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At a July 1 White House press briefing, a reporter asked spokesman Ari Fleischer: "Ari, the United States just declared about 50 countries, including Colombia and six prospective NATO members, ineligible for military aid because they won't exempt Americans from the International Criminal Court.

Nearly 11 million children do not live to see their fifth birthday each year due to a lethal combination of malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases, according to a new article in the Lancet journal -- a catastrophe that experts say is needless.

New York Times favorite Michael Ignatieff explained why the Serbs were ready to kill Albanians in Kosovo: "The reason is simple…only in Serbia is racial contempt an official ideology"

Within a month of the start of the war against Iraq, the real victor is emerging. Bechtel has got a $680 million contract for "rebuilding" Iraq.

The US administration is trying to convince us that it is the "remnants" of Saddam's regime that are resisting the occupation.

The new law would force Palestinian citizens of Israel who want to live with spouses or family members from the Occupied Territories to move to the Occupied Territories, or at least prevent them from bringing their new spouses into Israel.

As we enter a dramatically altered world, both internationally and domestically, it is only natural that we look to history for bearings, points of comparison, glimmerings of the familiar.

Diverse Iraqi groups, from Shiites in the south to Kurdish groups in the north, organized militias long before the current spate of attacks against U.S. soldiers began to escalate in May.

When the mainstream press pays any attention to the Congo--or African wars in general--they invariably characterize the conflicts as "ethnic" or "tribal" wars, rooted in age-old hatreds. This explanation is not only false, but racist.

As part of this rebuilding of the word as mirror and lens, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has reengaged in dialogues with social and political movements and organizations in the world.

It should come as no surprise that the decision of the Federal Communications Commission to rewrite media ownership rules has stirred a firecry in Congress. Unlike the members of the FCC, members of the House and Senate must face the voters at election time.

Anti-Balistik Füze ve Biyolojik Silahlar Anlaşmalarından, ırkçılık konferansından resmen çekilen, kara mayınlarının ve nükleer denemelerin yasaklanmasına karşı çıkan, Çocuk Hakları Sözleşmesini onaylamayan, kara parayla mücadelede işbirliğini reddeden devlet hangisi mi?

The media is peppering U.S. military officials in Iraq on why WMD haven't been found yet. The responses are short and to the point.

On June 2, the FCC will undertake the most massive reexamination of media ownership rules in the agency's history.

The 56th World Health Assembly--the annual health meeting at which the World Health Organization's (WHO) directives are set for the year--ended this week in Geneva after a long round of discussions on the continuing SARS saga.

How absolutely brilliant! The United Nations, the United States and the United Kingdom are all a United Family once again.

In a recent Media Alert, 'Grit Your Teeth - Basic Surgery In "Liberated" Iraq' (May 16, 2003), Media Lens invited readers to ask the BBC and ITN why they had devoted so little coverage to the severe crises afflicting the civilian population of Iraq.

By 1996, however, the largest media firms had grown so large they thought their power could tip the balance and remove the ownership limits.

One of the biggest questions confronting the White House is the administration of Iraq's oil industry which has the second largest proven reserves in the world.

"I am aware of the risks involved and accept that the Government of the State of Israel and its organs cannot be held responsible for death, injury and/or damage/loss of property which may be incurred as a result of military activity."

Doug Saunders' front page article "Israel Vows to Deport Peace Activists" (Globe & Mail, May 3, 2003) repeats Israeli government insinuations that the two British citizens involved with the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing had "links" to peace activists, including the International Solidarity Mov

Over a year has passed now, since the Israeli army invaded the refugee camp in Jenin, destroyed its houses, killed many of its inhabitants and committed one of the worst war crimes in this present Intifada, Intifada al-Aqsa.

"A number of human beings have been liberated and they are out from under the heel of a vicious, brutal regime,"

Ed Herman: "The propaganda model argues that the way the media works is based on the underlying structural conditions under which the media operates."

For the Israelis it is a "separation fence," for the Palestinians - an "apartheid wall." For the Israelis it is an ideal, for the Palestinians an existential threat.

The depression hits me on a warm and humid Bangkok evening. I am just through with dinner in the city's crowded Sukhumvit business district, my head full of the War on Iraq and I spot these people- with masks on their faces.

One or two readers have accused me, rather crossly, of taking a far too negative view of the great liberation of Iraq. Easter being a time of hope and renewal, I shall use this column today to look on the bright side.

Savaşa karşı çıkan tanınmış kalemlerin ortaklaşa yazdıkları bir beyan; somut ve spesifik ama aynı zamanda uluslararası alanda kullanılabilecek kadar evrensel ve imza toplarken insanları büyüyen bir barış ve adalet hareketine aktif olarak katılmaktan alıkoyan meselelere ilişkin sözü olacak bir metin.

"The victor is always right. History ascribes to the victor qualities that may or may not actually have been there. And similarly to the defeated." Karl Rove

Building a movement powerful enough to stop the war in Iraq or to successfully curb a next war in Syria or Iran or Venezuela, involves many factors. Among these, and perhaps the most fundamental, is sufficient numbers.