Aangezien George Bush Afrika omhoog aan groot zijn hulpprofiel bezoekt, openbaart SchNEWS hoe 90% van die hulp `' omhoog in de zakken de bedrijven van de V.S.… beëindigt
„Ik heb een vaste, heartfelt verplichting aan het continent van Afrika en heb sinds ik voorzitter.“ werd - George Bush.
George Bush beëindigde zijn zesdaagse reis van Afrika […]

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Er zijn ernstige zorgen voor het welzijn van drie protestors die door inspecteursvos buiten de poorten van het parlement vorge nacht werden gearresteerd. Their protest was about about the iraq war, the genocide occuring there, and the war criminals here who still evade justice.
Police have admitted in previous instances that arrests […]

Afghan Interior Minister Ahmad Moqbel Zarar has survived an assassination attempt by Taliban insurgents, a ministry spokesman says.
Taliban militants ambushed and opened fire on Zarar’s convoy, as the Afghan minister was on his way to Laghman Province in the eastern part of the country, Press TV correspondents reported Wednesday.
Afghan police and Taliban insurgents exchanged […]

No surprise that the complaint was not upheld, The finding is a joke as you would imagine. For example, the BBC’s idea of ‘investigation’ regarding Mayor Willie Brown not flying on 911 is to phone his office and ask if the reports of a tip off were true!
The entire results below:
FINDING BY THE EDITORIAL STANDARDS […]

S.A Ramratan
Why are pharmaceuticals so expensive? This question has been asked for many years. In fact this was the question asked by Senator Estes Kefauver (D) in the late 1950s. Senator Kefauver was the first to put together an indictment against the business practices of the pharmaceutical industry. In fact he lobbed three charges at […]

Barbara L. Minton
One issue that is conspicuously absent from the rhetoric of the presidential candidates is the North American Union (NAU). The questions of immigration and border security are frequently raised and the candidates claim to realize the need for a clear immigration policy and effort to secure the borders of the United States. Yet […]

By Richard Black
The US is ready to accept “binding international obligations” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, officials say, if other nations do the same.
The comments came in a news conference in Paris given by James Connaughton and Daniel Price, environmental and economics advisers to President Bush.
The US hopes the world’s major economies will conclude […]

From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.
By David Jackson and Jason Grotto | Tribune reporters
Inside the stout federal courthouse of this Mississippi River town, the dirty secrets of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring out.
Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped […]

We had been on the road for hours, leaving the interstate and then digressing to smaller and smaller highways. Differing vistas of the Colorado landscape got wilder and more vacant the further north we drove. Driving through Maybell, we took a right and headed through Irish Canyon, on the road towards Rock Springs, Wyoming. Dropping […]

Intelligence officers are facing unprecedented public scrutiny as they take the stand at the inquest into Princess Diana’s death to deny claims that the security services killed her on the royal family’s orders.Their former boss has already given a fascinating glimpse into the murky world of espionage — but this is not all about glamorous […]

JONATHAN WERVE
Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court’s recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: The Wikileaks.org shutdown is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn’t work very well.
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By Lisa Schlein
A coalition of human rights organizations is accusing the United States of persistent and systematic racial discrimination. The U.S.- based groups have submitted a 600-page report to the 18-member U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which begins a two-day examination of the U.S. record Thursday. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from […]

By Elana Schor
 The US court order shutting down the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the legal action, as bloggers and other fans of the site gave new life to leaked documents the bank was working to suppress.
    In addition to international Wikileaks versions that were unaffected by the shutdown […]

Mark Forbes
THE Indonesian Health Minister has said the United States and the World Health Organisation are part of a global conspiracy to profit from the spread of bird flu and the US may use samples to produce biological weapons.
The views of Dr Siti Fadilah Supari, outlined in her new book, threaten to undermine efforts to […]