contributions

When CNN announced their documentary (transcript here) on the assassination of Martin Luther King, which aired here in Germany on April 6, I predicted that they would not mention the verdict of the 1999 Jowers trial.
This was of course the civil suit that the King family brought against Loyd Jowers, the owner of the restaurant below the rooming house where James Earl Ray rented a room on April 4, 1968, and from which he supposedly shot King on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel opposite. (…)

Qurei Urges Israel to Acknowledge Palestinian ‘Right of Return’ ‘We Persist Now on Fighting a Fierce Battle of Peace’
By Nicola Nasser
May 21, 2008 – Agreeing to the Israeli neo-historian Ilan Pappé’s interpretation of the term “Nakba,” Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmad Qurei said that peace and peace negotiations with Israel “could not hang on forever,” warned that “the horrible alternative option could not but be the total collapse of the dreams of coexistence and the resumption of (…)

english.aljazeera.net
Brazil Indians attack energy worker
Environmentalists say a new dam in the Amazon will displace nearly 15,000 local people [EPA]
Indians in Brazil’s Amazon region have attacked a delegate from the national power company when a heated meeting protesting a proposed dam exploded into anger.
An engineer with Brazil’s national electric company Eletrobras emerged from the gathering of local indigenous people and activists shirtless and bloody
About 1,000 Amazon (…)

On May 20, 2008, a press conference was held, at the National Press Club, in downtown Washington, D.C., near the White House. One of the featured speakers at the event was attorney José Pertierra, counsel for the government of Venezuela. He demanded the extradition from the U.S. to Venezuela of Luis Posada Carriles. Mr. Pertierra also addressed the issues concerning the case of the “Cuban Five.” The co-sponsors of the affair was the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and the “National Committee to Free (…)

Famine 1932-1933 killed 7 million people in USA
19.05.2008 Dmitry Lyskov
Source: Pravda.Ru
Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate.
The researcher (…)

Committee for the defense of Tarek Aziz
and the Iraqi political prisoners
Statement n° 3: 20th May 2008 : the second audience of Tarek Aziz’ trial
The Iraqi and the US authorities deny Jacques Vergès authorization to go to Baghdad in order to defend Tarek Aziz and ensure his defense.
Declaration of Jacques Vergès, The international lawyer of Tarek Aziz
« I have required from the Iraqi authorities a visa to visit Baghdad and ensure the defense of Tarek Aziz who designated me as his (…)

Bakchich.info Tuesday 20 May 2008
In Baghdad, Tarek Aziz is risking death, accused for having ordered to hang 42 wholesale dealers who used to speculate on prices in the middle of the embargo against Iraq, and for having suggested that a homage be rendered to Saddam Hussein at every Friday’ prayer. All political Paris who courted him for 20 years, is having their mouth shut, or something of that kind.. The orders are clear : « Tarek Aziz? I don’t know! ».
Jacques Vergès, who defends (…)

Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice.
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19742567.html

Something very important happened in Canada on May 13: Roméo Dallaire compares Canada and the US to terrorist organizations
Who is Roméo Dallaire?
If you are a believer in such a thing as Canadian values than Roméo Dallaire represents them.
“Lieutenant-General Roméo Alain Dallaire , is a French Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general. Dallaire is widely known for having served as Force Commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda (…)

“Man regards himself as harmless and so adds stupidity to his iniquity.” - Carl G. Jung
Who suggested to President George W. Bush and Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that a Photo Op at Masada, on May 15, 2008, would enhance their personas? Whoever it was, they deserves plaudits, since it backfired. Masada, which I visited in the late 70s, is a fortress, 1,400 feet high. It is located in the desert, near the Dead Sea—a place where 960 Jewish zealots—men, women and children—committed (…)