31 July, 2007
Humanitarian Disaster In Iraq
By Jerry WhiteEight million Iraqis—or one third of the country’s population—urgently require water, sanitation, food and shelter, according to a new report issued by the British-based relief organization Oxfam and the NGO Coordination Committee of Iraq, a network of nearly 300 international and Iraq-based non-governmental organizations
Iraqi Team Wins Asian Cup,
Captain Condemns US Occupation
By Patrick MartinThe 1-0 victory by the Iraqi soccer team in Sunday’s Asian Cup featured a brilliant goal on a header by Younis Mahmoud, the team’s 24-year-old captain. This was followed by an “own goal” for the Bush administration and its Iraqi stooge regime, which had hoped to reap a propaganda windfall from the event. Instead, Mahmoud told a worldwide television audience that he dared not return to his homeland because of the conditions created by the US occupation. “I want America to go out,” he said. “Today, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but out. I wish the American people didn’t invade Iraq and hopefully it will be over soon.”
The March To The Edge Of The Cliff
By Siv O'NeallMankind is blindly marching straight towards the edge of the cliff. Our so-called leaders are busy filling their pockets with gold and making sure they are first in line, that they can yell louder and grab faster than all the rest of us and that they can reach farther into whatever we're heading for. The fact that it's a morass and that it's going to suck us all up, nobody seems to care about
Converging Interests In Iraq Allow Bush
An ‘Iranian Option’ -Arabs Threatened
By Nicola NasserConverging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy breakthrough of the kind he has been yearning for in the Arab – Israeli conflict
"Tamil Liberation And Prabhakaran Are Far Apart "
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa & Satchi SithanandanProminent writer on Sri Lankan issues and editor of the Subidcham and independendentsl.com websites published from Germany and USA Satchi Sithananthan spoke to us freely about the current situation in Sri Lanka and the Tamil Diaspora and also made pointed references to certain historical realities in the country to which our politicians had turned a blind eye thus causing deadly consequences
The Strange Cases Of Mohammed Haneef
And Iftikhar Gilani
By Jawed NaqviI spoke to Iftikhar Gilani about the Haneef episode and asked him to compare that example with his own incarceration that lasted seven scorching months in Delhi's notorious Tihar Jail. In India a terror suspect is often held for six months without charge. And this is precisely what happened with Iftikhar Gilani. He lived through hell for seven months and was then as mysteriously freed
Environment, Sustainable Development
And Globalisation: A Plea To Indian Legislatures
By Dr.Zafar Mahfooz NomaniThe India today needs to usher in a season of transformation, a season of stewardship to make long overdue constitutional commitment to protection and improvement of environment and security of future generation
Song Of The Sleepless River
By Prasanna RatnayakeIn the past two months Hugh Masekela and Afroreggae have given sold-out concerts in the Barbican. But this note is not about jazz or reggae; it traces some reverberations and reflections these events evoked
The Intra-National Colonization Of Patriotisms
By Jorge MajfudIt is assumed that there exists a unique – true, honorable – form for the nation and of being Uruguayan (Chinese, Argentine, North American, French). If one is against that particular idea of country, of fatherland (patria), then one is anti-patriotic, one is a traitor
30 July, 2007
Hurricane Boost 'Due To Warm Sea'
By Matt McGrathA new analysis of Atlantic hurricanes says their numbers have doubled over the last century. The study says that warmer sea surface temperatures and changes in wind patterns caused by climate change are fuelling much of the increase
Running Out Fossil Fuels: A Cause For Glee?
By Emily SpenceJohn James, one of the writers for Crisis Coalition, suggests, "It may be that declining oil may save us from climate change. 1.5 degrees is inevitable, and in another four years -- two degrees. Were oil to decline in that time span, we may yet survive
Football Succeeds Where Politics Fails
By Ali al-FadhilyAn Iraqi football victory seems to have united Iraqis across the country where politicians only divide it
Something Happened On 9-11
By Sheila SamplesSomething happened on 9-11 -- something so horrible that the American people acquiesced for a time in their own subjection.They will not succumb to their own destruction. Enough is enough
Impeachment As Political Solution To Iraq War
By James RothenbergA just solution to Iraq invasion won’t come without a cleansing and we are fortunate to have one handy. Impeachment will tell a story about how and why we started an aggression. It will contain sub-plots about indefinite detention and torture and the means of repression here at home, including the suppression of dissent
Americans Stuck In Political Stupor
By Joel S. HirschhornAmericans must awake from their political stupor and stop letting themselves be victimized and manipulated by the media/political/financial elites running and ruining our nation
Reparations
By David SwansonOn the question of impeaching Vice President Dick Cheney, however, Conyers takes a very different tack. He has published a book documenting the crimes of Cheney and Bush, but when it comes to supporting a bill, Conyers offers the "we don't have the votes" excuse
Ecuador: Clash Of Old And New
By Federico FuentesDenouncing the congress as “rubbish” and a “national disgrace”, left-wing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called on the upcoming constituent assembly, for which there will be elections held on September 30, to dissolve the body, which is widely viewed as corrupt. The calls came after the opposition-controlled congress amended a number of recent laws introduced by the executive to curb unprecedented rises in the price of food
Simmer Discontent
By Syed Ali SafviIt's a travesty of justice that Kashmir do not have a single building, road, hospital or any other public infrastructure named after any of our freedom fighters who laid down their lives only that we could breathe in the ambience of freedom, peace and tranquility; where we would not be forced to pay tax to live on our own soil. Instead of commemorating them, we have roads, colleges, public parks named after the Dogra rulers who had been cruel and savage.In their rule, Kashmiris simmered in the smoldering fire
'Use Of ORS' In Diarrhoea Needs A Push
By Anil GulatiThousands of children die due to dehydration in diarrhoea in Madhya Pradesh and may be millions in India. Bhopal recently lost four lives due to cholera. Oral Rehydration salt solution can save many like Sharda. Every year on July 29 we observe ORS Day with aim to promote the use of Oral Rehydration salt and to educate the people about its use
28 July, 2007
Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
By David SwansonThe current President Bush has accomplished much more smoothly than his grandfather could have imagined a feat that was one of the goals of Prescott's gang, namely the elimination of Congress
Martial Law Threat Is Real
By Dave LindorffThe looming collapse of the US military in Iraq, of which a number of generals and former generals, including former Chief of Staff Colin Powell, have warned, is happening none too soon, as it my be the best hope for preventing military rule here at home
Papers Of Impeachment: A Citizens' Action
By Lucinda MarshallGet a blank piece of paper and in big capitol letters that fill the page, write the following one word: IMPEACH Fax that word to Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers and your Senators and Representatives. If enough papers of impeachment as it were pile up, we will literally put that word right back on the table where it belongs in such force that it cannot be ignored. And then maybe, before it is too late, we will be able to begin to reclaim our country
I Will Not Hesitate To Use Force:Obama
By Andre DamonIf the 2008 elections put Barack Obama in the White House, the American people will be saddled with a new president who continues the war in Iraq and whose foreign policy does not significantly differ from that of his reviled predecessor
Weighing The Benefits And The Deficits Of Advancements
By Emily SpenceAs an acquaintance recently wrote, "The Earth [is] spinning inexorably without caring who inhabits her. We need a new species of individuals, without religion, hatred or borders if this is possible. In the meantime, enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."
Bush's Real Agenda In Palestine
By Ramzy BaroudThe Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan's corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip in June appears to mark a turning point in the Bush administration's foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel. The supposed shift, however, is nothing but a continuation of Washington's efforts to stifle Palestinian democracy, to widen the chasm separating Hamas and Fatah, and to ensure the success of the Israeli project, which is focussed on colonising and annexing what remains of Palestinian land
Of Marx, Christ, And The Persecution Of Radicals:
How Will Humanity Survive The Capitalist Threat?
By Jason MillerForget worrying about the “communist threat.” We need to turn the moneyed establishment’s idiocy on its head and focus our energies on answering a question that affects the 90% of us who aren’t obscenely affluent:How will humanity survive the capitalist threat?
The Terrible Innocence Of Art
By Jorge MajfudFreedom, perhaps, may be the main differential characteristic of art. And when this freedom does not turn its face away from the tragic reality of its people, then the characteristic turns into moral consciousness. Aesthetics is reconciled with ethics. Indifference is never neutral; only ignorance is neutral, but it proves to be an ethical and practical problem to promote ignorance in the name of some virtue
Vision India: Together We Can!
By Nishikant WaghmareAs Indians we must have one motto: "One People! One Nation ! One India!" Now, let us look back at the Indian society. In villages where 81% of Indians live untouchability is practiced. Do untouchables get drinking water? Do they socialize like others? Have their Human Rights violations- rapes, beatings, and cold blooded murders stopped? Will they get justice in their lifetime?
Children First : Village Planning In
The Guna Villages Of Madhya Pradesh
By Anil GulatiVillages in Guna district in the state of Madhya Pradesh are experiencing a positive change which will go a long way to give district's children a right start and bring improvement in the lives of women of the district
26 July, 2007
Is The US Preparing To Attack Pakistan?
By Eric MargolisThe Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan
Yesterday Iftiqar Gilani,Today Binayak Sen
By Subhash GatadeOne just wishes that much like their Australian counterpart, the civil society in this part of the globe also wakes up to the innocence of Dr Binayak Sen and tell the powers that be that 'We want him out' ! If the Australians can fight for the human rights of an Indian, should the Indians maintain a conspiracy of silence when one of their own is being brutalised by the state
Tales Of Angst, Alienation And Martial Law
By Phil RockstrohThose who have been paying attention are aware that the outward mechanisms of martial law are in place. We shudder knowing that Bush has issued an executive decree that grants him dictatorial power in the event of some nebulously defined national emergency. In addition, the knowledge nettles us that a vast network of internment camps bristle across the length of the U.S., standing at wait for those who might raise objections to the fascistic fury unloosed by the American empire's version of the Reichstag fire
Getting Impeachment Wrong
By David SwansonJoel Wendland has written an article opposing impeachment. His claims, and all claims of impeachment opponents, have long since been answered here. But here's some redundancy
Lebanon's Bloody Summer
By Mohamad BazziUntil the Lebanese can agree on a stronger and more egalitarian way to share authority, they will be cursed with instability, their future dictated by foreign powers
Thoughts On Virginia Tech And Racism
By Jeanette M. PollardThere are task forces and committees that have and will study what happened and how it could have been prevented. I wonder if any of these task forces or committees will look at racism and how it reared its head in this tragedy
Baquba Denied The Healing Touch
By Ahmed AliDiyala General Hospital in the provincial capital Baquba has been hit by severe lack of supplies amid ongoing attacks by militants. The shortages coupled with a lack of basic infrastructure have left the largest hospital in Diyala province short of supplies, and staffed by terrorised doctors often unable to do their job
Reviewing Michael Parenti's "Democracy For The Few"
By Stephen LendmanParenti's latest book, and subject of this review, is the newly updated eight edition of one of his most noted and popular earlier ones - Democracy For the Few. In it, he shows how democracy in the nation really works. It dispels the fiction Americans are practically weaned on from birth, taught in school to the highest levels, and get daily from the dominant media
God Has A Plan
By David TruskoffReligionists are appalled at the corruption that gives developers the right to turn the so-called Holy Land into Long Island. The pollution of the rivers, the clogged and dangerous roads and the ever present swingers with their gambling casinos and legal houses of prostitution makes the religionist warn, History will show Israel died an early death by its own hand
It is high time that a greater involvement of civil society organizations is encouraged in the task of making a prosperous and an equitable socio, economic and political order in Asia. High GDP growth rate does not necessarily reflect equitable distribution of resources and the fruits of growth. That is why an equitable development paradigm should be given top priority while addressing MDGs and other needs for lessening the growing inequality
25 July, 2007
Iraqis Blame DU For Surge In Cancer
By RIA NovostiIraq’s environment minister blamed Monday the use of depleted uranium weapons by U.S. forces during the 2003 Operation Shock and Awe for the current surge in cancer cases across the country. As a result of “at least 350 sites in Iraq being contaminated during bombing” with depleted uranium (DU) weapons, Nermin Othman said, the nation is facing about 140,000 cases of cancer, with 7,000 to 8,000 new ones registered each year
International Investments:
Is Policy Pendulum Swinging Back?
By Kavaljit SinghDespite the dominant trend towards greater liberalization of investment flows, nowadays certain kinds of investments have come under closer scrutiny by policy makers. In several countries (both developed and developing), there are moves to tighten existing investment rules or to enact new rules to regulate foreign investments and protect “strategic sectors” from foreign investors
Zahir Shah: The Last King Of Afghanistan
By Robert FiskHe was King of a nation that, in the the minds of many, does not really exist. He was a feudal master who believed in liberating women. He was a figurehead who lived a life of luxury in exile while his people suffered the agonies of war and occupation. The story of Zahir Shah is the story of Western arrogance and Eastern impotence
The Ivory Tower Behind The Apartheid Wall
By Margaret Aziza PappanoIn the last few weeks, university presidents across the US and Canada have rushed to issue statements about the proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the British University and College Union
The Invisible Government
By John PilgerIn a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'
Australian Government Launches Unprecedented Attacks On Lawyers As Haneef Case Falls Apart
By Mike HeadWith its prosecution of Indian Muslim doctor Mohamed Haneef on a terrorism charge in disarray, the Howard government has responded by launching unprecedented attacks on his lawyers, and the legal profession at large, accusing them of waging a campaign to undermine the anti-terrorism laws
Support Our Robots
By Adam EngelWell, I suppose we won't have to worry as much about the safety of our invading, marauding army. We can “support our Robots” instead, as unmanned planes, named, appropriately, The Reaper, murders Iraqis, destroys more homes and “secret insurgent hideouts” ( among their families, friends and other non-combatants, in Iraq), and secures the area for Truth, Justice, and the American Way (massive oil consumption, militarism, predatory Corporatism, racism and all the rest)
Senator Reid Has No Idea
By Kevin ZeeseSenator Reid Has No Idea How Many Troops Would Remain if Democrats Iraq “Exit” Amendment Became Law
Hungry World Of Dalits In Poorvanchal
By Vidya Bhushan RawatFour districts of Poorvanchal (Eastern Uttar-Pradesh) namely Maharajganj, Kushingar, Deoria and Gorakhpur witness the dance of death every year. Two of these district Kushinagar and Gorakhpur were selected for the NREGA programme while Maharajganj has also been selected for the same from this year. All these districts saw a large number of deaths due to hunger and malnutrition despite all these programmes
24 July, 2007
England Under Water: Scientists
Confirm Global Warming Link
By Michael McCarthyIt's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity
Why Buying Less Is More Than Buying Green
By George MonbiotIt wasn’t meant to happen like this. The climate scientists told us that our winters would become wetter and our summers drier. So I can’t claim that these floods were caused by climate change, or are even consistent with the models. But, like the ghost of Christmas yet to come, they offer us a glimpse of the possible winter world we’ll inhabit if we don’t sort ourselves out
Electing Gore - Non-Linear Climate Change Politics
By Bill HendersonA Gore run for president will only happen and be successful when this true appreciation of danger from climate change pushes far ahead of more immediate economic and security electoral concerns. And, in all probability, this more accurate appreciation of the climate change danger won't happen in time for 08 so Mr. Gore is probably not electable as climate change president and is probably more effective still as an outsider
Mobilising ‘World Opinion’
By Adam W ParsonsAs individuals we may feel separated, impotent and unimportant, but as part of a transnational movement with a selective petition of demands – based on the simple, human principles of cooperation, sharing and justice – we may find ourselves in a position to definitely shape world affairs. The prospective rapidity of worldwide changes could reasonably prove, if the Two-Thirds majority world realise the power of joining hands, beyond the erstwhile dreams of even the late Mahatma and Luther King
Saving A President
By Stephen LendmanFor now, though, removing the criminal class from Washington, restoring the rule of law, saving the republic, avoiding further wars, and ending the current ones is job one. Failure to do it may mean whatever's ahead won't matter. It'll be too late long before it arrives. Those who care about these things and see the threat better enlist others, do more than complain about it, and act in time collectively to stop it. It can only come from the bottom up, never the other way
Bush’ Failure
By William James MartinBush seems to have failed in all of his intended objectives, not least of which is freeing Americans from the threat of Al Qaeda. Far from defeating Al Qaeda, Bush has only strengthened it, while paying the price of hundreds of thousands dead Iraqis and Americans and three quarters of a trillion dollars transferred from the pockets of American taxpayers to the banks of east Asia, which is the location of US borrowing in order to pay for the war
The Course Of History
By Dan LiebermanA return to the natural course of history might resolve the Middle East Crisis
Living Becomes Hard In A Dead City
By Ahmed AliLife in the violence-plagued capital city of Iraq's Diyala province has become a struggle for day-to-day survival.Heavy U.S military operations, sectarian death squads and al-Qaeda militants have combined to make normal life in Baquba, 50 km northeast of Baghdad, all but impossible
Targeting Symptom: Ignoring Disease
By Ram PuniyaniThe terror attack in Glasgow (July 06, 07) has once again, brought to the fore the debate about the nature, the problem of terrorism and how to deal with it
22 July, 2007
Oil And Gas May Run Short By 2015
By Geoffrey LeanHumanity is approaching an unprecedented crisis when not enough oil and gas will be produced to keep industrial civilisation running, the world's top oilmen warned last week. The warning – which is being hailed as a "tipping point" – marks the first time that the industry has accepted that it may soon no longer be able to meet demand for its products
Rising From The Phoenix's Flames
By Emily SpenceWith the many diverse, monumental and urgent calamities facing the world today, the need for massive sweeping change on the part of humankind is undeniably clear. Without further delay, it's imperative that the necessary adjustments start here and now!
Justice, The Australian Way
By Ghali HassanThere is no conclusive evidence to justify Dr Haneef’ detention. His continued detention is the greatest injustice, and undermines his right to the presumption of innocence. This form of injustice is only adding to Australia’s already tarnish reputation as an anti-Muslims penal colony
White Australia Grossly Abusing
Indigenous And Asian Children
By Gideon PolyaThe right-wing, Bush-ite Australian Federal Government has attempted to shore up its flagging supporting an election year by “invading” Northern Territory Aboriginal (Indigenous) communities with troops in battle dress – ostensibly to deal with “Aboriginal Child Abuse”. This is widely seen as a cynical and racist “land grab” and an exercise in bolstering the racist vote in White Australia
Bush Administration Threatens
Military Intervention In Pakistan
By Peter SymondsThe Bush administration this week signalled a tough new stance on Pakistan, demanding that military strongman General Pervez Musharraf takes action against Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in areas bordering Afghanistan, and threatening US strikes if he failed to do so
Stealing America
By David TruskoffWhere do you think Clinton came up with the quick 30 Million and Obama, out of no where, acquired 33 million. Both of them have been openly courting Pro Israel money. Most large donors, of course, want something back for their money. The prediction for the 2008 presidential race is that the candidates will spend a Billion and the one who spends the most almost always wins. It is stealing America
Trying To Destroy Hamas Is Bad Policy
By Ira GluntsThe Israeli and US policy of supporting the newly formed Palestinian government of the weak Mahmoud Abbas and his divided Fatah party while attempting to isolate and paralyze the democratically elected Hamas government, could prove to be as great a blunder as the debathification of Iraq
Bush’s War Policy: When Time Heals Nothing
By Ramzy BaroudThe news of recent weeks emanating from Washington and Baghdad point to one clear, if not final, conclusion: The Bush administration's adventures in Iraq have been a complete failure
Gujarat: Encounters Of A Different Kind
By Raju RajagopalAs far as the Muslims are concerned, the state has not only failed to heal the wounds of 2002, but it seems to have largely succeeded in invisibilizing the community. Thankfully, there are still a handful of activists here who refuse to throw in the towel in their David and Goliath encounters with institutionalized intolerance. This is their story
19 July, 2007
Another Step Toward War With Iran
By Joshua FrankThe Democrats certainly don’t contest Bush’s Middle East foreign policy, they embrace it. Just last week the Senate voted 97-0 in favor of moving toward war with Iran. So while the Democrats call for withdraw of our troops from Iraq in the future, they insist we must keep an eye on Iran, for the Iranians are opposing the occupation of Iraq by allegedly arming the Shia resistance
Carnage In Kirkuk Amid Conflicts Over City’s Future
By James CoganA suicide bomber detonated an explosives-filled truck on Monday in the busy political and commercial district of the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk, just as hundreds of people were going for their lunch-break. The carnage was horrendous. At least 85 people were killed and more than 180 wounded. The victims were predominantly ethnic Kurds. Given the crisis-stricken state of the country’s health system, many of the injured are unlikely to survive
Overcoming The Conspiracy Against Palestine
By Ali Abunimah"Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep." Those words were written by the Fatah warlord Mohammed Dahlan, whose US- and Israeli-backed forces were routed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip last month, in a 13 July 2003 letter to then Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz and published on Hamas' website on 4 July this year
Interview With Jonathan Cook
By Amir TajikInterview with the British journalist Jonathan Cook who is based in Nazareth, Israel
The Militarization And Annexation Of North America
By Stephen LendmanThe Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 meeting in Waco, Texas attended by George Bush, Mexico's President Vincente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It's a tri-national agreement hatched below the radar in Washington containing the recommendations of the Independent Task Force of North America
The Great American Train Wreck
By Rand CliffordIn this age of continuous and absolute lies, one thing Americans can rely on: If the government cries wolf, the sheep are relatively safe
No Evidence Of Iran’s Role In Violence And
Instability In Iraq – Confirms British Foreign Minister
By Mehrnaz ShahabiDavid Milliband, British foreign secretary, confirmed in an interview with the Financial times, 8th July, that there is no evidence of Iranian complicity in instability in Iraq or attacks on British troops
Sri Lanka's War Goes North
By Amantha PereraWith the Sri Lankan government celebrating the capture of the country's east, all-out battles with Tamil rebels in their northern bastion of Jaffna are imminent
Operation Silence Backfires
By Gul Jammas HussainOn Tuesday the bombers struck at Islamabad leaving 16 dead while injuring more than 40 people. On Sunday, in a devastating series of suicide attacks in different cities of northwest Pakistan at least 52 people died and more than 100 were injured. Clearly, Operation Silence has backfired, since the extremists have not been silenced
18 July, 2007
A Tale Of Two Genocides,
Congo And Darfur
By Glen FordAs many as five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A quarter million or so have perished in Darfur, western Sudan. But only Darfur rates coverage in the U.S. corporate media, action by the United States on the diplomatic and military front, or concerted interest by the Congressional Black Caucus. The Congolese genocide, triggered directly by the U.S. and its surrogates, is masked in silence. In Darfur, "Arabs" who are indistinguishable from their Black African Muslim neighbors are demonized as enemies in the "clash of civilizations."
Reports Show Impact Of Climate Change In Africa
By Barry MasonA recent news item on Britain’s Independent Television News by Martin Geissler highlighted the impact of climate change on sub-Saharan Africa. He reported from Lesotho, a country of less than two million people, which forms an enclave within South Africa
Impeach Now
By Paul Craig RobertsUnless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran
What's Next For America?
By Paul BuchheitWith the Bush Administration nearing its end, and criticism of America's domestic and foreign policies at unprecedented levels, it is time to devise a workable plan for our country's future. This is an attempt to do so
Maria Made Me Cry
By Joel S. HirschhornI unexpectedly found myself crying over the Iraq war as I read the obituary of Capt. Maria Ines Ortiz, a highly praised Army nurse. What I read broke my heart. The story of this remarkable woman and her tragic, pointless killing in Iraq had so much more power than the endless statistics that have numbed our emotions and fed our anger about Bush’s Iraq War
Mass Graves Dug To Deal With Death Toll
By Ahmed AliThe largest morgue in Diyala province is overflowing daily. Officials told IPS they have had to dig mass graves to dispose of bodies
Israeli Apartheid
By Bruce DixonThe apartheid state in question is, of course, Israel. Its first class citizens are Israeli Jews, the majority of them of European or sometimes American origin. The second class citizens are Israeli Arabs, who enjoy significant but limited rights under the law including token representation in the Knesset. The eleventh class citizens are not citizens at all. They are Palestinians
Is This Ben Gurion Or Hell?
By Remi KanaziAnyone who has traveled through Ben Gurion airport in Israel knows that it is a unique experience. For most Israeli Jews, the experience is comforting. For Palestinian-Americans and many activists working in occupied Palestine it is quite a different experience
The SIM Card Terror Case
By Binoy KampmarkAnd now, citizens, or rather immigrants, must be careful to lend their SIM cards to their relatives. In Australia, the accessory might actually be charged, as Indian doctor Haneef Mohammad was, for providing 'reckless support' to a terrorist organisation (or to be more exact, Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed). Relatives should know better, though I am sure all readers must know everything their second cousins get up to. Naturally, not doing so renders you culpable
Two Island Tales, The Use And Abuse Of Power
By Brian McAfeeThe idyllic lives of two island based populations were inexorably changed and came close to annihilation just to accommodate U.S. supposed protection of democracy. Both Bikini Atoll in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean's Diego Garcia island were populated by thriving, self sufficient, fishing based population until coming under the radar screen of British and U.S. hegemonic interests
Tensions Between NATO And Russia Escalate
By Peter SchwarzTensions between NATO and the former states of the Soviet Union reached a new climax last weekend, following Russia’s unilateral withdrawal from the Treaty for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
17 July, 2007
Iraqi River Carries Grotesque Cargo
By Mona Mahmoud & Sebastian UsherFive hundred mutilated bodies dumped into the River Tigris have been washed up in two years in the town of Suweira, 100km south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad
Just Another Day In Iraq
By Patrick CockburnThe United States surge, the use of the American troop reinforcements to bring violence in Iraq under control, is bloodily failing across northern Iraq. That was proved again yesterday when a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in Kirkuk killing at least 85 people and wounding a further 183
Most Foreign Insurgents In Iraq Are Saudis
By Peter SymondsAn article in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times detailing the national origins of foreign insurgents in Iraq has punctured a large hole in the Bush administration’s relentless propaganda against Iran. Most foreign fighters, however, come, not from Iran, but Saudi Arabia, a close American ally, with which the Bush administration in particular has intimate ties
Iran And Beyond: Total War Is Still On The Horizon
By Glen FordAn invasion of Iran is imminent, because that is the only solution the Bush gang and the corporate mafia it serves can conjure to rally the American people behind their quest for global dominance. The Democratic Party is one with the Republicans in the mission to subjugate Tehran
Out Of America Or How I Became A Marxist
By Betty Wamalwa MuragoriMs. Muragori arrived in the U.S. with the idea that a highly developed economy bred highly developed people. African Americans somehow manage to convince themselves that society has been integrated, but the African lady saw differently, as she observed Blacks and whites intersecting in the same space. "The new apartheid still did not allow the twain to commune freely even as they congregated."
Militarizing Mexico: The New War On Drugs
By Laura CarlsenThe United States' ill-conceived war on drugs has failed at home and failed in Colombia. Mexico is up next
Biofuel Mania Ends Days Of Cheap Food
By Gwynne DyerA sixth of all the grain grown in the United States this year will be "industrial corn" destined to be converted into ethanol and burned in cars, and Europe, Brazil and China are all heading in the same direction
Bush, Health And Education
By Fidel CastroYet another example of the plunder: “There are more Ethiopian physicians in Chicago than in all of Ethiopia.”In Cuba, where healthcare is not a commodity, we can do things that Bush cannot even dream of
A New Documentary Series
From Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
By Prasanna RatnayakeSri Lanka’s political problems cannot be adequately understood without recognising the decades of systematic discrimination and exclusion from our cultural life of our non-Sinhala heritages. Dharmasiri Bandaranayake has made it a personal responsibility to recover and re-present aspects of our true traditions essential to the forging of a culturally coherent and liberated future for Sri Lanka
Democratic India In The Development Index 2004
By Sarbeswar SahooThe paradox is that India and Indian democracy claim to be shining when its people look pale and dejected. This paper examines some of these paradoxes and the dismal position of democratic India in the economic development and social opportunity index after fifty-five plus years of its planned development and democratization, thereby examining the relationship between democracy and development
16 July, 2007
Tuvalu Sounds The Alarm
By Kathy MarksFor Tuvalu, a string of nine picturesque atolls and coral islands, global warming is not an abstract danger; it is a daily reality. The tiny South Pacific nation, only four metres above sea level at its highest point, may not exist in a few decades. Its people are already in flight; more than 4,000 live in New Zealand, and many of the remaining 10,500 are planning to join the exodus. Others, though, are determined to stay and try to fight the advancing waves
The Human Cost Of The June Floods In Britain
By Robert StevensThe flooding disaster that struck villages, towns and cities all over Britain in June has been met with callous indifference by the Labour government of newly installed Prime Minister Gordon Brown and by the Environment Agency
An Open Letter To CNN
By Michael MooreI expect CNN to put this matter to rest. Say you're sorry and correct your story -- like any good journalist would. Then we can get back to more important things. Like a REAL discussion about our broken health care system. Everything else is a distraction from what really matters
CNN vs. SiCKO
By Fairness & Accuracy In ReportingFilmmaker Michael Moore appeared on CNN's Situation Room on July 9 to talk about his new film Sicko--but ended up having an animated discussion with host Wolf Blitzer about a CNN "fact check" of the film that made several embarrassing errors
Plan Iraq:Permanent Occupation
By Stephen LendmanDrawdowns, withdrawal, timelines, mission shifting, building democracy and all the other current and long-standing phony rhetoric aside, America is in Iraq to stay as a conqueror and occupier - that is, until Iraqis finally kick us out as they will in time in a part of the world long a graveyard for foreign invaders. But it won't happen quickly or before countless more thousands die, are injured, suffer immeasurably, are displaced, and lose everything
US Middle East Wars: Social Opposition
And Political Impotence
By James Petras
Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul, Patagonia to Mexico City, journalists and academics, trade unionists and businesspeople, as well as ordinary citizens, inevitably ask me why the US public tolerates the killing of over a million Iraqis over the last two decades, and thousands of Afghans since 2001?Partition Fears Begin To Rise
By Ali al-FadhilyMany Iraqis are now beginning to see the rising sectarian violence as part of a larger plan to partition the country
A Vote For Bush Was A Vote For The Terrorists
By Mary ShawIn the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush won the support of "red state" voters by touting 9/11 and the "war on terror" and convincing them that only he could keep America safe. A vote for John Kerry would be a vote for the terrorists. Now it appears that a vote for Bush was a vote for the terrorists
Toward A Palestinian-Led Rebuilding
By Osamah KhalilThe only solution to the fragmentation of the Palestinian body politic is revitalization of Palestinian institutions by Palestinians. These are certainly not the bodies Tony Blair or the Arab League will work to assist. It is imperative that the Palestinians resist these efforts to vitiate and co-opt the institutions which will form the core of a revitalized national movement and an independent state
The Jesus The Emperors Kidnapped
By Jorge MajfudA few days ago the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, referred to Jesus as the greatest socialist in history. I am not interested here in making a defense or an attack on his person. I would only like to make a few observations about a typical reaction caused by his words throughout different parts of the world
Crime Rate 13 Times More Than Militancy
In Jammu And Kashmir
By Syed Junaid HashmiIn a state where voices seeking withdrawal of security forces from civilian areas and giving the charge to the state police are being looked upon with suspicion, official reports of Union Ministry of Home Affairs and state home department when compared reveal that incidents of normal crime reported and registered in the year 2006 are 13 times more than the militancy related incidents
Will Dalit Christians Get Justice?
By M. Madhu ChandraAfter constitutional denial of Scheduled Caste origins converted to Christianity and Muslims after the Presidential Order 1950, a million dollar question remains in the minds of Indian Dalit Christians "Will the Judicial system of India give justice to Indian Dalit Christians now after 57 years of injustice done to them?"
13 July, 2007
Global Warming Is A
Human Rights Issue
By Mary ShawIf action isn't taken immediately worldwide to reduce carbon emissions, the consequences could be catastrophic. This isn't just about polar bears and glaciers. It's about humanity. It's about the right to protection from the deliberate and careless destruction of people's homelands, property, and livelihoods. It's about the right to observe one's native culture. It's about the basic human right to physical integrity. All of these things are on the line for millions of people if this problem isn't stopped now. In other words, global warming a human rights issue
FDA Gave Glaxo Extra Year To Profit Off Avandia
By Evelyn PringleA February 22, 2006 internal FDA memorandum, obtained by staffers of the Senate Finance Committee, proves that safety officials within the agency recommended that GlaxoSmithKline add a black box warning about congestive heart failure to the label of the diabetes drug Avandia well over a year ago
Sicko
By Stephen GowansMichael Moore’s Sicko is an entertaining and emotionally compelling film. It exposes the harshness of profit-based healthcare to the majority of Americans, and does so in the film-maker’s accustomed engaging way
Eat, Fight, Fuck, Pray
By Joshua Frank
Joe Bageant is author of Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War just published by Random House Crown. He recently spoke with Joshua Frank about his newbook, religion, rednecks and what it's like to serve beer to an underage horse
We Won, You Lost
By Rand CliffordWho are we? We’re the winners—America loves a winner. In America there are winners, and everybody else. Remember that old saying, "It’s not if you win or lose, it’s how you play the game"? Turns out that’s the motto for suckers, for losers. Winning is all that matters
How Terror Has Lost Its Meaning
By John ChuckmanWe know Bush is wrong also because the people who genuinely hate democracy and freedom - the world’s oligarchs, dictators, and strongmen - are people who hate terror themselves because it threatens their security
Equatorial Guinea: A Local Point Of View On
Assessments By International Experts
By Agustin VellosoIt is a shame that the children of Acurenam are so ungrateful and spend their time stealing from defenceless Deputy Ministers. Let’s just hope that police station visits and their broken legs help them appreciate all that is done by Obiang, his government, and the international press in their name. Then, maybe in years to come they will be able to live on $2.10 a day
Rural Indebtedness In India:
An Obstacle For Development
By Siba Sankar MohantyRural indebtedness is increasingly being recognized as a significant obstacle for rural development. It not only aggravates inequality in the access to socioeconomic opportunities, but also hinders the growth process in rural areas and creates an intergenerational handicap for participating in democratic processes due to growing distress and shocks to social psyche among the indebted households
A Passive Resistance To Equality
By Mritiunjoy MohantyThe decision of the Supreme Court to stay the implementation of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 is of a piece in the long tradition of the Indian judiciary to oppose reservations that favour OBCs
12 July, 2007
The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness
By Chris Hedges & Laila Al-ArianOver the past several months The Nation has interviewed fifty combat veterans of the Iraq War from around the United States in an effort to investigate the effects of the four-year-old occupation on average Iraqi civilians. These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave vivid, on-the-record accounts. They described a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts
Lessons From The Lal Masjid Tragedy
By Robert JensenI felt angry at people like Ghazi and at the same time a deep sorrow for his death. I felt a much deeper rage at Pakistan's military president, Pervez Musharraf, and the U.S. leaders who support him. And I felt a kind of fear for the Muslim fundamentalism that unleashes such violent forces, which always reminds me of the equally frightening Christian fundamentalist theology circulating in the United States
Behind The Red Mosque
By Tarek FatahFor too long, the U.S. has propped up men in uniform who ruin the political and social fabric of Pakistan. The risks are too high to continue playing this game of Pakistani roulette. Like his hero Ayub Khan, Gen. Musharraf, too, has sucked almost a decade out of the life of the nation. Like Ayub Khan, he, too, should go, or the country will go, instead
Free The Jena 6!
By Alice WoodwardJena, Louisiana: Nooses and White Supremacy
Indian - Israeli Ties Could Neutralize
Delhi’s Palestinian Policy
By Nicola NasserAn indicator of the new Indian strategic shift is the Indian focus on the Palestinian – Israeli peace process more than on the struggle of the Palestinian people for liberation
Palestine In Suicide
By Roni Ben EfratAmong the Palestinians, a leadership will have to emerge that resembles neither Hamas nor Fatah. It will have to be both honest and realistic. It will have to put the common people first, the workers and refugees—rather than trying to buy them off with the drug of foreign charity or the promise of an otherworldly paradise
What Drove A Doctor To Become
A Suicide Bomber?
By Chris MarsdenThe detention of at least seven medics in connection with last week’s failed terror attacks in Britain has added to the public’s sense of shock. All the more so since the alleged perpetrators of the attacks were both initially identified as doctors working at Glasgow’s Royal Alexandra Hospital
What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques,
Ordinary Monsters And The Iraqi Deathscape
By Phil RockstrohAt present, George W. Bush is unpopular with the majority of the American public not because of the murderous mayhem he has unloosed in Iraq; rather, his standing has plummeted, due to the fact, he didn't deliver the goods. Americans are fine with fueling our republic of road rage using the blood of Iraqis (or any other distant and darker people) as long as "the mission" doesn't drag on too long or reveal too much about ourselves
Remembering The Maestro:
Music Master, Anti-Fascist
By Stephen LendmanToday the Mastro would be in the artistic forefront leading the struggle for the same freedoms he believed in when fascism earlier engulfed Europe, Asia and North Africa in its greatest of all wars. In words and stunning music, he'd be in the lead to prevent it happening again so the spirit of equity, social justice and peace on earth could prevail for all above the darkness of tyranny now threatening everyone in the age of George Bush's America
A Letter To My Son Regarding The Problem Of War
By Doug SoderstromDuring the past six years (ever since that of 9-11) our world has been transformed into a seeming “holocaust of horrors,” a world in which our president speaks of “wars without end.” For your own welfare as a human being, I ask that you take the time to listen to what I have to say, for how you respond may well determine if you become a man of honor, one controlled by the inner voice of his conscience, or that of an automaton, a mere piece of machinery, an inanimate cog, doing what it has been told to do
11 July, 2007
Solar Activity 'Not The Cause Of Global Warming'
By Steve ConnorClaims that increased solar activity is the cause of global warming - rather than man-made greenhouse gases - have been comprehensively disproved by a detailed study of the Sun
When Less Is More: Learning About Limits
By Emily SpenceLet us try to keep in mind Buckminster Fuller's words, “We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.” If we cannot do so, we will surely learn about having less by other means. However, the outcomes for the alternative ways won't be any bit as pleasant as a concerts on a relatively mild, sunny day. This is guaranteed
Preventing More Lal Masjids
By Pervez HoodbhoyLal Masjid underscores the danger of runaway religious radicalism in Pakistan. It calls for urgent and wide-ranging action
Lal Masjid Not The Only Threat
By M B NaqviWhat do the Islamic extremists inside Lal Masjid stand for? They stand for enforcing an Islamic shariah of their own conception immediately. It is literalist Deobandi interpretation of Islamic tenets. It rejects modernist interpretations of Islam. They are bereft of modern education, indeed they reject the knowledge of pure and applied sciences and modern thought on social subjects. They want to take Pakistan back to early years of Islam. For that reason they are a big and growing challenge to most Muslim countries
Musharraf's Bloodbath At The Masjid
By Abid MustafaWhat is transpiring at Lal Masjid has all the hallmarks of becoming a template for Musharraf to deal with other religious schools and institutions- a recipe for civil war. Not to mention that the timing of the crisis suits Musharraf, as it deflects the public's attention away from the secular opposition and the government's disastrous response to the floods in Balochistan
Making Gaza "Scream"
By Stephen LendmanWith essential border crossings closed, supplies aren't coming in. Fresh food, such as meat, fruit and dairy products are disappearing. The World Food Program warns of dangerous food shortages
The Palestinian Left: A Lost
Opportunity For Relevance
By Ramzy BaroudThere was hardly a Palestinian Left to begin with; they lost the only opportunity that could’ve made them relevant, and now they continue to pander to the status quo, yet posing as the wise ones in an ocean of dim-witted multitudes: the precise definition of intellectual elitism
The Danger Of Rising Print Media
Monopoly In Australia
By Ghali HassanNowhere in the world, has one print media played such a dominant role in people’s lives than the Murdoch Press in Australia. Supported by the Government’s policies of serving big business and hunger for power, Australia’s print media has become the most monopolistic in the ‘Western World’. Print media monopoly constitutes great danger to free thought and democracy, a frightening reminder of fascist dictatorships in Europe
Seize The Moment
By David TruskoffTime for you the young people of America to create your own Progressive Party and create a system that will work for all the people. Seek out a leader and perhaps you can save the soul of America
Labeling Terrorists
By Ram PuniyaniOne just hopes that the major powers of the World put an end to attacking one country after the other, Afghanistan, Iraq, and threatening Iran on permanent basis, stop the atrocities on the people of those countries, and the sectarian violence is stopped here in India, so that the likes of Dr. Mohammad Haneef and Dr. Sabeel Ahmad do their profession of saving lives rather than undertaking the things which take the lives of innocents
07 July, 2007
Over 6 Million Face Food Insecurity In Afghanistan
By IRIN NewsThree out of 10 Afghans suffer from chronic food insecurity, which badly affects the health and well-being of the estimated 27-million nation, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Slouching Toward A Palestinian Holocaust
By Richard FalkIt is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust.'
The United States Of Israel
By Margaret KimberleyThe 4th of July is supposed to be a celebration of U.S. independence. But no one can honestly claim that the U.S. is independent of Israel and its immensely powerful domestic lobby
Al-Qaeda In Iraq Bush's Creation
By Bill GallagherBin Laden never had any kind of relationship with Saddam, but many intimates of our president did. So far, they have been able to choke the life out of that truth
Senator Specter Fights For Constitution
By Joel S. HirschhornOn the Friday before July 4 Republican Senator Arlen Specter showed his respect for the U.S. Constitution and his anger about President Bush’s repeated pissing on it by introducing the Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007. What happens to this crucial bill will test both congressional integrity and courage
Mela Chamliyal - Yet To Become
A Testimonial Of Friendship
By Syed Junaid HashmiStanding barely at a distance of 600 yards from the shrine of Baba Chamliyal, 11 year old Shifa Fatima, daughter of an officer of Pakistan Rangers' wonders, why she cannot visit the shrine of the saint whose martyrdom signifies irrelevance of boundaries. She questions the building trust between India and Pakistan saying that if both the countries are trying to be triumphant over each other's heart, then why she cannot cross over and interact with children from this side
06 July, 2007
A Message From The Melting Slopes Of Everest
By Cahal Milmo & Sam RelphFifty-four years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to scale Everest, their sons have said the mountain is now so ravaged by climate change that they would no longer recognise it
Australian Defence Minister Admits Oil
A Key Factor Behind Iraq Occupation
By Patrick O’ConnorAustralia’s Minister for Defence Brendan Nelson yesterday acknowledged that maintaining control over Iraq’s vast oil reserves was a critical factor behind the ongoing US-led occupation. His comments came just before Prime Minister John Howard delivered a major foreign policy address, similarly stressing the need to ensure “energy security” amid growing “great power competition” in the Middle East
Israeli Forces Kill Six In Gaza Camp offensive
By Palestinian Centre for Human RightsIsraeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed six activists of the Palestinian resistance and have wounded four others and six civilians, including two children and a journalist, in the context of an offensive on al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip that has been ongoing since Thursday morning, 5 July 2007. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, IOF have prevented Palestinian medical crews from attending the wounded
Under Sustained US Pressure, Iraqi Cabinet
Sends Oil Law To Parliament
By James CoganIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went before the media on Tuesday to announce that his cabinet had “unanimously” approved US-backed draft legislation covering the future development of Iraq’s vast oil resources. The parliament, he declared, would begin debating the oil law the following day. He trumpetted his achievement as a key step towards finalising the “most important law in Iraq”
Killing 15,000 Iraqis Every Month
By Michael SchwartzA state-of-the-art research study published in October 12, 2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal) concluded that—as of a year ago—600,000 Iraqis had died violently due to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39 months of the war was just about 15,000 per month. That wasn’t the worst of it, because the death rate was increasing precipitously, and during the first half of 2006 the monthly rate was approximately 30,000 per month, a rate that no doubt has increased further during the ferocious fighting associated with the current American surge
Files: Focus On The Presidents Who Ordered
Each Specific CIA Crime Against Humanity
By Jay JansonThese U.S. presidents, were presented in media as jovial, pleasant, charming, law abiding citizens as honest as the day is long in their characters, and smiling to us on TV, all the while they were deceitfully engaged in criminal activity world wide
Strike The Root
By Sheila SamplesRecently, Nova M Radio's Mike Malloy suggested the lethargy that appears to have descended on the American people is more "rage fatigue" than a lack of knowledge or comprehension of the damage wrought by this administration. I agree, although for many of us, rather than fatigue, it's more an inability to "focus" on any single atrocity about which to be enraged. There are just too many incoming horrors at any one time. We are in the throes of a national paralysis
Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit OfPersonal Gratification:
“Here There Be Monsters”
By Jason MillerAs long as greed, self-absorption, selfishness, and consumerism are so deeply woven into our sociocultural fabric, we who comprise the collective in the United States will exist as a living testament to Victor Hugo’s observation that, “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
Racists
By Pranoti Chirmuley'RACISTS' concerns about the West's obsession with proving the supremacy of a particular race during the early 18th and 19th century
Marxism And The New Synthesis In Moral Psychology
By Thomas RigginsJonathan Haidt, of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, has an important article in the May 18, 2007 issue of Science ("The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology." Since we live in a time of rampant amorality (to say nothing of immorality) in government and civil society, I think a review of this article will further advance a study of the role of Marxist thinking in our times
Extreme Solutions
By Zia-Ur-RehmanThe role of TNSM in Talibanising the Malakand -- a journey into history up to the present times
Protecting Culture Or Fishing In Troubled Waters?
By Prasanna RatnayakeAs books are no longer the main means of circulating modern culture, the attack is now on cinema. We are forced, or at least inclined to conclude that the methods of fascism have not changed greatly since the last century
Despite Years Of Turmoil Sufism
Still Holds Sway In Doda
By Renu Bhran & Syed Junaid HashmiAsk people in district Doda, they would tell you that being an area where Sufism has been thriving from centuries, possibility of communities getting engaged in religious, regional, racist and gender conflicts are meager. Despite changing times, Sufism continues to enjoy supremacy in district Doda
04 July, 2007
Global Warming: A Sudden Change Of State
By George MonbiotThe IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59cm this century. James Hansen’s paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn’t fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at the poles does not melt in a gradual and linear fashion, but flips suddenly from one state to another. When temperatures increased to 2-3 degrees above today’s level 3.5 million years ago, sea levels rose not by 59 centimeters but by 25 meters. The ice responded immediately to changes in temperature
Call Out The Instigator
By Cindy SheehanI’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon —and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in. I can’t sit back and let this BushCo drag our country further down into the murky quagmire of Fascism and violence, taking the rest of the world with them!
The Freeing Of Lewis Libby: Government Criminality
And The Class Nature Of American “Justice”
By Bill Van AukenThe decision of the Bush White House to commute the jail sentence of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby is a telling demonstration of both the criminal character of the US government and the inequality that pervades American society
When Presidents Pardon Their Own Crimes
By David SwansonNow is the moment for members of the public to act. Go to your Congress Member's office. Sit down. Read the U.S. Constitution aloud. Do not leave until they take you to jail
Who Am I?
By David TruskoffWhat a wonderful world. All one has to do is go to Israel and become a citizen, get a bonus, bulldoze down someone else's house and get one built for you for free. You need not worry about the last resident and his children starving because God gave you the land and God is on your side All you have to do is claim to be Jewish
Fourteen Congress Members For Impeachment
By David SwansonCongress is off this week, so your Representative is home making appearances at community events. What a great opportunity to grab a video camera and ask them point blank: what's your excuse for not co-sponsoring H.Res. 333 ? Democrats.com is paying $100 for each "no excuse" video asking a Democrat in the House why (s)he has not co-sponsored H.Res. 333 and recording their response on video
The Air Force vs. Rev. Lennox Yearwood
By Kevin ZeeseAir Force Claims Anti-war Minister, Rev. Lennox Yearwood is a National Security Threat!
Grassroots Movements Change
The Face Of Power In Latin America
By Nadia MartinezAs the people of Latin America build democracies from the bottom up, the symbols of power are changing. What used to be emblems of poverty and oppression - indigenous clothing and speech, the labels "campesino" and "landless worker" - are increasingly the symbols of new power. As people-powered movements drive the region toward social justice and equality, these symbols speak, not of elite authority limited to a few, but of power broadly shared
India-Pakistan; Suspects In Each Others Eyes
By Syed Junaid Hashmi"A joint mechanism on terror has been formed, bus service has been started, Rail services have become operational and people to people contacts have increased yet mistrust, suspicion, skepticism have become a part of such ceremonial meetings between India and Pakistan," said Senior leader of People's Democratic Party Nizamuddin Bhat. He added that these points could become points of emotional integration and help in strengthening the bond of love and liking between the people on the two sides
Kashmir Dialogue Process Needs To Be Broadened
By Wajahat Habibullah & Priyashree AndleyAn interview with India’s Chief Information Commissioner, Wajahat Habibullah, who is also New Delhi’s expert hand on Kashmir affairs
03 July, 2007
Airstrike Leaves Over 100 Dead
In Afghanistan
By Tom CarterLate in the day on June 29, more than a hundred people were killed in a massive US-led airstrike on the village of Hyderabad, located in the Grishk district of the southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan. According to Dur Ali Shah, the mayor of the district, at least 107 people were killed in the attack, which can only be described as a massacre
The Killing Machine
By Fidel CastroThe American empire has created a veritable killing machine that is made up not only of the CIA and its methods. Bush has established powerful and expensive intelligence and security super-structures, and he has transformed all the air, sea and land forces into instruments of world power that take war, injustice, hunger and death to any part of the globe, in order to educate its inhabitants in the exercise of democracy and freedom. The American people are gradually waking up to this reality
Lewis "Scooter" Libby Sentence Commuted
By Stephen LendmanExpeditiously removing a lawless president and vice-president from office is the only remaining hope of restoring the rule of law and showing those in contempt of it won't go unpunished as Mr. Libby has
Reinventing A War Criminal
By Stephen LendmanBased on his sordid war criminal record post-9/11, Tony Blair won't likely have the qualms that got James Wolfensohn to resign his job. He's taking it to reinvent himself, but that's no more likely than convincing carnivores to become vegetarians. He'll first visit Ramallah in the West Bank, showing up as a Trojan horse fooling no one about what's behind his slick-tongued hypocrisy
Enter Turkey
By Paul Craig RobertsPerhaps the clearest indication that the war in Iraq is no longer under American control is Turkey's announcement of plans to invade northern Iraq, the home of the Iraqi Kurds. As June 2007 came to an end, Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul announced that if US or Iraqi forces did not eliminate the Kurdish guerrillas that were attacking Turkey, the Turkish Army would move into northern Iraq to deal with the situation
Injustice In Jena As Nooses Hang
From The "White Tree"
By Bill QuigleyAll White Jury sitting before White Judge agrees with White Prosecutor and All White Witnesses and Convicts Black Youth in Racially Charged High School Criminal Case
Economic Siege Of Gaza Leading
To Humanitarian Crisis
By Palestinian Centre for Human RightsIsraeli Occupation Forces have denied the flow of goods into the Gaza Strip. If IOF continue to close the crossing, the Gaza Strip will soon suffer from a humanitarian crisis as the storages of basic foodstuffs will run out soon. Such crisis will severely impact at least 73 percent of the population who live below the poverty line
Who Will Save Palestine?
By Sonja KarkarIf the leaders cannot do it, then the people themselves and everyone who believes in justice and peace the world over may yet indeed find a way to save Palestine – and not before time
An Open Letter To America:Now Is The Time
For Us To Stand Up And Stand Together
By Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.The power of our voices against the U.S. occupation of Iraq is reaching the top echelons of the military and the administration. Our government is persecuting Americans who speak out against the U.S. military presence in Iraq. The U.S. military has launched politicized attacks on its own military members and moral leaders who oppose the war to discredit their voices of dissent
We Got Mugged,So Let’s Get Hemp Back
King Hemp Part-3
By Rand CliffordProhibition of cannabis hemp was a mugging, a twisted and diabolical assault on the rights, health and well-being of Americans unparalleled in our history for sheer scope of lasting impact. Never has brazen self interest cost so many people so much for so long. And the number of entrenched industries with profits threatened by hemp have greatly multiplied in number, and political influence
Madhya Pradesh: Water Becoming
Reason Of `Civil War'
By Sachin Kumar JainBhopal is considered the worst endemic city for gastroenteritis in the country and in 22 districts the amount of fluorides in water is above permissible limits. As per a study, 16000 children in Seoni district and 120 villages in Guna district are affected the flourosis. Children do not get clean drinking water in about 30118 schools
02 July, 2007
Massacre In Baghdad’s Sadr City
By Patrick MartinIn one of the largest raids into the largely Shiite Sadr City district of eastern Baghdad, US forces killed some 26 people and detained another 17, according to an announcement by a military spokesman Saturday. The early-morning raid produced an explosion of violence, with US tanks and helicopters opening fire in the densely populated working-class neighborhood and destroying both vehicles and entire buildings
"Abu Henry" And The Mysterious Silence
By Robert Fisk"Abu Henry" says we may have to remain in Afghanistan for decades to protect Afghans from the Taliban. Our ambassador in Kabul--Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, KCMG, LVO, to be precise--apparently sees no contradiction in this extraordinary prediction
A Dark Summit
By Uri AvneryThe declared task of Blair is to "strengthen Abbas". Woe to the task. Woe to Blair. Woe in particular to Abbas
Finding Lessons In Gaza's Bloodshed
By Ramzy BaroudThe Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and new, and while some of its elements are uniquely Palestinian, much of it was manufactured at the behest of US-Israeli intelligence and governments
Should Spanish Toops Be Withdrawn From Lebanon?
By Agustin VellosoMr. Zapatero desires an impossible miracle: that Spanish troops in Lebanon serve "the cause of peace and solidarity", as he stated in the Spanish Congress, while at the same time selling weapons to Israel, joining Israel in military maneuvers, and playing along with the American policy in the region. Many Spaniards don't know what UNIFIL represents and what relations Spain has with Israel, but it is certain that Arabs do know and are displeased by it
Blair's Future Is Brown
By Mohammad KamaaliThe day a war criminal becomes an envoy of peace is an Orwellian nightmare having come true, and a wake up call to us all
Put Away The Flags
By Howard ZinnOn this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed
Independence Day Hypocrisy
By Stephen LendmanOn this "independence day" and all others, think of them and our own deprived millions at home. Then imagine a future time free of that condition because enough people mobilized to change things bettering everyone. That would be something worth giving thanks for and celebrating
The Palestinian Hamas –
Vision, Violence, And Coexistence
By Jim MilesThe Palestinian Hamas presents a sympathetic portrait of the movement, a movement with surprising – again the word – flexibility and a high degree of democracy, counter to the western Orientalist view that Islam cannot be democratic. It is a tightly written narrative, focussing almost exclusively on the Hamas, and introducing components of Israeli action and ideology, and that of the PLO, only as necessary for understanding Hamas itself
This Is Not A Story About Binayak Sen
By Subhash GatadeThis is not a story of the fifty plus Children's doctor Binayak Sen from Raipur, Chattisgarh who is at present languishing in jail under draconian provisions of a law which has declared him a 'terrorist' because he had the courage to speak truth to power
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