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The Wall and the occupation: Crimes against the Palestinian people, impasse for Israeli society
Demonstration, Place Broglie, Strasbourg on Saturday, June 12 at 3.00pm
To insist that the government of Ariel Sharon respects international and humanitarian law - which has been deliberately violated by the construction of the Wall, by the destruction of hundreds of civilians’ homes entailing numerous casualties and by other acts - the European Union has a powerful means of applying pressure (…)

By Moya Bailey
Over Christmas break I was up late one night on the phone. As I passed the den I glanced at the TV and what I saw made me stop. Nelly and the St. Lunatics were throwing money at nearly naked women. Women were simulating sex with other women as Nelly and company looked on. Then I saw Murphy Lee sliding a credit card between a woman’s butt cheeks. I was too disgusted to even speak and got off the phone quickly.
When I came back to school, along with the usual "How was (…)

Reasons vary, but many fail to adjust to life’s randomness after the order of military service.
By Jocelyn Y. Stewart Times Staff Writer
After the homecomings are over and the yellow ribbons packed away, many who once served in America’s armed forces may end up sleeping on sidewalks.
This is the often-unacknowledged postscript to military service. According to the federal government, veterans make up 9% of the U.S. population but 23% of the homeless population. Among homeless men, (…)

As the slump persists, some train their low- cost replacements before being shown the door.
By Warren Vieth Times Staff Writer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The global economy finally caught up with Cliff Cotterill.
On Friday, the software engineer drove his pickup truck to Building 54 at Agilent Technologies Inc. in Santa Clara. He made his way through the warren of partitions to his cubicle. Then he turned in his laptop computer and employee badge and said goodbye to 25 years of his life. (…)

By Bill Moyers
Between media consolidation and an administration shrouded in impenetrable secrecy, keeping an eye on government has gotten a lot harder. In this speech to the Newspaper Guild of America, the elder statesman of journalism reminds us that freedom and freedom of the press were "birth twins" of the American Revolution.
This speech was delivered at a Newspaper Guild/Communication Workers of America dinner on May 19, 2004.
Bill Moyers is a broadcast journalist currently (…)

By George Soros
Editor’s Note: This commencement address was delivered to the Columbia School of International & Public Affairs on Monday, May 17, 2004 at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.
Today, you are graduating from the School of International & Public Affairs. This ought to be an occasion for celebration. You have successfully completed your studies and you are about to enter the real world. But the real world is a very troubled place and international (…)

David Teather in New York The Guardian
The Pentagon has decided to suspend $160m (£91m) in payments to Halliburton in an ongoing dispute over the amount the firm has charged the United States army for meal services provided in Iraq and Kuwait.
The move is the latest in a string of controversies to have hit the company, which used to be run by US vice president Dick Cheney, including allegations of bribery, contracts awarded without pitches and regulatory investigations.
Halliburton (…)

By Douglas Jehl The New York Times
About 100 high-ranking Iraqi prisoners held for months at a time in spartan conditions on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport are being detained under a special chain of command, under conditions not subject to approval by the top American commander in Iraq, according to military officials.
The unusual lines of authority in the detainees’ handling are part of a tangled network of authority over prisoners in Iraq, in which the (…)

By John Barry, Michael Hirsh and Michael Isikoff Newsweek International The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war.
May 24 - It’s not easy to get a member of Congress to stop talking. Much less a room full of them. But as a small group of legislators watched the images flash by in a small, darkened hearing room in the Rayburn Building last week, a sickened silence descended. There were 1,800 slides and several videos, and the (…)