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Abandoning Afghanistan, Great Job America

It isn't truth making American Navy SEAL's celebrities.

(SALEM) - Does America do anything these days with a sincere purpose? Afghanistan's violence is our doing; it is a result of the contrast between stated intentions and reality.

It's strangely sad that the only time of peace that this country has known in modern time, was a result of Communism.

Editorial: President Must Break his Silence on the Masjid Attack!

It is sad to see the complicity of the Muslims in the failures of Sri Lanka.

(LONDON The Guardian) - The Dambulla Masjid was stormed by the Buddhist monks on Friday the 20th April. It sent shivers through the Muslim community who are collectively a coalition partner in the President Mahinda Rajapakse government.

The attack on the mosque took place when President Mahinda Rajapakse was on an official visit to South Korea.

SRI LANKA: Innocent Man Detained Almost Four Years on False Terrorism Charges

Salem-News Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts officials in Sri Lanka and with the UN to help free an innocent man.

(HONG KONG) - A 24-year old Tamil Sri Lankan, Thankshanamoorthy Selvakumar, has been detained nearly 4 years on false terrorist accusations.

Mr. Selvakumar was taken into custody shortly after a number of Tamil youths (none of whom had committed any crimes) were arrested and tortured by the police in the Matale district.

The `Curveball` that Took Americans to War and Killed Over a Million

In case you missed the story of the Iraqi curveball, a defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi.

(SALEM) - As we lament the status of the war in Afghanistan; a situation that will soon simply be abandoned and lost... we are offered a reminder of what part of this went terribly wrong. It's called Iraq.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball, carries the dubious honor of having convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program.

Bringing Truth to the Youth: AE911Truth University Outreach Repeats its Success at St. Mary`s College

Indeed, a million Muslims have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Americans have lost many civil liberties, because of the lies regarding 9/11.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The explosive 9/11 evidence may be coming to a college near you. AE911Truth will be targeting the college speaking circuit in 2012, and there are plenty of ways you can help.

Here is how one professor has made a difference for the last five years.

WTC 7 Blueprints Exposed Via FOIA Request: Building Plans Allow for Deeper Analysis of Skyscraper`s Destruction

Structural Drawings / Shop Drawings Available for Download.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Freedom of Information Act Office at NIST recently released over 2,600 electronic files pertaining to World Trade Center Building 7.

These files include original structural design drawings, shop fabrication drawings and steel erection drawings of the third skyscraper to fall on 9/11, and are ready for architectural and engineering professionals and students to analyze.

The Truthman Show: Is Reality Locked in a Detention Camp?

The murdered passengers, like the people blown to smithereens in the Towers, and the millions killed in the Middle East, are still around, watching, mutely urging us to get them some justice and liberate their spirits.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - Propaganda strategy deployed against 9/11 truth:

Build walls around it to prevent contagion of the illusion-dwelling masses; divide-and-conquer various truther factions by driving wedges and confining each faction to its own ghetto.

How Did the Kony 2012 Video Go Viral So Quickly?

How ever did the Invisible Children campaign beat out Susan Boyle?

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Kony 2012 video is now officially the fastest spreading viral video of all time, with over 70 million views and half a million comments to date — and by the time you finish reading this post, there's bound to be many more.

The video's growth — it only had 20 million views yesterday morning — outpaces other popular viral campaigns by far, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Geneva: The Tangled Web Of Many Deceptions

“This accursed shortsighted statecraft…” Heinrich von Kleist (Prinz Friedrich)
The Rajapaksas are the prime architects of Sri Lanka’s Geneva malaise.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - The US-backed Resolution on Sri Lanka does not urge Colombo to implement the Darusman Report (or recommendations by some international human rights group).

The Resolution merely urges the Rajapaksa administration to make a time-bound (as distinct from an eternally open-ended) commitment to implement the recommendations of its own LLRC.

War Crime Court and its Conflicting Interests

Is it fair that nations be prosecuted by countries suspected of having committed the same crimes?

(SALEM) - This story poses an ugly reality about Sri Lanka and war crimes.

A quick review of the record will show that several of the countries occupying a seat in the world court; those tasked with bringing war crime suspects to justice; have their own share of unanswered and unaddressed questions in this same area.