Vets mark 65 years since Paris freed from Nazis

Veterans of the French Resistance have joined President Nicolas Sarkozy in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from the Nazi occupation.

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WWII Vehicles Retracing Steps of Allies

A convoy of World War II military vehicles has set off from Utah Beach to retrace the steps of the Allied forces who liberated France from the Nazis 62 years ago.

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'Half the Sky' a Horrendous, Yet Uplifting Account of Women's Struggles and Triumphs

The fight for equality in the Third World is nothing like the fight for equality in America. Here it is about equal pay or access to birth control or sexual harassment. In the Third World, it is about nothing less than the fight for your right to live.

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Animal Testing, and Animal Abuse for any reason is unacceptable.

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A few years ago I hosted a small lunch party for a group of women who had seen many changes over their lifetime, and at coffee time, each was asked the question: "What change or innovation during the 20th century had the greatest beneficial impact on your life?"

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Mideast: Most of the world is content to let ordinary Iranians suffer the tyranny of Tehran's soon-to-be nuclear-armed mullahs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, wants them liberated.

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Mullahs attack, police arrest Baluch activist

Mutalib Baluch, a Baluch youth from Karachi's Harlem called Lyari, had no idea he would fall victim to torture and get arrested on the international day against Torture as he went to demonstrate outside the Karachi Press Club.

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President Evo Morales has begun marking the 200th anniversary of Bolivia's independence struggle, hailing Latin America's "second liberation". His comments, in a small town high in the Andes mountains, referred to left-wing poll victories across the region.

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Gen Wesley Clark, John Soltz and Dr Mustafa Alani comment on the success, or otherwise, of the UK's military role in the liberations and rebuilding of Iraq.

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Since this program was such a success last year we thought it worth presenting it once again for this Passover. Contemporary Spiritual Commentary on the Meaning of Freedom and its Relationship to serving God

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Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory.

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US occupation forces kill 12 year old girl in Iraq

March 17 -- In a shocking display of total disregard for civilian life, US occupation soldiers in Iraq murdered a 12 year old girl who was standing 330 feet (100 m) away from a vehicle believed to be targeting an Iraqi police station in Nineveh province, according to a release  …

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Women's lib in India has a protest mode unmatched anywhere.

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Dreaming of a better day for Bangladesh

"Beware of Bangladesh" was the cover title of the April 4, 2002 issue of Hong Kong-based magazine The Far Eastern Economic Review.

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50 Years of Tibetan Progress Under Chinese Influence

March 2 -- The State Council of Information for the People's Republic of China published a new document highlighting the profound change and progress of the Tibetan people through the process of Democratic Reform, led by the Communist Party of China.

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Obama's inauguration is liberation for many

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To: UN, governmental, human rights groups or other independent fact-finding delegations to assess the situation in Tibet and let the world know the truth The Secretary General United Nations New York, USA Subject: Urgent Appeal to redress the crisis in Tibet.

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Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi

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The knocks on his door came at 6:40 a.m., Vittorio de Filippis recalled, when Paris was still dark and he was fast asleep. Three police officers -- a pair of men and a woman, all wearing armbands -- had come to take him in.

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French journalists' unions on Sunday called for protests after a director at the leftist newspaper Liberation was arrested at his home, humiliated in front of his sons, handcuffed and strip-searched.

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What seems to have happened in Iraq in the last few months is that the Iraqi mainstream has finally done some liberating of itself.

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A 53-year-old Gnome russler has been arrested in Brittany after going on a gnome stealing spree. The French man, suspected of stealing 170 gnomes, was arrested on Tuesday.

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Decision '08: Barack Obama is changing churches in hopes of changing the subject long enough to slip into the White House. But it won't change what he believes. Who'll pin him down?

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Which is worst? Cast your weigh in and cast your vote.

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Wright was Right (with poll)

I wrote this article in response to many of the latest articles, in particular, this one,"Jeremiah Wright's Wider Toll - by krishna-167929 I'll say this once and leave it alone, because those that don't want to hear it or believe it... won't anyway.

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An open letter to the US left from the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.

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Why You Shouldn't Worry About Jeremiah Wright, and Why You Should

The main problem with Jeremiah Wright isn't that he's anti-American.

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