The German-based pro-Kurdish Flash-Bulletin website has posted a Feb. 16 letter from a group of Ezidi academics protesting that Ezidi children in eastern Turkey are being forced to study Islam in school by local village authorities—a practice they charge is… Read moreEzidis face “Islamization” in Turkey
David Horowitz, center-right editor of the center-right Jerusalem Post, reports with concern some recent fascist nostalgia in Rome: "Maybe we should shrug off the ongoing little rumpus in Romesurrounding Lazio soccer team captain Paolo Di Canio’s recent Fascistsalute to his… Read moreMussolini thanks soccer captain for Fascist salute
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
Disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori—now hiding from corruption charges in Japan, and officially barred from seeking office until 2010—hopes to run for president again in 2006, and is promoting his campaign with a new soft-drink, Fuji-Cola, a fizzy product… Read moreGenocide goes better with Fuji-Cola
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
