Right to Life, Unless You’re Poor and Black http://www.diversityinc.com/public/13048.cfm This week, as Americans followed the legal battle over Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, a 6-month-old baby was "murdered" by Texas Children’s Hospital officials, according to Arizona Republic columnist Mike Newcomb. Against… Read moreVile hypocrisy of Terri Schiavo hysteria #1
From Digby’s Blog: Tom DeLay of Texas says: "Mrs. Schiavo’s life is not slipping away – it is being violently wrenched from her body in an act of medical terrorism… Mr. Schiavo’s attorney’s characterization of the premeditated starvation and dehydration… Read moreVile hypocrisy of Terri Schiavo hysteria #2
The bigtime at last! It seems my commentary on the Lipstadt/Irving affair has been posted on the vile Irving’s very own website! You’ve got to give him credit for airing the views of even those who hate his filthy crypto-Nazi… Read moreWW4 REPORT makes David Irving’s website
Despite recommendations by Army investigators, commanders have decided not to prosecute 17 US soldiers implicated in the deaths of three prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, the NY Times reports March 26. Investigators had recommended that all… Read morePentagon won’t prosecute GI’s in prisoner death cases
The first real evidence of a U.S. hand in the recent murky revolution in Kyrgyzstan has emered in the form of a "secret report" purportedly written by U.S. Ambassador Stephen M. Young, which appears on the website of Kabar, the… Read moreU.S. plot to destabilize Kyrgyzstan?
Reversing a policy instated by his own father, President Bush has authorized the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan—a move India has warned could destabilize the region. The US banned the sale of such potential nuclear delivery systems to… Read moreBush approves F-16 sales to Pakistan
Bush has fingered Stephen L. Johnson as new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, replacing Mike Leavitt, who has been nominated for Secretary of Health. As the EPA’s assistant administrator for toxic substances, Johnson has taken some controversial positions. Writes… Read moreBush’s EPA nominee advocates human guinea-pig experiments
We don’t care. But isn’t it pretty damn perverse that this is dominating the headlines, while Darfur (for instance) has disappeared? We never get tired of bemoaning the obvious, I guess…
Brian Grogan, a spokesman for Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, told the UK Guardian that an average 10,000 civilians are dying each month in Darfur, totalling 180,000 over the past 18 months. These are only the victims of… Read moreDarfur: 180,000 dead
World media reported just yesterday that opposition lawmaker Ishenbai Kadyrbekov had been appointed interim president by Parliament following the ouster of Kyrgyzstan’s long-ruling strongman Askar Akayev in a popular uprising. But on March 25, AP reports that a better-known opposition… Read moreMurkier and murkier in Kyrgyzstan
With Afghan opium cultivation up 64% in 2004 over the previous year, far exceeding even the gravest predictions, the Pentagon is broadening the scope of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to allow direct involvement in drug enforcement. Writes the NY… Read moreU.S. into Afghan opium war
In a gunbattle in a village near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, US troops apparently killed Raz Mohammed, described by a US commander as a "high-level Taliban." "Coalition troops were fired on by Raz Mohammed and other Taliban… Read moreU.S. forces kill Taliban bigwig—and, oh yeah, woman, children
