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Juarez Mothers Renew International Campaign

Relatives of the missing suspect their loved ones have fallen prey to human traffickers.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - In the sister cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Mother’s Day 2013 had a prolonged calendar life because of cross-border family ties, work schedules and commercial promotions.

An international fusion made for a long weekend of parties, sales events and musical tributes...

Herbert Romerstein: A Life Devoted to Advancing Freedom

Herb was a happy warrior and devoted to his family. His funeral, complete with military honor guard, was conducted by his son-in-law, an Orthodox rabbi.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The death of Herbert Romerstein takes from us a man who devoted his life to advancing freedom, and exposing its enemies, as well as a long-time friend.

Herb was born in Brooklyn in 1931. Always an idealist, in high school Herb was attracted to the utopian dreams advanced by Marxism and joined the Communist Youth League...

ROKU - PAPER - SCISSORS Vox Box

Unlike the early days of TV, now you can watch what you want, when you want,

(RODESSA, LA) - Remember waiting for that day and time when your favorite show was coming on? People said things like "Can't wait till Thursday night at 7:30 on channel 5."

I remember getting sent home from a friend's house because the Dick Van Dyke show was about to come on (I was five).

Death Penalty Dying Out

Charlottesville has a chance to give the death penalty in Virginia a big push toward the door, which would help the United States and the world along that path.

(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va) - Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently "liberated" Iraq.

But most of the United States' 50 states no longer use the death penalty.

Nakba Events in Palestine

Together we can stand up to Israel's racist and unjust policies.

(BETHLEHEM) - Fact: 7 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced people and those who remain in Palestine are in shrinking "people warehouses"

You are invited to join important events held around the world for week of the ongoing Nakba (catastrophe of dispossession and ethnic cleansing).

Child Sacrifice and Trafficking in Holland, and Abroad: An Eyewitness Comes Forward and Names her Torturers

An exclusive breaking news report from ITCCS Central Office and its Dutch affiliates.

(ZWOLLE, Holland) - A survivor of a high-level ring involving child sacrifice, torture and trafficking went public today in an exclusive disclosure and interview.

Toos Nijenhuis, a fifty four year old physiotherapist and mother of five from Holland, was tortured, raped and used experimentally from the age of four...

2,273 Published Online News Articles, One Writer... a Record?

If any reporters have a higher online story count, I would like to know.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - With 2,273 published online news articles, I think I may have the highest number of news reports by a single reporter in the U.S. or otherwise. I will be interested to know if anyone disagrees.

The number, 2,273, is based upon the current archives of Salem-News.com.

Inviting Armageddon

Try as I may to keep my self imposed vow of silence on Syria the time has come for me to speak out. Armageddon awaits.

(LONDON) - My silence was born from the deep belief that if you have nothing constructive to say regarding any on-going conflict then keeping your own counsel is best.

What could you or I, as Arabs and Moslems and children of Greater Syria, say when you see that everything that you have been brought up to believe in has been destroyed?

A Study in Compassionate Socialism... Three For The See-saw

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Ernest, the rich are much different from us. Ernest Hemingway: Yes, I know. They have more money.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Some time ago, Al Gore's television network, Current TV, ran an hour- long feature billed as a hard-hitting bit of investigative journalism. It wasn't.

It was amateurish, poorly paced with incompetent interviews, a lack of continuity and excess repetition.

Conquerors from The Congo to The Jordan

The formula used by Leopold and the Zionists is a well-worn conquerors’ formula of deceit, deception, destruction and seizure.

(CHICAGO) - In the late 19th century, Henry Morton Stanley (of Stanley and Livingston fame), was the “king’s man”— more accurately, a hired colonist conqueror—working for Belgium’s King Leopold II.

Stanley’s assignment: Seize and conquer the vast and unexplored territory surrounding Africa’s Congo River...