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Situation Critical for Thousands Displaced Near Mogadishu

The fighting has intensified in recent days, claiming a high number of casualties among Mogadishu's residents.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The outbreak of violence in and around the Somali capital, Mogadishu has caused hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in increasingly harsh conditions.

Since 2007 the fighting has caused large numbers of people to flee, setting up makeshift camps between Mogadishu and Afgoye. With each new outbreak of violence more and more people are forced to leave their homes.

America`a War Racketeers, the Real Terrorists

Is America's racketeering 'elite' a terrorist organization.

(CINCINNATI) - There is a group of Americans, a combination of coward, gangster, politician, buffoonish soldier, con man and Israel obsessed bully. These are the “users” and “takers” who live their lives, some invisible, some media darlings, some famous heroes as portrayed by their friends in the media, their fellow thugs.

This is the world’s greatest terrorist organization, the threat to, not only world security but the lives and freedom of the people of the world. These are the people who bleed America dry and have for generations, the people who have turned America into what the world clearly sees it as now, a weapon to be wielded against the common and decent people of the world on behalf of criminal terrorists.

America`s Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others?

Remarks to staff of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, separately, to members of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs –

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects for peace in the Holy Land. You have further suggested that I touch on the relationship of the Gulf Arabs, especially Saudi Arabia, to this. It is both an honor and a challenge to address this subject in this capital / at this ministry.

The declaration of principles worked out in Oslo seventeen years ago was the last direct negotiation between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs to reach consequential, positive results. The Oslo accords were a real step toward peace, not another deceptive pseudo-event in an endlessly unproductive, so-called “peace process.”

Words are Powerful Tools

What is said and what is not said.

(BETHLEHEM) - Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel told his governing coalition that he did not promise an extension to the partial suspension in settlement construction when it expires in September.

Standing next to President Obama he simply emphasized that the topic to be discussed with Palestinians is how we can prevent attacks on illegal settlers in the West Bank.

Rhetoric + Greed = Carnage inside DRC

The rhetoric heard by Washington does not match the actions, or lack of such to alleviate the suffering inside DRC.

(KINSHASA / PORTLAND) - The mass carnage committed in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is horrifying, in its longevity and atrociousness.

The lack of public United States (US) discourse and knowledge of the country is astonishing and disgraceful. We have the ability to connect with one another by computer hundreds of miles away, send men to the moon; yet we have not found the courage or tenacity to actively engage in protecting a country that is being ravaged daily by greed and bloodshed.

Death and Destruction: the Real Face of Western Value

Greedy Politicians, Profiteers, Cooperative greedy culture, world domination.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Salem-News.com YouTube page receives a growing amount of traffic every day and along with that, constant pitches for friendship from fellow YouTube users all over the world.

Many items sent to our newsroom here end up as Salem-News.com articles and reports, and the video included below is no exception to that rule. We live in a world of war and pain and death and violence, where people perish in larger numbers sometimes than ever before in the past.

Mexico`s Arizona Moment

Despite the dangers, migrants say they will continue to travel to the U.S.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - If Arizona’s SB 1070 law, underlined by the continuing deaths of migrants in the inhospitable, blazing desert of the Southwestern state, dramatizes the crisis of US immigration policy, then the mass murder of 72 Central and South American migrants last week showcases a similar and widening crisis in Mexico.

The 22 August San Fernando Massacre was widely condemned by human rights advocates as the horrific culmination of years of corruption and neglect on the part of Mexican immigration and law enforcement officials.

Israel Will Not Choose to Attack Iran: Harun Yahya

"We know what the real aim is of those who want to set Jews and Muslims against one another, and we have exposed their sinister tricks..."- Harun Yahya

(TEHRAN) - Adnan Oktar, internationally known by his pen name Harun Yahya, is a Turkish public intellectual, writer and speaker. He is a proponent of Islamic creationism and anti-Zionism. He condemns Zionism and denounces Darwinism as the source of terrorism.

He runs the Turkey-based Science Research Foundation and Foundation to Protect National Values.

Hikers in Iran

Three devoted peace activists are still being held by Iran after being kidnapped a year ago.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - It has now been more than a year since Iranian authorities seized three Americans — Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal — in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan and falsely accused them of espionage on behalf of the U.S. government.

No formal charges have been filed, and they have been denied their right to see an attorney. All three have suffered from maltreatment, and Sarah is experiencing severe health problems.

Police Fire on Mine Protesters

At least four Tibetans may have been killed in a standoff with police over a planned mine expansion.

(HONG KONG RFA) - Police in China’s southwestern Sichuan province have responded with lethal force to a group of Tibetans protesting the expansion of a gold mining operation they say is harming the environment, according to Tibetan sources.

At least four people were killed when police officers opened fire on a crowd outside the Palyul (in Chinese, Baiyu) county government offices in Sichuan’s Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous prefecture, sources said.