contributions

History Will Not Absolve Us
by Nat Hentoff August 28th, 2007 6:30 PM
If and when there’s the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA’s secret prisons, there will be mounds of evidence available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations, including an arm of the European parliament—as well as such deeply footnoted books as Stephen Grey’s Ghost Plane: The (…)

PEACE is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity - we are obliged to at least INFORM OTHERS about gross human rights abuses, especially of Women and Children. What can decent people do about horrendous human rights abuse of Women and their Children around the World?
I am an Artist as well as a scientist, writer and humanitarian advocate. I have an IDEA to empower decent folk - use ART to transmit a message of Peace and Respect for Women and for Mother and Child around the (…)

ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native Communities
Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 30 (IPS) - Encroached upon by the expanding agricultural frontier and facing the indifference of the state, indigenous communities in the northeastern Argentine province of Chaco have problems of access to water, food and their natural medicines, and are heading towards extinction.
Images of emaciated men and women suffering from hunger and tuberculosis in the district of Villa (…)

The T4 FSE is based on National Planning Scenario 11 (NPS-11). The scenario begins as terrorists, who have been planning attacks in Oregon, Arizona, and the U.S. Territory of Guam, successfully bring radioactive material into the United States. The first of three coordinated attacks occurs in Guam, with the simulated detonation of a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), or “dirty bomb,” causing casualties and wide-spread contamination in a populous area near a power plant. Similar attacks (…)

AMTI, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based company founded by special operations veterans, was chosen for the lead role in planning and executing the exercise, under a $350-million, 5-year federal contract.
TOPOFF 4 Takes Emergency Response Exercise Global
Emergency response agencies, government agencies and other organizations have begun planning for the fourth exercise in the Department of Homeland Security’s Top Officials National Exercise Series (TOPOFF), scheduled for 2007.
By: Sandy Smith (…)

Rome, Syria and America’s Empire by Trish Schuh
PALMYRA, Syria— For a brief brilliant moment, like a flickering sunset on the horizon, Palmyra was a mercantile crown of the fading Roman Empire. Situated near an oasis at the nexis of east and west, water and caravan tarriffs insured its rising importance. By the 3rd century A.D. Rome had designated the city ’the capital of the province of Syria.’
Palmyra, "the place of palms" was geared to religious tourism and commerce. Its delicate (…)

By Mayor Freddy Thielemans
All those who have complained about the racist site Blog Cochon will be pleased to know that Blogger has decided to ban the site from public viewing on the basis that it is in contravention of its Contents Policy. Blogger is to be congratulated and supported in its exemplary actions.
But, true to their parasitic nature, the anonymous authors of Les Cochons (to describe these short-lived blogs collectively) keep moving from one site to another, abusing their (…)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007
North Iraq faces cholera outbreak
Scores of people showing symptoms of cholera are being treated in hospital
At least eight people have died from cholera in two predominantly Kurdish provinces in northern Iraq, Kurdistan’s regional health minister has said. Dozens more people are being treated in hospitals in Kirkuk and Sulaimaniya after contracting the deadly water-borne disease. "There are 47 cholera cases in Kirkuk and 35 in Sulaimaniya," Zeryan Othman, (…)

Fears of cholera pandemic grow in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (Xinhua)
Fears of a cholera outbreak are growing in northern Iraq after dozens of cases were detected in two northern provinces, a medical source said on Thursday.
"Cholera and diarrhea are spreading in the provinces Sulaimaniyah and Kirkuk after tests in the provincial hospitals’ laboratories confirmed the cases," the source from Kirkuk public hospital told Xinhua by telephone.
The hospitals also sent the samples to (…)

By David Glenn Cox
We all know this won’t hurt, the checks in the mail and well you get the point, But those are the mundane lies anyone can come up with one of those. The simple lie the lie of omission but how about the whoppers the ones even the professionals in the trade lawyers and politicians shake their heads and marvel at such audacity.
Some one at the beauru of lies prevarication’s and falsities deserves the golden forked tongue award. “U.S. Household Incomes Rose Last Year” (…)