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Deadly Syndrome Stalks the Mexican Elections

“The existence of insecure zones in some regions of the country hurts social harmony and could eventually inhibit the development of democratic life,” - Leonardo Valdes Zurita, president of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE)

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Call it the Michoacan Plus Syndrome.

Exposed during last fall’s elections in the Mexican state of Michoacan, kidnappings and other crimes against actual or potential political candidates are now surfacing in Mexico’s state and federal elections scheduled for July 1.

Blowback

Since America is supplying much of the military hardware used to annihilate these children, Americans don’t want to hear the extent to which their tax dollars are used.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Call it revenge. Call it retribution. Describe it as “chickens coming home to roost.” Don’t call it terrorism. Call it Blowback - the unintended consequences of our foreign policy.

Among the stories that don't get much Western press coverage, but should is one by Rosa Schiano about 12-year-old Ayoub Asalya who was killed by an Israeli missile while he was going to school.

Sri Lanka Under Pressure After UN Rights Body Adopts U.S. Bill

With pressure from within and outside, the government is yet to announce its road map to tackle the UNHRC resolution.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The recently concluded 19th session of UNHRC in Geneva has brought Sri Lanka to a position where the country is under the microscope on accountability for its wartime conduct and steps it takes on ethnic reconciliation.

The United States -sponsored resolution was adopted with 24 out of 47 countries voting for and 15 against...

The Unhurried Dawn

And so I will continue to conduct the pointless rituals, and speak the passing words, on the corpses all around me, and I will not wonder on the purpose of it all. For, impossibly, death has never had dominion, and it never shall.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The first dead Indian baby I ever saw was also the first one I ever baptized.

His name was Albert Gomez. That’s what his mom and dad called him, at least, because he died in the womb and finally emerged the morning I arrived at Port Alberni General Hospital to pretend to console the shattered couple.

Radio NPR`s Report on Violence in Balochistan

When asked which agencies were involved in enforced disappearances and killings, Balochistan communications minister Sadiq Ali Umrani quipped, "I have told you enough. If I tell you more my body will also be found along a roadside."

(SALEM) - One of American's most popular public radio stations NPR (National Public Radio) carried a news story last July about the ongoing independence struggle in occupied Balochistan.

This is a subject we explored in the recent Salem-News.com article, Balochistan & Bangladesh - Enduring Pakistan's Selective Genocide.

Keep On Rockin`

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from peace activists in the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

An American exchange student in one of my courses here in Germany contributed the following essay about how she became an anarchist for peace.

Body Found in Salem Drainage Canal

There were no signs of obvious trauma but the cause of death will not be known until an autopsy is performed.

(SALEM) - Last night at approximately 5:39 p.m., Marion County Deputies received a call of a possible body spotted in a canal near an apartment complex in Northeast Salem.

Fire personnel were first to arrive at the scene in the 3900 block of Rockwood Park Drive NE. They found the body of a deceased male floating in a small canal.

Korean Human Rights Groups Support Odisha People`s Anti-POSCO Struggle

12 organizations from Korea came together to condemn the actions of both governments.

(CHENNAI, India) - Both the Indian Prime Minister and the Korean President should note that today the Supreme Court has passed a judgment that the Environmental Clearance given to POSCO was ultra vires.

It means that neither the Prime Minister of India nor its leading Ministry has people’s interest in mind; and they have yet again proven that they don’t respect Indian laws.

U.N. Sri Lanka Vote Redefines India`s Regional Role

India’s PM Manmohan Singh wrote to Rajapaksa to tell his him that India had tried, at least, to introduce “an element of balance in the language of (a) resolution.”

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - In the early months of 2009 when Sri Lanka’s war was reaching its final crescendo, frantic calls were made to Colombo by Sri Lankan diplomats at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

The calls warned that the U.S., Britain and France were contemplating unilateral action against the government for the conduct of its war against the Tamil Tigers.

No End in Sight to Rising Nuclear Power Costs?
Report: Safety Problems to Keep Nuclear Power Unaffordable

Analysis of 251 nuclear reactors finds that intractable safety issues have steadily escalated.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Are affordable new nuclear power and safe nuclear power fundamentally incompatible?

The high cost of addressing nuclear power safety concerns that are steadily multiplying in number is now the Number 1 factor guiding new nuclear reactor construction decisions, as well as the plans for retiring old reactors in the U.S.