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The Other Side of Grief: Asia Bibi`s Appeal Deferred Again

It is very obvious that judges are under pressure. Governor Salaman Taseer and Federal Minister Shahbaz Bhatti were assassinated, there is no other reason to it.

(ISLAMABAD) - After three years, Asia Bibi’s children would be hoping to see their mother at home as her case was fixed for hearing before a division bench. Asia Bibi’s appeal was taken up at the Lahore High Court - LHC, her supporters praying that the conviction for blasphemy was inconsistent with the evidence.

The court may reduce her sentence, if do not grant acquittal altogether.

Slow Writers

I never saw a city boy yet who was worth a damn. - Ernest Hemingway

(DAYTONA BEACH) - William Styron was a great novelist and there he has the advantage over me. But he wrote only four books, and there I have the advantage over him.

In a touch less than fourscore years and ten, I've written a guidebook to Inuit cuisine, a puff piece on Alaska seiners' purloining of the Prince Rupert salmon fishery, an apologia for the Gulf oil spill, two anthologies of G.I. pornography and a novel banned both in Boston and the Campfire Girls' reading list.

Iran Celebrates 63rd Anniversary of Oil Nationalization

Yes, my sin — my greater sin and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran's oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world's greatest empire. - Mohammad Mosaddegh

(TEHRAN IranReview.Org) - To many Iranian’s March 20 is the reminder of an event that changed the course of history for their country; it was in such a day back in 1951 when Iran’s then parliament voted unanimously in favor of the nationalization of oil in Iran.

The idea was introduced in a bill to the parliament by Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq with the support of his nationalist party and religious groups led by Ayatollah Kashani.

Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel by Alison Weir

For over a century, Jewish political lobbies, pressure groups, media operators and agents have been dominating the United States' public life as well as its foreign policy.

(LONDON) - Alison Weir’s new book is by far the most comprehensive and precise expose of the depth of Zionist interference with American life in general and the politics of the United States in particular.

It is a book every American should obtain, read and discuss openly.

The Life of Christ Performed for TV in the United States

Since Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Olives, he was subjected to all sorts of harassment. They forced him to put ridiculous clothes, stripped him, savagely whipped and crowned him with thorns.

(MADRID) - The U.S. cable network WGN America is filming the series " The 10 Commandments ." The fiction is taking a fresh impetus from the success of "The Bible." And this is not the only production underway on the Old and New Testaments.

"The Bible " gave many clues about the interest of viewers this television genre . Issued worldwide, it got an audience of 13.2 million viewers in the U.S. and 100 million globally.

Be Blessed, CLAAS Pleads for Asia`s Justice

Hitting a sensitive nerve, one particular case has shed light on how the Pakistani government has been taken hostage by militant extremists.

(ISLAMABAD) - The Supreme Court of Pakistan endorsed the Islamabad High Court's decision setting free the juvenile girl Rimsha, who was accused of blasphemy in the capital.

This case made history in blasphemy cases in Pakistan and the decision was appreciated nationally and on international grounds.

NATO`s Stealth Operation Barbarossa*

Of the 12 new members of the military alliance in previously “Soviet space,” seven are fragments of former socialist states.

(PORTLAND) - I was inspired by the comment of Andrew Biehn, commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Truxtum which has just entered the Black Sea and docked at the Bulgarian port of Varna, that he is conducting joint exercises with “our allies in the region”" –namely Bulgaria and Romania—a few hundred miles from the Crimea.

Somehow, I had forgotten that those two countries were military allies of the US and it set me off on a review of the history of NATO expansion.

Return of the Righteous

Each of these fanatical groups demands exclusivity for their membership, an exclusivity that turns plowshares into swords.

(LAVERNE) - Michele Bachmann (R MN) said, “The question is, will we as the United States cooperate in standing with Israel and blessing Israel, or will we join those nations that come against her? We are definitely on the wrong side. It is jaw dropping, it is stunning, it’s breathtaking”


With these “eloquent” words Michele Bachmann returned to the declarations of the dominionists who thrived during the George W. Bush administration...

When PC Is Gone, Truth Prevails And Shoa Panic Is Detected

The meaning of all this is all too simple: For America to liberate itself, it may first have to emancipate itself from its current tribal icons of dissent.

(LONDON) - Below is a six minute segment from a Q&A session at the Washington Report's AIPAC Conference of March 2014. It begins the moment the Holocaust narrative is challenged and the panic on the stage becomes palpable.

In the clip, an anonymous but well-informed member of the audience asks the panel to address the question of the dominance of the Holocaust in American life. Rightly, she points out that the Holocaust is a state-imposed religious dogma and as such ‘violates constitutional rights’.

St. Patrick`s Day

Let's have a toast to Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - On March 17th, the Irish, the more than 70 million world-wide who claim Irish heritage, and the Irish-for-a-day, will be lifting a pint of Guinness, or something stronger, to toast Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. I bet corn beef and cabbage will be on many a menu.

And many will be wearin' the green. Why is it celebrated on March 17th? One theory is that is the day St. Patrick died and is now celebrated as his feast day.