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Joel Brinkley: UN Human Rights Council is irredeemable
You should probably sit down before you read this. Syria has put its name up for membership on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and it will most likely win a seat. Yes, Syria, the state that has slaughtered close to 15,000 of its own people over...
Tags: China, Entertainment Events, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Joel Brinkley
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Throw out clichÂs
Political writing tends to be bad writing, noted George Orwell in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” Too often it's a tool for deception and obfuscation rather than clear communication. Orwell criticizes particularly those who rely on...Tags: Leon Trotsky
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Story on Krikorian comments was unfair
I was very disappointed to see the Glendale News-Press use an unknown, anonymous attack from the Internet to widely circulate a smear of Assembly candidate Greg Krikorian (“Rally comments cause a stir,” May 13). Do you really think it was fair...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Louis Farrakhan, Mike Gatto, Politics
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Letters to the Editor - March 15
San Mar seeks continued support of its mission To the editor: On behalf of San Mar Children’s Home, I would like to thank all those volunteers and donors who have assisted us in our efforts to maintain the mission of San Mar. San Mar has been a...Tags: Karl Marx, Social Security, Medicare, Politics, Earnings
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Guest Column: A reminder of indifference, weakness
As Glendale and other cities throughout the world schedule the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Turks nearly 100 years ago, we are often asked why? Why the inhumanity? We are getting closer to the answer. Unlike the sporadic...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Science and Technology, Science, Massacres, Saddam Hussein
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A good signing day for kickers in the Peninsula District
Tags: China, Entertainment Events, Syria, Damascus (Syria), Russia
Feb 3, 2012 | Los Angeles TimesKhmer Rouge jailer loses appeal, gets life term
World NowCambodia Khmer Rouge Jail Life: Cambodian Judge Denies Khmer Rouge Jailer Appeal, extends jail sentence to life....Sep 6, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles TimesVann Nath dies at 66; Cambodian painter survived torture in prison
Vann Nath, whose talent as an artist helped him survive Cambodia's most notorious prison during the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in the 1970s and whose later paintings bore witness to the prison's many horrors, has died. He was 66.
Vann Nath, who...Tags: Arts, Fine Arts, Massacres, Kidney Disease, U.S. Department of State
Jul 8, 2011 |Story| Herald MailIt's important to remember lessons of the Civil War
I am writing this column on America's birthday while on vacation in Texas. So to you the readers who read this on July 10, and to all Americans, happy belated birthday America! Right up there with being called a veteran, I cherish the moniker...Tags: Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Conflicts, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia)
Jun 19, 2011 |Story| Glendale News PressA poignant immigrant story
The Colony Theatre opens its 37th season with a brave selection — the West Coast premiere of Michael Golamco’s “Year Zero.” With a unique structure and a stellar young cast, it’s a quietly powerful work that sneaks up on...Tags: Migration, Immigration, Crimes, Politics, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California)
Jun 8, 2011 | Los Angeles TimesDengue Fever premiere 'Uku,' to play the Getty's 'Saturday's Off the 405' series
Pop & HissIt's not hard to argue that Dengue Fever is the best '60s Cambodian psych-pop band that Los Angeles has ever produced. They formed a decade ago when Cambodian-born dinner house-chanteuse Chhom Nimol auditioned for brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman, who........May 15, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles TimesCambodia after the killing fields
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA muddy, weed-choked field in the hills of northern Cambodia is the last resting place of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, chief instigator of a communist regime that enslaved a nation, dismantled its social and cultural institutions and took the lives of 2...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Science and Technology, Southeast Asia, Crimes, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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