From todays globalecho !

Kola Odetola: We don't negotiate with terrorists!
Brave stirring words that echo defiantly down the ages of Anglo-American
cant and duplicity.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4265

Lenin: Making Politics History
Or, why Richard Curtis should die a slow horrible death while being forced
to watch repeats of Countdown.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4267

Linus Atarah: Playing Chicken: Ghana vs. the IMF
Francis Kumajor runs up and down a busy road in the center of the Ghanaian
capital Accra. The 17-year-old is trying to sell chickens to commuters in
the sweltering heat. The drivers, sealed in air-conditioning, cast sullen
glances as they drift by. Very few of them stop.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4268

Issa Shivji: The beastly face of capitalism
Capitalism came into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every
pore, with blood and dirt”, writes Issa Shivji. And the bottom line which
drives capitalism in Africa is profits and accumulation. Africa offers
both with relative ease and apparently little resistance.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4269

Stuart Hodkinson: G8: Galloway to march protesters to Gleneagles gates
Anti-war MP George Galloway obviously hasn't been listening to his leader,
Bob Geldof.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4258

Dahr Jamail: More Evidence Indicts U.S.
New evidence on U.S. war crimes and violations of international law was
presented at the concluding session of the World Tribunal on Iraq at
hearings in Istanbul Sunday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4278

Norm Dixon: ‘Africa Needs Justice Not Charity’
Casual readers of the newspaper headlines could be forgiven for believing
that the leaders of the richest and most powerful countries have had a
miraculous change of heart. If the papers are to be believed, the key
decades-long demand of the global justice movement — debt cancellation —
had been agreed to, thanks to an unlikely alliance between Tony Blair’s
British Labour government, leading aid agencies and pop “legends” Bob
Geldof and Bono. However, the devil is in the details.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4276

Patrick Cockburn: Iraq: A bloody mess
A year ago the supposed handover of power by the US occupation authority
to an Iraqi interim government led by Iyad Allawi was billed as a turning
point in the violent history of post-Saddam Iraq.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4275

Chris McGreal: Snipers with children in their sights
Palestinian civilians have been killed by the army with impunity
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4273

George Monbiot: Our very own Enron
All it has delivered is one financial scandal after another - but the UK
government remains wedded to PFI
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4272

Clare Hurley: New York teenager deported to Bangladesh
FBI held girl as “suicide bomber” suspect
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4271

Jim Lobe: Bush Exaggerates Increase in U.S. Aid
U.S. President George W. Bush has been significantly exaggerating the
amount of money his administration has provided in aid to sub-Saharan
Africa, according to a new study released here Monday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4270

Stuart Hodkinson: Inside the murky world of the UK's make poverty history
campain
Make Poverty History would seem an unprecedented success story in UK
development politics. Uniting trade unions, charities, NGOs and a
stellar-cast of celebrities, its cause is dominating media coverage while
the campaign's white wristband is being worn the world over. So why, as
the G8 summit approaches, are leading members briefing against each other
to the press and African social movements saying ‘nothing about us,
without us'?
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4264

Anil Netto: Flood of Protests Damns Water Privatisation
Malaysian civil society groups scored a stunning victory recently when the
government announced it was scrapping plans to federalize and privatise
the management of water.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4262

Medialens: MEDIA ALERT: Conspiracy - The Downing Street Memo - PART 1
At the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in 1946, Nazi leaders like Goering,
von Ribbentrop, Jodl and Streicher were sentenced to death by hanging for
“Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging
of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties,
agreements or assurances, or participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy
for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.” (Article 6, Charter of
the International Military Tribunal, August 8, 1945)
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4261

Barry Grey: Italy seeks arrest of 13 CIA agents for abduction of Egyptian
cleric
The US practice of abducting terrorism suspects on foreign soil and
secreting them to third countries, where they are held without charges and
routinely tortured, has been propelled to the forefront of international
diplomatic relations with the issuing of criminal arrest warrants for 13
CIA agents accused of seizing an Egyptian cleric on the streets of Milan
and shipping him to an Egyptian jail.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4260

Dahr Jamail: Dahr Jamail: World Tribunal for Iraq Testimony
Thank you very much for inviting me to the Culminating Session of the
World Tribunal on Iraq. I first went to Iraq in November of 2003 as an
American citizen both frustrated and horrified by what my unelected
government was doing. I went to report on the situation because I was
deeply troubled by the "journalism" being provided by the corporate media.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4259

Gary Younge: The tipping point
US public opinion on the Iraq war dips with every dead soldier, and
plummets at the first sniff of defeat
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4257

Mike Marqusee: G8 Protests - Who Are the Hijackers?
“FROM July 6 to 8, violent extremists will be converging on Scotland,”
declares the Dissent Network, one of the groups planning militant
opposition to the up-coming G8 summit, “They’ll be trying to meet at the
Gleneagles hotel, and we’ll be trying to stop them.” A neat inversion of
the mainstream media presentation of what promises to be a symbolic
confrontation with worldwide resonance.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4256

AFP: US caused more deaths in Iraq than Saddam, says anti-war tribunal
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs, intellectuals and
writers opposed to the war in Iraq, on Friday accused the United States of
causing more deaths in Iraq than ousted president Saddam Hussein.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4255

Toni Solo: Debt
Remaking the Procrustean Bed
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4252

Patrick Martin: White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents
In a heavy-handed effort to intimidate opponents of the US wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, top White House political aide Karl Rove delivered a
speech Wednesday in New York City that all but accused critics of these
wars of giving aid and comfort to the terrorists. Rove declared that while
the Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attacks by waging war,
liberals responded by offering “therapy and understanding for our
attackers.”
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4243

Steve Weissman: Kill the Messenger, Hide the News
When truthout boss Marc Ash asked me earlier this year to look into the
Pentagon's killing of journalists, I didn't know what to expect. Many
reporters at the time believed that American soldiers were purposely
targeting them. But, as I soon found, the crime was larger and more
systemic.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4237

Medialens: MEDIA ALERT: Kicking the People Who Write the Cheques
The Guardian and Lexus Cars
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4199

Kola Odetola: Is there a God?
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4128