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The First Casualty of War is Truth: April 25, 2014 was the 99th Anniversary of the Disastrous Battle of Gallipoli

Gallipoli was just another example of the many shameful episodes in the history of warfare that were lied about or unreported by the war correspondents, military leaders and politicians...

(DULUTH, MN) - A number of years ago I read portions of a book entitled The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker by Phillip Knightley.

Knightley points out in that book that in order to start (and then perpetuate) a war, a nation’s leaders have to lie...

Mohammad Shah: He Defeated the Soviets but Could Not Help the Suffering in Home Country Burma

Mohammad Shah fought heroically, along with the great leaders like Gulbadin Hekmatyr, Rubbani, and Ahmed Shah Massoud, until all Russians were cleared from Afghan soil.

(RANGOON) - Mohammad Shah was a man of high morals, simple, brave and honest; a truth teller. He was born in 1944 in Dan Khali (Rwa Thikay) in southern Mgdaw.

His father, the late Mohammad Yusoof, was a school teacher educated from Akyab St Pol British High school and his grandfather was a rich land owner.

Russell Kirk`s `Conservative Mind` at 60

Russell Kirk's notion of conservatism rejects the ideological purity of some present practitioners. It stands for the concept of moral order and confidence expressed in the U.S. Constitution...

(ALEXANDRIA, VA) - Russell Kirk's landmark book, The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot, was published 60 years ago.

TIME magazine devoted its entire book section to The Conservative Mind, which Kirk had originally written in 1952 as his doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland. Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Kenyon College, reviewed the book in The New York Times and called it ³brilliant, even eloquent.²

President Barack Obama HD White House Correspondents` Association Dinner 2014

"Gridlock has gotten so bad, you've got to wonder, what did we do to piss off Chris Christie so bad," - Barack Obama

(WASHINGTON DC) - President Barack Obama at 2014 white house correspondents association dinner watch president Barack Obama joke the white house correspondents association dinner 2014 took aim at Republicans, the media — and himself — at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner - beginning and ending with the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov.

"I usually start these dinners with a few self-deprecating jokes, but after my stellar 2013, what could I possibly talk about?" the president joked.

Each one - Teach one

Minorities are divided into two groups, some are in favor of the present electoral system, and others are struggling to restore the democratic electoral system for minorities.

(ISLAMABAD) - Pakistan came into being in 1947 under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah had repeatedly promised equality of citizenship, but this promise was not kept by his successors.

Pakistan became an Islamic Republic in 1956, making Islam the source of legislation and cornerstone of the national identity, while guaranteeing freedom of religion and equal citizenship to all citizens.

The First Casualty of War is Truth; Gallipoli, the ANZAC Spirit Myth and Waltzing Matilda

We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to the war-makers when they try to defend their current war. If they’re moving their lips they're lying.” - ex-priest and antiwar activist, the late Philip Berrigan

(DULUTH, MN) - Not too long ago I watched Johnny Got His Gun, the film adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s famous antiwar novel.

It is about a young American soldier who came home from the trenches of World War One France, having miraculously survived an artillery explosion that blew away his face, as well as both legs and both arms – not to mention his dog tags.

America Cannot Win With Racist Attitudes

We have to work harder in this country to move beyond color, gender and ethnicity.

(NEWBURGH, Indiana) - For the rest of his life Donald Sterling will be remembered for racist remarks even though they were made in private.

Paula Deen and Cliven Bundy will also be remembered for their racist remarks, as will Don Imus.

Thoughts On The Donald Sterling Matter

The matter is probably not over. Sterling has said he will not sell the team.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver has banned Los Angeles Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling for life, fined him $2.5 million, and will urge the board of governors to force a sale of the team following the publication of a recorded conversation between Sterling and his ex-mistress, V. Stiviano, during which Sterling made racist comments.

Was it legal for Stiviano to record the conversation?

BP Pipeline Sprays `Oily Mist` Over 33 Acres of Alaskan Tundra

The company was at fault in at least two oil spills in the same region since 2006.

(MOSCOW RT) - Alaska state officials confirmed Wednesday that an oily mist sprung from a compromised oil pipeline and sprayed into the wind without stopping for at least two hours, covering 33 acres of the frozen snow field in the oil well's vicinity.

The discovery was at the BP-owned Prudhoe oil field on Alaska’s North Slope, the northernmost region of the state where a number of profitable oil fields sit beneath the tundra. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) revealed that BP officials found the mist during a routine inspection on Monday.

PCC Demands Reforms in Electoral System

Christian youth across the country have joined PCC and participated from different areas of the country. Other PCC youth leaders and representatives addressed the conference.

(ISLAMABAD) - Pakistan Christian Congress, the oldest Christian political party re-organizing in Pakistan has demanded to bring reforms in the electoral system for minorities.

Talking to the PCC Youth Conference, PCC chief said that government of Pakistan should take immediate corrective measures and should restore election system for minority candidates as well. Addressing the Youth Conference via video link, PCC chief Nazir S Bhatti demanded PML-N government to bring reforms in discriminatory laws including blasphemy law.