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On Christmas Day the World celebrates the birth of Jesus but needs to loudly and publicly proclaim the truth that Jesus was a Palestinian. Goodhearted and honest Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Jews, Animists, Agnostics and Atheists would all agree that Jesus was a wonderful humanitarian, an outstanding moral philosopher. All of us, from Atheists to Zoroastrians, recognize Jesus as the most renowned Indigenous Palestinian.
Yet today under US-, UK-, Canada- and (…)

Source: Obama’s Crocodile Tears and Madeleine Albright’s Hard Choices: An Important Article to Read Regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Like most, sorrow has been the dominant emotion that I have been feeling regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Two other emotions have overcome me as well, that of anger and disgust.
Anger that Obama, the architect for the normalization of assassinations and the one who embraced the redefinition of ‘civilians’ as (…)

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, ’n’ how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, ’n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
Bob Dylan
I am a writer. It is who I am. Writing is what I do that gives my life fundamental meaning. Of course there is family and there are friends for whom I am eternally grateful to be (…)

Each year 8 million under-5 year old infants die out of 104 million children born in the Developing World (minus China), 90% avoidably, and ultimately due to deprivation in a World under neoconservative American hegemony. However this greed-driven carnage is not confined to the Developing World. As summarized below, neoconservative America is killing innocent children from Afghanistan to Newtown, Connecticut.
The United Nations Population Division (see: ) provides regularly updated (…)

* by Eric Walberg
"The Canadian government has no foreign policy anymore, doing exactly as it is told by its Israeli advisers, so the reason for Harper’s coyness must be found there. Israel itself is in a quandry about Syria.."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-...

15 DECEMBER 2012 Defendant’s Appeal, Re: Edwina Fuller v. Fuller et al.
12/14/2012 — Appeal dismissed for failure to file opening brief. Defendant and Appellant: Fuller, Robert Attorney: Daniel K. Lak
Defendant and Appellant: Fuller, Doris Attorney: Daniel K. Lak
In 2003, I realized that there was a problem brewing in the family and I asked Mr. Thelsey L. Fuller - my maternal grandfather — to put something in place to protect he and his wife, Edwina, which he failed to do.
In June of (…)

“Whackademia” An insider’s account of the troubled university” is a passionate description of the parlous state of Australian universities by UK-born Australian academic Richard Hil. The book cover puts the problem succinctly: “Despite the shiny rhetoric of excellence, quality, innovation and creativity, universities face criticism over declining standards, decreased funding, compromised assessment, overburdened academics and never-ending reviews and restructures.” Importantly, these (…)

Your support here: http://www.peaceinsyria.org/support.php
We, the undersigned, who are part of an international civil society increasingly worried about the awful bloodshed of the Syrian people, are supporting a political initiative based on the results of a fact-finding mission which some of our colleagues undertook to Beirut and Damascus in September 2012. This initiative consists in calling for a delegation of highranking personalities and public figures to go to Syria in order to (…)

US President Barack Obama has recognized the main Syrian opposition group as a "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people. This brings the US in line with its allies, including Britain, France and several Arab states

Source: A Dinner Conversation: Israel and Armenia, Oppression and Genocides, Reality and Denials
Below you will find two perspectives from a recent dinner conversation: Candid and Confrontational Compassionate and Personal
I. Candid and Confrontational
I recently attended a small family gathering, not my immediate family but my partners, so by extension people that I care for. I am Armenian and my partner is Jewish, and at the table were us and the elders, including a holocaust (…)