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An Open Letter To Ken Bear Chief

Is it really wrong for a 'white' person to rally to the side of Native Americans?

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - It's now a year or two since you appeared on Kevin Annett's blogtalk radio show "Hidden From History."

On that occasion the principal discussion centered around your work as a paralegal and point man for a law firm in Yakima, Washington, working tirelessly to organize native people in order to pursue class action suits against the churches...

Interview with Prof. Guenter Meyer: On Syria and way beyond

One of Europe’s most outstanding experts on the Middle East, Professor Guenter Meyer, addresses in this exclusive in-depth interview for Asia Times Online the Syrian civil war and its international dimensions.

(ROME) - Professor Dr Guenter Meyer has for almost 40 years carried out empirical research on the social, economic and political development in Arab countries.

He has published more than 150 books and articles, especially on Syria, Egypt, Yemen and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

Hearing Loss and Tinnitus: VA Practicing Below International Diagnostic Standards

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Emerson.

(MONTEREY, CA) - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is willfully denying disability benefits with regard to Hearing Loss and Tinnitus. Veterans deserve the same standard of care used in civilian health care.

To do otherwise is a violation of contractual Intent of health care promised for service. Before making any disability claim with the VA a veteran is best served obtaining a civilian diagnosis including the condition’s Federal Procedure Codes.

Sudan: Humanitarian Access into Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States

Overview and Recommendations of USCIRF Issues New Policy Brief.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Agreements by the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) concerning aid operations are an initial step that may allow the international community to address the needs of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.

The signings by the GoS and the SPLM-N of separate Memorandums of Understanding on August 5, 2012 will hopefully allow humanitarian access into Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, if the parties can agree to the details of aid operations.

Among American Jews, Zionism Is In Retreat

Identification with Israel is declining among American Jews, particularly young people.

(WASHINGTON DC) - There can be little doubt that the philosophy of Zionism----Jewish nationalism----is in retreat among American Jews. Zionism holds that Judaism is not a religion of universal values, but an ethnicity.

It believes that Israel is the "homeland" of all Jews and that those living outside of Israel are in "exile".

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If music be the food of love, play on... Smutty Bill

(DAYTONA BEACH, FLA) - There's an enigma about jazz. I mean traditional jazz, not the offshoots, the evolutionary branches. I mean the kind you might hear on Bourbon Street in N'Orleans, although more likely, these days, drowned out by hard rock abominations. Trad.

Where I live, in Dixie where it all started, anyone you might stop on the street doesn't even know what you're talking about.

How A Hate-Driven Anti-Muslim Film Led to the Death of Four U.S. Diplomats

The AP found that Nakoula had both Coptic and evangelical Christian associates in the shooting of the film.

(CHICAGO) - Leave it to Juan Cole to come up with just the right metaphor to interpret the events in Libya and Egypt this week.

Cole knows the Middle East and he has the writing skills to clarify the complexities of the region and how they interact with U.S. politics as they unfold.

Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative

In order to accomplish this, NATO and ISAF should focus on unifying the Pashtuns through a grassroots information campaign - a path that will be much more effective than the military option.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The New World Strategies Coalition, a think tank founded by native Afghans which creates nonmilitary solutions for Afghanistan, released its latest policy brief today entitled, Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative.

The policy brief outlines a solution for resolving the situation in Afghanistan by exposing how Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan's sacred tribal structure via its Taliban proxy.

CAIR Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Va. Mosque Vandalism

Muslim individuals and institutions are being asked to review advice on security procedures in CAIR’s "Community Security and Safety Tips.”

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tonight called on local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism at a Virginia mosque as a possible hate crime.

Reports indicate that the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley in Harrisonburg, Va., was vandalized sometime Thursday night with obscene hate graffiti...

Einstein`s Prescience

How to break the chain? War and many other forms of violence are generated by the underlying structural violence of capitalism, which is intrinsically unjust and inevitably produces conflict.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Albert Einstein wrote in 1939:

"There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people.... Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs."