San Francisco Chronicle: Beirut suffers worst fighting since civil war 2008-05-09

The conflict began after trade unions went on strike over wages. Quickly seen as an opposition strike, pro-government groups took to the streets to counter Shiite protesters, who blocked the main road to the airport with burning tires and garbage, forcing its closure.

World Socialist Web Site: Lebanon on brink of civil war 2008-05-09

The conflict brings to a head a 17-month stand-off between the US- and Saudi-backed government and Hezbollah, which has the support of Iran and Syria. Lebanon’s presidential election has been postponed 18 times.

Positive Universe Abstracts: Superdelegates must follow the will of voters 2008-05-09

Color of Change | Demand that the Democratic Party defend democracy Leaders of the Democratic Party are playing a dangerous game — risking the credibility of the party to hand Hillary Clinton the nomination against the will of voters. Heading down this path means disenfranchising millions of voters and legitimizing a campaign strategy that has displayed a clear...

WKYC-TV: Kucinich gets amendment passed to help areas with rises in vacancies 2008-05-09

Congressman Dennis Kucinich won a passage of an amendment that will target the federal response to the foreclosure crisis on the neighborhoods that ...

Bay Area Indymedia: Eric McDavid's sentenced to 235 months for conspiracy based ... 2008-05-09

IE..if your a witness, you can't watch the court proceedings until after you've testified. IE..Eric' family would have missed Eric's trial had they decided ...

Bay Area Indymedia: CSU East Bay Holds Mock Marriage for Marriage Equality 2008-05-09

On May 8th on the Cal State East Bay (CSUEB) campus, the Queer/Straight Alliance (QSA) sponsored a Mock Marriage for Marriage Equality and a LGBT Resource ...

Indymedia UK: Direct Action: UK, Italy, Mexico & Germany 2008-05-09

"Modena, Italy - During the night of April 25th (63rd national day in memory of the liberation of the country from Nazi- fascist dictatorship) we put ...

Huffington Post: It's Time Again To Push The Electorate's Fear Button 2008-05-09

Right now in Washington, DC, civil liberties activists have built a coalition that spans the political spectrum from left to right.

PR-Inside.com News: Russian tanks take part in Red Square parade for first time since ... 2008-05-09

But he said áwe must not allow contempt for the norms of international law . Russia has consistently criticized both the US-led war in Iraq and wide Western ...

PR-Inside.com News: National Australia Bank reports 25.8 percent rise in 1st half net ... 2008-05-09

© AP SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - National Australia Bank Ltd. said Friday its first half net profit rose 25.8 percent over the same period last year ...

PR-Inside.com News: Millicom International Cellular: Millicom Proposes New Board Directors 2008-05-09

Mr Allen Sangines-Krause worked for Goldman Sachs between 1993 and 2007, working in a variety of senior positions from COO for Latin America based in Mexico ...

PR-Inside.com News: AMERICAS NEWS AT 0500 GMT 2008-05-09

Barack Obama , meanwhile, was reaching out to top Democrats who could help seal a historic nomination well within his grasp. AP Photos.

PR-Inside.com News: WORLD at 0400 GMT 2008-05-09

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba _ A frustrated military judge vows to suspend the war-crimes trial of a Canadian detainee unless the Guantanamo Bay ...

World War 4 Report: 200 Tibetan protesters arrested in Nepal 2008-05-09

Some 300 Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist monks and nuns, tried to storm the Chinese Embassy in Nepal May 8, kicking the metal gates and throwing banners inside the fortified compound before police pushed them back. More than 200 were detained.

World War 4 Report: Pakistan: Taliban leader pulls out of talks 2008-05-09

The peace talks were aimed at making permanent a five-week lull in a wave of suicide attacks that has killed more than 1000 people in Pakistan since ...

World War 4 Report: Ecuador accuses Colombia of extrajudicial executions 2008-05-09

Colombia's military committed "crimes against humanity" when it shot three people in the back and killed a man with a blow to the head during the March 1 ...

World War 4 Report: Colombia extradites paramilitary leader 2008-05-09

Colombia has for the first time extradited an imprisoned paramilitary leader to the US to face drug-trafficking charges. Bogotá agreed to the extradition ...

World War 4 Report: El Paso passes resolution against border wall 2008-05-09

A cooperative agreement between the county and the Department of Homeland Security calls for the county's flood control district to pay $48.2 million of ...

Contra Costa Times: Morris' 'Standard Operating Procedure' personalizes Abu Ghraib ... 2008-05-09

What emerges is a picture of impressionable young soldiers who turned a blind eye to the crimes occurring around them but eventually ë in a Mideast versi ...

Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times Friday letters 2008-05-09

With Obama leading with elected delegates and the popular votes, the party leaders and superdelegates would have to side with Obama or risk a completely ...

Contra Costa Times: Cell phones as doctors' tools 2008-05-09

Antonio Hernandez of the World Health Organization said places like Latin America and the Caribbean where there are large, remote expanses of land with very ...

Contra Costa Times: North Korea turns over documents on its plutonium program 2008-05-09

By Bay Fang WASHINGTON ë North Korea provided the US a "significant number of documents" on its plutonium program this week, the State Department ...

Contra Costa Times: Rice loss may spur import demand 2008-05-09

"This is a country blessed for growing rice," says Duncan Macintosh, a spokesman for the Philippine-based International Rice Research Institute.

News Hounds: Dick Morris Baselessly Accuses Barack Obama Of Wanting To Provide ... 2008-05-09

Morris said, í Barack Obama says that he wants to cover all uninsured Americans (Morris made quotation marks with his fingers as he said the word ...

BlueOregon: Obama takes the Hill: A view from inside guest column 2008-05-09

The reason was immediately apparent: members of the media had their noses pressed against windows in the door gazing at Barack Obama as he was slowly moving ...

Guardian Unlimited: A dangerous strategy 2008-05-09

Months later, the Bush administration set another dangerous strategy in motion that its local proxies were similarly not prepared for: the violent overthrow ...

guardian.co.uk: Obama makes clearest hint that Clinton could be running mate 2008-05-09

He also met with members of Congress who remain among the uncommitted Democratic superdelegates , hoping to win over enough to clinch the nomination.

The Observer: Inflated claims 2008-05-09

... Korea, Mexico , Hungary, Peru , the Philippines, Slovakia, Indonesia, Romania, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Australia, Iceland, and Norway.

AlterNet: Drive 800 Miles or Feed a Person for a Year? The Biofuels Dilemma 2008-05-09

... that "Third world food shortages are largely due to political and social issues such as poverty, government corruption , and inefficient distribution .

ZNet: Our Eyes & Dreams of Home 2008-05-09

Accompanying this are the connections made between the original refugees and their grandchildren, passing on their memories, but more importantly their ...

ZNet: Our Eyes & Dreams of Home 2008-05-09

Accompanying this are the connections made between the original refugees and their grandchildren, passing on their memories, but more importantly their ...

Online Journal: One Bolivia, white and wealthy 2008-05-09

Thus Central America and South America exploded into the fragments of tiny nations. This fragmentation was convenient for the nascent empires of ...

Online Journal: The mouse that roared: Georgia's Saakashvili trying to provoke Russia 2008-05-09

Georgia, unlike Turkey , has not even a fraction of its territory in Europe. So Saakashvili seems determined to show the world that not only is N ...

Online Journal: Another American war -- look out, earth 2008-05-09

Ban Ki-Moon supports Walsh by reversing the causality of global warming. He sees global warming as the problem and when solved many other problems í ...

ReliefWeb (press release): Southern Chad relatively stable despite influx of refugees, says UN 2008-05-09

A good level of security prevails in southern Chad , despite concerns over road banditry and an influx of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR)

ReliefWeb (press release): Canada offers disaster assistance response team in aftermath ... 2008-05-09

'Earlier today,' said Minister Bernier, 'I spoke with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and reconfirmed Canada's support and willingness to help.

OregonLive.com: Ad watch: US Senate race - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

Both candidates have fairly similar views on the big issues, such as ending the war in Iraq and providing universal health care . Merkley has sought to make ...

OregonLive.com: DeFazio throws support to Obama - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

All these elected officials are superdelegates who automatically attend the Democratic convention and can vote for whomever they want.

OregonLive.com: The political is personal for Havana-born Garcia - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

Garcia visited Cuba for the first time as an adult in 1984 and went back several times in the 1990s. "The first time it was strictly family," she say ...

OregonLive.com: Oregon candidates avoid Project Vote Smart questionnaire - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

... issues questions put out by Project Vote Smart, the national research group founded by political luminaries such as Jimmy Carter and John McCain.

OregonLive.com: DeFazio throws his support to Obama - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

Barack Obama , putting the Illinois politician one delegate closer to the presidential nomination. DeFazio said that Obama, who will begin a two-day campaign ...

OregonLive.com: Sea lion cages at dam outside surveillance sight - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

Real-time data maintained by the US Geological Survey shows that the water level below Bonneville Dam, where the cages were located, dropped more than four ...

OregonLive.com: Merkley, Novick fight to take on Smith - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

Kathleen, 50-something, believes Novick will work toward tax equity and will treat women's rights and education with the respect they deserve for our ...

Antiwar.com: Survey: Israelis Believe Another War Is Coming 2008-05-09

The survey found similar attitudes among Israel's Arab population. But the War and Peace Index, which polls 600 people and has been conducted every month ...

Antiwar.com: Another Needless Confrontation 2008-05-09

Over the last 15 years Washington has twice forcibly removed governments of Haiti . Washington had its reasons and wouldn't have reacted well to ...

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Saudis are Gulf's most frequent global travellers 2008-05-09

Outside the Gulf, two-thirds of respondents in Egypt said they had visited one country in the last twelve months. The other third said they had visited ...

Center for Research on Globalization: FBI Loses National Security Letter Case Against Internet Archive 2008-05-09

After a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in federal district court in ...

AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Probes - FG'll Prosecute Culprits, Says Aondoakaa 2008-05-09

Aondoakaa said the government was planning to establish special courts to try corruption and financial crimes offenders, adding that government would not ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: The Other Kinds of Silences 2008-05-09

When Collin Powell gave his infamous presentation to the United Nations, "proving" Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Iraq dominated ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Arrest of Human Rights Lawyer On Politically-Motivated ... 2008-05-09

"The ruling party's continuing brutality against the opposition makes a mockery of the runoff vote," said Gagnon. "The arrest of a leading human right ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: MDC Still Discounting Run-Off Election 2008-05-09

THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said on Thursday that it is still not planning to participate in a presidential run-off electi ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: MDC-T Violence Remains Unreported, Says Minister 2008-05-09

... said that incidents of violence by the Movement for Democratic Change (Tsvangirai) remain unreported as the media remains hostile to the ruling party .

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Mbeki Arrives for Talks 2008-05-09

Mamoepa did not say whether President Mbeki will hold discussions with Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai who is believed to ...

AllAfrica.com: South Africa: The Poor Fly Under the Solar Water Heating Radar 2008-05-09

Brazil may point the way for introducing solar water heating on a large scale for low cost housing. Earlier this year, the National Agency for Electrical ...

AllAfrica.com: Angola: Irish Rock Star Geldof Riles Tempers 2008-05-09

Their interests extend to off-shore banks in the British Virgin Islands, their base for doing business in Latin America, especially Brazil and Paraguay ...

International Middle East Media Center: PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 35 wounded in Israeli ... 2008-05-09

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 30 April- 07 May 2008, 9 Palestinians, including a wom ...

CASMII: The Iran Consensus Grows More Dangerous 2008-05-09

First, a little history on American nuclear policy: Even during the Persian Gulf War, when the nuclear strategy of the Cold War was fresh and Saddam Husse ...

CASMII: Iran resolution goes to Evanston City Council 2008-05-09

In the past, the city has approved resolutions on national issues, including opposition to the war in Iraq, calling for repeal of the USA Patriot Act ...

Trinidad & Tobago Express: Over $100 billion in regional investments 2008-05-09

There is now the basic human right where all human rights say they have the right to travel." He said the new investments, coupled with the commitment ...

Trinidad & Tobago Express: President Obama 2008-05-09

Reversing the Bush administration's assault on the constitutional rights of American citizens and the human rights of non-Americans - closing Guantanamo ...

BBC News: Ethnic groups 'get on together' 2008-05-09

The research , conducted by the polling organisation Populus for the social justice charity the Barrow Cadbury Trust, found on average 51% of people claimed ...

BBC News: Afghan meet to restore dialogue 2008-05-09

It agreed that its representatives would meet members of the Taleban and Hezb-e-Islami groups to lay the ground for peace talks with the government.

BBC News: Fighters shut Lebanon TV station 2008-05-09

Hezbollah gunmen have shut down a pro-government TV station as fighting between the group and supporters of Lebanon's government continued.

BBC News: Burma 'wants aid not foreigners' 2008-05-09

In a statement, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the junta to prioritise the aid effort over tomorrow's nation-wide referendum on a widely-criticised ...

BBC News: Forcing aid to Burma 'incendiary' 2008-05-09

"We believe that the best way forward would be for the junta to provide access, which the whole international community - including Ban Ki-moon [secretary ...

Just International: 'The Post-American World' 2008-05-09

His list includes four companies each from Brazil , Mexico , South Korea , and Taiwan ; three from India ; two from China ; and one each from Argent ...

Just International: Israel at 60: A Perspective from Michael Lerner 2008-05-09

Barack Obama felt that pressure intensely enough to insert in his now-famous speech on race in Philadelphia a line about the real problem in the Middle East ...

Los Angeles Times: Should Hillary quit? A round-up 2008-05-09

Is North Carolina the fat lady that sang for Hillary Clinton? The editorial board suggested that it's finally over for her, and L.A. Times columnist Rosa Brooks called it way back in March. The Hill reports that backs are turning on her.

Washington Post: A Message From Cajun Country 2008-05-09

In an important manifesto published this week in the conservative magazine Human Events, Gingrich warned that "the Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail."

Washington Post: The Nomination Phenomenon 2008-05-09

What the experts are missing is how each candidate has won. In such states as Louisiana and Colorado, and even in the Potomac Primary, Mr. Obama bested Ms. Clinton by margins of 20 or even 30 points -- in the case of the District, 51 points.

Boston Globe: Clinton's future depends on graceful exit 2008-05-09

Her real quest now is not for this year's nomination but rather for an option on the future. In the closing days, she needs to conduct her campaign with that in mind.

RedOrbit: Hezbollah Leader Ends News Conference, Denies Seeking "War" 2008-05-09

Asked if he and the government do not risk dragging Lebanon into a civil war , Nasrallah says that the opposition is the victim and not the aggressors.

World Socialist Web Site: Battle for Haditha: A remarkable film about the Iraq war 2008-05-09

Battle for Haditha is a genuine achievement. Nick Broomfield’s film is an effort to reconstruct the events and circumstances leading up to the massacre of 24 men, women and children by US marines in the Iraqi city of Haditha in November 2005.

HuffingtonPost.com: Katie Hood: An American Center for Cures? 2008-05-09

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Frank Schaeffer: McCain Is A Threat To America: Obama/Clinton Supporters -- and All Sane Americans -- Unite! 2008-05-09

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Obama Camp Faces Major Obstacles In Plan To Help Clinton Pay Off Debt 2008-05-09

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Nancy Gomez: Mother's Day: Hopes, Fears and Plenty of Laughter 2008-05-09

 

HuffingtonPost.com: AIG Reports $7.8 Billion Loss 2008-05-09

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Amy Ephron: America's Favorite 2008-05-09

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Iraqi Military Orders Sadr City Residents To Evacuate 2008-05-09

 

OregonLive.com: Nickel and Dime - The Oregonian 2008-05-09

Washington Post: Where The Wild Cards Are 2008-05-08

The risk of a U.S.-Iranian confrontation is growing in part because Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies in the Middle East are so eager for it. "Behind closed doors, we are praying that the Iranians will make a mistake so that you will have a reason to attack," one Saudi told me this week.

The Tidings: States take up immigration bills; Congress stays on sidelines 2008-05-08

Catholic organizations and religious orders joined with other church groups in signing a letter protesting a bill introduced in Congress that would force immigrant families to live in a detention center until their immigration cases are resolved.

Los Angeles Times: Hillary Clinton's strategy of last resort 2008-05-08

Unable to revive her presidential campaign at the polls, Hillary Rodham Clinton now envisions a road to the nomination built on disputes over Democratic Party rules and fights over delegate selections. But on Wednesday even that route looked unattainable, with some key party officials warning that they would not cooperate with Clinton's strategy.

New York Times: Republicans Focus on Obama as Fall Opponent 2008-05-08

At least one political party is acting like it knows who the Democratic nominee will be: the Republicans, who have greatly stepped up their criticisms of Senator Barack Obama in recent weeks while practically ignoring Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

International Herald Tribune: Clinton gives herself loan and vows to fight on 2008-05-08

With just 217 delegates at stake in the final six contests, Clinton has no realistic chance to overtake Obama's lead in pledged delegates who will help pick the nominee at the August convention. It is also almost impossible for her to catch him in popular votes won in the state-by-state battle for the nomination that began in January.

OregonLive.com: PASTORS AND POLITICS - The Oregonian 2008-05-08

He did this after Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights brought Hagee's remarks to McCain's attention.

OregonLive.com: Erwin for judge in Washington County - The Oregonian 2008-05-08

He signed off on a fundraising letter that took multiple liberties with the truth and that disparaged judges who are former prosecutors.

OregonLive.com: Left turn at Forest Grove - The Oregonian 2008-05-08

So the Zmudzinskis chose a home in Forest Grove that happened to be two doors down from Carol Woodford -- a supporter of Dennis Kucinich , the former ...

OregonLive.com: $400 million for county payments added to Iraq funding bill - The Oregonian 2008-05-08

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee has agreed to add $400 million for county payments to the must-pass Iraq war funding bill ...

OregonLive.com: Student vets in Southern Oregon protest Iraq body count exhibit - The Oregonian 2008-05-08

This exhibit took up just about all of the South Park Blocks through the Portland State University campus. It has moved on to Southern Oregon University.

Stateline.org RSS - Education: By Bill Graves: Bomb threat tests PSU's alert system 2008-05-08

A bomb threat Tuesday triggered the first trial of a new Portland State University emergency alert system and sent warnings to cell phones and computers of thousands of students and staff.

American Muslim: BOOK REVIEW: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and The Struggle ... 2008-05-08

Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews for The Palestine Chronicle.

American Muslim: Pakistan"s Constitutional Shenanigans 2008-05-08

Does a sovereign Parliament have the lawful authority to commission genocide or torture? Following dictates of the Establishment, Musharraf ignored ...

Media Channel: UN Unlearning Intolerance Seminar: "Art Changing Attitudes toward ... 2008-05-08

In previous years, the seminar series featured issues of global importance on themes such as Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, combating genocide , cartooning ...

Arabisto.com: Relief First Not Referendum ê UN Chief on Myanmar Authority 2008-05-08

By Rima Abdelkader United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday in a statement through his spokesperson said the government of Myanmar should ...

Arabisto.com: United Nations Special Envoy Says íNo Tangible Progressì on Lebanon 2008-05-08

Roed-Larsen said UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon would report in further details on the situation in Lebanon in his next report. In response to a question ...

Latin America Press: UN speaks out against biofuels 2008-05-08

Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti , Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic have been the most affected in Latin America, according to the United Nations Food ...

Latin America Press: Solidarity Network program insufficient 2008-05-08

... though data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 2004 revealed that of the 5.9 million Salvadorans, 40.4 percent ...

Latin America Press: Madeira River dams 2008-05-08

The dam project forms part of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) and is located in Brazil in the city ...

Prospects for Peace: Israel at 60 2008-05-08

I don"t often, or ever really, write about my own relationship to Israel or how I ended up there, but I"ll make an exception for the 60 th anniversary.

Politico: 'Deafening silence' from networks on military analysts 2008-05-08

and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) have written to the Government Accountability Office, seeking an investigation into whether the Pentagon aided in connecting ...

Politico: Obama doing a victory lap on House floor 2008-05-08

Y.) and Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) gave him big hugs on the floor. Twice, it looked like Obama was about to leave the chamber, but he got pulled back in ...

Politico: Obamamania sweeps the Hill 2008-05-08

Twice, it looked like Obama was about to leave the chamber, but he got pulled back in by superdelegates ë both committed and uncommitted.

New California Media: Chicago"s Unique Program Makes Teachers Out of Moms 2008-05-08

She is working hard at improving her English language skills. Silva"s challenge is her health. A kidney condition forced her to be on dialysis for three ...

ZNet: The Senator, His Pastor and the Israel Lobby 2008-05-08

For many African Americans, it was intolerable hypocrisy that so many Jewish leaders who staunchly supported Civil Rights and the anti-apartheid movement ...

ZNet: Canada and the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Part 3 of 3 2008-05-08

Instead, with the disaster facing indigenous Palestinians clear to anyone watching, Canadian representatives argued for UN recognition of Israel in ...

NPR: Presidential Candidates Come Out Strong on Iran 2008-05-08

Barack Obama of Illinois, picked up on it immediately, and continued to criticize her for it, most recently on NBC's Meet the Press.

Lebanon: Franjieh insists Hizbullah tried to prevent fighting - Daily Star 2008-05-08

Civil disobedience is a democratic right, and we might resort to it," he added. Franjieh also did not rule out the possibility of the army's division if ...

Lebanon: Israeli tank kills woman during Gaza assault - Daily Star 2008-05-08

An Islamic Jihad fighter was also killed on Wednesday in an air strike by the Jewish state, Hassanin and members of the militant group said.

Media Matters for America: Ignoring his numerous falsehoods, Detroit Free Press reported th ... 2008-05-08

... falsely claimed that Obama "approve[d]" of a meeting between former President Jimmy Carter and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal; falsely claimed that Clint ...

Independent: Comeback champions 2008-05-08

... and a new, media-friendly spirituality. In 2007, he took charge of a task force on prison reform headed by the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Independent: Mad, bad and dangerous to know: Universities play a vital role ... 2008-05-08

Students will learn methods of research, risk-planning and risk-assessment, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and ways of preventing the ever-changing ...

Independent: Hyde Park concert for Mandela's 90th 2008-05-08

Nelson Mandela will travel to London next month for another musical extravaganza to celebrate his 90th birthday and raise awareness of Aids in Africa.

Independent: Diplomatic Licence: Helping Burma 2008-05-08

To my mind, the case of Burma, a country under sanctions, would be more comparable to that of North Korea , where another isolated hardline regime is using ...

The Indypendent: Sleepless in America - Clinton vs. Obama 2008-05-08

His viewpoint and methods were retained and applied in new and imaginative directions by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Richard M. Nixon.

RTE.ie: Judge threatens to halt Guantanamo trial 2008-05-08

A US war court judge has threatened to halt the case of a Canadian terrorist suspect captured at age 15 if the US government fails to turn over records ...

RTE.ie: More journalists detained in Zimbabwe 2008-05-08

As the opposition alleged 30 supporters had now been killed and a union chief said 40000 farmworkers and their dependents made homeless, authorities played ...

Center For American Progress: A New Peace Strategy for Northern Uganda and the LRA 2008-05-08

The three peacekeeping missions in the LRA"s orbitëMONUC in the Democratic Republic of Congo , UNMIS in southern Sudan , and EUFOR in the Central Afric ...

Mother Jones: Loaded for Bear 2008-05-08

He cast the issue as one of economic justice , if not civil rights, saying that the pending ruling would "result in higher energy prices across the board ...

Dissident Voice: Bloch-ing Justice 2008-05-08

by Bill Berkowitz / May 8th, 2008 In early October 2004, five Democratic members of Congress called on President Bush to ítake the necessary actionì ...

Dissident Voice: Anatomy of a Conditionally Unresolved Conflict 2008-05-08

Unlike animals that overcome biological needs by destroying another organic entity, human desire is a desire for recognition. In Hegelian terms, recogniti ...

Dissident Voice: Lebanon on the Brink: Blindsided Hezbollah Mulls its Response 2008-05-08

What is being prepared for the future stage and which coincides with US President George Bush "s tour of the region? Has internal dialogue gone without ...

IRC's Americas Program: Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Repression 2008-05-08

However, the military presence soon provided the first casualtiesë human rights . Not a week had passed since the beginning of the operation when the army ...

ILW.com: SUBJECT: BLANKET WAIVER FOR UNGA SPECIAL SESSION ON HIV/AIDS 2008-05-08

The Department of Homeland Security has exercised discretionary authority under section 212(d)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to grant ...

BuzzFlash: Except for Her Anatomical Features, Clinton is No Feminist. ... 2008-05-08

Would a Feminist have sat back and let the Bush Administration run roughshod through our civil liberties ? Would a Feminist, today, May 8th ...

BuzzFlash: Running as "The Great White Hope," Hillary Clinton Has Alienated ... 2008-05-08

After my first choice ( John Edwards ) left this presidential race, I turned to Barack Obama. It appears that Obama will be the Democratic nominee.

BuzzFlash: Running as "The Great White Hope," Hillary Clinton Has Alienated ... 2008-05-08

After my first choice ( John Edwards ) left this presidential race, I turned to Barack Obama. It appears that Obama will be the Democratic nominee.

BuzzFlash: Didn't vote for Bush in 2000? Arianna Huffington says McCain didn ... 2008-05-08

At least, Arianna Huffington has been reporting from first-hand knowledge that McCain and his wife, Cindy, didn't vote for Bush in 2000.

Village Voice: The Sean Bell Protests in the Papers: Peaceful and Orderly 2008-05-08

Al Sharpton's National Action Network, which included a list of "dos and don'ts" that included "do have valid ID" and "don't be on parole ...

Village Voice: American Idol Week Eleven: Saying Goodbye to Jason Castro 2008-05-08

Syesha Mercado's take on "Proud Mary" was competently obvious, and I flinched hard whenever she tried to equate the civil-rights movement with her own ...

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: In Daghestan, Free Maternity Care Ends With Hospital Closure 2008-05-08

Magomedova set up the hospital in 1994 in a dilapidated former clinic and has treated women from Daghestan as well as nearby Chechnya and North Ossetia.

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Analysis: With Transition, Power In Russia Moves Further Into ... 2008-05-08

This environment will make it more difficult than ever for Putin to pursue his stated goal of combating corruption ; the practice of selective prosecuti ...

AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: I Refuse to Be Silent 2008-05-08

Torture in all its forms is an abomination to human existence, whether perpetrated by the military, war veterans, Zanu-PF or MDC.

AllAfrica.com: Rwanda: Citizens Named to Cecafa Committees 2008-05-08

Justus Mugisha was appointed the chairman of the youth, women and futsal football committee where as Patrick Egwello a delegate from Uganda's Lira district ...

AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Electoral Commission is Well Constituted 2008-05-08

The political crises in Kenya and Zimbabwe should help us reflect on the importance of an impartial electoral commission under a multi-party system ...

AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Akon Performs Tomorrow - Celtel 2008-05-08

Pressed with questions about Akon's cancellation of shows in Kenya and Liberia, Mateo said contractual obligations in those countries were not met.

AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Yes, Uganda Has Lessons to Draw From Kenya 2008-05-08

In the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections in Kenya that took on violent ethnic dimensions, the question arose whether similar post- electi ...

AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Why I Gave Ube Land to Obasanjo - El-Rufai 2008-05-08

Besides, he declared that the demolition of the Asokoro building of Dr. Ahmadu Ali, former chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), was rightly done ...

AllAfrica.com: Tunisia: Olpec Celebrates World Press Freedom Day Against Backdrop ... 2008-05-08

In fact, Boukhdir is paying the price for his reporting on corruption . Other journalists have been forced into exile to escape judicial harassment.

AllAfrica.com: Liberia: New National Free Expression Coalition Launched On World ... 2008-05-08

The Liberia Coalition for Free Expression was launched in Monrovia on 3 May 2008 as part of the activities commemorating World Press Freedom Day.

Monthly Review: Testimony of Marjorie Cohn before the Subcommittee on ... 2008-05-08

What does [the prohibition of] torture have in common with [that of] genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens.

Fight Back! Newspaper: From Basra to Baghdad: Upsurge in anti-occupation fighting sweeps Iraq 2008-05-08

In an act of collective punishment , al-Maliki cordoned off Sadr City from the rest of Baghdad. About 2.5 million Iraqis, mostly poor and working cl ...

International Middle East Media Center: Khalid warns of Israeli decision Police headquarters on to E1 area 2008-05-08

The plan, Khalid said, aims at totally isolating East Jerusalem from its surrounding Arab areas in order to exclude it from the final status peace talks .

International Middle East Media Center: A wounded detainee remains in a bad condition 2008-05-08

Palestinian Human Rights sources reported on Thursday that detainee Israr Al Barghouthi, 30, who was wounded prior to his abduction by the Israeli army ...

International Middle East Media Center: Ban Ki-Moon: problem of Palestinian refugees should be solved 2008-05-08

He criticized what he described the 'Israeli policy of collective punishment ' against the Palestinian people in Gaza for the past 11 months, calling on ...

International Middle East Media Center: Zahhar: íSuleiman to visit Israel next week to receive Israeli ... 2008-05-08

Mahmoud Zahhar, one of the prominent political leaders of Hamas movement, stated on Thursday that Egyptian Intelligence Chief, Omar Suleim ...

Black Voice News: Obama: Closer to Pres. Nomination 2008-05-08

His campaign dropped broad hints it was time for the 270 remaining unaligned superdelegates - party officials who are free to vote as they chose - to take ...

Black Voice News: Election Recommendations for June 3rd 2008-05-08

The county board has played a leadership role in having us be on the cutting edge of going green in the state which will bring new technology and jobs ...

African Path: 2007: A Year of Declining Press Freedom in Africa 2008-05-08

At year"s end, media freedom was under threat in Kenya in the wake of a disputed election and widespread violence that led to the shutdown of media outlets.

Los Angeles Times: Government in secret 2008-05-08

By Russ Feingold The Bush administration recently announced it will allow select members of Congress to read Justice Department legal opinions about ...

International Herald Tribune: Asked whether he wants Obama or Clinton, McCain picks Republic ... 2008-05-08

If he really had a temper problem, McCain said, he would not have been able to work with fellow Democratic senators such as Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold ...

New Richmond News: Squeeze on Wisconsin"s super delegates 2008-05-08

Russ Feingold , both D-Wis.; Feingold employee Paula Zellner; College Democrats" official Awais Khaleel of Madison; and Milwaukee state Sen. Lena Taylor.

UW Badger Herald: Poll finds Wisconsin wants troop withdrawl from Iraq 2008-05-08

Russ Feingold , D-Wis., wrote a letter to the president in late February outlining his concern regarding effects of the War on Terror both in the US ...

Sun-Sentinel.com: Corruption history clouds Indiana county's late tally 2008-05-08

... Russ Feingold , a Wisconsin Democrat; and his friend Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who now is an Independent.

Houston Chronicle: He picks up a signature cause of conservatives with a vow ... 2008-05-08

"And if I had some problem as such as has been described, my friends, I would not be able to work with Joe Lieberman and Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy," he ...

Richmond Times Dispatch: McCain outlines moral goals 2008-05-08

... Russ Feingold , a Wisconsin Democrat; and his friend, Joseph I. Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who now is an independent.

New York Times: McCain Pushes Priorities That Resonate on the Right 2008-05-08

íAnd if I had some problem as such as has been described, my friends, I would not be able to work with Joe Lieberman and Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy,ì he ...

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Baku Angered by US Criticism 2008-05-08

President Bush, in a speech to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 1, underlined the country"s poor record on detention of journalists.

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Georgia: War with Moscow íVery Closeì 2008-05-08

The Georgians are proposing discussions on Saakashvili"s latest peace plan for Abkhazia; measures to stabilise the situation in the security zone th ...

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: ZANU-PF Election Trickery Exposed 2008-05-08

The recount was earlier believed to have been an attempt by President Robert Mugabe to rig the poll . But when it ended, the Movement for Democratic Change ...

PR-Inside.com News: Israel celebrates its 60th with pride, but also uncertainty 2008-05-08

© AP JERUSALEM (AP) - A proud Israel celebrated its 60th independence day with picnics, air force flyovers and parachute jumps Thursday, but the festivitie ...

PR-Inside.com News: Harlem Globetrotters Extend Their Worldwide Record Journey ... 2008-05-08

Future tours will include Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and Central America . Sponsored by Campbell Soup ...

PR-Inside.com News: News - Music, movie, Entertainment EMO GIRL HANGS HERSELF 2008-05-08

The emo movement hit headlines recently after fans were targeted in South America and bullied and tormented for their all-black fashion sense and music ...

PR-Inside.com News: Allis-Chalmers Energy to Participate in the Tristone Capital ... 2008-05-08

We provide services and equipment to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies, domestically primarily in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico ...

PR-Inside.com News: Chinese president says China holds no grudge over history with Japan 2008-05-08

On Wednesday, Hu and Fukuda held a formal summit, pledging to work together on everything from climate change to North Korea to territorial dispute ...

PR-Inside.com News: Obama presses for superdelegate support as Clinton vows to keep ... 2008-05-08

It marked his latest effort to woo Congressional superdelegates after his resounding win in North Carolina's primary, and a narrower than expected loss ...

PR-Inside.com News: Shiite Alliance calls on Shiite extremists to lay down arms, Sadr ... 2008-05-08

Nearly all the weapons fired at the Green Zone come from the area. áWe really hope to block the north and the south,à said Lt. Col.

PR-Inside.com News: Putin returns to political power, becoming premier one day ... 2008-05-08

... speaking in rapid-fire sentences that were exhilarating and exhausting, Putin laid out huge ambitions for the country's economy, decried corruption ...

Union Network International: TRADE UNIONS DEMAND ACTION ON WORLD FOOD CRISIS 2008-05-08

Food riots have already spread to over 14 countries, including Haiti , Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Egypt and dozens of people have died.

Union Network International: Building union power in temp agencies 2008-05-08

They also have no job security, no unfair dismissal rights , no redundancy rights and they are the first to go in downsizing,ì said Sally.

Democracy Now: íTorture Teamì: British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the US military for more than six years. His crime: journalism.

Democracy Now: íTorture Teamì: British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the US military for more than six years. His crime: journalism.

Democracy Now: Former Senator George McGovern Switches Support from Clinton to Obama 2008-05-08

Watch excerpts of the interview. As the media coverage of the Democratic presidential race continues to focus on lapel pins and pastors, America is ailing.

Democracy Now: íEconomic Hit Manì John Perkins Recounts US Efforts to Block ... 2008-05-08

He is the author of the íThe Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption .

Democracy Now: Burma Cyclone Toll Could Top 100000 2008-05-08

At the White House, the veteran correspondent Helen Thomas questioned Press Secretary Dana Perino about the killing of innocent Iraqis.

Blackvoices: 50 Shots Reverberate Around NYC 2008-05-08

Darlene (she didn't want to give her last name) captured the state of mind of New Yorkers who are outraged by a pattern of police brutality : I feel like ...

CSRwire.com (press release): China, Tibet, and the strategic power of water: Pollution ... 2008-05-08

The Tibetan Government in Exile, which settled in India in 1959 following the Dalai Lama "s flight from Tibet, in recent years has consistently identified ...

CSRwire.com (press release): Phillies purchase 20 million KWh of Green-e Certified renewable ... 2008-05-08

... certified by Green -e Energy, the leading renewable energy certification and verification program in the US The program provides independent, third- party ...

CSRwire.com (press release): eBay Inc. Opens New íGreenì Building and Unveils Largest ... 2008-05-08

LEED is the industry standard, third party rating system which certifies that a building has met the high standards for constructing an environmentally ...

Truthdig: Hillary Plays the Crazy Card 2008-05-08

It is also possible that she truly believes threats of genocide are the best deterrent to Iranian misbehavior, as she told George Stephanopoulos last Sunday ...

Truthdig: Choosing the President 2008-05-08

In 1976 Jimmy Carter squeezed out a close win over Gerald Ford, who was still floundering in the blowback from Watergate, and in 1980 Carter was buried ...

ACLU (press release): ACLU Skeptical of Senate Report on íHomegrownì Terrorism 2008-05-08

... the American Civil Liberties Union strongly urged Congress to use caution when moving forward on related legislation, the Violent Radicalization ...

ACLU (press release): ACLU Applauds House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing ... 2008-05-08

WASHINGTON ê The American Civil Liberties Union was pleased to see the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Libertie ...

BlueOregon: How Novick "insulted" Gore Charlie Burr 2008-05-08

I have great affection for John Edwards , and will support him if Gore does not run - but he'd have a tough row to hoe against Hillary.

BlueOregon: Wood Village Casino Proposal Dropped for 2008 in the news 2008-05-08

While we're strong believers in free speech , we reserve the right to delete comment spam or other offensive material. Our contributors, however, reserve ...

BlueOregon: This Time, Let"s Do It Right for Veterans guest column 2008-05-08

They want our country to restore its commitment to the Geneva Conventions and Habeas Corpus . And they want your support. Yes, there are many important ...

BlueOregon: How Novick "insulted" Gore Charlie Burr 2008-05-08

I have great affection for John Edwards , and will support him if Gore does not run - but he'd have a tough row to hoe against Hillary.

BlueOregon: Republicans endorse Sho Dozono, Amanda Fritz, Mike Delman elsewhere 2008-05-08

She will revisit the bio-fuels mandate and she believes that there is corruption in City government. We are concerned that she supports new street taxe ...

BlueOregon: Merkley Ad Goes Negative on Novick in the news 2008-05-08

While we're strong believers in free speech , we reserve the right to delete comment spam or other offensive material. Our contributors, however, reserve ...

HipHopDX: Sharpton & Sean Bell's Widow Arrested For Protesting 2008-05-08

Al Sharpton made good on his promise of civil disobedience and a vow to íshut this city downì in response to the acquittal of three New York police officer ...

Washington Post: Two Weeks of Trivia 2008-05-08

She flooded North Carolina and Indiana with phoniness -- playing a drag version of Dennis Kucinich , a beer-drinking populist, not the honors graduate ...

Talk Radio News Service: Not one more dime 2008-05-08

Former presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), also present at the hearing, is offering an amendment to the bill asking not to use the funds ...

Seattle Times: An exhausting, phony campaign 2008-05-08

She flooded North Carolina and Indiana with phoniness ë playing a drag version of Dennis Kucinich , a beer-drinking populist, not the honors graduate ...

ReliefWeb (press release): Djibouti: First country to launch the joint UNFPA/UNICEF global ... 2008-05-08

This is however not possible when human rights of one segment of society is denied that dignity" said Ms Margaret Thuo talking on behalf of UNICEF and UNFP ...

ReliefWeb (press release): Commission on Sustainable Development panels discuss effects ... 2008-05-08

Poor and rural women had special needs in such circumstances. Many speakers voiced serious concern about drought-caused damage to plant and animal specie ...

ReliefWeb (press release): Agreement to strengthen border cooperation between Afghanist ... 2008-05-08

TEHRAN, 8 May 2008 (UNODC) - A trilateral meeting between Ministers from the Islamic Republics of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan has concluded in Tehr ...

ReliefWeb (press release): Country Strategy Paper: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - 2007-2013 2008-05-08

The European Commission has been present in Afghanistan since the mid 1980s, with an office in Peshawar, in western Pakistan, covering the country.

ReliefWeb (press release): Georgia: Long-simmering Abkhaz conflict heating up....but why now? 2008-05-08

But Moscow, which has for years beat down separatist sentiments in volatile republics like Chechnya , is loathe to risk the appearance of double standard ...

MWC News: Profile: Tzipi Livni 2008-05-08

By Agencies Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, could take over as the country's prime minister if Ehud Olmert resigns over an ongoing police ...

MWC News: Many die in Somalia fighting 2008-05-08

By Agencies At least 23 people have been killed in heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and fighters allied to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia ...

MWC News: Bush extends Syria sanctions 2008-05-08

... said he is extending sanctions against Syria following Washington's charge that Damascus has been building a nuclear reactor with North Korea's help.

Contra Costa Times: Fix reading program 2008-05-08

THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT recently released its own analysis of Reading First, the $6 billion reading program that is at the heart of the No Child Left ...

Asia Times Online: Myanmar places votes before relief 2008-05-08

"A referendum without some basic freedoms - of assembly, political parties and free speech - is a farce. What the Myanmar [Burmese] government calls ...

OneWorld.net: 200 million children deprived of health care worldwide 2008-05-08

Countries doing the worst are Lao People's Democratic Republic, Yemen, Chad , Somalia and Ethiopia. Nearly all under-five deaths (99%) occur in developing ...

Bay Area Indymedia: Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried ... 2008-05-08

... in Afghanistan in July 2002 when he was 15 years old, goes before a drumhead military tribunal at the US detention camp in Guantánamo, Cuba today.

Bay Area Indymedia: "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

by via Democracy Now Thursday, May 8, 2008 :The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to hold a series of hearings examining the Bush administration's role ...

Bay Area Indymedia: "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

On Tuesday, Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers subpoenaed Vice President Dick Cheney"s chief of staff David Addington to testify at a hearing scheduled ...

Bay Area Indymedia: "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

by via Democracy Now Thursday, May 8, 2008 :The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to hold a series of hearings examining the Bush administration's role ...

Bay Area Indymedia: "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

On Tuesday, Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers subpoenaed Vice President Dick Cheney"s chief of staff David Addington to testify at a hearing scheduled ...

Bay Area Indymedia: Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried ... 2008-05-08

... in Afghanistan in July 2002 when he was 15 years old, goes before a drumhead military tribunal at the US detention camp in Guantánamo, Cuba today.

Bay Area Indymedia: "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House ... 2008-05-08

by via Democracy Now Thursday, May 8, 2008 :The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to hold a series of hearings examining the Bush administration's role ...

Bay Area Indymedia: Israel vs. South Africa: Reflecting on cultural boycott 2008-05-08

by via the Electronic Intifada Thursday, May 8, 2008 :In 1965, the American Committee on Africa, following the lead of prominent British arts associati ...

Mathaba.Net: Inquest opens in UK's heaviest loss of life in Afghanistan 2008-05-08

The delayed inquest into 14 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, when a Nimrod reconnaissance plane crashed in nearly two years ago, formally opened ...

Mathaba.Net: Iran: Supreme Leader winds up Fars visit 2008-05-08

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wound up his visit to this southern province Thursday noon and departed for the capital ...

Mathaba.Net: Deproscribing MKO discredits UK combating terror, says Iran 2008-05-08

Iran has castigated a court ruling in favour of deproscribing the exiled Mujahideen Khalq organization ''MKO'' from a British list of terrorist groups under ...

Mathaba.Net: Iran: Suspects of Shiraz blast linked with foreign states 2008-05-08

Minister of Information, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, said here Wednesday evening that the suspects of Shiraz bomb blast believed to have links ...

Mathaba.Net: Ahmadinejad stresses expansion of Iran-Turkey ties 2008-05-08

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Wednesday that expansion of Iran-Turkey cooperation would benefit both nations and the entire region.

Mathaba.Net: Iran: Supreme Leader, ministers review Fars development 2008-05-08

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei here on Wednesday received members of cabinet to review development projects of Far ...

Mathaba.Net: Iran showcases first home made auto engine at German expo 2008-05-08

Iran is displaying its first home-made auto engine at the 2008 Engine Expo, currently taking place in the south German city of Stuttgart, an Iranian au ...

Mathaba.Net: Iran, Turkey urge expansion of ties 2008-05-08

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Turkish Minister of State Kursad Tuzmen here on Wednesday called for boost in bilateral economic cooperation.

Common Dreams (press release): Disability Backlogs Violate Due Process Rights 2008-05-08

WASHINGTON, DC - May 8 -The American Civil Liberties Union was encouraged by today"s Senate Finance Committee hearing on service delivery problems with ...

Common Dreams (press release): ACLU Membership Conference 2008: Stand Up For Freedom 2008-05-08

NEW YORK - May 8 - American Civil Liberties Union members from Alaska to New York and every state in between will converge on the nation"s capital from June ...

Common Dreams (press release): ACLU Resumes Vigilant Watch as Unconstitutional Guantánamo ... 2008-05-08

... a right granted by Congress in the 2006 Military Commissions Act. The case against al-Bahlul, who in 2004 first announced his desire to represent ...

Common Dreams (press release): American and Iraqi Mothers Highlight Iraqi Refugee Crisis 2008-05-08

There will be a report back (with a photo show) by Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK cofounder, who has just returned from a trip to Syria and Jordan ;

AlterNet: Will Democracy Make You Happy? 2008-05-08

... just as political scientists have for decades measured levels of democracy by comparing such metrics as press freedom and voting rights.

AlterNet: America's War on Journalists 2008-05-08

Six months later, shackled and gagged, he was flown to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay . Haj was held there for close to six years, repeatedly interrogated ...

AlterNet: The Iraq Supplemental: A Three-Ring Circus 2008-05-08

By Erik Leaver, AlterNet. Posted May 8, 2008. Congress thinks it's being cute in dealing with all of the funding for Iraq this year in one fell swoop.

AlterNet: How Should States Deal with Polygamous Sects? 2008-05-08

... result in federal involvement in investigating the FLDS, which numbers more than 10000 and has compounds in several Western states, Canada, and Mexico .

IPS: MIDEAST: Israelis Believe Another War Is Coming 2008-05-08

The survey found similar attitudes among Israel's Arab population. But the War and Peace Index, which polls 600 people and has been conducted every month ...

IPS: COLOMBIA: "Mark Him on the Ballot - The One Wearing Glasses" 2008-05-08

Questions have also arisen about the legitimacy of the constitutional reform that made it possible for Uribe to be elected to a second consecutive term.

IPS: COLOMBIA: "Mark Him on the Ballot - The One Wearing Glasses" 2008-05-08

Questions have also arisen about the legitimacy of the constitutional reform that made it possible for Uribe to be elected to a second consecutive term.

IPS: EUROPE: Still without a 'Coherent' Human Rights Policy 2008-05-08

The Union has "so far been weak," she suggested, in pressing Sudan to hand over Ahmad Muhammad Harun and Ali Muhmmad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman to the court.

Progressive.org: Why Obama Won"t Take Hillary 2008-05-08

... by choosing someone like Senator Jim Webb of Virginia or Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania or Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio or even John Edwards .

BBC News: More pressure on Pakistan truce 2008-05-08

Attacks in the region have increased in recent days after militants suspended peace talks with the government. A BBC correspondent say the violence may ...

BBC News: Torture teacher has sentence cut 2008-05-08

A former welfare officer who was jailed for "torturing" children at a List D school has had his sentence halved. Michael Murphy, 74, was known as Brother ...

BBC News: Fierce clashes resume in Beirut 2008-05-08

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged both sides "to cease immediately these riots and to re-open all roads in the country".

BBC News: 'Thousands displaced' in Zimbabwe 2008-05-08

Mr Tsvangirai has called for international observers to be sent to monitor the run-off - a call backed up by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .

BBC News: Moscow Diary: Chechnya challenge 2008-05-08

Russia still has unfinished business in troubled Chechnya - and President Medvedev cannot ignore it, the BBC's James Rodgers reports.

BBC News: Israel marks 60th anniversary 2008-05-08

Celebrations, including parachute jumps are taking place in Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state. The BBC is not responsible ...

BBC News: Israel marks its 60th birthday 2008-05-08

Israel is a relatively young country born out of a philosophy, Zionism, that only really emerged at the end of the 19th Century.

BBC News: Prison toilets are 'unacceptable' 2008-05-08

The Prison Reform Trust has blamed overcrowding for HMP Albany's failings. "Albany has an important, difficult and specialist role," said Ms Owers.

CounterPunch: Marching for Sean Bell 2008-05-08

... Avenue in Brooklyn where the 78-year-old Reverend Herbert Daughtry briefed a standing room only crowd on the ins and outs of civil disobedience .

CounterPunch: The NATO Axiom 2008-05-08

Think of a world in which European, Canadian, Australian and US forces engage native fighters in the various íStansì as well as in Palestine , the Congo ...

CounterPunch: A Brief Exposé of a Fraudulent War 2008-05-08

[21] You watch President Bush on television in January of 2007, demanding as a mandatory "benchmark" the enactment of the hydrocarbon law.

CASMII: IAEA chief sees 'good progress' in talks with Iran 2008-05-08

BRUSSELS (AFP) ë UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei Wednesday welcomed "good progress" in talks with Iran, noting that a team was in Tehran ...

CASMII: Jewish-Iranian lawmaker: Israel's behavior is 'anti-human' 2008-05-08

The US State Department said in its 2007 human rights report in March: "All religious minorities suffered varying degrees of officially sanctioned ...

Huffington Post: Kucinich, Hinchey: Secretary Rice Should Press Israel for Real ... 2008-05-08

A peaceful resolution to conflict can only be achieved with the support and trust of both Israelis and Palestinians . For that reason, the Administration' ...

Huffington Post: Obama's Consolidation of the Party 2008-05-08

It's a cross between Moveon.org and the DNC, and with the White House, it can transform progressive politics and further amplify the power of the Presidency ...

Huffington Post: The Role of the UN in Post-War Iraq 2008-05-08

... as Senators Obama and Clinton have proposed -- nor, however, should we maintain a troop presence there for 100 years, as Senator McCain has suggested.

Council On Hemispheric Affairs: COHA"s Women"s Studies Series: SERNAM and the Underrepresentati ... 2008-05-08

The conclusion reached is that the transition has pushed civil society organizations and their mobilization capacity to operate within a state-directed ...

The Nation.: Newt Gingrich to GOP--Wake Up or Perish 2008-05-08

In early 2007, The Nation published an extraordinary speech by Bill Moyers . In "A New Story for America," America's media conscience wrote of how "voter ...

The Washington Independent: Economics Academic Calls for Tenure Inquiry Into Torture Memo ... 2008-05-08

By Spencer Ackerman 05/08/2008 An economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley has filed a formal grievance to investigate the tenure of one ...

Center for Research on Globalization: "The Second Palestinian Intifada" 2008-05-08

He bombed civilian populations, killed around 20000 Lebanese, and oversaw what British journalist Robert Fisk called "one of the most shocking war crimes ...

Center for Research on Globalization: "The Second Palestinian Intifada" 2008-05-08

He bombed civilian populations, killed around 20000 Lebanese, and oversaw what British journalist Robert Fisk called "one of the most shocking war crimes ...

Center for Research on Globalization: On Torture and "Administration Interrogation Rules" 2008-05-08

by Prof Marjorie Cohn What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. That"s Latin for "higher ...

Center for Research on Globalization: On Torture and "Administration Interrogation Rules" 2008-05-08

by Prof Marjorie Cohn What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. That"s Latin for "higher ...

Center for Research on Globalization: On Torture and "Administration Interrogation Rules" 2008-05-08

by Prof Marjorie Cohn What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. That"s Latin for "higher ...

Center for Research on Globalization: War profits taint the greedy hands of more than 25 % of members ... 2008-05-08

chairman of the defense-related Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had at least $51000 invested in these companies in 2006. Sen.

Editor & Publisher: Odds Columnist Confirms That Clinton Campaign Is in Trouble 2008-05-08

The Universal Press Syndicate writer now has Barack Obama at even odds to win the presidency, followed by John McCain at 3/2 and Clinton at 8/1.

Editor & Publisher: Maureen Dowd Proposed Obama Over Hillary -- More than Two Years Ago 2008-05-08

By E&P Staff NEW YORK "It's only 2006," we wrote here back in March of that year, "and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has already written off Hillary ...

The New Nation: Opinion: Justice must be served 2008-05-08

However, both of the former prime ministers have accused the other one for serious corruption . In every meeting they addressed, in every press conference ...

The New Nation: Shame of Guantanamo Bay 2008-05-08

I put myself in Hajj's shoes and wonder how I would fare if I ended up in Bush's gulag. What would happen to my own children and loved ones?

The New Nation: Israel weaknesses surface 2008-05-08

As European settlers arrived in droves to the New World that Christopher Columbus discovered in 1492, the land was ethnically cleansed of its indigenou ...

The New Nation: Iraq wracked by death and despair 5 years after invasion 2008-05-08

In 2003, allegedly to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, the US and Coalition forces launched a war to bomb Saddam Hussein into oblivi ...

The New Nation: Armed forces backing must for attaining objective of the change 2008-05-08

Establishment of corruption free good governance is the responsibility of the whole nation. All-out cooperation of the armed forces is essential for ...

The New Nation: Let parliament mirror the people 2008-05-08

In this case one should be very careful to guard his/her moral conscience not to be trapped by any means of corruption or temptation to be corrupt ...

RINF.COM: Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors 2008-05-08

In this case as in many others, the Defense Department is misusing its classification authority to suppress information about the abuse and torture ...

RINF.COM: Peak Food: Blaming the Victims 2008-05-08

... droughts and increased demand for land for biofuels, which have sparked riots and protests from Haiti to Mauritania, and from Yemen to the Philippines.

Grist Magazine: Missing Johnson 2008-05-08

It also examined the new Union of Concerned Scientists survey of 1600 EPA staff scientists who reported mass politicization and political interference ...

Grist Magazine: Where in the World? 2008-05-08

Brazil and India tied for the win with a score of 60 on the sustainable-consumption scale, followed by China, Mexico, Hungary, Russia, a tie between Gre ...

Swissinfo: Burundi army says killed 50 rebels in clashes 2008-05-08

"This proves that the government and its army have chosen the war option instead of peace talks ." Burundi, which has a long history of coups and ethnic war ...

Swissinfo: Zimbabwe opposition rejects presidential run-off 2008-05-08

Zimbabwe's government rejects accusations from the opposition, human rights groups and Western countries that ZANU-PF has launched a campaign of violence ...

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