Fifty years after Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, Germany is still keeping mum on how much it knew before Mossad agents kidnapped the Nazi war criminal in Argentina in 1960.

Gay Hendricks, Arjuna Ardagh and a group of Conscious Men from around the world offer apologies to women for thousands of years of imbalance between masculine and feminine energy, as well as vision of a new era of co-creation.

John Hawkins over at Townhall has a fairly popular article up right now entitled "7 Questions for Liberals About Obama's Libyan War."  The article is nothing terribly special but it is getting a lot of link-love in the conservative blogosphere right now and thus its arguments merit response.  While Hawkins raises seven distinct points, the article basically boils down to a rehash of many of the Left's criticisms of George W. Bush's adventures in Iraq and asks why these criticisms don't apply to Obama's intervention in Libya.

Others can and will respond to the fallacy of this argument better than this author ever could and thus this article will waste no time detailing the difference between a no-fly zone and an actual war nor will it discuss the difference between unilateral action and a UN backed multi-national operation.  These facts and distinctions, while important, are not really of any concern to those on the right who simply wish to scream "hypocrisy" now that President Obama has undertaken the first true foreign action that can be called his own.  

No, for people like Hawkins, it is best to address their points head on.  Hawkins asks, "Where are the massive protests" and he deserves an answer.

Veterans under 35 Experience Traumatic Deaths at Higher Rates than Californians with no Military Service

Another shock video campaign proven to be based on a hoax!

I hope you weren't thinking that the people in the government who were putting you in harm's way were actually going to make sure that you received the treatment you deserved for your services.... If you were, perhaps you should look at Joe Rogan's youtube page!

Although more women are joining the military than ever before and some are seeing combat, women's primary role, as far as the military is concerned, is patriotic.

We definitely need to heed Tim's advice to put away "the safe & sanitized version of this man & his compatriots" & "awaken from the stupor" which our "Ambien-induced haze" has cast upon us in order to deal with the legacies of injustice which MLK against which he spent his life f …

It takes a pretty sick mind to come up with the many things that Limbaugh has been spewing over the years, but this one could be his "David" moment....

An encyclopedia of rightisms!

Now this is what an adult conversation looks like!

War invigorates violent masculinity. No matter how many new laws to establish equality are put in place by the occupation forces in Afghanistan, men's assertion of themselves as protectors of women is their justification of extreme control over them.

"In January, the Western world will welcome a new nation, South Sudan. The Islamic world will not. The coming independence of South Sudan, which holds most of the oil in the country now called Sudan, marks a loss of territory and of wealth for the Islamic world.

""As soon as Obama took over, he said he would do this and that -- a lot of things. But he still hasn't met a single goal," said Saad Zaki Khalil, 56, who was selling cigarette lighters in central Cairo.

One year ago today army Major Nidal Hasan murdered twelve soldiers and one civilian. One of the women soldiers was pregnant. Hasan was shot by two security police and captured. He is awaiting trial and is paralyzed from the waist down, a deserved fate.

US military documents leaked to whistleblowing website Wikileaks reveal thousands of previously unreported civilian deaths, according to independent research organisation Iraq Body Count.

Speaking at a Wikileaks news conference, Prof John Sloboda from Iraq Body Count estimated the logs would "bring to the public knowledge more than 15,000 deaths".

Wikileaks says the secret US military logs also suggest US commanders ignored evidence of torture by the Iraqi authorities.

A US Department of Defense spokesman dismissed the documents as raw observations by tactical units, which were only snapshots of tragic events.

For Hezbollah, which calls the shots in the neighborhood, this was just the right soundtrack for the Iranian president's state visit last week.

Last week, Iranian President Ahmadinejad took a two-day trip to Lebanon where he basked in the glory heaped upon him by hordes of Hezbollah supporters. Their turn-out is to be expected. Hezbollah is going to be indicted by the U.N.

Citing recently made satellite photos on Google Earth, the Israel newspaper 'Haaretz' reports that the Syrian army has a Scud missile base near Damascus. The photos also suggest that Hezbollah activists are being trained in the use of the missiles there.

A new Hizbullah country seems to be developing in place of the sovereign nation of Lebanon, and its population is preparing for another war with Israel.

Shortly before Russia inserted the fuel rods into Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor on August 21, some experts warned it would be the last opportunity for Israel to destroy the facility and prevent Iran from going nuclear.

"Just over 60 years ago, with the horrors of the Holocaust fresh in mind, the world adopted the U.N. Genocide Convention, and promised to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.

There is a book that has inspired people to kill others, causing grief, panic, and sorrow for millions upon millions of people. A book that has changed the lives of others, and has ended the lives of others still. I'm sure you know the book I'm talking about, too.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has beamed a congratulatory message in the Farsi language to Iranians for their efforts "to liberate themselves from the burden of the oppressive regime" headed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity's finest -- even for the world's bottom billion.

"It's Not Just About Israel" "The whole emphasis on Israel's salience in this matter, and of the related idea of subcontracting a strike to the Israeli Defense Forces, is an evasion, somewhat ethnically tinged, of what is an international responsibility."

I simply cannot comprehend why so many in the West refuse to see that Arabs can be revolutionaries.

This story was not well covered by the media-- seeded as background to the current US withdrawal from Iraq. After the US is out-- can the Kurds expect more atrocities like this?

"As promised yesterday, here are my photos of the Lebanese-Israeli border –- a renewed hot zone in the Arab-Isareli conflict.

To NGOs, the gems represent the repression they campaign against. But these riches could transform my country...

We keep hearing that the last decade of war, where we pour in gazillions to build up Iraq and Afghanistan even as our own economy sputters, has weakened Al Qaeda.

"France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

Ehad Ever is a religious Zionist. In this video he explains his views on Israel, Zionism, race, policies of the current Israeli government (Olmert's Kadima Party), etc.

"I was in the room playing with my cousin and they called us to come," Delan said. "They cut my cousin. I was very afraid. I was crying and crying. My mother is very fat; I knew if I could run she could not catch me, but she held me too strong. I could not get away.

"The fact that in some way, the products that I'm buying is supporting [violence against women in Congo] is something I can't live with. So it just seems like a no brainer," Smith said.

Diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the Iraq crisis and legal arguments ahead of the 2003 invasion are being explored by the Chilcot inquiry.

The most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office in the lead-up to the war, Lord Jay of Ewelme, is appearing.

As ambitious as the title might seem, my intention is rather simple in design: I'm going to list solutions to the problems this Country is facing.

Julian Assange, who the Feds fear may release State Dept. secrets, denies having them—but he's readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan.

After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan last year that left as many as 140 civilians dead, most of them children and teenagers.

A seven-year-old boy was murdered by the Taleban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for US and Nato forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan.

"Human rights group Amnesty International has released images of what it claims is US involvement in air strikes on an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen late last year.

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

'The rebel leader asked me two things: 'Do you want us to be your husband? Or do you want us to rape you?'"

Congolese mother-of-eight Clementine speaks in a quiet and hesitant voice: "I chose to be raped." She explains: "I told myself, if I tell them that I want to be their wife, they will kill my husband. I didn't want my children growing up saying the one that made our father die is our mother."

Last Friday, April 30th, was the 35th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, and last Tuesday, May 4th, was the 40th anniversary of the shooting of protesting students at Kent State University. The Vietnam War and America's involvement in it affected the lives of millions for well over a decade, exacting a massive human cost with millions of deaths and countless injuries - both physical and mental - that plague many of those involved to this day. United States military involvement and troop strength grew rapidly after 1964 - at its highest level in 1968, with over 500,000 troops on the ground. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. now bears the engraved names of 58,267 of those troops. It's nearly impossible to encapsulate an event of such scale in a handful of photographs, but here, 35 years after the end of the conflict, is my attempt. (47 photos total)

I've been a Viner since September, 2008. I've never considered an avatar until recently. I toyed with many ideas, until today, when one of my good Vine friends started pestering, er, encouraging me to end my status as a green shadow.

"Saddam Hussein killed more Arabs and Muslims than any other Middle Eastern leader in recent history.

The date, 28 September, was repeated by just about everyone I spoke with there - women and men - etched in their memories as if they had been branded. It is etched in mine too - and yet I was not at the main stadium in Conakry on that day.

Story Highlights - Activist says a new type of war is being fought on the bodies of women - Congo war is bloodiest since World War II, UNICEF says - Rape victims try to turn "pain into power"