ANOTHER ANGLE
News others won't tell you
NATIONAL:
Mississippi Officials Weigh New Emmett Till Probe
Law enforcement officials in Mississippi may bring new charges in the case of Emmett Till, a black teenager murdered more than 50 years ago. The decision is up to a black woman whose generation was profoundly changed by Till's gruesome, racially charged death.
New Documentary Revisits Emmett Till's Lynching
U.S. House Calls Palestinian Authority a ‘Terrorist Sanctuary’
The House bill would cut off direct and indirect U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority, other than aid to meet "the basic human health needs" of the Palestinian people and for measures Congress approves on a case-by-case basis. It would limit aid through nongovernmental organizations and restrict diplomatic contacts with Hamas representatives.
Fat Nick's 'home run'
When hate-crime defendant Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci clubbed a black man with a baseball bat in Howard Beach last year, "It sounded like Barry Bonds hit a home run," a former pal told jurors at his trial yesterday.
INTERNATIONAL:
Foreigners held over Congo 'plot'
The South African embassy in Kinshasa confirmed that 19 of its citizens had been arrested. Three Americans and 10 Nigerians are reported to have been arrested, though this has not been confirmed by their embassies. Our correspondent said that the men were all working for a security company and had been involved in training Congolese security trainers who would work at the port of Matadi.
Cuba: A Clean Bill of Health
For almost half a century now Cuba, the unapologetically communist nation led by Fidel Castro, has endured crippling economic and trade sanctions imposed by its next-door neighbour, the United States. But not only has this tiny Caribbean country survived, it's achieved close to the unthinkable. Over the years of its isolation, Cuba has made major medical breakthroughs and now has a health system that's the envy of most of its neighbours, including the mighty US.
IRAQ:
U.S. is urged to stop paying Iraqi reporters
A Defense Department investigation of Pentagon-financed propaganda efforts in Iraq warns that paying Iraqi journalists to produce positive stories could damage American credibility and calls for an end to military payments to a group of Iraqi journalists in Baghdad
BUSH CRIME FAMILY:
Osama bin Laden - A Weapon of Mass Convenience
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary - H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)
ECONOMY:
Wiping Out the Middle Class
America's middle class has put their faith in various graven images: Ben Franklin, Andrew Jackson, George Washington – dead presidents printed on green paper. They have voted for more and more spending, more and more bread, more and more circuses, more and more foreign wars. They claim to be religious, but they put their faith in the princes and powers of this world – in jobs and credit...in the government. Their voodoo economy is built on magic paper money and directed by witch doctors.
Russia cools to dollar as it invests stability fund
Russia has raised the share of euros in its growing central bank reserves, a top central banker said on Thursday, confirming Moscow's cooling to the dollar as a dependable store of value.
RTS bourse to start trading oil, oil products, gold on June 8
How Much Longer Can the Dollar Reign Supreme?
Saddam Hussein stopped trading his oil for dollars before Iraq was invaded. Iran gets set to open a new oil bourse and futures market that will trade in euros, while Venezuela is said to be mulling over whether to follow suit. Now Russia has joined the bandwagon. On May 10, President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a Russian oil and gas bourse along with his intention to convert the ruble into a convertible currency that would be used for the trade. Russia has recently swapped some of its dollar reserves for euros
OP-ED:
Stop Saying This is a Nation of Immigrants!
This is a convenient myth developed as a response to the 1960s movements against colonialism, neocolonialism, and white supremacy. The ruling class and its brain trust offered multiculturalism, diversity, and affirmative action in response to demands for decolonization, justice, reparations, social equality, an end of imperialism, and the rewriting of history -- not to be "inclusive" -- but to be accurate. What emerged to replace the liberal melting pot idea and the nationalist triumphal interpretation of the "greatest country on earth and in history," was the "nation of immigrants" story.
Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq
Just like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarely on the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily, conveniently out of the awareness of the general public. Torture did not stop simply because the media finally decided, albeit in horribly belated fashion, to cover the story, and the daily slaughter of Iraqi civilians by US forces and US-backed Iraqi "security" forces had not stopped either.
SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY
Bald Eagle 'Bird Cam' a Big Hit on the Internet
HEALTH&FITNESS:
Summer Hazards: Sunburn ... and Barbecue?
In the last few years, researchers have confirmed that cooking meat too long over a dry, intense heat creates small amounts of at least two kinds of compounds that can lead to cancer. Unfortunately, that's just the sort of flavor-enhancing fire you get on a backyard barbecue.
FOOD&DRINK:
GRILLED NEW ORLEANS-STYLE SHRIMP
Serve these spicy grilled shrimp with bread for sopping up all the sauce.
Active time: 40 min Start to finish: 40 min
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:
A Chance Encounter with the Blues
Some musicians achieve fame through a combination of talent, ambition, and opportunity. Many more, just as talented, remain unnoticed by the world at large. But for an accidental meeting with Professor Work and his recording machine, Joe Holmes might have left no trace at all.
Bin-Ladin Denies Involvement in the 9/11 Attacks
The Al-Qaidah group had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks on the USA, according to Usama bin Ladin in an interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat. Usama bin Ladin went on to suggest that Jews or US secret services were behind the attacks, and to express gratitude and support for Pakistan, urging Pakistan’s people to jihad against the West.
From a September 28, 2001 interview.
HUMOR?:
Fiore: American Immigration, Millennium-Style
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Another Angle 30 - May - 2006
ANOTHER ANGLE
News others won't tell you
NATIONAL:
US moves diplomat critical of Somali warlord aid
A top U.S. official handling Somalia has been transferred from his job after criticising payments to warlords that are said to be fuelling some of Mogadishu's worst-ever fighting.
Justices, 5-4, limit whistleblower suits
Critics predicted the impact would be sweeping, from silencing police officers who fear retribution for reporting department corruption, to subduing federal employees who want to reveal problems with government hurricane preparedness or terrorist-related security.
'Insult to blacks'
The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to testify that the N-word is never a term of endearment - refuting the claims of Howard Beach hate crime defendant Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci.
Megachurch linked to violent video game
Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.
Time to Move Beyond the 'Mammy' Stereotype
The depiction of African-American women in the media can be a divisive issue. Commentator Betty Baye says she's tired of all the old stereotypes she sees played out in the media. Black women have come too far to still be portrayed largely as Mammies or Jezebels. Baye is a columnist for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.
INTERNATIONAL:
Namibian government frustrated over slow pace of land reform
Since independence in 1990, only 10,000 people have been resettled under the government's land programme, which allows a willing-seller, willing-buyer arrangement or expropriation. In many cases of resettlement the new owners have been unable to operate the farms commercially, while the government has acknowledged that a lack of skills, equipment and the sub-leasing of allocated land has affected agricultural productivity.
The paradox of plenty in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region
Unarguably the richest zone in West Africa, Niger Delta is ironically home to the poorest of the poor in the country. All that 48 years of commercial exploration of oil has brought the greater majority of Niger Deltans are misery, gross environmental degradation and abject poverty. The image of the region is one of stark contrast – so rich yet so poor.
IRAQ:
Iraq to probe Haditha killings
Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday that his patience was wearing thin with excuses from US troops that they killed civilians by mistake.
Salon.com "Victory"? Forget it
Bush doesn't know that he can't achieve victory. He doesn't know that seeking victory worsens his prospects. He doesn't know that the U.S. military has abandoned victory in the field, though it has been reporting that to him for years. But the president has no rhetoric beyond "victory."
The Apache Killing Video
BUSH CRIME FAMILY:
Is the Bush Regime a Sponsor of State Terrorism?
Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked? Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half century. Iraq attacked Kuiwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the US ambassador. Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? Bush and Blair have attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens. Olmert is urging them on to attack a third country--Iran.
ECONOMY:
Dollar extends losses after confidence data
The dollar's decline accelerated on Tuesday after a gauge of U.S. consumer confidence fell in May, adding to considerable negative sentiment against the U.S. currency.
How close are we to 'Sudden Disorderly Adjustment'?
U.S. hedge funds file for bankruptcy, law firm says
Bayou Management's U.S. hedge funds, which failed after losing millions of dollars in flawed trading strategies, on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief in New York, a law firm said.
Easy-to-get loans cause thousands to lose homes
What is known is that, rich and poor alike, South Florida homeowners are on a collision course with the fast-money mortgages and loose state regulation that injected extra risk into a region ripe for exploitation.
OP-ED:
Mess from the West
When the results are in from the past six years, as well as what looks to be eight years, there will be tremendous economic consequences and hardships for those at the bottom of society’s heap. Blacks are definitely at the bottom of the heap, and the lessons we see everyday are a warning to us to get our collective act together, that is, if we really care about one another.
Toward a Third Intifada
The Hebrew term hafrada, which means "separation" or "apartheid," has entered the mainstream lexicon in Israel and determined much of the government's policies since the Oslo process began in 1993. Ever-increasing restrictions on Palestinian movement and employment during the 1990s, combined with settlement expansion that doubled the number of Jewish settlers, set the stage for the eruption of the second intifada, or uprising, in 2000.
Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
A third-world country is what we will be if our elected officials don’t soon come to their senses.
George F. Will: The Danger of White Guilt
SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY:
Intelligent Beings in Space!
Until recently, interplanetary robotic explorers have largely been marionettes of mission controllers back on Earth. The controllers sent instructions, and the spacecraft diligently executed them.
HEALTH&FITNESS:
African-Americans and the Wellness Gap
When it comes to health care, black Americans are less likely to be treated for medical problems than white Americans, in spite of increasing rates of diagnoses for certain diseases among black Americans.
FOOD&DRINK:
Dive into a Sea of Good Summer Food
Summer is the eating season. There's no better time to eat locally and seasonally, which today is compulsory. Gorgeous fruits and vegetables spill out of the stalls at farmers markets. Crabs and oysters are pulled from the waters. There are barbecues and picnics. Life slows down and it's important to have the right food while you're braking.
African Adobo-Rubbed Tuna Steaks
Adobo means spice rub or marinade, and this particular recipe was introduced by African slaves and brought to Bahía in Brazil in the seventeenth century. I think that it gives tuna a new and exciting dimension. There is spiciness in the dish, as would be expected from an adobo. To provide the American palate a little relief from the heat, the tuna is served on a bed of lightly pickled cucumbers.
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:
Remembering Miles on His 80th Birthday
The late music legend Miles Davis would have turned 80 on Friday. Musician David Was of the group Was (Not Was) offers a tribute in honor of the jazzman's birth.
A Fresh Look at Miles Davis' 'Blue in Green'
Reggae Pioneer Desmond Dekker
Rock historian Ed Ward remembers Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker, who died last week at the age of 64. His 1969 hit "Israelites" was for many Americans the first reggae they'd ever heard.
HUMOR?:
This Modern World
News others won't tell you
NATIONAL:
US moves diplomat critical of Somali warlord aid
A top U.S. official handling Somalia has been transferred from his job after criticising payments to warlords that are said to be fuelling some of Mogadishu's worst-ever fighting.
Justices, 5-4, limit whistleblower suits
Critics predicted the impact would be sweeping, from silencing police officers who fear retribution for reporting department corruption, to subduing federal employees who want to reveal problems with government hurricane preparedness or terrorist-related security.
'Insult to blacks'
The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to testify that the N-word is never a term of endearment - refuting the claims of Howard Beach hate crime defendant Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci.
Megachurch linked to violent video game
Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.
Time to Move Beyond the 'Mammy' Stereotype
The depiction of African-American women in the media can be a divisive issue. Commentator Betty Baye says she's tired of all the old stereotypes she sees played out in the media. Black women have come too far to still be portrayed largely as Mammies or Jezebels. Baye is a columnist for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.
INTERNATIONAL:
Namibian government frustrated over slow pace of land reform
Since independence in 1990, only 10,000 people have been resettled under the government's land programme, which allows a willing-seller, willing-buyer arrangement or expropriation. In many cases of resettlement the new owners have been unable to operate the farms commercially, while the government has acknowledged that a lack of skills, equipment and the sub-leasing of allocated land has affected agricultural productivity.
The paradox of plenty in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region
Unarguably the richest zone in West Africa, Niger Delta is ironically home to the poorest of the poor in the country. All that 48 years of commercial exploration of oil has brought the greater majority of Niger Deltans are misery, gross environmental degradation and abject poverty. The image of the region is one of stark contrast – so rich yet so poor.
IRAQ:
Iraq to probe Haditha killings
Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday that his patience was wearing thin with excuses from US troops that they killed civilians by mistake.
Salon.com "Victory"? Forget it
Bush doesn't know that he can't achieve victory. He doesn't know that seeking victory worsens his prospects. He doesn't know that the U.S. military has abandoned victory in the field, though it has been reporting that to him for years. But the president has no rhetoric beyond "victory."
The Apache Killing Video
BUSH CRIME FAMILY:
Is the Bush Regime a Sponsor of State Terrorism?
Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked? Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half century. Iraq attacked Kuiwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the US ambassador. Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? Bush and Blair have attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens. Olmert is urging them on to attack a third country--Iran.
ECONOMY:
Dollar extends losses after confidence data
The dollar's decline accelerated on Tuesday after a gauge of U.S. consumer confidence fell in May, adding to considerable negative sentiment against the U.S. currency.
How close are we to 'Sudden Disorderly Adjustment'?
U.S. hedge funds file for bankruptcy, law firm says
Bayou Management's U.S. hedge funds, which failed after losing millions of dollars in flawed trading strategies, on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief in New York, a law firm said.
Easy-to-get loans cause thousands to lose homes
What is known is that, rich and poor alike, South Florida homeowners are on a collision course with the fast-money mortgages and loose state regulation that injected extra risk into a region ripe for exploitation.
OP-ED:
Mess from the West
When the results are in from the past six years, as well as what looks to be eight years, there will be tremendous economic consequences and hardships for those at the bottom of society’s heap. Blacks are definitely at the bottom of the heap, and the lessons we see everyday are a warning to us to get our collective act together, that is, if we really care about one another.
Toward a Third Intifada
The Hebrew term hafrada, which means "separation" or "apartheid," has entered the mainstream lexicon in Israel and determined much of the government's policies since the Oslo process began in 1993. Ever-increasing restrictions on Palestinian movement and employment during the 1990s, combined with settlement expansion that doubled the number of Jewish settlers, set the stage for the eruption of the second intifada, or uprising, in 2000.
Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
A third-world country is what we will be if our elected officials don’t soon come to their senses.
George F. Will: The Danger of White Guilt
SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY:
Intelligent Beings in Space!
Until recently, interplanetary robotic explorers have largely been marionettes of mission controllers back on Earth. The controllers sent instructions, and the spacecraft diligently executed them.
HEALTH&FITNESS:
African-Americans and the Wellness Gap
When it comes to health care, black Americans are less likely to be treated for medical problems than white Americans, in spite of increasing rates of diagnoses for certain diseases among black Americans.
FOOD&DRINK:
Dive into a Sea of Good Summer Food
Summer is the eating season. There's no better time to eat locally and seasonally, which today is compulsory. Gorgeous fruits and vegetables spill out of the stalls at farmers markets. Crabs and oysters are pulled from the waters. There are barbecues and picnics. Life slows down and it's important to have the right food while you're braking.
African Adobo-Rubbed Tuna Steaks
Adobo means spice rub or marinade, and this particular recipe was introduced by African slaves and brought to Bahía in Brazil in the seventeenth century. I think that it gives tuna a new and exciting dimension. There is spiciness in the dish, as would be expected from an adobo. To provide the American palate a little relief from the heat, the tuna is served on a bed of lightly pickled cucumbers.
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:
Remembering Miles on His 80th Birthday
The late music legend Miles Davis would have turned 80 on Friday. Musician David Was of the group Was (Not Was) offers a tribute in honor of the jazzman's birth.
A Fresh Look at Miles Davis' 'Blue in Green'
Reggae Pioneer Desmond Dekker
Rock historian Ed Ward remembers Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker, who died last week at the age of 64. His 1969 hit "Israelites" was for many Americans the first reggae they'd ever heard.
HUMOR?:
This Modern World
Monday, May 08, 2006
Another Angle 8 - May - 2006
ANOTHER ANGLE
News others won't tell you
NATIONAL:
Panel Faults Pfizer in '96 Clinical Trial In Nigeria
A panel of Nigerian medical experts has concluded that Pfizer Inc. violated international law during a 1996 epidemic by testing an unapproved drug on children with brain infections at a field hospital. The panel said an oral form of Trovan, the Pfizer drug used in the test, had apparently never been given to children with meningitis. There are no records documenting that Pfizer told the children or their parents that they were part of an experiment, it said. An approval letter from a Nigerian ethics committee, which Pfizer used to justify its actions had been concocted and backdated by the company's lead researcher in Kano.
Mexico welcomed fugitive slaves and African American job-seekers
It has been said that for most of the 19th century, Mexican immigrants were more highly regarded by African Americans than any other immigrant group. What may account for this, at least in part, is the enormous if not pivotal role undertaken by Black fighters in the war to secure Mexican independence from Spain and abolish slavery. Unfortunately, many of us repeat the falsehoods of our adversaries and have forgotten our special relationship with Mexican and Indigenous peoples.
Mississippi D.A. Weighs Prosecution in Till Murder
District Attorney Joyce Chiles in Mississippi is considering whether enough evidence exists to prosecute the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. FBI investigators reopened the Till case in 2004. Federal civil rights prosecutors are hamstrung by a statute of limitations, but there is no such obstacle in Mississippi.
Former death row inmate wins $2.5m
Here's an article about yesterday's jury award of $2.25 million to Earl Washington, whom the state of Virginia came within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor, and black. White cops in Culpeper, Virginia, interrogated him and fed him information about the crime. They did not take notes for much of this interrogation, and then claimed that Washington knew things that only the killer could have known.
'White Guilt' and the End of the Civil Rights Era
and race relations scholar Shelby Steele talks about his provocative new book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. Steele says since the civil rights movement, the pendulum has swung all the way from white supremacy to white guilt -- a condition he says has been just as harmful to black America.
Porter & 'the boys': Goss Made His "Bones" on CIA Hit Team
Colbert shakes up Bill Kristol over PNAC ties
Bill Kristol, who is one of the major players in the group called PNAC, joined the set of the "Colbert Report," and I think was taken off guard right at the outset of the show because he had to answer questions that our media never asks. PNAC envisioned America attacking the Middle East since the middle '90's and for some inexplicable reason (that was a joke) the media never questions him or his members which have lined the walls of Bush's cabinet about PNAC and how it influenced our foreign policy, which led us to attack Iraq.
INTERNATIONAL:
Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot
This is the story of the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler's armies marched across Europe - a war that has not ended.
Hamas sanctions squeeze the life out of West Bank
Even before Hamas was elected, the economy was faltering and heavily dependent on financial support from Europe and America. But the decision by Brussels and Washington to withdraw funding until Hamas moderates its militant anti-Israel stance has pushed the fragile economy to collapse.
Settlers stone Hebron schoolchildren
On Saturday, messianic settlers affiliated with the Gush Emunim movement (block of faithful) from the small colony of Maon south of Hebron assaulted Palestinian children with stones twice, injuring four children.
Iran Threatens To Quit Nuclear Treaty
IRAQ:
The Real Oil Story: The Oil in Iraq
Basra on the brink of exploding
The attack on the helicopter is a racheting up of the threat facing the UK forces. British commanders had drastically restricted movements by road after a series of deaths caused by sophisticated bombs allegedly supplied by Iran. Transport by air was adopted as a far safer option.
BUSH CRIME FAMILY:
Bush: ‘Specific Threat’ to Israel from Iran
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Sunday that Iran has made “a specific threat on a partner of the U.S. and Germany,” during an interview with German newspaper Bild.See Story below about the Bourse, there is the specific threat!
Emperor Palpatine aka Darth Cheney Lectures Putin about Freedom
ECONOMY:
The Last Gasp of the Dollar; Iran bourse opens next week
Currently, the world is drowning in dollars, even a small movement could trigger a massive recession in the United States. There’s nothing remotely "conspiratorial" about this. It is simply a matter of supply and demand. If the oil bourse creates less demand for the dollar, the value of the dollar will sink accordingly; pushing energy, housing, food and other prices higher.Iran: Euro To Replace Dollar As Oil Currency
Bank lets drivers buy gas for future
First Fuel Banks bills itself as the only retailer in the country where customers can buy gasoline for the future and hedge against rising prices. It advertises no service charge and no storage charge, just a $1 lifetime membership fee.
OP-ED:
Liar, Liar, Beware of the Fire
Our secretaries of Defense and State fly around the world, at our expense, arrogantly threatening other countries, and lying through their teeth about how well things are going in Iraq. Our “Vice” Resident is one who knows where, doing who knows what, raking in money (What was it? A $1.8 million tax refund?) from a company with which he said he has no financial interests: Halliburton.
San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year
Black and Brown: The infusion of mass confusion
Since the landing of the Mayflower, European whites have been engaged in a divide and conquer strategy to establish and maintain control over the land. They used it to control the native people who inhabited the land and the countless Blacks they brought from Africa. By pitting one against the other, Europeans were able to avoid becoming victims of the wrath of the Black slaves and so-called Indians, separately and as a whole, thus giving themselves control over the land and its inhabitants by means of deception. There is no difference in strategy used by modem day whites and/ or political structures which benefit from the division of Blacks and Mexicans.
Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime
Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the United States government has become the driving force behind apparently effective scheme of depriving the general public of income, access to the outside world and the necessities of life.
SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY:
Ice-capped roof of world turns to desert
Global warming is rapidly melting the ice-bound roof of the world, and turning it into desert, leading scientists have revealed.
FOOD&DRINK:
Mom's Baked Fried Chicken and Gravy
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:
Jazz Spawns an Unlikely Party Jam
If Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk and Alan Lomax embarked on a field-recording expedition in Senegal, their collaboration might resemble Flügelschlag!'s exhilarating "Mendiani."
HUMOR?:
Evolution of a Shrub
Unintelligent design or missing link?
News others won't tell you
NATIONAL:
Panel Faults Pfizer in '96 Clinical Trial In Nigeria
A panel of Nigerian medical experts has concluded that Pfizer Inc. violated international law during a 1996 epidemic by testing an unapproved drug on children with brain infections at a field hospital. The panel said an oral form of Trovan, the Pfizer drug used in the test, had apparently never been given to children with meningitis. There are no records documenting that Pfizer told the children or their parents that they were part of an experiment, it said. An approval letter from a Nigerian ethics committee, which Pfizer used to justify its actions had been concocted and backdated by the company's lead researcher in Kano.
Mexico welcomed fugitive slaves and African American job-seekers
It has been said that for most of the 19th century, Mexican immigrants were more highly regarded by African Americans than any other immigrant group. What may account for this, at least in part, is the enormous if not pivotal role undertaken by Black fighters in the war to secure Mexican independence from Spain and abolish slavery. Unfortunately, many of us repeat the falsehoods of our adversaries and have forgotten our special relationship with Mexican and Indigenous peoples.
Mississippi D.A. Weighs Prosecution in Till Murder
District Attorney Joyce Chiles in Mississippi is considering whether enough evidence exists to prosecute the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. FBI investigators reopened the Till case in 2004. Federal civil rights prosecutors are hamstrung by a statute of limitations, but there is no such obstacle in Mississippi.
Former death row inmate wins $2.5m
Here's an article about yesterday's jury award of $2.25 million to Earl Washington, whom the state of Virginia came within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor, and black. White cops in Culpeper, Virginia, interrogated him and fed him information about the crime. They did not take notes for much of this interrogation, and then claimed that Washington knew things that only the killer could have known.
'White Guilt' and the End of the Civil Rights Era
and race relations scholar Shelby Steele talks about his provocative new book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. Steele says since the civil rights movement, the pendulum has swung all the way from white supremacy to white guilt -- a condition he says has been just as harmful to black America.
Porter & 'the boys': Goss Made His "Bones" on CIA Hit Team
Colbert shakes up Bill Kristol over PNAC ties
Bill Kristol, who is one of the major players in the group called PNAC, joined the set of the "Colbert Report," and I think was taken off guard right at the outset of the show because he had to answer questions that our media never asks. PNAC envisioned America attacking the Middle East since the middle '90's and for some inexplicable reason (that was a joke) the media never questions him or his members which have lined the walls of Bush's cabinet about PNAC and how it influenced our foreign policy, which led us to attack Iraq.
INTERNATIONAL:
Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot
This is the story of the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler's armies marched across Europe - a war that has not ended.
Hamas sanctions squeeze the life out of West Bank
Even before Hamas was elected, the economy was faltering and heavily dependent on financial support from Europe and America. But the decision by Brussels and Washington to withdraw funding until Hamas moderates its militant anti-Israel stance has pushed the fragile economy to collapse.
Settlers stone Hebron schoolchildren
On Saturday, messianic settlers affiliated with the Gush Emunim movement (block of faithful) from the small colony of Maon south of Hebron assaulted Palestinian children with stones twice, injuring four children.
Iran Threatens To Quit Nuclear Treaty
IRAQ:
The Real Oil Story: The Oil in Iraq
Basra on the brink of exploding
The attack on the helicopter is a racheting up of the threat facing the UK forces. British commanders had drastically restricted movements by road after a series of deaths caused by sophisticated bombs allegedly supplied by Iran. Transport by air was adopted as a far safer option.
BUSH CRIME FAMILY:
Bush: ‘Specific Threat’ to Israel from Iran
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Sunday that Iran has made “a specific threat on a partner of the U.S. and Germany,” during an interview with German newspaper Bild.See Story below about the Bourse, there is the specific threat!
Emperor Palpatine aka Darth Cheney Lectures Putin about Freedom
ECONOMY:
The Last Gasp of the Dollar; Iran bourse opens next week
Currently, the world is drowning in dollars, even a small movement could trigger a massive recession in the United States. There’s nothing remotely "conspiratorial" about this. It is simply a matter of supply and demand. If the oil bourse creates less demand for the dollar, the value of the dollar will sink accordingly; pushing energy, housing, food and other prices higher.Iran: Euro To Replace Dollar As Oil Currency
Bank lets drivers buy gas for future
First Fuel Banks bills itself as the only retailer in the country where customers can buy gasoline for the future and hedge against rising prices. It advertises no service charge and no storage charge, just a $1 lifetime membership fee.
OP-ED:
Liar, Liar, Beware of the Fire
Our secretaries of Defense and State fly around the world, at our expense, arrogantly threatening other countries, and lying through their teeth about how well things are going in Iraq. Our “Vice” Resident is one who knows where, doing who knows what, raking in money (What was it? A $1.8 million tax refund?) from a company with which he said he has no financial interests: Halliburton.
San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year
Black and Brown: The infusion of mass confusion
Since the landing of the Mayflower, European whites have been engaged in a divide and conquer strategy to establish and maintain control over the land. They used it to control the native people who inhabited the land and the countless Blacks they brought from Africa. By pitting one against the other, Europeans were able to avoid becoming victims of the wrath of the Black slaves and so-called Indians, separately and as a whole, thus giving themselves control over the land and its inhabitants by means of deception. There is no difference in strategy used by modem day whites and/ or political structures which benefit from the division of Blacks and Mexicans.
Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime
Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the United States government has become the driving force behind apparently effective scheme of depriving the general public of income, access to the outside world and the necessities of life.
SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY:
Ice-capped roof of world turns to desert
Global warming is rapidly melting the ice-bound roof of the world, and turning it into desert, leading scientists have revealed.
FOOD&DRINK:
Mom's Baked Fried Chicken and Gravy
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:
Jazz Spawns an Unlikely Party Jam
If Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk and Alan Lomax embarked on a field-recording expedition in Senegal, their collaboration might resemble Flügelschlag!'s exhilarating "Mendiani."
HUMOR?:
Evolution of a Shrub
Unintelligent design or missing link?
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