'Deep Mind' painting dichotomies

'Deep Mind' is a huge painting that explores the World Within, the Mind, and prompts questions such as What are we? Who are we? Why are we here? How do we balance and control the dichotomies within us of light/dark, human/animal, good/bad, peace/passion, joy/anger, love/hate, altruism/greed?

by Jacob G. Hornberger

John Limbert, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran, is asking the UN to investigate human-rights abuses in Iran by that country’s dictatorial regime. Ever since protests against Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections broke out, the Iranian dictators have been rounding up people, torturing and raping them, and even executing them.

The war against Afghanistan is illegal, affirms Francis A. Boyle, law professor at the University of Illinios in Champaign. The author belongs to the peace camp in the United States and is one of most outspoken and prolific critics of George W. Bush´s presidency. He is one of the few defenders of the rule of law against the numerous apologists of the "law of the jungle" in the so-called war on terror.

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This extrajudicial execution of human beings constitutes a grave violation of international human rights law and, under certain circumstances, can also constitute a war crime under the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949. In addition, the extrajudicial execution of U.S. citizens by the United States government also violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandating that no person "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

Nigerian police and military units carried out extra-judicial killings last year in the aftermath of clashes with members of a Muslim group in the north of the country, footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to confirm.

Kenyan wildlife rangers have begun rounding up thousands of zebras in an attempt to provide natural food for starving lions in a national park.

Haiti's government has raised the death toll from the January 12 earthquake that destroyed much of its capital, to at least 230,000.

The space shuttle Endeavour has docked at the International Space Station on its last major construction visit to the orbiting platform.

The US president has said the international community is pursuing "a significant regime of sanctions" against what Washington calls Iran's intransigence.

China's top court has urged judges across the country to limit the use of the death penalty against convicted individuals.

A top UN envoy has arrived in North Korea hoping to push forward international efforts to persuade North Korea to return to negotiations on nuclear disarmament.

An attack by a suicide bomber has killed more than 10 people, including seven policemen, in northwest Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan, officials say.

India has put off the launch of its first genetically modified (GM) vegetable, saying it would adopt a cautious approach and wait for more scientific studies on the impact of the new variety of eggplant.

At least 157 people have been killed in avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of the Afghan capital, the interior ministry has said.

A British biotech company has won final approval to start a pioneering clinical trial to discover whether stem cell therapy can help patients disabled by a stroke.

A British court has ordered the government to disclose classified information about the treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who said he was tortured in US custody.

Japanese carmaker Honda has said it is expanding a global recall of cars over concerns of faulty airbags that have been linked to at least one fatality and several injuries.