Israel: Jewish Settlers spray inflammatory graffiti on mosque

Tensions between Jewish settlers and Muslim Palestinians continue to increase. Jewish settlers decided to ignore a Supreme Court decision ordering them to vacate a building next to a Mosque in Hebron. on...

Israeli Jewish settlers vandalise Arab graves

Just as the Israeli Foreign Minister Livni prepares to announce an early election, this most surprising vandalising event at Hebron shows the rising tension between ultanationalist settlers and Palestinians. " Jewish settlers have gone on a...

Israel-Palestine Mediation Bush-style

"Mediation Bush-style Bush's visit to Israel was preceded by the seizure of swathes of Palestinian land and the announcement that there will be no halt in settlement building. What hope for negotiations then, asks Saleh Al-Naami Click to view caption OFFICIAL VERSUS POPULAR:...

EYE WITNESSES ACCOUNT OF THE IRISH UPRISING OF 1641 TO BE PUBLISHED AS A BOOK

It ought to have been published since. It's great that it is now ben brought to light. Better late than never.The rising was sparked off by Catholic fears of an impending invasion of Ireland by anti-Catholic...

Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair

When I lived in South Africa Playboy was illegal.  It seems the country has now found its mojo:"JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative...

Archeologists:French colonists of Lake Champlain

Proof that one culture (British)  builds over another Culture (French) to erase all trace of history in the 1700's America.It will certainly be interesting to see what develops in the future digs in Vermont....

The Root of the Problem

This post is based on an article from Time Magazine, Thursday, Apr. 26, 2007, written by Orlando Patterson. The article gives interesting detail of the earliest European settlers in America, at Jamestown. I...

Birth of American Values

"Today is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States of America. At first, it was a disaster. Their plan was to...

Buddhist Monks Fight in anti-Vietnam Protest

In Cambodia's capitol city of Phnom Penh, a protest on behalf of the Khmer diaspora turned violent. The basis of the protest was the religious freedoms of the Khmer living in a Vietnamese region that once belonged to Cambodia."At least two Buddhist monks were injured Friday...

200 new trailers placed in West Bank outposts since June

"Settlers are continuing to place mobile homes and trailers in West Bank outposts and settlements, without legal permits. Civil Administration reports show that since the start of the second Lebanon war in July, some 200 mobile homes have been placed. This is a substantial...

Settlers eyed in Australia extinctions

"CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's giant prehistoric animals, including 10-foot-tall kangaroos and wombat-like creatures as big as a rhinoceros, were likely wiped out by aboriginal settlers, not climate change, a researcher said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The question of what...

'Home Game:' When Israeli hoop dreams lost to Gaza pullout (Podcast, video)

I just posted the audio podcast of this report:"While media coverage of Israel’s evacuation of 9,000 Jewish residents from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005 focused on the political and physical struggle...

Unauthorized Migrants -- Numbers and Characteristics

Pew Hispanic Center  [report in PDF]

Border Battles -- The U.S. Immigration Debates

"...the positions taken by advocates and the policies proposed by politicians have recently become more contentious and extreme..."

Today in history - Oct. 2

"Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2006. There are 90 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; he was the first black appointed to the nation's highest...

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