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Maxine Waters
Haiti Opposition Attempts "Naked Power Grab"
Congresswoman Maxine Waters [CW] is a member of the United States Congress. She is Co-Chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Committee on Financial Services... She was a leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, was a key figure in Congressional efforts to restore democracy to Haiti in 1994, and continues to be a no-holds barred voice for justice and democracy at home and abroad. In this interview she talks to Hazel Ross-Robinson [HRR] about U.S. Haiti policy.
HRR: January 1 was the 200th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution. Leading European and North American print and electronic journalists have been telling their readers and viewers that there s nothing to celebrate in Haiti.? Others outside of the media have been attempting to convince members of the African diaspora that unrest in Haiti makes this �not the time to celebrate the Haitian Revolution.? Comments?
CW: I find any argument that discourages the commemoration ? and indeed the celebration ? of the Haitian Revolution to be absolutely mistaken. How can anyone expect a people who fought not only for their freedom, but for the freedom of us all not to be remembered, honored, and celebrated? And the Haitians did not only fight, they won! Most significantly, they did not defeat a minor, insignificant foe. They defeated Napoleon, France, at the peak of their military, economic, and political powers. As a result Haiti became a shining example that inspired, not only Africans throughout the Americas, but others throughout the central and south America to break free from Europe�s stranglehold.
We must understand that this �nothing to celebrate?talk is consistent with the longstanding attitudes of those who never supported the Haitian people, and never wanted Haiti to be owned by Africans. It is consistent with those who have always had their hands deep in the Haitian economy, and who are determined to deny the Haitian people pride in themselves and pride in their spectacular history. . . .
HRR: Haiti�s Group of 184, headed by Andre Apaid, is demanding that President Aristide step down. They say that their anti-Aristide demonstrations prove that Aristide should go. What is your reaction?
CW: Andre Apaid is absolutely outrageous. He is power hungry. He knows that Haiti has been undermined for years. He knows that Haiti has been denied important resources ? to which they were absolutely entitled. And he is exploiting these weaknesses when he foments these protests.
This is a naked power grab and we need to find out more about who this Andre Apaid is. . . .
Aristide -- Pro
Jim Naureckas -- November 1994
Enemy Ally:
The Demonization of
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Aristide -- Con
Stephen Johnson,
Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
HAITI: NO AID WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
Middle
Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide
Peter Dailey's review of:
Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy
by Roger Fatton Jr.
HT News
Haiti -- More History
Justin Huggler in Samarra
Drowned Iraqi
'was forced into river by five US soldiers'
T. Patrick Donovan
"Anybody But Bush": The Big Abdication
WinterBoy.com
DejaVu: The Struggle Between Two Americas
Tariq Ali -- Feb 14, 2004 -- The Guardian
The bloody price of occupation
How far will the US go to maintain its illegitimate primacy in Iraq?
Islamic
Fundamentalism
This paper argues that the root cause of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, to a large extent, has been foreign interference in domestic politics, which affected the other aspects of societal life in Muslim countries, as it is the case in Iran.
The industrial countries, particularly the US have had crucial interests in the region especially in protecting the flow of oil and controlling its price. Hence, for national governments of oil producing countries, being independent, pursuing their national interests, and having cooperative relations with the West have always been controversial.
In Iran for instance, foreign manipulations in the central government level, have always led to chaos in the society. It is a common saying in western politics that 'left and right fight and moderate wins'. This is because the majority of people prefer a peaceful settlement between the two extreme wings and vote for the middle. In Iran, during the cold war, the right was supported by the US against the communist left backed by the USSR. Therefore, both superpowers were in agreement against any moderate liberal or nationalist democratic settlement. This was evidently the case in the coup led by the CIA and the British intelligent service in 1953 against Mossadeq who was a democratically elected prime minister (Risen, 2000). Surprisingly, the Todeh Party at the time, as the biggest political organisation under the Kremlin's influence, run campaigns against Mossadeq as well. Consequently, in the absence of a strong liberal democratic political movement, right wing took control of the 1979 revolution and established a religious fanatic regime. . . .By A. Salari
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Fox News Poll
Majority Opposes Same-Sex Marriage . . . According to a FOX News poll conducted in the days following the Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Massachusetts, 66 percent of Americans oppose and 25 percent favor same-sex marriage. These new results are similar to those from August 2003, as well as results from 1996, when 65 percent of the public said they opposed allowing same-sex couples to marry. . . . .
Fox News
Bush: Gay-Marriage Ruling 'Deeply Troubling'. . . Thursday, February 05, 2004 -- WASHINGTON
President Bush, reacting to a new Massachusetts state court ruling, says a constitutional amendment will be necessary to ban gay marriages (search) if judges persist in approving them
Jeff Johnson
Edwards Only Democrat to
'Personally' Oppose 'Gay Marriage'
Scott Ritter
The missing WMD ...
Not everyone got it wrong on Iraq's weapons
KHALED FARHAN IN NAJAF
Powerful Iraqi ayatollah escapes
assassination attempt in street
Islam Online
Sistani's Office Denies Assassination Attempt
Anthony Shadid
Iraqi cleric reportedly attacked:
Conflicting reports on possible attempt
to kill Shiite leader
OccupationWatch
Occupation to End in July?
RON JACOBS
Are the Kurds in the Way?
US Policy and the Kurdish Nation
Agence France-Presse
What 87.5 billion dollars will buy in Afghanistan and Iraq
Black Commentator.com
The Awesome Destructive Power of
the Corporate Power Media
Jon Carroll
Thank Howard Dean for Leading His Party
Out of the Darkness
Jack Lessenberry
How the media choose a president
MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Bush Unveils $2.4 Trillion Budget
President Bush sent Congress a $2.4 trillion election-year budget on Monday featuring big increases for defense and homeland security but also a record $521 billion deficit.
Drew Brown
Defense budget doesn't include funds for Iraq, Afghanistan
Africa Action.Org
Bush's Budget undermines AIDS Fight
Michelle Garcia
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Special to The Washington Post
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL
OPPOSES PATRIOT ACT
New York City, site of the country's most horrific terrorist attack, this week became the latest in a long list of cities and towns that have formally opposed the expanded investigatory powers granted to law enforcement agencies under the USA Patriot Act. The New York City Council approved a resolution condemning the law, enacted by Congress six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with a voice vote in its chambers a few blocks from the gaping hole at Ground Zero
Washington Post
NO OPEN GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ
According to a Washington Post editorial, most records of the former-Iraqi government were seized during the invasion and are currently available only to the U.S. group searching for weapons of mass destruction. About 80 percent of the records are available to no Iraqi people, and disputes have arisen as to who should control the remaining records. "This is a mistake. As long as the documents are solely under U.S. control, they will serve as a focus for rumors and conspiracy theories," the Post said.
John Coleman
Gulf War I
Jordan's King Hussein, Bush Sr, and Mubarak:
What went wrong?
Excerpted from: "Diplomacy by Deception" (copyright 1993)
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What is Institutionalised Terror?
Testimony by William D. Hartung -- Director, Arms Trade Resource Center; World Policy Institute at New School University -- Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights; House International Relations Committee -- March 7, 2001
The Role of U.S. Arms Transfers
in Human Rights Violations:
Rhetoric Versus Reality
According to the United States government's own figures, as reported by Richard Grimmett of the Congressional Research Service, the United States is the world's leading arms merchant. U.S. weapons sales accounted for 54% of all international arms deliveries in 1999, the most recent year for which full statistics are available. That's more than four times the value of arms exported by the next biggest supplier, the United Kingdom; more than seven times the levels registered by France and Russia; and fifty-four times the level of conventional arms exports registered by China. . . .
The Head Heeb
The trouble with paramilitaries (Uganda)
Jack Fairweather in Baghdad
Iraqi scientists call on Blair to resign
over 'arsenal lies'
KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH
Report from Occupied Iraq
"We Don't Want the Army USA"
Jim Lobe
Kissinger: The founding father of preemption
Mitch Jeserich
Special to CorpWatch
Banking on Empire -- Iraqi ministries will now be able to borrow billions of dollars to buy much-needed equipment from overseas suppliers, but only by mortgaging the national oil revenues through a bank managed by New York-based multinational JP Morgan Chase.
Thalif Deen
Is the UN Returning to Iraq as US Front?
Paul Byrnes
Scott Ritter's "In Shifting Sands"
(A Documentary Review)
ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Jul 2001
Former U.N. inspector (Scott Ritter) accuses U.S. of provoking U.N. confrontation with Iraq as a pretext for U.S. airstrikes
BBC -- Sept 2002
Profile: Scott Ritter
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Historisists... Ain't that odd?
Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained
Ward Churchill
Haiti and
Deconstructing the Columbus Myth:
Was the "Great Discoverer" Italian or Spanish, Nazi or Jew?
The 1492 "voyage of discovery" is, however, hardly all that is at issue. In 1493 Columbus returned with an invasion force of 17 ships, appointed at his own request by the Spanish Crown to install himself as "viceroy and governor of [the Caribbean islands] and the mainland" of America, a position he held until 1500.5 Setting up shop on the large island he called Espanola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic), he promptly instituted policies of slavery (encomiendo) and systematic extermination of the native Taino population.6 Columbus' programs reduced Taino numbers from as many as 8 million at the outset of his regime to about 3 million in 1496.7 Perhaps 100,000 were left by the time the governor departed. His policies, however, remained, with the result that by 1514 the Spanish census of the island showed barely 22,000 Indians remaining alive. In 1542, only 200 were recorded.8 Thereafter, they were considered extinct, as were Indians throughout the Caribbean Basin, an aggregate population which totaled more than 15 million at the point of first contact with the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, as Columbus was known.9
This, to be sure, constitutes an attrition of population in real numbers every bit as great as the toll of 12 to 15 million?about half of them Jewish?most commonly attributed to Himmler's slaughter mills. Moreover, the proportion of indigenous Caribbean population destroyed by the Spanish in a single generation is, no matter how the figures are twisted, far greater than the 75 percent of European Jews usually said to have been exterminated by the nazis.10 Worst of all, these data apply only to the Caribbean Basin; the process of genocide in the Americas was only just beginning at the point such statistics become operant, not ending, as they did upon the fall of the Third Reich. All told, it is probable that more than 100 million native people were "eliminated" in the course of Europe's ongoing "civilization" of the Western Hemisphere.11
Cedric Muhammad
Rap COINTELPRO Part XIV:
President Kennedy, Tupac, Ja Rule, 50 Cent, and Minister Farrakhan -- Promoting Headwing?
The Hilltop
Howard University's Newspaper
Black Entertainment Network (BET)
Is It Blaxploitation?
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Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification
Syed Saleem Shahzad
The voice behind the intifada
KARACHI - For many centuries, the politics of the Muslim world have revolved around the massive al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, first built in 715 AD. The mosque complex, which includes the Dome of the Rock, is regarded as the third most holy shrine in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Eliezer Glaubach-Gal
Middle East Political & Strategy Series
Pilgrimages to Jerusalem Historical Lessons (Jewish-Christian-Muslim)
Eliezer Glaubach-Gal, Prof. Ph.D.
Chairman, The I. Foerder Institute for Liberal Studies
The Israeli Institute for Strategy of Peace (IISP)
President, Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA),
Israel Jerusalem, January 1, 2004
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North and South Korean Re-unification
Kim So-young
Seoul offers rice aid to N. Korea
Two Koreas agree to hold high-level military talks soon
Ryu Jin
Military Admits `Silmido Unit' for First Time
Moon Sun-Myung
North and South, East and West; Proclaiming "God's Fatherland and the Era of the Peace Kingdom" in 2004
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African Re-unification
Salih Booker & Ann-Louise Colgan
Africa Policy Outlook 2004
Africa Action.Org
Bush's Budget undermines AIDS Fight
AIDS represents the greatest threat to human security in the world today, but while the President requested more than $400 billion for military defense, he asked for less than 1% of this amount to fight the deadly global threat of HIV/AIDS.? . . The White House�s request for next year includes only $2.8 billion for programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria globally, with only a portion of this money going to Africa. In his 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush had promised $3 billion per year on an emergency basis to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean.
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Completed Testament
Good News / bad news
Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection
Eliezer Glaubach-Gal
Pilgrimages to Jerusalem Historical Lessons (Jewish-Christian-Muslim)
American Clergy Leadership Conference
Exchanging the Cross for the Crown
CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO CARRY CROSS, THEN TAKE IT DOWN IN EFFORT FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
Rev. Michael Jenkins
Special "Israel" Report / The Jerusalem Declaration
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Frontlines / Sexual Identity
Christian.Org.UK
Delight as Gender Bill is given the snip
Christian.Org.UK
Gender Recognition Bill
Russell D. Moore
Homosexuality, Racism, and
the Eclipse of the Gospel
Carlton Johnson
Cultural diversity and Moral diversity are
two different constructs...
Steve Chin
Marriage is multicultural
Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda
A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE
A Buddhist Perspective
Too much laxity in matters concerning sex has also given rise to
social problems in modern society. The sad part is that some societies
do not express liberal attitudes towards unmarried mothers,
illegitimate children and the divorcees while they are quite liberal
about free sex. As a result, young people are being punished by the
same society which encourages free mixing of the sexes. They become
social outcasts and suffer much shame and humiliation. Many young
girls have become victims of their own freedom and have ruined their
future by violating age-old traditions which were valued in the east
as well as in the west.
Pre-marital sex is a modern development which has come about as a
result of excessive social freedom prevalent amongst present day young
people. Whilst Buddhism holds no strong views either for or against
such action, it is thought that all Buddhists, particularly people of
both sexes in love and contemplating marriage, should adhere to the
age-old traditional concept that they maintain chastity until the
nuptial date. The human mind is unstable and forever changing, with
the result that any illicit action or indiscretion may cause undue
harm to either party if the legal marriage does not take place as
expected. It must be remembered that any form of sexual indulgence
before a proper marriage is solemnized will be looked down upon by the
elders who are the guardians of the young people.
Al-islam Org
Woman and her Rights / Polygamy
... As we have said earlier, the family life, the building of a home for the future generation and the definite connection between the past and the future generations are some of the demands of the human instinct.
IS MAN POLYGAMOUS BY NATURE?
... But we do not agree with the view that the spirit of man does not conform to monogamy. It is absolutely incorrect to say that his passion for diversity is incurable. We also do not believe that man cannot be faithful, or that one woman is born for one man and one man is born for all women.
To our belief the causes of man's unfaithfulness are related to the social atmosphere and man's nature is not responsible for it. Factors causing unfaithfulness stem from that atmosphere which, on the one hand, encourages woman to employ all sorts of temptations and seductions to lead a stranger astray and, on the other hand, deprives millions of women of their right of marriage by enforcing the law of monogamy.
In the Muslim East, prior to the introduction of Western ways and manners, 90% of the men adhered to monogamy in the real sense. They neither had more than one legal wife nor did they indulge in concubinage.
POLYGAMY AS THE FACTOR SAVING MONOGAMY
You will be surprised if we say that polygamy was the most important factor which served monogamy in the East. Its legality is really the biggest saving factor, in case the number of women requiring marriage exceeds the number of men eligible for it, because if the right of the surplus women to marriage is not recognised and the morally, financially and physically well-qualified men are not allowed to have more than one wife, free love and concubinage are bound to become rampant, destroying the very basis of real monogamy.
In the Muslim East, on the one hand polygamy was permissible and, on the other, temptations and provocations to immorality did not exist. Therefore, true monogamy prevailed in most of the families. Concubinage never developed to the extent that gradually a philosophy had been invented to justify it. In the East, it was never claimed that man was born polygamous and could not at all adhere to monogamy.
RABBI Dr J. H. HERTZ
MARRIAGE, DIVORCE,
AND THE POSITION OF WOMAN,IN JUDAISM
The Biblical ideal of human marriage is the monogamous one. The Creation story and all the ethical portions of Scripture speak of the union of a man with one wife. Whenever a Prophet alludes to marriage, he is thinking of such a union ?lifelong, faithful, holy. Polygamy seems to have well-nigh disappeared in Israel after the Babylonian Exile. Early Rabbinic literature presupposes a practically monogamic society; and out of 2800 teachers mentioned in the Talmudim, one only is stated to have had two wives. In the fourth century Aramaic paraphrase (Targum) of the Book of Ruth, the kinsman (IV, 6), refuses to 'redeem' Ruth, saying, 'I cannot marry her, because I am already married; I have no right to take an additional wife, lest it lead to strife m my home'. Such paraphrase would be meaningless, if it did not reflect the general feeling of the people on this question.
Monogamy in Israel was thus not the result of European contact. As a matter of fact, monogamy was firmly established in Jewish life long before the rise of Christianity.
YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ
The role of television in the spread of consumerism and voyeurism -- The television has become one of the most essential and ubiquitous items of a modern lifestyle, but few people are aware of the role it plays in shaping society. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses its link with consumerism
John M. Duvall
Choosing to Remain Sexually Pure
Gihwa / Hamheo Deuktong
Drinking Alcohol / The Exposition of the Correct
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Frontlines / Species-Race Identity
Becky McCall
Brain fingerprints under scrutiny
Stuart Lawrence Trager, M.D.,
Chairperson, Atkins Physicians Council
A New and Innovative Approach
to the Food Pyramid
Black Electorate
Exclusive Q & A With Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Author, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola?Nature, Accident or Intentional?" Re: The Origin Of AIDS
and . . .
Dr. Leonard Horowitz Responds To The Dialogue Room Comments
Re: His BlackElectorate.com Interview On The Origin Of AIDS
Dr. Len Horowitz
Did AIDS Really Originate By Accident, In Africa?
A New Thesis On The Origin Of AIDS
Minjok Han
Mounting Evidence
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Words of Wisdom -- Let it be...?
Peace in Corporate Life
Yusuf al-Khabbaz
Developing alternatives to
the Western pattern of "modern" education
NON-WESTERN EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE, by Timothy Reagan. New Jersey and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. 2nd ed.: pp. 263; pbk. $23.
Peace in Family Life
Steve Chin
Marriage is multicultural
As an evangelical Christian, I believe and affirm the biblical model of the family. But as an Asian-American, it is clear to me that the traditional family is not just a Western construct. The traditional family is an Asian construct as well-because it's universal.
"It is by the great rite of marriage that mankind subsists the myriad generations," the philosopher Confucius said, around the year 500 B.C.
Buddhist Perspectives
Filial Piety
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