Daily Archives: November 29, 2008 »
Venezuelan Elections: The Media Response
By Stephen Lendman | On November 23, Venezuela held regional and local elections for governors, mayors and other municipal offices. Over 5000 candidates contested in 603 races for 22 state governors, 328 mayors, 233
Read More »The Legal Advice to Wage War on Iraq was not just “sexed-up”, it was concocted
By C Stephen Frost | Mary Bedworth, Christopher Burns-Cox, Lou Coatney and David Halpin co-signed this article, which appeared as a commentary in The Guardian following the publication of an article by Richard Norton Taylor (see
Read More »Civil rights complaint targets Wall Street rating firms
Moody’s and Fitch’s high ratings of subprime mortgage bonds disproportionately harmed black and Latino home buyers, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges. By Kenneth R. Harney | In what is apparently the first legal
Read More »Freedom from slavery – at a price
Even after emancipation, the lives of former slaves in BDA were heavily policed The Bermuda Archives has extended its “groundbreaking” exhibit, ‘A Very Manifest Alteration’ to December 31. Pilot James ‘Jemmy’ Darrell is the basis
Read More »Activists want end to Israeli blockade of Gaza
Human rights activists are calling on Egypt to open its border with Gaza to prevent the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the strip. Parliamentarians, community leaders, NGOs and human rights activists, from different countries, have
Read More »Taking liberties with information
FT | So much for parliamentary privilege: Damian Green, the frontbench Conservative MP for Ashford, was arrested this week and held for nine hours for his part in leaking official documents to the press. The
Read More »Bush Speaks of Legacy
Truthdig | Still-President Bush has discussed his legacy with his sister Dorothy Bush Koch as part of a national oral-history project, suggesting the future should remember him for his “liberation” of 50 million people
Read More »Report suggests CIA covered up role in missionary’s death
By Steve Gunn MUSKEGON, Mich. — A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on a small plane in Peru
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