Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net Fri, 16 May 2008 08:30:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://mwcnews.net/images/M_images/new.png http://mwcnews.net Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22519/26/ Under ordinary circumstances, accused terrorist Mohammed Qahtani would be pleased that all criminal charges have been dismissed against him, especially since the Pentagon has alleged that he is one of the many “20th hijackers” on 9/11. But these are not ordinary circumstances given that Qahtani is one of the many foreigners mired in the Pentagon’s bizarre “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay. Opinions - Politic Fri, 16 May 2008 07:42:32 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22503/26/ As Palestinians Mark 60th Anniversary of Their Dispossession, a Conversation with Palestinian Writer and Doctor Ghada KarmiToday is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, what Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe, that resulted in the expulsion and dispossession of over 750,000 Palestinians from their cities and villages. Opinions - Features Thu, 15 May 2008 14:42:56 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22499/42/ Vancouver practitioners appeal for the rescue of relatives recently arrested in QuangzhouVancouver - The Falun Dafa Association is calling a press conference on May 16 at 12 pm at the Art Gallery (Robson Plaza ) and will march to the Chinese Consulate at 3338 Granville to appeal for the release of two Falun Gong practitioners,.. Editor - Letters Thu, 15 May 2008 14:10:24 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22498/26/ President George W. Bush should urge Israel to reverse its strict closure policy towards the Gaza Strip, three human rights groups said in a letter to the US president today. Human Rights Watch and two Israeli human rights groups, Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, called on Bush to dissociate the United States from the closure policy, which is causing grave harm to Gaza's civilian population. Opinions - Bulletin Thu, 15 May 2008 12:03:09 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22493/42/ MWC News 4th Anniversary (/content/view/22493/42/)Decent anti-racist, humanitarian folk around the world understand the crucial need for media to REPORT THE TRUTH – especially when that truth relates to gross human rights abuses and avoidable mass morbidity and mortality. However this powerful plea of Humanity in general can be re-stated from a scientific perspective as follows. FULL STORY... (/content/view/22493/42/) Editor - Editorial Thu, 15 May 2008 06:41:16 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22492/42/ Flailing and scrambling, tripping and screaming. everyone is well aware that something is fundamentally and horribly fucked. Editor - Letters Thu, 15 May 2008 06:26:13 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22478/26/ More than four years after the decision to invade Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein and impose democracy, nearly 160,000 U.S. soldiers remain there. Opinions - op-ed Thu, 15 May 2008 05:07:47 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22477/42/ John Edwards just endorsed Barack Obama. If Edwards' 19 delegates take his advice and vote for Obama, then Obama now has 1,620 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,441. There are 189 delegates left to be pledged in remaining states. Editor - Daily Wed, 14 May 2008 15:29:19 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22464/26/ An increasing number of newspaper articles are reflecting that Latino immigrants nationwide are suffering from the U.S. economic downturn. For example, an article in Tuesday’s New York Times entitled “A Tenuous Prosperity Lost” stated, Opinions - Society Wed, 14 May 2008 08:27:52 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22463/26/ Wild Wonderful West Virginia may, when the last vote is counted (or tossed out) give Senator Clinton 18 pledged delegates and Senator Obama 10. It'll be pretty close to that, and if that's the final count, then the new totals will be Obama 1,602 and Clinton 1,440. Opinions - Politic Wed, 14 May 2008 07:26:21 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22441/42/ Thank you, Lord,FULL STORY... (/content/view/22441/42/) Editor - Editorial Tue, 13 May 2008 16:32:39 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22440/26/ EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Military Intelligence Officer Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the US military shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The attack killed two journalists: Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and Jose Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television network Telecinco. Opinions - Daily Tue, 13 May 2008 12:46:10 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22439/26/ From the administration that used the 9/11 tragedy to violently pursue an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, we get Round Two. After a cyclone devastated portions of Burma (which the despotic Burmese government has renamed Myanmar) and killed an estimated 100,000 people, instead of concentrating on providing relief,.. Opinions - op-ed Tue, 13 May 2008 11:54:32 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22438/26/ It seems that the mainstream media might finally be coming to realize that the soaring prices of commodities is not so much due to reduced supplies or increases in demand but instead to the enormous fall in the value of the dollar. Opinions - Bulletin Tue, 13 May 2008 08:20:38 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22437/26/ Please Vote for Obama in NovemberThe wing of the Republican Party that is dissatisfied with both George Bush and John McCain has swung back into view recently. Dedicated, activist supporters of Ron Paul are quietly [plotting] GOP convention revolt against McCain, the LA Times' blog tells us. The next battleground after their stunning success in Nevada, DailyKos' McJoan says, is Idaho, where Paul supporters are attempting to take over the state level GOP committee. Opinions - Politic Tue, 13 May 2008 07:50:30 +0100