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BlackPress.com
http://www.blackpressusa.com/Op-Ed/speaker.asp?SID=16&NewsID=3277
In the midst of the current crisis in Haiti, an issue has emerged among many people of conscience in the U.S.A. concerned about the future of that country.
The question facing pro-democracy forces is whether, in addition to demanding an investigation of the US role in the destabilization of President Aristide, and in addition to calling for the disarming of the thugs, that it is correct to call for the (…)

Asia Times Online
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FC30Aa02.html
Africa’s Maghreb and Sahel regions recently exploded into world view with allegations that the Madrid bombers were tied to those areas’ "al Qaeda" groups. And while United States concerns about terrorism in the region have been increasingly voiced, critics of the administration of President George W Bush say that the ongoing US pursuit of energy resources lies behind them. As early as the fall of 2002, Britain’s (…)

the lndependent/UK
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=505798
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have jumped abruptly, raising fears that global warming may be accelerating out of control.
Measurements by US government scientists show that concentrations of the gas, the main cause of the climate exchange, rose by a record amount over the past 12 months. It is the third successive year in which they have increased sharply, marking an unprecedented (…)

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By Hanna Amireh*
There is no doubt that the current extensive contacts and meetings between the US and Israeli officials are actually American-Israeli negotiations to impose a unilateral settlement to the conflict in the region away and far from the Palestinian people and their leadership and this is unprecedented hegemony and intransigence.
Following the US approval to Sharon’s disengagement plan, the extensive contacts and consultations started moving to discuss the details of the plan (…)

Norm Dixon, Sydney
US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian PM John Howard - ’politicians with blood on their hands’ - should be ’punished’ at the ballot box for invading and occupying Iraq, renowned political writer and activist Tariq Ali told the 950 people who filled the University of NSW’s Clancy Auditorium on March 14. The meeting was organised by Green Left Weekly.
Pakistan-born, British-based Ali is a veteran of the far-left movement in Pakistan (…)

Commuters waited in vain for buses, factory workers stayed off assembly lines and teachers stayed out of classrooms during a general strike in Italy today.
The strike was over the Italian government’s pension reform plan that would force people to work longer before they can retire.
The nation’s three main labour confederations had called a four-hour strike in most of Italy, but unions in the area around Rome and in Sicily lengthened it to eight hours.
Bus, tram and subway services in (…)

The most compelling aspects of Richard Clarke’s take on the world have less to do with the question of whether the Bush administration could somehow have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks and much more with the administration’s folly of responding to the attacks by launching a war on Iraq.
The United States had been the victim of a sneak attack worse than the attack at Pearl Harbor. It was an act of war, and the administration had a moral obligation (not to mention the backing of the entire (…)

Rip van Winkle and the Wall
With "Goodbye Lenin," director Wolfgang Becker tells the story of German reunification and the liberation of the penned-in citizens of the East as tragic-comedy patterned after Washington Irving’s Rip van Winkle, the man who falls asleep in an English colony and wakes up in a whole new country. By turns funny, instructive, and sad, "Goodbye Lenin!" does an admirable job at breathing life into a tumultuous time in the country’s history. The German Rip van Winkle (…)

Palestine is also the target
Statement from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition shares the sentiment of the Palestinian people and the international community in condemning the assassination of the prominent Palestinian leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. This is a criminal action against not only a political leader, but also the entirety of the Palestinian people and their movement for self-determination and return. The attack was not just on one man or on one group, (…)