Washington — Women are murdered in so-called honor killings everyday, and the public has a right to know more about these crimes and their victims. Take India for example. On Saturday, the first-ever Indian Peoples' Tribunal on so-called 'Honour Killings" gathered prominent lawyers and activists from major Indian non-government organizations, including the Human Right Law Network, the Women's Legal …

As creatures aware of our own existence, we human beings have a direct responsibility for our survival on earth. For this reason, each individual needs to know where to obtain whatever is necessary to ensure this survival. The name of the process of becoming acquainted with the environment containing the natural resources we need is reading, and in order to …

Special to The Seattle Times Freedom of religion was one of the principles upon which our great country was founded, and we are admired the world over as a free, tolerant and literate people. We are proud of the fact that many U.S. citizens struggled to come here in order to freely practice their religions. This freedom and the diversity …

  In recent weeks and days, US President Barack Obama earned ten points, lost ten points and earned ten points again with his headline-hitting political moves. On August 14, he earned ten points for standing firm in support of a move to build an Islamic cultural centre and a mosque near Ground Zero where nine Septembers ago two towering structures …

Clearly the spiritual disease of Islamophobia is all too prevalent in our society, spread by the malicious politics of such people as Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin and such supposed pundits as Cal Thomas, whose Aug. 18 commentary in The Day, "Ground zero sum game," is but yet his most recent endeavor to spread this disease. While I could offer …