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  • The USA most Savage Crime of the Century
    11 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The USA most Savage Crime of the Century/ Bombing of Al-Amiriya Shelter In February 1991, during the First Gulf War, a U.S. bomb punched a hole through the roof of the Al-Amiriya bomb shelter; seconds later a missile plowed through the opening. The blasts killed 408 civilians, mostly women and children( as can be seen from the following list). Many were killed by the concussion, the rest by a fire so intense it left flash-burned outlines of women and infants on the walls that are still (…)

  • Vandana Shiva on Farmer Suicides, the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Wal-Mart in India
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva. A physicist and ecologist, Shiva is author of many books, her latest is “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.” [rush transcript]
    In India, more than three hundred farmers climbed water tanks in the country’s central Vidarbha region, many of them threatening to commit suicide unless the government fulfilled their demands to lift them out of poverty. Throughout India, more and more troubled farmers (…)

  • Red Cross Says Global Ban on Cluster Bombs Urgent
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/07/6900/print/
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16459645.html
    by Robert Evans
    GENEVA - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Wednesday for urgent conclusion of a global pact to ban cluster weapons even if big powers like the United States, Russia and China were not ready to join.
    The Swiss-based humanitarian body’s senior arms specialist, Peter Herby, told a news conference the ICRC hoped the text of a (…)

  • Rain Forests Fall at ‘Alarming’ Rate
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/03/6818/
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16348019.html
    February 3, 2008
    by Edward Harris
    ABO EBAM, Nigeria — In the gloomy shade deep in Africa’s rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.From Brazil to central Africa to once-lush islands in Asia’s (…)

  • 3 Pakistani Generals Perish in Air Crash
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    3 Pakistani Generals Perish in Air Crash
    Azhar Masood, Arab News —
    Thursday 7 February 2008 (30 Muharram 1429)
    ISLAMABAD, 7 February 2008 — A Pakistani Army helicopter crashed yesterday in the country’s northwest, killing three generals and five other soldiers.
    The aircraft went down in South Waziristan, said Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate.
    The area has been the scene of intense fighting between Pakistani forces and (…)

  • Olmert to hold emergency meeting on dollar rates
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Olmert to hold emergency meeting on dollar rates
    Slipping dollar rate, subsequent industry losses prompt PM to call emergency meeting with finance minister, trade and labor minister, governor of the Bank of Israel and head of National Economic Council to discuss possible countermeasures
    Gad Lior
    Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to hold an emergency meeting concerning the recent fluctuations the dollar rates, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
    Olmert has summoned Finance (…)

  • The World’s Rubbish Dump : A Garbage Tip That Stretches From Hawaii to Japan
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden, The Independent
    A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.The vast expanse of debris - in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump - is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting “soup” stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost (…)

  • US troops admit abusing Iraqis
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    US troops admit abusing Iraqis
    aljazeera.net :: 2007-05-05 ::
    US involvement in Iraq have been dogged by claims of mistreatment of Iraqi detainees and civilians [AFP]
    Almost one in ten US combat troops deployed in Iraq have mistreated a civilian, according to a new survey conducted by an army mental health advisory team.
    The report, released on Friday, also found that less than half of the soldiers and marines surveyed would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an (…)

  • Rights eroded in Iraq in 2007 with civilians targeted
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    HRW: Rights eroded in Iraq in 2007 with civilians targeted
    AFP :: 2008-02-01 ::
    Human rights in Iraq deteriorated for much of 2007 while sectarian violence targeting civilians swelled the number of displaced to around 4.4 million, half of them abroad, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
    "Attacks on civilians by various insurgent and militia groups continued," HRW said in a bleak assessment of Iraq in its annual report.
    This included the single deadliest attack since the war began in (…)

  • Kidnap and torture : new claims of Army war crimes in Iraq
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kidnap and torture: new claims of Army war crimes in Iraq
    the independent :: 2007-05-20 :: Tarek Hassan, One of Many Victims of the Occupation Hassan’s Wrist Tag Showing Clearly He was Being Held at BUCCA Camp The British Army is facing new allegations that it was involved in "forced disappearances", hostage-taking and torture of Iraqi civilians after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein. One of the claims is made by the former chairman of the Red Crescent in Basra, who alleges (…)