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Event on October 3rd: Sri Lanka`s Killing Fields at Georgetown University

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields will be shown in the nation's capitol.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Thinking Beyond the Beltway and Amnesty International at Georgetown University invite you to a screening of the harrowing documentary “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” at 4.30 on Monday October 3rd in the ECR (ICC, 7th Floor). The film will be followed by a panel discussion.

First aired on British television in June, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” captures, through live footage and extensive interviews with witnesses, the atrocities committed against civilians during the Sri Lankan Armed Forces’ final campaign to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in early 2009.

Sears? Yeah that`s right. Sears!

Rebuilding Together and Sears' Heroes at Home program assists veteran with critical needs.

(CLEVELAND) - Rebuilding Together is working with Sears on a Heroes at Home project, serving an Iraq War veteran.

Heroes at Home projects serve the nation's military members and families by addressing their critical housing needs.

Solidarity on the Brooklyn Bridge

“They’re very, very brave to stand there when those police are taking them away. They’re doing it for all of us.” -
Oregon dad who watched NY 'white shirt' cops arrest a teen girl

(ST. HELENS, Ore.) - I’m sitting in my farmhouse home in Warren, Oregon, and watching live feed of the Occupy Wall Street protesters facing off against police on the Brooklyn Bridge.

They’re crammed onto the bridge shoulder to shoulder, calling out slogans and standing peacefully, and the police are arresting them…one by one.

Dating Older Single Mothers Can Become Complicated

It becomes a classic case of Catch-22.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I've been consulting lately with a cross-section of my single friends in the older age bracket. Some decided to divorce late in life and have begun to date in a new Singles Scene.

This article is a compilation of feedback I have gathered. It may serve as a guide to others.

YNET - Arab sector marks October Riots

Thousands stage protest march in Sakhnin in honor of 2000 riots which left 13 Israeli-Arabs dead. 'We will never forgive killers' protesters say.

(TEL AVIV YNET) - Thousands of Israeli-Arabs gathered in the town of Sakhnin, in the Lower Galilee, on Saturday, for a protest march marking the 11th anniversary of the 2000 October Riots.

The riots, which broke out after then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited Temple Mount, eventually claimed the lives of 13 people.

Rudasingwa Confession!
Paul Kagame Killed President Juvenal Habyarimana

"Paul Kagame, then overall commander of the Rwandese Patriotic Army, the armed wing of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, was personally responsible for the shooting down of the plane."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa took to his Facebook page yesterday and wrote out a powerful and telling confession about the assassination of the late President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana.

Dr. Rudasingwa’s confession explains in detail how this decision was made and who was involved.

Keith Olbermann and Amy Goodman Call out Wall Street Protests Media Blackout

EDITORS NOTE: Keith Olbermann and Amy Goodman are covering it. Good! Now, lets read it in the NYTimes and listen to it on FOX News and other fair & balanced, and objective Media!

(NEW YORK) - It’s A War Going On! It’s A Struggle. Keith Olbermann: pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been ignoring the five-day-long “Occupy Wall Street” protests, but would have scrambled to cover a similar-sized tea party protest.

PTSD/TBI and General/Doctor McCaffrey

Wrong, wrong, and wrong again as usual.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I can't say that I am amused by the continuing blather erupted by Dr./Gen. Barry McCaffrey about PTSD and also drugs when he was interviewed by Mike Francis of the Oregonian 28 Sept. 2011.

He proved when he was drug czar in the White House a few years ago that he didn't know anything factual about marijuana and drug abuse and he repeated showing his ignorance in this article.

This week in Palestine

In today's news letter: events, good and bad news, good articles and commentaries.

(BETHLEHEM) - Taybeh Oktoberfest today and tomorrow taybehmunicipality.org and demonstration in Beit Ummar today (Saturday) at 1:00 p.m. Last week, we attended a number of events including a wonderful play called "Handala" at Al-Rowwad in Aida Refugee Camp that is about our current reality.

A British High Court determined Friday evening that the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in 1948 Palestine, upon landing in the United Kingdom two months ago, was illegal, and as such, Salah is eligible to receive compensation from the state.

Sri Lanka in the Crosshairs of Canadian Parliament

For Sri Lanka, it's question time in the Canada.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our readers are very familiar with the trials and tribulations of the Sri Lankan government in regard to war crimes that took place in this island country just over two years ago.

The Sinhalese Buddhist government chose to militarily attack the minority Tamil population in the north, comprised of mostly Hindus but also Christians.