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  1. UNITED NATIONS: US tries to sabotage UN anti-poverty plan

    Doug Lorimer On September 13, the UN General Assembly approved a 38-page document for submission ... Nations Organisation. The document is a considerably watered-down version of a paper entitled In Larger ... than 750 amendments" to Annan's document, "eliminating new pledges of foreign aid to ...

  2. Rebel filmmakers honour CLR James

    Anti-racism Barry Healy Films and reviews CLR James Marxism Every Cook Can Govern: Documenting the ... died in 1989 just as the Soviet Union was beginning to break up 鈥 something that brought him joy.聽 Now ... assist the anti-racism work of the US Socialist Workers Party (US SWP). Soon after arriving, James ...

  3. Yemen: 鈥榃e cannot survive another four years鈥

    Human Rights and PAX for Peace released a report documenting the role that United States and European ... humanitarian assistance. US and Britain profit from war 鈥淲hile often cited as 鈥榯he forgotten war鈥, the war in ... to kill and maim Yemeni civilians. Mwatana has documented hundreds of attacks killing and maiming ...

  4. HAITI: Hell on Earth

    "interim government" has ruled Haiti, with the assistance of United Nations Stabilization Mission in ... Miami School of Law online at <http://www.ijdh.org>. includes documentation of masked Haitian ... shootings) are left to die untreated because of inability to pay for care. "The General Hospital's ...

  5. 'Enron is dead, long live Enronism!'

    $28.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Enron, the giant US-based energy corporation, may have died from ... Enron-related documents the day after the US government corporate regulator, the US Securities and Exchange ... through this scam. Enron was assisted by Republican and Democrat governments. Both treasury secretaries ...

  6. Olfat Mahmoud: 'I always knew I wanted to help my people'

    she knew would die in a bare 鈥渄ead room鈥. But out of her work as a nurse grew her determination to ... the documents that show we own lands there. They can鈥檛 say you can鈥檛 go back. We have the right to ... right.鈥 Palestinian refugees understand what it is like to have to be grateful for any assistance received ...

  7. Maralinga: 'An act of indefensible callousness'

    denying them assistance or access to documents. Johnstone also addressed the Coalition government's ... uniforms to an area of low-level fallout". The admission followed publicity surrounding documents ... statements.) An October 12, 1956, document on "Australian Military Forces 鈥 Central Command" ...

  8. Gazan activist: Despite Israel's crimes, we are not defeated

    efforts, and are expected to rise as more thorough documentation is concluded in the coming weeks. The most ... the Palestinian people want from the outside world? How can people assist Palestine in its struggle? ... Gaza in groups to act as human rights defenders, and to document and report on the war crimes committed ...

  9. The crimes of Shell

    under way. Two recent reports on the Shell subsidiary in Nigeria have documented massive environmental ... 鈥 with financial assistance, logistical support and guns provided by Shell 鈥 conducted a campaign of ... discuss struggles across the US and abroad. Dr Wiwa gave the keynote address. "Our people are dying ...

  10. South Korea shaken by new civic revolution

    incident; the sudden stoppage of North-South cooperation; the Blue House document leak scandal; the ... PC contained scores of official documents leaked from the Blue House. This crucial evidence finally ... documents and drafts of Park鈥檚 speeches. Behind Park stood Choi, who controlled th president. Even Park鈥檚 ...

  11. Lampedusa deaths no 'accident'-- 19,142 dead in 24 years

    to a Sicilian beach. And this only includes reported and documented deaths. Many others, having died ... prescribes assisting boats in distress. In 2011, 63 people died on the Mediterranean Sea due to a 鈥渃atalogue ... died in one single, tragic incident. While the continuous, everyday deaths of migrants and refugees in ...

  12. Bulgaria: Jock Palfreeman and the prisoner rights association need your support

    tortured a prisoner, we asked the prisoner if he wanted assistance and organised all the complaints and ... legal battles.聽 鈥淚f we can supply prisoners with our collective pooling of important documents then ... was stabbed and died. The Roma boys fled. He was tried for murder and attempted murder, sentenced to ...

  13. Rivers in crisis: Water theft and corruption in the Darling River system

    a 40-kilometre stretch of the Darling River of oxygen and a million fish died as a result. Rural communities, ... why so many Murray cod, which have survived more than 50 years of droughts, died in the recent fish ... Beasley, senior counsel assisting the royal commission, has already made his position clear: 鈥淭he ...

  14. US and Israel push for Palestinian coup

    Ramallah Between May 16 and 24, almost 100 Palestinians died and more than 340 have were injured ... people have died and 725 have been injured as a result of internecine fighting between Hamas and Fatah. ... UNOCHA, only 19 people died as a result of factional fighting in 2005. In 2006, almost 150 people died ...

  15. Still walking, still waiting

    land, and 99 square kilometres of sea around Byron Bay. They enlisted the assistance of an ... archaeologist, who is documenting their claim that they were born and raised, and still live in the area, as did ... Walking With My Sisters is an informative and at times moving film that documents the three-year process ...

  16. Detained for 2192 days

    in Indian-occupied Kashmir, a region in which the United Nations has documented continuing and severe ... forces because of his political activities, and his mother died soon afterwards. As a young man, his ... then applied to the Indian High Commission in Canberra for travel documents for Qasim. It took nearly ...

  17. Cracks in the Empire

    government of the richest nation in the world left thousands to die, and more to suffer in hunger waiting for ... forced to pay the fare on the few buses that eventually came to assist the evacuation. There were ... documented cases of hospital directors preventing doctors from treating some of the injured and sick because ...

  18. Bank scandals fuel calls for radical new system

    from the past decade, including with allegations of bribery, forged documents, repeated failure to ... charge fees from people after they had died, and that spurious investment advice from financial planners ... the powers which are necessary over banking policy to assist it in maintaining national economic ...

  19. UNITED STATES: How the Bush gang seized the 'opportunity' of 9/11

    Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward have revealed. As the country went into mourning, ... thousands of official documents that confirmed O'Neill's account and threw light on ... their desire for a post-Cold War "peace dividend" and their opposition to US soldiers dying in ...

  20. Britain: Hillsborough disaster forged in ruling class hate

    secret documents, has implicated the police, media and British government in what has been described as ... and dying began to pile up on the field, police lined up, three rows deep, to keep fans off the pitch. ... control, while people lay dying on the pitch, South Yorkshire police turned their efforts to blaming fans ...

  21. New uprising in Bolivia

    Federico Fuentes In 1967, Che Guevara died at the hands of CIA-backed Bolivian soldiers while ... Randal Quarles, the US Treasury Department's assistant secretary of international affairs, was ... meeting for the people to decide what to do next. A bulletin by the Centre of Documents and Information in ...

  22. INDONESIA: State terrorism and the Bali bombings

    BY JOHN PILGER "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?", asked the great WWI ... claimed they knew nothing; and the massacres went ahead. As leaked documents have since revealed, they did ... assist the Indonesian army cope with the internal situation". Suharto's bloody rise might not ...

  23. John Pilger: Corporate media responsible for mass hacking

    Leveson is striking. For 36 years, Project Censored, based in California, has documented critically ... "encouraging and assisting people to commit crimes". Informants receive cash rewards of up to US$100,000. ...

  24. WEST TIMOR: Jakarta's militia terrorise refugee camps

    nothing to do, no materials to work with to make an income. The women here are dying from childbirth ... Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET). I was interested in documenting the situation in West Timor in the same ... organisations assisting the refugees have pulled out of West Timor. Atambua has been under a "high-level ...

  25. INDONESIA: Spy agency implicated in activist's murder

    strengthened suspicions that BIN masterminded the murder. Thirty-eight-year-old Munir died aboard a Garuda ... attack but the autopsy found he died as a result of arsenic poisoning. Priyanto gave up his ... President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and tasked with assisting the police investigation revealed that Priyanto ...

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