Bahraini woman willing to die if family is not released Zainab al-Khawaja enters fourth day of hunger strike as government is accused of human rights violations Share180 Robert Booth guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 22.09 BST Article history Zainab al-Khawaja is about to enter the fourth day of her hunger strike. Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP A [...]
I have added some background. Guardian article starts after what follows. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Bradley E. Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed restricted material to the website WikiLeaks. He was charged in July that year with [...]
Obama proposes $4tn spending cuts to tackle deficit President’s 12-year plan to reduce budget deficit includes curbs on defence spending and Medicare reforms Share85 Ewen MacAskill in Washington guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 20.09 BST Article history Barack Obama set out his budget deficit proposals in a speech at George Washington University in DC. Photograph: [...]
A Twelve Year Plan From a Guy With Two Left By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/twelve-year-plan-guy-two-left Obama‘s speech on the deficit on Wednesday was a flop. He proposed to end no wars, make no serious cuts to the military, REDUCE corporate taxes, tax no estates or investments, raise no taxes on any billionaires, and give an unelected [...]
Libyan rebels receive boost of support from international community Arab world and western ministers issued unanimous call for Gaddafi to step down, saying regime had ‘lost all legitimacy’ Share39 Ian Black in Doha guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 21.22 BST Article history WIilliam Hague and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Libya Contact Group [...]
Alain Le Roy, Cote d’Ivore‘s UN peacekeeping chief, has told the UN Security Council that forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo have gained ground in Abidjan, and are in full control of some important parts of the city. Le Roy also said that Gbagbo’s forces – battling those of his rival Alassane Outtara – had [...]
The conflict in Libya has approached a stalemate. The opposing armies continue to move back and forth along the coastal road, capturing and relinquishing the same territory in an increasingly futile military ebb and flow. NATO’s intervention has been unable to resolve the issue, and the African Union‘s (AU) attempt to broker a deal was similarly [...]
American radical The trials of Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein. Special programme Last Modified: 12 Apr 2011 13:12 “Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. And it is precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two [...]
Tales from the front: A Libyan rebel speaks Who are Libya’s fighters? And can they defeat Gaddafi? An injured rebel says yes, but military analysts aren’t so sure. Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 12 Apr 2011 12:11 Hamis Mohamed Zuwei wants to go back to Libya’s front lines, as soon as his wounds heal [Chris Arsenault/Al Jazeera] Sporting a [...]
Israeli town rallies against African refugees Eilat is home to thousands of refugees and their lives in the small town are often marred by open hostility. Mya Guarnieri Last Modified: 13 Apr 2011 14:59 African refugees, and the misconceptions that come with them, have become a major issue in the Israeli town of Eilat, inspiring the [...]
There are growing concerns in Libya that the battle has reached a stalemate, and many are calling for NATO to do more. As the fighting continues, African Union (AU) leaders say they are determined to end the fighting and have met with both Muammar Gaddafi and rebel leaders. The European Union has sent out an appeal [...]
How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo by Andy Worthington, April 12, 2011 Last Monday, on the very same day that the Obama administration gave up on Guantánamo, so too did the Supreme Court. For opponents of the unconstitutional aberration that is Guantánamo, Monday, April 4, 2011, will go down in the history books [...]
US Out of Iraq. Really. by Ivan Eland, April 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum When the United States begins to draw down overseas military forces from trouble spots, the American media, and therefore the public, assumes the show is over and loses interest. This waning of attention and interest has happened [...]
Israel foreign minister ‘faces graft charges’ Justice ministry informs Avigdor Lieberman that he may be indicted for alleged corruption, according to Israeli media. Last Modified: 13 Apr 2011 17:21 Email Print Share Send Feedback Lieberman faces allegations of corruption but denies any wrongdoing [GALLO/GETTY] Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, has been told he faces criminal corruption [...]
Ivorian leader says Gbagbo will face charges Former president to face charges while Ouattara pledges to ask ICC to probe alleged massacres committed during crisis. Last Modified: 13 Apr 2011 15:27 Email Print Share Send Feedback After months of turmoil, Ouattara’s forces captured Gbagbo and the former leader could now face charges [Reuters] Ivory Coast‘s president-elect [...]
The Kind of Stimulus We Need Putting People to Work By ALAN NASSER “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s 1933 inauguration address No reasonable economist denies that the economy’s problems are grave and that some kind of remedial stimulus is required. Stimuli are of two kinds, fiscal [...]
Barack Obama must speak out on Bahrain bloodshed Bahrainis are suffering the same violent repression as Libyans – so why does Obama have nothing to say? Share460 Comments (174) Amy Goodman guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 09.32 BST Article history Funeral prayers are said over the coffin of Ali Isa Saqer, who died while in [...]
Libya contact group discusses funds for opposition Doha summit considers international fund for rebels in eastern Libya, as William Hague repeats call for Muammar Gaddafi to go Share54 Ian Black in Doha guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 13.26 BST Article history The French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, his British counterpart, William Hague, and the [...]
News of the World phone hacking: John Whittingdale seeks public inquiry Press Complaints Commission not up to the job, says chairman of Commons culture, media and sport select committee Share6 Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 16.34 BST Article history John Whittingdale said the News of the World phone-hacking affair raised ‘serious questions for [...]
As the imperial project’s endless wars continue counting the cost is even starting to concern some politicians who, as a group, for so long have been so quick to jump to deliver access to the general fund to the hegemons. In this way the industrial complex elite that produces the equipment needed for these endless wars has [...]
Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute U.S. Torturers By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57457 Spain is pursuing a case against former top U.S. officials who authorized the use of torture, including David Addington, Jay Bybee, Douglas Feith, William Haynes, John Yoo, and Alberto Gonzales. U.S. activist groups have been encouraging Spain in this endeavor. The U.S. Department [...]
Mubarak’s sons detained in Egypt investigation Former Egyptian president‘s sons are being questioned over role in violence against protesters and corruption allegations Share Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 05.02 BST Article history Egyptian policemen guard a minibus carrying former president’s sons Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, outside Sharm el-Sheikh courthouse where they were [...]
Justice is impossible if we can’t trust the police to tell the truth. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th April 2011. “From the information I had, that is what I believed happened to me.”(1) So Simon Harwood, the police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground at the G20 protests two [...]
A Policy Chasing Its Tail Eternal recurrence in US foreign policy by Justin Raimondo, April 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Remember how we were supposed to leave Iraq in 2011? Indeed, a great many people think we’ve already left, what with that official “withdrawal” announced by the Obama administration and its media amen [...]
Nuclear Weapons and the Libyan Intervention |More Selig S. Harrison | April 11, 2011 As he faces the US-NATO onslaught i n the weeks ahead, will Muammar Qaddafi conclude that he made a disastrous mistake when he gave up his nuclear weapons program in 2003 in return for Bush administration promises of aid and improved [...]
Murdering Some to Save Others by Nicholas Kramer, April 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Is It Better to Save No One?,” liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof implicitly attacks the critics of the U.S. intervention in Libya as being heartless and/or immoral. Though he acknowledges the [...]
War Clouds Back Over Gaza by Mel Frykberg, April 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum RAMALLAH – After several days of intense violence, during which 19 Palestinians were killed and one Israeli wounded, a fragile calm has returned to Gaza. But political commentators argue that this could well be a precursor to [...]
NATO-Taliban Clash Kills Three Afghan Children Official Statement Blames Taliban for Deaths by Jason Ditz, April 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Three Afghan children were killed on Tuesday and another four civilians were wounded when a clash broke out between NATO and Taliban forces in the Faryab Province. A number of [...]
Israel, Palestine: Settler Colonialism and Self-determination Apartheid Wall. (Aljazeera/file) By Brian Durrans – London The seventh annual conference of the very active SOAS Palestine Society attracted some 300 people over the weekend of 5-6 March 2011 (SOAS is the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury and the event was hosted by its London [...]
Japan‘s battle for Fukushima is far from over, one month on Several hundred engineers continue struggle to prevent meltdown at nuclear plant but the risks are still immense Share79 Jonathan Watts and Suzanne Goldenberg guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 April 2011 21.08 BST Article history Aerial view of Fukushima nuclear plant. A month after the Japan disaster, engineers [...]
US-Pakistan relations facing biggest crisis since 9/11, officials say Drone attacks, CIA activities and lack of progress in Afghanistan are fuelling a rift between the US and Pakistan Share132 Simon Tisdall in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 April 2011 20.01 BST Article history American CIA contractor Raymond Davis is escorted out of court in Lahore. He [...]
