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Analysis: The Fog of Falluja
As
American commanders declare victory in the Iraqi city
of Falluja, it is becoming increasingly obvious how
little anyone knows about what is actually going on
there. The American media has been blinded by U.S. military
restrictions, the inevitable difficulties of reporting
from a war zone, and the extreme dangers faced by reporters
in Iraq. As a consequence, insights into events in Falluja
and the rest of Iraq are almost impossible to obtain.
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Children
pay price of US offensive
Ala
Barham slumps in his hospital bed and stares blankly
into the air in front of him. Twelve
years old and still deeply in shock, he can barely speak.
Ala's family had fled the Iraqi city of Falluja before
last Monday's all-out offensive began. He was happily
playing with his brother in the garden of their uncle's
house in a village outside the city. Then the rocket
hit. MORE
Rights
group blasts 'racist' US media
A
rights group has blasted some US media organisations
for allowing racist and hate-filled speech during
its coverage of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's
death. MORE
Processes
of Decolonization
"Colonization and decolonization
are social processes even more than they are political
processes. Governance over a people changes only after
the people themselves have sufficiently changed. Here
is presented the observations of Professor of Psychology
and advocate for the integrity of native wisdoms, Virgilio
Enriques, a native son of the Philippines, on the process
of colonization. The contribution from Professor Enriques
is taken from his discussions with the author in Wai`anae,
Hawai`i in the mid 1990's. Only portions of these discussions
were recorded. Professor Enriques has since passed on.
The author confesses to having repeated, expanded and
expounded on this conversation over the years."
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Kerry
Won. Here are the Facts.
"I
know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one
more hung chad. But I don't have a choice. As a journalist
examining that messy sausage called American democracy,
it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in
the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico,
it was John Kerry."
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column
of the americas "the wrong house"
"The
man who would be president was the son of a Yale-educated
father who had been a congressman, former CIA spymaster
and longtime White House occupant. Yet in the 2000 election,
this son of privilege had tried to pass himself off as an
outsider and a regular cowboy." MORE
Alberto
Gonzales' strange views of international law
"Even
before he came to Washington as chief legal counsel to President
George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales demonstrated a penchant
for finding ways around international law." MORE
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