Archive for December, 2008
December 31, 2008
Nehad Al-Hajsale, the London, Ont. man who has been trapped in Gaza since early November, is seen with his daughter in this undated family handout photo.
Dalia Salim, the wife of Nehad Al-Hajsale, who has been trapped in Gaza since early November, appears on CTV’s Canada AM from ‘A’ studios in London, Ont., Wednesday, Dec. 31, [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: blockade, crimes against humanity, election, Gaza, genocide, hostage, Israel, murder, SS Dignity, starvation, UN, US, USS Liberty, war crimes |
December 31, 2008
Pro-Obama Haitian-Americans want help
December 30 2008
LAUDERHILL, Fla.,
Haitian-American leaders who turned out the vote for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in Florida say they expect him to help ease crises in their homeland.
Members of a Broward County, Fla., branch of Haitians for Obama, which worked hard to canvass ethnic communities for the president-elect, say that [...]
Posted in Farming, Politics, Poverty, health | Tags: children, Poverty, corruption, homeless, Haiti, Barack Obama, USAID, malnutrition, farmers, Florida, deforestation, hurricanes, Port-au-Prince, Gonaïves, Gustav, Ike, Hanna, tropical storms, Broward County, Haitian leaders, humanitarian aid, temporary protected status, U.S. Haiti policy, Glades detention facility, immigration law, Citizenship and Immigration Services, starving, dehydrating, TPS, Cheryl Little, flood control, build drains, fix roads, stop erosion, La Quinte River, International Development, Alexandre Deprez, floods, not natural disasters, erosion, charcoal, Tropical Storm Fay, Starving families, Jeanne, President Rene Preval |
December 30, 2008
This undated portrait made available Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 by his family shows Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi. al-Zeidi who threw his shoes at U.S. President Bush.
A shoe is raised during a protest against the Bush’s visit in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. Dec. 15, 2008. (AP / Karim Kadim)
In an [...]
Posted in Politics, Prisons, War, protests | Tags: Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, Baghdad, Bush, Green Zone, Iraq, Iraq's Higher Judicial Council, journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, shoes, tortured, trial, U.S. occupation, U.S. troops |
December 30, 2008
The crew of the vessel SS Dignity along with journalists, raise their hands before a press conference at the Lebanese journalist syndicate in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. (AP / Mahmoud Tawil)
Israel ‘rammed’ medical aid boat headed to Gaza
December 30 2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon
A boat carrying international peace activists and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: antibiotics, Australia, Britain, Cyprus, Denis Healey, Free Gaza group, Gaza, international peace activists, ireland, Israel, medical supplies, rammed ship, SS Dignity, surgical equipment, Tyre, US |
December 30, 2008
A Palestinian woman walks past a destroyed Hamas police
compound after an Israeli air strike
An Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip
Palestinians carry the wounded to hospital, left, after Israel launched
a second day of air strikes on the Gaza Strip
An explosion is seen after an Israeli air strike in the northern
Gaza Strip
Palestinians look at a [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: Arabs, Bill Clinton, bloodbaths, civilians, criminal behaviour, death, Gaza, George W. Bush, Geroge Bush Sr, Gordon Brown, Hamas, Israel, Israelis, Jerusalem, middle east, Muslim, Palestinians, Tony Balir, War, Western politicians |
December 30, 2008
US Veto Blocks UN Anti-Israel Resolution
December 28, 2008
The UN Security Council has been unable to force an end to Israeli attacks against Gaza due to the intervention of the United States.
Washington once again used its veto powers on Sunday to block a resolution calling for an end to the massive ongoing Israeli attacks against the [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: bombing, Gaza, Israel, military activities, murder, Palestinians, resolutions, Tel Aviv, UN Ambassador Neven Jurica, US, US veto, vetoed, War, Washington |
December 30, 2008
The Ceasefire was broken by Israel when their armed forces carried out several attacks on November the 4th 2008 resulting in the death of 6 Palestinians
Hamas had not fired a rocket since June 19 2008 ( when the Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was finalized) and only resumed after the Israeli attacks. Israels claim of [...]
Posted in protests | Tags: aid, Amman, Bahrain, Berlin, Dahiyeh, Egypt, exterminators, Gaza, germany, greece, Iraq, Israel, Istanbul, Jordanians, Lebanon, London, Mosul, Muharraq, Palestinians, Sanaa, shock and awe, Syrian, United Nation, war criminals, weapons of mass destruction |
December 28, 2008
Hiyam Noir reports from the war zone in Gaza. We thank her and her colleague, photographer Fady Adwan, for risking their lives to report the truth from Gaza.
photo by Fady Adwan, December 27, 2008
photo by Fady Adwan, December 27, 2008
December 27 2008
GAZA
On Saturday noon in the first wave of air strikes, the Israelis targeted Gaza City [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: Banned Weaponry, criminal, Egypt, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Fouad Seniora, Gabi Ashkenazi, Gaza, genocide, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak, human rights, Israel, Lebanon, massacre, murder, PLO Taysir Khaled, Zionist |
December 27, 2008
December 27 2008
An Iranian freighter carrying tons of humanitarian equipment destined for the Gaza Strip will set sail from the Islamic Republic on Saturday, Iranian media reported on Friday.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society organized the shipment which it says will reach the Gaza shoreline in defiance of the Israeli military blockade imposed on the territory [...]
Posted in Poverty, War | Tags: Doctors, flour, Gaza Strip, Iranian Red Crescent Society, Israeli military blockade, medicine., Palestine, relief workers, Rice, sugar |
December 27, 2008
By Juan Cole
December 26, 2008
1. Iraqis are safer because of Bush’s War. In fact, conditions of insecurity have helped created both an internal and external refugee problem:
‘ At least 4.2 million Iraqis were displaced. These included 2.2 million who were displaced within Iraq and some 2 million refugees, mostly in Syria (around 1.4 million) and [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: Bush administration, Bush's War, children are malnourished, death rate, deaths, Ethnic cleansing, exile, hunger, Iraq, Iraqis, Iraqis displaced, liars, malnutrition, neoconservatives, Oxfam, Poverty, refugees, saftey, UN food, War |
December 27, 2008
By Nina Kolyako, BC, Riga,
December 24 2008
Yesterday evening, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) board confirmed an international loan to Latvia.
Latvia will receive EUR 7.5 billion (LVL 5.27 billion) worth of financial support, writes LETA.
The European Union plans to allocate a medium-term loan to Latvia worth up to EUR 3.1 billion (LVL 2.18 billion).
Also participating in [...]
Posted in Buisiness, banking | Tags: Czech Republic, denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, imf, International Monetary Fund', Latvia, loan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, The European Reconstruction and Development Bank, world bank |
December 24, 2008
Why Shoe Bush?
By David Swanson,
Our president stood in a nation he had illegally invaded and occupied, where his actions had caused over 1.2 million deaths, 5 million people forced out of their homes, millions more deprived of electricity or clean water and afraid to walk the streets. He stood smiling in a nation he had [...]
Posted in protests | Tags: Bush, Cheney, Constitution, criminal wars, illegally invaded, illegally occupied, Iraq, lies, Muntadhar Al-Zaydi, occupations, puppet government, torture, violations, war crimes, warrantless spying |
December 24, 2008
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
December 22, 2008
BAGHDAD – Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved Monday to undermine the popularity of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush.
In a posting on his website, Al-Maliki claimed journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi has apologized for the attack and confessed to carrying it out at the behest of a known [...]
Posted in Law, Politics, Prisons, abuse | Tags: Al-Mashhadani, beaten, Dhia al-Kinani, Iraq, Iraqi Journalist, jail, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Prison, shoes, tortured |
December 23, 2008
December 23 2008
By ADAM GOLDMAN
NEW YORK
The founder of an investment fund that lost millions with Bernard Madoff was found dead Tuesday at his Madison Avenue office of a possible suicide, authorities said.
Authorities found the body of Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet just before 8 a.m. ET at his office of Access International Advisors, located on [...]
Posted in Buisiness, crime | Tags: Access International Advisors, Bernard Madoff, hedge funds, investor lawsuits, Madison Avenue, possible suicide, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, swindled investors |
December 23, 2008
American Soldiers Are Dying Of Lung Cancer – And May Have Been Knowingly Exposed
December 22, 2008
By Armen Keteyian
WASHINGTON
The military contractor Kellogg Brown and Root, known as KBR, has won more than $28 billion in U.S. military contracts since the beginning of the Iraq war. KBR may be facing a new scandal. First, accusations its then-parent [...]
Posted in War, enviroment | Tags: American Soldiers, Army investigation, bloody noses, chemical, contaminated, Depositions, Exposure, Halliburton, hexavalent chromium, Indiana National Guard, Iraq, KBR, Kellogg Brown and Root, Lung Cancer, rashes, toxic |
December 23, 2008
Israeli teenagers jailed for refusing to serve in army
December 18 2008
Peace activists in Israel and around the world are participating on Wednesday in a day of action to call on Israeli authorities to release teenagers imprisoned for refusing to serve in the army for reasons of conscience.
Tamar Katz, Raz Bar-David Varon and Yuval Oron-Ofir are [...]
Posted in Hate Crimes, Law, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, War, abuse, crime, protests | Tags: American Jewry, Amnesty International, Barack Obama, committing human rights abuses, conscientious objectors, crimes against humanity, dehumanization, Diaspora Jews, Gaza Strip, IDF, imprisoned, Israel, Israel’s economic blockade, Israeli authorities, Israeli Shministim, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestine, peace activists, racism, Teenagers |
December 22, 2008
December 22 2008
By Suzy Jagger
From left; Doug Chavenello, president of Firefighters Union Local 1426, and Bob Smith, secretary, listen to the meeting of the Joint Retirement Board at Independence Hall in Fairfield. The town’s pension fund may have lost over $40 million in a scheme by Wall Street hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff
The FBI [...]
Posted in Buisiness, Law, crime | Tags: Access International Advisors, Aozora Bank, Ascot Partners, AXA, Banco Santander, Bank Medici, Banque Bénédict Hentsch & Cie, Barack Obama, BBVA, Bernard Madoff, blue-chip stocks, BNP Paribas, Carl Shapiro, Connecticut, EIM, Fairfield, Fairfield Greenwich Group, FBI, firefighters, Fortis Bank Nederland, fraud, fund of funds, Great Eastern Holdings, hedge funds, HSBC, Hyposwiss, M&B Capital Advisers, Man Group, Maxam Capital Management, Natixis, Nomura, Nordea Bank, police officers, RBS, Reichmuth & Co, SEC, Swiss Life Holding, teachers, Tremont Group, UBI Banca, Unicredit, Union Bancaire Privee, wall street, Yeshiva University |
December 21, 2008
At an early childhood centre children play, learn and, most importantly, eat. But for many, this will be their only meal
Children eat at the centre supported by Save the Children in
north-western Zimbabwe
December 21 2008
The 36 children attending an early childhood centre in north-west Zimbabwe were lucky, and they knew it. They were wearing their best [...]
Posted in Farming, Politics, Poverty, illness | Tags: Africa, anthrax, begging, childhood centre, children, Cholera, food, malnutrition, Plumpynut, starvation, United Nations, Zimbabwe |
December 21, 2008
Millions spent on top officers’ homes while lower ranks miss out
By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady
December 21 2008
Millions of pounds are being spent annually on dozens of luxurious homes complete with domestic staff, including cooks, cleaners and gardeners, for Army top brass. More than £4.4m was spent on “official service residences” last year, according to [...]
Posted in Politics, Poverty, enviroment | Tags: Afghanistan, Army Families Federation, Bulford Manor, crumbling homes, Freedom of Information, General Sir David Richards, General Sir Richard Dannat, generals, horrendous, Iraq, Julie McCarthy, Kensington Palace, Ministry of Defence, soldiers, sub-standard housing, top brass, UK definition of poverty |
December 21, 2008
December 21 2008
By Kim Sengupta and Brian Brady
Basra:
Parliamentary vote on mandate for British forces could leave them without legal cover next month. Kim Sengupta in Basra and Brian Brady report
Britain’s exit strategy from Iraq suffered a setback yesterday when the country’s parliament rejected a draft law paving the way for withdrawal of forces by [...]
Posted in Law, Politics, War | Tags: Australia, Baghdad, Basra, British forces, Council of Representatives, El Salvador, elections, Estonia, exit strategy, Fariad Rawndouzi, Gordon Brown, Hakim Ali Ibrahim, Iraq, January, John Hutton, July, legal authority, Liam Fox, mandate, Nassir al-Issawi, nato, Nouri al-Maliki, occupation expires, Prime Minister, Romania, Secretary of State for Defence, sovereign, UK, United Nations, US |
December 21, 2008
First it was Athens. Now the Continent’s disillusioned youth is taking to the streets across Europe.
John Lichfield reports
December 20 2008
GETTY IMAGES
Protesters clash with police in Athens on Thursday
Europe exists, it appears. If Greek students sneeze, or catch a whiff of tear-gas, young people take to the streets in France and now Sweden. Yesterday, [...]
Posted in Politics, enviroment, protests | Tags: Athens, banks, business institutions, deregulation, disillusioned youth, Europe, European Union, france, Government, greece, greed, Greek students, hunger, Paris, political, Privatization, profiteers, protests, sacrificed generation, social, Sweden, War |
December 19, 2008
Thousands of protesters are calling for the release of journalist
By Sarah More McCann
December 19 2008
An Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush at a press conference in Iraq last Sunday was beaten afterward, an Iraqi judge said Friday. The latest revelation in the incident that has garnered worldwide attention comes [...]
Posted in Law, Politics, Prisons, War, abuse, health, protests | Tags: Afghanistan, Amal Saad Gumaa, anti-US sentiments, assaulted, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Barack Obama, beating, Beirut university, broken arm, broken ribs, bruises, court, Dargham al-Zaidi, harshly beaten, injuries, Iran, Iraqi parliament, Iraqi security officers, journalist, journalist was abused, Judge Dhia al-Kinani, Karachi, Lahore, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, military hospital, Mosul to Nasiriyah, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, Muntazer al-Zaidi, Muslim Malaysia, outpouring of support, President George W. Bush, protests, release, shoes, Sunni and Shia, torture, U.S. Secret Service |
December 19, 2008
December 19 2008
Protestors hold shoes up during a demonstration outside the US Embassy in London Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, by Stop the War coalition calling for the guaranteed safety and release of Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes at US President George Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A pile [...]
Posted in Petitions, Politics, War, protests | Tags: A christmas wish, al-Bagdadiyya TV, Bush Legacy, demonstration, emailing, Friday Imam, George Bush, Grosvenor Square, Iraq, Little Dream, London, mailing, Muntazir al-Zeydi, nightmare, protest, shoe campaign, shoes, US Embassy, War, White House. |
December 19, 2008
December 19, 2008
NEW YORK
A US court has extended a probe into whether a Pakistani neuroscientist is mentally fit to stand trial on charges that she tried to murder US officers in Afghanistan.
Judge Richard Berman said the federal court in New York would meet again February 23 after psychiatrists for the prosecution and the defence have [...]
Posted in Law, Politics, Prisons, War, abuse, enviroment, health | Tags: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Afghanistan, Pakistan, mental illness, New York, Texas, Karachi, innocent, Elizabeth Fink, defence attorney, missing children, hallucinations, psychiatric hospital, Richard Berman |
December 19, 2008
IDB helps, ICE hurts Haiti KUDOS TO IDB
The decision by the Inter American Development Bank to offer Haiti an additional $50 million in assistance next year may be the best news that beleaguered Caribbean country has received in a long time. In a nation as poor as Haiti, that extra aid should make a difference [...]
Posted in Politics, Poverty, War, abuse, crime, enviroment, health, illness | Tags: death, destitution, foreign aid, Haiti, health, hunger, ICE hurts, IDB helps, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Inter American Development Bank, malnutrition, misery, Poverty, starvation, U.S. government, War |
December 19, 2008
December 19 2008
The number of people affected by hunger has hit one billion, says the World Food Program (WFP). This year alone, 40 million people were pushed into hunger by the high world food prices, thus exerting more pressure on the food assistance of the WFP.
It therefore urged the international community to step up assistance [...]
Posted in Politics, Poverty, enviroment, health, illness | Tags: D R Congo, Ethiopia, Europe, Executive Director of WFP, food assistance, Ghana, Haiti, hunger, Josette Sheeran, Kenya, Main Street, usa, wall street, WFP, World Food Program |
December 19, 2008
The rebirth of Konbit in Haiti
Thousands of Haitians demonstrated throughout Haiti on December 16, 2008. The date commemorated Haiti’s first free and democratic elections in 1990 that signaled the birth of the Lavalas political movement.
ON Dec. 16, 2008- Demonstrators demanded the return of Aristide who now lives in exile in the Republic of South Africa. [...]
Posted in Politics, Poverty, War, crime, elections, enviroment, health, illness, protests | Tags: Aristide, Canadian Special Forces, coup, demonstrated, foreign governments, france, French Foreign Legion, growing misery, Haiti, human rights organizations, hunger, infant mortality, international press, Lavalas political prisoners, malnutrition, Marines, police, Poverty, predatory wealthy elite, profiteering, Republic of South Africa, stavation, Supreme Court of Canada, U.N. forces, UN occupation, US, violent campaign |
December 19, 2008
December 18 2008
By Matthew Hickley
UK
The trees were strung with festive lights and the streets thronged with shoppers.
But Christmas was put on hold in Wootton Bassett today as five young men came home from war.
One thousand people stood silently on the streets to honour the soldiers killed in Afghanistan as their coffins, draped in Union Flags, [...]
Posted in Politics, War | Tags: Afghanistan, caskets, Casualties, coffin, Corporal Marc Birch, Corporal Thomas James Hamilton, Cpl. Mark Robert McLaren, death, families, Gagetown, Highway of Heroes, Lt Aaron Lewis, Lt Marine Damian Davies, Marine Lance Corporal Steven Fellows, New Brunswick, Ont, Petawawa, Private John Michael Roy Curwin, Private Justin Peter Jones, RAF Lyneham, Royal Marines Damian Davies, Sgt John Manuel, soldiers, Toronto, Trenton, troops, Warrant Officer Robert John Wilson and Pte. Demetrios Diplaros, Whitby, Wiltshire, Wootton Bassett |
December 19, 2008
Opposition says Prime Minister wants to postpone report until after election
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
December 19 2008
Gordon Brown provoked a political storm yesterday by rejecting calls for an immediate inquiry into the Iraq war and its aftermath.
The Prime Minister came under fire from opposition parties after he told the Commons it would not be “right” [...]
Posted in Law, Politics, War, crime, elections, enviroment | Tags: aftermath, Angus Robertson, Charles Kennedy, Commons, David Cameron, David Miliband, election, Gordon Brown, illegal war, inquiry, investigation, Iraq, Iraq war, Iraq War Timeline, Iraqi people, legacy of hatred, Liberal Democrat, Lie by Lie, postpone report, Scottish National Party at Westminster, troops, UK, US |
December 18, 2008
By Adrian Croft
Editing by Ralph Boulton
December 18 2008
LONDON
Britain will resist a move by the European Parliament to cap the working week at 48 hours, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday, saying a cap would be “bad for business.”
The European Parliament voted in Strasbourg on Wednesday to limit the working week, abolishing opt-outs from [...]
Posted in Politics, Poverty, abuse, enviroment, health |
