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A Marine Corps Widow Needs Your Support

2,344 Letters and Emails Sent So Far

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This tragedy of Marine Colonel Michael Ross Stahlman's ultimately fatal shooting in Iraq, was immediately assumed a suicide by military investigators. Therefore, a proper investigation was not performed.

Although this is a natural occurrence for grieving family members, Kimberly Stahlman had solid reasons to doubt the assumption of suicide...

Unacceptable Police Brutality Continues at Posco Site in Odisha, India

Below is an appeal from the protesters.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Villagers in this contested region of India have been cordoned off by the Police. Entry and exit into the villages are controlled and restricted.

Three prominent leaders remain behind bars for opposing the forcible occupation of their lands by POSCO, nominally Korean but largely an American and European banksters controlled firm.

Alleged War Criminal as an Advisor to UN Secretary General?

AFTA appeals to the media to initiate a campaign to prevent a bad precedent being set in the UN System.

(STANHOPE GARDENS, NSW Aust.) - The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA), the umbrella body of the peak Tamil associations in Australia and New Zealand, is appalled by the news that Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka's deputy ambassador to the UN, will be part of a group advising Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

He is one of many military men given top diplomatic posts by Sri Lanka essentially to offer them Diplomatic Immunity.

Tamils Await their Peace Dividend

Any positive outcomes that could flow from the LLRC report will likely remain theoretical...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - There has been an alarming increase in gender-based violence, including domestic violence, within the Tamil community, as well as forced prostitution and trafficking.

All of this is against a backdrop of credible evidence of wartime sexual violence by government forces...

Sea Tiger Commander Soosai`s Wife Satyadevi Speaks Out

Recently Chamara Lakshan Kumara interviewed Satyadevi for “The Nation” English Weekly published in Colombo. Satyadevi recounted some of her experiences as answers in that interview.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Thillaiambalam Sivanesan alias Soosai was the former commander and special commander of the naval division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) known as “Kadal Puligal” or Sea Tigers. This native of Polygandy in Vadamaratchy fought to the very end and died in Mulllivaaikkaal in Mullaitheevu district on May 17/18th 2009.

Soosai is a first batch tiger recruit who received training in North India. He was the former LTTE Vadamaratchy area in the 1980's.

It is Time for Voters To Listen to Friedman

Friedman is no dummy. He is fully aware that Newt Gingrich would be a disaster for Israel if he makes it to the White House.

(CHICAGO) - Before the South Carolina primary, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson gave $5 million dollars to an independent PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.

That worked so well that a second $5 million dollar gift was soon on its way to that same pro-Gingrich PAC, Winning Our Future, keeping the former House Speaker in a tight two man race with Mitt Romney.

Alleged War Criminal Appointment - a Ministerial Power Struggle

The Defence Secretary is said have been "overjoyed".

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - According to information provided to the Sri Lanka Guardian, the effort to nominate the alleged war criminal Major General Shavendra Silva was a major tussle between the External Affairs and the Defence Ministries in Colombo.

External Affairs Minister Prof. G L Peiris was adamant that Shavendra Silva should not be appointed but Defence Secretary Gotabay Rajapakse was insistent he should be appointed.

Death Squads in America?

The soil for death squads to form and operate within the United States is fertile and very real.

(Calgary, Alberta) - Anyone who has followed events outside the U.S. over the last few decades has heard of the death squads.

They have been active as extrajudicial killing forces in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and others elsewhere in the world.

UN Says Ban Will Accept Alleged War Criminal As His Senior Adviser on Peacekeeping

An alleged war criminal appointed without any push back by Ban Ki-moon to Ban's Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations: this is Ban's UN.

(UNITED NATIONS) - Sri Lankan alleged war criminal Shavendra Silva will be accepted onto UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operation.

Ban disclaims any responsibility and will do nothing to stop it, Ban spokesperson informed Inner City Press on January 28.

Remembering Vietnam

After 1,000 years of domination by China, Vietnam’s conflicts with the French and the U.S. were mere bumps in the road.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - January 30th marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Tet Offensive, a defining event in the Vietnam War.

I was a U.S. Army Transportation officer stationed in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive.