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USA On International Roma Day 13. 4. 2004
On the occasion of the International Roma Day, the U. S. Department of State has published press release calling attention for the human rights of Roma and criticizing situation of Roma in Europe.
"April 8th marks International Roma Day. The United States takes this opportunity to call attention to call for respect for the human rights of Roma. Roma are the largest minority in Europe, where they often face violence, police brutality and (…)

From an outside perspective, Genoa is still very much linked to the bloody G8 summit from 2001. In the following interview, which was conducted by the publishers of "Genoa etc." [www.etc-publications.com], Enrica Bartesaghi talks about her project to support the victims of the G8 summit in correlation with the city’s transformation into the European Capital of Culture.
How do you remember the G8-meeting?
Genoa and the G8 was, and still is, an open wound for me both as a mother and as an (…)

The murderous Pentagon onslaught that began April 6 against the people of Falluja and the newly liberated cities in southern Iraq aroused an immediate angry reaction from the anti-war movement around the world.
The biggest demonstration was in Baghdad itself on the Moslem Sabbath on April 9. Some 200,000 people, including those from both Sunni and Shiite communities, came out in solidarity with the resistance. In other mostly Moslem countries, demonstrations started after Friday (…)

CAIRO, April 9 (IslamOnline.net) - The United States asked al-Jazeera team to leave Fallujah as one of conditions for reaching a settlement to the bloody stand-off in the besieged western Baghdad town Friday, April 9.
"American forces declared al-Jazeera must leave before any progress is made to settle the Fallujah stand-off," al-Jazeera director general Wadah Khanfar told IslamOnline.net, citing sources close to the Iraqi Governing Council.
Khanfar, the former Baghdad bureau chairman of (…)

The emergence of Richard Clarke as a folk hero to some Americans for his dramatic whistle blowing against the Bush administrations’ mishandling of the Al Queda intelligence gathering, needs to be compared to his shameful role in preventing the United States from responding to the Rwanda genocide campaign; a role that has now contributed to the world wide call that an international fund be established to pay reparations to the survivors of the Rwanda holocaust of 1994.
Rwanda, a country (…)

Transfer of Management Authority to UN
Calls for End to US Military Occupation of Iraq
No Resolution in Iraq Possible as Long as US Retains Political Control
Washington
Win Without War called today for an end to the US led military occupation of Iraq and for the United States to seek an immediate transfer of authority to the United Nations to oversee the transition to Iraqi self-rule. The mainstream coalition of 42 national organizations called for the convening of an emergency (…)

Since the beginning of the new Russian Federation in 1991, elections have regularly been held in a repressive environment of violence, coercion and dis-information. The Russian presidential elections of March 14 were no exception. The bombing of a commuter train in Moscow just a week earlier, leaving some 40 dead, was quickly blamed on the Chechens by President Vladimir Putin before an investigation had even been launched. Putin rode the subsequent wave of fear to power.
Before the (…)

Just shut up. That’s the new foreign policy line of our masters. When Senator Edward Kennedy dubbed Iraq "George Bush’s Vietnam", US Secretary of State Colin Powell told him to be "a little more restrained and careful" in his comments. I recall that when the US commenced its bombing of Afghanistan, the White House spokesman claimed that some journalists were "asking questions that the American people wouldn’t want asked". Back in the early 1980s, when I reported on the Iranian (…)

JAKARTA (JP): An ambulance of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (Mer-C) donated by Indonesia was shot by a missile launched from a U.S. jet fighter in Fallujah, Iraq, killing four people, news reports said on Wednesday.
"The ambulance’s driver and three patients who had been evacuated were killed as a missile launched from the U.S. jet fighter hit them. The ambulance was blasted to pieces," Joserizal Jurnalis, the chairman of the Mer-C, told Republika on Tuesday.
Joserizal said the (…)

Dr. Hatem Bazian, a highly respected lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley in the Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, is being victimized by a mean-spirited national right-wing campaign. His just defense of the Palestinian people and his call to end war and suffering of all in Iraq are being maliciously portrayed as "incitement of violence and sedition."
Capitalizing on the vicious anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate fest that is escalating in the U.S. as (…)