Published on Thursday, November 19, 2009 by CBC News (Canada) All Afghan Detainees Likely Tortured: Diplomat All detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured by Afghan officials and many of the prisoners were innocent, says a former senior diplomat with Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin waits to testify [...]
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All Afghan Detainees Likely Tortured: Diplomat
November 19, 2009Free to be ourself
November 19, 2009Free to be ourself All my life I have always been different than most people. I have always marched to my own drummer. Maybe it is because of the disabilities I was born with that made me different and all my life I have been trying to fit in and be accepted by peers. I [...]
Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected
November 18, 2009Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by TruthDig.com Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President? by Robert Scheer What’s up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, a leading Democrat, in [...]
Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
November 18, 2009Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by TruthDig.com Hungering for a True Thanksgiving by Amy Goodman “In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.” The WFP launched [...]
Iraqis Say British Army Used Guantánamo Interrogation Methods
November 18, 2009Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by The Times Online/UK Iraqis Say British Army Used Guantánamo Interrogation Methods by David Brown Dozens of prisoners held at a secret British army interrogation centre in Iraq claim they suffered unlawful physical and mental abuse similar to that carried out by the US on detainees at Guantánamo Bay. [...]
‘For Afghans, There Is No Refuge’
November 18, 2009Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by The Toronto Star ‘For Afghans, There Is No Refuge’ Humanitarian groups’ study of 700 civilians reveals shocking pattern of continuing misery by Olivia Ward For most of her life, the young Afghan woman was fleeing war. But everywhere she went it stalked her. An Afghan girl who [...]
Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
November 17, 2009http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/obama_nominates_pesticide_executive_to_be Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
Great Barrier Reef ‘Will Die’ Unless Carbon Emissions Slashed
November 17, 2009Published on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by The Telegraph/UK Great Barrier Reef ‘Will Die’ Unless Carbon Emissions Slashed Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will be severely bleached and eventually die unless the world’s industrialised nations drastically cut carbon emissions by up to 90 per cent by 2050, a leading coral scientist has warned. by Bonnie Malkin [...]
Mr. President: Time to Quit Fibbing and Spinning
November 17, 2009Published on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by Mother Jones Mr. President: Time to Quit Fibbing and Spinning I’ll always knock on doors for Obama. But on the climate, we need more than rhetoric and excuses. by Bill McKibben Nearly two decades after writing a book that popularized the term “global warming,” MoJo contributing writer Bill [...]
Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change
November 17, 2009Published on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by Spiegel Online/Germany Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change by Christian Schwägerl US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, [...]
