From todays globalecho !
Chuck Richardson: Labor Day All Day Every Day Until Wonk Day
Workers
and management in today’s world cross national borders like never
before, and since corporations view national sovereignty as an
unnecessary obstacle, so should labor. This would stop multinational
corporations from playing one country and region against another. If
Mexican workers are getting a raw deal, workers all over the world are
getting the shaft.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5207
Maher Osseiran: Katrina II Ravages the Sunni Triangles!
If you think hurricane Katrina would cause Iraqis to breath the sight
of relief, think again!
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5205
Conal Urquhart: Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order
Israeli
military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following
allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill
orders against unarmed Palestinians.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5204
Dave Wearing: Democracy and the rule of law: the Iraqi alternative
to US occupation
Freedom,
democracy and human rights do not exist in this "new Iraq". Even Iraq's
new government understands that it is the occupier that pulls the
strings. The occupation works by division, along sectarian and ethnic
lines, for example through the Transitional Administrative Law imposed
by the US, or through the effects of US military actions.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5203
Elizabeth Davies: Yahoo! 'gave e-mail details that helped jail Chinese
writer'
Information
supplied by the internet giant Yahoo! to Chinese intelligence has
resulted in the conviction of a journalist for "divulging state secrets
abroad", a respected international press organisation said.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5201
David Walsh: After New Orleans disaster - human misery and the
profit principle
The
French novelist Balzac famously wrote, “Behind every great fortune
there is a great crime,” and over the past century and a half and more,
no one has proved him wrong.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5198
Marjorie Cohn: John Roberts - Uncompassionate Conservative
George
W. Bush has nominated John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United
States. Bush lauded Roberts for his "goodwill and decency toward
others." Yet Roberts' record reveals a callous disregard for the rights
of people very much like the tens of thousands who have died and been
rendered homeless by Katrina.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5199
Michelle Pilecki: Proclaiming the Truth About the State of Emergency
What's
the Mark Twain line? "A lie can travel halfway 'round the world before
truth can get its boots on." The Washington Post and hundreds of other
media outlets around the world have explained the slow federal response
on a power struggle with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco: "As
of Saturday [Sept. 3], Blanco still had not declared a state of
emergency, the senior Bush official said." - But she did. On Friday,
August 26.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5197
Larry Chin: Hurricane Katrina and holocaust: Slow response or
deliberate extermination?
New
reports, including accounts from eyewitnesses and survivors from the
hardest hits areas like New Orleans, suggest the hurricane victims have
been deliberately left to die.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5196
Medialens: MEDIA ALERT: Burying The Lancet - PART 2
Given
the extraordinary gravity of the issue - our governments’
responsibility for the illegal killing of tens, perhaps hundreds, of
thousands of innocent civilians - it is also hard to imagine a more
appalling journalistic failure and betrayal.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5194
E&P Staff: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from
New Orleans
Accompanying
her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane
relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the
poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working
very well for them."
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5193
Gary Younge: Murder and rape - fact or fiction?
There
were two babies who had their throats slit. The seven-year-old girl who
was raped and murdered in the Superdome. And the corpses laid out amid
the excrement in the convention centre.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5191
Howard Witt: Spreading the poison of bigotry
They
locked down the entrance doors Thursday at the Baton Rouge hotel where
I'm staying alongside hundreds of New Orleans residents driven from
their homes by Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5192
Martin Johnson: An Open Letter To Howard Jacobson
I’m
writing regarding your ‘red top heart’ article in the Independent.
There’s a great deal I take issue with, but I’ll stick to one question:
Of all the bombings that have occurred since 911 why did this
particular one anger you so profoundly?
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5189
Copenhagen Post: United States banned from using Danish Airspace
The
American Central Intelligence Agency can no longer use Danish airspace
for flights to transport suspected terrorists around the world.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5188
Robert Scheer: The real costs of a culture of greed
WHAT
THE WORLD has witnessed this past week is an image of poverty and
social disarray that tears away the affluent mask of the United States.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5187
George Monbiot: And still he stays silent
By hailing the failure of this summer's G8 summit as a success, Bob
Geldof has betrayed the poor of Africa
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5184
Chuck Richardson: Dear Boss Man: Stick'em Up!
Your
wage slaves are about to get in your face. We’re going to take what
you’ve been hording and give it to those who need and deserve it. May
your goddess, Ayn Rand, spin in her grave, as the real Atlas is about
to shrug. You can run, but you can’t hide. The gates of your
communities are about to burst like the
levies.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5183
Matt Wells: Has Katrina saved US media?
As
President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this
is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the
fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5182
Kola Odetola: If they'd been white......
If
the thousands who lost their lives in New Orleans were white, they
would have cancelled the US open as a mark of respect, The black Queens
of tennis, the Williams sisters dutifully chorusing the usual
platitudes about how sport seems so unimportant "at times like this"
But they were black.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5179
Robin Beste: Iraq: You can make a difference
Noam
Chomsky says there is not just one super power in the world, there are
two: the United States and world public opinion. On Saturday 24
September we can show that ours is the voice of the overwhelming
majority, a voice which represents peace and justice, rather than the
death and destruction which is all the other super power has to offer.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5160
Matt Wells: New Orleans crisis shames Americans
What
the devastating consequences of Katrina have shown - along with the
response to it - is that for too long now, the fabric of this complex
and overstretched country, especially in states like Louisiana and
Mississippi, has been neglected and ignored.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5156
