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    ‘Mythical Creatures’ Is An Animated Holocaust Film Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen
    Jul31

    ‘Mythical Creatures’ Is An Animated Holocaust Film Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

    Los Angeles artist Gary Baseman is currently raising funds for his upcoming film project, “Mythical Creatures,” based on the heartbreaking story of his father’s narrow escape from Poland during the Holocaust. Yet Baseman is plotting a film experience like no other, combining his father’s narrative with animation, theater...

    European Court: Russia Must Pay Yukos Shareholders 1.9 Billion Euros
    Jul31

    European Court: Russia Must Pay Yukos Shareholders 1.9 Billion Euros

    Europe’s top human rights court awarded shareholders in Yukos 1.9 billion euros [$2.6 billion] in damages on Thursday, a new blow to Russia days after some of the former oil company’s shareholders won $50 billion in The Hague. The Strasbourg-based court found that Russia had failed to “strike a fair balance” in its...

    Ukraine government battles pro-Russia rebels
    Jul31

    Ukraine government battles pro-Russia rebels

    …read more Source: USA...

    Monitors Reach Flight 17 Crash Site in Ukraine After Days of Delays
    Jul31

    Monitors Reach Flight 17 Crash Site in Ukraine After Days of Delays

    The Ukrainian government said it had suspended operations against pro-Russia rebels in the area to allow the monitors safe passage, Reuters reported. …read more Source: The New York...

    Ukraine and the Media Drumbeat
    Jul31

    Ukraine and the Media Drumbeat

    Vietnam 1964 Fifty years ago, the American media aided the Johnson administration in leading the nation into war under false pretenses. Our media therefore bears some of the responsibility for a needless war which killed 58,000 Americans and over a million Vietnamese. (The photo below shows some of the victims of the infamous 1968 My Lai...

    ‘Russian Involvement’ Is Central to UK Inquiry Into Ex-KGB Agent’s Death
    Jul31

    ‘Russian Involvement’ Is Central to UK Inquiry Into Ex-KGB Agent’s Death

    Evidence that shows Russia was behind the 2006 murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London will mostly be given in secret, the chairman of a public inquiry into his death said on Thursday. Kremlin critic Litvinenko, 43, died after being poisoned with a radioactive isotope in November 2006, a crime which from his death bed he blamed...

    Social Media Posts Belie Russian Denials About Ukraine Involvement
    Jul31

    Social Media Posts Belie Russian Denials About Ukraine Involvement

    Moscow has called the war in Ukraine’s east a domestic fight. Photos posted by soldiers near the border or in Ukraine seem to contradict these claims. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Send More Help to the Hot Zone
    Jul31

    Send More Help to the Hot Zone

    The lives of both local and international health care workers, as well as the lives of thousands of people in West Africa and possibly beyond, are at stake in the world’s largest Ebola epidemic to date. Organizations such as Samaritan’s Purse and Doctors Without Borders have taken the lead in combatting the disease, which has seen...

    Indonesia’s Moment
    Jul31

    Indonesia’s Moment

    Indonesia’s President Suharto reigned for over three decades based on an implicit compact with his citizenry. The former general would ensure the world’s fourth most populous nation prospered so its people could climb out of poverty, and in return they consented to his autocratic rule and turned a blind eye when his family and cronies...

    Investigators reach airline crash site in Ukraine
    Jul31

    Investigators reach airline crash site in Ukraine

    Team arrives for the first time since the July 17 crash that killed 298 people. …read more Source: USA...