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New Regional Network of the South is Born - by Humberto Márquez
Telesur, a regional public TV network envisioned as a Latin American
version of the Arab world's Al Jazeera broadcasting group, was officially
launched Tuesday at a ceremony in the Venezuelan capital.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3990
Indian Farmers Win Battle Against GM Cotton - by Sanjay Suri
Indian farmers have won a small battle against GM crops by establishing
simply that they can be less productive than normal crops.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3989
The metrics of losing - by Tom Engelhardt
The next time the word "metrics" is publicly kicked about to prove the
US's "success" in Iraq, one can safely assume that further problems (and
yet more frustration) have arisen.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3987
US fights Iraq fire with street fighters - by Syed Saleem Shahzad
With the Iraqi resistance showing no signs of wavering and extending its
roots deep into the population, the US has realized that to counter this
threat it must change its approach.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3986
South African Land ownership remains racially skewed - by IRIN
Eleven years into democratic rule, South Africa's white minority
population still controls most of the productive agricultural land,
government officials acknowledged earlier this week.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3985
Against Discouragement - by Howard Zinn
In 1963, historian Howard Zinn was fired from Spelman College, where he
was chair of the History Department, because of his civil rights
activities. This year, he was invited back to give the commencement
address. Here is the text of that speech, given on May 15, 2005.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3984
Libya to open banks to foreign investors - by Reuters
The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said yesterday Libya would partly
privatise five banks over the next six months and let foreign banks hold
up to 50 per cent.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3983
MEDIA ALERT: BBC Still Ignoring Evidence Of War Crimes - by Medialens
"Professional journalism relies heavily on official sources. Reporters
have to talk to the PM's official spokesperson, the White House press
secretary, the business association, the army general. What those people
say is news. Their perspectives are automatically legitimate... This is
precisely the opposite of what a functioning democracy needs, which is a
ruthless accounting of the powers that be." -Robert McChesney, professor
of communications, University of Illinois
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3982
UK: The nuclear charm offensive - by Jonathan Leake and Dan Box
We are all being taken in by a carefully planned public relations
strategy. Its mission: to push nuclear power back on the political agenda,
rebranded as the new "green" alternative.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3980
Yet More Casualties in War on Indigenous Activists - by Diego Cevallos The
"war" waged on indigenous environmental activists by loggers in Mexico has
claimed the lives of two more victims, including a nine-year-old boy,
while local and international non-governmental organisations report
continued arbitrary arrests of campesinos struggling to protect the
forests.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3979
Is the West Humiliating Saddam Hussein or the Entire Arab-Muslim Nation? -
by Yamin Zakaria "If Mr Tom Newton was so moved by the alleged deaths of
300,000 people a figure that seems to fluctuate in all directions
depending on who cites it and for what purpose, can he provide the same
level of enthusiasm in condemning the killing of 100,000 plus civilians to
date in Iraq. What
about the millions killed by the UN sanctions that was actually cited by
the UN officials as a policy of genocide."
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3978
A restraint of liberty - by George Monbiot
Faced with a choice between market freedom and human life, governments
have chosen to preserve the former.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3977
In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths - by Tim Golden
Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers
continued to torment him.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3974
Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food - by Geoffrey Lean
Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood
and kidneys
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3969
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