May 2006
May 31, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2006
¤ US forces: Iraqi women killed in error
¤ 'Bin Laden' tapes & 9/11 conspiracies
¤ How Massacres Become the Norm
¤ CUPE in Ontario votes to boycott Israel
¤ Iraq PM orders state of emergency in Basra
¤ India held back by wall of instability
¤ U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq
¤ Iran calls U.S. talks offer 'propaganda'
¤ Widening the Racial Wealth Gap
¤ What Iran should say to Condoleezza Rice
¤ Why it's over for America
¤ Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq
¤ Spreading Democracy in Haditha
¤ The Haditha Massacre: a product of a phony, failed, and immoral war!
¤ Al-Maliki tired of US excuses
¤ Rob Newman's History of Oil. Video
¤ Ken Loach's History Lesson
¤ 54 killed in Iraq violence
¤ Car bombs, other attacks kill 54 people in Iraq's bloodiest day in weeks
¤ Car bombing in Iraq kills 5 policemen
¤ Was it an Isolated Event and Did the Military Try to Cover it up?
¤ Attacks kills six Afghan staff with international groups
¤ Embedded Journalism and the Disinformation Campaign for War on Iran
¤ Chavez backs Peru candidate
¤ Bush sends 1,500 more troops to Iraq
¤ Gore: Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist'
¤ It will be a verdict on Bush and it looks bad. Very bad
¤ Blair has been blinded by an imperialist illusion
¤ GEORGE AND TONY SITTIN’ IN A TREE – K-I-L-L-I-N-G
¤ Fake Soldier Confession Video Runs As Cover For Real Slaughter
¤ Saddam Defense Witness Killed, Lawyer Says
¤ American Capitalism and The Moral Poverty of Nations
¤ Deaths of 2 in CBS Crew Lead to Painful Reassessments
¤ Burying Mexico's Dirty War
¤ Global Empire: Who Pays? Who Profits?
¤ Leftists for Occupation
¤ Cheney desperate to attack Iran, World Cup offers pretext
¤ Oil rises above $72 on China demand
¤ 'Why we bite'
¤ Separating the real from the fake
¤ 647,000 Indonesians displaced by quake
¤ Java earthquake toll passes 5,800
May 29, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, May 29, 2006
¤ Bombings in Iraq leave at least 33 dead
¤ Deadly Attack On CBS News Crew
¤ How Bush hoodwinked the US press
¤ Dixie Chicks — a profile in courage
¤ Bush: Vows Long Middle Eastern War, Spreads the Fallacy of the Cold War Analogy
¤ Undocumented worker used as slave in Wisconsin home for 19 years
¤ Speaking Up For Palestinians
¤ Oil on Troubled Waters
¤ Chavez Spreads His Oil Wealth in Bolivia
¤ Did Bush’s "Bring it On" Bravado Bring On the Haditha Massacre
¤ A Veteran Stays Home on Memorial Day
¤ The Latest Neocon Lie About Iran
¤ 75 Now on Hunger Strike at Guantanamo
¤ Afghans Riot After U.S. Accident; 8 Dead
¤ The Battle Spreads In Afghanistan
¤ Iraq violence claims 50 lives
¤ Symantec confirms high-risk corporate AV flaw
¤ Galloway backs Castro on Cuba TV
¤ Dozens left injured after bombs rock Ethiopia
¤ Africa battles ‘oil curse’
¤ 3,000 UK troops are Awol since war began
¤ Death toll from road accident in Afghanistan rises to 25
¤ Fighting in the Shadows
¤ What People Believe
¤ World is blind to real situation in Iraq: activists
¤ Cindy Sheehan: 'Stop this bullshit war for profit’
¤ Afghan forces, militants clash: 7 die
¤ Is Abbas a Traitor?
¤ Doctor describes the devastation of Iraq
¤ Tony Blair’s Washington visit and the curious case of a disappearing BBC story
¤ Indonesian earthquake death toll continues to grow as rescuers clear the rubble
¤ Ramadi: US raid kills seven civilians in Iraq
¤ Aid pours in to Java as quake toll passes 4,300
¤ Indonesia quake toll passes 5,000
¤ Airstrike Kills Dozens in Afghanistan
¤ Riot Erupts After Kabul Traffic Accident
¤ Sixty attacks a month on British forces as 1,000 soldiers go Awol
¤ Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'
¤ Baghdad Numb to Reports of Massacre
¤ Iran: U.S. Will Fail to Spark Unrest
¤ Dying for a Lie
¤ The Evil Is In Our Government
¤ Che at the Marches
¤ Bomb kills 11 near Baghdad
¤ What May Come of the Haditha Massacre?
¤ Why the Pentagon keeps overestimating Beijing's military strength.
¤ New Bush appointee caught changing and distorting his own quotes
¤ Bush worshippers are the real un-Americans
¤ The children of Guantanamo Bay
¤ Rumsfeld says Flight 93 was "shot down."
¤ New Scandal Worse Than Abu Ghraib
¤ Media Memorial Day
¤ US and Afghan forces fire on rioters
¤ 'The hardest word'
Bush Squares Off with Bolivia and Venezuela
Posted: Sunday, May 28, 2006
By: Roger Burbach, venezuelanalysis.com
George W. Bush has come out with harsh words for the governments of Bolivia and Venzeuela. "Let me just put it bluntly - I'm concerned about the erosion of democracy in the countries you mentioned," Bush said in response to a question put to him about Venezuela and Bolivia. "I am going to continue to remind our hemisphere that respect for property rights and human rights is essential for all countries," he added.
While Bush's hostility towards Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is well known, his critical comments about Bolivia came as somewhat of a surprise, given that Evo Morales has served only four months as the country's first Indian president and has done nothing to thwart the democratic process. As Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca noted: "We are creating a participatory democracy and the world knows it. I don't understand how the United States can say democracy is eroding..."
Bush's true agenda is reflected in his call for "respect for property rights." A change is taking place in South America as Morales and Chavez move to exert greater control of their energy resources and challenge US plans for a hemispheric free trade zone. As the president of the Bolivian Senate, Santos Ramirez, noted: "Bolivia and Latin America are no longer the servile democracies that tolerate...poverty and the surrendering of sovereignty."
Early in May Morales announced that Bolivia would nationalize its energy resources, particularly its natural gas exports. While no foreign corporations were expropriated out right, Morales made it clear that "the looting of our natural resources by foreign enterprises is over."
At the same time Morales is moving to reshape the country's commercial relations, particularly with Venezuela. This week Hugo Chavez flew to Bolivia, declaring "we are going to concretize the People's Trade Treaty," an accord that was recently signed between Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba. It is openly pitched as an alternative to the US-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas, a trade zone based on neo-liberal principles that facilitates the expansion of multinational corporations.
Bolivia and Venezuela have signed eight different accords dealing with 200 different projects concerning energy, mining, education, sports and cultural exchanges. Most importantly Venezuela has agreed to invest over $1 billion to help industrialize Bolivia's natural gas production, including the construction of a petrochemical complex.
Venezuela is also providing diesel fuel, which Bolivia does not produce, in exchange for the sale of soybeans. This comes at an opportune moment for Bolivia as most of its soy exports have gone to Colombia which just signed a free trade agreement with the United States. The US-Colombian accord means that cheap, subsidized US grains will flood Colombia, driving out Bolivian soybeans.
In Bolivia Morales took Chavez on a visit to Chipare, the semi-tropical region where he rose to prominence as the leader of the coca growers' confederation. There they announced their intention to build a factory to process coca leafs for herbal teas, medicinal products, and cosmetics. This is certain to arouse the ire of the United States which for years has pursued a policy of forced eradication of coca in Chipare, leading to the virtual militarization of the region.
The burgeoning economic alliance between Venezuela and Bolivia also helps offset the difficulties that have arisen with Brazil and Argentina over Morales' determination to exert greater control over natural gas exports. Both neighboring countries have significant investments in Bolivia's gas fields, and both are importing gas for domestic use at prices well below the world market. At a recent international gathering of Latin American and European leaders in Vienna, Austria, Morales and President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil exchanged harsh words over efforts to draft a new accord over natural gas. While the two leaders formally made up before they left Austria, there is little doubt that Chavez' support provides Bolivia with leverage in its negotiations with its two more powerful neighbors.
Venezuela is also signing a financial accord aimed at bolstering Bolivia's banking and monetary system. This is intended to strengthen Morales' hand vis-á-vis the United States and international financial institutions. The Bolivian government at the end of March announced that it would not solicit any new loans from the International Monetary Fund. The fund has aroused a great deal of antipathy in recent decades as it restricted social spending and forced the privatization of state enterprises, particularly in the tin mining industry.
The visit of Chavez to Bolivia coincides with the opening of the Exchange Fair, a project of the People's Trade Treaty between Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba. Enterprises from all three countries participated with the goal of expanding commerce and sharing technical expertise. At the fair the vice-president of Bolivia, Alvaro Garcia Linera, criticized the US neo-liberal trade regime, asserting: "It is not necessary for small producers and entrepreneurs to subordinate themselves to financial capital…There are other forms of interdependence, other forms of globalization, other ways to generate regional exchanges of products, ideas, and necessities." Garcia Linera concluded, "Bolivia needs the world, and it will produce for the world."
Roger Burbach is director of the Center for the Study of the Americas, based in Berkeley, California. He is the co-author, with Jim Tarbell, of Imperial Overstretch: George W Bush and the Hubris of Empire, published by Zed Books. He has written extensively on Latin America and is currently working on a book on the social movements and the new left in Latin America.
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www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1741
May 28, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, May 28, 2006
¤ Photos are said to show Iraqi victims
¤ US massacre of civilians at Hajiyan and manipulation of public opinion
¤ Media’s Distortions to Justify the Occupation of Iraq
¤ In Haditha, Memories of a Massacre
¤ Haditha: the "M" word hits the media
¤ "Nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib"
¤ Iraq: Horrific details of atrocities in Haditha emerge
¤ China says it is a 'benign force' in Africa
¤ Congo Holding 3 Americans in Alleged Coup Plot
¤ IMF cuts off credit to Bolivia
¤ USA – the self-styled CEO of Planet Inc
¤ Back in the USSA
¤ Please, Not Fidel Castro’s Fortune Again!
¤ Fresh evidence of 'executions' by rogue US marines in Iraq
¤ Terror alert as Caspian oil pipeline opens
¤ Death toll tops 3,500 as quake devastates Indonesia's royal city
¤ Blair beefed up his Iran speech to please Bush
¤ Bloggers can shield sources
¤ Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77
¤ Chaos grips East Timor capital
¤ Rescuers search for quake survivors
May 27, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, May 27, 2006
¤ 3,000 dead in Java earthquake
¤ 'I'll miss his ties' - Bush's tribute to tongue-tied ally
¤ Iraq violence leaves 15 dead
¤ Iraq supports Iran on nuclear development
¤ The Hardest Word
¤ A total disappointment
¤ Why Are You Financing a Video Game on Invading Venezuela?
¤ Iran and the Uses of "Preventive" War
¤ The Palestinians Must Pay a Price for Their Choice
¤ Wrongly Detained? Too Bad
¤ Making Hay(den) While They Shun Signs
¤ Bush says he regrets 'tough talk'
¤ Bush Smirked After 'Admitting Mistakes'
¤ Marines may face trial over Iraq massacre
¤ Marines accused of cover-up after Haditha killings
¤ 'Are you Bush defenders just blowing smoke, or do you really not get it?'
¤ US helicopter goes down in Iraq
¤ U.S. Hypocrisy in Cuba
¤ Something to talk about
¤ Why is Bush only going after Iran's nuclear program?
¤ Liars' Club Confab: Bush and Blair at White House
¤ Italy to pull 1,100 troops from Iraq
British Pol: Killing Blair 'Justified'
Posted: Saturday, May 27, 2006
George Galloway Says Assassination Attempt On PM Would Be 'Morally Justified'
Maverick British politician George Galloway has claimed it would be "morally justified" for an assassin to target Prime Minister Tony Blair, but he said he was not advocating an attempt, according to a magazine interview published Friday.
Full Article : cbsnews.com
May 26, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, May 26, 2006
¤ Galloway responds to Blair ‘assassination’ row
¤ The Busheviks
¤ Poverty Rates in Venezuela: Getting the Numbers Right
¤ Chavez and Morales in trade deals
¤ The Irony of Iraq
¤ Bush's $15-a-Barrel Blunder
¤ Don't Forget: Memorial Day is About Memory, Not Amnesia
¤ Stuck in a Cake-Walk War
¤ The Few, the Proud, the Murderers
¤ Put a Disclaimer on the Bible, Not the DaVinci Code
¤ Say, Did Tony Snow Really Get a New Job?
¤ The Iraq war and the truth--between blog and corporate media
¤ Israeli shellings kill Palestinians
¤ Fresh Afghan fighting leaves 11 dead
¤ "Victory"? Forget it
¤ Haifa Zangana Interview Video
¤ A glimpse of freedom
¤ 'How can people live, I wonder?'
¤ About 3,000 flee Afghan fighting
¤ Millions of Afghans could go hungry
¤ Bush's China Syndrome: Hypocrisy, History and Twelve Kinds of Hell
¤ Cuba: A Clean Bill of Health
¤ Ken Lay--Guilty. George Bush--Guilty.
¤ Bush speaks on illegal immigration
¤ Putin revives energy row with US
¤ Bush and Blair admit that Iraq presents 'immense challenge'
¤ Car bomb kills at least eight in Baghdad
¤ Bomb kills 9, wounds 30 in Baghdad
¤ How US persuaded law chief to approve invasion of Iraq
¤ Blair and Bush Are Duo Even in Descent
¤ Blair is accused of new cover-up over Attorney General's advice on Iraq war
¤ Killing Blair 'morally justified' says Galloway
¤ Countdown to Apartheid
¤ Oil for Occupation, But None for Iraqis
¤ Take the President, Please
¤ Ahmadinejad: Not Hitler After All
¤ How much longer can the dollar reign supreme?
¤ Osama comes to Moussaoui’s defense?
¤ 'Bushco: The dog flew my homework to Syria!'
¤ 'My twenty-five minutes with Condoleezza Rice'
¤ another made-for-tv ‘blow to al-Qaida’ craters
¤ Tar Baby
¤ George Bush meets George Orwell
¤ US military massacres 80 villagers in Afghanistan
¤ Iran has the right to self-defence
May 25, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, May 25, 2006
¤ China says US is scaremongering
¤ Why Can't the US Apply Its New North Korea Policy to Iran?
¤ How much longer should the U.S. underwrite Israeli crimes?
¤ Osama bin Laden: A Weapon of Mass Convenience
¤ A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
¤ The Fake bin Laden Video Tape
¤ OSAMA: A 757 Hit the Pentagon!
¤ Make Big Oil Pay For Raking It In
¤ Wow! Iraqi Leader Takes Bush's Calls
¤ Bush Prepares to Cut and Run in Afghanistan
¤ 65 killed in fresh Afghan violence
¤ Afghanistan: US troops killed over 25 civilians in one week
¤ Attack on civilians in Afghanistan 'unfortunate,'
¤ Be Ruthless
¤ The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation
¤ National Post apologizes for anti-Iran story
¤ U.S. is urged to stop paying Iraqi reporters
¤ It's not the first war under false pretenses
¤ Bolivia rebuts Bush's accusations of undermining democracy
¤ They Never Miss Their Cue
¤ Basra Explodes
¤ Sharon's Legacy in Action
¤ Amnesty report
¤ Nine killed in Somalia fighting
¤ New Israeli P.M. Ehud Olmert desperate to become Sharon’s substitute for Bush
¤ Foreign citizens will not be allowed to adopt Russian children anymore
¤ Russian children abused and murdered by American foster parents
¤ Canada out of Afghanistan
¤ What's the price of Iraqi lives?
¤ The Militarisation of the Eastern Mediterranean
¤ Same Old Stuff, Just a Different Face!
¤ Why this part from Aziz’s testimony in court, not translated to English?
May 24, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
¤ Easily Dispensable: Iraq's Children
¤ Amnesty attacks US 'disappearances'
¤ Shell fined for Niger Delta damage
¤ Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite
¤ OECD warns rebalancing of US deficit may drive dollar down sharply
¤ Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent
¤ American War Crimes In Iraq 1991-2005
¤ It's Not the First War Under False Pretenses
¤ Hypocrisy is A Weapon US Doesn't Need in Arsenal
¤ Violence in Afghanistan surges as Taliban appears more organised
¤ European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions
¤ A Slow Motion Coup
¤ New Estimate of Venezuela's Total Oil Reserves Makes It...
¤ What happened in Kurdish Halabja?
¤ Massacre in Kandahar
¤ Palestinian Catastrophe: Myths Revisited
¤ Karzai orders inquiry after US raid kills 16
¤ Moscow angered by US plan for 'star wars' bases in Europe
¤ Sportswear makers 'failing to improve working conditions'
¤ Iraq: 2 500 killed, 85 000 displaced in two months
¤ Bush Democracy Doctrine, RIP
¤ Bush: U.S. would aid Israel if attacked
¤ How Dick Cheney Got His Cold War On
¤ How Bush Brewed the Iranian Crisis
¤ Shooting to Kill on the Border
¤ Yes, I Am Actually Calling Them Racist
¤ A Nation in Chains
¤ Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of ‘mistaken identity’
¤ U.S. Says World Could Handle Loss of Iran Oil
¤ Media Misconceptions of Ramadi Continue - Media Analysis !
¤ World Premiere of Documentary "With Blood"
¤ Multilateral Collusion
¤ The Delusions of Global Hegemony
¤ U.S. group warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza
¤ Amnesty slams Israel
¤ I Can't Believe It's Not Napalm!
¤ War Provoking Terror, Amnesty Says
May 23, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
¤ The Unholy Union Behind the War on Terror
¤ Decline And Fall in the US
¤ Coerced Confessions - A Corporate Abuse
¤ A Life Sentence for refusing to Commit Murder
¤ Rep. Murtha On Iraq: "It's Worse Than It Was Prewar"...
¤ Iraq doctor brings evidence of US napalm at Fallujah
¤ The threat of Depleted Uranium exposure
¤ Uproar in court as judge ejects Saddam lawyer
¤ The Anti-Empire Report
¤ Vladimir Putin and the rise of the petro-ruble
¤ The "Deal Government" Fiasco and Iraq's Future
¤ George W. Bush's policy takes the USA to financial collapse
¤ Iran's future lies in Russia's hands
¤ India on alert for suicides after stocks slide
¤ U.S. Vs Russia: Back to cold war
¤ US prison population rises to 2.18 million
¤ The Great Iraq Oil Grab
¤ Moussaoui and Foreign-Policy Unrealities
¤ Crying for a Horse
¤ Failed State? Yes, but for other reasons
¤ Government Secrecy Is a Farce
¤ Iran the Target of Disinformation Campaign
¤ Don't Believe the Handover Hype
¤ Basra, Britain's Mesopotamian mess revisited
¤ LISTENING IN
¤ The movie of mass destruction and Hollywood designs on Iraq
¤ Nepal wakes up with a headache
¤ Drug companies 'failing to meet health needs of world's poorest'
¤ US air strike on Taliban kills Afghan civilians
¤ Bush decries 'erosion of democracy' in Venezuela, Bolivia
¥ Democracy as Bush Defines it: Policies unfavorable toward US interests
¤ Army suicides up since Iraq war
¤ Israel is whittling away at Palestinians' land again
Can Things Get Any Worse?
Posted: Monday, May 22, 2006
AUSTIN, Texas—Looking at the wreckage of the Bush administration leaves one with the depressed query, “Now what?” The only help to the country that can come from this ugly and spectacular crackup is, in theory, things can’t get worse. This administration is so discredited it cannot talk the country into an unnecessary war with Iran as it did with Iraq. In theory, spending is so out of control it cannot cut taxes for the rich again; the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bushies is already among its lasting legacies.
Full Article : commondreams.org
May 22, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, May 22, 2006
¤ Airstrike in South Afghanistan Kills 76
¤ Hume Argues Persistent Violence Helps Iraq Make Political Progress
¤ Surveillance of Journalists ‘Makes Me Feel…As If We Are Drug Dealers or Terrorists’
¤ Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
¤ Inside story of the Guantanamo uprising
¤ A changing world
¤ Who's guilty? The Victim, Of course
¤ Disloyal and dangerous? The U.S. media may think so
¤ Sordid history of U.S. Latin America policy
¤ Courage
¤ Pope says low birth rates in Canada due to 'pervasive effects of secularism'
¤ Bush governs in dictator style
¤ IRAN: EMPTY THE INCUBATOR BABYS OUT WITH THE PR-BATH
¤ Israel expands settlements, yet again
¤ The Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil
¤ Ex -US soldier: 'If he didn't answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest kid
¤ US films at Cannes go Bush-whacking
¤ Another 'Coalition of the Willing'?
¤ What People Believe
¤ The Administration That Won’t Stop Lying
¤ Target Russia?
¤ The Administration That Won't Stop Lying
¤ President grabs power while Congress sleeps
¤ US 'not offering Iran guarantees'
¤ Molly Ivins: Can Things Get Any Worse?
¤ How the Bush administration deconstructed Iraq
¤ Violence Invades Baghdad's Emergency Rooms
¤ AIDS Vaccine Testing Goes Overseas
¤ 'Radical chicks
¤ Afghan car bombing kills civilians
¤ Pressed by U.S., European Banks Limit Iran Deals
¤ Amid War, Troops See Safety in Reenlisting
¤ Iraqi PM vows "maximum force" as bombs kill 19
¤ Blair in surprise Baghdad visit
¤ '$45m paid to Iraq kidnappers'
¤ Montenegrin PM hails independence
May 20, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, May 20, 2006
¤ 'Iraq War Conceived in Israel'
¤ The Iranian "badge" story: Neo-con propaganda?
¤ Has Bush's Iran War Propaganda Begun?
¤ What Is The Real Purpose Of Bush's NSA Surveillance?
¤ The Snooping Goes Beyond Phone Calls
¤ The missing facts in 'United 93'
¤ The Jews And The Concentration Camps
¤ Why the United States invaded Iraq, and now is thinking about invading Iran
¤ We Are the Deciders
¤ Mexico condemns U.S. decision to build border fences
¤ Middle America: Welcome to the Centre of the USA
¤ The age of the neocons headed for the dustbin of history
¤ A Little Fascism Still Goes a Long Way
¤ U.S. Fails to Comply With Ban on Torture
¤ You got your damn war
¤ What happened to the "what" or the "why"?
¤ Viva Chavez
¤ Managing cruelty
¤ U.S. Moves to Weaken Iran
¤ Ecuador accuses US of 'blackmail' as oil dispute worsens
¤ Real Oil Crisis
¤ U.S. Infant Mortality Among Worst in Industrialized Nations
¤ On the Road to Kabul
¤ The Land They Fought For
¤ 26 killed in Iraq attacks
¤ Is there any good reason for staying in Iraq?
¤ How The War On Terrorism Has Gone Way Too Far
¤ What People Believe
¤ Bush's 'Big Brother' Blunder
¤ Reversing Policy, U.S. 'Froze' Iran Talks in March
¤ The (lack of) intelligence underpinning Bush's Iraq policy
¤ Viêt Con - Go
Iran's Letter Should Start a Dialogue
Posted: Friday, May 19, 2006
Wanted: A seasoned U.S. statesman to start direct talks with Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote an 18-page letter to President Bush on May 10 that recited a host of Iranian grievances but barely touched on the crucial topic of Iran's apparent pursuit of nuclear weapons.
What the United States needs now is a diplomatic pro well-versed in Middle Eastern affairs who can read between the lines of that letter, ignore the fiery rhetoric and look for a clue on how to peacefully end the dangerous U.S. rift with Tehran.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Skeptics doubt new 9/11 Pentagon footage
Posted: Friday, May 19, 2006
"There were hundreds of eyewitnesses who saw a plane hit the building. So it would be absurd to say definitively that a plane didn't hit the building. But one has to wonder."
Mr. Fetzer theorizes the Pentagon was hit by a twin-engine A3 Sky Warrior plane, and a missile was fired into the building before impact. "The evidence is so powerful and so strong that the government had to have a role in orchestrating these events, not merely allowing them to happen," he said.
Full Article : canada.com
May 19, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, May 19, 2006
¤ Renewed Afghan Battles Kill More Than 100
¤ Typhoon Chanchu Kills 50 People in Asia
¤ Skeptics doubt new 9/11 Pentagon footage
¤ Should We Remove Our Criminal Media Yet? Or Do You Want to Bend Over and Take More?
¤ Do We Need Protection by Bush, or From Him?
¤ American Military tested new generation Microwave weapons on Iraq civilians
¤ Pentagon video ignites debate
¤ Siege of 1.4 Million Souls in Gaza v International Law
¤ No security guarantee for Iran: US
¤ Rumsfeld Seeks Extra Funds for War Bills
¤ Bush Is Certifiable
¤ US 'must end secret detentions'
¤ US troops killed Iraqis 'in cold blood'
¤ Sheehan Labels Bush's White House: "A Crime Scene!"
¤ The Existing Question
¤ Gruesome Iraq War movie sparks Pentagon outrage
¤ AT&T and NSA : Their 'Secret Rooms'
¤ On Recent Wars
¤ Blaming Bush
¤ Dismantling Iraqi Life
¤ Who Will Inherit the NSA?
¤ Wreckage of the Bush administration
¤ Inquiry Implies Civilian Deaths in Iraq Topped Initial Report
¤ Growing number of Iraqis take trips to morgues
¤ The Neo-Monarchy of George W. Bush
¤ Never enough Surveillance Agency
¤ No one in Baghdad wants to talk about U.S. Embassy project
¤ Baghdad ER... where the truth hurts
¤ The Weapon Iran May Not Want to Use
¤ Britain's human rights record attacked in EU report
¤ Prodi signals early end to Italian role in Iraq 'occupation'
Caribbean Indian actors in cinematic movies
Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Indian Arrival Day will be observed as a national holiday in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday May 30, 2006.
By Dr. Kumar Mahabir
Twenty-eight years after the screening of the first Hindi movie, Bala Joban [Sweet Youth] in Trinidad in the Caribbean, an immigrant law student in London made his debut in a British-made cinematic movie. Basdeo Panday became the first Caribbean Indian to be an actor on the big screen in Nine Hours to Rama (1963). Panday's part as the laundryman in Nine Hours to Rama was brief, but it was a speaking role that earned him notable credit among stars like Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer and Valerie Gearon. The movie about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award in the Best British Cinematography Category in 1964.
Panday also acted in two other British cinematic movies: Man in the Middle (1964) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965). The first two films were distributed worldwide by 20th Century Fox, and the third by Warner Brothers. All three films were set, in whole or in part, in India, with Panday being one of the few non-white actors to play a speaking role in these movies.
About five years after Panday appeared on film, another Trinidad Indian stage actor-turned-politician, made his debut on the cinema screen. Ralph Maraj appeared as the leading actor with Angela Seukaran in two movies released in the same year: The Right and the Wrong (1970) and The Caribbean Fox (1970). Both movies were the first-feature films to be produced in Trinidad and scored commercial successes at box offices at home and in other Caribbean islands. The Right and the Wrong won a Gold Medal at the Atlanta Film Festival for its excellent cinematography.
But it was really in Bim (1974) that Maraj excelled as a film actor in the title role of Bim/Bheem Singh. The story was based on the composite life of the notorious assassin, Boysie Singh, and aggressive trade unionist and Hindu leader, Bhadase Sagan Maraj. Film producer and critic, Dr. Bruce Paddington, states, " ... it was certainly one of the most important films to be produced in Trinidad and Tobago, and has become one of the classics of Caribbean cinema." At the United States Virgin Islands Film Festival in St Thomas in 1975, Bim won a gold medal special jury award as "a film of unusual merit."
The Caribbean Indian actor who has earned the honour of starring in the most Hollywood films is Errol Sitahal. He portrayed a business executive in the comedy Tommy Boy (1995) starring Chris Farley. Sitahal was also the mysterious Indian servant with a pet monkey in the movie A Little Princess (1995). The engaging family drama is ranked as one of the finest children's films in the 1990s. Sitahal appeared in another Hollywood blockbuster, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004). In this adult comedy, distributed by New Line Cinema, Sitahal was Kumar's stern father who is an Indian medical doctor.
Also making her extraordinary appearance as an actress on stage and cinema was Grace Maharaj. She starred in scores of stage performances, numerous television commercials, four television serials, and four full length movies: Bim (1974), Man from Africa/Girl from India (1982), Men of Gray 11: Flight of the Ibis (1996) and The Mystic Masseur (2001). In 1994, Maharaj received the prestigious Cacique Award in Trinidad for her long service in drama.
Other notable Trinidad Indian actors who have been featured in speaking roles in cinematic movies include Kenneth Boodhu in The Caribbean Fox, and Simon Bedasie in Bim, Operation Makonaima (1972), and Men of Gray 11 (1996). Hansley Ajodha and Devindra Dookie also acted in Men of Gray 11. Other performers like David Sammy, Patti-Anne Ali, Dinesh Maharaj, Keith Hazare Imambaksh and Anthony Harrypaulsingh have all appeared in minor roles in The Mystic Masseur (2001). Directed by Ismail Merchant and filmed on location in Trinidad, the movie is an adaptation of a novel by Caribbean Indian Nobel Prize laureate, V.S. Naipaul. The Guyanese comedian Habeeb Khan played a leading role in If Wishes Were Horses (1976), the only English-speaking musical film in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean has a fledging film industry and, consequently, prospects for acting in cinema are extremely limited. But opportunities abound in stage dramas, television movies, short documentaries and advertising commercials. It is important that Indians appear in the spotlight in numbers commensurate with their size in the population. It is also important to celebrate their achievements because they have struggled as ethnic minorities to achieve visibility and stardom on the silver screen. They exhibit certain collective cultural codes and social behaviour which their audiences can often recognize and identify (with). And it is heartening for a people to see themselves as stars on screen – even if is in fantasy.
Dr Kumar Mahabir, Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida
Chairman, Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council (ICC)
10 Swami Avenue, Don Miguel Road
San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
May 18, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2006
¤ Nat Guard leaders oppose Bush takeover
¤ Speaking of Words: Totalitarianism
¤ Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush
¤ Protesters Arrested at Halliburton Meeting
¤ Western projects are bleeding Afghanistan dry
¤ Americans turn their back on Bush
¤ Baghdad Attack Leaves 19 People Dead
¤ At Least 18 Iraqis Killed in Attacks
¤ At least 70 die as fighting engulfs Afghanistan
¤ Lawmaker: Marines killed Iraqis ‘in cold blood’
¤ Top general says Caracas has no immediate plans to sell F-16s to Tehran
¤ Bombing Iran in Four Easy Steps
¤ Discovery of a Terrorist Plot, Then and Now
¤ Iraq may already be lost to us
¤ Iraq's oil: A neo-con dream gone bust
¤ Is the NSA’s phone call database legal because the president says so?
¤ Marines killed Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood'
¤ Tone down rhetoric on Iran nuclear talks: Annan
¤ Feds' citizenship flashcards omit Freedom of the Press
¤ Nat Guard leaders oppose Bush takeover
¤ Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
Information Highway Robbers
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
What makes the Internet revolutionary is that it is democratic, open to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. That could soon change.
As In These Times went to press, the House was setting to vote on the "Communications Opportunity Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006," a bill written by the telephone and cable TV corporations. Among other provisions, the act formally guts what is known as the First Amendment of the Internet— "network neutrality." (The Senate will consider a similar bill in late May or early June.)
Full Article : inthesetimes.com
May 17, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
¤ This isn’t Policy; its barbarism
¤ Immigrant Scapegoats and the Manufacturing of a Crisis
¤ Venezuela is Now Accused of Being an Imperialist Nation!
¤ Guffaws for Bush's Immigration Speech
¤ "The Worst President in History?" Why the Question Mark?
¤ Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset "Tim Osman"
¤ Deja vu - the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction this time in Iran
¤ Venezuela 'may swap oil currency'
¤ 9/11 Commission report is a lie
¤ Bad news, America: World doesn't like We the People
¤ Iraq never supported terrorism before
¤ Now America reacts Iraq didn't get us riled up -- but domestic spying did
¤ Charlie Sheen's Pentagon Questions Remain Unanswered
¤ Venezuela, China Sign $1.3 Billion Tanker Deal
¤ Venezuela’s Chavez meets with Gadhafi in Libya
¤ Chavez in Algeria for political, energy talks
¤ Information Highway Robbers
¤ The Real Assault on America
¤ The Moral Barbarism of Blair and Bush
¤ When Two Poor Countries Reclaimed Oilfields...
¤ Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?
¤ Fear Is the Coin of the Realm
¤ Ecuador official sees US free trade talks as 'impossible'
¤ Great Presidential moments
¤ 'Impeachment is too good for Bush'
¤ 'America in Baghdad'
¤ 'Could lunacy explain Bush's policies?'
¤ Seven die in southern Russia suicide blast
¤ Racism in Canada Causes Black Women Trouble
¤ White and Might Make Right
¤ Down in the polls, Bush dusts off a uniform in the art of distortion
¤ Iran says EU offer like 'candy for gold'
¤ The contest for memory
¤ Basra carnage escalates as one person killed every hour
¤ U.S. reserves nearly 'broken,' says chief
¤ U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia
¤ Hearing Moussaoui
¤ Iraq’s resistance evolves
¤ Afghanistan Attacks Leave 8 Dead, 13 Hurt
¤ Chavez proclaims end of U.S. Empire
¤ Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
U.S. to renew diplomatic relations with Libya
Posted: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Having renounced nuclear weapons, nation to be dropped from terror list
The Bush administration said Monday it will restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after deciding to remove Moammar Gadhafi’s country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Full Article : msnbc.msn.com
May 16, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
¤ A government out of control
¤ Iraq violence claims another 60
¤ Vivacious Venezuelan
¤ U.S. to renew diplomatic relations with Libya
¤ Brazil gripped by fear as gang riots spread
¤ Bush bans arms sales to Chávez
¤ India's US nuclear deal hangs by a thread
¤ Gang Attacks in Brazil Kill More Than 80
¤ Castro Denies Forbes Report on His Wealth
¤ EU looks to resume aid to Palestinians
¤ Disorderly Conduct
¤ Will the major media finally cover the electronic election fraud issue?
¤ Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
¤ Palestinian spouses to remain banned from Israel
¤ Violence kills 19 in Sri Lankan
¤ Appealing to the United States is Not Very Appealing
¤ Welcome to London, President Chavez!
¤ What Bush's Speech on Immigration Will Miss
¤ America the Titanic
¤ They Did it Their Way - So They Have No One To Blame But Themselves
¤ Where is the Global Outcry at This Continuing Cruelty?
¤ Hello, White House?
¤ One More Clue That the American Empire Is Waning
¤ Media Liars on Iran
¤ This Time, It Really Is Orwellian
¤ The silliness of bird flu panic.
¤ US Bribes Way Into Kazakhstan's Oil Wealth
¤ Israeli Soldiers Shoot Two International Peace Activists In The Head
¤ Bush's snooping of phone records holds great peril for Americans
¤ Italian Pay-off From Niger Forgery?
¤ Oil for no one if Iran attacked
¤ Iranian Oil Bourse for dummies
May 14, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, May 14, 2006
¤ Dozens of police shot dead in Brazil
¤ Revolution in the Camden air as Chávez gets a hero's welcome
¤ Report: Suicidal troops sent into combat
¤ Ex-WMD Inspector: Politics Quashed Facts
¤ Cheney Pushed U.S. to Widen Eavesdropping
¤ Forty killed in Iraq carnage
¤ Russia and US trade angry words over Iran at UN dinner
¤ Iraq's 'ragtag' army units start fighting among themselves
¤ Chavez offers oil to Europe's poor
¤ Crying Wolf: Who is Behind the Death Squads in Iraq? Video
¤ Phone snooping creates uproar
¤ IAEA, the UN's Nuclear Witchdoctor
¤ American Dominatrix
¤ Film on U.S. military hospital 'extremely graphic'
¤ Europe underwrites starvation policy
¤ 14 Dead in Bombings Near Baghdad Airport
¤ Israeli raids kill seven Palestinians
¤ Gangsters kill 50 in Brazil rampage
¤ Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators
¤ President Hugo Chavez: Benevolent Man Of Action
¤ Oil companies sticking with Venezuela
May 13, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, May 13, 2006
¤ Venezuela and Bolivia use summit to hail 'new era'
¤ The Russian bear is back
¤ Telephone Records are just the Tip of NSA's Iceberg
¤ Ongoing Somali fighting leaves 135 dead
¤ Son of top Iraqi judge shot dead
¤ America Loses Guns, Prisoners
¤ Western-Style Democracy – No!
¤ China, Canada seek crude off Cuba, but not US
¤ 45 Minutes with Bush
¤ The Most Despised President in History
¤ The Army Slays Its Own
¤ Mister Bush and Mister Zarqawi, Video Stars
¤ US Military Bases in Brazil
¤ Transnational Corporations Stand Condemned
¤ Parsing Bush’s Words on the NSA Scandal
¤ The New Utopians
¤ Chávez is a Threat Because He Offers the Alternative of a Decent Society
¤ Bush's Words on Oil are Utterly Devoid of Meaning
¤ Our Presidential Prophet of God and Great Decider
¤ The Theater of the Absurd
¤ Axis of feeble
¤ Bush lied repeatedly about scope of NSA spying on Americans
¤ Pre-Emptive Hallucinations
¤ US feverishly works to frame Iran
¤ It’s not about nukes
¤ Iran: Euro to replace dollar as oil currency
¤ Halliburton wins concentration camp contract
¤ This Time, It Really Is Orwellian
¤ Words of Mass Deception
¤ Monkey-I nail is I banish from zôo for bad behavior
¤ The factors behind the increase in the price of oil
¤ Bush’s Banana Republic
¤ 'U.S. history lesson: Stop meddling'
¤ I spy, with my widdle eye-q
¤ Gunmen Kill Son of Top Iraqi Judge
¤ Nigeria: 200 Burnt to Death in Lagos Pipeline Fire
¤ The Times and USA Today have Missed the Bigger Story -- Again
¤ NSA has your phone records; 'trust us' isn't good enough
¤ Many killed in Brazil gang attacks
May 12, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2006
¤ Slavery: Is it time for an apology?
¤ Chicago's Abu Ghraib
¤ Mossad murdered 530 Iraqi scientists
¤ Looting By Another Name
¤ The Corporation Video
¤ Law Prof. Francis A. Boyle on Impeachment
¤ Ahmadinejad: Is he John Locke or John Brown?
¤ Saving Iraq: Mission Impossible
¤ The nuclear hypocrites
¤ US considers attacking Iran through Azerbaijan
¤ US rejects calls for Guantánamo closure
¤ Trail of Deception: Remembering how we got here
¤ America, You Lost! The Railroading of Zacarias Moussaoui
¤ The Israeli Torture Template
¤ Ray McGovern Is Going to Rumsfeld's House
¤ How Iran will win a sanctions war
¤ US Army Troop Build up on Iraq-Iran Borders
¤ Bush Lied About Iraq, Has No Right to Attack Iran
¤ New phone-tap row threatens President's nominee for CIA
¤ Sequel to White Mischief as aristocrat kills again
¤ Sri Lankan sea battle leaves 45 dead
¤ US Aggression-Time Once Again: Target Iran
¤ Secretary of Lies
¤ Recycled Non Sequiturs
¤ High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won't Work
¤ Morales and Chávez face EU showdown in Vienna
¤ Somalia fighting enters sixth day
¤ Palestinian killed in Israeli raid
¤ Iranian nukes not the real issue
¤ US should be aware of the risks of Bush's war talk
¤ Stop the Neocons from Digging our Graves!
¤ What Sort of (Hated) Nation Have We Become?
¤ Pen and Sword: A Letter From Iran
¤ The Completely Other Side of AIDS
¤ Apocalypse Now?
¤ The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America, part 1 of 3
¤ Part 2 of 3 | Part 3 of 3
US phone firms gave spy agency records of billions of calls
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2006
* Bush denies wiretaps of citizens were illegal
* Eavesdropping may derail appointment of CIA chief
George Bush tried desperately yesterday to defuse the news that the three biggest telephone firms in the US provided the National Security Agency with the records of billions of calls made by Americans.
The revelation that the warrantless wiretapping authorised by President Bush was far more sweeping than the administration has admitted could derail the confirmation of Michael Hayden, a former director of the agency, as new CIA chief.
Covered in a report by the paper USA Today, the story also reopens questions about whether Mr Bush acted illegally in authorising taps on Americans without court oversight. USA Today reported that since the September 2001 terror attacks, AT&T Corp, Verizon Communications Inc, and BellSouth Corp had been providing the agency with detailed records of the calls made by their 200 million customers, both international and domestic.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
May 11, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2006
¤ Blair under fire again over date of departure
¤ Afghan poppy farmers expect record opium crop
¤ Rodeo diplomacy
¤ American oil worker shot dead after rebel threats
¤ Police school blasts kill six officers
¤ Hispanic Americans a growing force, figures show
¤ Iraq head urges end to bloodshed
¤ Bush's Slow Race in the Last Lap
¤ All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
¤ Nuclear Standoff or Realpolitik?
¤ NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
¤ TALIBAN NOT TERRORISTS?!
¤ Baghdad's Security Forces to Be Revamped
¤ The Decline and Fall of Bush
¤ The Globe Is Lop-Sided
¤ From stiff upper lip to clenched jaws
¤ China urged to quadruple gold reserves
¤ Why are we enabling Israel?
¤ Electrocuted, gassed, frozen, boiled alive
¤ The Gitmo 'decider'
¤ Evidence against terror suspect extracted by torture
¤ Chávez to snub No 10 on private visit to Britain
¤ 6 Policemen Killed in Pakistan Bombings
¤ Mogadishu clashes kill 17
May 10, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
¤ Putin hits out at Washington as Iran dispute intensifies
¤ Ex-communist elected as Italian president
¤ More Katrina Waste, Fraud Said to Be Seen
¤ Iraqi president says killing must stop
¤ Bush extends US sanctions against Syria
¤ Defend America, Buy More Iranian Oil
¤ Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur
¤ China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia elected to new UN human rights council
¤ Is Venezuela the New Niger?
¤ Abstinence Backfires
¤ Ten-Year-Old Forbidden From Singing Pink's Anti-Bush Song at School
¤ Kavkaz Center warns of a provocation
¤ What has happened?
¤ Zen Mind, Bush Mind
¤ Nonsense takes center stage at White House
¤ Why President Ahmadinejad is Right
¤ Chavez Visits Europe and Africa
¤ Africa Became the First Continent Where Mobile Phone Users Outnumber
¤ How Morales took on the oil giants - and won his people back
¤ Rumsfeld is a pathological liar.
¤ 1,091 killed in Baghdad in April
¤ How we (essentially) stole Iraq's oil
¤ Is the s**t starting to hit the fan?
Rice responded to Iran's letter before US translation
Posted: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Condoleezza Rice admits she responded to Iran letter before US had translated missive
SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Well, I won't try to judge the motivations for the letter and I certainly don't know the ins and outs of internal Iranian politics. We choose to treat the Iranian Government as the Iranian Government and to respond accordingly.
We've gotten the letter. We've not had a chance to do our own translation and of course we'll do that, but an initial reading of the letter would suggest that there is nothing in it that addresses the major issues between the United States and the rest of the world and Iran on the other hand. So not concrete issues on the nuclear side or on any of the other issues that we face. It's very philosophical, I would say. But again, I think we want to take a harder look at it, look at the actual translation and get a better sense of what's there. But that's the initial reading.
Full Article : rawstory.com
May 9, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
¤ Rice admits she responded to Iran letter before US had it translated
¤ Full Text : The President of Iran's Letter To President Bush
¤ Learning About Racism, Live on NPR and CNN
¤ Does It Really Matter Who Runs the CIA?
¤ My Encounter with Rumsfeld
¤ Oil Rises Above $70 as U.S. Rejects Iranian President's Letter
¤ Suicide Truck Bomber Kills 17 in Iraq
¤ E-Mails Show Brown Disputed Levee Breach
¤ Gold hits $700 for first time since 1980
¤ Russia Explodes over "Blackmail" Remarks
¤ Korean Farmers Say No to Giant US Base
¤ Cronyism At Any Cost, Once Again!
¤ BUSH IS NOT HITLER, II
¤ US Democrat Biden advocates the communal break-up of Iraq
¤ Neocons Dismember the CIA
¤ Tehran reaches out to US in surprise move
¤ Iraqi turmoil leaves at least 42 dead
¤ Blair: I'll quit next year - trust me
¤ General who eavesdropped on public is new CIA chief
¤ Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals
¤ Dolts or Liars
¤ Rumsfeld denies making claims Iraq had WMDs
¤ Violence in Iraq Leaves at Least 34 Dead
¤ Foreign Policy, Monetary Policy, and Gas Prices
¤ Straw's departure strengthens Blair's agenda against Iran
¤ The Press and Priorities - What's Really Important
¤ None of Our Business
¤ Acquitted Zuma ready to fight for presidency
¤ Cui Bono? Negroponte or Rumsfeld?
¤ N-strike on Iran absurd: Blair
¤ 2 Years Later, Slayings in Iraq and Lost Cash Are Mysteries
¤ Darfur protest forces UN envoy to retreat
¤ Bush approval rating falls to new low in poll
May 8, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, May 8, 2006
¤ Moussaoui Asks to Withdraw Guilty Plea
¤ Violence in Iraq Leaves at Least 34 Dead
¤ The US's geopolitical nightmare
¤ The Misuses of "Anti-Semitism"
¤ Hungry Marines Asking Iraqis For Food
¤ New U.S. Foreign Policy for Palestine; Starvation
¤ Paradise Now
¤ Life in the Bush Economy: Fat, Drunk and Broke
¤ Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
¤ Fresh violence hits Iraq cities
¤ Blair's terrible legacy
¤ Straw Canned Over Iran?
¤ British tactics reviewed as Basra erupts
¤ Iran breaks silence with US to offer nuclear 'solutions'
¤ Strong Earthquake Rocks Indonesian Island
¤ Insurgents Bomb Iraqi Oil Pipeline, Kill 3
¤ Landing a big fish: as good as it gets for Bush
¤ One Excellent Reason Not to Join the Military
¤ Did Bush Force British Minister Out?
¤ NBC, CBS, Fox cropped Rumsfeld questioner's challenges
¤ Brazil Unveils Uranium Enrichment Center
¤ Vice Squad
¤ Colbert shows media who's boss
¤ Mainstream Media, Why the Blackout on Stephen Colbert?
¤ The Last Gasp of the Dollar; Iran bourse opens next week
¤ The Final Say
¤ Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime
¤ The Real Oil Story: The Oil in Iraq
¤ Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing
¤ Raising the stakes on Iran
¤ The fall and fall of Afghanistan
¤ Cuban, Venezuelan Aid Streams Into Bolivia
¤ Another brick in the wall
¤ Interview With Retired CIA Analyst Ray McGovern
¤ Iran seeks euro-denominated oil market
¤ Spain accepts Bolivia gas plans
¤ Bolivia wins first round of gas battle after Brazil backs down
¤ Mediocre goods of all kinds flood Iraq in absence of controls
¤ The invaders enjoying our soil, sun and water, while Iraqis are dying
¤ Wargaming Iran
¤ Baghdad Morgue Daily Visit for Iraqis
¤ Fire erupts at Palestinian parliament
¤ The Drug of War
Point Fortin Borough Day Celebrations 2006
Posted: Sunday, May 7, 2006
Trinidad and Tobago
Point Fortin Borough Day Celebrations in Pictures
Staff Article
This year's Borough Day celebrations in Point Fortin turned out to be quite a success. Saturday's activities hold some of the biggest events in the two weeks of Point Fortin Borough celebrations.
The Point Fortin Borough Day Celebrations started somewhere around the mid-eighties. It came at a time when Point Fortin was in an economic downturn. With the removal of Trintoc from Point Fortin, there was a great call-out in the society for job opportunities. At that time, the then council adopted a rather radical move to try to use culture as a means of creating economic activity in the area, and so was born 'Pan on the Move'.
The Borough which was inaugurated on the 30th April 1980 hosted thousands of people from all over the country, and around the world as they gathered at the main area to participate in the festivities which started days before this major event. Although the crowd contained mainly people from about seventeen to thirty-five, both the very young and the very old could be seen parading the streets from about half-past-one on Saturday morning.
The day's event began with a number of trucks, which were hardly mobile because of the large following, blasting music on the streets. People danced and frolicked until sunrise and made way for the J'ouvert bands to entertain the by-standers. These bands came from all over the country to play a part in the huge celebrations.
After the J'ouvert mas, some participants took a break for a good Saturday meal and a bit of rest from partying. Others continued the 'lime' on the streets or ventured to the bars to eat and drink with family and friends.
About four in the afternoon the Traditional Carnival Characters came out in full force along with a more mature crowd who usually pass on the early morning celebrations to enjoy the evening parade and the 'Pan on the Move' section of the celebrations. Many of the major steelbands from all over Trinidad and Tobago were represented.
The general success of the Point Fortin Borough Day celebrations should be used as an example for other large events outside of Carnival in the country.
What may be of benefit to the celebrations though are plans for better crowd management and a more constant flow of activities.
Also Read:
Life & Development in Point Fortin
Marlon Richardson Speaks
Point Fortin Borough Day Celebrations in Pictures May 06, 2006
May 7, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, May 7, 2006
¤ Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot
¤ CONNIE MACK'S MYTHS VS. VENEZUELAN FACTS
¤ The president says immigrants 'must learn to misinterpretate English'
¤ Nationalization of Gas!
¤ CIA in disarray as Rumsfeld starts turf war with rival
¤ Israeli strikes on Gaza claim six more lives
¤ 4 Car Bombings Kill 17, Hurt 44 in Iraq
¤ How Basra riots turned bloody
¤ The Kennedys: Cover-up with a capital K?
¤ Eight Palestinians killed in IDF operations over weekend
¤ Russia sends $10 million in aid to Abbas, bypassing Hamas
¤ 10 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghan Crash
¤ Book: Palestinian Killed With Chocolate
¤ Bird Brains
¤ Five servicemen die as insurgents in Iraq bring down UK helicopter
¤ New Chief Will Find C.I.A. Is Hobbled on Iran
¤ A U.S. 'Propaganda' Program, al-Zarqawi, and 'The New York Times'
¤ Is American Foreign Policy an Infinite Crisis?
¤ Mission Akkomplished
¤ Is The US Provoking Civil War in Iraq?
¤ The Tragedy of False Confessions
¤ Islamophobia, a Retrospective
¤ We Came, We Marched, And ... ?
¤ News Muse
¤ Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield
¤ Atomic 'Incident' In The US?
¤ No troops to Afghanistan: India
¤ "United 93": What Happened on the Planes?
¤ The two crucial mistakes that cost Straw his job
¤ Dozens killed in Iraq car bombs
¤ Israeli police evict Hebron settlers
¤ Israel kills second Palestinian farmer
Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot
Posted: Sunday, May 7, 2006
In a country the size of Western Europe, a war rages that has lasted eight years and cost four million lives. Rival militias inflict appalling suffering on the civilian population, and what passes for political leadership is powerless to stop it. This is Congo, and the reason for the conflict - control of minerals essential to the electronic gadgetry on which the developed world depends - is what makes our blindness to the horror doubly shaming. Johann Hari reports from the killing fields of central Africa
Published: 05 May 2006
This is the story of the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler's armies marched across Europe - a war that has not ended. But is also the story of a trail of blood that leads directly to you: to your remote control, to your mobile phone, to your laptop and to your diamond necklace. In the TV series Lost, a group of plane crash survivors believe they are stranded alone on a desert island, until one day they discover a dense metal cable leading out into the ocean and the world beyond. The Democratic Republic of Congo is full of those cables, mysterious connections that show how a seemingly isolated tribal war is in reality something very different.
This war has been dismissed as an internal African implosion. In reality it is a battle for coltan, diamonds, cassiterite and gold, destined for sale in London, New York and Paris. It is a battle for the metals that make our technological society vibrate and ring and bling, and it has already claimed four million lives in five years and broken a population the size of Britain's. No, this is not only a story about them. This - the tale of a short journey into the long Congolese war we in the West have fostered, fuelled and funded - is a story about you.
Full Article : independent.co.uk
May 5, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, May 5, 2006
¤ The End of This War Will Be Very, Very Messy
¤ CIA Director Porter Goss resigns
¤ Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills Five Militants
¤ Grand Coalition
¤ Iran slams 'artificial crisis'
¤ Israel's Personal Superpower
¤ Step 1 in Bolivian Takeover: Audit of Foreign Companies
¤ U.S. vice president asks Kazakhstan for oil
¤ 'Mission (really) not accomplished'
¤ 'Bush clears the way for corporate domination'
¤ American Hegemony and the True Bush "Base"
¤ Disbelief at Chad's voter figures
¤ Not One Drop
¤ Morales Serves Notice of the New Latin America
¤ Nationalization of Gas!
¤ Video: Rumsfeld Forced to Swallow His Own Lies
¤ The Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq
¤ Success is not the transition to death by electric drill
¤ Our Descent Into Hell Has Begun
¤ US air assault kills 13 civilians in Iraqi: medics
¤ US Accused Of Killing Children
¤ Setting the Record Straight about Iran’s Nuclear Program
¤ Our monarch, above the law
¤ Did the U.S. invent al-Qaeda boss Zarqawi?
¤ Livingstone to host lunch for Chavez
¤ Bush accused of hypocrisy over Spanish star-spangles
¤ Iraq, Afghan war costs: $439 billion, and counting
¤ Fantasies of American Preponderance
¤ Moussaoui Trial Leaves Questions Unanswered
¤ Green is the New Red
¤ Colbert's Moment
¤ Saber Rattling Over Iran
¤ UK presses India to send troops to Afghanistan
¤ Backpedaling in Egypt
¤ Shut Up, Strap Down and Buy Rummy's Medicine
¤ 28 dead in Iraq violence
¤ The Return of the Death Squads
Bush: US has powerful duty to ensure Israel's security
Posted: Friday, May 5, 2006
US President George W. Bush said Thursday at the American Jewish Committee conference in Washington that the United States had a strong and inalienable obligation to ensure the security of Israel, referring to the threats Iran had made against the Jewish state.
Bush repeated his pledge that the United States will not deal with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority as long as Hamas refuses to disavow terrorism and to acknowledge Israel's right to exist.
Full Article : jpost.com
Also Read:
Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map?
An analysis of media rhetoric on its way to war against Iran - Commenting on the alleged statements of Iran's President Ahmadinejad
Morales Serves Notice of the New Latin America
Posted: Thursday, May 4, 2006
With the nationalization of Bolivia's natural gas and petroleum resources President Evo Morales, the country's first Indian president, is dramatically reshaping his country's destiny. On May 1st he proclaimed "an historic day has arrived. Now the gas and oil that flows from our land will no longer belong to foreigners." This came just after his return from Havana, Cuba where he signed the People's Trade Agreement with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
May 4, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, May 4, 2006
¤ High Prices Caused by Iraq War
¤ Russia, China Promise Not to Back Sanctions Against Iran
¤ Oil Fields Spawn African Genocide
¤ Bush declined to meet Norway's PM
¤ Hollywood star Robbins blasts US media ignorance of 'high crimes'
¤ In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target
¤ Colbert Reaction Shows Media Are Frightened Of Bush
¤ The country that wouldn't grow up
¤ Gasoline prices a 'crisis': Bodman
¤ Steve Colbert – Everyone is Missing the Issue
¤ It was fun while it lasted...
¤ Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion
¤ 113 dead in Armenia's worst air crash
¤ It's a rocky relationship, but US still needs Islamabad
¤ CIA Torture Techniques Go Mainstream
¤ Downplaying the Dead
¤ A new weapon in the 'war of ideas'
¤ Ignorance and Arrogance
¤ Truth bubbles to the top of a Google search
¤ Democracy Versus Freedom
¤ Torture "Widespread" under U.S. Custody: Amnesty
¤ On the Verge of Collapse
¤ Dozens dead in new Iraq violence
¤ Stephen Colbert goes down media memory hole
¤ Another Shoe Drops From Abu Ghraib
¤ 'Colbert roasts Bush in hellfire of his own making'
¤ 'Spinning our forgotten war'
¤ Car bomb kills eight Iraqis in Baghdad
¤ The limits of the UN's reforms of its human rights body
¤ China gets energized over ethanol
¤ Bomb Kills Iraqi Police Recruits
May 3, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 3, 2006
¤ BBC's coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'misleading'
¤ Haitian president-elect turns to Cuba, Venezuela
¤ Mexico decriminalises drug possession
¤ Pakistan's power shift
¤ When the President Joked About Not Finding WMD
¤ In Iraq, chaos by another name
¤ Torture doesn't work
¤ Exporting the American Model
¤ Iraqi, 15, 'drowned after soldiers forced him into canal'
¤ US guards kill ambulance crewman
¤ Eight killed in fresh Iraq violence
¤ Suicide bomber attacks Iraqi governor, 3 dead
¤ 14 Bodies Found in Baghdad
¤ 113 Killed in Russian Plane Crash
¤ The worst president?
¤ A reverse thousand days
¤ Bush's nuclear madness
¤ New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture
¤ Colbert comedy skit angers Bush, aides
¤ U.S. predicts U.N. support for sanctions in Iran
¥ Even thought the UN denies the US they could still attack eg Iraq
¤ Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005
¤ United 93, anti-war sentiment, and illegal CEOs
¤ Bull in a China Shop
¤ Gouge and Profit
¤ Just Saying No to Imperial Intervention in Sudan
¤ Tough on Crime, to Hell With the Causes of Crime if They Make Money
Haitian president-elect turns to Cuba, Venezuela
Posted: Wednesday, May 3, 2006
It has been more than two years since Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was elected with the overwhelming support of the people, was forced out of the country by U.S. officials and a right-wing "de facto" government was installed. Haitians are now waiting to see if their choice in the first election since then, President-elect René Préval, will be seated on May 14 as promised.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
May 2, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
¤ US counts cost of day without immigrants
¤ Suicide Car Bomber Targets Afghan Convoy
¤ Slaughter in Kashmir 'will not halt peace effort'
¤ Millions mark America's 'day without immigrants'
¤ Strikes on Iran too risky, says US general
¤ Outed CIA agent was working on Iran
¤ UK troops 'doomed to fail' in Afghanistan
¤ The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush
¤ The United States May Have to Live With a Nuclear Iran
¤ Iraq future uncertain three years after Bush 'mission accomplished' speech
¤ Four Iraqis killed, protesters demand better security in Baghdad
¤ Three locals killed in Iraq
¤ Israeli troops kill Palestinian woman
¤ Howard Dean: 'Culture of corruption'
¤ Happy ‘Mission Accomplished’ Day!
¤ Bush challenges hundreds of laws
¤ Iran Pushes for Talks With U.S. on Nukes, Security
¤ 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest
¤ Iran - Inside Bush's Brain
¤ The Israel Lobby
¤ Take Back the Oil Companies!
¤ The War on Terror on the Lodi Front
¤ Iranian envoy asks U.N. to stop U.S. threats
¤ Bomb Hidden in Minibus Kills 2 Iraqis
¤ Has a clearness of the purpose been lost?
¤ Immigrant protests hit US
¤ Bolivia nationalises gas industry
¤ Bolivian President Seizes Gas Industry
May 1, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, May 1, 2006
¤ Evidence of Fraud Found by Iraq Audit
¤ U.S., EU split on handling nuke defiance
¤ Report on Iraq Reconstruction Is Mixed
¤ Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons?
¤ Putting a Smiley Face on Disaster
¤ Bush's misbegotten Iran plan
¤ 'I'm Already Against the Next War'
¤ U.S. rejects Iran inspection offer
¤ American rhetoric against Iran reminiscent of run-up to Iraq war
¤ Rice: U.S. may press Iran not only via UN on nuclear issue
¤ Bush challenges hundreds of laws
¤ Toll mounts as Sri Lanka's peace falters
¤ U.S. Prepares for 'Day Without Immigrants'
¤ Wiseguy Bush sends in the clones
¤ Billions wasted in Iraq, says US audit
¤ EU Imposes More Trade Sanctions on U.S.
¤ The U.S. Embassy will be the De facto Capital of Iraq
¤ Giving the President a Pink Slip in New York City
¤ Hideous Kinky
¤ Massive protests in NY demand end of Iraq war
¤ Arab League to pay Palestinian salaries
¤ Stephen Colbert Speaks Truth to Power
¤ The case against sanctions on Iran
¤ Movie Promotion Confused With Bomb in L.A.
¤ Dollar starts the big slide against major currencies
¤ 'Taking Out' Iran's Nuclear Facilities: Not So Fast
¤ Israeli forces ban Palestinian patients from treatment in Israel
¤ Puerto Rico Closes Government Offices
¤ "Flight 93" the movie, why?
¤ How Did Human Remains End Up Miles From Flight 93's Crash Site?
¤ Oil 'will hit $100 by winter'
¤ Robert Fisk: Seen through a Syrian lens,
¤ Calls for resignation are meaningless without any changes in policy
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