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Afghanistan: Is Karzai Peace Plan a No-Go?

Taliban won't accept any deal Afghanistan’s political system, as a whole, can live with.

(SEATTLE) - Wave of coordinated attacks were unleashed by the Taliban militants in Afghanistan Sunday.

It brings the grim realization that Western backed Afghan President Mr. Karzai’s staked peace deal efforts with the Taliban aren’t working.

`No Coal Eugene` Opposes Coal Trains and Use of Nonrenewable Energy

The group says dirty industries are not welcome in Eugene’s backyard.

(EUGENE, OR.) - Monday at approximately 11:50 a.m., members of No Coal Eugene drove a massive, handcrafted “coal train” through the University of Oregon campus.

The train stopped foot traffic and released “coal dust”, representing how a real coal train will interfere with people’s mobility and harm their health.

Rwanda: Ingabire Withdraws from the Kangaroo Trial

Interferences in this trial by President Paul Kagame, Cabinet Ministers and other governmental officials is obvious.

(KIGALI, Rwanda) - Following continuing intimidation of defense witnesses, opposition leader Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, told today the High Court she lost trust in this show trial and will boycott all the next hearings.

She instructed her defense counsel to stay away from this unfortunate circus.

What if Somebody Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Israel has bombed and attacked Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Gaza and the Sinai. In the same period Iran has attacked no one!

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Achtung! Under no circumstances is a German legally permitted to criticize Israel! But Nobel Prize winning poet Günter Grass says: WHAT MUST BE SAID.

The poem is more political than poetic, and that bothers its critics. Bibi Netanyahu called it "shameful".

Leave Us Out of Another Middle East War

We have not yet been given the butcher’s bill for our misadventure in Afghanistan, but it will be finally delivered within a couple of years.

(WASHINGTON DC) - One of the most vivid memories I have of my service in the U.S. Senate was of an early Democratic caucus.

It was in January of 1973, not long after President Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, had ordered the carpet bombing of Hanoi in an effort to strong arm the Vietnamese into surrendering.

Titanic & John Jacob Astor: `A Trip You Never Forget`

Documentary is jam-packed with historic photographs, maps and great stories about his life, from start to finish.

(NASELLE, WA) - One hundred years ago the Titanic was on its first and last voyage. On board was a famous American who did not survive the tragedy. His name was John Jacob Astor IV.

There is more to this story than what has ever been revealed.

Infantry Attack: the Prospect of Horrible Death

WWII: 300,000 infantry killed. This is a story about PTSD.

(MOLALLA, OR) - There is very much widespread ignorance about what PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is all about.

There has been a litany of "homesickness", "miss their mothers", "miss their girlfriends". PTSD is the fear of death while it is erupting all around a soldier.

Background Information About OSH Employee Who Passed Away Wednesday

"OSP investigation found no evidence indicating any criminal activity that could have caused Mr. Barron's death." - Oregon State police

(SALEM) - A 36-year old employee at Oregon State Hospital who worked in security, was found dead on the hospital grounds Wednesday.

In response to information requests for information about the employee who passed away Wednesday, officials have provided background information about the employee, Matthew Barron, of Salem.

Carpetbaggers in Sri Lanka: Traitors Terrorize Northern Tamils

Adding local perspective to the ongoing human rights struggle of Tamil people in Sri Lanka's north.

(SALEM / JAFFNA ) - Imagine if Hitler had simply been taken to court and told he had to reexamine what he had done; with no military retaliation or punishment for his ruthless, intentional killing.

Imagine Hitler being cocky, denying ethnic cleansing and calling every accuser from world government, to national media... liars.

Yasumi Iwakami Tweets About His Recent Health Problems After His Visit to #Fukushima I Nuke Plant in February

(and boy he received some nasty tweets in response...)

(FUKUSHIMA) - Yasumi Iwakami is arguably one of the best known independent journalists in Japan covering the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, particularly among net users.

I happened on Iwakami's live netcast of TEPCO press conferences on his USTREAM channel very early on in the crisis, and have followed him and his reporting since.