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Israeli and Palestinian Negotiators Talk To White House, Not Each Other
06-06-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The White House is meeting with delegates from both Israel and the Palestinians in hopes that they can start peace talks again and head off the Palestinian plan to request full statehood recognition from the United Nations in September. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his aide Yitzhak Molcho [...]
Companies Lower Drug Costs For Third World Countries
06-06-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Gavi is a public-private partnership which seeks to fund mass vaccination programs in developing countries. GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi-Aventis have agreed to cut the cost of critical vaccines for the effort. One of the primary vaccines needed in these countries is one to prevent a rotavirus that [...]
SA Uganda Ambassador Wants Hate Speech Ruling Overturned
06/06/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Jon Qwelane, South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda, is planning on applying for rescission of the judgement by the Johannesburg Equality Court that found him guilty of hate speech. The ruling stems from an article that was published in the Sunday Sun, for whom Qwalane was a columnist at the time, entitled [...]
The “Arab Spring” Will Soon Enter Seventh Month
06-05-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell It was Friday, December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, set himself on fire to protest the corrupt, oppressive government he struggled under to support his extended family of eight. That was just 24 weeks ago, 170 days that have rocked a region. [...]
Congress Rethinking Bush “Nation Building” Doctrine
06-04-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The death of Osama bin Laden has presented Washington with an unexpected problem….how can the government justify continuing a war that was supposed to be about hunting bin Laden? Even after the Bush-Cheney administration gave up on the hunt for bin Laden, we were told that our troops in Iraq [...]
When Not To Release Photos Defending Government Action
06-03-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell A year ago, a government (not our own) engaged in an action that brought it a lot of criticism. People died. Now, that government has released “newly discovered” photos that would justify their actions. Two nights ago, Rachel Maddow gave a brief lesson on how to hack a Twitter account. [...]
MI6 Hacks Al Qaida On-Line Magazine
06-03-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Please put down your beverages. Swallow anything in your mouth before proceeding….. The United Kingdom’s famous “double ‘O’ license-to-kill” spy organization MI-6, hacked into an al Qaida website last year and replaced bomb making directions with instructions for making cupcakes. Um, is Bond MI-5 or MI-6? Anyway, the attack was [...]
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Israeli-Syria Border Clash Claims 4, 6, 14, 18 or 20 Lives
06-05-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Dictator 101, Lesson 1: distract your population with a viable outside enemy. In the past month, while tens of thousands of Syrians are fighting for freedom from the Assad dynasty, there have been two orchestrated assaults on the border between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli army, which [...]