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Nude street dancers Arrested at Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

The traveling entertainers were visiting Sigiriya to see a relative.

(SIGIRIYA, Sri Lanka) - Three popular street drama artists were arrested In the Sigiriya town area by police after complaints from people in this Sri Lankan neighbourhood.

According to media reports, the three were "fully drunk" and their dancing and singing on the streets making the observers "astonished and ashamed".

`Occupy Wall Street-what`s it all about?`

Truth, Justice, and Peace are on the line and Agron Belica’s new song, Spirit of the 99 is its anthem.

(BOSTON) - “Occupy Wall Street—what’s it all about?” demands Agron Belica in his latest song Spirit of the 99.

He then proceeds to answer his question in his most hard-hitting formulation yet, in lyrics by Belica and Ervis Topalli, of his on-going critique of life and injustice in the American Empire at home and abroad.

John Michael Talbot Coming to Salem, Oregon Parish

“Revenge is mine sayeth the Lord.” “Violence begets violence, hatred begets hatred, terrorism begets terrorism,” so rings the prophetic knell of the Reverend Wright

(SALEM / NEW YORK) - Prophets fare poorly in their own country, yet countries would do well to hearken to their prophets.

Scorn, ridicule, and innuendo attend their pronouncements as the righteous defend their actions as logical, existential and necessary. Jeremiah Wright suffered such scorn and mockery because he understood the consequences of revenge on the innocent and the defenceless, justified by whatever inane discourse.

Oliver Goldsmith Look Out!

The song is an expression of Jamal’s wish to encourage others to join with him and the whole TJP movement to work to build a more truthful, more just, and more peaceful world. It is a big step for a man, an even bigger step for a boy.

(BOSTON) - Oliver Goldsmith! Look out! Jamal Belica’s latest song, World Citizen: Giving It My All, is articulating a new view of the world citizen: bold and aggressive; quite the opposite of the genteel Chinese traveler Lien Chi sojourning in London two and a half centuries ago whom Goldsmith used to satirize the follies and foibles of 18th-century British society in his The Citizen of the World.

Instead, Jamal’s world citizen has muscles and faces the unpleasant realities of the world we live in unflinchingly.

The Cultural 1% & the Echo Chamber

The Internet, along with community media and live concerts, is the way our music gets out there.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Amy Goodman and many others have referred to the corporate media as an "echo chamber," which is a very accurate metaphor. Mostly privileged, overpaid white men who fall within a narrowly-constrained political spectrum pretend to have debates, while failing to even discuss most of the most pressing issues of the day.

Former U.S. Marine D`Manti Shocks Audience with Scorching-Hot Performance

(WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.) - Never afraid to push the envelope, Pop star D’Manti isn't called “The Queen of the Night” for nothing. Her debut blew audience away.

A chip off the old block

Album includes the songs “I Got Vibe,” “Can’t Lose: Bully Proof,” and “Breathe DaDa.”

(BOSTON) - “A chip off the old block,” that is what they are saying about Jamal Aldin Belica, the wunderkind who has just released his first EP album, “I Got Vibe.”

What is remarkable about this, aside from the quality of the lyrics, music, and production, is that Jamal is only nine years old and a student in the fourth grade!

In Defense of Gilad Atzmon

Herodotos is an historian who trains you as you read. It is a process of asking, searching, collecting, doubting, striving, testing, blaming, and above all standing amazed at the strange things humans do’ Poet and translator of ancient Greek, Anne Carson, Nox (2011)

(LONDON) - Gilad Atzmon’s intellectual expedition into the daunting terrain of Jewish identity politics has always evoked a storm of controversy.

Still, when I first met Gilad, it was hard not to suspect he was exaggerating the extent of abuse he received from various UK pressure groups.

`Welcome to the United Jewish kingdom`

"...it’s also obvious to every person who reads me that there is not a drop of racism, bigotry or anti Semitism in any of my writing." - Gilad Atzmon

(LONDON) - Gilad Atzmon the famous ex Israeli musician, philosopher writer whose new book “The Wandering Who?” has caused fury amongst pro Israel groups is no stranger to controversy.

A few months ago he caused a stir when Sheikh Raed Salah a respected figure amongst Arab Israelis visited the UK and was arrested for no other reason except that the Israel lobby in Britain demanded it, Atzmon wrote: “Welcome to the United Jewish Kingdom”.

Palestine Hip-Hop - DAM Performs in Portland Friday

"Let us introduce ourselves... we are from a town called Lid where those that kill and demolish go without punishment"- DAM

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Mark your calendar for this Friday, Portland will host one of the coolest bands in modern history, DAM is from Lod, Israel is the face, heart and soul of Palestinian Hip-Hop.

Two brothers, Tamer and Suhell Nafar, and their friend Mahmoud Jreri, comprise the core elements of the band. Their music is raw and brave and who has more of a right to express anger in music than people living in a place where their rights are diminished simply because they aren't from the right religion?