Yearly Archives: 2007

Australia’s Opposition Leader Rudd Wins Landslide Election Victory SYDNEY – Centre-left leader Kevin Rudd stormed to victory in Australia’s election Saturday, ending conservative Prime Minister John Howard’s 11-year rule with pledges to change course on climate change and the Iraq … Continue reading →

Disintegration of the Bourgeois Brainby Olga Bonfiglio This month’s U.S. Senate vote to approve Michael Mukasey’s nomination for attorney general essentially sanctioned torture. It is yet another example of Congressional complicity in this Age of Terror with a zealous administration … Continue reading →

A review of Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A. Q. Khan, and the Rise of Proliferation Networksby Zia Mian, November 24, 2007Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Proliferation watchers have kept track of A. Q. Khan’s activities for about 30 years. In … Continue reading →

Islamic Academy in U.S. Under FireBy MATTHEW BARAKAT,APPosted: 2007-11-24 17:52:56 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Nov. 24) – Its most virulent critics have dubbed it “Terror High” and 12 U.S. senators and a federal commission want to shut it down. The teachers, administrators … Continue reading →

Hundreds of thousands of students march for Chavez and Si in the referendumBy Leonardo Badell and Darrall Cozens, Nov 24, 2007, 02:40 They came in their tens of thousands, in their hundreds of thousands. They came from schools, from colleges, … Continue reading →

And we predict this sort of behaviour will become more and more prevalent as the US takes the path to fascism. We’ve been saying it since we went online, and we will continue to say it: “You could be next.” … Continue reading →

Annapolis: How to Get Out?By Uri Avnery 11/23/07 “ICH” — – THE ANNAPOLIS conference is a joke. Though not in the least funny. Like quite a lot of political initiatives, this one too, according to all the indications, started more … Continue reading →

20,000 vets’ brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tallyBy Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to … Continue reading →

Saying no to Iraq war was victory, Chretien saysUpdated Thu. Nov. 22 2007 12:10 PM ETCTV.ca News Staff Former prime minister Jean Chretien says one of the major victories in his career was standing up against pressure to join the … Continue reading →

Former Guantánamo detainee seeks asylum in Swedenby Andy Worthington, November 23, 2007 On Tuesday November 20, Adel Abdul Hakim, a former Guantánamo detainee from Xinxiang province in the People’s Republic of China, took another step towards reconstructing his shattered life … Continue reading →

At least, they are in the Amerikkkan press. Keith Olberman’s Jaundiced Rant: Trashing ChavezBy CLIFTON ROSS I don’t know why I was so shocked listening to Keith Olbermann’s insulting, degrading and uninformed remarks about President Hugo Chavez yesterday. Perhaps because … Continue reading →

Plight of the Huddled Masses: A Hard Time for ThanksgivingBy Leonard Doyle, Nov 23, 2007, 09:18 Gertrude Winter, a char lady in her sixties who works at a government office, will have a turkey after all this Thanksgiving. At one … Continue reading →