappearance of migrants, several governors are asked to aid in the search.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A Mexican lawmaker is demanding that government authorities pay more attention to a case of 31 missing migrants.

Juan Fernando Rocha Mier, a state legislator for the National Action Party (PAN) in the central state of Queretaro, said the same “emphasis” should be placed on locating the disappeared migrants as on safely returning former presidential candidate and millionaire lawyer Diego Fernandez de Cevallos.

Innovation of the Week: Providing an Agricultural Answer to Nature`s Call

The real scoop on the lifesaving use of 'poop'.

(DAKAR, Senegal) - It’s hard to believe, but an estimated 2.6 billion people in the developing world—nearly a third of the global population—still lack access to basic sanitation services.

This presents a significant hygiene risk, especially in densely populated urban areas and slums where contaminated drinking water can spread disease rapidly.

Shimon Peres has no Clothes and CNN is Exposed

South Africa did build its own nuclear bombs and also provided much of the yellow-cake uranium that Israel required to develop its nuclear arsenal.

(CLERMONT, Fla. ) - On May 24, 2010, the international press blew the doors wide open regarding President Shimon Peres’ "secret" offer to sell nuclear warheads to the South African Apartheid regime in 1975.

It was reported that PW Botha, South Africa's defense minister asked Shimon Peres-who was then Israel’s defense minister-for nuclear warheads.

Coca-Cola`s Murderous Record of Anti-Union Activity in Colombia Exposed

It is also important to note that the Coca-Cola Company owns numerous other beverage brands, including the healthy juice brand, Odwalla.

(BOGOTA) - Besides being a very unhealthy beverage, Coca-Cola has another dirty secret for which few people are aware; the Coca-Cola Company has been involved in a series of kidnappings involving union leaders and organizers at its Colombia bottling facilities.

Many of those kidnapped have been severely tortured and even murdered by company thugs.

Libertarian Lament

In the end the libertarian lament is psychologically no different than the tantrum of a child.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - People, generally speaking, don’t like to be told what to do. Even if it is demonstrably for their own good or for a publicly acknowledged greater good, there are those who resent or resist or both, what they perceive to be authoritarian coercion.

I can empathize with the libertarian creed because I, too, like to have my personal freedom and to be left alone.

Palestinian and Israeli Security Forces in Beit Jala

Unarmed protesters are arrested and abused as AIPAC & Israel's apartheid state, receives an additional US $205 million from US taxpayers.

(BEIT JALA, Occupied Palestine) - A demonstration in Al-Walaja on Sunday morning 23 May 2010, went smoothly. At 11:30 a.m. we went to Beit Jala for the weekly demonstration. Palestinian Security Forces detained children ahead of the demonstration. Then we demonstrated at the site below with mostly internationals and Israelis.

Israelis were arrested for blocking bulldozers, and one reporter was taken via ambulance having fainted from the gas.