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Anonymous: `Israeli government, expect us`

Particularly bold claim is carried by media groups and publications everywhere.

(WORLD) - Anonymous issued a stern warning toward Israel Friday, calling this religious government out over too many false claims, too much violence, and a massive, looming nuclear world threat.

The message is below, as is the video stating the intentions of Anonymous, which closes with the words... Israeli government, expect us.

Border City Police Under Fire

The Ciudad Juarez municipal police have become a hot political issue.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In a February press conference, non-governmental human rights organizations demanded that Ciudad Juarez Police Chief Julian Leyzaola straighten out the behavior of officers or step down.

Representing more than a dozen organizations, the activists announced they had documented 23 cases of alleged torture committed by local police during the month of January alone.

Egypt Military Rejects US Threats & Braces for General Strike

“A phone call from the American embassy in Cairo used to be the sure thing to straighten up such a wretched mess. But this time it wasn’t enough.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Egypt’s ruling military council has rejected US threats to end aid payments to the country.

US-Egypt tensions have risen considerably following the decision to ban 43 pro-democracy staffers from travel, and charge them in a Cairo court for violating laws regulating the operation of NGOs.

Jewish Roots of Islam`s Extremism

“Both Judaism and Islam proceeded from the same fundamental premise, influenced by the same tribal culture and practically followed the same orthodox pattern“

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - "Ultra-Orthodox, Israel Police clash in Beit Shemesh; officer wounded …" At first many imagine Muslim extremists in Afghanistan or Somalia.

Maybe not a far-fetched guess, but to everybody’s astonishment the Ha'aretz report is about Jewish extremists in Tel Aviv, the heart of Israel.

The Flap over Circumcision

Getting to the head of things...

(HONG KONG) - American exceptionalism takes many forms.

One of the least noticed is the preference for circumcision of boys. Other than among Muslims and Jews, for whom it is a religious or at least traditional requirement, cutting off part of the penis is alien to most other cultures and usually only carried out for medical, or occasionally aesthetic, reasons.

Congress and States Prepare for another Circumcision Battle

MGMbill.org sends proposed genital mutilation legislation to Congress and eleven state legislatures as the legal battle to regulate circumcision heats up.

(SAN DIEGO PRWEB) - Children’s right activists from coast to coast have joined together this month to press more than 2,200 lawmakers in Congress and eleven states to enact the Male Genital Mutilation Bill.

The proposed bill would protect boys from forced circumcision the same way that girls are protected under federal and state laws.

Time to Shed Light on North Carolina`s Link to Disappearances, Torture and Indefinite Detention

Working to Achieve Accountability is a Citizen's Obligation

(SMITHFIELD, N.C.) - On January 15, the News & Observer published a reminder of Norh Carolina's involvement in kidnapping, disappearance and torture.

A recent opinion piece announced important findings revealed in a report by students in the University of North Carolina School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy clinic.

Video Shows LA Deputy Belting Woman Bus Rider in The Face

Assault caught on a cell phone camera; some men are meant to be heroes, some are dirty creeps who punch girls...

(BELLFLOWER, Calif.) - The excessive nature of 'casual' police brutality is revealed in a cell phone video clip recorded this week in Bellflower, California.

A homeless woman named Julie Nelson, was punched in the face by a male deputy for refusing to exit a public bus while Jermaine Green, a U.S. Army Veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, recorded the police abuse from a clear angle.

Obama`s Broken Promise on Gitmo`s Tenth Anniversary

In addition to the military prison at Guantanamo, the base also included CIA “black sites” where renditions or extrajudicial, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to overseas locations where torture was used.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - January 11, 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay prison, an extrajudicial detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo prison could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002.

Has Sri Lanka`s Government-Sponsored Terrorism Hit the Lowest Low Ever?

British national murdered, Russian woman raped at Tangalla; allegedly by a local politician backed by a gang...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The murder of Kuram Shaikah Zaman, a prosthetic expert with the Red Cross who worked in Gaza, is alleged to have been carried out by a local politician.

The death has led to sharp criticism over the failure of the Sri Lankan government to maintain law and order and also for encouraging lawlessness and criminal behaviour.