Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:35:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://mwcnews.net/images/M_images/new.png http://mwcnews.net Media With Conscience http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31652/195/ The incoming head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said that he has not seen any hard evidence that Iran is trying to develop atomic weapons. News - Top Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:23:40 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31650/42/ Malpracticers of EconomicFULL STORY... (/content/view/31650/42/) Editor - Editorial Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:45:18 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31649/26/ We are most free when we are most bound to othersPower is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,” [1] which assumes a zero-sum game in which individuals are always in competition for that power—someone dominates and someone submits. In such a world, one can use this kind of power with varying levels of responsibility to others, but in such a world it is inevitable that power routinely will be used unjustly. Opinions - Society Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:37:42 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31648/26/ Marjorie Cohn is a Distinguished Law Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego where she's taught since 1991 and is the current President of the National Lawyers Guild. She's also been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels, is an author, and writes many articles for professional journals, other publications, and numerous popular web sites. Opinions - Review Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:20:28 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31647/26/ The Department of Offense has awarded a 1.05 billion-dollar contract to the Oshkosh Corporation of Wisconsin. Oshkosh is associated with Plasan North America, which operates a manufacturing site in Bennington, Vermont. The parent company of Plasan NA is Plasan Sasa. It is located in Israel. Opinions - op-ed Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:00:04 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31642/195/ European Union nations are considering recalling their ambassadors to Iran after it was suggested that local British embassy staff would face trial over their alleged role in protests over the disputed presidential election. News - Top Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:20:23 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31637/51/ Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, allowed the world to believe his country had weapons of mass destruction in an attempt to deter an Iranian invasion, an FBI file has revealed. News - Global Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:54:19 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31634/53/ The US vice-president has travelled to Baghdad to meet Iraqi leaders and US military commanders, following the pullback of US troops from towns and cities across the country. News - Arab Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:38:02 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31628/26/ President Obama has no legal authority either from the United Nations or the U.S. Congress under the War Powers Resolution (WPR) to escalate the war in Afghanistan, a distinguished professor of international law says. Opinions - Politic Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:56:04 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31627/26/ Iranians have spoken, with defiant demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands, and in rallies elsewhere, including one last weekend near Paris of 90,000, in protest against widespread election fraud and the fist of a regime unleashing terror. Opinions - op-ed Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:25:55 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31626/26/ Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military boarded their ship in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Opinions - Daily Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:59 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31625/26/ One of the aspects of the Iraq War that has fascinated me the most is how CIA agents and U.S. soldiers could actually bring themselves to kill, torture, and sexually abuse Iraqis. After all, don’t forget that neither the Iraqi people nor their government participated in the 9/11 attacks. The worst “crime” that any Iraqi committed against any American was resisting an unlawful invasion of his country. Opinions - Politic Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:54:53 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31605/42/ Open Letter to lawyers requesting support in securing the release of leading Chinese rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gao Zhisheng Editor - Letters Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:12 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31604/26/ Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire First written in 1972, it was updated in a 2003 edition that's every bit as relevant now - thus this review focusing on Hudson's new preface, introduction, and detailed account of the book's theme. Opinions - Review Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:53:01 +0100 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31603/264/ a lecture by Professor Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilegerecorded March 30, 2009(lecture, 28 minutes; discussion, 24 minutes) MWC - Media Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:20:37 +0100