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Independent.co.uk Saturday, 12 April 2008
The other global crisis, By Paul Vallely
A demonstrator eats grass in front of a U.N. Brazilian peacekeeping soldier during a protest against the high cost of living in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Source: Boston.com
The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world’s (…)

How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens – and to the wider world – the reasons an rationale for initiating military conflict? What rhetorical devices and techniques are employed? And how is a nation brought to support the profound decision to wage war against another nation? These are the questions that LEADING TO WAR seeks to explore.
This 72-minute film shows the evolution of the United States government’s case for military action against (…)

A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
Great article below and great coverage of the recent U.S. independent trucker action. However it is inaccurate to translate "camionero" as "teamsters" since in the U.s. "teamsters" would be taken and "Teamsters’ Union". the truckers wert NOT members of the Teamsters Union and actually the Teamsters Union OPPOSED the independent trucker action.
And much. much bigger independent trucker actions are planned for May Day 2008, of course.
Will any (…)

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, born 19 September 1986 in Ottawa Canada, “has been detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps since he was captured at the age of 15 following a 2002 firefight between American troops and militants in Afghanistan.” He has been accused by the United States of “throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, leading to charges of war crimes and providing support to terrorism.” That, of course, is what the Bush administration is officially stating, the truth (…)

Baraka Productions 2 mn 28 s - 1 févr. 2007 www.aristidethefilm.com
Only an hour south of Miami, the elected president of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has twice been forced from office with the complicity of the international community.
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18663433.html

It’s only gotten worse since the 2000 Presidential Campaign.
video:
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18689501.html

Portuguese anti-GM crop action classified as terrorism.
GM er | 13.04.2008 23:24 | Bio-technology Portuguese Judicial Police classifies action against genetically modified corn as a "terrorist" act in Europol report.
In the last "EU terrorism situation and trend report" of Europol, the partial mowing of a field in Silves (Portugal), last summer, is classified as a terrorist act. In France, Germany and the UK, similar actions are often far more radical and happen regularly. Yet, they (…)

An estimate of the cost of war in Iraq is US$12 billion per month, and in the meantime, demographic trends are creating a budgetary apocalypse, Shaun Waterman writes for ISN Security Watch.
08 April 2008
By Shaun Waterman in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (08/04/08)
Before the 2006 election campaign, I asked a veteran congressional aide how Republicans would explain to voters the ruinous continuing costs of the war in Iraq.
"They’ll just tell ’em the good news," he said. (…)

To stay or not to stay, that is the question. Whether ’tis more politically expedient in fact to garner petroleum revenues for outrageous fortune...or to sell more arms in a sea of troubles.
To die; to sleep; not us! we shall not slumber and will not cease this honypot endeavor.
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks that sons and daughters on both sides are heir to..’tis a consumation devoutly to be wished, since profits multiply with their demise. To die, to sleep, perchance to (…)

French version: http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18663111.html
"Huichols & Pesticides, documents, through witnesses, reports and persuasive images, the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the tobacco fields, and the poisonings, and even deaths, resulting from the use of agrochemicals." (Boletín RAPAM - Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México, 1994)
Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZesVO028oak
Part II: (…)