East Timorese demand justice

McCain's Scheunemann shilled for Amoco in Kazakhstan
The Democratic Party website ExxonMcCain, delineating the Big Oil connections of several advisors to the GOP candidate, includes the dish on Randy Scheunemann—recently identified by Robert Scheer as a lobbyist for the Georgian government to grease NATO entry, and a veteran of the Project for a New American Century. [more]

Barack Obama: the post-GWOT president?
Iranian-born neocon-friendly pundit and "journalist" Amir Taheri has been implicated in fabricated news reports—so take his sneering analysis of of Barack Obama's recently released foreign policy positions in the United Arab Emirates' Gulf News as a propagandistic exercise. What he is aghast at we can perhaps take heart at. Will Barack Obama be the post-GWOT president? [more]

West Bank wall still defies World Court

Palin flap on Alaskan secession reveals media double standard
The media are back-pedaling as it turns out it was only Sarah Palin's husband who joined the Alaska Independence Party. But can you imagine the outcry if Michelle Obama had been a member of the Republic of New Afrika? [more]

Twin Cities: RNC protesters face "terrorism" charges
In the first use of the Minnesota version of the federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County prosecutors have charged eight anti-RNC protesters with "conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism." [more]

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Protests over "honor killings" in Pakistan
Georgia breaks relations with Moscow as sabers rattle
International peace activists stranded in Gaza
Afghanistan: children killed by NATO fire

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