Yearly Archives: 2007

The New Nuclear Arsenal: Costly and Illegal – US Nuclear Hypocrisy and IranBy FRIDA BERRIGAN The Bush administration is very focused these days on Iran’s nuclear program. This focus has only sharpened in the aftermath of the International Atomic Energy … Continue reading →

New Zealand: Images and RealityBy Ghali HassanMar 5, 2007, 20:34 New Zealand prides itself on human rights, social compassion and political “neutrality”. Moreover, New Zealanders pride themselves on being “peace loving” people. Of course, nothing could be further from the … Continue reading →

Taliban fire off spring warningBy Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI – Recent Taliban operations in southwestern Afghanistan’s Helmand province and Pakistan’s anti-Taliban swoop in its southwestern province of Balochistan mark a broadening of the struggle into Pakistani territory. The Taliban claim … Continue reading →

No U.S. Backup Strategy For Iraq: Outside Experts, Not White House, Discuss OptionsBy Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. RicksWashington Post Staff WritersMonday, March 5, 2007; Page A01 During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President … Continue reading →

America on its Knees Before TyrannyBy Richard Mynick 03/02/07 “ICH” — — “The Star-Spangled Banner” painted the United States in 1814 as “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.” These words, though still mumbled by apathetic … Continue reading →

IRAQ: 4.5 million children undernourished05 Mar 2007 06:37:00 GMTSource: IRIN BAGHDAD, 5 March (IRIN) – Apart from dodging bombs and bullets in their schools and neighbourhoods, children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists. … Continue reading →

Chavez Calls U.S. Envoy ‘Professional Killer’By ELIZABETH M. NUNEZAP, Reuters CARACAS, Venezuela (March 4) – President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he believes enemies including the CIA are out to kill him, and called U.S. diplomat John Negroponte a “professional … Continue reading →

Broken by This Warby Stacy BannermanMarch 03, 2007Progressive.org I was folding fliers for a high school workshop on nonviolence when my husband, a mortar platoon sergeant with the Army National Guard 81st Brigade, walked into my office and said, “I … Continue reading →

Reverse Reparations: Race, Place, and the Vicious Circle of Mass Incarceration*by Paul StreetMarch 04, 2007 “TOWNS PUT DREAMS IN PRISONS” Sometimes it’s the silences that speak the loudest. Consider, for example, a page-one article that appeared in the New York … Continue reading →

The Amazing Grace of William Wilberforceby E. “Doc” Smith‚ Mar. 02‚ 2007 Many years ago, when my older cousin Bruce headed off to college on a basketball scholarship, I asked him where he was going to. “UCLA?, UNC?, Georgetown?”. “No, … Continue reading →

Russia targets US threat in Poland and Czech RepublicBy Henk Ruyssenaars – Foreign correspondentMar 2, 2007, 17:35 The US, NATO and the expanding EU: In a statement reflecting the growing distrust between Moscow and the West, a top Russian general … Continue reading →

From the McClatchy Baghdad Bureau blog, Inside Iraq $ 7.75 Yesterday I went to the bank. Wow! I thought. So many people! Iraqis are not “bank oriented” people, if they have any excess; they tend to keep it at home. … Continue reading →