Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:29:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://mwcnews.net/images/M_images/new.png http://mwcnews.net Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34562/26/ The Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and four alleged co-conspirators in civilian court is a laudable return to the rule of law from the Bush administration’s kangaroo military commissions, which convened offshore in Guantanamo to avoid giving defendants full legal rights under domestic or international law. But it is not enough. Opinions - Politic Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:51:30 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34561/26/ Thousands are gathering at Fort Benning in Georgia this weekend for the annual protest to shut down the US Army training center dubbed by critics as the “School of the Assassins” for having trained some of the worst human rights violators in Latin America. This year’s protest will mark the twentieth anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador by the US-backed Salvadoran military. Opinions - Features Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:45:15 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34560/42/ A two-headed monster locked in the closet Are we slowly coming out of a major recession, or will it turn into a double or even triple-dip recession thanks to the government’s infusion of capital that this nation neither has, nor will be able to pay back in the future to a lender? Several prominent economists, Prof. James Galbraith among them, sense that there won’t be a V-shaped recovery. FULL STORY... (http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34560/42/) Editor - Editorial Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:22:22 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34559/26/ ‘Israel is the light onto the nations’ says the Torah. Indeed it is, and not just because the Torah says so. Israel is ahead of everyone else in many fronts. Take for instance, terrorizing civilian populations and practicing some of the most devastating murderous tactics upon elders, women and young. Opinions - op-ed Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:13:03 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34557/195/ Afghanistan's defence ministry has unveiled plans to expand the national army's size three-fold - a move that will bring the total troop level to 240,000. News - Top Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:58:56 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34551/195/ The US justice department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, according to court documents. News - Top Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:21:01 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34550/56/ A team of scientists in Switzerland have restarted the world's largest sub-atomic particle collider for the first time since the nearly $10bn machine suffered a massive malfunction last year. News - S+T Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:15:25 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34549/53/ Palestinian presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has confirmed. News - Arab Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:09:23 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34548/52/ Oprah Winfrey has announced that her powerhouse daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire with legions of fans, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. News - Culture Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:04:10 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34547/51/ Brazil's president has called for an immediate end to Israeli settlement construction on Palestinian territory, following a meeting with his visiting Palestinian counterpart. News - Global Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:58:45 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34545/51/ Senior officials from six world powers have expressed disappointment at Iran's response to an offer of a deal intended to delay its potential ability to make nuclear bombs and have urged Tehran to reconsider the proposal. News - Global Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:45:36 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34543/26/ On November 20, New York Times writer Colin Moynihan broke the news headlining: Radical Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorist Is Jailed, then saying: Defiant to the end as she embraced supporters outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, Lynne F. Stewart, the radical lawyer known for defending unpopular clients, surrendered on Thursday to begin serving her 28-month sentence for assisting terrorism. Opinions - Daily Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:55:43 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34542/42/ This week the British people listened to the Daily Mail’s Peter Oborne present, on Channel 4, his devastating account of the Jewish lobby’s control of their government. Now we know that virtually all the principal politicians in the UK of both parties, like their brothers across the lake in our House and Senate, take “contributions” from the Israeli lobby machine ensuring that the Anglo-American mid-east policies follow the dictates of the Israeli government. FULL STORY... (http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34542/42/) Editor - Editorial Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:32:35 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34523/26/ I don’t know how President Bush and the Pentagon came up with the idea of establishing a new judicial system for trying terrorists, but there is the distinct possibility that they got the idea from German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Opinions - Politic Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:43:14 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34522/26/ We have been conditioned from birth to believe that everything wrong in our society is about Greed: The inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. Opinions - Bulletin Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:47:55 +0100