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Sri Lanka`s Navy Accused of Helping People Smugglers

Australia has known of the allegations for several months.

(COLOMBO Fairfax Media) - Sri Lanka's navy is alleged to be a major player in the island's people-smuggling operations, helping asylum seekers leave the country in boats bound for Australia.

At the same time as the navy receives equipment and training from Australia to combat people-smuggling operations, it has been accused of allowing certain boats to pass, even escorting some out of Sri Lankan waters...

Seventh Prison Term for Israeli Conscienti​ous Objector Natan Blanc

תקופת כליאה שביעית לסרבן המצפון נתן בלנק | الحكم بالسجن على رافض الخدمة العسكرية ناتان بلانك للمرة السابعة‎

(TEL AVIV) - Natan Blanc, 19 years old from Haifa, arrived Thursday, 28.2.2013, to the Induction Base in Tal-hashomer, where he again declared his refusal to serve in the Israeli Army.

He was sentenced to 20 days of imprisonment for his refusal, in the military prison No. 6 near Atlit.

Hagel Confirmed Despite Petulant Senators

The start of Obama’s second term is the right time for him to instruct his new team.

(CHICAGO) - Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel assumed command of the Pentagon this week.

Hagel was sworn in after an extended and contentious encounter with neocon, petulant Republican senators, each in his or her own way, determined to damage both the nominee and President Obama.

The Race to End Violence Before We End Life

Can we take meaningful action to prevent our own extinction without ending human violence first?

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - The scientific evidence that human extinction will now occur before 2050 continues to rapidly accumulate.

Of course, we can deny this scientific evidence because it frightens us, we can delude ourselves that someone or something else (perhaps governments) will fix it...

Greece: Blackwater Mercenaries Guarding Govt and Overseeing Police; Coup Feared

Blackwater/Academi are infamous as the company that ran mercenary operations during the last Iraq War and were engaged in unnecessary fire fights in urban areas, taking civilian lives.

(ATHENS Darker Net) - Over the last 12 months or more Greece has seen wave after wave of mass demonstrations.

Riots, battles between police and protesters, armed attacks on Government premises, are frequent events.

Alliance of Minority-Bashers

Bennett and Lapid’s army is not an organization that defends the country, but a religion.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - The political covenant between Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett rests upon a joint hatred of non-Zionist minorities in Israeli society, the Haredim and the Arabs.

Yesh Atid and Habayit Hayehudi reflect the anxiety of the Zionist mainstream that these communities are taking over the country.

Rwanda National Congress Responds to Blair and Buffet`s Plea for Support to Rwanda

Asking the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda to find solutions for problems that Rwanda (and to a lesser extent, Uganda) causes to DRC is an absurd proposition that is designed to preserve the status quo.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and American billionaire Howard Buffet pleaded with the international community to "stand with Rwanda".

They say now is no time to cut aid to Kigali...

Some Tigers are Ligers Now

In the climate of dead rock silence maintained by the government, it is hard to contest the claims by the civil society.

(LONDON The Guardian) - The post conflict development in the Tamil areas in Sri Lanka is showing extra-ordinary situation.

The LTTE cadres whom were conditioned by the loyalty vow and ready to commit suicide by biting the cyanide capsule have changed their spots of the Tiger to become the marauding Ligers for their own survival.

Dozens Dead in Central Damascus Bombing

Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said the explosion took place in a heavily fortified area.

(DAMASCUS al Jazeera) - At least 42 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a powerful car bomb targeting the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus on Thursday, state media and activists say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based anti-government rights group, said the attack took place in the capital's central Mazraa neighbourhood on Thursday...

PTSD, Navy SEAL Kyle and Marine Eddie Routh: Both Victims of the Military

While the assassination of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is a real tragedy, the egregiously bad medical care given to Marine Eddie Routh is even worse.

(PORTLAND, OR) - It is very difficult to find anything about Marine Eddie Routh.

We're only told that he killed Navy SEAL super-sniper Kyle who had the record for SEAL snipers.