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  • Venezuela joins Mercosur trade bloc
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez, a fierce critic of US-backed free trade policies in the region, has called for closer regional integration, including seeking support for his own proposal - the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas trade pact, or ALBA for its Spanish initials, named after Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar.
    Venezuela will become a permanent member of the Mercosur trade bloc, helping to strengthen cooperation between the oil-rich country and its regional neighbors, the Venezuelan (…)

  • Cannabis improves the mind.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cannabis boosts brain power in rats
    by Medical Research News
    Scientists now say that Cannabis, the third most popular recreational drug after alcohol and tobacco, could boost brain power.
    Canadian researchers found that experiments on rats which were given a potent cannabinoid, showed the drug stimulates the growth of new brain cells.
    It appears that the drug caused neurons to regenerate in the hippocampus, an area that controls mood and emotions, after one month of treatment. (…)

  • Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President
    by Richard Keil
    Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent’s name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.
    The special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, has questioned current and former officials of President George W. Bush’s administration about whether Cheney was involved in an effort to discredit the agent’s husband, Iraq war critic and former (…)

  • Italy vote overshadowed by Mafia-style killing
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME - Primaries to select the centre-left candidate to run against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year’s elections were held on Sunday but were marred by a Mafia-style killing of a local politician.
    Turnout was high for the first vote of its kind in Italy, almost certain to choose former European Commission President Romano Prodi to head the opposition ticket next spring.
    But before the polls closed, police said two masked gunmen shot dead Francesco Fortugno, (…)

  • UN Official: US Troops ’Starving’ Iraqi Civilians
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GENEVA - A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday accused U.S. and British forces in Iraq of breaching international law by depriving civilians of food and water in besieged cities as they try to flush out militants.
    Swiss Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur of the commission on human rights on the right to food, speaks, with regard to World Food Day on October 16, about the hunger situation in the world at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. (AP (…)

  • Severely Wounded Troops Tormented By Rumsfeld’s Bill Collectors
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It Was Like I Was Being Abandoned. I Was No Good To The Military Anymore”
    At his home near Middletown, N.Y., Robert Loria plays a keyboard. He lost his left hand in a bombing in Iraq. (Dominick Fiorille - Middletown Times Herald Record)
    His hand had been blown off in Iraq, his body pierced by shrapnel. He could not walk. Robert Loria was flown home for a long recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he tried to bear up against intense physical pain and reimagine his life’s (…)

  • G8 summit police lied, says report
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Summers
    The trial of 28 police officers accused of beating up anti-globalisation protesters during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to start on Friday. The BBC News website has seen a copy of the prosecutor’s report.
    The chief prosecutor investigating an Italian police raid on an anti-globalisation protesters’ base in Genoa during the 2001 G8 summit concluded "the police must have lied" about the operation, according to a leaked copy of his report.
    Ninety-two (…)

  • Depleted uranium is WMD
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de Leuren Moret
    My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal (…)

  • Try and catch the wind
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Synopsis:
    Once again, an old song acts as muse for Daniel Patrick Welch. Repopularized by a current Volkswagen ad, the Donovan lyric tweaks Welch’s sense of the futility of resistance in the quagmire that is today’s American political landscape. From a personal perspective, the writer describes watching as all his European friends flee one by one, a sort of metaphor for the international rejection of the would-be Pax Americana.
    To understand fully the nature of (…)

  • Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Abigail A. Fuller and Neil Wollman
    Give us three minutes and we can find an op-ed piece in a U.S. newspaper calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, or arguing that they should stay. The arguments are varied and numerous: If the U.S. leaves, anarchy will ensue. Occupation forces are a target for foreign terrorists. Bush should set a timetable for withdrawal. Setting a timetable would embolden those using violence in Iraq. And so on. What is missing from this picture? Any (…)