April 23, 2008 :: staff :: Comments Off
23 April :: Zimbabwe opposition refuses coalition gov’t headed by Mugabe; Mugabe’s Zanu-PF says it is planning for runoff election, not power-sharing; Tsvangirai’s MDC says it won the vote already held and will not accept any arrangement where Mugabe remains in power… Burgeoning Asian rice crisis attributed to economic planning focusing on modernization, devoting few [...]
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April 21, 2008 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
21 April :: Carter says Hamas leaders may be willing to recognize Israel’s right to exist, in exchange for lasting peace, even if negotiated by rival Fatah group, so long as accord is submitted to Palestinian people in referendum; CNN cites Carter saying at the start of his trip: “I’m not a negotiator, I’m just [...]
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April 21, 2008 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
19 April :: “The global food crisis became official yesterday [15 April] when the UN called for urgent intergovernmental action and farming reforms to tackle the soaring prices that are plunging millions of people into potentially deadly poverty”, reports UK’s Independent; reports of riots from southeast Asia to the Caribbean, along with multiple border crises [...]
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April 20, 2008 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
GUARDIAN BLOG CLASSES IT “WORST. DEBATE. EVER.” Two ABC News reporters were criticized for the quality of the debate questions they posed to the two senators competing for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency. Some critics have said the questions were reminiscent of the kind of exaggerations and innuendo typical of “character-assassination” campaigns waged [...]
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April 15, 2008 :: jr3o :: Comments Off
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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April 11, 2008 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
The Zimbabwe opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has been meeting with African leaders in an effort to shore up support against the regime of Robert Mugabe, which preliminary vote counts suggest may have lost the recent election, both for parliament and the presidency. Mugabe’s suppoerters have been fighting to keep down opposition support, while Mugabe has refused to allow vote counts to be made public.
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April 11, 2008 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
11 April :: Tsvangirai “optimistic” after meeting with South Africa pres. Thabo Mbeki; opposition, some int’l observers accuse regime of intimidation tactics, including arrests, paramilitary sweeps, confiscation of property; ruling Zanu (PF) party has ceded to perception it could not have won majority, is pressing MDC to accept runoff vote… Cubans now able to buy [...]
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April 10, 2008 :: The Editors :: One Comment
10 April :: ABC News reported yesterday that “In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News”; Rice chaired the meetings, as National Security [...]
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April 9, 2008 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
9 April :: Reuters reporting: “The self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] has been assigned a U.S. military lawyer to defend him in the Guantanamo war court, where he could face execution if convicted, The Miami Herald reported”… Famed Harry’s Bar, owned by Cipriani [...]
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April 8, 2008 :: staff :: Comments Off
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), candidate for the US presidency, questions Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker about progress in the Iraq conflict toward a security threshold where significant troop reductions could be made responsibly. The hearing is vital to the future of American policy in Iraq, in part because Sen. Obama has pledged to end the war in Iraq upon taking office, if elected to the presidency, and because US policy —under pressure from the Iraqi political climate and increasing unpopularity of the war at home— is moving toward a plan for full withdrawal of combat troops…
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