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John Schwartz
New York Times
A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s finding that Tennessee’s lethal injection procedure is unconstitutional.
The case concerns Edward J. Harbison, who was sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of an elderly woman.
In 2007, as a result of Mr. Harbison’s appeals, the Federal District Court... » read this article
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June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg
What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as... » read this article
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Haider Rizvi
Inter Press Service
Millions of U.S. citizens continue to face discrimination at the hands of police and other law enforcement agencies just because they are not white, although the country's new leader in the White House is himself of African descent on his father's side.
"Racial profiling remains a widespread and pervasive problem... » read this article
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Alex Lantier
WSWS
Washington’s criticisms of the June 28 military coup that ousted
President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras lack any element of sincerity or
historical truth. The Obama administration is uneasy at the ouster of
Zelaya, a conservative-turned-populist allied to Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez, because it reveals all too clearly the character of... » read this article
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Erin Cunningham
Global Info
They are little white, yellow or green pills and are available almost anywhere. At the pharmacies or in the market, they are accessible, addictive and cheap.
"I take them because it makes me forget, at least for a little while, that I'm in Gaza," says Abu Ala'a, a resident of... » read this article
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Natalia Ruiz Díaz
Inter Press Service
"Silvino was riding his bike on a dirt road near our home when he was poisoned by toxic agrochemicals, sprayed on a nearby field of soybeans. He died soon afterwards. He was 11," said his mother, Petrona Villasboa, a rural activist in southern Paraguay.
Silvino Villasboa died in 2003 in... » read this article
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News Bulletin
The East African
Somali pirates marauding the East African coastline will now find it hard to hijack ships sailing along the Indian Ocean waters following a new agreement between Tanzania and Kenya to safeguard a greater area of the continental shelf.
The two neighbouring East African states are at the same time finalising... » read this article
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News Bulletin
Merco Press
Honduras President Manuel Zelaya offered a deal Tuesday to the military leaders who ousted him - he’ll quit in January if allowed to return and serve out his term in office.
"If offered the possibility to remain in power (for a second term), I would not do it," Zelaya said... » read this article
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Press Release
Free Gaza
[23 miles
off the coast of
Gaza,
15:30pm] -
Today Israeli Occupation Forces
attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate
Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a
complete list... » read this article
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Jeremy Scahill
Rebel Reports
Despite
the big show, the
U.S. occupation continues. It is very
doubtful that—decades from now—Iraqis will tell their grandchildren about where
they were on “National Sovereignty Day.”
The
puppet government in Iraq has named June 30 as “National Sovereignty Day,”
and—without mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis maimed,... » read this article
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News Bulletin
IRIN Africa
Signatories to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - restated their commitment to the scheme at the close of a three-day meeting in Namibia on 26 June, but campaigners warned that more action, not talk, was needed now.
"There... » read this article
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Press Release
Gaza Solidarity
(At Sea, 60km off the coast of the Gaza Strip)
Human Rights activists aboard the Free Gaza ship, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, today demanded that the Israeli Navy immediately stop threatening them.
“This aid is desperately needed by the people of Gaza,” said Mairead Maguire, winner of the Noble Peace... » read this article
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Russ Bynum
Associated Press
U.S. justices take break for the summer.Their inaction on appeal gives death-row inmate more time to live, hope.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
SAVANNAH —- The U.S. Supreme Court recessed on Monday for the summer without acting on the latest appeal by Georgia death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis —- a legal... » read this article
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