Gaza – Ma’an – Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike carried out against smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Saturday.
“The bodies of the two who were killed were received in the local Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital,” said Mu’aweiyah Hasaneen, the head of Emergency and Ambulance Services within the [...]
May 2, 2009
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza…
May 2, 2009
Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush’s War Crimes…
Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those who support Bush’s pursuit of the “war on terror” have not been impressed by recriminations over torture. Worse than torture are the murders of at least 50 prisoners in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo, but again the hard-hearted [...]
May 2, 2009
Obama administration seeks extraordinary military powers in Pakistan…
by Bill Van Auken
Source: wsws.org
The Obama administration is increasingly treating its growing intervention in Pakistan as a separate counter-insurgency war for which it is demanding the same kind of extraordinary military powers obtained by the Bush administration in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This was the main message delivered by Pentagon officials on Capitol Hill over the last [...]
May 2, 2009
US hides behind Iran sanctions threat…
Whereas United States President Barack Obama promised in his new year message to Iran that he was committed to a new diplomacy that “will not be advanced by threats”, a month later this is precisely what is happening. This is in light of new White House-backed legislation in the US Congress that aims to impose [...]
May 2, 2009
Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued…
WASHINGTON — A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its initial alert about a public health emergency of international concern.
Both federal and international health officials had access to the warning from Veratect Corp. Later [...]
May 2, 2009
The Iraq war has been a monstrous crime…
by Seumas Milne
Source: guardian.co.uk
Politicians crave a whitewash – but Britain must hold a fully open public inquiry into the bloodbath it helped to create…
It’s hardly surprising that those responsible for the human and social catastrophe unleashed by the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, on both sides of the Atlantic, should be desperate to rewrite [...]
May 2, 2009
Blast kills 3 in northern Iraq…
Iraqi police say a roadside bomb has killed at least three people near the northern city of Kirkuk.
The victims are civilians who were traveling about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the ethnically mixed city. Police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir says the blast hit a car and cement mixer.
It’s not known whether the vehicles were [...]
