A brief list of news for the day:
Malalai Joya kicked out of Afghan parliament. “Malalai Joya, the most outspoken of the 68 women currently elected in the parliament of Afghanistan, has been suspended from parliament. A relentless critic of the warlords and assorted war criminals in the Karzai government, the legislators kicked Joya out after viewing a television interview in which she likened the parliament to a ‘zoo.’” >> News at: http://www.rabble.ca/everyones_a_critic.shtml?sh_itm=12a77ded754bdc45e374d28cf4070a22&rXn=1&
Journalist’s revolt at Le Monde. “A journalists’ revolt at the great flagship of France’s media is a case-study in democracy, ethics, power, hubris and capitalism, says former Le Monde correspondent Patrice de Beer.” >> News at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/monde_coup_4642.jsp
Europe’s shame. “For three days and three nights… African migrants clung desperately to life. Their means of survival is a tuna net, being towed across the Mediterranean by a Maltese tug that refused to take them on board after their frail boat sank.” >> News at: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2588985.ece
Gaza: the jailed state. “As hundreds of Israeli families leave the town of Sderot in southern Israel to escape Hamas-designed Qassam rockets and mortars, Palestinians in turn are fleeing the wrath of Israeli air strikes on Gaza, which in the past week have killed more than 30 people, many of them civilians. This latest bloodshed in the besieged Gaza Strip comes hard on the heels of deadly inter-Palestinian battles between Hamas and Fatah that Palestinian security forces have been unable to contain.” >> News at: http://www.newstatesman.com/200705280028
Beirut takes delivery of US arms as eerie calm covers Nahr al-Bared. “An eerie calm hovered over the Northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared and nearby Tripoli on Friday after roads around the camp reopened and the Lebanese Army carried out new raids in the port city. On Friday morning, the Lebanese government received additional equipment for the army when three US military cargo planes touched down at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri international Airport, security sources said.” >> News at: http://cedarsrevolution.net/blog/?p=440
Pentagon’s propaganda occupies the Guardian’s front page. >> News at: http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070524_pentagon_propaganda_occupies.php
Quebec government could topple within a week, sending voters back to the polls. “Premier Jean Charest refused to back down from the promised billion-dollar tax cuts in his new budget Friday, as all three parties debated heatedly in the provincial legislature. National Assembly president Michel Bissonet also ruled today that opposition parties have no right to amend the budget.” >> News at: http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20070525_092528_4548
Ottawa’s neglect and First Nations anger. “Canada’s first peoples cannot wait forever for a fair stake in our society. That was the theme of an impassioned speech this past week by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine. He warned that poverty, government inaction and the glacial pace of land-claim negotiations are breeding desperation and rage among Indians across the country.” >> News at: http://www.thestar.com/article/215587
What we can learn about cancer in the animal world. “Until recently it was widely believed that cancer was caused mostly by our lifestyle and dietary choices, with a little bit of hereditary bad luck thrown in. It is not only humans, however, who are getting cancer. The evidence of cancer in the animal realm is one of many factors that are fuelling a sea change in public thinking about the causes of cancer.” >> News at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070528.wcomment0528/BNStory/Front/home
Recent development in Venezuela: an interview with Noam Chomsky. >> News at: http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/chomskyonvenezuela.html
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