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Vietnam`s Bloody Defeat of China

Flashback in time to a war most Americans aren't familiar with.

(SALEM, Ore.) - China lost a significant war in 1979 against Vietnam, though many people in the west do not realize this important history.

The Vietnamese attacked and defeated the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the U.S. war ended in the mid-1970's. For this China invaded Vietnam, only to lose and retreat after 29 days, ultimately abandoning their military aggression.

Update on Pirate Activity in Somalia, Gulf of Aden & Indian Ocean

The latest from Ecoterra International.

(NAIROBI, Kenya) - Today, 24. October 2010, at least 27 foreign vessels plus one barge are still kept in Somali hands against the will of their owners.

This includes at least 485 hostages or captives - among them an elderly British yachting couple and the 5 new hostages from Somaliland. They all await their release.

Gadahn Call to Attack Americans Comes from Israel

Gadahn works for the Israeli government, end of story.

(CINCINNATI) - “Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired, if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans…Gadahn is part of it, so is Wikileaks”

A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror campaign, was spread around the world.

Lebanon`s Palestinian Civil Rights Campaign moves into the Christian Heartland

Civil rights for Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees have been denied for too long.

(SHATILLA REFUGEE CAMP, Beirut) - Not even one work permit has been issued to one Palestinian in Lebanon since the 2010 “right to work” law passed in Parliament.

Even though Palestinians are still forbidden from owning a home, the cause of Palestine Civil Rights in Lebanon endures.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The expectations for world behavior were laid out in 1948...

(GENEVA) - Perhaps one of the most important non-religious guiding documents for world politics in existence is the United Nations General Assembly's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This document was drafted and proclaimed on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Vatican Calls for End of Israeli Occupation of Arab Lands

Thousands of families of all faiths lived in the Holy land prior to the establishment of Israel in the late 1940's.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Awareness of Israel's ongoing aggressions against the native population of Palestine has led to a demand from the Vatican in Rome, that Israel accept U.N. resolutions and end its unlawful occupation of Arab lands.

The bishops are telling the Jewish state that it shouldn't use the Bible to justify "injustices"- viewed as genocide by a widening population, against the Palestinian people.

Down Syndrome Abortions

Are we returning to an already extinct era, where human life is not worth living due to a neural and/or physical disability or illness?

(MADRID) - Europe is experiencing a particular silent, yet tragic, phenomenon: the pregnancy age in general is increasing, while births with Down syndrome are decreasing.

This is happening because pregnancies are aborted once mothers-to-be are informed of their condition. They are human beings heading towards extinction.

US Army Special Forces Trained Mexican Cartel Members

Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.

(U.S. BORDER WITH MEXICO) - It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel.

The Zetas have a fearsome reputation, but the real surprise comes not in their ruthless use of violence, but in the origins of where they learned the tricks of their bloody trade.

`Jerusalem Women Speak` on Capitol Hill

Three Jerusalem women from three cultures, with a single message.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - CNI’s 2010 “Partners for Peace – Jerusalem Women Speak” tour will begin with a lunch briefing in room 122 of Cannon House Office Buildilng from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Three women from the Holy Land – one Muslim, one Christian, and one Jewish – will tell about their experiences on the ground in Israel-Palestine and discuss how peace can be achieved.

Harming Israeli Democracy

A position paper ahead of the Knesset’s Winter session.

(TEL AVIV) - Over the past two years, we have been increasingly troubled by expanding tendencies to harm Israel’s democracy. These trends are extensively surveyed in the State of the Democracy Report – published by The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) in intermittent chapters.

The two chapters that have been published so far deal with education system, and with the status of the Arab minority in Israel.