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The Tirgan Festival and the Waters We Sprinkle on Each Other

The festival of Tirgan or Āb-Pāshān enjoys close links with the developments of nature, religious beliefs, historical events and the myths of Persia.

(TEHRAN) - Imagine that in one of the hot days of summer, you're invited to a "water-sprinkling" festival along with happy people and children gathered to celebrate a joyous day.

It can be easily visualized that playing with water in a hot summer day in a beautiful city park together with a host of delighted citizens can be quite blissful and fantastic.

President Kagame Uses Internet Media to Harass Rwandan Opposition

The Exposer has the power to use undetermined sum of money from Rwanda's Ministry of Defense budget.

(WASHINGTON / STOCKHOLM) - Rwanda President Paul Kagame ordered the creation of internet social media to scrutinize those who differ with him on Rwandan policies.

General Karenzi Karake, the head of NSS has created social media to neutralize social media sites which are gaining momentum in exposing the dictatorial regime mismanagement of the country.

Sunday Leader Editor Sues Media Minister For 50 Million

Newspaper seeks damages and endeavors to set the record straight.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Times) - Lawyers for the Editor of The Sunday Leader Frederica Jansz on Friday sent a letter demanding 50 million rupees in damages to the Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.

Assange Seeks to Avoid Paying the Price for Messing with America

The US quickly stepped in to educate the Ecuadorean coalition leaders as to the facts of Western Hemispheric imperial life.

(TASMANIA, Aust) - I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any way of knowing how it would turn out.

He might be forced to be there for years.

Living in a Shadow of Perpetual Suspicion

Sabir has been stopped over thirty-five times, with 15 stops since his arrest in 2008.

(LONDON) - Recent revelations in the UK’s Sunday Observer newspaper have reignited the controversy surrounding the 2008 arrest and detention of Rizwaan Sabir.

This PhD student was held without charge for seven days after he downloaded the al-Qaida training manual from a U.S. government website during his time as a postgraduate student.

Blair, Olympic Deals and Why Another World is Possible

The criminality of Tony Blair, rehabilitated by Ed Miliband, remains unmentionable.

(SYDNEY) - This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics organising committee.

There is an urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he and the International Olympic Committee reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured dioxin, a poison used against the population of Vietnam.

Open letter to the OC Watchdog Media

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - TET (Team El Toro) is a small working group of Marines who served @ MCAS El Toro and have been unable to get any of you to dig as deep as we have.

Campaign to Promote Circumcision Wastes Resources

Lack of Open Debate Results in Flawed Policy.

(BOSTON) - Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., executive director of the Circumcision Resource Center and author of Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma, is concerned about the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC starting July 22. He says it offers a one-sided view by promoting male circumcision to reduce HIV transmission in Africa.

A War Israel is Just Begging for an Excuse to Start

Earlier this year, American analysts suggested that the Israeli Air Force doesn’t posses the necessary might to attack Iran.

(LONDON) - Just hours after the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak were quick to announce that Iran and the Hezbollah were behind the attack.

In fact, it didn’t take the Israeli PM more than two hours to blame another country for committing an act of war on Israeli citizens in a third country’s territory.

Desensitizing the System... How To Inoculate The Courts Against Anti-Government Lawsuits

Courts everywhere reject amateur actions on a daily basis as having no merit.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - The difference between the American and Canadian governments in their treatment of indigenous people is – as Helen Keller might have said – the difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.

There are subtle differences, which perhaps only a Philadelphia lawyer could detect, but they share the central characteristics of hypocrisy and denial.