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Release Abhay Sahoo: Free India

Abhay Sahoo reminds us that the spirit of Gandhi, Marx or Ambedkar is not dead yet. It is only from such spirits and energies of the emerging freedom fighters that we can generate hopes for a new world.

(New Delhi, India) - I do not know whether we won the freedom of this subcontinent called India because of Gandhi or Ambedkar.

While thousands of people worked selflessly for the freedom that you and I enjoy today, and often take it for granted, without realising that this freedom is fast eroding under our own feet...

How to End Rwanda`s PR Problem

If Rwanda can reconcile and rebuild after the genocide, Rwanda can also make this final leap of faith.

(KIGALI, Rwanda) - The time has come for Kigali’s most powerful to make a loud and public cry for security for all Rwandans, even those who are critical of them.

As the festive season comes to an end and Valentine’s flowers begin to wither, the year’s first heavy rains have fallen on Kigali.

MECA Project Being Rebuilt -- Please Help

Each time I visit Silwan: Children are arrested and beaten; settlers took over a home while the family was at a wedding. A kindergarten was recently damaged by the settlers' underground excavations.

(WEST BANK, Occupied Palestine) - I’m writing to you from the West Bank, where I live and work for MECA.

Just two weeks ago, our partner in Silwan called to tell me the cultural café that MECA helped fund had been bulldozed. I was shocked and upset but I knew we had to act quickly.

Asma Al-Assad, Diana of the Middle East: Syria`s First Lady on Gaza

The reason America continually attacks nations that didn't provoke its wrath, is that they don't get in line and accept Israeli war crimes.

(SALEM) - There is a common theme among America's real and created enemies in the Middle east.

They all are or were unwilling to accept Israel's apartheid politics that subject all who are not Jewish to separate laws and even roads.

Philadelphia VA Tells Marine to `Take a Hike`

America does not support it troops unless they're standing in a recruiting line or appearing in a Hollywood movie.

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) - The letter from the Philadelphia VA Regional Office was thick. It wasn’t a love letter.

The package was received on my daughter’s birthday, February 28, 2012. It contained the VA’s denial of my pending disability compensation claim. The denial runs a total of 66 single space pages.

Tell President Obama: Don`t Capitulate to the War-Makers

There is a non-violent way to deal with all this...

(NEW YORK) - President Obama is under immense pressure to give Netanyahu private assurances that if the U.S. strategy to stop Iran from developing the capacity (not the actuality) for nuclear weapons doesn't work, the U.S. will back an Israeli first strike.

This is the moment for peace oriented voices to speak out and say no to an Israeli first strike with American overt or covert backing.

British Thought Police Target Gaza Activist Ken O`Keefe

The ongoing campaign against one of the world's brightest pro-Palestine activists, our own Ken O'Keefe, hits an all-time low.

(SALEM / LONDON) - We recently showed you Ken O'Keefe's powerful speech about Israel and the complicity of the western nations in all of the madness arising from the Palestine-Israel conflict.

Not known for speaking in small or uncertain terms, Ken was in particularly good form as he addressed a receptive and cheering audience at Middlesex University.

Israeli Soldiers Raided Two Palestinian Television Stations

Article 36 pledges a joint committee of technical experts to address any issue arising on the topic of communications.

(WEST BANK, Occupied Palestine) - Israeli soldiers raided two television stations in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in a “monstrous” attack on Palestinian journalism.

Soldiers confiscated computers and transmitters, while four employees were briefly detained following the raids.

Sri Lanka: A Two-Act Drama Unfolding in Colombo

Old father clock is grinding forward with determination and the Rajapakses are with their backs to the wall.

(NOIDA, India) - The large and quite unexpected hike in all prices that Sri Lanka woke up to in the first week of February set off protest movements that are growing and could swell into something very serious.

Then, the government unleashed a wave of street protests against “the imperialist plot to destabilise Sri Lanka and undermine its sovereignty” as the UNHCR sessions opened in Geneva.

Salem Police Investigate Fatal Traffic Crash
Video Essay by Jerry Freeman

The area of the crash is a rural type two-lane road, with a 45 mph speed limit.

(SALEM) - At 6:49 pm, Salem Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian traffic crash on River Rd. S. near Cricket St S.

The deceased pedestrian has been identified as 43-year old Timothy James Crone, who appears to be transient. Next of kin notification have been made of the incident, Salem Police Lt. Jim Anglemier said.