Browse All News Articles on Salem-News Page 914

A Bi-polar History of Canada

The 17th Century:
C'est La Guerre (Pretty much)
The 17th Century belongs to Canada.
- Samuel de Champlain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Samuel de Champlain is considered the main figure in 17th Century Canada, although the English textbooks don't seem to think he was all that great.

Actually, he's an unlikely choice as poster boy, because most of that Century was about wars (French-English, French Scottish, and even on one occasion, French-French), and the famous Frenchman was more a lover than a fighter.

OIC Organizing Donors Meeting for Burma`s Rakhine State

About 46 per cent of the displaced people are children.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC ) and Qatar Charity are organizing a meeting with about 30 regional and international organisations to coordinate humanitarian services to Rakhine State in Burma, the Gulf Times reported on Wednesday.

The event follows the first consultative meeting held in Kuala Lumpur earlier last month.

Burma Task Force Protests Suu Kyi Visit

Myanmar refuses to recognize its estimated 800,000 Rohingya Muslims as an ethnic group and denies them citizenship.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Among the crowds gathered at the University of San Francisco to greet Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi last week was a small coterie of Muslim and Burmese activists.

They were there not to celebrate the visit by the veteran human rights campaigner but to press her on one burning question.

Opposition Still Under Attack In Rwanda

Rwanda extends eviction threat to FDU member Theophile Ntirutwa.

(WASHINGTON DC) - In the wise and profound words of Winston Churchill:

Uzbekistan: Arrest of Human Rights Defender Uktam Pardayev

The family of Uktam Pardayev are very concerned about his safety.

(SALEM) - Uzbekistan is drawing international attention for its blatant abuse of human rights defenders ilke Uktam Parayev, who hasn't been seen since police forced him into a car at a gas station.

Our Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes, believes Uktam Pardayev’s arrest is part of an ongoing pattern of harassment against the human rights defender.

HEAD FOR THE HILLS; The West Hills that is...

The East side has a lot of streets with speed “Bumps.” Here on the West side they are called speed “Humps.” Hmm.. Speed Bumps, speed Humps. Sounds like a “quickie” to me...

(PORTLAND, OR) - Did you ever fall asleep in one place and wake up in another? No, I don't mean like when you had a hangover and blacked out.

That's what it seemed like when I moved from the Section 8 ghetto of East Multnomah county to the West Slope-Beaverton part of town. “Where in the hell am I? I thought. How can the culture and ambiance of the neighborhood be so radically different “just a few miles up the road?”

Algeria: Arrest and Beating of Human Rights Defender Mr Yacine Zaid

Algeria must immediately and unconditionally release Yacine Zaid.

(SALEM) - In some parts of this world, there is no room for political resistance. The reward for placing a spotlight on government corruption in Algeria these days can be a viscous beating.

It has come to our attention that Mr. Yacine Zaid, a noted human rights defender in Algeria, was arrested and beaten severely on the morning of 1 October 2012, by three policemen in Ouargla.

Rohingya Vehicle Attacked in Maungdaw South

All the victims were inhumanely tortured and all the properties, goods and cash money that they had was looted by the mob

(RANGOON, Burma) - Now in Burma Rohingya Muslims travelling down the various roads are in danger of being overtaken and kidnapped as one group learned in recent days.

Bahrain: Medical Professionals Arrested and Imprisoned

Doctors detained and tortured in ally Bahrain for treating demonstrators.

(SALEM) - It is never less than amazing to watch the level of human abuse the United States government will overlook, while at other times, toppling long-standing governments for accusations of the same times.

In this event the U.S. ally is its long-standing business, political and military partner Bahrain, a country that unleashes a fury toward medical practitioners who attempt to treat those who speak out against radically unfair government policies.

Some Eggs Hatch Some Eggs Don`t; Some Will Live and Then Some Won`t

Humans will eat other humans. Cannibalism was practiced as a matter of culture in some jungle tribes, and as a matter of necessity at other times.

(PORTLAND, OR) - How do you feel about yourself? Do you think you are smarter, better looking, more successful, all in all a superior person compared to, say your neighbor, your brother-in-law, your boss?

Do you look at the collective humanity as lesser persons? Do you think that if they were only as smart as you they wouldn't be on the welfare rolls? Feeling superior to others is called Hubris.