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Refugees International Welcomes Dedicated Humanitarian Michel Gabaudan as Their Next President

Michel Gabaudan's career with UNHCR spans more than 25 years.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Refugees International (RI), the leading advocacy organization on refugee crises worldwide announced Michel Gabaudan as its new president, beginning September 7.

“He has shown a dedicated history of service to refugees, most recently as Regional Representative for the United States and the Caribbean for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)” RI told Salem-News.com.

Double Vendetta - The Insanity of the Iran Confrontation - Must Watch Video

Every American and British citizen should watch this video.

(LONDON) - How long can we allow the maniacs who are driving us to the brink of World War Three to stay in power? We'd better do something soon, or we will all be done for.

My special thanks to Gilad Atzmon, whose reading of the "Israeli Peace Manifesto" helps to point up the gulf between what they say and what they do. The original text can be found at: pro-israel.org/ Gilad's rather more honest writing can be found at: gilad.co.uk/ He's a pretty cool saxophone player, too.

Dinosaur Found Alive: Two Species Recorded in Papua New Guinea

Jurassic Park in New Guinea? Not quite, but close...

(PAPUA, New Guinea) - The Ropen or ‘demon flyer‘ is a monstrous creature that’s terrified the natives of Papua New Guinea for thousands of years. Another smaller creature, the Duah, is possibly related to the Ropen; this creature haunts some of the far flung outlying islands.

Now sensational eyewitness reports—collected by determined exploration teams seeking strong evidence of the creatures—have led serious researchers to the conclusion that two distinct animals exist.

Who is More Guilty of Monumental War Crimes:
the Prime-Movers or Trigger Pullers?

The system is not only broken, it was crippled at birth.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - There is something inherently gone wrong in a nation when its brightest and most moral peoples become inexplicably limited in their conceptionalization of the social discourse, and their moral discourse.

But of course, even Noam Chomsky is afraid of the charge otherwise, of 'conspiracy theorist', for even he, as “arguably the most important intellectual alive”, prefers to assert that a monk in the Hindu Kush orchestrated 911.

From the Jordan Valley, Once the Breadbasket of Palestine:
Where Today Residents Must Resist Just to Exist

An interview with Luisa Morgantini, former Vice President of the European Parliament, upon her return from a tour of the Jordan Valley and the West Bank in which she led an Italian delegation from Associazione per la Pace.

(ROME) - Deprived of water and electricity, surrounded by settlements and imprisoned in a large closed military zone under occupation since 1967, the Jordan Valley’s residents resist.

A delegation from the organisation Assopace, led by Luisa Morgantini, former Vice President of the EP, visited the Jordan Valley and met with the local communities.

One Border, Two Narratives

The issues of border security and violence will continue to be a live topic in El Paso this week.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - One Border, Two Narratives As the US House of Representatives approved a $600 million border security bill August 10, polemics over the safety of the US-Mexico border intensified.

In language reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan, New Mexico Democratic Congressman Harry Teague praised the passage of the 2010 Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriation Bill (6080) as a concrete gesture of support for the first-term representative’s “border security surge.”

Rwanda`s Red Carpet or Red Square

As of this writing, statements have been issued that President Paul Kagame has once again been re-elected with over 95 percent of the vote, again the reigning king of the red square.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The week rolling into the elections in Rwanda was tapered with interviews from both sides; BBC and NPR both interviewed numerous representatives, dependent papers, online media and government owned media. All of which had their sides blasting to the international community.

Israel`s Teenage Barbarians at Ethnically Cleansed Village

Considering the role played by Israeli youths in the construction of fascism in Israel, most recently during an operation to ethnically cleanse non-Jewish citizens of Israel from a village in the Negev.

(NEGEV, Occupied Palestine) - ”As the Zionists ethnically cleanse and otherwise destroy Palestinians and their society, they destroy Judaism and mutate themselves, and all others who support them, into barbarians.”

On 26 July 2010 Israeli police armed with tear gas, a water canon and two helicopters forced the 200 Bedouin residents of the southern Israeli village of al-Arakib out of their homes.

Oregon Faith Leaders Urge a Public Accounting for Forced Experimentation on Human Subjects by CIA

‘Torture is a Moral Issue,’ Say Oregon Christian, Muslim and Jewish Leaders, Call on Sen. Wyden to Take Lead Role in Making Sure It Never Happens Again.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - More than 70 Oregon faith leaders today joined together, calling on Senator Wyden to help ensure that Congress not only investigates accountability for Bush-era torture, including new allegations of forced human experimentation on detainees, but also makes the findings public.

Senator Wyden has previously expressed his support for declassifying information on Bush-era interrogation practices.

Standing Up to the Enemy... Again

This type of harassment has been going on for over 62 years… ENOUGH ALREADY!

(BETHLEHEM) - My Associate, Mazin Qumsiyeh, had his day in court today….. again….

Just days before his appearance he called the ongoing harassment of himself and other activists a blatant attempt by Israeli authorities to stifle dissent, and to silence those who would dare to speak out publicly against Israeli policies in the West Bank.