GOD BLESS COUNTRIES LIKE PERU WHO ARE SHOWING THIS CRAZY WORLD THE FINE ART OF HEALING .. (tags)
WE HOPE AND PRAY PERU'S JUDICIAL ACTIONS CONCERNING THEIR EARLY RELEASE OF LORI BERENSON WILL ALSO INSPIRE OTHER UNIQUE COUNTRIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO ALSO CONSIDER OFFERING SOME OF THEIR OWN LONG TIME CAPTIVE PRISONERS NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO POSSIBLE FREEDOM............................ ~TENS OF MILLIONS OF CURRENT AND FUTURE TOURISTS TRAVELING IN THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD HAVE TO RESPECT COUNTRIES AND THEIR PEOPLE LIKE PERU WHO ARE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE REST OF US IN OUR HOST COUNTRIES THE GIFTS OF MERCY, FORGIVENESS & THE BEAUTY OF LIFE....
It’s Still a Military Coup in Honduras (tags)
"We’ve already praised the singular work of TeleSur, and also of the courageous Hondurans who have broken the information blockade from below, filming coup abuses and the massive protests against them on their cell phones and uploading important videos to YouTube. And we’ve cheered as many corporate media organizations have become dependent on those reports-from-below in their own coverage. I’d like to add another media that deserves such recognition: Few have done the heavy lifting that Chiapas Indymedia has done, mainly in Spanish, to publish the communiqués, photos and videos that document the massive and organized nature of the Honduran grassroots movements with which it has worked and supported for years. (While the world mostly ignored Honduras in recent years, Chiapas Indymedia was shipping community radio transmitters and organizing communications workshops among Catrachos; that planting and cultivating bears significant fruit today in the information that does break out from behind the walls of censorship and simulation)."
BTL:The Status of Iraqi Women Deteriorates Under U.S. Occupation (tags)
Interview with Rania Masri, director of the Southern Peace Research, Institute for Southern Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus