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28 Years Ago Today, 219 Marines Died in Beirut Barracks Bombing

In addition to the 299 deaths, sixty Americans were injured in the blast but survived.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Twenty eight years ago on this date, on 23 October 1983, a truck carrying a suicide bomb managed to get past Marine Corps guards and the driver detonated its charge at the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon.

Occupy Protests and Homelessness

It would do Americans well to set aside their biases for a moment and visit the protest camps.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - People, Occupy Protests and The Face of Homeless People, including mainstream news reporters, tend to play down the significance of the protests because so many of the "protesters" are homeless, often involved with alcohol and drug abuse, used to relieve the pain.

At first, I was discouraged by this scene, but kept going back to try to understand the root causes and dynamics of the protests.

Considering a Palestinian kid throwing stones gets imprisonment and mashed testicles...
Shalit got off lightly

How on earth does Shalit embody the values of life and respect for human rights?

(LONDON) - While the whole world, it seemed, was in ecstasy over the freeing of Gilad Shalit, I was amazed to discover that the Israeli tank-gunner had been made an honorary citizen of Rome, Paris, Baltimore, Miami, Pittsburgh and New Orleans. Knowing what we know, that’s pretty sick stuff.

Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, said that honouring Shalit in this way was "a gesture of high symbolic value, with which Rome chooses to salute the values of life, of solidarity and of respect for the human rights." He added, "You cannot win using violence, kidnapping and ransom."

Grandmother of Missing 5-Year Old Girl Blames Lackluster Media Coverage on Race

$16,000 in reward money for information regarding Jahessye Shockley's whereabouts.

(GLENDALE, Ariz.) - A grandmother in Arizona says that the reason her grandchild hasn't gotten attention for her disappearance is because she is African American.

The girl has been missing for a week, and she has been begging the media to cover her child's disappearance. Jahessye Shockley was last seen on October 11 and disappeared while her mother was out running an errand.

Fahamu, `Opposing Cessation of Protection for Rwandan Refugees`

Several human rights organizations, once active in Rwanda, have been silenced...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In their most recent move to stop the Cessation of Protection of Rwandan Refugees, Fahamu stated the following in their petition to their supporter;

“On December 31, 2011, the UN High Commissioner for the Refugees and several states hosting Rwandan refugees are considering invoking the ‘cessation clause’ of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees...”

B.L.O.O.D.

Faith gives one the ability to believe in the positive lessons that are taught, and it also releases a person from the madness of the society that misinterprets religion for personal gain and to inflict violence.

(CLEVELAND) - The blood of Christ, such a subject it is. The Bible teaches that it was shed for the good of mankind, so that people could be forgiven; that is the message, but it goes far beyond that.

The Bible teaches many lessons that are lost on mankind, and that is the root of much of the world's tragedy today. Lessons lost in other religious teachings account for a large part of everything else.

NATO ADMITS to Killing Babies in Tripoli Sunday

We have reported many civilian deaths as a result of the NATO air raids.

(TRIPOLI) - NATO admits that nine civilians were killed in an air strike Sunday on Tripoli and two babies were among nine victims counted so far. NATO has admitted that civilians were killed in an air strike on a Tripoli suburb on Sunday. Gaddafi officials say two babies were among the nine dead.

As Russian TV reports, this is the first time the Alliance has conceded responsibility for civilian deaths, although Libya's Health Ministry claims more than 800 people have died in three months of air attacks.

Palestinian Prisoners Are Not `Unpeople`; They Are Children of God

The Muamar brothers are not “unpeople”. They are children of God. They and all of their fellow political prisoners must be set free.

(CHICAGO) - In a talk at New York City’s Barnard College the night the Hamas-Israeli prisoner exchange was announced, Noam Chomsky anticipated the one-sided media coverage of the exchange. He charged the media with treating Israeli Jews as people, while dismissing Palestinians as “unpeople”.

Chomsky, who is Jewish, brings credentials to this issue as both an acclaimed linguistic scholar, and a strong advocate of Palestinian human rights.

PTSD and the American Legion Continued... the Body`s Own PTSD Medicine: Anandamide

Exploring some of the working ideas to treat America's war veterans.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Last month, September 20 2011, I posted the most excellent article about PTSD in the American Legion Magazine Sept. issue titled: 'The War Within: the Battle against PTSD.'. I have waited with baited breath for the sequel in the October issue.

Ken Olsen, who wrote the first part, was essentially "spot on" but I have serious reservations about the sequel by Steve Brooks, who has tossed in some rather arguable therapies.

Two Prisoner Stories and the Olive Harvest

Latest roundup of stories from Palestine.

(BETHLEHEM) - Western media try to make Palestinian political prisoners mere numbers while personalizing one Israeli soldier. So let me just give you the names and brief story of two of those released Palestinian political prisoners.

-Chris Bandak, a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem was just 21 when he was abducted by the Israeli occupation forces. He was released after spending the last 9 years in Israeli prisons for his resistance activities to the colonial occupation.