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Needed, A Just Accommodation

Displacing, assimilating or exterminating populations has been the course of human history from the beginning. Israel is no different than anyone else.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - Needed, A Just Accommodation As most everyone who follows the news is aware, on May 31 the Israel Defense Force attacked a humanitarian aid ship headed for Gaza, killing at least nine people.

The world went into an uproar over this attack, and Israel's global propaganda machine went into high gear to control the damage.

Innovations that Nourish the Planet

Feeding Communities by Focusing on Women‏.

(DAKAR, Senegal) - Revolutionary conspiracy theorists within the southwest hemisphere could be getting closer to connecting the graphic dots of murder and violence with impunity, narcotics trafficking as revenue, and an ideology that seeks to go beyond just financial enrichment and wealth.

Mexico's Los Zetas movement is becoming clearly more violent, using direct military confrontation and intimidation in attempts at neutralizing government and taking control of national territory.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Bit of Background

Almost 58 percent of Palestinians live in poverty, and about half of this group lives in extreme poverty.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Much of the reportage on the Israeli commandos attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israel's Gaza strip invasion, the 2006 war with Lebanon, and its continued settlement building, gives the impression that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is 21st century phenomenon.

What is sometimes lost in such coverage is the deep background the events described above are but the latest chapters in a long saga stretching back to the creation of Israel in 1947.

Remembering the Honduran Coup

Special photo report.

(ISTANBUL) - In honor of the impending one-year anniversary of the Jun. 28, 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya.

He was deposited in his pajamas in Costa Rica courtesy of the armed forces, I am posting a series of photographs I took at Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa on Jan. 27 of this year.

Shooting Down Israel`s Lies, Marine Corps Style

Kenneth O’Keefe says it all; a must see video.

(LONDON) - In the following videos you can watch a BBC presenter going out of her way to justify the Israeli hasbara murderous narrative.

She is no doubt the devil's advocate but she fails. Sentence by sentence, Ken O’Keefe manages to teach her and us what kindness and humanity are all about.

Spin: The Media`s Crocodile Death Roll

As with a crocodile attack, the best hope for survival is to get out of the spin before you drown and get onto firm ground.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Crocodiles kill their prey by dragging them into the water and drowning them as they eat. When crocodiles twist their powerful bodies in order to rip off chunks of flesh and limbs, this is called the Death Roll.

Experts say that the best hope of surviving a crocodile attack is to remain on land, where the beast tires more easily, and cannot take advantage of its ability to hold its breath longer than its prey.

Shanghai: the Paris of the East
In The People`s Republic of China

Salem-News.com Writer Lands in a clean and vibrant city; and if one can tolerate the summer humidity, a great vacation spot.

(SHANGHAI, China) - Shanghai is a modern Asian metropolis of about 20 million people, bustling with activity. The arriving visitor notices numerous banks, tall offices, apartment buildings and small businesses. I arrived the afternoon of June 24th, amid incredible humidity.

A woman by the name of Yi Bao, whom I met on the internet, was kind enough to meet me at Pudong Airport, and we lugged my baggage to a modern air-conditioned bus for a trip through the new Pudon section to the older part.

The A-Team`s Message of Non-Violent Resistance

Oddly enough, this mix of fantasy violence and subversive anti-military themes is being actively marketed by Fox to the evangelical Christian right.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - A movie like the A-Team raises some interesting questions and is ultimately a fascinating snapshot of a certain segment of American culture.

The most obvious question that movies like the A-Team raise regards the taste and propriety of creating fantasy depictions of war, targeted and marketed to children, that are set in current war zones where they may soon find themselves.

Connecting the Zionist Dots

If we care about peace and about our future generations, we must be brave enough to connect the dots.

(LONDON) - A few weeks ago the Jewish Chronicle published a list of Jewish MPs in the UK parliament. It named 24 in total, encompassing 12 Conservatives, 10 Labour, and two Liberal Democrats.

Author and peace activist Stuart Littlewood elaborated on these figures and presented the following analysis.

Tibetan Gets 15 Years

A Chinese court convicts a prominent environmentalist and activist, who vows to appeal.

(HONG KONG) - A court in China’s troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang sentenced a prominent Tibetan businessman-turned-activist to 15 years in jail and a heavy fine on Thursday on theft-related charges that were initially dropped in 1998, his wife and lawyer told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

Karma Samdrup, 42, denied the charges and will appeal, his lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, said in an interview with RFA’s Tibetan service.