31 January, 2005
"Dangerous"
Global Warming Possible By 2026
By Alister Doyle
World temperatures could surge in just two decades
to a threshold likely to trigger dangerous disruptions to the earth's
climate, the WWF environmental group said on Sunday
Iraq Elections
Set Stage For Deeper Crisis
By Patrick Martin
Even the combined propaganda powers of the US government
and the corporate-controlled media machine cannot transform an election
held at gunpoint and under military occupation into a genuinely democratic
event
Hollow Election
Held On Bloody Sunday
By Dahr Jamail
Many Iraqis who had intended to vote stayed indoors
as gunfire echoed around the downtown area of Baghdad. Mortar attacks
on polling stations continued through the day
The Shia Will
Inherit Iraq
By Robert Fisk
Shias are about to inherit Iraq, but the election
that will bring them to power is creating deep fears among the Arab
kings and dictators of the Middle East that their Sunni leadership is
under threat
A Dalit Experience At WSF
By Zeynep Toufe
The experiences of a woman activist who participated
a dalit panel discussion at WSF
Oil Market Looks
Volatile Through 2005
By Adam Porter
A combination of events seem destined to maintain
high prices and market volatility throughout 2005
Israel's
Fantasy Stands In The Way Of Peace
By Saree Makdisi
The recent election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new
President of the Palestinian Authority has renewed speculation that
2005 will bring genuine peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Insofar
as it depends on Israel's own intentions, however, such hope is entirely
misplaced
28 January, 2005
Iraq
Election: A Travesty Of Democracy
By James Cogan
Millions of Iraqis will refuse to vote on Sunday,
not because of fear, but because they understand the election to be
a sham designed to give a democratic gloss to an illegal
neo-colonial occupation
Some See Hope,
Others Civil War
By Dahr Jamail
Some Iraqis are hoping for a new unity following
elections on Jan. 30, but others seem convinced that existing divisions
will increase, leading possibly to civil war
Iraqi Democrats
Can't Win
In This Desperate Election
By Jonathan Steele
Sunday's election will show that you can manage
to hold an election in the midst of an insurgency. It will therefore
be hailed as a logistical and democratic triumph. But it will not solve
Iraq's central problem: how to restore the country's sovereignty
Criminals The
Lot Of Us
By Scott Ritter
The invasion of Iraq was a crime of gigantic proportions,
for which politicians, the media and the public share responsibility
Rise Of Dalit
Assertion Is The First Sign Of
Defeat Of Brahmanical System
By V.B.Rawat
Tsundurs Dalits set an example for others
to emulate in their fight against the tyranny of the upper castes
Calamity And
Prejudice
By Subhash Gatade
All of us have been witness as well participant
in the campaign to help the victims of Tsunami at some level or the
other. But it is a moot question why Tsunami faced by the dalits
daily has escaped our attention till date
27 January, 2005
Global
Warming Is 'Twice As Bad'
By Steve Connor
Global warming might be twice as catastrophic as
previously thought reveals a new study
The Denial Lobby
By Bob May
The climate change denial lobby - funded by the
US oil industry - has now moved to the UK
Here Comes The
Freedom
By Dahr Jamail
Whereas Baghdad is filled with Fallujah refugees,
now villages and smaller cities on the outskirts of Baghdad are filling
up with election refugees
24 January, 2005
Countdown
To Global Catastrophe
By Michael McCarthy
The global warming danger threshold for the world
is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be
published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached
it already
Warming Approaching
Point Of No Return
By Geoffrey Lean
Global warming has already reached the level of
dangerous concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and should
make immediate and "very deep" cuts in the pollution if humanity
is to "survive"
Iraqis Discuss
Voting, Or Not,
In Elections Held Amidst Chaos
By Dahr Jamail and Brian Dominick
With confusion, obscurity and disarray defining
the lead up to Iraqs elections, even people who have not decided
to boycott or stay away in fear of violence have a reason to dismiss
participation in the Jan. 30 polls
The Invasion
Of Falluja: A Study
In The Subversion Of Truth
By Mary Trotochaud and Rick McDowell
The illegal invasion, occupation, and subsequent
violence perpetrated on the people of Iraq has lent considerable evidence
to the assertion that truth is the first casualty of war
19 January, 2005
Condy
Rice Names 'Outposts Of Tyranny'
By BBC
Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush's nominee
as secretary of state, has identified "outposts of tyranny"
where the US must help bring freedom. They are Cuba, Iran, North Korea,
Zimbabwe, Burma and Belarus
Car Bombs
By Dahr Jamail
In a span of just 90 minutes five car bombs detonated
in Baghdad killing at least 26 people
Odd Happenings
In Fallujah
By Dahr Jamail
In the center of the Julan Quarter they are
removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the
homes that were bombed are left as they were. The military use bulldozers
to push the soil into piles and load it onto trucks to carry away
Open-Source Biology
Evolves
By David Cohn
To push research forward, scientists need to draw
from the best data and innovations in their field. Much of the work,
however, is patented, leaving many academic and nonprofit researchers
hamstrung. But an Australian organization advocating an open-source
approach to biology hopes to free up biological data without violating
intellectual property rights
Police Repression
In Kashipur
The Fishing Community in India Protest Against
Police Repression on Adivasis in Orissa
18 January, 2005
Iraq
Violence Spreads To 'Safe' Areas
By Rory McCarthy & Brian Whitaker
Insurgents in Iraq intent on derailing elections
due in less than two weeks stepped up a campaign of violence across
the country yesterday, claiming dozens more lives in shootings and car
bombings
Destroying Babylon
By Dahr Jamail
US has failed to take into account the requirements
of the Hague convention ... to protect major archaeological sites. So
Babylon is being destroyed. Along with the Iraqi people
Not Even Saddam Could
Achieve The
Divisions This Election Will Bring
By Robert Fisk
The greatest threat to "democracy" is
that with four provinces containing around half the population of Iraq
in a state of insurgency and many of its towns under rebel control,
this election is going to widen the differences between Sunnis, Shias
and Kurds in a way that not even Saddam Hussein was able to achieve
Hotel Journalism
Gives American Troops A Free Hand
By Robert Fisk
"Hotel journalism" is the only way to
describe it. More and more, Western reporters in Baghdad are reporting
from their hotels rather than the streets of Iraq's towns and cities
US 'Making Secret
Plans To Attack Iran'
By Rupert Cornwell
Seymour Hersh, the journalist who uncovered the
Abu Ghraib prison scandal, reports in The New Yorker magazine that the
Pentagon has been conducting secret reconnaissance of potential target
sites inside Iran
17 January, 2005
Sharon Orders
Unlimited Operations
By Aljazeera
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given orders
for troops to carry out unlimited operations against Palestinian fighters
in the Gaza Strip
The Tsunami Of Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
Nobody knows who these dead people are. The coolers
are full. Others are full too, in the other hospitals. He finishes and
begins to pray as I start my shower, trying to wash the bodies away.
It helps, some.But its the eyes that got me. And they wont
go away
Collective Punishment
By Dahr Jamail
I just phoned the military press office in Baghdad
and asked them if they can provide me information on why they are blocking
roads, firing weapons, plowing down date palm groves, and cutting electricity
in the Al-Arab Jubour Village in Al-Dora, as several of the residents
there claim.The spokesman, who wont give me his name, said he
knew nothing about such things, but that there were ongoing security
operations in the Al-Dora area
The Phantom
Weapons...
By Baghdad Burning
The weapons never existed. It's like having a loved
one sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit- having your country
burned and bombed beyond recognition
My Return To Baghdad
By Robert Fisk
The brush fires are already being lit but fear
not, Bush and Blair will tell us they knew things would get violent
on polling day
Pakistan Shows The
Way
By Salil Kader
Pakistan Supreme Court recently banned serving
of meals at hotels, clubs and marriage halls for marriage ceremonies
in an effort to curb ostentatious expenditure and give relief to poor
people
Rehanas
Fight
By V.B.Rawat
Rehana Khan, a 37 years old social activist in
the Gangoh block of Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, face one of
the toughest battle of her life. Her social battles against orthodoxy
are in no way less than the battle for her rights in her own family
15 January, 2005
Sharon
Cuts Links To Abbas
By Donald Macintyre
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, ordered
a halt to all contacts with the Palestinian Authority yesterday after
the bombing and shooting attack in Gaza which killed six Israeli terminal
workers and three Palestinians
Human Rights Watch
Indicts Israel
By Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch in its "World Report 2005"
severly indicts Israel for its human rights violations in Occupied palestine
The Facade Of
Arab Passivity Will Fall
By Ghali Hassan
The heroic Iraqi resistance stands in stark contrast
to the cowardly self-styled and US-installed Arab leaders. The Arab
peoples are unlikely to remain passive, artificially divided and undeveloped.
The façade will fall soon, and the Arab peoples will be free
of despotism and imperialism
The Challenge
Of Change
By Crispin Tickell
Climate change will force us to rethink the fundamental
precepts on which we base our societies
Crackdown In Aceh
Continues
By Allan Nairn & Amy Goodman
With Tsunami death toll in Indonesia possibly rising
over 200,000, military crackdown In Aceh continues
Death And Life In
the Andaman Islands
By Gary Leupp
Five aboriginal tribes inhabiting the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands, our last missing link with early civilisation ,
have emerged unscathed from the tsunamis because of their age old 'warning
systems
14 January, 2005
US
Prepares "Salvador Option" For Iraq
By Bill Van Auken
Faced with intractable and growing armed resistance
in Iraq, the Pentagon has drafted plans for the organization of death
squads to assassinate political opponents of the US military occupation
and terrorize the civilian population
A Restless Calm
By Dahr Jamail
Baghdad feels restless during this calm
time. There is an expectant energy in the air as the days tick off leading
to January 30th. Its as if we are all waiting for the bombs and
fierce clashes to kick off at anytime
We Won't Go Home
And We Won't Vote
By Robert Fisk
They live beneath old fly-blown tents in the car-park
of the Mustafa mosque and their canvas-roofed kitchen stands next to
a pool of raw sewage, but the refugees from Fallujah will not return
home.And they are very definitely not going to vote in the January 30
elections
A global Gulag
For You
By Jonathan Steele
Bush is now thinking of building jails abroad to
hold suspects for life
13 January, 2005
Fear
Stalks Baghdad
By Robert Fisk
Baghdad is a city of fear. Fearful Iraqis, fearful
militiamen, fearful American soldiers, fearful journalists
City Of Ghosts
By Ali Fadhil
What really happened in the siege of Falluja? In
a joint investigation for the Guardian and Channel 4 News, Iraqi doctor
Ali Fadhil compiled the first independent reports from the devastated
city, where he found scores of unburied corpses, rabid dogs - and a
dangerously embittered population
Iraq Fighting
Belies Bush's Claim
By Scott Taylor
Despite the inability of the American troops and
Iraqi security forces to quell the violence, Iraq's Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi and his cabinet have repeatedly committed themselves to meeting
the 30 January election deadline
Trapped
Like Mice
By Jamal Juma
Palestinians under the new Israeli "Disengagement
Plan"
Why
Boycott Coca Cola
By Mohammed Mesbahi
Coca Colas appalling human rights record,
combined with its high boycott vulnerability ratio make it the ideal
target for a boycott. Max Keiser, investment activist, and Zak Goldsmith,
editor of the Ecologist, have formed a partnership to target Coca Cola
by bringing down the value of its shares
Dalits Fight
Tsunami Daily
By Udit Raj
Caste continues to batter Dalit tsunami victims
in India. Most of the Dalits have not been allowed to share the relief
material like food, shelter, medicine, toilets and others. Dalits are
forced to carry water in plastic bags and are not allowed to use the
water from tanks put up by the UNICEF
12 January, 2005
Palestine
Election: A Travesty Of Democracy
By Jean Shaoul and Chris Talbot
It was unique in the world to have general elections
conducted democratically under foreign military occupation
This Is
Not A Life
By Dahr Jamail
Look at what has become of Baghdad Dahr,
he tells me as the traffic finally begins to inch forward again, All
of us are suffering now. This is not a life.
Abu Ghraib Inmates
Recall Torture
By BBC
A Syrian witness described Specialist Charles Graner
as Abu Ghraib's "primary torturer", and said he was force-fed
pork and alcohol, against Islamic law
Russians Wonder
What's Happened
To "General Winter"
By Oliver Bullough
As snow and ice melt away into puddles of dirty
water months earlier than usual, Russians are asking what's happened
to their once-dreaded winter
1000 Days
Of Hell
By Robert Verkaik
After three years' incarceration, Guantanamo Britons
are set to be freed
How Free Is 'Free
Trade'?
By Ghali Hassan
On the first of January Australia's Free Trade
Agreement (FTA) with the US that could have the effect of undermining
Australia's health care system and Australia's national sovereignty
has come into effect
"The
End Of Suburbia"
By Adam Porter
One of the surprises in the oil world in 2004 was
the success of an underground documentary on the perilous state of world
energy."The End of Suburbia" has sold more than 10,000 DVDs
and has been aired on TV around the world
11 January, 2005
Iraq
Elections Loom As Debacle For Occupation
By James Cogan
The elections in occupied Iraq, scheduled to take
place on January 30, are looming as a political debacle for the Bush
administration. The US objectives are being thwarted by the mass opposition
to the American presence in the country and the entrenched insurgency
against the occupation
Baghdad, As
Usual
By Dahr Jamail
The horrible catastrophe that is occupied Iraq
is getting worse by the day
Gift Of Food
By Vandana Shiva
How to solve the agricultural crisis, the health
crisis and the crisis of poverty
Cry Of Christ
By Dr. Udit Raj
American President George W. Bush is a devout
Christian, but is he up to the mark to the teachings of Christ?
Looking At
India Through African Eyes
By Runoko Rashidi
A travel perspective
10 January, 2005
Yet
Another Historic Day
By Ali Abunimah
Once again, the media and the international peace
process industry have declared that it is an "historic day"
for the Palestinian people. The occasion this time is the election of
Mahmoud Abbas as head of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied territories
The Politics Of Lebanon
By Robert Fisk
How Can Syria Keep Lebanon While Condemning Israel?
The Other, Man-made
Tsunami
By John Pilger
The west's crusaders, the United States and Britain,
are giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a Stealth
bomber or a week's bloody occupation of Iraq
The USA And The
El Salvador Elections Of 2004
By James A. Lucas
The reputation of the U.S. as a nation that promotes
democracy in other nations has been tarnished by its behavior in the
election in El Salvador
On The Passing
Of Susan Sontag
By Am Johal
We are all diminished with the passing of Susan
Sontag
Communalism
2004
By Ram Puniyani
2004 was a year that saw tremendous set back for
hate driven Hindutwa politics in India
Non-Reportage
Of Mass Murder
By Gideon Polya
The latest updated UNICEF report (December 2004)
reveals massive under-5 infant mortality in Occupied Iraq and Occupied
Afghanistan totalling over 0.4 million for the year 2003. However Anglo-American-dominated
global media will simply not report this horrendous mortality in these
US-occupied countries
The
State Of The World's Children
By Jeremy Lovell
Globally, 640 million children had no adequate
shelter, 500 million had no sanitation, 400 million had no access to
safe water, 270 million had no access to health care services, 140 million
had never been to school and 90 million were starving
Hedge
Fund To Target Coca-Cola
By Adam Porter
American Max Keiser has teamed up with some other
"high net worth individuals" to create a boycott-based financial
assault on Coca-Cola
Fallujah Pictures
By Dahr Jamail
Two weeks ago someone was allowed into Fallujah
by the military to help bury bodies. They were allowed to take photographs
of 75 bodies, in order to show pictures to relatives so that they might
be identified before they were buried. Here are the pictures
Somebody
Has To Do It"
By Dahr Jamail
While billions of US taxpayer dollars have been
awarded in lucrative contracts to companies such as Bechtel and Halliburton
subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root, there are few signs that any reconstruction
has actually taken place in war torn Iraq