Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net 2009-11-07T08:32:51+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/images/M_images/new.png text/html 2009-11-07T08:26:35+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34279/195/ The Afghan government has rejected foreign criticisms of Hamid Karzai, with the re-elected president saying that they violated national sovereignty . text/html 2009-11-07T08:15:46+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34277/195/ Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed national unity government line-up, paving the way to end four months of political deadlock in the country. text/html 2009-11-07T08:11:15+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34276/195/ A leading member of Iran's parliament has said that Tehran will turn down a deal that would compel it to hand over its low-enriched uranium for fuel for a nuclear reactor. text/html 2009-11-07T08:04:16+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34275/195/ Investigators are searching for a motive behind the shooting at a US army base in Texas, in which 13 military staff were killed by an army psychiatrist. text/html 2009-11-07T07:51:32+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34273/195/ The latest official data shows that the unemployment rate in the United States touched 10.2 per cent in October, the highest since 1983. text/html 2009-11-07T07:35:23+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34271/53/ Supporters of Fatah, the Palestinian faction led by Mahmoud Abbas, have taken to the streets in the West Bank city of Ramallah in an attempt to force the Palestinian president to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election. text/html 2009-11-07T07:27:57+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34270/51/ At least one person has been killed and five others wounded in a shooting attack at an office in the US city of Orlando, authorities have said. text/html 2009-11-07T07:23:21+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34269/56/ At least 40 world leaders have said they will attend climate change talks in Denmark next month, but there are still fears that there will be few tangible results after preparatory meetings ended with scant progress. text/html 2009-11-06T09:42:52+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34263/26/ With the massacre at Ft. Hood, we once again see the consequences of gun control. Remember what the gun controllers say: that once gun control is imposed, would-be murderers will obey the gun-control law by resorting to some other form of murder. At least the killers won’t use a gun, the gun-controllers exclaim, because gun possession is now against the law. text/html 2009-11-06T09:25:10+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34262/26/ To let Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) decide whether or not deposed President Manuel Zelaya may return to office and complete the remaining weeks of his term, expiring on January 27. If he does, will it matter? text/html 2009-11-06T08:44:56+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34261/26/ Congressman Weiner has agreed with Nancy Pelosi not to have a floor vote on his Medicare for All bill. A press release from Congressmen Kucinich and Conyers opposing it helped tip the scale. But Weiner did not ask Pelosi to include in her bill the Kucinich Amendment to allow states to create single-payer. Pelosi made clear that President Obama opposes that, and used the bogus excuse that providing everyone with comprehensive free healthcare would deprive them of the right to pay ever increasing rates for uncertain health insurance. text/html 2009-11-06T08:38:39+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34260/26/ 20 years after the fall of communism, American style capitalism has also fallen. But the downfall was silent, without any visible walls toppling or crumbling. The 9/11 like collapse of the financial firms of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers left no piles of rubble or slabs of fractured concrete on the ground, just lots of laid off traders and deal makers. But the brokerage and investment banks’ end signalled the death knell of market capitalism as we knew it; another misbegotten ideology born out of the musings of Adam Smith, Ricardo and Milton Friedman was laid to rest unceremoniously. text/html 2009-11-06T07:37:09+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34252/53/ The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favour of resolution endorsing a UN-sponsored report into war crimes committed during Israel's war on Gaza. text/html 2009-11-06T07:24:57+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34250/54/ China has described as protectionist new US anti-dumping duties on steel pipes and demanded Washington's recognition that it is a market economy. text/html 2009-11-06T07:07:39+01:00 http://mwcnews.net http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34247/57/ In the wake of a shooting spree by a US army psychiatrist at Ford Hood in Texas, below is a glance at some of the worst mass shootings in the US in recent years: