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Getting to Know Our Hindu Brothers and Sisters

Special video/photojournalism report from our news editor in California's capitol city.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Hindus gathered in bright garb with dominant yellows and reds under a silky blue sky Saturday engaging in a special gathering that included a speech from Hindu Statesman Rajan Zed of Reno, who is quoted frequently on Salem-News

“Hindu Sangam” (Sangam meaning “confluence”) was held at Shree Laxmi Narayan Mandir in Sacramento.

The Never-Ending Horror Story - Sabra and Shatila 30 years Later

“I was carrying my one year-old baby sister and she was yelling “Mama! Mama!” then suddenly nothing. I looked at her and her brain had fallen out of her head and down my arm..."

(MELBOURNE, Aust) - It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it.

The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago.

When Penury and a Lack of Education in Quantity...

I thank God the people here have shown more respect for religion by not making such films criticizing Jesus or burning bibles as in Florida.

(EAST JERUSALEM, Occupied Palestine) - When penury and a lack of education in quantity and quality, are amalgamated with the circumstances of a war torn region, such acts of indiscriminate violence, a desire to reach out at the closer and weaker constituents of those perceived as oppressors occurs.

It is a human phenomena that one can even see in US history and around the world in different contexts and times.

Koodankulam: Sri Lanka Condemned to be in a Nuclear Neighbourhood?

Is the island nation going to be permanently compromised by nukes?

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Sri Lanka is not in a position to claim compensation if a nuclear disaster occurs in South India and would also be unable to do anything in the event a nuclear accident occurs in the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), just 240 km away from Sri Lanka.

Meanwhile, several anti-nuclear movements are prevailing upon the Government of India to abandon the entire project in South India.

Medical Marijuana Seminars: Dr. Leveque Volunteers

THE SILVER TOUR of TEMPLES AND SYNAGOGUES

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - FOR CANNABIS FOR GRANDMA
(Kaneh Bosum in Hebrew)
DEA Judge Francis Young says: “Cannabis is one of the safest drugs known to man.”

GOOD FOR ARTHRITIS

GOOD FOR ALL SPASMS

GOOD FOR MIGRAINES...

You, Cancer, and Ridiculous Spending Priorities of a Government Gone Mad

Does it make sense to spend 700 billion trying to kill people and a mere 5 billion trying to keep people alive?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - We all know someone who has cancer, had cancer, or died of cancer, and there is a 41% chance that readers of this article will get cancer.

[MCAS EL TORO SUPERFUND SITE] BETRAYAL -- Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder & Government Cover-up

None of the veterans that served aboard these two installations were notified of their exposure to deadly contaminants when it was discovered...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - BETRAYAL is written by two former MCAS El Toro Marines, Robert O’Dowd, Salem-News investigative reporter and disabled veteran, and Tim King, photojournalist and war correspondent.

It is a thrilling and informative nonfiction account of contamination at two Marine Corps installations—Marine Corps Air Station El Toro on the West Coast (CA) and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on the East Coast (NC).

Despotism is a Long Crime

"He is the most unaccountable ruler Rwanda has ever known, and yet goes around claiming that people who oppose his criminal regime are unaccountable. Time is catching up with him." - Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

(WASHINGTON DC) - In another interview of President Paul Kagame Time Magazine sat with him and asked him questions ranging from all the current issues the President is dealing with today.

Paul Kagame offered very frank answers but one question in-particular stood out like a glaring beacon of admission to a crime.

Taking the Battle Against OxyContin to America`s Streets

"Be the change that you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - When I began my work ten years ago at exposing Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin for their criminal marketing of OxyContin, I was adamant about certain things that I felt I needed to accomplish.

Most of them I have accomplished -- testifying against the pharmaceutical company in Virginia when they admitted they lied about the dangers of OxyContin, pleaded guilty and were sentenced.

Capitalism 1

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells--growth for the sake of growth, to the point of killing its host.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - "Capitalism is the best system ever devised," said George W. Bush when speaking to the right-wing Manhattan Institute. Despite its faults, failings and inequities, almost everyone basically agrees uncritically with that sentiment.