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Will Israel Block Hagel as Defense Secretary?

Pro-Israel forces believe Hagel does not meet the test of being “100 percent pro-Israel”.

(CHICAGO) - Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel may be nominated by President Barack Obama to be secretary of defense.

The President is known to like this Senate Republican, who considered running for president in 2008.

The Great Divide Between Religious Government and Human Rights

Those of us who support human rights can't play favorites; we must extend an even hand to all people and force the violators of laws that exist to protect our most precious rights in front of the harsh light of justice.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - I heard from a news contact this week who is in shock over learning that our longtime reporter, Gordon Duff, known for his role as an activist and writer in Middle east affairs, is writing for Press TV in Tehran.

They cited that Press TV is an Iranian government media organization, and I do not disagree. However PBS and The BBC are both government news agencies, so is Voice of America and a host of other media groups that operate with ranging degrees of credibility.

Leon Panetta v. Crimes Of The Highest Nature

Attention on military sexual assault is being driven by the new film: The Invisible War.

(CLEVELAND) - Salem-News.com has carried many reports about Lavena Johnson, who was raped and murdered while serving in Iraq.

Israeli Death Squads Involved in Sandy Hook Bloodbath?
Intelligence Analyst Says Yes

Why did Adam Lanza wear a black outfit with a mask and bulletproof vest if he planned to kill himself?

(CINCINNATI ) - Days later, the Sandy Hook Massacre, the iconic slaughter of twenty small children, is now looking like a terrorist attack, not a “murder suicide.”

Stress From Tragedy Affects Reporters, Too

Whether the public realizes it or not, journalists are often first responders to events too. We bury our emotions and do our jobs in the face of tragedy, horror and disbelief.

(AUSTIN, TX RTDNA) - Last Friday, like many newsrooms across the country, Michigan Radio had the TV monitor on the wall running non-stop coverage of the school shooting events in Newton, Connecticut.

As the reality of what took place began to set in, even the gallows humor typical of a newsroom disappeared and concern and disbelief took its place.

The New Normal...a View from the Eyes of a 14-Year Old

"Where can one be safe, ever? Is this the new normal?" asks a 14 year old.

(NEW YORK) - Imagine the Newtown, CT tragedy through the eyes of an impressionable 14 year old.

She was just born when Columbine happened and was too young to understand 9/11.

PTSD, Massacres and Damage to the Soul

Are we all crazy?

(PORTLAND, OR) - The enormity of the horrible massacre at a Connecticut school really hasn't hit many people yet, but the TV and news coverage that this "has broken our hearts" is appropriate.

When a long line of firemen, in remembrance to one of the children, stand with hats in hand and some with tears in their eyes, it should tell the rest of us that this is a horrible meaningful event should not be lost in time.

Stark Christmas Message from the Holy Land: `Act and Intervene, or Nothing Will Change`

Peace is possible if justice is possible.

(LONDON) - My first Christmas greeting this year came all the way from Bethlehem itself, just yards from where the Big Story is supposed to have begun 2012 years ago. My friend Jiries is a survivor of the murderous 40-day siege of the Church of the Nativity by Israeli troops in 2002.

These days, for me, Christmas has become a time to remember some of the extraordinary people I’ve met in the Holy Land...

Moving Beyond Men`s Killing Fields

This author isn't blaming all men. But he is a man determined to take responsibility for the preponderance of violence perpetrated by men. He thinks about this and asks us to.

(PORTLAND, OR) - In the wake of Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage, men in particular, must not stay silent.

There’s an epidemic in our “man culture” we can ill afford to locate on the periphery, ceding center stage to the narrow gun control debate.

Ethiopian Migrants Abused and Unwelcome in Yemen

The majority of migrants leave the security of their home, the love and comfort of their families, not because they want to, but because they have, they believe, no alternative.

(LONDON) - Year on year the numbers of men women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing.

Lured by the often hollow prospect of earning enough money to support their family, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimate around 85,000 men women and children, desperate and naive, have this year, no matter the severe risks, made their way to Yemen, the hub of migration out of the Horn of Africa.