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Swiss president criticizes Europe for boycott of Palestinian govt
24.04.2006, 00.33
AL KUWAIT, April 24 (Itar-Tass) — Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger criticized European countries for their boycott of the Hamas Palestinian government in a Sunday interview with the Qatari satellite television channel Al Jazeera.
The new Palestinian government should be given a chance instead of being forced to abide by preliminary conditions, he said.
Hamas took the office through democratic (…)

Yet Another About-Face Zig-Zagging Through the War with John Kerry
By JOSHUA FRANK
The search is finally over. Sen. John Kerry is believed to have found his heroic voice. He apparently misplaced it back in the early ’70s after standing up to the U.S. war in Vietnam upon his saluted return from battle. Now many antiwar liberals believe Kerry is dissenting yet again.
"I have come here today to reaffirm that it was right to dissent in 1971 from a war that was wrong. And to affirm that it (…)

A Cornered Administration
Dangerous Times Ahead
By DAVE LINDORFF
The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S. House of Representatives—an alternative means of bringing an impeachment case against a (…)

NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN
Genocide
By Norma Sherry
04/26/06 "ICH" — — As a people who praise humanity; as a human race we have a despicable history. Since the beginning of time we, as a people, have abolished those with whom we didn’t like or agree with, or those who had what we wanted: like land or rich resources. We haven’t changed much. It appears we haven’t learned from our past and as the acts of genocide pile high, clearly, we’re doomed to keep repeating these atrocious acts. (…)

Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by CommonDreams.org Eight Months After Katrina by Bill Quigley
On Monday, April 17, 2006, two bodies were found buried beneath what used to be a home in the Lower 9th Ward. Their discovery raised to 17 the number of Hurricane Katrina fatalities that have been discovered in New Orleans in the past month and a half. Katrina is now directly blamed for the deaths of 1,282 Louisiana residents. Eight months after Katrina, the state reports 987 people are (…)

Published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by the Independent / UK Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction by Jonathan Brown
Spring is being keenly awaited on Sakhalin in Russia’s far east after another long winter. But when it finally comes in June it offers little prospect of a thaw in relations between environmentalists and Shell.
With the melting of the ice after eight months, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant is set to enter a crucial offshore (…)

Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Baltimore Sun The Long War Posture by Gregory D. Foster
The American public is being lulled into a false sense of insecurity. And insecurity, constructed or real, is what gives those in power - our purported protectors - their self-righteous aura of indispensability.
President Bush; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace; the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. John P. Abizaid; (…)

Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Freepress (Columbus, Ohio) Chernobyl Kills While Bought ex-Greenpeacer Shills by Harvey Wasserman
While children continue to die twenty years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, an out-of-touch (and often corrupt) fringe advocates a "rebirth" for the failed technology that is killing them.
These pro-nuke die-hards seem unable to face the solution to both global warming and our economic future: the exploding revolution in renewable energy and (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0426-03.htm
Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by Agence France Presse
(sorry, no AFP on Bellaciao please...)

Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Hell on Earth Chernobyl was the world’s worst environmental disaster. Twenty years on, John Vidal reports on the clean-up, the false medical records, the communities that refused to leave and the continuing cost to people and planet
by John Vidal
Twenty years ago today, Konstantin Tatuyan, a Ukrainian radio engineer, was horrified when Reactor No 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, caught fire, and for the next 10 (…)