http://www.countercurrents.org/zangana100410.htm ‘As I watch The Footage, Anger Calcifies In My Heart’ By Haifa Zangana 10 April, 2010 The Guardian A novelist and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime gives her reaction to the Wikileaks Iraq video I know the area where this massacre was committed. It is a crowded working-class area, a place where it… Read more »
At the Geopolitical Crossroads of China and Russia: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18547 At the Geopolitical Crossroads of China and Russia: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia by Rick Rozoff Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising. Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped… Read more »
Today! Save Our Schools Rally to End the Furloughs
Save Our Schools will hold a rally today and round-the-clock vigil at the Governor’s mansion demanding that Governor Linda Lingle end the furloughs of Hawai’i’s public schools. Event: Round-the-Clock Vigil at Governor’s Mansion What: Rally Start Time: Today, April 10 at 12:00pm End Time: Monday, April 12 at 7:45am Where: Washington Place (across the capitol)… Read more »
Occupied Washington, DC
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/10-1 Occupied Washington, DC by Stephanie Westbrook As a visitor to our nation’s capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington’s subway, the… Read more »
Parents given citations for sit-in protest at Governor’s office
Costs of war Hawai’i’s Governor Linda Lingle instigated “furlough fridays” to cut the state budget, making Hawai’i the laughing stock of the nation with the fewest number of instructional days for public schools. Save Our Schools, a group organized by parents and children to fight for public education staged a sit-in in the Governor’s office… Read more »
Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security
http://www.truthout.org/abolition-the-only-path-nuclear-security58414 Abolition: The Only Path to Nuclear Security Thursday 08 April 2010 by: Dr. Joseph Gerson, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Br3nda, Eric M Martin) In Prague, President Obama signed the modest START 1 Follow On Treaty,… Read more »
Move Troops Back to U.S.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20100409/OPINION02/4090325/Author-Move-troops-back-to-U.S Guam Pacific Daily News Author: Move Troops Back to U.S. By Doloris Cogan • April 9, 2010 Guam book for Obama: Doloris Cogan, author of “We Fought the Navy and Won: Guam’s Quest for Democracy,” gives President Obama, then a U.S. senator, a copy of her book during a campaign stop in Indiana. (Photo… Read more »
Okinawa Peace Project study tour will take place in the Fall
The US for Okinawa website just announced that they will sponsor another study tour to Okinawa in September 2010. See the website for reports on the most recent study tour of Okinawa. >><< http://www.us-for-okinawa.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, April 7, 2010 OKINAWA PEACE PROJECT “OKINAWA PEACE PROJECT” 沖縄ピースプロジェクト FALL 2010 (Tentative dates Sept 22 – 26th) If you… Read more »
Iraq War Vet: “We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us”
http://www.truthout.org/iraq-war-vet-we-were-told-just-shoot-people-and-officers-would-take-care-us58378 Iraq War Vet: “We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us” Wednesday 07 April 2010 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July… Read more »
Sign the Code Pink open letter to General McChrystal regarding the war atrocities by U.S. troops
This is a call from Code Pink: April 8, 2010 Earlier this week, we were riveted and horrified by two news stories involving the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan that set the blogosphere on fire. One revolved around a classified Pentagon video that was released on Monday by Wikileaks –it was shot in July… Read more »
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