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Escaping the Military: Healing the Virus of Violence

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War by William T. Hathaway: A young Buddhist novice contributed this account, which we then revised together. To protect the people who have protected him, he wishes to be nameless.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Back in high school I'd been good at languages but couldn't afford to go to college, so I joined the navy for the language training.

They have a program where if you pass an aptitude test, they'll send you to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, for an intensive course that's worth almost a year of college credit.

Protestors force Sri Lanka military to open cremation ground in High Security Zone

Protesting villagers blocked the access route of southern tourists to KKS. They also blocked SL military vehicles.

(KAANGKEASANTHU'RAI, Sri Lanka ) - Resettled Tamils in the eastern part of Kaangkeasanthu'rai (KKS) on Tuesday staged a spontaneous protest against the Sri Lanka military demanding the right of the dead to be cremated in their own cremation ground.

The protestors threatening to carry the casket of one of their relatives to the cremation ground blocked the main access route of the SL military, demanding the occupying army to open the route to the cemetery.

American Presidents: Romancing A Stone

An American past in an Israeli future for an ever present and brutal occupation

(LONDON) - Happy Christmas Mr President or may I call you Barack this Yule Tide?

As you know “Christmas is the day that holds all time together” (Alexander Smith) certainly as you rustle through your Christmas stocking and wrestle with your conscience perhaps to find as you dig deep in both and past ‘hegemonic imperatives’ an olive twig or a so-called ‘peace process’? Perhaps not.

Salem Police Investigating Motel Room Murder

The manner of death is being withheld pending an autopsy, which is scheduled for 9:00 AM tomorrow.

(SALEM) - Salem Police responded to a report of a disturbance at a motel on Hawthorne Avenue NE last night around 8:00 p.m.

Salem Police Lt. Steve Birr, says the initial report came from an uninvolved person who was not present, so there was some initial confusion as to the location. However within twenty minutes it was confirmed that this had occurred at the Holiday Lodge, 1400 Hawthorne NE."

Gaza - Three years ago today

Most people have stopped thinking about what happened in Gaza then—or what’s happening there today. But, I know that the children of Gaza are still very much on your mind and in your heart.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Three years ago today people around the world watched in horror as bombs began falling on Gaza.

I was in Egypt with our Gaza Projects Director Dr. Mona El-Farra. We were scrambling to purchase emergency supplies and get them into Gaza. Eventually, we were able to deliver more than six tons of food, medicine, and medical equipment—including an ambulance and wheelchairs—thanks to the generosity of people like you.

Northwestern U. Dismissed Medical Professor Who Questioned Cardiac-Surgery Chief`s Safety Record

The controversy centers on a heart-valve device, known as the Myxo ring...

(CHICAGO) - Northwestern University fired an accomplished heart doctor after she produced evidence suggesting its chief of cardiac surgery won federal approval of an implant invention by making a false claim about its safety.

The dismissal of Nalini M. Rajamannan, an associate professor of medicine, is the most drastic step to date in a four-year battle by Northwestern to defend the cardiac surgeon, Patrick M. McCarthy, against accusations in two lawsuits...

An Occupational Christmas

Could you live like the Palestinians?

(BETHLEHEM) - I was prevented from entering Jerusalem despite a claim by the Israeli authorities that all Christians can go to Jerusalem during the Holidays. For information on this see the video below, Jerusalem ban angers Christians.

But we had great functions around Bethlehem that highlighted and challenged the apartheid system.

The Biotech Industry Is Growing Bioweapons

Properly defined as bio-weapons, the public may be in a better position to stop the release of GMOs of all kinds.

(CHICAGO) - The pharmaceutical industry (which is synonymous with the Biotech Industry) has, without public involvement or even awareness, created a situation in which people could be consuming "drugs" without realizing it. And people are already trapped into eating unlabeled, genetically engineered stuff that is not even food to begin with.

But the graver reality isn't mentioned. Though the pharmaceutical industry may say they are growing pharmaceutical crops, in reality they are growing genetically engineered diseases.

Israel strikes Gaza Strip for second time in hours, IDF says

1 killed, 10 wounded in two strikes on coastal enclave; Israeli army says strike thwart plans for major attack on Israel-Egypt border.

(GAZA CITY Ha'aretz) - The Israel Air Force conducted a second strike of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, just hours after the Israeli army confirmed it targeted a terror operative in the coastal strip.

A statement by the IDF Spokesman's Office said that the second strike targeted a global Jihad terror cell in the northern Strip that was planning to attack the western part of Israel's border with Egypt.

Idle speculation to be kept from the devil

As the saying goes in my country...

(UGANDA) - I came to know recently Imran Khan, a Pakistani opposition political figure courtesy of Hard Talk, BBC.

Again according to BBC, Khan has managed to attract tremendous support from ordinary Pakistanis by reading the current mood revolving round a sentiment described as “anti-Americanism.”