August 2007


[KH: A link to a video of the event will be posted as soon as it is available.]

Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary General and Head of the UN Humanitarian Program in Iraq 1997-98, spoke at an evening panel discussion (more…)

By Jim Harney 8/5/07

Inequality is part and parcel of neoliberalism, globalization, and especially what has become known as “financialization” the key component of the first two. (more…)

The Dr. Dhafir Support Committee is pleased to welcome Daniel Berrigan to the Support Committee Advisory Board.

By Elizabeth de la Vega Truthout 8/3/07

Sometimes you think you’re winning a cat-and-mouse game, but it turns out you’re losing a dogfight. (more…)

By Felicity Arbuthnot Uruknet 8/2/07

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown announced a ‘war on poverty’ at the United Nations on 31st July, aiming to: ‘..eradicate the great evils of our time – illiteracy, disease, poverty, environmental degradation and underdevelopment’. (more…)

By William Fisher Truthout 7/31/07

    Amid claims of executive privilege by President Bush in the firing of US attorneys, a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties groups has published a new report charging that the administration’s stonewalling is simply part of a six-year pattern of unprecedented government secrecy. (more…)

By Marie-Morgane Le Moël Le Monde 7/27/07

The Australian government is far from having heard the last of the two Australian former Guantanamo prisoners. (more…)

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