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The Fall of a Dictatorship Requires Sacrifices

The question of Rwandan refugees and the application of cessation close is a serious matter of concern.

(BRUSSELS) - Over the weekend of July 30th and 31st there was a joint meeting between the FDU-INKINGI and the Rwandan National Congress in Brussels.

This joint meeting was to discuss a number of topic related to the stability within Rwanda and to have attendees speak and learn from the speakers on issues related to the Rwandan community in Europe.

Canada: Stop Training Militia Members for Rwanda

The Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) has re-established a one-party, authoritarian system of government that is even more repressive than the government that was in power prior to the genocide.

(KIGALI, Rwanda) - We, the members of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), hereby petition the Government of Canada and the Council of Gatineau City to cancel a program of the Government of Rwanda to recruit Canadian citizens and Rwandans living in Canada into a Rwandan militia group and provide indoctrination and military training to the group in Gatineau city.

The training of the ‘Intore’ militia is scheduled to take place from August 4th to August 8th, 2011...

World Population Day: Agriculture Offers Huge Opportunities for a Planet of 7 Billion

Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet team highlights sustainable ways to feed a growing population while also providing economic opportunities and enhancing the environment.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As the global population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed.

As we observe World Population Day on July 11th, the good news is that in addition to providing food, innovations in sustainable agriculture can provide a solution to many of the challenges that a growing population presents.

Reducing Food Waste: Making the Most of Our Abundance

Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet emphasizes reducing food waste as a means to meet the needs of a growing human population, alleviate hunger, and conserve resources.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - According to staggering new statistics from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), roughly one-third of the food produced worldwide for human consumption is lost or wasted, amounting to some 1.3 billion tons per year.

In the developing world, over 40 percent of food losses occur after harvest-while being stored or transported, and during processing and packing.

Something Rotten This Way Comes

Among the Republicans, only Mitt Romney failed to mention Israel, but he had already denounced Obama for “throwing Israel under the bus.”

(LOS ANGELES ) - The issue of Israel is of critical importance to the antiwar movement, as frequenters of this website are surely aware.

This is because Israel and its lobby in the United States have succeeded in so intertwining their interests with those of the United States that whenever Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sneezes four hundred congressmen say “Gesundheit!”

Israeli undercover agents boast of killing Palestinians on TV

"Those are the Shin Bet agents we only hear about and never see, and thanks to them we live safely" - Israel's Channel 10

(JERUSALEM (Ma'an) ) - Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10.

Oren Beaton presented a photo album of Palestinians he killed during his time as a commander of an undercover Israeli unit operating in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Trade Not Aid Convoy to Gaza - Aloha Palestine - Samouni Project

After five years of an illegal and brutal blockade of Gaza, a plan is finally announced to replace aid with trade.

(LONDON) - Many Salem-News.com readers are already familiar with the efforts to aid the Samouni family of Gaza; one that was heavily targeted during Israel's 'Cast Lead' attack over the winter of 2008 and 2009.

The Samouni clan is the focus but they are only one family in Gaza where 1-7 million human beings live in an open air prison surrounded by walls and fences and an Israeli patrolled sea.

Palestine, Israel and America: the Strategic Void

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, le"  
-- Sun Tzu (The Art of War, Special Edition) 

(JACKSON, Miss.) - Let us admit it to ourselves, once and for all. The battle of Palestine for the Palestinians has been lost. The odds against them and their scattered network of supporters have been great.

The last possible chance to at least stave off defeat was stillborn last year, when the Goldstone Report on Gaza was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Commission and the UN General Assembly, and then -- simply stopped.

Rwanda: Dictator Kagame`s Ruthless Pursuit of Exiled Editor Gasarira ends in Absentia Sentence

Kagame's regime, supported by the US govt., regularly violates the Human Rights of journalists.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Photos of Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira tell a chilling story.

One shows Gasasira in a Rwandan hospital in the aftermath of the beatings he received from Kagame thugs. This is what routinely happens in Rwanda when a paper publishes an unwanted story about the Rwandan Dictator.

Africa: A Fresh New Approach to Humanitarian Work

Children who are deprived of a chance to enjoy their childhoods become adults without having followed the logical progression of their growth process.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Humanitarian work in Africa ranges; some assist the lives of the poor, sick and helpless children, while others just take advantage to profiteer from the misery of helpless youth.

Very few address the deep-seated psychological effects that turn children, who have already experienced hell on earth, into dangerous global citizens of tomorrow.