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• Reuters Pictures of the Year 2006 - Political World
  15 December 2006

  PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A student is detained by police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, May 31, 2006. In the largest student movement in the past 30 years in Chile, hundreds of thousands of students from around the country are pressuring the government to cede to their list of demands whose main points are free passes to public transportation, free college entrance exams, more teachers and improved secondary school buildings. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero
  PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A (...)

• A tribute to Thomas SANKARA : Paris, 15 October 2006, 8pm
  12 October 2006

  An evening proposed by the association SURVIE and the CIJS (Justice for Thomas Sankara International Collective), with the support of Bellaciao Collective and the Parisian circle of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party.
  Commemoration of the 19th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s death.
  Movies presentation:
  “Captain Thomas Sankara, requiem for a murdered president” in the presence of the producer Ms Thuy Tiên Yo
  Sankara commited to memory” in the presence of the director Michael (...)

• I smell more than sulfur, innocence being stolen from children as well as their lives
  20 October 2006

  by Mary MacElveen
  When President Chavez called Bush "the Devil" he was lambasted for making that comment, but I read this comment from Bush’s Press Secretary, Tony Snow concerning Mark Foley’s criminal actions "Yes, look, I hate to tell you, but it’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill.
  And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty emails."
  To call the exchange of emails between a former congressman and a minor page is not naughty but (...)

• Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
  5 November 2005

  FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
  WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
  The letter, sent today, states:
  Dear Inspector General Fine:
  I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any of (...)

• State Department Memo: "16 Words" Were False
  16 May 2006

  By Jason Leopold
  Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
  The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (...)

• To Bush, McCain and Olmert: The Congo Cries Out and all of you remain silent
  14 November 2006

  To Bush, McCain and Olmert: The Congo Cries Out and all of you remain silent By Mary MacElveen November 14, 2006
  The lesson for the GOP to take from last week’s election results in which they lost majority rule in both houses is that the American people saw through the deceit in using our military to fight an immoral war in Iraq. If we are to gain respect world-wide, it would be to stand up to brutal acts that continue to this day.
  No, I am not speaking of Iran. In fact I think some (...)

• Global alert over deadly new TB strains
  7 September 2006

  Global alert over deadly new TB strains
  · Disease untreatable with currently available drugs · South African cases raise fears for Aids programme
  Sarah Boseley, health editor Wednesday September 6, 2006
  World health officials last night put out an unprecedented warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe.
  The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB. They have (...)

• No democracy is seen in the Congo as children are being used as sex slaves
  19 November 2006

  No democracy is seen in the Congo as children are being used as sex slaves By Mary MacElveen November 18, 2006
  In reading the main stream American press accounts of the Congo elections in which the loser filed a challenge to the outcome, it was as if I were having a flash back to the 2000 presidential elections in the United States.
  One former rebel who lost the election “filed a lawsuit Saturday claiming he was cheated of millions of votes” Does that sound familiar to anyone reading this? (...)

• JOE & BOB’S ’ STRANGE ENCOUNTER ’ (1 and 2 ? )
  28 March 2006

  How did `Hero ’ Joseph Wilson , the former Ambassador to Gabon, make his rendez-vous with destiny , that fateful encounter with syndicated columnist Robert Novak ? The public record indicates that Wilson met up with Novak , for the first time, on TWO DIFFERENT OCCASIONS .... From the "Politics of Truth", (Chapter 17 ) hero Wilson related this shocking scenario. A friend of his had a chance encounter with Novak in which " The Prince of Darkness " is alleged to have told Wilson’s chum (...)

• Carnage in the Somali capital
  12 May 2006

  Confrontations between islamist and pro-American militia made 80 died these last days with Mogadiscio.
  The LULL will have lasted only a few hours hardly. Yesterday, as of the raised sun, the combat which make rage since four days in Mogadiscio between rival militia began again. The confrontations, worst than has known the Somali capital for ten years, would have already cost the life 80 people. According to the Red Cross, deaths are for the majority of civil, victims of the exchanges of (...)

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