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Martin Luther King, Inauguration Day and Our Shifting Awareness

The entire war economy demands a complete review as we face the finite fragile future of our planet.

(PORTLAND, OR) - This year’s presidential inauguration on Martin Luther King Day finds us as a nation and people at a remarkable crossroads.

We have the same daunting issues we have faced for years before us; and yet there is something different. There is a developing shift in our consciousness and responsibility.

First Nest Ever Discovered of One of the World`s Most Endangered Birds

Two Brazilian researchers credited with discovery.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The first known nest of one of the world's rarest birds - the Critically Endangered Stresemann's Bristlefront - has been discovered in Brazil. Of perhaps equal significance is that strong evidence of active nestlings was also found.

The Stresemann's Bristlefront is one of the world's most threatened bird species -- unrecorded for 50 years until it was rediscovered in 1995 near Una, Bahia, in Brazil's Atlantic Forest region.

Sixth Graders Need a New Textbook on Ancient World History

Instead of a rich discussion on history, the chapters in one school textbook on Canaan contain only Bible stories told from a radically Judeo-centric perspective.

(BOSTON) - I am deeply concerned about my daughter's 6th grade social studies textbook, which I believe violates the law by teaching Bible history (Zionist mythology) instead of sticking to the facts when discussing ancient Canaan and Jewish history.

Due to social pressure, great strides have been made within the past 50 years to include women and non-whites in the picture of the past. I truly feel like David facing Goliath when bringing up these issues with the school administration.

Human Rights Update from Occupied Palestine

Includes an action for US citizens to write to their senators and congressman and support nomination of Chuck Hagel for US Secretary of Defense.

(BETHLEHEM) - We had snow today in Palestine (in the Galilee, Jerusalem and even here in Bethlehem).

It was very cold and our thoughts are with the nearly one million displaced and refugee Syrians and millions of refugee Palestinians (some now also displaced from Yarmouk refugee camp).

Seeds of Unity - A Nonfiction Afghan Tale

One Man’s Mission to Promote Harmony and Build Bridges Amongst Diverse Ethnicities and Religious Sects…………. The Benevolence Legacy Carries on For Generations...

(SEATTLE) - Indeed, the story is vitally needed to promote peace and stability in a decades old war-stricken Afghanistan.

Evidently a powerful tale, which models a clear perception of how Afghanistan was once maintained politically, socially, and ethnically.

Ha`aretz: The Wrong Lesson

It behooves the state to retract its decision to bar Palestinian prisoners from taking classes at the Open University as quickly as possible.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Since 2011, Palestinian prisoners have been barred from taking classes through the Open University.

A government committee set up in 2009 decided that academic studies constitute "various privileges that are above and beyond what the law requires."

Palestinian Political Prisoners Not Allowed to Pursue Their Education

Israeli Prison Service (IPS) allows for criminal prisoners to study at the Open University, where the political prisoners are stripped from this right.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE PNN) - On Tuesday 25th December, Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision that bans Palestinian political prisoners inside Israeli jails from pursuing their education at the Palestinian Al-Quds Open University.

The court's Judge, Asher Grunis, said in his decision that the prisoner's right to education is not included in the Israeli law.

Sri Lanka Appoints Military to Teach Sinhala in Vanni Schools

The language policy in practice, just like ‘reconciliation’ upheld by Colombo’s abetters, is a policy of naked genocide, Tamil education circles commented.

(JAFFNA, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - Sri Lanka has appointed occupying military to teach Sinhala as second language to Tamil school children in Vanni.

The Sinhala military personnel went in uniform to schools to report as Sinhala teachers and they claimed that they had permission from the SL education authorities...

Can Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance Make it Into Israel`s Education System?

Guy Davidi is launching a campaign to try and bring the movie 'Five Broken Cameras' to Israeli schools, to teenagers who are gearing up for their army service.

(HEBRON +972 Mag) - By the time the documentary Five Broken Cameras came out in late 2011, the Palestinian village of Bil’in in the occupied West Bank had already become the symbol of Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation.

It had already celebrated six long years of weekly Friday demonstrations led by the residents, joined by Israeli and international activists and aggressively repressed by the IDF...

Dabbling With Royalty: A Confession

Richard III was King of England, and there he has the advantage over me. But he was a hunchback, and there I have the advantage over him. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - My father was an imperialist.

He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the existence of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837. (Ontario history may not have been as dull as we thought.)