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William Gomes Radio Interview: Bangladesh Attempt to Ban Islam`s Largest Political Party Moves Forward

CII Broadcasting interviews Human Rights activist about big changes in Bangladesh.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Salem-News.com's William Gomes, a native of Bangladesh, has been covering the country's controversial revolution known as the Shahbaugh movement in recent weeks.

Rather than a movement of the people, Shahbaugh appears to exist to bring down once powerful elements of the country's Muslim political party, Jamaat.

Shahbagh: What Revolution, Whose Revolution?

People in Bangladesh are politically polarized over the Shahbagh movement and its demands.

(YORK, UK) - The protests in Shahbagh erupted apparently spontaneously in response to the first verdict handed down by Bangladesh's domestic tribunal for war crimes committed during the 1971 war.

The primary demand? The death sentence.

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.

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...

#Shahbag: What Revolution? Who`s Revolution?

If these chains of corruption and the political nexus are not broken they will keep ruling and oppressing forever.

(YORK, UK) - #Shahbag movement began on 5th February 2013, with the demand of capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah and all the other accused war criminals of the 1971 war.

#Shahbag is in line with specific demands, those are political and economical in nature. In Pakistan, the Hindus were declared enemies of the state and that victimization continued in free Bangladesh.

#Shahbag: Social Revolution

#Shahbag is a stereotype of a movement for a select few...

(YORK, UK) - Bangladesh badly needs industrial, societal and economic reorganization.

Bangladesh has root and reasons for a bottom-up, social revolution, which will reorganize all of society.

Be a Rebel

This powerful video by Ace, and featuring UK’s noted hip-hop artists, Arafat and Gandhi, will light a fire in you to stand up and shout to the world that we are no longer going to take it anymore!

(WASHINGTON DC) - For me, whenever I would hear the word Revolution, the very first thing that would pop into my mind was the song that was made popular by the Beatles, called Revolution.

That was before; before all the tiny seeds were planted in my mind that grew and grew into what I call the real truth! Not what the media portrays to be the truth though, the REAL truth!

Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes Calls for Justice in Syria

I understand that there may be questions about how justice could affect prospects for a peace settlement in Syria.

(SALEM) - William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com had extensively shared his concern regarding widespread violations by Syrian government security forces and officials.

Gomes has concluded that government forces have committed crimes against humanity.

Military Correspondent Yves Debay Killed in Aleppo

Sadly, Debay is one of two journalists in Syria to have been killed within the last two days. Al Jazeera's Mohammed al-Masalmeh was also fatally injured.

(NEW YORK CPJ) - An international journalist was killed by a sniper while covering fighting in Aleppo in Syria on Thursday, according to local and international press reports.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on all sides of the conflict to stop targeting journalists and allow them to report freely within the country.

Egypt`s New Pharaoh And The Useful Idiots

The Muslim Brotherhood follows patterns similar to all revolutionary parties that replace an ancient régime...

(WASHINGTON DC Sabbah Report) - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile and set out to destroy the secular opposition forces.

These included the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringing down the shah.