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Inside Iran: Naderi Café

For many, Naderi café has become an indispensable part of life.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - Naderi café and hotel is the name of an old café in Tehran.

Naderi café is located to the east of Hafez overpass along Naderi (the present-day Jomhouri-e Eslami) Avenue and is topped by a hotel.

100-year-old Holocaust Survivor To Light Chanukah Menorah Saturday Night In Columbus Ohio

Weinrib has been meeting with students at Olentangy Liberty High School to share the lessons of his six years in ten concentration camps as a young man.

(COLUMBUS) - The festive menorah lighting to mark the beginning of Chanukah on Saturday evening, will be bittersweet for Columbus resident Abe Weinrib.

Canada`s Official Whitewash of its own Genocide Exposed

Participants in the "Truth and Reconciliation" Forums tell their Experience of Fraud, Shutdown, Cover-up.

(VANCOUVER, B.C.) - Two participants at Canada's expensive "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (TRC) forums went public today to expose the corrupt proceedings.

Survivors describe in the enclosed interviews a regime of silencing and intimidation at the TRC...

TLHRC Press Conference - Defending Freedoms Project

The aim of the initiative is to increase attention and support for human rights and religious freedom through a focus on prisoners of conscience around the world.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Defending Freedoms project is a new initiative spearheaded by the TLHRC.

The aim of the initiative is to increase attention and support for human rights and religious freedom through a focus on prisoners of conscience around the world.

Hindus Condemn Demolition of Gypsy Settlement in Spain

"Instead of unleashing repression, Spain and Europe needed to work on social inclusion and rehabilitation of Roma communities" - Rajan Zed, Hindu Statesman

(RENO, NV) - Hindus have condemned the reported recent demolishing of a Gypsy (Roma) settlement on the banks of the Manzanares River near Madrid.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that it was unfortunate and simply inhuman to thus devastate the lives of voiceless Gypsy families forcing many into homelessness...

USCIRF Alarmed by Anti-Semitic Remarks in Hungary

“The listing of Jews in Hungary brings up memories of the darkest days of Nazism...” - USCIRF Chair Katrina Lantos Swett

(WASHINGTON DC) - Marton Gyongyosi, a Hungarian politician from the far-right Jobbik party, has issued a statement urging the government to create a list of Jews who pose a “national security risk.”

Gyongyosi serves as the leader of Jobbik, which is the third largest party in the Hungarian parliament with 44 of the 386 seats.

Beating of War Drums

Either war is obsolete or men are. --Buckminster Fuller

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - So often, news gets reported quickly and is then forgotten. The following, from CBS, provides an example of an under-reported event:

“A handful of soldiers gathered Thursday morning at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park on the Chicago River, to announce their opposition to NATO, and announce that they’re giving back their service medals on Sunday, at the start of the NATO summit.”

Government of India = VOTE BANK POLITICS + CASH POINT

Purchase of 10% votes buys the Government of India [GoI] that now serves global elites.

(CHENNAI, India) - Surendra’s cartoon exposes the metamorphosis of current Government of United Progressive Alliance [UPA], headed by former IMF executive Man Mohan Singh and economic hit man par excellence, in redefining democracy as it actually is: a voter is a machine that converts cash into votes.

In other words, election is a democratic machine that converts cash into legitimate authority.

Historic Victory for Palestine: Another Rejection of Occupation

Way too much did Israeli officials and their US lobby protest, thus drawing more international attention and curiosity as they kept dissing the “purely symbolic empty gesture and meaningless act.”

(BEIRUT) - The United Nations General Assembly vote is the latest of more than 400 UN resolutions on the question of Palestine.

It is a rare major victory for Palestinians after 65 years of resisting occupation.

Stop The Press: Stevie Wonder Is Not Blind After All!

If the report proves accurate, it may as well mean that Jewish Power is falling apart.

(LONDON) - Fearing he will look as though he's taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Stevie Wonder has withdrawn from his starring role in a Dec. 6 Los Angeles benefit for the murderous IDF.

The truth, really, then, is that Wonder is taking sides. He is clearly against Israeli militarism. He sides with Justice i.e. Palestine.