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Following the decision taken by the prefect of Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan to authorize by an order the destruction of sacred ibises (Threskionis aethiopicus) by members of the ONCFS (National Office for Hunting and Wildlife), the Association for the Defense of the Sacred Ibis in Brittany invites you to join its action.
The planed destruction of the sacred ibises will be done by "rifle shootings, through approaching and lying in wait of adult birds". However, this species figures on the (…)

URUKNET.INFO July 27, 2008
In May 2003—some eight weeks after the American invasion had begun— Abdul-Amir Hamdani, the archaeology inspector of Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, traveled to Najaf to call on the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. He had an urgent request. "We needed his help to stop the pillage," Hamdani recalled. The province, which is midway between Baghdad and Basra, covers much of what was once the land of Sumer. In the third millennium BC, it was a fertile plain densely (…)

Does everyone remember the ‘Citizen Kang’ segment from The Simpsons?
I sure hope everyone does, because the 2008 elections are not as much about the proliferation of war as they are about the enslavement of Americans within a fascist state.
As Karl Schwarz put it in a recent article, “McCain is Bush Lite; Obama is Bush Dark. The RNC is the War Party; the DNC is the War Party. The math is not hard.”
For those who have been following the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and (…)

By Bob Nichols
(San Francisco) July 28, 2008 - The French Government today admitted a series of dangerous radioactive spills near French nuclear giant AREVA plants at Tricastin, in a wine growing region of southeastern France.
Paolo Scampa, a physicist and President of the International Association for Protection Against Ionizing Radiation, condemned the deceptive French response in the strongest possible terms. AIPRI was established in 1964. Workers at the Tricastin plant were (…)

I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation’s great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the U.S. government. But that’s precisely what he did.
Three previously classified administration memos obtained last week by the American Civil Liberties Union add to our understanding of this disgraceful episode. The documents are attempts to justify the unjustifiable - the use of brutal (…)

(INTER PRESS SERVICE)
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA, Jul 28 (IPS) - The Permanent People’s Tribunal warned in its final statement on Colombia of "the imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction faced by 28 indigenous groups," adding that 18 of the communities have less than 100 members, "and are suspended between life and death."
Source: www.latinamericanstudies.org
The 28 groups in question are the Nukak, Shiripu, Wipibi, Amorúa, Guayabero, Taiwano, Macaguaje, Pisamira, (…)

Countercurrents.org
28 July, 2008
By Stephen Lendman
When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons program and retain current stockpiles; renounced the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and asserted the right to develop and test new weapons;
Source: www.wired.com abandoned the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) (…)

By David Glenn Cox
The Peoples Corporate Republic of China, the world’s largest slave labor plantation, have sought desperately to showcase to the world their Two Systems -One China policy by hosting the Olympic games.
So far the plan is working beyond their wildest expectations, but not in the way they anticipated. While many hosting countries have, in the past, feared not having Olympic venues ready in time for the visiting people, China’s problems are just the opposite. They must vet (…)

Now that both Turkey and India have been hit with a series of bomb blasts, it’s worth remembering where some of these terrorists come from and who they work for.
In 2003 two SAS soldiers were freed from a jail in Basra by the British military after they were arrested by the Iraqi police for failing to “stop at an Iraqi police roadblock and subsequently open(ing) fire on the Iraqi police, killing one and wounding another.” The SAS agents did this while dressed in traditional Arab (…)

By Mike Ely
Something remarkable is happening. A whole generation of people has never seen a radical, secular, revolutionary movement rise with popular support. And yet here it is – in Nepal today.
This movement has overthrown Nepal’s hated King Gyanendra and abolished the medieval monarchy. It has created a revolutionary army that now squares off with the old King’s army. It has built parallel political power in remote rural areas over a decade of guerrilla war – undermining feudal (…)