The trial is underway for one of the accused in Toronto.
Most of the arrested were young men and teenagers . They were aided and abetted by a paid informant. I cannot go into the details because the trial magistrate has imposed a ban on publication.
But I am at liberty to say this. It is inhuman of the magistrate to put in solitary confinement teenagers on suspicions and allegations when he knew the kids were aided, abetted, and egged on by the state sponsored informants.
As you read the reports linked here please keep in mind one thing. These kids, boasting to conquer the world were "led" and "nudged" by paid informers.
The Iraqi army is fighting the Mehdi Army Shia militia in the streets of Basra after the government launched its most serious offensive to gain control of the southern oil city. The fighting was spreading across Shia areas of Iraq as the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Mehdi Army, called for a campaign of civil disobedience in which shops, businesses, schools and universities would close down. Basra on Fire By Patrick Cockburn
The "War on Terror" is this president's excuse for invoking that clause. Because that war will, by definition, continue as long as we insist that there is a difference between the terror inflicted on our innocents and the terror inflicted on theirs, American soldiers are effectively signing away their freedom indefinitely when they join the military. They are prisoners of an ill-defined and undeclared war on a tactic -- terrorism -- that dates back to Biblical times and will be with us indefinitely. According to U.S. News and World Report, there are at least 60,000 of them. Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans 'Prisoners of War' By Penny Coleman
Normal service on my blog was lost for a week from March 9 as I made my first ever trip to the United States to promote my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, armed only with a mobile phone, and with sporadic access to the internet. How it is that I managed to make it so far in my life without visiting America is beyond me. New York was astonishingly familiar, not just because it has been a cultural reference point since my youth, but because all the supposed distinctions between the US and the UK turned out to be effectively non-existent. The “special relationship” at a governmental level may be largely reliant upon certain shared imperial ambitions, but on the ground, though clearly dependant upon shared language, it was apparent that, for several decades now, we have both been dipping into a cross-pollinated pool of common experience. The Guantánamo Files: Andy Worthington’s US tour report
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Shiite militiamen are everywhere. Police and Iraqi army checkpoints are nowhere in sight. U.S. soldiers are keeping their distance. Sadr City - the Baghdad nerve center for the powerful Mahdi Army - is suddenly back on edge as the militia leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, and Iraq's government lock in a dangerous confrontation over clout and control among the nation's majority Shiites. Shiite enclave back on edge By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
The relationship between individuals, specially between men and women and desi at that is in the news. In Banglore a husband smothered his wife with a pillow killing her then took out his life leaving a long suicide note. Read them in Aditi Nadkarni's What Rinku Sachdeva's Death Tells Us About Ourselves and Deepti Lamba's
Rinku Sachdeva Dies Again Online. And the Toronto Star had this report on a man who first suspended his wife from a tenth floor balcony before letting go of her -
Man admits guilt in wife's deadly 10-storey plunge.
What kind of men our mothers and fathers breed these days? Is society at fault for not protecting these women?
Hillary Wasn’t Lying! Bosnia gunfire footage discovered…
By Moderator on Political Pranks Submitted by Douglas Grant From Barely Political:
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An outspoken Egyptian tabloid news editor has been sentenced to six months in prison for reporting on the president's health problems, which the judge said caused panic among foreign investors and threatened Egypt's economy. Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the daily Al-Dustour, will post the 200 Egyptian pounds bail ($40) to avoid serving his sentence while he appeals, a court official said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't not authorized to speak to the media.
The president of the breakaway Comoros island of Anjouan has fled to the neighbouring French-run Indian Ocean island of Mayotte in an attempt to seek asylum. Mohammed Bacar reportedly fled by speedboat on Wednesday after African Union troops mounted an operation to remove him from power. Comoros island president flees.
[The only thing Anjoun is known for is ylang-ylang]
One of America's largest and most important groups of physicians has moved to cut through the clutter of political controversies over medical use of marijuana. Lawmakers and the public alike would do well to pay attention. The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization and the second largest physician group in the United States. Its 124,000 members are doctors specializing in internal medicine and related subspecialties, including cardiology, neurology, pulmonary disease, oncology and infectious diseases. The College publishes Annals of Internal Medicine, the most widely cited medical specialty journal in the world. In a landmark position paper released in February, these distinguished physicians are saying what many of us have been arguing for years: Most of our laws have gotten it wrong when it comes to medical marijuana, and it's time for public policy to get in step with science. Former Surgeon General: Mainstream Medicine Has Endorsed Medical Marijuana By Dr. Jocelyn Elders
The Afghan mujahedeen, who later became the Taliban, received $500 billion dollars of covert arms and aid from the U.S. (and matching funds from the Saudi Royal family). This will qualify as a blatant exaggeration. [Ali should lay away from "islamists" and check his figures more carefully]
This week the United States suffered its 4,000th military death in Iraq. .. the Bush administration has begun negotiations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for years, even decades, after President George W. Bush leaves office. The negotiation, set to conclude this summer, will establish the basis for a long-term U.S. occupation of Iraq. According to the Bush administration, the Iraqi government requested a bilateral agreement to replace the expiring U.N. mandate for the occupation, which offended Iraqi sovereignty. Asked if there was any irony in preparing a plan to keep thousands of foreign soldiers in Iraq in the name of Iraqi sovereignty, a National Security Council official, who requested anonymity, replied, "Sure, but we plan to negotiate that aspect" of the agreement. After Iraq, Afghanistan, then Fata but no Pakistan.
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, yesterday gave Shia militia and other gunmen a 72-hour deadline to surrender their weapons as his forces engaged in fierce street battles in the southern city of Basra for the second day running. [To put this in another perspective sub Karzai for Nouri and Mullah Omar for Shia militia]
It was a stroke of serendipity that I happened on the same day awhile back to stumble on both Mandy MacDonald’s Culture Smart Cuba and Nancy Alonso’s Closed For Repairs on the same day. It seems to me that we mostly hear about Cuba only in terms of the political agendas of some wealthy Miamians who have an agenda and the various other political players who have to play with or against them. What is sadly lacking is any reporting that sheds light on the real lives of the remarkable Cuban people whose struggles and in spite of the United States continuing embargo are creating a new path for themselves. By contrast Havana author Nancy Alonso’s Closed For Repairs, a selection of eleven fictionalized vignettes of Cuban’s dealing with the realities of life under the US embargo...This English translation by Anne Fountain is available from Curbstone Press. Combined with the somewhat more marketing oriented Culture Smart volume, Alonso’s front line reportage on the lives of work a day Cubans provides a rare opportunity for an informed glimpse about a part of the world so close by but in such a real sense so far, far away from the US. Both are Highly Recommended.By contrast Havana author Nancy Alonso’s Closed For Repairs, a selection of eleven fictionalized vignettes of Cuban’s dealing with the realities of life under the US embargo from planting vegetable gardens in pots in urban apartments to dealing with the sometimes dysfunctional transportation and distribution facilities. This English translation by Anne Fountain is available from Curbstone Press. Combined with the somewhat more marketing oriented Culture Smart volume, Alonso’s front line reportage on the lives of work a day Cubans provides a rare opportunity for an informed glimpse about a part of the world so close by but in such a real sense so far, far away from the US. Both are Highly Recommended. Jueves In Habana by: Alan [Thanks GVK]
HONG KONG — Until about four years ago, Chetan Bhagat was an investment banker distinguished from the suited phalanx in this city’s crowded financial district only by his secret hobby. Today Mr. Bhagat is still an investment banker, now with Deutsche Bank. But he has also become the biggest-selling English-language novelist in India’s history, according to his publisher, Rupa & Company, one of India’s oldest and best established publishers. His story of campus life, “Five Point Someone,” published in 2004, and a later novel, “One Night @ the Call Center,” sold a combined one million copies.
An Investment Banker Finds Fame Off the Books
From Paul at the Real News
BASRA: SHIITE ELITES FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE
Pepe Escobar on fighting in Basra
THE REAL NEWS RSS AGGREGATOR
All the news that's fit to RSS
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home