Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:35:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://mwcnews.net/images/M_images/new.png http://mwcnews.net Media With Conscience 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 . News - Top Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:26:35 +0100 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. News - Top Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:15:46 +0100 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. News - Top Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:11:15 +0100 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. News - Top Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:04:16 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34273/54/ The latest official data shows that the unemployment rate in the United States touched 10.2 per cent in October, the highest since 1983. News - Economy Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:51:32 +0100 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. News - Arab Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:35:23 +0100 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. News - Global Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:27:57 +0100 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. News - S+T Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:23:21 +0100 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. Opinions - Politic Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:42:52 +0100 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? Opinions - op-ed Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:25:10 +0100 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. Opinions - Bulletin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:44:56 +0100 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. Opinions - Politic Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:38:39 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34245/26/ In a landmark case, twenty-three Americans, mostly CIA operatives, have been convicted in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. They were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to hand them over. The convictions turn them into international fugitives who risk arrest abroad. The case marks the first time any American has been convicted for taking part in a so-called “extraordinary rendition.” Opinions - Daily Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:59 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34237/26/ On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis’ attack, America invaded … Afghanistan. Opinions - op-ed Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:15 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34236/26/ “Why would any writer make up stories about the Holocaust?” asks Melissa Katsoulis on mainstream British media outlet The Independent (1).Katsoulis has recently published a book about the history of literary hoaxes. She is interested in particular in a unique fictional genre; namely ‘the Holocaust hoaxers’. Opinions - Society Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:12:47 +0100