The second election in East Timor pits Nobel Peace prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta against 11 other candidates. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/201231724858150278.html
After five days cloaked in military secrecy, the U.S. soldier suspected in a massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has been identified as a Washington state… Read more: Afghanistan Massacre, Video, Afghanistan Soldier Shooting, Afghanistan Killings, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Shooting Suspect, Afghanistan Shooting, Ap, World News from The Huffington Post News Team…
The U.S. soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians has been named. from (author unknown) via http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan_united_states_kandahar_shootings/24518402.html
Bahraini activists mark first anniversary of Saudi-backed raid on Pearl Roundabout, Afghan survivors assert multiple soldiers were involved in the massacre, Baghdad heightens security ahead of Arab League summit, and more. from (author unknown) via http://www.linktv.org/video/7443
Venezuelan President will continue to have radiation therapy ahead of October’s re-election bid. from (author unknown) via http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/201231711042936489.html
Observers say Tzipi Livni, who failed twice to become premier, hasn’t articulated an agenda that differentiates her party from the Likud of Benjamin Netanyahu. from By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times via http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-livni-20120317,0,5248628.story?track=rss
Syria’s Kurds unsure whether to join the uprising against Assad from (author unknown) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-17357590
With plans for both its options for orderly disengagement from Afghanistan upended this week by a staff sergeant’s massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, the Obama administration urgently needs to alter the equation. Read more: Oic, Hamid Karzai, Taliban, Obama, Afghanistan, Organization for Islamic Cooperation, United Nations, World News from Jeffrey…
Punk rock is ancient history here, but elsewhere disaffected young people are discovering its anarchic energy – despite the enormous risks they face from their oppressive regimes It's been a long time since the term "punk rock" could strike fear into the British establishment. The Sex Pistols' John Lydon –…
Originally published in the Guardian on 17 March 1962 “A British philosopher,” I remarked to a jack-booted riot policeman as we took coffee in a bistro, “once observed that ‘a policeman’s lot is not a happy one.’” “He was well informed!” retorted the flic, “and even then he was probably…