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ROME (Reuters) - Italians greeted American soldiers as liberators when they marched into Rome 60 years ago but President Bush faces deep anger on his visit on Friday over the actions of a new generation of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Authorities fear violent demonstrations during Bush’s two days in Rome, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, worried by the prospect of clashes in the streets, urged Italians to show "maturity and understanding of history."
While Berlusconi has been among Bush’s (…)

Sophie Arie in Rome and Ewen MacAskill
The Guardian
The US president, George Bush, flew into Rome last night as the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, expressed concern that anti-war marches today could end in violence.
Mr Berlusconi, in a broadcast carried live on Italian television, urged demonstrators to show restraint. He said he was "worried about the possible violence" and said that a police report assessing the situation "does not leave us calm".
Huge marches are (…)

Think the typical job-loser in today’s economy is a white computer programmer whose job has been outsourced to India? Think again. Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice Issue
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/0504leondar.html BY BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT In July 2003, Mary Clark saw a notice posted by the time clock at the Pillowtex plant where she worked: the plant was closing down at the end of the month. The company would be laying off 4,000 workers. "They acted like we (…)

Ted Glick, 973-338-5398 Manning Marable, Director of African American Studies at Columbia University, today called for immediate action to be taken to end use by the U.S. military of a book, "The Arab Mind," by Raphael Patai. In the words of Brian Whitaker, Middle East correspondent for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the book presents "an overwhelmingly negative picture of the Arabs." "It is outrageous that a book full of racially charged stereotypes and generalizations would be a major (…)

MARTHA RAFFAELE
HARRISBURG, Pa.
Two 19-year-old Marines pleaded guilty to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner they were guarding in early April, months after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse, military officials said.
Pfc. Andrew J. Sting and Pfc. Jeremiah J. Trefney entered their pleas at a May 14 court-martial in Iraq, according to a statement by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq. Lt. Nathan Braden, a Marine spokesman at Camp Pendleton, Calif., released the statement (…)

Abe Arias
June 3, 2004 - I dreamt of Abu Ghraib and the house of horrors committed by our armed forces. I saw in the night those barbarous acts under the direction of our commander-in-chief. I considered the responsibility of the White House for such grotesque acts because I remember that a commander is responsible for the actions of his troops. Far from being a singular act of violence and humiliation, I see nothing but a program of systematic torture and abuse spread throughout the (…)

Iraq’s new interim government will have no veto over future military operations by American-led forces after the U.S.-British occupation formally ends on June 30, Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
The U.N. Security Council, divided over how much authority Baghdad will have over U.S.-led troops, focuses on the issue on Thursday, when Iraq’s foreign minister addresses the 15-nation body in an effort to shape a new U.N. resolution.
Powell said the interim government would be fully (…)

Abu Ghraib Gen. A Shoplifter? Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski denies the shoplifting allegation to CBS’ David Martin.
The Army is investigating how — despite the shoplifting report — she was promoted and placed in command of all the prisons in Iraq.
(CBS) An American general caught up in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is now at the center of a new controversy involving allegations about her past, but she’s calling it a smear campaign.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who claims she has been (…)

Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture
Humanity is passing through a turning point, which threatens the civilization aspects acquired during the last decades. The number of human rights violations is increasing on daily basis, these violations don’t target only the individual’s rights but also the human existence as a social creature, the thing that the terrorist actions, happening in every place, assures.
The Palestinian population, from one hand, is being subjected to a (…)

As part of a reflective project, we are working on the place nature occupies in the life of each one of us, in our imagination, in our experience? Almost paradoxically, nature seems, indeed, to play a fundamental part in our societies ; even though it is questioned in some speeches, it is nevertheless omnipresent : one speaks of a need for a ’refreshing break in the country’, a search for one’s own ’nature’, one resorts to nature as a model or on the contrary as something to reject, etc., (…)