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  • Turkey: Twelve dead and hundreds injured in Kurdish protests
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
    By Justus Leicht 6 April 2006
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    During the past week, violent protests and demonstrations have taken place in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey, particularly in the regional metropolis of Diyarbakir. On Monday, 12 demonstrators were shot dead by security forces, including three children. More than 300 people were injured, including over 100 policemen. Several hundred (…)

  • Discontent grows against Kurdish nationalist regime in northern Iraq By James Cogan WSWS
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
    Discontent grows against Kurdish nationalist regime in northern Iraq By James Cogan 6 April 2006
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    There are indications of growing discontent in the predominantly Kurdish-populated provinces of northern Iraq. Lack of essential services, social inequality and the suppression of political opposition are all fueling disaffection with the two nationalist parties-the Kurdish Democratic (…)

  • Turkey’s Displaced
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Europe
    Turkey’s Displaced by Sinem Yilanci; March 21, 2006
    Turkish Republic is not a country that has a good reputation for its attitude and discourse towards minority groups. One of the recent controversial problems about minority rights is the issue of displaced people.
    In East Anatolia, during 80s and 90s lots of people but specifically the most crowded minority group, Kurds, was forced to migrate by the state systematically. At the verge of the new millennium, even though (…)

  • Human Rights Activism in Turkey
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Europe
    Against All Odds Human Rights Activism in Turkey by Khatchig Mouradian; April 05, 2006
    “I refuse to buy my freedom of speech by paying money,” said Eren Keskin, the Head of the Istanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, during a press conference in Istanbul on the 22nd of March. A few days earlier, a Turkish court had sentenced her to 10 months’ imprisonment for insulting the country’s military. The sentence was then converted to a fine of 6000 New Turkish (…)

  • U.S. Rolls Out Nuclear Plan (LATimes)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The administration’s proposal would modernize the nation’s complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs. By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer April 6, 2006
    The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation’s decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
    The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation’s massive system of laboratories and (…)

  • Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist (The Guardian UK)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    · Economists say official estimates are far too low · New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
    Jamie Wilson in Washington
    The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
    The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

  • The Israel Lobby and its Discontents (in theese times)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
    By Salim Muwakkil http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2590/
    An 83-page study, published by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, forcefully argues that pro-Israel partisans within the U.S. government’s policymaking apparatus, including think tanks, politicians, journalists, academics and professional lobbyists, are manipulating America’s foreign policy.
    A working paper by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen (…)

  • Israel : The Ethnic Cleansing Party Outpaces Likud (Counterpunch)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ethnic Cleansing Party Outpaces Likud
    The Rise of Israel’s Avigdor Lieberman
    By SAREE MAKDISI
    Everyone is talking about the successful-albeit lackluster-performance of Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party in Tuesday’s Israeli elections. Kadima won a marginal victory, gaining 28 seats in the Knesset, and giving Olmert the opportunity to form a government.
    But in a sense the real winner of the elections was Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, which pushed past Likud to become one (…)

  • The Big Melt Coming Faster Than Expected - Inter Press Service
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by Inter Press Service The Big Melt Coming Faster Than Expected by Stephen Leahy
    BROOKLIN, Canada - Beaches, islands and even continents are shrinking as ocean levels rise ever higher due to the accelerating meltdown of the world’s glaciers and polar ice due to climate change.
    Many of the world’s major cities, including Bangkok, London, Miami and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to a new analysis of current (…)

  • Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest - the Independent / UK
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by the Independent / UK Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest by David McNeill and Michael McCarthy
    Japan’s ruthless push for the return of commercial whaling received a significant setback yesterday when pressure from green campaigners forced five big food companies to pull out of supporting the Japanese whaling industry.
    The five firms, led by the Japanese seafood giant Nissui and its wholly-owned US frozen (…)