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By Desmond Butler The Associated Press
Sunday 30 April 2006
New York - Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month.
"End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs held by protesters during the march more than three years after the war in (…)

House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act” Ben Frank April 27, 2006
As if Iraq isn’t a big enough mess, the House of Representatives has just voted to ’hold Iran accountable and support a transition to democracy’. Sound Familiar? Only this time Iran is a democracy. They just held an election where their president was actually elected by the people. How refreshing.
After everything that has been exposed...the lies, the profiteering, the long list of war crimes, 397 (…)

Posted on Sun, Apr. 30, 2006
Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
By Anita Snow Associated Press
HAVANA - Bolivia’s new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional cooperation.
Cuban authorities did not release copies of the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas signed by Bolivia’s Evo Morales, so its contents were unclear.
Local media (…)

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bullet proof S.U.V.’S out front, could you please move them. They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.’S and they need to get out.
Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents’ dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what; I’m a pretty (…)

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/index.cfm?uNewsID=67180
27 Apr 2006 Gland, Switzerland - Plants that could help treat or cure diseases such as cancer, AIDS and malaria have been found in the forests of the heart of Borneo, according to a new WWF report. But the global conservation organization says this medical treasure trove is threatened and calls for its long-term protection.
The report - Biodiscoveries, Borneo’s Botanical Secret - reveals that scientists are (…)

Bolivia weighs in on Peru vote along with Venezuela
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales invited nationalist Peruvian candidate Ollanta Humala on Sunday to visit Bolivia, after Peru withdrew its ambassador to Caracas over Venezuela’s comments backing Humala in its presidential election.
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By Duroyan Fertl
Green Left Review
After almost five years, and countless thousands of people dead and disappeared, the US$7.5 billion initiative known as "Plan Colombia" has failed — politically and militarily — to bring an end to the crisis that characterises the violence-ridden South American country of Colombia.
Begun in 2000, Plan Colombia was ostensibly designed to take the "war on drugs" to the drug producers. The US argued these were primarily "narco-terrorists" — the Marxist (…)

Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Guardian/UK Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies’ part of growing anti-war network Elderly women tried to enlist in place of young
by Oliver Burkeman and Emma Brockes in New York
Three years after the start of the Iraq war, one thing New York police do not lack is experience in dealing with protesters - so when they were called to a disturbance at the military recruitment (…)

electronicIraq.net
Baghdadis say curfew prevents access to medical care
Report, IRIN
19 April 2006
BAGHDAD - Residents of the Iraqi capital are complaining that a recently-imposed government curfew, aimed at deterring ongoing violence, is hampering access to medical care.
"My son had stomach pains two days ago, but I couldn’t take him to the hospital because we’re prohibited from leaving our homes - even for medical emergencies," said Baghdad resident and father of four Abu (…)

Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don’t just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House - George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.
Already, a large majority of you do not consider this shifty duo trustworthy. By more than two to one you disapprove of Bush’s war in Iraq. Similar majorities believe this is also a President whose administrative (…)