2009-07-04: Selected Headlines

Bay Area Indymedia: Taking a Pledge in Support of the Homeless Community in Santa Cruz 2009-07-04

We support Human Rights for the homeless community, including the right to sleep at night--not anywhere and everywhere--but somewhere.

 

BlackAthlete.net: What's Really Goin' On?? 2009-07-04

The prime of their careers occurred in the 60s, during the Civil Rights Era, and they were both vocal, conspicuous presences -- activists.

 

OregonLive.com: Near perfect weather brings farmers and fruit lovers a Jubilee ... 2009-07-04

But growers worry about their legal exposure from employing illegal immigrants who present false documents -- up to 70 percent of all farm worker ...

 

Huffington Post: Covering Crucial Afghanistan Operation 2009-07-04

Kabul, Afghanistan - Having been in Afghanistan for four months, traveling around the country and reporting on the war, now the "crucial operation" of ...

 

Tapped: SARAH PALIN INSISTS YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE INTERNET ON HOLIDAY. 2009-07-04

But really, isn't the real takeaway that Palin doesn't want to give the press freedom to enjoy a patriotic 4th merrily grilling without the distraction ...

 

BuzzFlash: Meet Senator Jim DeMint, Honduran Coup Supporter and Apologist: Oh ... 2009-07-04

And yet, one prominent legislator on Capitol Hill has leapt to the defense of the new coup regime which took power in Honduras on Sunday.

 

OregonLive.com: To the end, friends say Bonnie Tinker pursued peace, equality 2009-07-04

Des Moines, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of students to wear black arm bands and make other free-speech displays in public schools.

 

OregonLive.com: To the end, friends say, Bonnie Tinker pursued peace, equality 2009-07-04

Above everything, friends say Bonnie Tinker wanted equality. They say Tinker, 61, was controversial, but she was a catalyst.

 

OregonLive.com: C. Ore. campus offers new masters in education 2009-07-04

The 32-year-old started teaching when she was a volunteer and missionary in Kazakhstan, and wants to get her degree so she can pursue further teaching ...

 

OregonLive.com: BUSINESS: Greeley store sells African products 2009-07-04

AP He was forced out of Somalia at age 4, fleeing the war-torn country with his parents and many siblings. They lived in refugee camps in Kenya for the rest ...

 

New California Media: At Nearly 80, Sí, Dolores Huerta Can 2009-07-04

Dolores Huerta will be forever linked with Cesar Chavez and Philip Vera Cruz as a co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the 1960s.

 

New California Media: At Nearly 80, Sí, Dolores Huerta Can 2009-07-04

Dolores Huerta will be forever linked with Cesar Chavez and Philip Vera Cruz as a co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the 1960s.

 

AlterNet: "Deliver Us From Evil": The Amorality of the Catholic Church 2009-07-04

The basic hierarchy and theology of the Catholic Church is a recipe for the abuse of power. It's not like I didn't know this stuff. I knew it.

 

AlterNet: Breadline USA: Why People Are Going Hungry in the Land of Plenty 2009-07-04

In the years following 2005, as the price of staples such as wheat and rice more than doubled, deadly food riots broke out in Bangladesh, Haiti, Camero ...

 

AlterNet: This July 4th, Rebel and Agitate for Change 2009-07-04

No women allowed, no African Americans, no American Indians and no one who was landless. So, on the Fourth, it's neither the documents of democracy that we ...

 

NPR: Communities Cope With The Aftermath Of Violence 2009-07-04

I like the peace and the quiet, and I like going to the city and having a little bit of fun. But it kind of - it's nerve-wracking. I like silence at night.

 

NPR: After Billy Mays' Death, A Salute To Pitch Men 2009-07-04

I'm not sure if it was the radiation, the product or the egg, but I swear there was a chick in one of the eggs we made. And this is from Christine(ph).

 

NPR: Sarah Palin Quits As Alaska's Governor 2009-07-04

When you can take the nation to war or launch nuclear strikes as commander in chief, this is an important quality. The first woman to successfully run ...

 

NPR: Marines Fan Out In Afghanistan Push 2009-07-04

All Things Considered, July 3, 2009 · Some 4000 Marines, along with several hundred British and Afghan troop ...

 

American Muslim: Somalia, Outside the Violence Box 2009-07-04

The African peacekeepers—AMISOM—could provide the security necessary to operate the distribution stations in strategic places.

 

Hispaninc Business: Rob Kuznia: Feds Say They Want Stimulus Funds to Reach Minority-Owned Businesses 2009-07-04

The federal government is launching a campaign to put more stimulus money in the hands of minority-owned businesses, many of them reeling from this historic recession, now in its 20th month.

 

New America Media: Inga Buchbinder: Nonprofit Honored for Revolutionary Approach to Tutoring 2009-07-04

Founded in 1999 by Brazilian-born Luis Santana, Reading and Beyond started working with 30 children, tutoring them on literacy and reading comprehension. Over the past decade, the organization has expanded to helping over 700 students each day as well as families in 16 different centers throughout Fresno County.

 

New America Media: Khalil Abdullah: At Nearly 80, S, Dolores Huerta Can 2009-07-04

At nearly 80, United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta personifies the phrase she coined, S? se puede! which President Obama borrowed and translated as Yes, we can!

 

BlueOregon: Merkley: The "Public Option" won't get done with out the grassroots 2009-07-04

Even though Merkley is a very junior Senator, he seems eager to tackle the very complex and often controversial landmines of health care reform.

 

BlueOregon: Merkley: The "Public Option" won't get done with out the grassroots 2009-07-04

Even though Merkley is a very junior Senator, he seems eager to tackle the very complex and often controversial landmines of health care reform.

 

Collective Bellaciao: US Independence Day – Occupied Iraqis, Afghans, Palestini ... 2009-07-04

The US-imposed Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide are associated (so far) with the following catastrophe: post-invasion non-violent ...

 

Collective Bellaciao: US Independence Day – Occupied Iraqis, Afghans, Palestini ... 2009-07-04

The US-imposed Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide are associated (so far) with the following catastrophe: post-invasion non-violent ...

 

Monthly Review: Honduran Popular Movements Wait for Insulza outside OAS in Tegucigalpa 2009-07-04

According to Fernández, the meeting between the OAS secretary general and representatives of the National Front against the Fascist Coup d'État is expected ...

 

The New Nation: Rainbow Film Festival begins tomorrow in London 2009-07-04

Films from Iran, Malaysia, Turkey, India, UK and Bangladesh are being taking part in the festival. Four films and one telefilm of Impress Telefilm will ...

 

The New Nation: Deutsche Telekom wants to swap T-Mobile UK unit 2009-07-04

But although trading T-Mobile UK for a unit such as Vodafone Turkey, that country's second biggest mobile operator, would be an ideal solution for Deutsche ...

 

The New Nation: Janata Bank awarded 'The Best Emerging Market Bank' 2009-07-04

The award giving ceremony is scheduled to be held during the Annual Meeting of IMF and World Bank on 6 October 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey where Abdullah Gul ...

 

The New Nation: Honduras rulers reject world pressure to reverse coup 2009-07-04

The Organization of American States gave Honduras an ultimatum early on Wednesday to allow Zelaya back into office by this weekend or face suspension.

 

The New Nation: 'NKorea missiles aimed at provoking SKorea' 2009-07-04

North Korea's latest missile launches seemed aimed at provoking South Korea rather than the wider world, a Seoul official said as Washington insisted th ...

 

The New Nation: Lyon's Keita signs for Galatasaray 2009-07-04

Lyon announced on Thursday they have agreed terms with Turkish giants Galatasaray for the transfer of Ivory Coast striker Kader Keita.

 

The New Nation: Cold War now a history, Obama tells Putin 2009-07-04

Asked to choose between basketball greats Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, Obama - a committed hoops player and fan of Jordan's Chicago Bulls - didn't pause ...

 

The New Nation: Time to press reset button 2009-07-04

Nevertheless, for all the differences that have come up, we are both on the same side when it comes to Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan".

 

RTE.ie: AU countries to defy ICC's Bashir warrant 2009-07-04

African leaders meeting at an African Union summit in Libya have said they will not implement an International Criminal Court warrant.

 

International Middle East Media Center: Pirates of the Mediterranean 2009-07-04

... humanitarian supplies, and kidnapped those on board, including former US Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and Nobel Prize winner, Mairead Maguire.

 

International Middle East Media Center: Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini ... 2009-07-04

Israeli sources reported that senior officials of Bahrain arrived in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back to the country after they were detained ...

 

International Middle East Media Center: Bahraini official arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini national ... 2009-07-04

21 activists were onboard the ship 'Spirit of Humanity', including former US Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and Nobel Prize winner, Mairead Maguire.

 

NYC Independent Media Center: Viva Palestina to lead largest US convoy into Gaza 2009-07-04

... engagement with the Muslim world and a change in policy over Palestine and the Middle East from the disastrous eight years of the Bush administration.

 

World War 4 Report: Israel high court orders stronger penalty in prisoner abuse case 2009-07-04

Human rights groups B'Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Yesh Din filed ...

 

World War 4 Report: El Salvador: anti-mining organizer missing, foul play suspected 2009-07-04

... Rivera played a key role in January when the results of the municipal elections in San Isidro were challenged due to fraud. Social organizations believe ...

 

World War 4 Report: White House loosens up on ICE workplace policy; "gang" raids continue 2009-07-04

(NYT, July 1) Under the Obama administration, Homeland Security's bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dropped the high-profile workplace ...

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Iraq: 2 new water compounds in Amara 2009-07-04

(MENAFN - Aswat Al-Iraq) The Iraqi minister of municipalities and public works, Riad Ghareeb, opened Friday two water compounds south of Amara city ...

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Australian firm to build 10000 residential units in Thi-Qar, Iraq 2009-07-04

(MENAFN) The investment commission in Thi-Qar in Iraq signed with an Australian firm a Memorandum of Understanding (mou), under which the firm is will build ...

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Afghan Election Environment Improving, But Obstacles Remain, Panel ... 2009-07-04

Ahmad Nader Nadery is the head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and also the chairman of the Free and Fair Election Foundation ...

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: North Korea Defies US With New Missile Launches 2009-07-04

Weapons experts said the North does not have the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon to mount as a warhead on a missile.

 

The Guardian World News: Rory Carroll, Christian Bennett, Maggie O'Kane: The fight for the Peruvian rainforest 2009-07-04

How Peru's Indians are fighting to the death to protect their way of life

 

guardian.co.uk: I'll prove I'm worth 80 million pounds, says Ronaldo 2009-07-04

Club president Florentino Perez has said Ronaldo and Brazil playmaker Kaka, who Real have signed from AC Milan for around 67 million euros ($93.93 million)

 

guardian.co.uk: The church and the coup in Honduras 2009-07-04

General Pinochet did it in Chile in 1973, General Humberto Castello Branco did it in Brazil in 1964, General Banzer did it in Bolivia in 1974 ...

 

guardian.co.uk: The zen of Johnny Depp 2009-07-04

What's more, it's the view of someone so rich they can buy a Caribbean island on a whim. What if the producers looked at the final cut of Depp's new movie ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Migrants in Calais need our help 2009-07-04

The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) has announced it is formally establishing a full-time presence in the French port of Calais.

 

guardian.co.uk: Operation Ore inquiry; US troops in Afghanistan; and film direct ... 2009-07-04

Hundreds of men prosecuted in one of the uk's biggest online paedophile inquiries, Operation Ore, may have been wrongly convicted.

 

guardian.co.uk: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate 2009-07-04

Eagleton carves up the "militant" atheists using their own weapons of reason. He accuses them of superstition in their belief in the march of progress;

 

guardian.co.uk: Pick of the week: Film 2009-07-04

Polish veteran Andrzej Wajda is a responsible pair of hands when it comes to documenting the Polish wartime genocide and the Soviet cover-up that denied ...

 

guardian.co.uk: A peek at the diary ... Bruce Springsteen 2009-07-04

Hell, but for that fascist curfew, we woulda proved it all night. If my back wasn't giving me hell, I coulda imagined I was back in Asbury Park not Hyde ...

 

guardian.co.uk: How the act has affected different public sectors 2009-07-04

Individuals can also take action if they believe their right to an education has been violated. For example a young woman from a gypsy community in west ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Guardian Weekly celebrates ninetieth birthday 2009-07-04

The weekly launched on the 4 July 1919 to coincide with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. At such a turbulent time in European history the weekly' ...

 

In These Times: Solidarity Reunited? 2009-07-04

... even as they face a battle with their erstwhile ally, SEIU , over members, money and the right to organize traditional HERE industries.

 

IRC's Americas Program: High Noon in Honduras 2009-07-04

The coup declared a "state of exception," the equivalent to a state of siege, on July 1, suspending basic civil liberties including freedom of assembly ...

 

The Indypendent: A Radical NYC 4th of July Party Planner 2009-07-04

If you only have time to savor one constitutional amendment, Siegel will join Green Party mayoral candidate Reverend Billy Talen and the Life After Shopping ...

 

The Nation.: Rediscovering Secular America 2009-07-04

But interestingly enough… we were only invited into the Clinton White House under the rubric of core civil rights or civil liberties interest ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Interview - UN fears for staff as Nepal strikes continue 2009-07-04

"Our people are moving around the country - doing activities such as food distributions or human rights monitoring - and they are constantly being stopped ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): PAHO recognizes important US contribution of antivirals for L ... 2009-07-04

... Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean in addressing the public health challenges that Influenza A (H1N1) continues to present in the Region.

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Update influenza A (H1N1) Regional report (3 Jul 2009) 2009-07-04

The following overseas territories have confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 2009: Puerto Rico, US Overseas Territory (18); Virgin Isl ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): African Union: Non-co-operation with Bashir arrest warrant ... 2009-07-04

African states strongly supported the creation of the ICC as a court of last resort to ensure that African victims of genocide, crimes against humanity ...

 

Australia.TO: Wide Bay Australia International Air Show 2009. 2009-07-04

Wide Bay skies came alive yesterday with the start of the three-day Wide Bay Australia International Air Show 2009. Deputy Premier Paul Lucas said ...

 

Australia.TO: Georgia's pluralistic feudalism: a frontline report 2009-07-04

Moreover, Georgia has greatly reduced micro-corruption, which is remarkable for the region's standards, not to mention other regions more close to home.

 

ZNet: New Book Surveys Oaxaca Uprising to Teach Rebellion 2009-07-04

... but, Teaching Rebellion reports that the struggle is not over: "While a Supreme Court Commission has been named to investigate the human rights abuse ...

 

ZNet: Honduras Solidarity 2009-07-04

Your voices are urgently needed to encourage our government to exercise its influence to ensure that the Ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua ...

 

Antiwar.com: IAEA Board Goes Bonkers 2009-07-04

... the job Bonkers Bolton began – gutting the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – have, according to the New York Times, emerged victorious.

 

Antiwar.com: Pakistani PM Seeks US Aid for Massive Border Wall 2009-07-04

Making matters worse, the most rugged terrain is in the areas with the largest militant populations. The US program has cost enormous amounts of taxpayer ...

 

McClatchy Washington Bureau: Gay veteran's military dismissal puts spotlight on Californi ... 2009-07-04

... where base voters will be especially important: He's pursuing young voters who backed President Barack Obama, veterans and military retirees who make up ...

 

Media Monitors Network: Analysing Iran's Elections 2009-07-04

The poll by Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty found “that only a third of Iranians even have access to the Internet, while 18-to-24-year-olds comprised ...

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: The strategy is sound - but success is not assured 2009-07-04

The Afghan surge has begun. Some 4,000 US troops poured into Helmand province this week in Operation Khanjar, or Strike of the Sword. They are being supported by British troops, who have been in Helmand since 2006, and the Afghan army.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: The fight goes on 2009-07-04

The political row that has broken out about homophobia seems a distasteful distraction. There seems something artificial, even underhand, about the way in which two Labour ministers, both gay, have claimed that homophobia survives on the opposition benches. The charges smack of party political point-scoring, on territory - equal rights and non-discrimination - that should by now be above such wrangling.

 

Contra Costa Times: Readers' Forum: Socialized medicine is not the answer 2009-07-04

Actually no one, including illegal immigrants, is without access to health care. What with Medicare, Medicaid, Medi-Cal, SCHIP (State Children's Health ...

 

Contra Costa Times: Your Turn: Obama's new order of things 2009-07-04

The concept of universal health care is a good thing, as proposed by the president, though complex. It will be mostly likely a kind of hybrid pl ...

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Evan Handler: Palin Resigns to Accept Post as Lunatic Laureate 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: South Carolina Serial Killer Has Residents Terrified, Holed Up Their Homes 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Rob Richie: Sarah Palin's resignation to reduce women governors to six 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Paul Begala: Sarah Palin Turns Pro 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Geoffrey Dunn: The Real Story Behind Palin's Bombshell 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Paul Rieckhoff: Coming Home from War is No 4th of July Picnic 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: ABBA Member Shoots Down Reunion Rumors 2009-07-04

 

HuffingtonPost.com: MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Rising debt may be next crisis 2009-07-04

 

Huffington Post: Progressives Take Back the Flag 2009-07-03

To them, America stood for basic democratic values -- economic and social equality, mass participation in politics, free speech and civil libertie ...

 

AlterNet: I Saw 'Food Inc.' -- Now What? 2009-07-03

Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. Let's do it! Linda was right. Going veggie is the single best idea for ...

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Germany's Gas War? Nabucco Vs. South Stream -- And Schroeder V ... 2009-07-03

... help push the project toward realization -- Joschka Fischer, the former head of Germany's Green Party and the country's foreign minister from 1998-2005.

 

Independent: Michael Brown: It's just too easy for politicians to join ... 2009-07-03

Every argument put against gay rights by the likes of Andrew Robathan (now David Cameron's deputy Chief Whip – I could name others in both the Teams Camer ...

 

Huffington Post: Independence Day for Everyone 2009-07-03

... same freedom and civil liberties that many of us take for granted, even on the day most sacred to our own history of independence from arbitrary rule.

 

Huffington Post: Fireworks Brighter for Blacks this Fourth of July 2009-07-03

Images of slaves, lynching, segregation, civil rights marches, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and photographs of black soldiers who ...

 

Huffington Post: This Fourth of July, the Quest to Save Democracy Continues 2009-07-03

And yet this Fourth of July, I am struck by how relevant many of the issues in FREE FOR ALL! still are: From the American fallacy that election fraud ...

 

Huffington Post: Victory at Smithfields: An Independence Day Symbol 2009-07-03

And certainly one step in that direction will come with the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Workers and union officials say that perhaps the most ...

 

Huffington Post: Suspected Sologirl Murderer Back in USA on $3 Million Bond 2009-07-03

Although Mireles has indicated a preference for hiring his own attorney, the Death Penalty Defense Unit is currently said to be handling his case.

 

MWC News: Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's 'Rules of Disengagement' 2009-07-03

It explores why US military personnel disobey orders and refuse to participate in two illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also explains that US ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Saddam, the FBI and Cliocide in Iraq 2009-07-03

In this pdf file, Saddam explains, "Hussein stated Iran was Iraq's major threat due to their common border and believed Ir ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Mousavi Said Calling for General Strike; Hard Liners Call for h ... 2009-07-03

Not satisfied with having held an Egyptian-style election, some Iranian politicians apparently want to adopt the Burmese model.

 

BuzzFlash: WGWJP – What Gun Would Jesus Pack? 2009-07-03

Pagano, who appears to maintain that without the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – there would be no First Amendment – the right to free speech ...

 

BuzzFlash: WGWJP – What Gun Would Jesus Pack? 2009-07-03

Pagano, who appears to maintain that without the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – there would be no First Amendment – the right to free speech ...

 

Foreign Policy: Missing the "freedom agenda" on the Fourth of July 2009-07-03

They were engaged in a disciplined civil disobedience of the kind that changed our country many times: independence, the civil rights movement ...

 

Foreign Policy: Uribe Falls to Earth 2009-07-03

Two days after the July 2, 2008, hostage rescue, a Gallup poll of Colombians (those with telephones in the four largest cities, at least) put Uribe' ...

 

Foreign Policy: An ideas festival at a precarious moment... 2009-07-03

If we go the other way, the Republican gains next November will paralyze Obama and turn him so thoroughly into Jimmy Carter that he will have to move ...

 

AFL-CIO: Maine GOP State Legislator Supports Employee Free Choice Act, ... 2009-07-03

He has appeared at public events around the state and written in local news outlets to show his support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Common-sense ...

 

OregonLive.com: 'PO'd Granny' peace activist, cyclist Bonnie Tinker dies in bike crash 2009-07-03

I just found this video that I made of an anti-war protest featuring Portland activist and cyclist Bonnie Tinker, 61, who was killed Thursday in a bike ...

 

OregonLive.com: Commute: Speed map for Portland-area highways 2009-07-03

Southeast Division Street between Seventh and Third avenues, Portland: Crews working on the Oregon 99E, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Grand Avenue ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Namibia: Remembering Lubango 2009-07-03

However, about 1 000-2 000 known detainees were left behind in the dungeons and largely remain unaccounted for 20 years after independence.

 

AllAfrica.com: Liberia: TRC Throws Bomb -Former Rebel Leaders, Others for Prosecution 2009-07-03

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations.

 

AllAfrica.com: Africa: Continent's Leaders Set to Boycott International Criminal ... 2009-07-03

Another idiot, who lied to the UN about weapons of mass destruction. AU must look out for their own interests!! Well I'm not surprised.

 

AllAfrica.com: Kenya: Ocampo - Govt Must Give Plan Against Violence Chiefs 2009-07-03

Nairobi — International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Lui Moreno Ocampo on Friday asked Kenya for a 12-month plan showing how the country intends to bring ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Liberia: 'Make Torture A Crime' 2009-07-03

Monrovia — An executive of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric K. Tokpa is suggesting and appealing to the National Legislature, Liberia's lawmaking boy ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: The Search For a New Inspector-General of Police 2009-07-03

It should be recalled that it was precisely for this reason that in South Africa, Dr. Nelson Mandela spread his net as far as possible in selecting ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Kenya: Abducted Boy Found Unhurt 2009-07-03

Eugene Nelson Mandela Ochieng' was found in a house at Dandora estate in the city's eastlands last night. He was found okay after a medical check-up and w ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Liberia: Country Far From Reconciliation 2009-07-03

J. Nathaniel Daygbor — As The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has come to the end of its mandate and made its report to the National Legislature ...

 

The Daily Voice: Al Sharpton defends role in Michael Jackson case 2009-07-03

Jesse Jackson had been intimately involved in following the Michael Jackson saga since the singer's death. "They have been all over the networks," Bennett ...

 

Michigan Citizen: Doublespeak of peace 2009-07-03

These strikes by unmanned planes, portrayed and defended by the military as a way to save US lives, have become one of the most deadly and hated methods ...

 

AlterNet: In Iran, Fears That a Prominent Prisoner Detained In Electi ... 2009-07-03

A Basiji militia member, Saeed Asgar, was arrested for the attempt but was released shortly after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

 

AlterNet: Why the Left Looks Like a Big Hypocrite in the Sanford Affair 2009-07-03

No sooner had Sanford made his forced confession than the knees of the righteous, in this case Rachel Maddow, Maureen Dowd and legions of Democratic ...

 

NPR: Serious Gaps Remain Between US, Russia 2009-07-03

Olga Makarov echoed the widespread view — at least at the school — that Obama should tackle prickly issues like Russian human rights, democracy ...

 

NPR: Roya Hakakian: An Iranian-American Perspective 2009-07-03

For instance, you know, the apartheid experience in South Africa, we learned a great deal about Nelson Mandela when we were in schools in Iran.

 

American Muslim: The defamation of Cynthia McKinney and other violations of her ... 2009-07-03

Cynthia McKinney was the first woman to be elected to represent a congressional district in Georgia. She was first elected as a member of ...

 

New America Media: Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Supreme Court Ruling on Conn. Firefighters May Aid Sotomayor Attackers 2009-07-03

The Supreme Court ruling that white New Haven, Conn., firefighters were discriminated against won't derail Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation as Supreme Court Justice, but it could pay a small dividend to conservative attack dogs in another way, according to author and political analyst, Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

 

New America Media: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03

In exile in the United States, Ms. Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women's rights for more than three decades. We've seen women at the forefront ...

 

El Diario/La Prensa: Transgender Woman Attacked in Queens 2009-07-03

Leslie Mora, a transgender woman, was walking home when she was brutally attacked by two Latino men.

 

New America Media: Elena Shore: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03

It's not surprising Iranian women are at the forefront of the demonstrations. Despite laws that curtail their freedoms, women in Iran are very visible in public life and have a century of activism behind them.

 

New America Media: Roger Burbach: Honduran Coup Tries to Halt Advance of Latin America's Left 2009-07-03

The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade.

 

Asia Times Online: Missing the point on Myanmar 2009-07-03

The UN always says security, development and human rights are interlinked. I think this is right. But where is this more complex approach when it comes ...

 

Asia Times Online: Strength and dishonor 2009-07-03

Aung Myoe only briefly mentions abuses, such as the recruitment of child soldiers, and then just as "foreign media reports". The circumscribed nature ...

 

Asia Times Online: A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow 2009-07-03

Russia has laid out its welcome carpet leading all the way from the rugged Caucasus, a theater of events that is interesting in the highest degree ...

 

Asia Times Online: FBI chief defended Saudis 2009-07-03

As a London-based Palestinian publication reported in August 1996, the six jihadis who confessed to the bombing were all from an area called al-Thoqba near ...

 

Asia Times Online: Pyongyang plans fourth of July fireworks 2009-07-03

All they have to do then is learn how to tip the missile with a weapon of mass destruction - either nuclear, chemical or biological.

 

FinalCall.com: Hezbollah still a force in Lebanon 2009-07-03

... foreign policy than trying to restart the peace process with the Palestinians," wrote Middle East historian Juan Cole, on the Salon.com website.

 

FinalCall.com: Complaints against New York City police rising 2009-07-03

Mr. Hampton insists the stops and police brutality go hand-in-hand and are part of a national problem. “We just received a report that police brutality ...

 

BlueOregon: Bonnie Tinker, Rest in Peace 2009-07-03

She was one of the relatively few Portlanders to commit civil disobedience to oppose US aggression and occupation in Iraq. This past year amid all else she ...

 

The Public Record: CIA Now Delays IG's Torture Report Until the End of the Summer 2009-07-03

By Jason Leopold The CIA told a federal court judge Thursday that it will not be able to determine whether any part of a report prepared by the agency' ...

 

The Public Record: Obama Continues to Move Further Away From Promise of Transparency 2009-07-03

Libby received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence but it was commuted by Bush. Fitzgerald chose not to pursue prosecutions of other figures in the case ...

 

The Public Record: Defense Department Releases Previously Secret Torture Documents 2009-07-03

"These documents provide still more evidence of the widespread and systemic abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other overseas locations," said Amr ...

 

Real News Network: UN official demands torture accountability 2009-07-03

Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School ...

 

Common Dreams (press release): About Face: Obama to Proceed with Bush-Era Cybersecurity Plan 2009-07-03

... of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy.

 

Swissinfo: US sets new Israel meeting, presses Arabs to help 2009-07-03

Obama himself last month spoke in favour of a regional peace settlement, that would include not just a deal on a Palestinian state but end decades ...

 

CounterPunch: The Fog of Economic War 2009-07-03

War with Iraq/Afghanistan/ Pakistan/Iran to 'liberate', to spread Democracy by bullet and bomb from 'peaceful zone of influence' as oxymoron - but th ...

 

CounterPunch: Iraq and the Language of De-Escalation 2009-07-03

As one February BBC poll from Iraq revealed, American forces ranked near the bottom of the list of trusted social actors. Occupation forces enjoyed a “gre ...

 

CounterPunch: The Soul of James Carr and the Civil Rights Movement 2009-07-03

After this record was released Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed and the energy of that era of the movement died with him.

 

CounterPunch: Hey, Paul Krugman, Here are 2.4 Billion More Climate Traitors 2009-07-03

Two days after the vote, Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times excoriated the 212 members of the House who voted against the legislati ...

 

CounterPunch: Gob Smacked 2009-07-03

There have been no tough words from Obama or Clinton, about the shutting down of all opposition press, the curfew, the violent suppression of free speech.

 

CounterPunch: Left's Grip on Mexico City Slips 2009-07-03

In alliance with the Televisa-backed Mexican Green Environmental Party which is campaigning for the restoration of the death penalty (sic), the PRI could ...

 

CounterPunch: Finally, a Trial Date in the African Embassy Bombings Case 2009-07-03

Like most of the Bush administration's “War on Terror” policies, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's five years as a “high-value detainee” were part of a project th ...

 

International Middle East Media Center: This Week in Palestine -Week 27 2009 2009-07-03

Meanwhile, intra-Palestinian national unity talks in Cairo were postponed until July 25th. IMEMC's Jessica Hulsey reports: This week in Palestine, Israel ...

 

International Middle East Media Center: Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 2009-07-03

The Israeli National Water Company has cut off the water supply to two Arab Druze towns inside Israel. While water cut-offs by Israeli authorities ...

 

International Middle East Media Center: Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 2009-07-03

It is worth mentioning that UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon, stated that he is seeking a compensation that exceeds $11 million.

 

International Middle East Media Center: Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 2009-07-03

They also called for more resistance to the construction of the wall and settlements in light of the new Israeli plans to take over more Palestinian l ...

 

Village Voice: Bloomberg, Avella and Thompson at WFP Mayoral Forum: Some Highlights 2009-07-03

(We should mention that Green Party candidate Reverend Billy wanted to be at the forum, but was excluded; "The Working Families Party have sent a cynical ...

 

Democracy Now: Noam Chomsky on “Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours” 2009-07-03

That stake is $13 billion in stimulus funds that the Obama administration is allocating to upgrade existing rail lines and build new ones that would one day ...

 

Democracy Now: Noam Chomsky on “Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours” 2009-07-03

That stake is $13 billion in stimulus funds that the Obama administration is allocating to upgrade existing rail lines and build new ones that would one day ...

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Turkmenistan, EU Hold Human Rights Talks In Brussels 2009-07-03

Other topics included prison conditions, torture, and judiciary reform. Dlouha, who headed the Czech delegation, said the EU gave the Turkmen officials ...

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Moldovan NGOs March Against Police Abuse, Torture 2009-07-03

Activists from several Moldovan human rights groups have held a march in downtown Chisinau to protest police brutality which, they say, in many case ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Mexico parties vie for toughest on crime ahead vote 2009-07-03

Escobar said it opted to pursue the death penalty campaign after focus groups showed up to 85 percent of Mexicans were willing to back capital punishment.

 

The Guardian World News: Stephen Moss, Rebecca Lovell: The second man on the moon 2009-07-03

Buzz Aldrin talks to Stephen Moss about the Apollo 11 mission 40 years ago

 

guardian.co.uk: Corrections and clarifications 2009-07-03

An obituary of the former British fascist leader Colin Jordan (April 13, page 31) stated that a fatal fire at a theological college in Stamford Hill ...

 

Al-Jazeerah.info: Somalia clashes kill 15 civilians, US increases weapon shipment ... 2009-07-03

In May, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development — a group of seven countries in the Horn of Africa region that has led past peace talks on Somali ...

 

Al-Jazeerah.info: Former US Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and Irish Nobel Prize ... 2009-07-03

... imprisoned solidarity activists like former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire.

 

Lebanon: Amnesty defends report on Israel's destruction of Gaza - Daily Star 2009-07-03

... on civilians and civilian object ... the prohibition of indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, and the prohibition on collective punishment.

 

Lebanon: Foreign meddling is no excuse for the Lebanese to not have a local ... - Daily Star 2009-07-03

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is not responsible for whether our pharmacies abide by professional standards. out but not necessarily impact our service ...

 

Lebanon: US labels Iraq-based Kataeb Hizbullah a 'foreign terror group' - Daily Star 2009-07-03

... a "terrorist" group under the Immigration and Nationality Act and Executive Order 13224, signed by former US President George W. Bush in September 2001.

 

Dissident Voice: Settlement Freeze Flap Reveals Israel As Difficult Peace Partner 2009-07-03

... or visit Ira's website. This article was posted on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 7:00am and is filed under History, Israel/Palestine, Prejudice.

 

Dissident Voice: The Fight to Save James Hickman in Post-WWII Chicago 2009-07-03

The available housing for Blacks in Chicago was confined almost entirely to the South Side ghetto, leading to massive overcrowding.

 

UN News Centre: UN helping Timorese uprooted families return home peacefully 2009-07-03

In his most recent report on Timor-Leste, which the UN shepherded to independence in 2002, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said warned that the root causes ...

 

UN News Centre: UNESCO chief backs G8 call on Iran to respect human rights 2009-07-03

3 July 2009 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding freedom of expression and press freedom today voiced his strong support for ...

 

UN News Centre: Financing tops discussion among administrative heads of UN-backed ... 2009-07-03

3 July 2009 – The Registrars, or top administrative officials, of the International Criminal Court (ICC), United Nations tribunals and courts backed by ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Afghan recovery report: Helmandis braced for Taleban battle 2009-07-03

"I cannot remember a single operation involving foreign soldiers that has not resulted in civilian casualties," said Pacha, a resident of Lashkar Gah whose ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): War against Islamic extremists putting lives of civilians in Asi ... 2009-07-03

The de-escalation in fighting in Sri Lanka now reduces the immediate threat of mass civilian casualties but MRG remains concerned about the human right ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Sri Lanka: Historic unity for Development and Reconciliation 2009-07-03

Mr. Nimal Siripala De Silva, Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition representing the SLFP (Sri Lanka Freedom Party) said the President's initiative was most ...

 

Australia.TO: Strike: The only option of peaceful protest for Kashmiris 2009-07-03

Most of the Kashmiris feel that Indian government is using more repressive measures in Kashmir than Israeli soldiers employ against Palestinians.

 

Australia.TO: Kevin Rudd Interview With Premier Barnett 2009-07-03

For the Commonwealth part this is a significant investment, some 195 million dollars in five priority areas towards health infrastructure, education ...

 

Australia.TO: The archaeology of Iran's regime 2009-07-03

The changing tides of international politics, symbolised by the election of Jimmy Carter to the United States presidency, reinforced the Shah's increasing ...

 

Buzzle: Top Cia Officials Appear Before Jury Over Destruction of Al-qaid ... 2009-07-03

... of torture against Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri who are described by the Americans as "high value" detainees now held at Guantánamo Bay.

 

CASMII: Iran's new rebellion 2009-07-03

The poor were here, too, the street workers and middle-aged ladies in full chador," reported Robert Fisk. Other journalists and participants ...

 

Truthdig: Washington Post Makes a Really Bad Decision 2009-07-03

By William Pfaff By Robert Scheer By Mark A. Fischer By Paul Krugman For a mere $250000, lobbyists and captains of industry were invited ...

 

Truthdig: Iran Blames the British 2009-07-03

Actually the second, the first book advocating a new American racist nationalism, railing against immigration and affermitive action. they claim they ...

 

Atlantic Online: An Ethical Case For The Ticking Time-Bomb Scenario 2009-07-03

But as centuries of civil disobedience have shown us, what is legal is not always ethical, and what is ethical is not always legal.

 

Atlantic Online: Things That Make You Go Hmmm, Ctd 2009-07-03

The decision to have Trig and to care for him and support him and defend the rights of children with special needs is a noble, admirable thing.

 

Atlantic Online: "A Very Physical Presence" 2009-07-03

It feels like martial law. There are checkpoints, they randomly pull over cars. They check the whole thing for cameras. Even if you're carrying a camer ...

 

Antiwar.com: Report: US Opposes New Iran Sanctions 2009-07-03

Advocates are seeking to punish Iran for its crackdown on protesters against last month's disputed election, but US officials are reportedly concerned th ...

 

Antiwar.com: The Lingering Effects of Torture 2009-07-03

Like many of the other inmates interrogated at Guantánamo Bay, Adeel's personal nightmare did not end when he returned home.

 

Redress Information & Analysis: Israel pisses on Britain (again) – and our craven leaders love it 2009-07-03

Teresa was released after six days, her “crime” probably being a member of the International Solidarity Campaign like Rachel Corrie before her.

 

Redress Information & Analysis: Israel pisses on Britain (again) – and our craven leaders love it 2009-07-03

Teresa was released after six days, her “crime” probably being a member of the International Solidarity Campaign like Rachel Corrie before her.

 

mcclatchydc.com: Iraq: Biden's visit to Iraq raises questions about Iraq's future 2009-07-03

BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden's surprise two-day visit this weekend to Iraq was meant to "re-establish contact" with leaders here, but some Iraqis bristled at the messenger more than the message.

 

Talk Radio News Service: King Says Fewer Illegals, But More Guns Crossing Border Into US 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa), checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border, where he says fewer illegal immigrants are crossing into the United States.

 

Talk Radio News Service: King Says Napolitano Is Obama's Puppet On Immigration 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border where he says DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano should understand the issue of illegal ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: US Must Build Concrete Border Fence, Says King 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border where he explains that if the US is serious about securing its southern border ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: King Says DHS “Going Backwards” On Immigration Enforcement 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border where he says Janet Napolitano's recent condemnations of work-site immigration raid ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: King Supports Keeping Troops At US-Mexico Border 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border where he says the presence of US troops is working to deter illegal immigrants ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: Immigrants Who Cross Border Illegally Are Criminals, Says King 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border where he explains that any immigrant who crosses into the United States illegally is ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: King Says Americans Still Don't Support Amnesty For Illegals 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border where he argues that Americans in general still do not support giving amnesty to illegal ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: King Explains What US Needs To Do To Secure Southern Border 2009-07-03

Steve King (R-Iowa) checks in live from the Arizona-Mexico border to explain exactly what steps the US needs to take in order to fully secure it's border ...

 

Independent: US nuns on the run from Vatican inquiry 2009-07-03

Probably more famous than any American nun (aside from Whoopi Goldberg on screen) is Sister Helen Prejean, whose campaign against the death penalty w ...

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Bleating obvious 2009-07-03

There are several lessons one might draw from the (solved) mystery of the shrinking sheep of the Isle of Hirta. There is the obvious, and alarming, lesson that climate change is advancing rapidly.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Our prisons are not doing what we expect of them 2009-07-03

The recommendations of the two-year study by the Commission on English Prisons Today are what you would expect from a report sponsored by those veteran campaigners for penal reform, the Howard League. But that does not make its prescriptions any less sensible, or pertinent to our present situation.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Bleating obvious 2009-07-03

There are several lessons one might draw from the (solved) mystery of the shrinking sheep of the Isle of Hirta. There is the obvious, and alarming, lesson that climate change is advancing rapidly.

 

The Independent - World: Dancing in the streets after gay sex is declared legal in India 2009-07-03

Jubilant crowds cheered outside a Delhi court yesterday after judges announced that gay sex was not a crime - a landmark ruling for India that spells the end for a 150-year-old law introduced by the British Raj.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Our prisons are not doing what we expect of them 2009-07-03

The recommendations of the two-year study by the Commission on English Prisons Today are what you would expect from a report sponsored by those veteran campaigners for penal reform, the Howard League. But that does not make its prescriptions any less sensible, or pertinent to our present situation.

 

The Independent - World: UN head meets junta to plead Suu Kyi's case 2009-07-03

In a high stakes diplomatic mission, the UN secretary general is today due to press Burma's military leaders to release all its political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi - even as the widely condemned trial of the imprisoned opposition leader resumes.

 

Independent: Battle for pink vote gets poisonous 2009-07-03

Tory chiefs said an influx of socially liberal MPs would leave those hostile to gay rights as a minority in the party. One said: "You'll be left with ...

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Information must be free - and speedy 2009-07-03

The campaign for Freedom of Information has uncovered a number that beggars belief. A case presented to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) took three years and more than 10 months to resolve. Students complete degree courses more rapidly. Full combat operations in Iraq were concluded in less time.

 

The Independent - World: Mother of Jackson children 'to seek custody' 2009-07-03

Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of Michael Jackson's children, Prince Michael, 12, and Paris Michael Katherine,11, told a television station in Los Angeles last night that she intended to file for custody for both of them.

 

Independent: After Suitable Boy, India in frenzy over A Suitable Girl 2009-07-03

Yet as Seth points out, many of the issues important in 1952, when his original story was set, are still important: land reform, the rights of women ...

 

The Independent - World: Writers attack new Italian 'race laws' 2009-07-03

Italy's parliament yesterday gave final approval to a controversial law which criminalises illegal immigration and legalises unarmed vigilante patrols by citizens. The law was assured an easy final passage by being tied to a confidence vote, so that MPs in the ruling coalition were virtually obliged to vote for it.

 

Independent: Robert Fisk's World: Tanks roll and guns fall silent, but ... 2009-07-03

No, a "practising" Muslim is also a code word for "terrorist" – just as the accusation of being "pro-Palestinian" means that the accused is actually ...

 

The Independent - World: Troops gather on Georgian border 2009-07-03

It's easy to see how things could spiral out of control: the two sides are braced for combat. At Ergneti on Georgia's border with South Ossetia, Georgian military police stand guard behind high barricades made of sandbags and two metre-high slabs of concrete. Out of sight barely 20 metres away, the forces of South Ossetia and Russia are mustered behind barricades of their own, their national flags fluttering.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Information must be free - and speedy 2009-07-03

The campaign for Freedom of Information has uncovered a number that beggars belief. A case presented to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) took three years and more than 10 months to resolve. Students complete degree courses more rapidly. Full combat operations in Iraq were concluded in less time.

 

The Independent - World: Bailiffs move into Madoff's $7m Manhattan home 2009-07-03

The US government has seized possession of Bernard Madoff's $7m penthouse on Manhattan's exclusive Upper East Side, changing the locks and forcing his wife of 50 years, Ruth Madoff, to seek new accommodation.

 

The Independent - World: Judge blocks Catcher in the Rye sequel 2009-07-03

A Swedish author whose new book was promoted as a sequel to J D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye cannot publish it in the United States because it too closely mirrors Salinger's classic without adequate parody or critique, a judge ruled.

 

Independent: Robert Chesshyre: Ronnie Biggs should be freed 2009-07-03

AP Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ronnie Biggs shuffle into the prison waiting room. This was more than two years ago, and he was clearly a sick man;

 

The Independent - World: Air France jet 'not destroyed in flight' 2009-07-03

An intact Air France Flight 447 slammed belly first into the Atlantic Ocean at high speed, a top French investigator said yesterday, adding that problems with speed sensors were not the direct cause of the crash.

 

Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times July 3 Letters from our readers 2009-07-03

My hope is that the district attorney will thoroughly investigate the facts and take appropriate action if it is determined that laws have been broken.

 

Daily Kos: My interaction with Single Payer 2009-07-03

For 12 years she wrestled with the so-called "Wonderful" private health care program we have, dealing with cortizone shots and other non-effective ...

 

Daily Kos: Matt Taibbi Eviscerates Goldman Sachs 2009-07-03

Having seamlessly navigated the political minefield of the bailout era, Goldman is once again back to its old business, scouting out loopholes in a new ...

 

Daily Kos: Mayor Larry Gilbert Stands on the Side of Workers 2009-07-03

by Employee Free Choice Act Mayor Larry Gilbert is one of the many public figures that have stepped up to voice support for the Employee Free Choice Act ...

 

Daily Kos: RIP Dempsey Travis 2009-07-03

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1960 March on Chicago, and was president of the NAACP Chicago Chapter from 1959 to 1960. (Dr. King, you may recall ...

 

Daily Kos: Damage Control: 7 Ways Sanford Has Made Things Harder on Himself 2009-07-03

John Edwards did this surprisingly well. He arranged a sit-down and allowed the interviewer to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

 

Daily Kos: They Called Him A Coward... 2009-07-03

This is not a diary about people who use Liberty and Fascist as talking points without knowing what they mean. Many of you may know that Tom Perriello is ...

 

Daily Kos: Age 22. Bankrupt from Our "Healthcare." 2009-07-03

I'm grateful to be on Medicare and Medicaid. I wish all Americans could have that. On the downside to retain disability you really cannot work at all- ...

 

Daily Kos: A Plan to End the Wars 2009-07-03

In that choice we find a solution to the healthcare debate that is almost too easy to be believed, but deadly real. And we find a solution to ...

 

Amnesty USA: News Releases: Nepal Prime Minister urged to commit to combating enforced disappearances 2009-07-03

A delegation from Amnesty International delivered thousands of letters to the prime minister, calling on him to ratify a treaty aimed at combating enforced disappearances.

 

_daily_dish/2009/07/a-very-physical-presence.html">"A Very Physical Presence" 2009-07-03

It feels like martial law. There are checkpoints, they randomly pull over cars. They check the whole thing for cameras. Even if you're carrying a camer ...

 

About US Liberal Politics: In Praise of America 2009-07-03

2009-07-03: Top Stories

CNN: Video shows Honduran troops shooting protesters' bus tires 2009-07-03

Honduran soldiers shot out the tires of buses headed for a demonstration in support of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, a video obtained by CNN shows.

 

Reuters: Iranian cleric says UK embassy staff face trial 2009-07-03

A senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that detained British embassy staff would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, and EU countries summoned Iranian envoys to protest against the detentions.

 

News24: Protests grow in Honduras 2009-07-03

Demonstrations grew across Honduras on Thursday by both supporters and detractors of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, ahead of an expected weekend showdown when he plans to return home.

 

Salem-News.Com: Almost 50 US Casualties in Iraq & Afghanistan Reported in June 2009-07-03

14 members of the U.S. military have lost their lives in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait, between June 21st and June 29th 2009. They bring the total reported in June to 48, according to our numbers.

 

Belfast Telegraph: UK could face 100000 swine flu cases a day 2009-07-03

Swine flu cannot be contained and the number of new cases could reach 100,000 per day by the end of next month, the government has admitted.

 

WalesOnline: Only some will now receive anti-viral swine flu drugs 2009-07-03

ANTI-FLU drugs will no longer be handed out in Wales in a bid to prevent swine flu spreading, as experts have admitted they can no longer contain the virus.

 

Atlanta Journal Constitution: McKinney: I'm in jail in Israel 2009-07-03

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed in a phone call posted online that she is in an Israeli prison with others who attempted to run a blockade to deliver supplies to Gaza.

2009-07-03: Selected Headlines

The Public Record: CIA Now Delays IG's Torture Report Until the End of the Summer 2009-07-03

The CIA told a federal court judge Thursday that it will not be able to determine whether any part of a report prepared by the agency's inspector general that called into question the legality of the Bush administration's torture program can be publicly released until the end of the summer, the time in which the agency said it expects to complete it's "labor-intensive" review.

 

Telegraph.co.uk: Global markets retreat on poor US jobs data 2009-07-03

Global stock markets fell sharply on signs the US labour market continues to be hurt by the global recession, with the unemployment rate hitting a 26-year high in June and the number of job losses rising for the first time in five months.

 

AlterNet: The Results Are In: A Public Health Plan Saves Big Money 2009-07-03

The arguments by obstructionists are dead -- the math shows health care costs will drop while achieving near universal coverage.

 

Media Matters for America: Media Matters: Limbaugh's Off the Wall spin on Michael Jackson's death 2009-07-03

In the decision that Sotomayor joined denying en banc rehearing of the appeal of the district court's decision, Judge Barrington Parker -- a George W. Bush ...

 

RTE.ie: UN chief arrives in Burma for talks 2009-07-03

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is meeting Burma's top general to urge him to free all political prisoners and ensure next year's elections are credible.

 

International Middle East Media Center: Army admits Gaza girl was killed Thursday by army fire 2009-07-03

The Israeli army admitted that the 17-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday died of Israeli military fire, and that eleven other Palestinians were injured in the incident.

 

The Public Record: From The Archives: State Department's Iran Democracy Fund Shrouded ... 2009-07-03

... who desire basic civil liberties such as freedom of expression, greater rights for women, more open political process, and broader freedom of the press.

 

The Public Record: Defense Department Releases Previously Secret Torture Documents 2009-07-03

The 12 documents were released as part of the American Civil Liberties Union's long-running Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the government ...

 

The Public Record: Obama Continues to Move Further Away From Promise of Transparency 2009-07-03

That cloud remains because the defendant obstructed justice and lied about what happened." Libby received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence but it w ...

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Bleating obvious 2009-07-03

There are several lessons one might draw from the (solved) mystery of the shrinking sheep of the Isle of Hirta. There is the obvious, and alarming, lesson that climate change is advancing rapidly.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Information must be free - and speedy 2009-07-03

The campaign for Freedom of Information has uncovered a number that beggars belief. A case presented to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) took three years and more than 10 months to resolve. Students complete degree courses more rapidly. Full combat operations in Iraq were concluded in less time.

 

Independent: Robert Chesshyre: Ronnie Biggs should be freed 2009-07-03

Now, says Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, Biggs should not be freed because he is "unrepentant". If unrepentant criminals were never freed ...

 

The Dominion: June in Review, Part II 2009-07-03

A car bomb exploded in a market in Kirkuk, in nothern Iraq, killing up to 40 civilians. The blast came as US troops began to withdraw from Iraqi cities.

 

American Muslim: The defamation of Cynthia McKinney and other violations of her ... 2009-07-03

Israel is a military and the Hamas fighters were not. There is a higher standard of responsibility on the Israelis who murdered more than 450 Palestini ...

 

Truthdig: Mark A. Fischer on Joe Torre 2009-07-03

By Paul Krugman By Mark A. Fischer Does it matter who manages a baseball team? Leaders are important in life.

 

FinalCall.com: Netanyahu's 'brilliant' peace plan 2009-07-03

Therefore, the newly pledged Zionist Palestinians would have to launch a civil war to defeat those who foolishly insist on resisting Zionism.

 

FinalCall.com: Hezbollah still a force in Lebanon 2009-07-03

A March 14th win may also have a positive effect on Obama's plans for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. "A Hezbollah win would ...

 

FinalCall.com: Native groups seek justice after 'massacre' 2009-07-03

... Mr. Morales instead sent a letter by the hand of Senator Leonilda Zurita, an activist for women's rights and political and trade union freedoms.

 

FinalCall.com: Race, politics and the power relationship 2009-07-03

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. succeeded in planning and executing his much lauded march on Washington. Through a moral appeal to America and the world ...

 

FinalCall.com: Complications likely in US-Iran relations 2009-07-03

Because incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won the poll amid allegations of fraudulent results, his principal challenger Mir Hossein Moussavi ...

 

Atlantic Online: An Ethical Case For The Ticking Time-Bomb Scenario 2009-07-03

But as centuries of civil disobedience have shown us, what is legal is not always ethical, and what is ethical is not always legal.

 

IRINnews.org: WEST AFRICA: Another stab at the "resource curse" 2009-07-03

DAKAR, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international ...

 

IRINnews.org: WEST AFRICA: Another stab at the "resource curse" 2009-07-03

DAKAR, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international ...

 

AlterNet: Why the Left Looks Like a Big Hypocrite in the Sanford Affair 2009-07-03

No sooner had Sanford made his forced confession than the knees of the righteous, in this case Rachel Maddow, Maureen Dowd and legions of Democratic ...

 

Swissinfo: Red Cross youth highlight challenges ahead 2009-07-03

... his experiences in his landmark book, A Memory of Solferino, which proved inspiration for the creation of the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions.

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Ahead Of Visit, Obama Calls On Russia To Break From The Past 2009-07-03

Reducing both countries' nuclear weapons will be high on the agenda during Obama's visit. He told The AP that he is looking for progress on this issue.

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: US Drone Strike Kills 10 In Pakistan 2009-07-03

US officials have welcomed the offensive, after the Taliban's gains raised fears about Pakistan's stability and the safety of its nuclear arsenal.

 

CASMII: IAEA chooses Japanese as new head 2009-07-03

The decision by the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency board ended a tug of war on who should succeed Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei ...

 

New America Media: Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Supreme Court Ruling on Conn. Firefighters May Aid Sotomayor Attackers 2009-07-03

The Supreme Court ruling that white New Haven, Conn., firefighters were discriminated against won't derail Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation as Supreme Court Justice, but it could pay a small dividend to conservative attack dogs in another way, according to author and political analyst, Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

 

New America Media: Elena Shore: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03

It's not surprising Iranian women are at the forefront of the demonstrations. Despite laws that curtail their freedoms, women in Iran are very visible in public life and have a century of activism behind them.

 

New America Media: Roger Burbach: Honduran Coup Tries to Halt Advance of Latin America's Left 2009-07-03

The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade.

 

OregonLive.com: Author Arianne Cohen walks tall, very tall, in Portland and loves it 2009-07-03

Only two presidents since 1888 were under 5-11 1/2 (Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter) and the 6-4 John Kerry was the only taller candidate in that period to lose ...

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Iraqi forces begin to take control 2009-07-03

The US military said four soldiers died from combat-related injuries on Monday, taking to 4321 the number of American troops killed since the invasion.

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Nbad & Luup to launch international money transfer via mobile phones 2009-07-03

NBAD's overseas network stretches from Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain in the GCC, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan in Africa, London, Paris, and Geneva in Europe ...

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Iran withdraws mobile license from Zain 2009-07-03

(MENAFN) Iran has stripped its third mobile license from Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co (Zain), and will hold a new tender for the license ...

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Nbad & Luup to launch international money transfer via mobile phones 2009-07-03

NBAD's overseas network stretches from Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain in the GCC, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan in Africa, London, Paris, and Geneva in Europe ...

 

Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Nbad & Luup to launch international money transfer via mobile phones 2009-07-03

NBAD's overseas network stretches from Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain in the GCC, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan in Africa, London, Paris, and Geneva in Europe ...

 

Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times July 3 Letters from our readers 2009-07-03

My hope is that the district attorney will thoroughly investigate the facts and take appropriate action if it is determined that laws have been broken.

 

Amnesty International USA: India: Historic ruling against “sodomy” laws, the first step ... 2009-07-03

The court rejected the law as discriminatory and “against constitutional morality”. “Amnesty International urges the Indian government to address abuse ...

 

Amnesty International USA: India: Historic ruling against “sodomy” laws, the first step ... 2009-07-03

The court rejected the law as discriminatory and “against constitutional morality”. “Amnesty International urges the Indian government to address abuse ...

 

Center for Research on Globalization: Corrupt election campaign unfolds in US-occupied Afghanistan 2009-07-03

A poll conducted by the right-wing International Republican Institute found that just 31 percent of the respondents intended to vote for Karzai ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Strabag withdraws from $435 mln Cemex units deal 2009-07-03

VIENNA, July 3 (Reuters) - Austrian builder Strabag dropped its plan to buy Mexican cement giant Cemex's Hungarian and Austrian units for 310 million euro ...

 

guardian.co.uk: German private sector shrinks at unchanged pace in June 2009-07-03

"Anecdotal evidence from survey respondents suggested that weak economic conditions and a subsequent drop in client demand were the main factors leading ...

 

guardian.co.uk: How to handle Russia 2009-07-03

... Europe and the US will find themselves confronted with a greater danger than that posed by the nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea.

 

guardian.co.uk: CEOs use Obama visit to press Russia on rule of law 2009-07-03

The summit between Obama and Medvedev is expected to focus on talks on cutting US and Russian nuclear weapons and on helping Washington in Afghanistan.

 

guardian.co.uk: OPEC president satisfied with current oil price 2009-07-03

... on the chance of Angola signing an oil-for-loan deal, as several other of China's trading partners, including Brazil and Russia, have done this year.

 

guardian.co.uk: US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 642 2009-07-03

The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines;

 

guardian.co.uk: German gas storage growth slows, better rules needed 2009-07-03

"For us the central point is whether the facilities are economically and fairly used and whether there is access across Europe's borders on the pipeline ...

 

guardian.co.uk: The Northerner: Sunshine, seating and sandcastles 2009-07-03

In an age when everyone seems to be running marathons or cycling through Peru for charity, this is inevitable – although if I was a tot at Buttercup ...

 

Consortium News: Coast-to-Coast Political Gridlock 2009-07-03

Michael Winship is senior writer of the weekly public affairs program “Bill Moyers Journal,” which airs Friday night on PBS. Check local airtimes or comment ...

 

Antiwar.com: US Lawmakers Call For Supporting Terrorists In Iran 2009-07-03

Human Rights Watch has also accused the group of perpetrating serious human rights abuses, including torture, at a number of secret prison camps.

 

Antiwar.com: The Lingering Effects of Torture 2009-07-03

Like many of the other inmates interrogated at Guantánamo Bay, Adeel's personal nightmare did not end when he returned home.

 

Antiwar.com: Obama 'Uneasy' Over Indefinite Detention Without Charges 2009-07-03

The Obama Administration has struggled with how to handle the massive detention system it inherited, and after pledging to close the Guantanamo Bay facility ...

 

Asia Times Online: A tryst with India's communal past 2009-07-03

At the same time, leaders and parties in states such as Bihar, Delhi and Orissa, which have provided corruption-free pro-growth governance, have emerged ...

 

Asia Times Online: A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow 2009-07-03

Clearly, Moscow is leaving nothing to chance and is responding to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) exercises in Georgia in May ...

 

Asia Times Online: Pyongyang plans fourth of July fireworks 2009-07-03

All they have to do then is learn how to tip the missile with a weapon of mass destruction - either nuclear, chemical or biological.

 

Asia Times Online: Strength and dishonor 2009-07-03

"Faced with unfair competition, monopoly, protection, and corruption, some people started seeing the Tatmadaw's commercial activities as vehicles for ...

 

Asia Times Online: US Marines to 'drink lots of tea' 2009-07-03

In other words, while focusing on a very uphill battle in the south, the US- and North Atlantic Treaty organization-led coalition risks losing the north ...

 

Asia Times Online: A UN crapshoot in Pakistan 2009-07-03

As long as former president, General Pervez Musharraf, was head of state, the Pakistani government was adamant that no international investigation ...

 

McClatchy Washington Bureau: Commentary: Sanford not fit to lead 2009-07-03

After reading his wife's account of events — she discovered the affair by accident, he begged to go back to Argentina, she warned him not ...

 

Australia.TO: The archaeology of Iran's regime 2009-07-03

Carter rode to power in 1976 partly by emphasising a commitment to the defence of human rights in order to redeem America's image after the Vietnam war ...

 

Zawya: Gazans take the plunge at poisoned beaches 2009-07-03

The pollution is largely blamed on Israel's crippling two-year embargo of the Hamas-run enclave, which has hindered the upkeep of infrastructure but also left Gazans with little else to do in their free time but head to the beach.

 

Xinhua: US scientists discover why A/H1N1 flu virus spreads less effectively 2009-07-03

The new A/H1N1 strain of flu has a form of surface protein that binds inefficiently to receptors found in the human respiratory tract, which make it spread from person to person less effectively than other flu viruses, scientists said.

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Sea Lion 'Hijacks' Police Harbor Boat (VIDEO) 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Guantanamo's Early Months: "Chaotic And Sometimes Violent Operation" 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Ruth Madoff's Fur Coat Taken By The Feds 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: LAPD Under Scrutiny After Jackson's Death 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Congressional Quarterly Sued For Corporate Espionage 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Carolyn Rubenstein: The In2 Effect: How One Word Can Shift Your Perspective 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Joan Blades: Outing the Toxic in Our High Chairs 2009-07-03

 

HuffingtonPost.com: Head Scarf, or Jilbab, Emerges As Indonesian Election Issue 2009-07-03

 

Independent: Taking the Flak - The joy of foreign parts 2009-07-02

Behind the wisecracks, it does give a glimpse of just how unpredictable and dangerous child soldiers can be, as some of us found to our cost in Sierra Leone ...

 

OneWorld.net: Media Call for Immigration Reform 2009-07-02

Over 250 ethnic media outlets and their allies across the United States have said they will publish a collective editorial in the next two weeks calling ...

 

OneWorld.net: Minorities in Africa at risk from 'war on terror' 2009-07-02

Despite peace talks in 2009 between Tuareg rebels and the government, MRG says it is too early to count on de-escalation in a conflict that had led ...

 

Online Journal: Happy Fourth! China is bidding on Iraq's oilfields 2009-07-02

But mostly, after Bush and Cheney lied their way into war in search of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, now we allow the Chinese to do Iraq's oil ...

 

CounterCurrents.org: Emergency Email To Obama Re Gaza 2009-07-02

My friend, Cynthia McKinney and Nobel laureate, Mairead Maguire and 20 other people were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, ...

 

CounterCurrents.org: Unorthodox Reflections Of A Revolutionary 2009-07-02

So the idea that somehow freedom of the press didn't exist is ridiculous. So that's one answer. Another answer, a more telling answer, is th ...

 

The Young Turks: The Messiah Complex: Did liberals and progressives fall for it? 2009-07-02

One thing that comes to mind... warrantless wiretapping, I can't believe that's still going... but for some reason and maybe I'm being biased ...

 

The Young Turks: The Roosevelt/Obama Analogy 2009-07-02

All of the issues continue to be framed in the same way they were going back to the days of Jimmy Carter. For example, the desire to enact any sort ...

 

International Middle East Media Center: PCHR Weekly Report: 11 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children ... 2009-07-02

Israeli forces have continued measures aimed at establishing a Jewish majority in occupied east Jerusalem. Israeli forces demolished a structure recently ...

 

UN News Centre: Progress in West Africa remains fragile, despite positive trend ... 2009-07-02

... and infringements of democratic processes and disregard for human rights. The report also highlights drug trafficking and cross-border organized crime ...

 

UN News Centre: UN-Caribbean partnership crucial amid today's crises, says Ban 2009-07-02

2 July 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed the collaboration between the United Nations and the countries of the Caribbean in tackling ...

 

UN News Centre: Independent UN rights expert criticizes seizure of aid boat ... 2009-07-02

It also violates Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits any form of collective punishment directed at an occupied people, he stated.

 

UN News Centre: Niger's continuing crisis imperils democracy, Secretary-General warns 2009-07-02

2 July 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced deep concern about Niger's continuing political and constitutional crisis, warning that ...

 

Huffington Post: The Internet Is the People's Medium 2009-07-02

Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracy and all of us who labor in the media space, online or off, help to preserve that cornerstone even as we ...

 

Huffington Post: Palin, Vanity Fair, Envy, and Hate 2009-07-02

On any given day, like the regularity of the Sun rising or setting, you can expect Maureen Dowd of The New York Times to hurl even more insults at a wom ...

 

Huffington Post: Chuck Grassley: If You Want Good Health Insurance, Work For ... 2009-07-02

We, the people, DEMAND that Single Payer be included in whatever Health Care Reform legislation you pass. We will be watching your actions closely, so ...

 

Huffington Post: Volunteering Time and Talent in Afghanistan 2009-07-02

She's currently the Afghanistan country specialist for Amnesty International. She has lobbied congress, and she has spoken about pressing human right ...

 

Huffington Post: "The Jacksons:" The Ultimate Reality Show 2009-07-02

We also have the shameless, attention-starved, sycophantic, blood-sucking media-whore leeches Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who've been about as ubiquitou ...

 

Huffington Post: Ballots Not Bullets for Afghanistan 2009-07-02

On August 20, Afghanistan holds only the second election in its long and often turbulent history. For its own people, this is a historic event.

 

Huffington Post: The Great American Melting Pot (?) 2009-07-02

Plummeting test scores and rampant student apathy will not end because of laws like No Child Left Behind. For that, we need the immediate return ...

 

Huffington Post: Hypocrisy in Red and Blue: How Republicans and Democrats Betray ... 2009-07-02

We can all recall their declarations at various points that certain items were "off the table" - the impeachment of Bush regime members or, post-electi ...

 

AFL-CIO: Ayers: Employee Free Choice Act a 'Win-Win' for Workers, Business 2009-07-02

The Employee Free Choice Act is a win-win for America and American businesses. Unions are an essential part of a strong democracy, and they play a crucial ...

 

MWC News: The Banality of Evil Applies to Everyone 2009-07-02

Moreover, the CIA agents and US soldiers at Abu Ghraib obviously had no moral reservations about the murder, torture, and sex abuse committed against Iraqi ...

 

The NarcoSphere: Rampant Corruption at DHS and subordinate agencies: Open Letter ... 2009-07-02

This writer tried contacting Arizona US House of Representative Raul Grijalva, who is my local US Congressman. I tried contacting US Senator John McCain ...

 

The Public Record: ACLU: Obama Admin. Relying On Tortured Confession In Habeas Case 2009-07-02

The habeas corpus case involves Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan who was believed to be 12-years-old when he was captured in December 2002, was “subjected ...

 

The Independent - World: Actor left to ask: 'Where's the money, Skip?' after court case 2009-07-02

An actor who starred in the iconic 1960s Australian television show Skippy has lost a legal battle for a share of the millions of dollars it has generated in the past 40 years.

 

Independent: Cherie Booth QC: How to cut the prison population 2009-07-02

It is why the Howard League for Penal Reform believed there was a need to examine anew the role of prisons in our society. The Commission on English Pri ...

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: This is no way to run the nation's railways 2009-07-02

Does the return of the East Coast Main Line to public ownership prove that the privatisation of the railways was a mistake and ought to be reversed? No, but it does demonstrate that the system of awarding franchises to private train operators needs to be comprehensively overhauled.

 

The Independent - World: New charges for Israeli troops 2009-07-02

The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that the army must file more serious charges against soldiers filmed abusing a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner last year.

 

The Independent - World: World Focus: Will Franken be the Democrats' lefty bogeyman? 2009-07-02

As a comedian, Senator-elect Al Franken knows about timing. It wasn't enough to win as the new junior senator from Minnesota last November: he had his party wait eight months, no less, before finally overcoming the vote-count wrangles with the man he now replaces, Republican Norman Coleman.

 

The Independent - World: Sole crash survivor 'could hardly swim', says father 2009-07-02

The 13-year-old girl who was the only survivor of the Yemenia Airbus which crashed in the Indian Ocean "could hardly swim", according to her father, Kassim Bakari.

 

The Independent - World: Madoff's wife 'unlikely to face charges' 2009-07-02

Ruth Madoff, wife of the swindler Bernard Madoff, is not likely to face criminal charges in connection with her husband's record-breaking fraud, according to reports last night.

 

Independent: Troops gather on Georgian border 2009-07-02

Many houses here, and in other villages on the way to the Georgian city of Gori 20 miles away, suffered heavy damage from Russian aerial bombardment last ...

 

The Independent - World: Felipe Gonzalez takes on Blair for EU presidency 2009-07-02

He oversaw the modernisation of Spain and secured its entry into the EU; he ruled for 13 years before falling from view in a 1996 political scandal. But now Felipe Gonzalez, the charismatic former Socialist prime minister is once more stalking the land and being spoken of as a challenger to Tony Blair in the race to become the first "President of Europe".

 

Independent: Johann Hari: A coup Latin America didn't need 2009-07-02

He was replaced by a self-described "fascist", General Augusto Pinochet, who went on to "disappear" tens of thousands of innocent people.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: A reform to make our skies safer 2009-07-02

Bahia Bakari, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, was found clinging to aeroplane wreckage eight miles from the island of Le Grande Comore on Tuesday. Her recovery is one comfort in a tragedy that killed the 152 other passengers on Yemenia flight IY626, a crash which raises fresh fears about the safety of international air travel.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Vindictive justice 2009-07-02

A 79-year-old man languishes behind bars, where he has been for the past eight years. His health is shot and he cannot walk unaided. His crime was committed in 1963 and he is no longer a threat to anyone. And last week, the Parole Board recommended his early release.

 

Independent: Writers attack new Italian 'race laws' 2009-07-02

The law will also oblige doctors, teachers and civil servants to report immigrants who they discover are illegal to the authorities.

 

The Independent - World: World Focus: Will Franken be the Democrats' lefty bogeyman? 2009-07-02

As a comedian, Senator-elect Al Franken knows about timing. It wasn't enough to win as the new junior senator from Minnesota last November: he had his party wait eight months, no less, before finally overcoming the vote-count wrangles with the man he now replaces, Republican Norman Coleman.

 

The Independent - World: Honduran president 'cannot return without fight' 2009-07-02

The interim leader of Honduras said the only way his predecessor would return to office was through a foreign invasion. A potential showdown was postponed yesterday when the ousted President delayed plans to return.

 

Independent: This sick old man should be freed 2009-07-02

AP Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ronnie Biggs shuffle into the prison waiting room. This was more than two years ago, and he was clearly a sick man;

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: This is no way to run the nation's railways 2009-07-02

Does the return of the East Coast Main Line to public ownership prove that the privatisation of the railways was a mistake and ought to be reversed? No, but it does demonstrate that the system of awarding franchises to private train operators needs to be comprehensively overhauled.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: A reform to make our skies safer 2009-07-02

Bahia Bakari, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, was found clinging to aeroplane wreckage eight miles from the island of Le Grande Comore on Tuesday. Her recovery is one comfort in a tragedy that killed the 152 other passengers on Yemenia flight IY626, a crash which raises fresh fears about the safety of international air travel.

 

The Independent - Leading Articles: Leading article: Vindictive justice 2009-07-02

A 79-year-old man languishes behind bars, where he has been for the past eight years. His health is shot and he cannot walk unaided. His crime was committed in 1963 and he is no longer a threat to anyone. And last week, the Parole Board recommended his early release.

 

Independent: Tony Blair's penal policy condemned – by Cherie 2009-07-02

Instead, the commission, set up two years ago by the Howard League for Prison Reform, said the emphasis should be on imprisoning offenders locally so th ...

 

Black Voice News: Heads Of Lettuce In A Vault 2009-07-02

After 25 years of intense research I am satisfied that what keeps struggling Black youth from rising out of poverty is failing to use the appropriate part ...

 

The Nation.: How Bold Is Barack? 2009-07-02

... freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom from want, equality of opportunity, and to a degree, freedom from fear.

 

AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: MURIC Decries Traditionalist-Imposed Curfews 2009-07-02

"Whereas the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees religious freedom and the right to manifest one's faith, it is common practice ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Uganda: How Prepared is the Country? 2009-07-02

Laboratory facilities at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) (a WHO Collaborating Center) in Entebbe have been fortified in order to screen and diagnose ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Ethiopia: New Draft Law Proposed to Prevent, Suppress Money Laundering 2009-07-02

It was also indicated that these sources among others were believed to be drug trafficking and weapon trading and trafficking, tax invasion, hum ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Africa: US Wants to Spotlight 'Successful Models' And Be ... 2009-07-02

And Kenya is not alone in some of the problems that we've seen of late, post-election or pre-election. And we just want to make sure that people are mindful ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Bakassi - Lamentations of Troubled Nigerian Fishermen 2009-07-02

We are daily subjected to extreme torture. They force us to pay taxes and levies that are strange and heavy. They insist that we must pay N250 ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Liberia: Far From Reconciliation 2009-07-02

As The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has come to the end of its mandate and made its report to the National Legislature, the Chairman ...

 

AllAfrica.com: Africa: Michael Jackson Returns to Neverland... Public Viewing ... 2009-07-02

The Rev Al Sharpton, a close family friend, spoke to USA Today about the arrangements after speaking to the Jackson's parents earlier in the week.

 

AllAfrica.com: Africa: Tribute to Michael Jackson (1958-2009) 2009-07-02

... of MJJ community.com online, revealed, so far about 12 people have committed suicide on account of his death, eliciting caution from Rev. Jesse Jackson.

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Sacramentans to Join July Fourth Viva Palestina Convoy 2009-07-02

What about the 11000 Palestinians who languish in jail, many of them tortured. We will update you on the status of our kidnapped passengers and our ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: US Forces Launch Helmand Campaign; Pakistani Public turns Against ... 2009-07-02

Some 4000 US military personnel and 650 Afghan troops are launching an assault on Taliban positions in Helmand Province ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: The Significance of Washington's Coup Attempt in Honduras 2009-07-02

It was also hoped that the Honduran people would be intimidated by martial law and a communications blackout. Neither was the case.

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Cynthia McKinney & others plus 2 ships of supplies heading to Gaz ... 2009-07-02

Cynthia McKinney, Green Party 2008 presidential candidate and others were removed from the ships and are being held against their wills in Israel.

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell ... 2009-07-02

The 21 activists on board include former Congressmember and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and the Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate Mairead ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Iran: Mousavi Remains Defiant; Journalists Held 2009-07-02

The regime is already conducting Stalinist show-trials, as in the case of Maziar Bahari, who recently appeared with me on Fareed ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf ... 2009-07-02

First of all, Cheney didn't make any sacrifices in Iraq. He deferred his own military service five times because he 'had other ...

 

Bay Area Indymedia: Reports from the front: The population of Honduras is fighting back 2009-07-02

But today, in one fell swoop their leaders erased those very freedoms, atop all the other ones they've already burned alive - freedom of the press, freedom ...

 

Workers' Liberty: SWP highlights mobilisation for Codnor 2009-07-02

The Socialist Workers' Party has decided this year to mobilise heavily through Unite Against Fascism against the BNP's "Red, White, and Blue" festival ...

 

Center For American Progress: Policy Recommendations for the July Moscow Summit and Beyond 2009-07-02

Its repeal would allow the United States and Russia to focus on critical issues such as arms control, nonproliferation, and Iran instead of rehashing Cold ...

 

Green Party US (press release): Statement from Cynthia McKinney; Israel holds 'Free Gaza 21' in ... 2009-07-02

(Democracy Now! interview with Ms. Maguire from her prison cell:

 

Human Rights Watch (press release): Honduras: Decree Suspends Basic Rights 2009-07-02

"The authorities should be clearly reminded that acts of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and enforced disappearances are absolutely prohibited ...

 

Truthdig: UN Investigating Bhutto Murder 2009-07-02

By Danny Goldberg By Dennis Kucinich AP photo / Mohammed Javed Benazir Bhutto arrives on Dec. 27, 2007, at the rally in Rawalpindi ...

 

Truthdig: Newsweeklies on the Brink 2009-07-02

Noam Chomsky says that the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal are the most accurate sources of information, 'because those running businesses ...

 

FinalCall.com: Legacy and Leadership – NAACP summit calls for action, renewal 2009-07-02

Focusing on the Ministry of Justice, Ms. Muhammad shared the importance of the office of prison reform. “Many of us, we seem to look down on brothers ...

 

FinalCall.com: Ethnic media expands its reach and influence 2009-07-02

Ethnic media reaches a substantial majority of African, Asian and Hispanic Americans and has increased its penetration into these ...

 

FinalCall.com: CBC report a peek at president's Black agenda? 2009-07-02

HR 1728 Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, introduced by Rep. Melvin L. Watt (NC): "To amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer ...

 

Venezuelanalysis.com: Book Review: Changing Venezuela by Taking Power 2009-07-02

... the state's role in the economy, civil disobedience, common criticisms of the Constitution; and then provides an overall summary of that section.

 

Atlantic Free Press: Liar Liar, Pants on Fire: I Told Them Everything but the Truth 2009-07-02

He hopes to offer a way out of this dilemma: a revolution sparked by massive civil disobedience in which the masses in the streets are backed by elements ...

 

Atlantic Free Press: Israeli doctors colluding in torture 2009-07-02

by Jonathon Cook in Nazareth Israel's watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities ...

 

Lebanon: Iran's leaders fear their own people most - Daily Star 2009-07-02

People power is expressed through the sustained, strategic use of noncooperation, civil disobedience, mass actions, strikes, boycotts, social networking ...

 

Lebanon: Hizbullah slams Ban's 'extreme bias' in 1701 report - Daily Star 2009-07-02

BEIRUT: Hizbullah on Thursday criticized UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over what the group called "extreme bias" toward Israel in h ...

 

Lebanon: Ban Ki-moon may not make noise, but he is effective - Daily Star 2009-07-02

He has regularly defended the Palestinians' rights to a state, but he also condemned Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel. During the fighting in Gaz ...

 

Lebanon: Fashion, misogyny and fascist aesthetics at Villa Audi - Daily Star 2009-07-02

Highly patriotic as the Futurists were, and with their penchant for violence, fascism was a natural political bedfellow for the movement, with Mussolini ...

 

Atlantic Online: Will Obama Now Defend Torture In Court? 2009-07-02

I wish I knew that the answer was categorically not. But we've learned the hard way that the Obama Department of Justice can defend things it doesn't ...

 

Atlantic Online: Calm After The Storm 2009-07-02

Also, Juan Cole gets an email: Throughout the capital there are deep marks etched onto the asphalt, mottled grooves in the shape of a blocky "u" from where ...

 

Atlantic Online: "Bearing Its Fangs" 2009-07-02

But today, in one fell swoop their leaders erased those very freedoms, atop all the other ones they've already burned alive - freedom of the press, freedom ...

 

Atlantic Online: The Flag And Palin 2009-07-02

Maureen Dowd was livid at the time ("There's something sickening about a young woman who vamps with the American flag, mocking her role as the silent center ...

 

Atlantic Online: "Bearing Its Fangs" 2009-07-02

But today, in one fell swoop their leaders erased those very freedoms, atop all the other ones they've already burned alive - freedom of the press, freedom ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): HR Commissioner - Special mission report on Kosovo 2009-07-02

Strasbourg, 02.07.2009 - Presenting his special mission report on Kosovo today, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights stressed that all ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Georgia/Russia: Press communiqué of the co-chairs of Genev ... 2009-07-02

These included adequate conditions conducive to returns, including security, confidence building and human rights; issues related to the socio-economic ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Georgia/Russia: Press communiqué of the co-chairs of Genev ... 2009-07-02

These included adequate conditions conducive to returns, including security, confidence building and human rights; issues related to the socio-economic ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Free Gaza reports: We are NOT the "story" - It's not just our 21 ... 2009-07-02

According to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, in May 2009 there were nearly 8000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

 

ReliefWeb (press release): DR Congo: Massive increase in attacks on civilians 2009-07-02

The LRA, whose leaders are wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Uganda, are currently ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Israel/Gaza: Operation 'cast lead': 22 days of death and destruction 2009-07-02

Its stated aim was to end rocket attacks into Israel by armed groups affiliated with Hamas and other Palestinian factions. By 18 January 2009 ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Russia: What your children do will touch upon you - Punitive house ... 2009-07-02

This report documents these episodes of collective punishment. Today, the armed conflict in Chechnya has subsided and the capital, Grozny, has been largely ...

 

ReliefWeb (press release): Food security, violent conflict, return of coups among challenge ... 2009-07-02

For instance, only 7 per cent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared with nearly 40 per cent in Asia and 20 per cent globally.

 

Al-Jazeerah.info: Human Rights Watch: Israeli drone-launched missile ... 2009-07-02

A new report brought out by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday reveals that Israel violated international laws of war during the recent Gaza war, by carrying out ...

 

Al-Jazeerah.info: Israeli occupation terrorist forces killed hundreds of unarmed ... 2009-07-02

The Israeli occupation terrorist forces are guilty of committing atrocious war crimes during its operation in the Gaza Strip in December and January ...

 

Al-Jazeerah.info: Illegal Israeli settlers establish new outpost near Tulkarem, More ... 2009-07-02

Dozens of illegal Israeli settlers took over farmland in Kafr Al-Labad village, in the northern West Bank by erecting three tents that now play home ...

 

Daily Kos: After Five Years, A First Contract is Ratified! 2009-07-02

In short, this is one of the reasons this country needs the Employee Free Choice Act. Anyway, it was not very long ago that I drove a passenger bus to ...

 

Daily Kos: Beyond Yoo: Army Field Manual Allows Torture with Drugs 2009-07-02

by Valtin According to recent news stories (see Spencer Ackerman's article in the Washington Independent), the Obama administration task force ...

 

Daily Kos: Lions, and Hamas, and Israel OH MY! 2009-07-02

by volleyboy1 So with lots happening in the ME I figure: "Hey, here is a good time for a diary about....... Amnesty International, Stupidity on two side ...

 

Daily Kos: Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread 2009-07-02

"If you haven't been reading Calitics or Paul Krugman, here's the FAQs: California has a huge budget crisis. Tomorrow it'll start issuing IOUs to pay ...

 

Daily Kos: Mr. President, whys' Europe leading the US on Iran! Hillary even ... 2009-07-02

Why is Europe, the continent we freed of fascism and communism,exemplified by this? The European Union was preparing Wednesday to debate a British request ...

 

Daily Kos: Fort Worth Police Chief: That Faggot Had It Coming 2009-07-02

Al Sharpton won't come save black folk up here neither because he knows he's in a veritable no-man's land. Something has to give." The Chif of Police pl ...

 

Daily Kos: Bagram AFB : America's OTHER Torture Chamber 2009-07-02

... that Bates' ruling would for the first time in American history extend habeas corpus rights to non-Americans in a theater of war in a foreign territory.

 

Daily Kos: Reality: 1 In 5 Are Jobless/Underemployed; Everyone's Affected 2009-07-02

Unemployment there is notoriously high because of many seasonal farm workers without jobs. Following behind were: Yuma, Ariz., with a jobless rate of 23.3%;

 

Grassroots News: Funds stolen by management of Mothers of Red Nations 2009-07-02

... off easy`` through the process of the sentencing or healing circle (which is part of the restorative justice system that many other people support).

 

Grassroots News: One year after the Apology - a long way to go. 2009-07-02

I was delighted to see Judge Murray Sinclair named chairperson of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

 

HipHopDX: Rhymefest Talks About The Real Man In The Mirror 2009-07-02

And Al Sharpton, and all of these different people…but I think when everything calms down…none of this crap that the media's spewing [will be remembered].

 

CSRwire.com (press release): Fireworks, Partying, and The Real Meaning of the 4th of July 2009-07-02

In our new book: BE THE CHANGE - How Meditation Can Transform You and the World, with contributors such as the Dalai Lama, Marianne William ...

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Russian Soldier Requests Political Asylum In Georgia 2009-07-02

Georgian authorities brought Artemyev to Tbilisi, and he held a press conference in front of the UN building in the Georgian capital.

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Japan Envoy To Be Next UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief 2009-07-02

Of course, Iran is a member of the [Non-Proliferation Treaty]. But we don't have the effective framework of dialogue so far," Amano said.

 

Foreign Policy: Obama's refusal to dub Israeli settlements illegal is undermining ... 2009-07-02

In the end, Obama's Middle East policy is rooted in his predecessor's profoundly flawed 2003 road map for a two-state solution and the feckless process th ...

 

Mother Jones: Financing the Future 2009-07-02

Turns out that ever since Jimmy Carter tried to get us started on this stuff, the incentive of choice has been tax credits. These are a problem for two ...

 

Civilrights.org: San Francisco Commits Money to the 2010 Census 2009-07-02

Through the advocacy efforts of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a San-Francisco-based advocacy organization, the San Francisco Board of Supervi ...

 

Democratic Underground: Three days before the end of his Presidency, on January 17, 1961 ... 2009-07-02

As luck would have it, his successor attempted the most heroic resistance to the Military-Industrial complex of any US President in our history.

 

New America Media: Vanessa Hernandez and Angela Ruggiero: Calif. State Employees Protest Schwarzenegger's Proposed Furloughs 2009-07-02

More than 8,000 state employees arrived in Sacramento to protest a third furlough day proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of his solution to the states budget deficit. The additional day would result in a 14 percent pay cut.

 

New America Media: Jalal Ghazi: Six Reasons Why Iran Cannot Be Explained in a Twitter Feed 2009-07-02

The street protests in Iran cannot be reduced to simple reformist vs. conservative equations, say scholars and analysts in Arab media.

 

El Diario/La Prensa: Eva Sanchis, Translated by Elena Shore: Exclusive: Priest Fears for Life After Coup in Honduras 2009-07-02

Since the coup in Honduras on Sunday, well-known environmentalist Father Tamayo says he fears for his life. In a conversation with El Diario/La Prensa, Tamayo asked that Amnesty International be notified of his situation.

 

The Washington Informer: Norma Porter: D.C. City Council Passes Emergency Crime Bill 2009-07-02

The gang injunction proposal was a part of Fentys effort to fight crime in the District by allowing law enforcement officers to arrest and detain any youth who appear to be affiliated with a gang.

 

FilAmStar: Jun Medina: Filipino Veterans Reunification Bill Reintroduced in Senate 2009-07-02

Sen. Daniel Akaka has reintroduced a bill that would speed up the reunification of Filipino World War II veterans who have opted for U.S. citizenship with their children seeking to join them in America.

 

NNPA: Hazel Trice Edney: New CBC report may give peek at Obama's agenda 2009-07-02

A bi-annual report released recently by the Congressional Black Caucus may give a sneak peek at President Barack Obama's agenda for Black America.

 

The Philadelphia Tribune: Eric Mayes: Philly School Chief: Need for Black Male Teachers 'Overdue' 2009-07-02

Local School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman launched a publicity blitz this week as she continued to joust with teachers heading into contract negotiations.

 

Nowy Dziennik Polish Daily News: Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska: Polish Elders 'Keep Things Happening' to Stay Vital 2009-07-02

Life for immigrants can be increasingly lonely as the reach their golden years. That?s why civic engagement in community activities can be link to health and vitality for them.

 

La Opini?n: Young Latinos More Successful if Parents are Bi-Cultural 2009-07-02

Latino teenagers who maintain their own culture and whose parents are more involved in American society are less likely to consume alcohol, drugs and drop our of school, according to a University of North Carolina (UNC) study, reports La Opinin.

 

Indian Country Today: Brenda Austin: NNABA Strongly Supports Sonia Sotomayors Nomination 2009-07-02

Heather Dawn Thompson, president of the National Native American Bar Association, said that while the association cannot officially endorse the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, they are strongly supportive of her.

 

VHeadline.com: IVAD poll shows that 55% of Venezuelans consider democracy is at risk 2009-07-02

... 65.8% consider that government agencies depend upon the Head of the State, while only 24.7% consider that they are independent from the Executive power.

 

VHeadline.com: Bolivarian Brain Drain: Chavez forcing the intelligentsia to leave ... 2009-07-02

Refugees from totalitarianism and religious intolerance in Spain, Italy and Germany and Eastern Europe flocked to this country nestled between the Carib ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: Human Rights Group Protests Capital Punishment In Nation's Capital 2009-07-02

“We were walking for restorative justice rather than the death penalty,” said Bass. Organizers claimed that over 100 people have attended since the vigil' ...

 

Talk Radio News Service: Former Defense Secretary Optimistic That US-Russia Summit ... 2009-07-02

Cohen reiterated the importance of Russia's role in foreign affairs, indicating that “the non proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: we both ...

 

OregonLive.com: Evening commute: Crash slows I-205; lane closures tonight on I-5 ... 2009-07-02

Southeast Division Street between Seventh and Third avenues, Portland: Crews working on the Oregon 99E, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Grand Avenue ...

 

OregonLive.com: Letters: Battle over climate change legislation heats up 2009-07-02

As Paul Krugman's column "Committing treason against the whole planet," (June 30) makes clear, it is extremely important for the continued existence of life ...

 

OregonLive.com: New dropout rates took some digging 2009-07-02

Education reporter Betsy Hammond uncovered some startling new statistics about the high school dropout rate: in some districts, almost half the kids don't ...

 

OregonLive.com: Chasse case helps spur creation of mental health crisis center 2009-07-02

The county will house the center on a floor of the David P. Hooper Center at 20 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., operated by the nonprofit Central City ...

 

Contra Costa Times: Housing needs workshop scheduled for next week 2009-07-02

... high-housing cost burdens, housing needs for farm workers and the housing needs generated by the presence of Humboldt State University.

 

Amnesty USA: News Releases: Recommendations for the elaboration of Rules of Procedure of the Arab Human Rights Committee 2009-07-02

The revised Arab Charter on Human Rights (the revised Charter),1 adopted as an international human rights treaty in May 2004 at the Summit of the League of Arab States (the League), 2 provides for the establishment of a committee of seven independent experts, called the Arab Human Rights Committee (the Committee)

 

Amnesty USA: News Releases: Israel/Occupied PalestinianTerritories:Impunity for war crimes in Gaza and southern Israel recipe for further civilian suffering 2009-07-02

Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new 117-page report published today - the first comprehensive report to be published on the 22-day conflict earlier this year.

 

Amnesty USA: News Releases: Pakistan:More than two million people living outside displacement camps face appalling conditions in Pakistan,says Amnesty International 2009-07-02

Pakistan's central and regional governments must urgently do more to assist the more than two million people who have fled escalating fighting in northwestern Pakistan but do not have access to aid distributed in official displacement camps, Amnesty International said today. In particular, the Pakistani government must ensure that ethnic Pashtuns fleeing the fighting do not face discrimination in receiving assistance.

 

Amnesty USA: News Releases: Israel/Gaza: Operation 'Cast Lead' - 22 Days of Death and Destruction. Facts and Figures 2009-07-02

Israel/Gaza: Operation 'Cast Lead' - 22 Days of Death and Destruction. Facts and Figures

 

Amnesty USA: News Releases: Malaysia: End caning as a punishment against immigrants 2009-07-02

Malaysia must immediately stop caning people, a punishment widely used against immigration offenses, Amnesty International said today

 

Center for Research on Globalization: Troop Movements Are not a 'Withdrawal' 2009-07-02

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement regarding the announcement that US troops have left the cities ...

 

Center for Research on Globalization: Banksters Love Cap-and-Trade: Economic collapse about to accelerate 2009-07-02

It was rushed through the House in the tradition of such nightmarish legislation as the Patriot Act and the banker bailout of last October: hundreds ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Putin has 'one foot in old ways,' Obama says 2009-07-02

The president said his agenda in Russia includes talks on a new treaty to curtail long-range nuclear missiles. North Korea test-launched four short-range ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Moody's strips Ireland of its last AAA credit rating 2009-07-02

[ID:nDUB000991] Cowen's junior coalition partner, the Green Party, has warned that another tough budget could make their partnership difficult and ...

 

guardian.co.uk: Peace in Sudan 2009-07-02

Rebecca Tinsley and others (Horrors of Bashir's rule in Sudan, Letters, 30 June) against President Omer al-Bashir of Sudan omitted significant facts.

 

guardian.co.uk: Obama: Putin is keeping 'one foot in the old ways' 2009-07-02

The president said his agenda in Russia includes talks on a new treaty to curtail long-range nuclear missiles. Asked why he intends to meet Put ...

 

The Guardian World News: Billy Bragg: Billy Bragg's Glastonbury session 2009-07-02

Bard of Barking performs new protest song in Guardian's Glastonbury campervan

 

The Guardian World News: Apollo 11: training for the moon 2009-07-02

Armstrong and Aldrin walk the Earth in their cumbersome spacesuits

 

Daily Green: How to Have an Organic Party 2009-07-02

10 easy tips that keep the fun and flavor in BBQs and backyard parties, while lessening their environmental impact. Also see these 12 healthy BBQ tips.

 

Consortium News: Obama 'Bottles Up' Torture Probes 2009-07-02

By TheRealNews.com The Obama administration is moving to “bottle up” the pressure for exacting accountability from ex-President George W. Bush and h ...

 

Consortium News: FBI Ignored Bush-Hussein Ties 2009-07-02

Instead of being turned over to the international criminal court at The Hague, where he could have been thoroughly interrogated, Hussein was kept under ...

 

Media Matters for America: Howard Kurtz's wasted opportunity 2009-07-02

How can any discussion of philandering politicians not mention the impeachment of a president? Of course, I'm sure Rudy would rather talk about that th ...

 

Democracy Now: Coup in Honduras: Military Ousts President Manuel Zelay ... 2009-07-02

So there is no—not really access to information, no freedom of the press. And we are really having almost a terror situation for our popular leaders.

 

Antiwar.com: The Fair-Minded Fascist 2009-07-02

has revealed me as a neocon, a fascist, and a militarist. Probably a misogynist and a theocrat, too. But just to demonstrate that even fascists ...

 

Asia Times Online: China's rogue regimes play up 2009-07-02

Myanmar has been widely accused by international human rights groups and ethnic insurgents of carrying out clandestine chemical weapons production in ...

 

Asia Times Online: Nabucco is still alive 2009-07-02

... ("Contract of the Century") oilfield and was a driving force behind construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export pipeline.

 

NPR: The Nation: Saving Troy Davis From Death Row 2009-07-02

This week, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether to hear the request for a writ of habeas corpus in Davis's case in September hopefully signaling ...

 

NPR: Supreme Court Closes Deeply Divided Term 2009-07-02

In the area of executive power, the conservative majority gave agencies new authority to change regulations without second-guessing from the courts.

 

NPR: Obama Disappointed By Jobs Numbers 2009-07-02

US stocks fell sharply after the report was released, signaling that investors believe the Obama administration's stimulus hasn't yet kicked in.

 

NPR: Debating The Burqa: Sarkozy Proposes Ban 2009-07-02

... to kind of standing up to the right wing, we must show that we hate what they represent, and too easily give up on women's rights.

 

mcclatchydc.com: Congress: Congress' apology for slavery just proves it's hard to say sorry 2009-07-02

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers here are learning the hard way that trying to apologize for historic injustices isn't as easy as saying "I'm sorry."

 

mcclatchydc.com: Congress: White House close to deal with hospitals on cost cuts 2009-07-02

WASHINGTON — The hospital industry is close to a deal with the White House and congressional Democrats in which the industry would agree to federal funding cuts of $150 billion to $170 billion over the next decade to help pay for a health system overhaul, according to people familiar with the talks.

 

mcclatchydc.com: White House: U.S. taking cautious approach to Honduras political crisis 2009-07-02

WASHINGTON — When the ousted president of Honduras hit Washington this week demanding a return to power, he got meetings with a White House adviser and a top U.S. diplomat.

 

mcclatchydc.com: Congress: Sens. Kennedy, Dodd unveil cheaper health care bill 2009-07-02

WASHINGTON — The Senate health committee's top two Democrats on Thursday rolled out a revamped plan to overhaul health care that would cost $611 billion over 10 years — far less than their previous version — but would impose a tax on many employers.

 

mcclatchydc.com: White House: U.S. plans coordinated response if North Korea fires missile 2009-07-02

WASHINGTON — If North Korea fires a missile at Hawaii on or around the July Fourth holiday, as Japanese reports have warned, the U.S. plans a measured response in coordination with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea.

 

Grist Magazine: US-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected ... 2009-07-02

Climate and energy efficiency can also expand the US-Russia relationship beyond the traditional areas of arms control and nonproliferation.

 

Real News Network: 07-02-2009 UN official demands torture accountability UN official ... 2009-07-02

July 2 - A few days after the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, TRNN Senior Editor speaks to Michael Ratner, President of the Centre ...

 

Australia.TO: RUSSIA: Chechen Civilians Face Collective Punishment 2009-07-02

WASHINGTON, Jul 2 (IPS) - Russian federal and Chechen authorities should immediately put a stop to home burnings and other collective punishment practice ...

 

The Tidings: A classical celebration, on many levels 2009-07-02

In 1979 Malveaux signed a contract to promote a tribute to Harris as a fundraiser for the US Olympic Committee; that turned sour when President Jimmy Carter ...

 

RINF.COM: CIA torture report delayed again 2009-07-02

The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush ...

 

New America Media: Marcelo Ballv: Outing the U.S. Media's Honduras Coup Apologists 2009-07-02