Western Mainstream media, Governments and politicians very properly condemn passive mass murder in cyclone-devastated Burma by the insufficiently responsive Burma military junta – but are highly hypocritical in ignoring the horrendous passive killing by US Alliance military occupiers in the US Empire from Occupied Haiti to Occupied Afghanistan.
Pledged delegates are awarded by voters and caucus goers. Super-delegates are antidemocratic Party control freaks who have no business deciding anything. Of pledged delegates, now that Oregon and Kentucky have had their say, Senator Obama has 1,648 and Senator Clinton 1,493. There are 86 pledged delegates remaining to be awarded in Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota. This means that Clinton can still pull it out if she picks up 181 percent of the remaining delegates.
To gain a good sense of how conservatives view the federal government, all one has to do is examine the words that conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson directed toward David Ray Griffin, an author who has claimed that the federal government was behind the 9/11 attacks.
Arab League mediators headed by Qatar have formally announced a deal between rival Lebanese leaders after five days of talks in Doha, the Qatari capital.
The European commission is to discuss a plan to reform the European Union's common agriculture policy (CAP), which currently provides handouts of $62bn per year to farmers.
Disaster recovery teams in southern China are rushing to deliver emergency shelter, food and medicine to the estimated five million people made homeless in last week's deadly earthquake.
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Arab League mediators headed by Qatar have formally announced a deal between rival Lebanese leaders after five days of talks in Doha, the Qatari capital. 
Barack Obama has declared himself "within reach" of the Democratic nomination for president.
The secretary general of the United Nations is heading to Myanmar in an effort to step up relief efforts for survivors of Cyclone Nargis.
Disaster recovery teams in southern China are rushing to deliver emergency shelter, food and medicine to the estimated five million people made homeless in last week's deadly earthquake.
