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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Coastal Erosion Big Issue For Voters
Good news for Louisiana and the wetlands.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Congo's Kemal Saïki: The force of a spokesperson in his work is his credibility
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After more than three years of loyal service to MONUC, Kemal Saïki, mission spokesperson since January 2005, is leaving the Democratic Republic of Congo, to take up a post as director of Public Information for UNAMID, the UN mission in Darfur, Sudan. In an interview to the Mwebsite before his departure, he gave his impressions on the Congolese people, journalism in the DRC and his relationship with the Congolese.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
One dead gorilla is news – a guerrilla war is not
When an animal's death gets more coverage than a humanitarian crisis, it's a scandal, says Claire Soares
Friday, July 4, 2008
Coleen Rowley: Where Have All the Congressional Consciences Gone?
Coleen Rowley asks Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Norm Coleman why they have effectively voted to support Bush in a possible attack on Iran
Friday, July 4, 2008
Coleen Rowley: Bridges in A Small World
Coleen Rowley comments on a weekend of peace planned for Minneapolis.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Levees Cost Estimate Soars
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Here is a job for journalism 101. Why the cost increase? Who Benefits? Who are the contractors? What are connections to Homeland Security in this area which has largest oil refinery nearby?
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Village Voice: US Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa
Desperately needed funds for new levees in U.S. Midwest have been diverted to flood control in Iraq.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Independent experts to review 17th Street Canal repairs
Independent experts to review 17th Street Canal repairs
by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune
Thursday May 29, 2008, 1:22 PM
The Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to work with the Southeast Louisiana Levee Authority--East in that agency's attempt to get independent review of the stability of levee walls along the 17th Street Canal, Corps Task Force Hope director Karen Durham-Aguilera said today.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Coastal Loss, Coastal Cost
New Orleans' Gambit Weekly takes a look at Walter Williams, creator of Mr. Bill, and at the eroding Louisiana coastline.
Friday, February 8, 2008
DoJ Served Major Labels over 'Total Music' Initiative
The major labels, eager to wrest control over digital music pricing and distribution from Apple, are considering a project called Total Music that would allow them to charge device manufacturers, cellphone service providers, and other businesses $5 per month for the right to let their customers listen to free music. Total Music is being championed by Universal Music Group and Sony/BMG.
Looks bad for Indies and internet.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Razing of New Orleans Public Housing Halted
Reprieve for NOLA public housing according to Associated Press
Friday, November 30, 2007
Graft Clouds DRC Donor Conference
Donor money going to DRC is described as "black hole"
Friday, November 9, 2007
Congress Passes $3 Billion Road Home Grant
In a late night, surprise move,Congress passed legislation Thursday that will grant Louisiana $3 billion to help bail out its troubled Road Home rebuilding program.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Rescue the Road Home
Rescue the Road Home Bill from Congressional wrangling and help the poor souls in New Orleans who were promised help two years ago
Saturday, October 27, 2007
No Hallowen Hoax. Just a Nightmare That Won't End
Read This great piece by Coleen Rowley. What if you lived in a country where, after the Administration negligently failed to prevent a major terrorist attack, they deliberately exploited everyone's fears....
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
The New York Times finally takes a look at the unimaginable sexual violence against women in DRC's Kivu Province.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Congo Transport Chief Fired After Crash
MONUC update on crash of Russian-made aircraft in Kinshasa. The Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the world's worst aviation safety records.MONUC is the United Nations Mission to DRC.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Dallaire Describes Carnage He Saw During Rwandan Genocide
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UN general Romeo Dallaire is testifying at a war crimes trial in Canada. His book, "Shake Hands Withe the Devil," is testimony to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
You're Wrong Senator Coleman, Iraq IS a Major Issue
Former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley confronts Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman and Minnesota's lame brain media.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Congo Officials Confirm Ebola Outbreak
Congo Officials Confirm Ebola Outbreak
Thursday, August 2, 2007
451 Minnesota Bridges "Functionally Obsolete"
By Conrad deFiebre
Minnesota 2020 Fellow
The Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge that tragically collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday evening was one of 1,135 road spans in Minnesota rated as "structurally deficient" by the federal government.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Newspaper Legend Jim Klobuchar: A Bridge Collapses...
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...At 6 p.m. on Aug. 1 an interstate bridge that had carried millions of cars and passengers over 40 years collapsed into the Mississippi River in the heart of Minneapolis. The bridge decks broke into gigantic slabs. Vehicles clanged into each other. Some pitched into the water; some capsized. Fires broke out. Men, women and children screamed. People died. Scores were injured...
Monday, July 30, 2007
Gorilla Killings: Extra, Extra: STOP the Mainstream Press!
There is a back story involving US strategic minerals interests that has not been reported in the onslaught of gorilla killings stories in the mainstream press.
Friday, July 6, 2007
KING KONG: The Hanged Man
They say Klaus-Jurgen Sucker was beginning to look like the Silverback Gorillas he so tenaciously protected in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP). Friends noted that an eerie change took place in his physical form. His hair was turning a premature grey as he struggled to "out-Fossey Dian Fossey"
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Mary Gauthier: Singing Her Heart Out at Nashville's Bluebird Café on the WWW
Bob Dylan highlighted Gauthier's song I Drink for his XM radio gig. By her own admission Mary Gauthier was "born a bastard child in New Orleans." Forty-something and a late bloomer, she is somewhat of a surprise in a music industry dominated by glam women. Channeling Janis Joplin and Hank Williams in her smoky Louisiana drawl, Gauthier is by turns a pretty and striking woman with a tough, yet vulnerable stance.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
King Kong: The Map, the Mad Scientist and the Mayor
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Hundreds of millions of dollars are annually funneled into the scientific mapping industry under the banners of "conservation" and the now prominent buzzwords of "sustainable development" and "capacity building."
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Analysis: Animal group faults USDA report
Michael Budkie is a contributor and source for OpEd News...mainstream is beginning to look here first.
By STEVE MITCHELL
UPI Senior Medical Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- An animal rights group says a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report vastly underestimates the number of animals in research facilities...
Monday, June 11, 2007
Shooting Lions in South Africa
OpEdNews contributor, Chris Mercer, is featured in the video link at the end of article. Click on:
Watch my report
Femi Oke, CNN International Correspondent
Monday, June 11, 2007
Carving up the Congo Rainforest
Check out what villagers have to say about trading forests for beer and salt in this Greenpeace footage. We had similar footage on the Tayna preserve that was stolen from us by British conservation interests.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Will the Real Economic Hit Men Please Stand Up?
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Another view of corporate sponsored foreign corruption
Thursday, June 7, 2007
John Perkins on the Secret History of the American Empire
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"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption."
Monday, June 4, 2007
KONG - Part Three: A MWAMI'S TALE
Henchmen and Heartbreak in the Heart of Darkness. For the people of Congo, suffering and death are a way of life. Now, the million-dollar question seems to be: How are "conservation" and "development" reconciled with the bloodbath that is Central Africa today?
Friday, June 1, 2007
Hope Afloat in Congo
The children of DRC do not have massive publicity machines to tell their sides of the story. They have no administrative assistants and press offices, no travel budgets, no legions of attorneys, Congressional lobbyists, or contacts in the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa or the Washington D.C. But, they have YOUTUBE!
Saturday, May 26, 2007
KONG: The Monkey Smuggler and the Femme Fatales
Human rights investigator keith harmon snow takes a hard look at some "monkey business" in Africa and strange ties between Hollywood and conservation interests
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Interhamwe Abuses in Eastern DRC: BBC Report
A brave Congolese woman tells Mike Thompson of her abduction by Hutu militia, the murder of her villagers and her escape. You may find the contents of this interview disturbing.
Reporter Mike Thomson compiles a number of reports from his travels into Eastern Congo.
Friday, May 11, 2007
What I Heard About Iraq
Eye-witness accounts paint a terrifying picture of the war in Iraq.
Adapted for radio by Simon Levy.
With Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes, Darcy Halsey, Marc Casabani, Ryun Yu.
Director Tim Dee
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Sex and foreign aid
The lessons learned from a high-level administration official's resignation in the 'D.C. Madam' scandal. LAURIE GARRETT is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health."
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Tenet's Moment of Truth or Just More Sellout?
Coleen Rowley has a little first-hand experience that contradicts what Tenet has pulled out to explain the post 9/11 need to torture. In May of 2002 Rowley brought some of the pre 9-11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community. Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine.
Friday, April 27, 2007
War on Terror Spawns War Crimes Charges in Somalia
When a Bush-backed "regime change" is in high gear, you can bet that war crimes are not far behind. And so it has proved in Somalia, where a senior European Union security official has told the organization that the American-trained and American-funded Ethiopian invaders and their Somali allies "may have committed war crimes and that donor countries could be considered complicit if they do nothing to stop them"....
Monday, April 16, 2007
Two DRC soldiers get death sentence for journalist murder
MONUC is the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Readers will find information here that will never be reported by corporate media in the US.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Is Cheney Right? Will Democrats Cave on Iraq Funding?
Ray McGovern served as an Army infantry and intelligence officer in the early sixties and then as a CIA analyst for 27 years. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Diaspora Do-Gooders Help African Businesses
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F. Brinley Bruton is a freelance journalist. In 2004 and 2005 she trained journalists at Pajhwok Afghan News, the country's largest independent news service. Since then she has written about Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen and focused on economics, security and humanitarian issues. She is an eloquent voice for what Africa really needs.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
White Toyota, White Aid
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"Hey white man" she called to me "these people all come to our country in their fast cars saying they want to help us but they never stop and give us a lift."
Reuters won't "take responsibility" for this commentary, but it should. Hugo Slim could have been with me in DRC, when the "conservationist" guiding our vehicle left three villagers in the dust while they were running from a gun battle.
Friday, April 6, 2007
Gore's Policies Keep Africa in the Dark--Interview With Paul Driessen
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Paul Driessen is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death (Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, 2003) What Dreissen says about Africa is hard to refute. His views on global warming are another issue. All investigative journalists should consider reading "Eco-Imperialism"
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Atta Girl, Cassandra! Just Keep on Trying!
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In May of 2002 Rowley brought some of the pre 9-11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community. Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
How an Overabundance of Foreign Aid Is Killing Afghanistan
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The government of Afghanistan cannot directly channel reconstruction money, so it delegates to NGOs and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). As a result, it exercises no control, no accountability, and, most ominously, no legitimacy over the reconstruction process.
