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Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua News: Violence, Tensions Boil

Approximately 6,000 people have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez alone since January 2008.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Around-the-clock executions, routine kidnappings, burnings of rural homes, hangings of murder victims from overpasses, scatterings of body parts on public streets, a car bomb, and threats of more violence have all put Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua on extreme edge.

The violence boils as Chihuahua's Governor, state legislature and municipal governments enter their last months in office and prepare to hand over political leadership to others from the same Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Women in their 50s More Prone to PTSD than Men

The researchers found that the total prevalence PTSD was twice as common in women as in men.

(LONDON) - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates peak in women later than they do in men. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry found that men are most vulnerable to PTSD between the ages of 41 and 45 years, while women are most vulnerable at 51 to 55.

Ask Elklit and Daniel N Ditlevsen, from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital, Denmark, collected data from 6,548 participants in previous Danish or Nordic PTSD studies in order to investigate the gender difference in the lifespan distribution of PTSD.

Exiled Sudanese General Continues to Work for Peace and Democracy

Although stripped of physical property and monetary value, this Major General is teaching and leading through patience, peace and honor.

(PORTLAND / RICHMOND) - Although Gen. Dau Aturjong Nyuol was born in the bush in Gokmachar Village in Aweil North County, in the state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Southern Sudan, he is educated, eloquent and mandates one priority.

The Freedom Charter or the Second Nakba?

With humility, and the utmost respect to all my Palestinian brothers and sisters and to all people of conscience, I present the Freedom Charter, amended for Palestine.

(LONDON) - Imagine this, imagine that Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress negotiated a deal with the South African Apartheid regime and settled for a “two-state solution.”

Imagine Mandela negotiating with the Apartheid regime a land deal in which less than 15% of current day South Africa went to the black South Africans, the remaining 85% to the inherently racist Apartheid government and its people.

Foreskin Man Comic Book Takes on Male Circumcision

A new comic book from MGMbill.org pits Foreskin Man against the obsessed circumciser Dr. Mutilator.

(SAN DIEGO) - As comic book fans from around the world descend on this sun-drenched city to attend the 41st annual Comic-Con, San Diego's own MGMbill.org has launched a new 8-page comic book entitled Foreskin Man.

The comic spins the fictional tale of an intactivist superhero who attempts to rescue a young boy from being circumcised by his arch enemy Dr. Mutilator.

Maritime Traffic Control Ban Lifted as Oil Spill Cleanup Continues in East China

40 monitoring stations are watching over a 1,500-square-kilometer area off the Chinese coast.

(DALIAN, China Xinhua) - Authorities lifted a partial ban on maritime traffic at a major northeast China port Tuesday, four days after explosions hit crude oil pipelines here and caused a lingering oil spill.

The Maritime Affairs Administration of Liaoning Province reported that the ports in Dalian City have fully re-opened to traffic as of 5:00 p.m. Tuesday as waterways affected by the oil slick have been basically cleared for the resumption of shipping.

DEA Arrests Puerto Rico`s and Dominican Republic`s Most Wanted

Dominican authorities have described Figueroa-Agosto as the "Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean."

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) - Fugitive Puerto Rican Jose David Figueroa-Agosto was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service's Puerto Rico Fugitive Task Force for escaping from a Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Correctional Facility about 10 years ago.

Some Thoughts on Resistance

An attempt to translate the concept “holy war” could be something like “Harb Muqaddassah” which in Arabic is unheard of and even an absurdity! These words are NEVER used in our written or spoken language!!

(LONDON) - In an ideal world, one could fantasise and theorise about how life could or should be, and how one should deal with unfavourable circumstances.

Response to a Palestinian Intellectual

This article by Abu Sitta unfortunately does nothing to penetrate down into the guts of that Golem – the real primemover behind Zionistan – but remains focussed on its lieutenants and the mechanics of their genocidal machine.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The article 'Hasbara or Za’bara' by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta has some very good rehearsal of facts.

However, I am troubled by this article. Not by what it says, which is surely only as true as any victim's provable claims. But by what it does not say.

Breaking News: U.S. Committed to Israeli Security

“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation” - Thomas Jefferson

(ISTANBUL) - The top story currently featured on the U.S. State Department website, entitled “U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation”, offers a link to the full text of Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro’s July 16 sycophantic performance at the Brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy, crucial component of the Israel lobby.

Also provided is a link to the video of the speech and to a fact sheet entitled “Deepening U.S.-Israel Security Ties Advances Prospects for Comprehensive Peace”.