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Archive for the Month of June, 2005.
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- "CALLING ON THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO INITIATE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH, VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY AND DEFENSE SECRETARY RUMSFELD FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS"
- Iraqis inspecting the damage left by U.S. airstrikes in western Iraq on Sunday challenged American assertions that 40 insurgents were killed, saying there were no guerrillas in the area. "There were no mujahedin or armed men in the area. The planes attacked indiscriminately." - Leaving aside importance of calling attention to today's chain of prisons, what if the Bush people are actually making money off the backs of the victims of the original Gulag? - Fear can be a lucrative business. That, at least, is what American companies selling security gadgets are finding out as the US government continues to spend billions of dollars on a variety of different Homeland Security programs. The only problem? Most of them are useless.
- The ruling clears the way for prosecutions of officials suspected of human rights abuses during military rule between 1976 and 1983. - Though outgoing FCC Chairman Michael Powell may find it funny to joke about a "Mercedes divide," the ever increasing gap "between those who have access to information technology and digital content and those who do not" is no laughing matter. One expert compared such high-speed Internet access inequity to "having the moderate and upper classes in IMAX theatres, while the underprivileged are still watching silent movies."
- Large corporations are in full retreat from paying their fair share of taxes. In 2003, corporations paid just 7% of the cost of the US government, according to a study by Citizens for Tax Justice. - Bad faith insurance is where an insurance company decides to wrongfully deny legitimate claims.... "all they have to do is deny a small percentage of legitimate claims, and they're up a cool $1 billion a year."
- The G8 plan to save Africa comes with conditions that make it little more than an extortion racket - On May 17 a legal summons was delivered to U.S. and UK embassies in capitals around the world—including Istanbul, Tokyo, Lisbon, and Brussels—on behalf of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI). The summons requested the attendance of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to defend charges that they are in “violation of common values of humanity, international treaties, and international law” for waging war in Iraq.
- When Marine recruiters go way beyond the call - The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.
- If not deep-seated racism, what is it that makes American audiences more comfortable with Naomi Watts' blonde, freckled, blue-eyed appearance than with Nanako Matsushima's own beauty? Why would we prefer the Celtic blue eyes of Jennifer Connelly over the brown of Hitomi Kuroki? It's not enough for a film lead to be beautiful, it seems she must be white as well.
- The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is sounding a warning about Washington's demand for passenger lists for domestic Canadian flights. The Americans want to check for names against its secret no-fly list. - Britain is among international arms suppliers fuelling serious human rights abuses in Nepal and the conflict there between the army and Maoist rebels, says Amnesty International.
- Why the neocons want the moderates to lose - ...the US must put in place a REAL "fire-wall feed ban" that would stop the current feeding of billions of pounds of blood, meat, bone meal, animal fat and poultry feces to cattle in the US. These on-going feed practices amplify and spread mad cow disease.
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday sidestepped a question about his role in approving a failed $23.5 billion deal to acquire Boeing Co tankers, saying he would have to refresh his memory.
- If Saddam was really being charged with war crimes then why didn't we hear what he had to say? Or was Saddam telling the court that the United States was behind his regime, that Washington had given him the means to destroy the Halabja Kurds with gas? - The neocon media differs not at all from the Nazi propaganda machine. The neocon media fosters the same hatred and blood lust: kill the Iraqis, invade Syria, bomb the Iranians, devise "useable nukes" to subdue the Muslims, kill the American traitors who criticize our fuhrer, bend the world to our exceptional will.
- The conflict in Nicaragua is now as it has always been: a class and race conflict. Nostalgic for the days when their white-skinned class held sway undisputed, Enrique Bolaños and his colleagues are determined to hang on to the vestiges of power so as to continue to sell out their country in the style to which they are accustomed. - Human rights campaigners have accused the police of breaching civil liberties as they gather intelligence on people planning to protest against the G8 summit. Scotland Today has learned that detectives visited the homes of two activists after learning of their involvement in protest groups. - Lawyers representing terror suspects at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba claim there may be six minors being held there. - "Do you know that most of these trucks are carrying beef, chicken, tobacco, cigarettes and many, many things? Believe me that so much of it is over the expiration dates. Sometimes I can never even open the trucks or enter inside in order to examine the food because the smell is so terrible." - Independent World Television will go public on June 15. The goal, as bold as it is big, is to create an alternative news and current affairs network that is, as its name implies, global in reach and free from corporate or government pressures. - Very few people realize that Israel has turned life in the occupied territories (Israeli settlers excluded) into complete misery without any need to fire a single bullet. - Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin's espionage case has uncovered a spy nest at the top - How feds avoid hearings for terror suspects — despite Supreme Court ruling - For the last few years the Ghanaian market has been flooded with cheap
imported chicken from the European Union and the United States. This phenomenon is known as "dumping." Developed countries -- such as the EU and the US -- will often take excess product, whose production has been heavily subsidized and sell it to the developing world at prices that are so low, they ruin local markets. - New rule requires workers to work any shift or be fired
- A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join ExxonMobil Corp., the oil company said Tuesday.
- Inuit hunters threatened by a melting of the Arctic ice plan to file a petition accusing Washington of violating their human rights by fueling global warming, an Inuit leader said on Wednesday. - A major study has found fresh evidence of a link between red and processed meat and bowel cancer, scientists say. -
But this statistically improbable occurrence is just a coincidence.
- Police and security units, forces led by Kurdish political parties and backed by the U.S. military, have abducted hundreds of minority Arabs and Turkmens in this intensely volatile city and spirited them to prisons in Kurdish-held northern Iraq, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials, government documents and families of the victims.
- Since the fall of the Baghdad regime in April 2003, abductions of foreigners have become a sad reality in the new Iraq. In the shade of alleys or on unprotected roads, however, dozens of Iraqi civilians are also kidnapped every week, without the local press's even having the time to relate the facts. - While madrassas are an important issue in education and development in the Muslim world, they are not and should not be considered a threat to the United States. - Government censors redacted 45 names from a report charging that Pentagon officials broke laws in negotiations with aircraft manufacturer Boeing. Based on the context in which the blacked-out names appear, some could be White House officials. - More than a thousand young men face prison for failing to fulfil Italy's recently abolished military service. - "Rich countries are dodging the commitments they have made to reduce subsidies that hurt poor farmers overseas," said Celine Charveriat, spokeswoman for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. - Located in southeastern Uzbekistan near the border with Afghanistan, the Khanabad base is seen as key to the U.S. war on terror. Information about current day-to-day activities of U.S. forces remains shrouded in secrecy.
- Former police chief Norm Stamper opens up about the dark side of American policing, from institutionalized racism to misogyny and homophobia. - Manganese for steel, cobalt for chrome and alloys, gold, fluorspar and germanium for industrial diamonds – Africa remains a treasure trove for the world’s sophisticated economies. The US continues to rely on Africa for raw materials, and for American companies there are tremendous profits in the current trade agreements that continue the age-old exploitation of the continent by the rich world.
- We are on the verge of a welfare disaster in this country. Eighty percent of autistic children are under the age of 17. In a few short years, the states are going to be forced to provide support for an overwhelming number of disabled autistic adults. “The costs will be in the trillions.”
- Arabic news channel Aljazeera says its new English-language service will not water down its reporting style, despite US criticism of its coverage of the fighting in Iraq. - No one knows what Khinaisar saw or thought. She was shot once in the head, and she died five days later, on June 3. She spoke only once during that period, when her husband arrived at the hospital. When she heard him speak, she quietly called out his name: Mohsen - Antiwar protests and angry confrontations with police led to seven arrests on Cambridge Common yesterday as the city attempted to celebrate the 230th birthday of the US Army. - If we haven't all gone down the rabbit hole in Baghdad and come out in the Saigon of another era, you can't prove it by recent news from catastrophic Iraq. Eerie doesn't do it justice. - Just what is so bad about a 32-hour week? Or a 4-day week? People used to say the same thing about reformers who were demanding a 40-hour, 5-day week, too, a century ago. And what's so bad about early retirement? - More than 2 million people languish in prisons and jails here, frequently enduring conditions of confinement that rise to the level of torture.
- Why Bush Wants to Harbor Posada Carriles - During his confirmation, Johnson revealed that EPA is conducting more than 250 other experiments on human subjects. Several of those experiments involve testing chemicals on children, including: exposing children to a pesticide (chlorpyrifos) that was banned for residential use in 2000; paying children to inhale methanol vapors at levels described as "a worst case scenario"; and having asthmatic children inhale harmful ultra fine carbon particles. - 1) Why didn't NORAD fulfil its standard operating procedure and intercept the planes? Were NORAD intentionally confused by the wargames taking place on the morning of 9/11 or were they ordered to stand down?
- Board members of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a deal Thursday that exempts Saudi Arabia from nuclear inspections, despite serious misgivings about the arrangement in an era of heightened proliferation fears.
- First, the doctor of physics first said WTC brought down by explosive devices, later abruptly recanted. Federal Lawsuit contends he may have been unduly influenced by government officials - In the midst of this hated occupation, it’s conceivable that more acts of resistance of all kinds by G.I.s are going unreported or underreported.
- ABC corporate executives at the network's highest levels ordered three interviews with Robert Kennedy Jr. pulled from ABC News programming.
- YOU can easily be made to confess to being a terrorist. You may rue the day when you realize that you should have stood up with your fellow Americans and put an end to the War on Terror while it was still possible. - Fewer than 10% of the people prosecuted for terrorism in the United States since the September 11 attacks were convicted of crimes related to that or national security, according to a study conducted by the Washington Post. - American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.
- A United Arab Emirates daily, citing unnamed sources, reported Wednesday the United States was massing troops on the Syrian-Iraqi border. - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining $15,000 in payments to two Republican lobbyists last year that were not disclosed to the corporation's board. - German Wal-Mart employees will be able to keep flirting with each other after a German court on Thursday ruled that the supermarket chain's code of conduct that banned relationships between workers was illegal.
- Gunmen who seized two German and four Nigerian oil workers are demanding petroleum giant Royal Dutch/Shell honor promises of jobs and benefits in the oil-rich south, a company spokesman said Thursday. - Several senators — millionaires, many of them — have reported earning substantial dividend income in 2004, benefiting greatly from President Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, according to financial disclosure reports made available yesterday.
- The number of refugees around the world rose by 1million last year, to 11.5million, mainly because of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and people fleeing Iraq into Syria.
- For nearly two years now, Ottawa has been quietly negotiating a far-reaching military cooperation agreement, which allows the US Military to cross the border and deploy troops anywhere in Canada, in our provinces, as well station American warships in Canadian territorial waters - Schools with kids from wealthier families (and a high percentage of collegebound students) are not viewed as good prospects by military recruiters. It's as if those schools had posted signs at the entrances saying, "Don't bother." The kids in those schools are not the kids who fight America's wars. - They're on the government payroll, but some of President Bush's top aides have millions of dollars in stocks, real estate and other investments, according to financial disclosure forms released Wednesday. - A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects. - Critics liken radio, TV spots to propaganda; agency defends use - The interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in 2002 triggered concerns among senior Pentagon officials that they could face criminal prosecution under U.S. anti-torture laws, ABC News has learned. - Morning sickness might have evolved to ensure pregnant women do not digest too much unhealthy food, say scientists. - $350,000,000,000.00 spent on the wars since Sept. 11th, 2001. - The video shows a gang of young men armed with pipes and shovels as they charge a huddle of peasant protesters who have refused to abandon their land to developers.
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