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Written by Human Rights Watch
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
Citing "lack of evidence," Moroccan authorities closed an investigation into police abuse allegations made by two human rights defenders whose testimony the prosecutor refused to solicit, Human Rights Watch said today.
The two Sahrawi human rights advocates, Dahha Rahmouni and Brahim al-Ansari, say that, in December 2007, police in the city of El-Ayoun, in the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, arbitrarily arrested and beat them before releasing them without charge. Human Rights Watch is making public today the men's formal complaints and additional evidence indicating that authorities did not conduct a credible investigation into the incident before announcing the end of the probe on May 5. |
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Written by Bianca Jagger
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
By Bianca Jagger
In January 2007, an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal called “World Free of Nuclear Weapons” said: “Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage – to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.”
Now who would have thought that I would be quoting Henry Kissinger, George P. Schultz, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn?
But perhaps you should not be surprised. The nuclear issue is not a partisan political issue. It is reassuring to see some of the most conservative figures in both the UK and the USA supporting complete nuclear disarmament. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 May 2008 )
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Oil Sands and Ducks Coillide |
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Written by News Networks Service
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Canada and the energy-rich province of Alberta are finding that nothing stains an oil supplier's environmental image, or emboldens its critics, like several hundred dead ducks.
With 500 waterfowl killed (no one can verify this number as no one is able to dive to the bottom of the sludge) in oily wastewater at the country's largest oil sands plant, government and industry now face a new struggle to convince the world they are not just paying lip service to cleaning up operations.
The stakes are high as a new administration takes power next year in the United States - Canada's biggest market - amid growing environmental concern among Americans. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 05 May 2008 )
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Iraq $5.54 Million an Hour |
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Written by Kaleem Omar
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
President George W. Bush last week asked Congress to approve $ 70 billion in funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the US fiscal year 2009, which begins on October 1, 2008. The Iraq war has already cost US taxpayers more than $ 500 billion dollars, and there is still no end in sight to the US’s utterly illegal occupation of Iraq. According to congressional analysts, the eventual total cost of the Iraq war and the occupation could be as high as $ 1.5 trillion – that’s $ 1,500 billion.
This cost does not include the cost of rebuilding Iraq’s shattered infrastructure, which has been destroyed by a massive US bombing campaign and other military action. Once an oil-rich country with the best educational and medical infrastructure in the Middle East, Iraq has now been reduced to little more than an economic basket case. Even Baghdad, the capital, still gets only a few hours of electricity a day. |
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Canada vs U.S. Health System |
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Written by Anita Watkins
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
As a dual United States and Canadian citizen who has experienced health care in both countries, I'd like to add some perspective to warnings against government health care modeled after the Canadian system.
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Written by Reuters India
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
Building more and smaller ethanol plants could help overcome concerns that production of the biofuel consumes more in energy than it provides, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Friday.
One of the reasons so much energy is used to make ethanol is that trucks travel long distances carrying corn, chaff or other plant material to ethanol plants. |
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