Scientists have reacted with anger to US President George W Bush’s decision to veto a bill allowing federal funding for new embryonic stem cell research.
They argue it will damage a promising field of medical research.
Leading researchers labelled Mr Bush "hypocritical", "out of touch" and "selfish" over his decision not to sign into law a bill approved by Congress.
Mr Bush argued that the law "crossed a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect".
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Bush ’out of touch’ on stem cells
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Bush ’gave green light’ for limited attack, say Israeli and UK sources
Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall and Patrick Wintour
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.
The Bush administration, backed by Britain, has blocked efforts for an immediate halt to the fighting initiated at the UN security council, the G8 summit in St (…) -
Mother of Iraq War Vet Who Committed Suicide Flies Flag Upside Down
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy Matthew Rothschild
Terri Jones lost her son Jason Cooper just over a year ago.
He was an Army Reservist in the Iraq War.
On July 14, 2005, four months after returning home to Iowa, he hanged himself.
He was 23.
Since then, Jones has been flying her American flag upside down, though someone came on her property once and turned it right side up, and another person stole it.
“We had a flag out the whole time Jason was in Iraq,” she says. “Once he died, my boyfriend Vince turned (…) -
Florida’s Fear of History: New Law Undermines Critical Thinking
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Robert Jensen
One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control over knowledge.
By that standard, the members of the Florida Legislature marked themselves as the folks most terrified of history in the United States when last month they took bold action to become the first state to outlaw historical interpretation in public schools. In other words, Florida has officially replaced the study of history with the imposition of (…) -
Bush’s Faith in Force and the Middle East in Flames
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Tom Engelhardt
So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we?
As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force — and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of (…) -
Dave Zweifel: Clinton, health care industry get cozy
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Dave Zweifel
As long as money holds sway in our political system, nothing should surprise us any more.
But even my jaw dropped last week when I saw the story that Hillary Clinton is being plied with more money from the health care industry and pharmaceutical companies than any other U.S. senator except Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum.
Yes, this is the same Hillary Clinton who was belittled and disparaged by many of these same donors when in 1993 she, as head of her husband (…) -
Condi’s Flying Dutchman
24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy MAUREEN DOWD Washington
As USA Today noted about summer movies, the hot trend in heroines “is not the damsel in distress. It’s the damsel who causes distress.”
Uma, Oprah. Oprah, Condi.
The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become. Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling. It’s more like (…) -
The "Moral Highground?"
22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 comments"....I’m just trying to show you how little religion some people now have!"....Calvera, the bandit, from "The Magnificent Seven"
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So here we are. The entire planet is focused on this insane little war in Lebanon which shows promise to escalate into something unmanagable and much more frightening.
The amazing thing is that ALL the factions; Hezbollah, Israel and the U.S. claim innocence and the so-called "Moral Highground". The bottom line is religion. (…) -
The Shame of Being An American CRAIG ROBERTS (COUNTERPUNCH°
22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
10 commentsJuly 22-23, 2006
The Shame of Being An American
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Do you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.
Do you know that one-third of (…) -
US Hawks Smell Blood Neocons favor escalation of Middle East War
22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsUS Hawks Smell Blood Neocons favor escalation of Middle East War
By Jim Lobe July 20, 2006 Inter Press Service - 2006-07-19
19 July 2006, IPS WASHINGTON -Seeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neo-conservatives are calling for unconditional US support for Israel’s military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and "regime change" in Syria and Iran, as well as possible US attacks on Tehran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation for its (…)