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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
September 8, 2007
 
Conservative Hypocrisy ( http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16604&Itemid=1 )
MWC News - Vancouver,Canada
When Bush lectures middle-class and working-class people on self-responsibility, he has no credibility whatever. This is true for most establishment ...
 
A threat to the US religious right's hegemony ( http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5659 )
Ekklesia - UK
It was the Christian Right who made President Bush, and he knew it. That is why Mr Bush would often break off from the affairs of state to address the ...
 
Unnatural disasters: Human choices lead to inequity in Latin America ( http://www.the-tidings.com/2007/090707/newsbriefs.htm )
The Tidings - Los Angeles,CA,USA
ICA, Peru (CNS) --- The cracks in the walls of Eliseo Cardenas Carhuapuma's adobe house are so deep that he is afraid for his son to play inside. ...
 
EPA Hauled Into Court Over Ship Smokestack Pollution ( http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2007/2007-09-07-091.asp )
Environment News Service - USA
... hundreds of ship calls a month, says Shore, yet the air pollution from large ships is an environmental justice issue facing port communities nationwide. ...
 
Enough is Enough ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rogers/enough-is-enough_b_63315.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
The time when politicians can stand with one foot on the platform of homophobia and the other in the closet has come to an end. ...
 
Enjoying That Hilarious Wartime Homophobia ( http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=6218 )
Santa Monica Mirror - Santa Monica,CA,USA
Maybe at the top here, we can agree on something: If powerful America is going to send its military personnel to their deaths in the name of "freedom," then ...
 
Jena incident highlights racism in US ( http://www.thehoot.net/?module=displaystory&story_id=2116&format=html )
The Brandeis Hoot - West Orange,NJ,USA
The troubling odyssey of the Jena Six demonstrates the two distinct but interrelated types of racism in our society and how these racisms can work in ...
 
Unveiling Muslim Feminism ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3310/unveiling_muslim_feminism/ )
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
As Nima Naghibi argues in Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran (University of Minnesota Press), Muslim women's veiled or unveiled bodies ...
 
Israeli air strikes killed civilians indiscriminately, rights ... ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070907.wmideastleb07/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070907.wmideastleb07 )
Globe and Mail - Canada
JERUSALEM -- Human Rights Watch has condemned Israel over the conduct of last summer's war in southern Lebanon, saying hundreds of civilian deaths stemmed ...
 
Council of Europe Chief: Germany Must Target Racism's Roots ( http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2766429,00.html )
Deutsche Welle - Germany
We released two reports through the European Commission for Racism and Intolerance on Germany in the last six years, in 2001 and 2004, and both were very ...
 
Social immobility and poverty in the modern US ( http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/09/06/2003377481 )
Taipei Times - Taiwan
28,when the US census bureau revealed its latest findings on income, poverty and health. The report showed that since US President George W. Bush came to ...
 
Forums to focus on link between poverty, race ( http://www.thestar.com/News/article/253721 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Poverty is becoming a racialized issue in Canada, disproportionately affecting minority groups for reasons rooted in subtle racism, says a new advocacy ...
 
Hefty Iraq bills have business of war booming for contractors ( http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/NEWS0301/709060339/1003/NEWS03 )
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
Companies such as Blackwater and Greystone heavily recruit from militaries all over the world to build the "teams" carrying out the US-led war. ...
 
US Public Lands Endangered by Global Warming ( http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0906-04.htm )
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland,ME,USA
"Global warming is the greatest threat our public lands and waters have ever faced," said Friends of the Earth Program Associate Kate Horner. ...
 
The Politicization of the Department of Justice ( http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00106.htm )
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
The darling of the Christian right and the National Rifle Association (NRA) as well as big business, anti-environment and anti-civil rights lobbies, ...
 
Socialist strategy needed to oppose war and social inequality ( http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/apec-s07.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
Millions of people around the globe are looking for a way to fight against war, militarism, the attacks on democratic rights and deepening social inequality ...
 
Canada census to count same-sex couples for the first time ( http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/06/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Same-Sex-Marriages.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
AP TORONTO: Canada will release its first census count of same-sex married couples next week, but some activists in the gay and lesbian community are not ...
 
A unique experience for Black children ( http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=81940&sID=34 )
Amsterdam News - Baltimore,MD,USA
An African-centered education is a threat to white supremacy. The Central Park jogger case should be a constant reminder of the war on Black children. ...
 
The War on Drug's Bloody Face ( http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/the-war-on-drugs-bloody-face/ )
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
It was there that the then greatest imperial power in the world used the opium trade as a means to open China up to foreign imperialism and exploitation. ...
 
Women are quitting the IT industry because the gender pay gap widens ( http://www.union-network.org/UNIIBITSn.nsf/0/F3A80A31B7A637B6C125734E004F7470?OpenDocument )
Union Network International - Nyon,Switzerland
And this is exactly what it is all about: equity and transparency. If IT firms want to fill the skill gap in the IT industry they have to listen to women's ...
 
King Cotton highlights issues of slavery and poverty ( http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2007/09/07/king-cotton-highlights-issues-of-slavery-and-poverty-64375-19747083/ )
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK
YOU might imagine it a matter of old chums slurping tea and nattering as they kicked around the idea for a play focusing on slavery and the Lancashire ...
 
Israeli human rights group: Israel must adhere to international law ( http://www.imemc.org/article/50284 )
International Middle East Media Center - Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
The Israeli human rights group, the Civil Rights Society, sent an urgent message to the Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert on Wednesday warning of the ...
 
Bush accused of rolling back civil rights triumphs ( http://www.star-telegram.com/national_news/story/223889.html )
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Justice Department civil rights chief Burke Marshall and his top deputy, John Doar, told Kennedy that the pins in the map marked counties and parishes where ...
 
Black Americans Under Attack ( http://www.alternet.org/rights/61723/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
War, racism and economic exploitation continue to erode the path for the poor and Black Americans to get merit for their work and obtain the wealth they ...
 
 
 
 

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