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Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat
Stephen Lendman
In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are Venezuela and [...]

An absolutel read for critical media scholars and peace loving people.

By Joe Kay and Barry Grey
13 October 2006
The US media is virtually silent on a new scientific study that estimates the Iraqi death toll from the US war at 655,000. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by [...]

More than 650,000 people have died in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of the country began in March of 2003. This is according to a new study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. The study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in [...]

A Coroner is to ask the attorney general to consider bringing charges against US troops who killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in southern Iraq.
After hearing how the 50-year-old correspondent had died from a bullet in the head fired into the back of a makeshift civilian ambulance by American Marines, Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker [...]

Tony Jones speaks with former US Defence Department official, Daniel Ellsberg, who accuses President Bush of lying to take America to war with Iraq, and believes secret groundwork is being laid for a war with Iran.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Broadcast: 12/10/2006
Transcript:
TONY JONES: Well, comparisons between the US war in Iraq and the quagmire of the [...]

Racial Profiling Pulls Indians From Plane
Dutch authorities detain 12 Northwest Airlines passengers for 30 hours
Praful Bidwai (internews)
The 12 Indian men, who were arrested and detained for 30 hours by Dutch authorities following a security alert on a Northwest Airlines from Amsterdam to Mumbai earlier this week, were victims of racial prejudice. All of them are [...]

Check out the official website for NAM summit conference.
Interesting also is the following letter of congratulations to
Commandante Fidel Castro from the Honorable Minister Louis
Farrakhan as published in the Final Call Newspaper, Vol 26
No. 2. Cuba recently hosted the Non-Aligned Movement 14th
Summit Conference including over 50 Heads of State and
Foreign Ministers.
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