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Subject:Dahr Jamail | Subject to the Penalty of Death

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:09:00 -0700

 

 

 

 

 

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Dahr Jamail | Subject to the Penalty of Death

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506A.shtml

Jamail presents the facts: " To keep the perspective right, let me

repeat: it is the high ranking officials in the Bush administration

who are primarily responsible for creating a situation in Iraq in which war

crimes have been normalized. "

 

 

World Bank Falsifies Malaria Data

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506B.shtml

The World Bank has been accused of publishing false accounts and

wasting money on ineffective medicines in its malaria treatment

program. A Lancet paper claims the bank faked figures, boosting the success of

its malaria projects, and reneged on a pledge to invest $300-500 million in

Africa. It also claims the bank funded obsolete treatments - against expert

advice.

 

 

Dozens of Security Force Recruits Are Killed by Iraqi Insurgents

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506C.shtml

At least 40 Iraqi civilians and security force recruits were either

killed or found dead on Monday, the Iraqi authorities said, as insurgents

unleashed a wave of car bombs across Baghdad. Throughout the capital, seven car

bombs struck, killing at least 10 people and wounding 76 others. Their targets

were the back gate of Mustansiriya University, two Iraqi police patrols, and a

busy intersection at rush hour. All of the dead were civilians.

 

 

In Deregulation of Electric Markets, a Consumer Pinch

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506D.shtml

Many consumers are feeling dismay about the deregulation of the

electric utility industry. Electric rates have more than doubled since

January, threatening to close the lid on family-run businesses across

the US.

When deregulation was implemented in the 1990s, supporters said it

would drive rates down through competition. But data so far suggest that rates

in deregulated states are rising faster than those in regulated states. That

trend could expand as caps on retail electric rates, which have held prices

down, are lifted in at least six deregulated states this year.

 

 

Defiance in the Land of the Free

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506E.shtml

A Native American woman is at war with the US. For 30 years she's been

fighting to keep her ancestral land - and now the United Nations is on

her side.

 

 

Howard Zinn | Removing America's Blinders

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506F.shtml

Howard Zinn: " Now that most Americans no longer believe in the war, now that

they no longer trust Bush and his administration, now that the evidence of

deception has become overwhelming (so overwhelming that even the major media,

always late, have begun to register indignation), we might ask: How come so many

people were so easily fooled? "

 

 

Senator Tim Johnson: Donate Trailers to Tribes

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506G.shtml

Mobile homes bought for hurricane victims but not used for that purpose should

be delivered to Indian Country for housing and school buildings, US Senator Tim

Johnson says.

 

 

Le Monde | Continuing Fallout From Chernobyl

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506H.shtml

" The Chernobyl accident, the greatest industrial catastrophe of the

Twentieth Century, will remain the perfect example of bad information

management, " Le Monde writes, as France begins to acknowledge the

thousand-fold shortfall in some of its initial fallout estimates.

 

 

Christian Parenti | When GI Joe Says No

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042506I.shtml

Christian Parenti asks, " How is it that anti-war soldiers continue to

fight? And what does it really take for an anti-war soldier to resist?

The answers lie largely in the sociology of 'unit cohesion' and the ways the

military uses solidarity among soldiers as a form of social

control. "

 

 

 

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