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  • New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal 05/02/2006 @ 1:20 pm Filed by RAW STORY
    BREAKING HARD — FROM AN ACLU RELEASE TO RAW
    New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu (…)

  • IRAN : Stop the war on Iran before it starts! SIGN THE PETITION !
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Sign online : http://www.stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml
    It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S. war—this time against the people of Iran.
    The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.
    In the lead up to the (…)

  • U.S.: More Than 600 Implicated in Detainee Abuse
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two years ago, revelations about the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq shocked people across the world. In response, U.S. government officials condemned the conduct as illegal and assured the world that perpetrators would be held accountable.
    Two years later, it has become clear that the problem of torture and other abuse by U.S. personnel abroad was far more pervasive than the Abu Ghraib photos revealed-extending to numerous U.S. detention facilities in (…)

  • MEDIA : Pack Journalism can be Lethal
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pack Journalism can be Lethal Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying
    By Gregory Clark
    April 10, 2006 Japan Times
    Some call it pack journalism. It is also lazy journalism.
    Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying. And what others are saying is often inspired by establishment hardliners seeking to impose their agendas with the help of bogus news agencies, subsidized research outfits and hired scribblers. (…)

  • IRAQI slaughter :US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing BY JONATHAN STEELE
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing BY JONATHAN STEELE
    30 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - MUCH ink, as well as indignation, is being spent on whether Iraq is on the verge of, in the midst of, or nowhere near civil war. Wherever you stand in this largely semantic debate, the one certainty is that the seedbed for the country’s self-destruction is Iraq’s plethora of militias. In the apt phrase of Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador in Baghdad, they are the "infrastructure of (…)

  • PM, Bush to discuss convergence in May
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn
    Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet in Washington with U.S. President George Bush on May 23. The two will focus on Olmert’s convergence plan, the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian Authority, and the Iranian nuclear threat.
    Olmert’s first trip abroad as prime minister will be devoted entirely to meetings with U.S. administration and Congressional leaders in Washington, and he will not travel to other destinations.
    Advisers Dov Weissglas and Shalom Turjeman (…)

  • Say Uncle, Rummy
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MAUREEN DOWD
    Even some State Department officials thought it was like watching a cranky, eccentric uncle with an efficient, energetic niece.
    Rummy was ordered to go to Iraq by the president, but he clearly has no stomach for nation-building, or letting Condi run the show. He seemed under the weather after a rough overnight ride on a C-17 transport plane from Washington into Baghdad. And Condi’s aides were rolling their eyes at the less than respectful way the DefSec treated the (…)

  • MANHATTAN : Tens of Thousands in New York March Against the War in Iraq
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Desmond Butler The Associated Press
    Sunday 30 April 2006
    New York - Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month.
    "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs held by protesters during the march more than three years after the war in (…)

  • IRAN : House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act”
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act” Ben Frank April 27, 2006
    As if Iraq isn’t a big enough mess, the House of Representatives has just voted to ’hold Iran accountable and support a transition to democracy’. Sound Familiar? Only this time Iran is a democracy. They just held an election where their president was actually elected by the people. How refreshing.
    After everything that has been exposed...the lies, the profiteering, the long list of war crimes, 397 (…)

  • Heart of Borneo: medical treasure trove at risk
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/index.cfm?uNewsID=67180
    27 Apr 2006 Gland, Switzerland - Plants that could help treat or cure diseases such as cancer, AIDS and malaria have been found in the forests of the heart of Borneo, according to a new WWF report. But the global conservation organization says this medical treasure trove is threatened and calls for its long-term protection.
    The report - Biodiscoveries, Borneo’s Botanical Secret - reveals that scientists are (…)