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  • U.S.: Investigate Rumsfeld, Tenet for Torture
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States should name a special prosecutor to investigate the culpability of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ex-CIA Director George Tenet in cases of detainee torture and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in releasing a new report today. The report, Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, is issued on the eve of the first anniversary of the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos (April 28). It presents substantial evidence warranting (…)

  • Rescuing the USA
    22 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How do we take her back from the wolves and jackals and what steps should we be planning to rid her of the cancers and chancres which right wing extremists have infested her with?
    If the USA is rescued from the wolves an jackals who are raping and devouring her, what will we have to do to salvage what remains? How many deregulated industries, categories, activities will have to be re-regulated? How many taxes will have to be re-instated? How many criminal politicians will we have to try, (…)

  • Privatizing a Mass Grave in Cambodia
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Rob Maguire of Project Communis, we learn that "Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of former dictator Pol Pot’s political enemies were killed, handing it over to a Japanese company to run as a memorial" ("’Killing Fields’ Gravesite Privatized in Cambodia," CBC News 4 Apr. 2005).
    Some Japanese, like some Americans, often cluelessly ask, "Why do they hate us?" Most of "them" probably don’t hate the Japanese people (nor the American people), but many have a very good (…)

  • "Big Stick" Politics Not The Answer, America
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Big Stick" Politics Not The Answer, America Rickey Singh April 17, 2005 There seems to be no limit to the unbridled arrogance of spokespersons for the United States Administration of President George W Bush when it comes to publicly rebuking, indeed, dictating to governments in the Caribbean Community how they should conduct their foreign and domestic governance policies.
    Latest example of this US ’big-stick’-wielding policy emerged last week to affect Guyana. But there were two earlier (…)

  • Popular Uprising Forces President of Ecuador to Rescind Martial Law Order
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez has lifted a state of emergency in the capital, Quito, less than 24 hours after he imposed it.
    Thousands of people had taken to the streets of the city in defiance of the new emergency powers.
    They were also protesting the president’s decision on Friday to dismiss the Supreme Court for the second time in four months.
    The security forces took no action to stop the demonstration.
    Speaking on national television, Mr Gutierrez said he was lifting the (…)

  • Debtors of the World, Unite!
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "bankruptcy reform" bill "passed the House on a 302-126 vote on Thursday, a month after the Senate voted 74-25." It is time for the American wing of the global justice movement, which has been struggling to force the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to drop the debt under which peasants and workers of the global South groan, to take on the finance and credit industry that oppresses US workers by usury.
    Why not begin this weekend, when global justice activists gather in (…)

  • Americans are the Problem? I don’t think so.
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I find it mildly entertaining that so many people seem to be outraged that ’the Americans are so stupid for not knowing what their government is doing’ and that ’Bush is so evil... he’s the one to blame for everything occuring the way it is!’ To the people who identify with this mode of thinking, I’d like to explain to you some factors that your rage appears to be blinding you of. These factors will begin to help you finally understand the world for what it is.
    Number 1... Bush isn’t the (…)

  • Italian Government in Danger of Collapse
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italy’s longest post-war government risks collapse. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in trouble after two small parties withdrew their support from the governing center-right coalition.
    The centrist UDC party, which has four ministers in government, was the first to decide to withdraw its support from the center-right government. Then, the new Italian Socialist party, which has only two minor government posts, followed its example.
    The parties had called on Prime Minister (…)

  • Chirac asks France to OK constitution
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 13 consecutive opinion polls in the past month, French voters have said that they are planning to reject the EU constitution in a referendum on 29 May. A French Non would in effect wreck the treaty and leave the enlarged EU to struggle on with its existing system of decision-making. This would also deal a near-fatal blow to the continent’s bold unification ambitions.
    A French rejection would all but destroy the charter - which European leaders agreed on five months ago after years of (…)

  • Karzai Wants US To Stay In Afghanistan Permanently
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a surprise move today, the Mayor of Kab...er...I mean the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is requesting a long-term security pact with the United states that - get this - may include permanent U.S. military bases. When asked about this latest development, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who is visiting the country, reportedly said that it was up to his boss, Junta leader George Bush to decide if the U.S. will honor Karzai’s request.
    In Washington, White House Press (…)