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Afghanistan: A Non-Kosher U.S. Taliban Deal

All these non-kosher dealings will stall the peace process until there is sound leadership in Kabul.

(SEATTLE) - Taliban and "peace mission" -- these words do not fit together in the minds of Afghans who know the Taliban's history.

But they are the words that we have seen in recent publications, stating that the Taliban intend to open a "peace mission" office in Qatar.

Police Marijuana Raid Turns Deadly; Prosecutor Seeks to Employ NDAA?

"There is no time frame or deadline for filing charges" - Weber County Attorney Dee Smith

(SALEM) - The police invasion of a private home leaves a law enforcement officer dead and a U.S. veteran facing the death penalty.

It could be the most definitive example of why rogue SWAT tactics and marijuana are a bad mix.

Death Drones from Hell, Coming to a Nightmare Near You

America's violence equates to militant depravity and an obscene refusal to see the real results of their warring ways.

(SALEM) - Sooner or later, Americans are going to realize the horrible extent of their government's military misdeeds. Support for the recent destabilization attack on Libya, where drones and rockets from afar injured so many civilians, was one more heinous and brutal crime against humanity.

Watch the video below and try to comprehend what is taking place with the assistance of U.S. tax dollars.

Agent Orange, Vietnam

Written by Jason Zasky- Fred A. Wilcox’s “Scorched Earth” highlights the legacies of Vietnam War-era chemical warfare.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Beginning in the late 1960s, following a period of heavy use of Agent Orange by the United States military, Vietnamese hospitals saw a huge increase in the number of seriously deformed babies being born to parents exposed to the now-infamous herbicide.

And to this day, obstetricians in Vietnam continue to deliver so-called Agent Orange children, who suffer from all manner of horrific birth defects, physical handicaps and mental deficiencies.

Dr. Thoegene Rudasingwa Responds to French Report on Rwanda: We Shall Win!

Responding to the French Judge Marc Trevidic's technical report.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On the 1st October 2011, I published a confession in which I stated that Paul Kagame, was personally responsible for the shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, and several other officials.

I stated that Paul Kagame himself had told me, in July 1994, that he was responsible for the shooting down of the plane.

Hebrew and English

The true ‘mysterious’ nature of the Jewish state and its relation with the world is indeed a disturbing one and a reason for serious concern.

(LONDON) - According to sources in Iran, a nuclear scientist was killed in Tehran today by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist. It is very clear to most of us who stands behind these continuous attacks on Iran’s scientists and military personnel.

However, the discrepancy between Hebrew and English press reporting on the incident is pretty staggering and demands some deliberation.

While UN Claims Zero Tolerance, No Discipline of Sri Lankan Abusers in Haiti

"... despite the promises to investigate and prosecute the crimes in Sri Lanka, no information is readily available..." - UN report

(GENEVA) - The UN praises its own response to the earthquake in Haiti two years ago, but the Secretary General's spokesman could not say if even one Sri Lanka soldiers repatriated for pedophilia had been disciplined.

111 soldiers and 3 officers from MINUSTAH’s Sri Lankan battalion are charged with sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian minors.

Agent Orange victims still living in pain, says US envoy

“The US Government should provide direct assistance to victims apart from cleaning up contamination hot-spots” - Nguyen Van Rinh, chairman of the Vietnamese association,

(HANOI) - National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan yesterday thanked Bob Filner, a member of the US House of Representatives, for his valuable support for Viet Nam, particularly in connection with the spraying of Agent Orange during the American War.

Ngan said that since Viet Nam and the US normalized relations 16 years ago, there had been great achievements in politics, security and defense, economics, trade, education and training, science and technology, and humanitarian co-operation.

Sri Lanka`s No-Win Situation

The government-appointed commission recognises the importance of a political solution, but there seems to be no breakthrough.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - SRI LANKAN President Mahinda Rajapaksa has a choice to make. Before him is the voluminous “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report”. The question on many lips is “What will he do with it?”

His decision on the report – or procrastination over it – will decide the direction his country takes and what happens to it in international fora.

Faces of Oregon war dead

Oregonians from 70 towns have been killed in the fighting overseas...

(PORTLAND) - The Sunday Oregonian rightly welcomed an Oregon Army National Guard battalion home from Afghanistan.

But we need also note that, according to the Pentagon, at least 93 military members who claimed home towns in Oregon have died in the Iraq and AfPak wars. The Oregonian counts 111 because its criteria is that a GI need only have "some tie" to Oregon or SW Washington to be counted.