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Rumsfeld war crimes complaint filed in Germany Holly Manges Jones at 10:01 AM ET [JURIST] Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] in Germany Tuesday asking that the German Federal Prosecutor [official website] investigate and ultimately prosecute former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and (…)

To Bush, McCain and Olmert: The Congo Cries Out and all of you remain silent By Mary MacElveen November 14, 2006
The lesson for the GOP to take from last week’s election results in which they lost majority rule in both houses is that the American people saw through the deceit in using our military to fight an immoral war in Iraq. If we are to gain respect world-wide, it would be to stand up to brutal acts that continue to this day.
No, I am not speaking of Iran. In fact I think some (…)

Was the reaction to the 2006 election a ‘Network’ moment? By Mary MacElveen November 14, 2006
In thinking back to America’s reaction to the 2006 mid term elections, the only term that I can come up with that best describes the results of these elections is that America had a ‘Network’ moment. We all remember that movie Network in which the producer opened up the window and angrily shouted out, “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!”
For years the electorate was (…)

News has spread across the country, but Americans remain unhindered by spineless Democratic leaders’ calls for a cut and run from Impeachment. Instead of being silenced, patriotic Americans have been emboldened by this call to action and have turned up the volume on their demands for justice.
Anti-war Activists in San Francisco are already raising their voices outside Nancy Pelosi’s office “Activists urge Pelosi to halt war in Iraq”
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We’re out here today telling Nancy Pelosi (…)

By Gideon Levy
A bloodbath is taking place in Beit Hanun, the Israel Defense Forces runs rampant and kills at least 37 people in four days - and Israeli public opinion yawns with indifference. A brigade commander tells his soldiers, who killed 12 people in one day: "You’ve won 12:0," and the soldiers grin broadly. This is the moral nadir we have reached, following a long slide down a slippery slope: Human life has become cheap.
Proof of this came at the end of the week from the big mouth (…)

New Faces, Same Agenda - by Stephen Lendman
The political firmament shook briefly post-November 7 raising hopes change would follow the Republican’s drubbing at the polls and the Democrats regaining control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the GOP sweep in 1994. Presumed new House speaker Nancy Pelosi stopped the tremors making it clear no substantive change will be on the table when when the 110th Congress convenes on January 3. Instead, she announced to those paying (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Arabs, at least at the non-official level, were quick to hail President George W. Bush’s mid-term electoral defeat and the humiliating downfall of his war architect Donald Rumsfeld, but cheering the Democrats’ victory has yet to wait and may not be voiced at all.
Why hailing Bush’s defeat? Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, Jim Hogland, of The Washington Post had part of the answer: “Bush lost more than a midterm election and a cantankerous defense secretary (…)

Global growth in carbon emissions is ’out of control’
By Steve Connor Science Editor
Published: 11 November 2006
The growth in global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels over the past five years was four times greater than for the preceding 10 years, according to a study that exposes critical flaws in the attempts to avert damaging climate change.
Data on carbon dioxide emissions shows that the global growth rate was 3.2 per cent in the five years to 2005 compared with (…)

WITH SUCH "DEMOCRATS" WAR WITOUT END IN MIDDLE EAST AND AGAINST HUMANITY WILL CONTINUE
Pelosi’s Israel Connection
Jennifer Jacobson
JTA Wire Service
NOVEMBER 10, 2006
Washington
http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/6073.stm

Deconstructing David Grossman
http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/grossman.html
The world, so it seems, is giving a standing ovation to the new Israeli orator, the author, David Grossman. Israel’s public relations desperately needs a righteous intellectual, an author who ‘talks peace’, a man who preaches ‘reconciliation’, a man of shalom . Yesterday the Guardian published Grossman’s last week speech at the Yitzchak Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv. (…)