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Marijuana: Foolish Fallacious Dangers

7-year old girl defies the dangers.

(PORTLAND, OR) - This review is based upon The Oregonian article, 'A Seven-Year Old Uses Medical Marijuana', which reports that a child was using very strong, high dose marijuana extract.

The child is doing well.

Today is the Birthday of Lalon Mark Gomes

Lalon Mark gomes was born on 5th of January 2011 in Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College (HFRCMC) in Dhaka Bangladesh.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Today is the second birthday of Lalon Mark Gomes, the second son of prominent Bangladeshi human rights activist and journalist William Nicholas Gomes and Annie Jhumur Halder.

William Nicholas Gomes is the human rights ambassador and assistant editor Influential US based news agency Salem-News.com.

~ Dear LASANTHA, May Your Sweet Soul Rest In Peace

One of Sri Lanka's murdered journalists who will never be forgotten.

(LOS ANGELES) - FOUR YEARS PASSED BY, as of January 8, 2013, and the CULPRITS are still Merry-Making, in the Land Like No Other.

The ‘murder’ of someone close to us shall eternally leave us shocked with grief...

Survive in Journalism

What it takes to make it...

(AUSTIN, TX) - What does it take to survive in journalism? Is it about multimedia skills? Or is it all about how well you write? Maybe it is about correct grammar usage?

I am sure everyone has their own four or five things they can rattle off to a student or young journalist that answers that question. I do not think there is a wrong answer and I think there are many right answers.

Salem-News.com`s Top Articles of 2012

Review of the top articles and also top comments.

(SALEM) - 2012 was an interesting year for Salem-News.com. Honors were bestowed upon Tim and Bonnie King as a result of Tim's long list of reports exposing war crimes against Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

On a sad note, Salem-News.com said good bye to one of its longest standing writers, however the work of Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes, has been acclaimed in Asian press time and time again.

Medical Marijuana: Doctors and Patients as Reefer Madness Victims

Dr. Phillip Leveque is a Professor of Pharmacology.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I had hoped that Oregonian reporter Noelle Crombie had run out of 'bad' incorrect things to say about Oregon's very successful medical marijuana program, but she continues with more vehemence than helpful information.

Asian Press Follows Salem-News Article Criticizing `Dbangg 2` by William Gomes

Mr. Gomes believes that the film risks encouraging public support of torture and ill treatment of prisoners.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Dabangg 2 goes a long way toward reversing the progress made to aid victims of sometimes unspeakable abuse.

Hindustan Times, one of Asia's biggest newspapers, is following William Gomes' Salem-News.com report published yesterday...

Slow Writers and Blank Prose (and All That Noise)

What does a blank page have to do with a lack of noise?

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - My sainted mother lived the last half of the Roaring Twenties in New York City with my father, which was bad enough because he wrote tons of stuff for the pulps and was pretty noisy about it.

But she, naturally, grew up with rag-time, Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, and was accordingly not unfamiliar with a few decibels.

Murdoch, Petraeus and the US Media Matrix

The Murdoch story is one of the most important and far-reaching political/cultural stories of the past 30 years, an ongoing tale without equal.

(NAZARETH Sabbah Report) - Carl Bernstein, of All the President’s Men fame, has a revealing commentary in the Guardian today, though revealing not entirely in a way he appears to understand.

Bernstein highlights a story first disclosed earlier this month by Bob Woodward, about media mogul Rupert Murdoch trying to “buy the US presidency”.

The Great Divide Between Religious Government and Human Rights

Those of us who support human rights can't play favorites; we must extend an even hand to all people and force the violators of laws that exist to protect our most precious rights in front of the harsh light of justice.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - I heard from a news contact this week who is in shock over learning that our longtime reporter, Gordon Duff, known for his role as an activist and writer in Middle east affairs, is writing for Press TV in Tehran.

They cited that Press TV is an Iranian government media organization, and I do not disagree. However PBS and The BBC are both government news agencies, so is Voice of America and a host of other media groups that operate with ranging degrees of credibility.