The Nahmias Cipher Report

Reblogged from ethiopiantimes: SHAGARAB REFUGEE CAMP, SUDAN — Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are exploiting, abducting and sometimes killing Eritreans fleeing their authoritarian homeland, the UN and refugees say. “People catch us, sell us like a goat,” one Eritrean asylum-seeker said of the human traffickers. Like others who have [...]

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Kim Jong-il, “supreme leader” of North Korea died on Saturday, 17 December 2010, purportedly from a heart attack at the age of 69. Although the North Korean people suffered abject deprivation and human rights abuses under his reign; news broadcasts from state official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) displayed throngs of [...]

There are many voices within the global and American landscape that continually challenge us to peek behind the veil, to question authority, and practice free thought. In past decades,  authors, philosophers and even filmmakers provided the impetus for us to dig deeper beneath the surface.  Movies like Fahrenheit 451,  Soylent Green, Animal Farm and 1984 [...]

When a woman attempts to leave an unhappy marriage, depending upon where she resides it could result in her death, loss of her parental rights, disfigurement, impoverishment, ostracization or other dire consequences. When my father began to physically abuse my mother she was caught in an untenable situation because he had vowed that he would kill her rather than let her go and if she somehow managed to escape she would do so without her children.

A mother’s love enables many women to endure unimaginable degradation and hardship to protect their children and to remain in situations often to their own detriment. In America we are familiar with these stories but they are easily tuned into and out of in favor of the latest gossip story or ‘reality’ TV series. A story currently playing out in public is the scandalous case of Tamar Epstein and Aharon Friedman.