LABOUR: U.S. Unions Back Ousted Mexican Leader March 30th, 2006
Dear Editor:
REMEMBER ONE THING ,THIS IS A WORLD OF MONEY AND POWER. IF UNION MEN IN AMERICA DO NOT KNOW THE GAME OF FILLING AMERICA WITH CHEAP LABOR FROM MEXICO ,THEN THEY DESERVE FIVE DOLLARS AN HOUR, IF UNION LEADERS TELL YOU ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE GOOD FOR YOU AND THEY WILL
COLLECT DUES FROM THEM AND YOU SWALLOW THAT MAN CRAP ,YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET. GOOD PAYING JOBS ARE DISAPPEARING AND THE CHILDREN OF THOSE UNION MEN WHO FOIST UPON T HEIR CHILDREN THEY DID NOT KNOW BETTER IS A LIE. IF UNION MEN SEND OTHER PEOPLE’S SONS TO DIE FOR IRAQ’S BORDERS AND IGNORE OURS, THEN YOU DESERVE WHAT IS COMING TO YOU UNION MAN UAW
Dear Editor:
Your story that Saddam was better for women is deeply troubling and the argument that U.S. troops should withdraw immediately may be right; but I do not see how withdrawal of U.S. troops would help improve the climate in Iraq for women. Isn’t the U.S. trying to urge/force the Shia to create a government that would be more secular or at the very least would bring some of the Sunni secularists into the Shia-dominated government? Wouldn’t the dominant Shia create a theocracy without the U.S. there to put pressure on them?
Pearl
Seattle, Washington
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Dear Editor:
Unfortunately, in a very ironic way, it is very heartwarming to see something like this reported about. The US government that claims itself to be the messenger of democracy, freedom and ‘better and progressive’ Western values to the non-Western world has clearly failed in this mission of it’s. In its bid to win support for occupancy in Iraq, the US government has gone ahead and pandered to those very sentiments that it claims it wants to abolish in order to establish a progressive and democratic regime. Women’s rights should clearly be an integral part of forming this regime.
I agree that the US should not blindly stamp its Western ideals and values on a culture and citizenry much unlike it’s own, but there is a balance to be drawn. If your mission is sincere, you will take the best bits from both cultures and try and form a system that appeals to all. In a country with so many sects and a history of serious clashes, this can be a tough act and the US clearly has chosen the easy way out. All this proves something we already knew - their war against Iraq had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein and his tyrannical rule.
Poulomi Saha
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Dear Editor:
You should read this Foreign Affairs article (by Isobel Coleman, in the January/February 2006 issue): “Women, Islam, and the New Iraq” — www.foreignaffairs.org
Lt. Michael Dean
Public Affairs
Camp Victory - Iraq
IRAQ: World Demonstrations Strengthen Iraqis March 29th, 2006
Dear Editor:
THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT AND INSPIRING ARTICLE. PLEASE LET BRIAN CONLEY AND ISAM RASHID KNOW HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE THEIR OUTSTANDING WORK!
Sally Eberhardt
Coalition for the International Criminal Court - www.iccnow.org
(Mar. 30)
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Dear Editor:
I’m an American and why won’t our media services put this information out so that many more Americans could be informed. But the reality is our media services know it, but are afraid to put it on the air, and Fox News is there to discredit news like this with their phoney experts. I appreciate being on IPS’s email list. I hope to one day look back on History and tell the younger generation how I refuse to believe anything the Bush Administration tells me. I feel like a German Citizen in the late 30’s.
Dear Brian Conley and Isam Rashid,
I feel very disturbed by your recent editorial. As an anti-war protester, I am calling for the end of the war, not demonstrating support for one side or another. The Iraqi insurgency is as morally culpable for the war as are the occupying forces. The resistance will not bring the end to the occupation, rather, it is maintaining the justification for President Bush to maintain a military presence. The anti war movement is about nonviolence and peace, not anti-Americanism. Being in favor of peace essentially means being against acts of violence by either side. The majority of us Americans now believe that the war is wrong but are divided about what to do about it now that we are in Iraq. I believe we should bring our troops home. I do not stand in solidarity with the Iraqis. Speak for yourself. I completely condemn anyone who supports the Insurgency. Your article echoes what pro-war reactionaries in my country claim, that people who oppose war are unpatriotic, and that the anti-war movement is helping the insurgency. This is utter rubbish. The war would already be over were it not for the insurgency. An escalation of violence by either side will only result in a response by the other. Peace will only come when both sides stop fighting. The only real hope of this happening now is if both Americans and Iraqis stand together against violence by their own sides. In other words, Iraqis must stop their own people from fighting.
While most Americans realize that bad leadership got us into this mess, we are pretty much stuck with Bush for another three years, and he unfortunately has no apparent plan of ever withdrawing our troops from Iraq. If neither American fools nor Iraqi fools back down, the war goes on. America’s fools are not backing down anytime soon. Ali Fathi is a fool, the “resistance” will do nothing but keep the war going. What does the “resistance” hope to accomplish? Scare away its reluctant occupier and overthrow the democratic government to install a regime run by ethnic Sunnis? How will this help Iraqis? It is only guaranteeing more Iraqi bloodshed and possibly a full blown civil war.
The indiscriminate violence by the insurgency does not lend any support for the antiwar movement, either. We who oppose what our country is doing do so because we believe we are doing something wrong, not because we are afraid of the insurgents or weary of the toll of our own. Killing more of us won’t make us kill fewer of you.
ENVIRONMENT-CANADA: Annual Seal Hunt Begins March 29th, 2006
Dear Editor:
I’m glad to see that somebody is covering this story. I found this website from Google Alerts… I feel that the seal hunt is one of the most disgusting hunts that I have ever seen. It’s cruel and unnecessary. I also believe that if more people knew about this they would feel the same way, but unfortunately the public is constantly being told news about isolated cases that have no real impact on the public’s life. I’m sure you know what stories I’m talking about. I wish there was a news channel on tv that focused on just the enviroment and animals. Maybe if there was a network like that, I feel more people would be exposed to the damage that we all are doing to the earth. You would be surprised at the number of people that could make a difference in the world if they only knew. Thank you for your time and keep bringing the stories about the seals. They are one of many of God’s gifts and we need to do everything possible to protect them before they are totally wiped out.
Lisa Faye Lewis
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Dear Editor:
Seems some Canadians don’t bother to exchange the red maple leaf on their flag for a bloodied seal skull. All over the world the image of Canadians is changing. A man walking red ice with a stick now replaces the blue helmet UN peacekeeper. This bad temper citizen is hitting at defenseless seals. Time to time the brute throw seal gut at amazed animal right activists. The peaceful Canadian became a bloodthirsty heartless hunter. If mister Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was trying to show his skill at crisis management, he really missed that one!
Images of helpless animals clubbed to death are unacceptable in our civilized countries. It is all right to see this in primitive societies. We assume they don’t know better. Well, Canadians have welfare, cars and televisions. They should have known better than allowing this situation to unfold in front of all the televisions of this world. This Canadian seal hunt is more than a cruel event. It is a mismanaged crisis.
There is no good excuse for this mess. The Canadian government should have known better what to do in front of the rising crisis. This situation appends once before and nearly destroyed the seal fur industry. Government officials should had taken this situation seriously long ago. There are ways to manage Canadians citizens who don’t bother to show to the world such pitiful spectacle. They should have been told the right way to act. Did anybody bother to find why, if clubbing an animal to death is such a human way to kill it, animal protection societies around the world don’t use that method?
RIGHTS-US: Legal Immigrants Reject Criminalising Undocumented March 29th, 2006
Dear Editor:
I read all about the immigrant situation. I think that America should also take down these walls and make it a united Americas (Canada and Mexico). Thanks for listening to a former immigrant.
Hilde Cochrane
HEALTH: Brain Drain Hits Poor Countries Hard March 29th, 2006
Dear Editor:
I’ve been working on brain drain issues and “Brain Drain Hits Poor Countries Hard” by Gustavo Capdevila was a better article than many you read in medical journals - better researched and better analysis.
Thanks
Sally
Another world is possible!
People’s Health Movement (Australia)
POLITICS: Indian Firms Must Hire ‘Dalits’ Says Gov’t March 28th, 2006
Sir,
The Government may go in for affirmative action but it must demand efficiency by promoting people only on merit. What is disturbing is that a new class of Dalits corner all the jobs. For example Meirakumars, Ramvilas Paswans sons and daughters do not need reservation. Also the Dalit Freedom Network is started in America and gets inspiration from All India Christian Council which pushes the Dalits to petition the American Congress and not Indian Parliament.
IRAQ: Are U.S. Intentions More “Base” Than Honourable? March 26th, 2006
Dear Editor:
The Marshall Plan, which indebted Europe to the US, also entrenched US military bases in mainland Europe, the market the US wished to protect in the post war period. The US intent to populate Iraq, currently viewed as essential to the US petrochemical economy, with ‘permanent’ US military bases, will mirror the ‘iron hand in the velvet glove’ approach to market protectionism used previously. The US will provide whatever lip service it has to, whilst it ensures, through military presence, its access to Middle Eastern oil reserves. Alas, as [former US president] Clinton said, ‘It’s the economy, stupid!’
HEALTH-AFRICA: Anti-Abortion Laws a “Silent War Waged Against Women” March 26th, 2006
Dear Editor
I have read your story on abortions in Africa and would like to comment.
Firstly to introduce myself to you: I am registered midwife and mum of four children living in South Africa. At the time that the SA abortion law was passed in 1997 I started a crisis pregnancy centre for women who landed with an unplanned pregnancy. I started by being a pro-life activist lobbying outside parliament and soon realised that this was not achieving much and that too much focus was around the political arena of pro-life vs pro-choice, those caught in the middle were the women whose lives were devastated and broken as a result of an unplanned pregnancy and there was nowhere for them to go for support and counsel. Over the past 10 years as I have sat in the counselling room with hundreds of women in crisis, I have come to the conclusion that MOST women, given a supportive environment, and a place where they can safely work through their crisis, would choose NOT to go through with an abortion, no woman I have ever met, regardless of her race or religious state has ever wished an abortion on herself.
The most common reason for women choosing abortion has been that they are afraid and scared to tell anyone of the pregnancy, or their “significant other” is influencing their decision either by their absence or their own fears.
Women need to be empowered with correct information regarding their bodies and what is happening to them, they need support from someone they can trust.
What I am saying is that instead of making abortion legal and putting your money and energy into it and using this method as a “quick fix”, the problem is deeper, because although the women may not be pregnant anymore after an abortion, the scars in her soul never go away.
Consider that the South African abortion law is the most liberal law in the world, especially when it comes to minors (under 18yr), our law states that any woman of child bearing age can have an abortion without the consent of her parents/father of the child, our law in contradiction also states that sexual activity under the age of 16 is illegal and reportable. We have also seen mothers forcing their daughters to have abortions without the daughter having a say.
Our law says very little about mandatory counselling. There are counselling centres all over Africa, that we can refer you to for help in training up and setting up counselling centres.
Sincerely
Dee Moskoff, Co-ordinator
CONNECT NETWORK Cape Town
together for women and children
RELIGION-US: Evangelical Christians Most Distrustful of Muslims March 25th, 2006
Dear Editor:
Thank you so much for this wonderful analysis of the Pew study. I am a Muslim American and I was extremely grateful to read this analysis. I was happy to see proof that personal contact does affect the impressions and beliefs of Americans regarding Islam. Thank you again
DEATH PENALTY: Sanctions on Iran May Trigger Executions March 24th, 2006
Dear Editor,
Thanks for highlighting the situation of political prisoners and their very likely execution in Iran in your article. The Iranian regime is ruthless and will no doubt execute these prisoners, as it did to 30,000 members of the PMOI in 1988.
BIODIVERSITY: Peasants Say No to ‘Selling’ Traditional Knowledge March 24th, 2006
Dear Editor:
These issues are pertinent. It is a wonderful thing to see IPS give them coverage. Seeds and traditional knowledge are too priceless for market-driven motivations and should be kept out of the selling arena. People from poor and ecoculturally fragile areas in particular have every good reason to be very concerned about the way multinational corporations genetically modify seeds and crops because these corporations are trying to monopolize food varieties. People in parts of the globe such as Africa and Latin America already experience horrendous food shortages due to the short and long-term ramifications of such practices.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A Chance to Reach ‘Missing’ Persons March 23rd, 2006
Dear Sir,
In the article above the writer has confused two different sides of a pictures. The writer has put both the liberal and fundamentalists in the same category.
As matter of fact Baloch are liberal and are fighting for liberalisation of their motherland Balochistan. The war against Baloch is an act of terror by Pakistan and Pakistani establishment is capitalising on the US war on terror by kidnapping and torturing innocent Baloch politicians to suppress their voices. The pro-Taliban Mullahs of Pakistan who are supporting current Pakistani Establishment are also quite on the issue of Balochistan where as they are restless over Waziristan where the fight is against the pro-Talibans.
BIODIVERSITY: Don’t Sell “Suicide Seeds”, Activists Warn March 23rd, 2006
Dear Editor:
This is nothing but a big money maker for commercial companies such as Monsanto. It has nothing to do with helping the poor. Better irrigation and rotational farming, without chemicals, is proven to be much better for those consuming the resulting food, those working in the agricultural industry and for the environment.
It is also more cost effective and as there is not the harm to health that chemicals bring there is also a reduction in medical costs and so a lower cost in tax burdens.
Mrs K Allen
(a grandmother)
Mar. 27
*****
Dear Editor:
I’ve been following the progression of these genetically altered food seeds and I have to say that I find it quite disturbing, though not altogether surprising. No doubt these large corporations have every intention to bring the world to its knees by cornering the food supply. This must not be allowed to continue. Please let me know what I can do to help. I would lay down my own life for the suffering of this world poor and oppressed.
Richard A. Brown
HUMAN RIGHTS: No Multi-Ethnic Balance in Sri Lanka, Says Expert March 23rd, 2006
Dear Editor:
Nimalka Fernando has stated the truth correctly about the situation in Sri Lanka. So far, no other member of the Sinhalese community has been so truthful.
The world needs more of such people. I wish Nimalka and his organization every success.
Das Samuel
From Sri Lanka
*****
Dear Editor,
I am a US citizen of Sri Lankan origin. I am fully informed of all developments back in my original motherland, via my close friends & immediate family members who continue to live in Sri Lanka, and also through the news media.
I have decided to write to you, in order to express my unbiased thoughts on the news items under the above caption.
This woman Nimalka Fernando is completely out of touch with reality. We are talking about a nation consisting of 75% population as the majority community, that has simply bent over backwards to accommodate all the minority issues to such an extent of even snapping the backbone of the country.
That is, a terrorist group (declared so by many countries - USA, UK, Canada, Australia; and its leader wanted by Interpol and India for assasinating one of its former Prime Ministers) of one single minority racial community, has by ruthless means carried out ‘ethnic cleansing’ and has been able to almost divide the country.
If things are so bad as she utters, why do most of that minority population still continue to live harmlessly and harmoniously with the majority community??
PLEASE BE CAUTIONED - THIS TYPE OF INDIVIDUALS (like NF) FORM NGO’s, FOR PURPOSES OTHER THAN DIVULGING THE REAL TRUTH. She is not an individual who could hardly be classified as an “Expert” on this situation in Sri Lanka. If you do want to persevere on this issue on Sri Lanka, please do so with a real expert like Rohan Gunaratne; who has written many books on the subject and continues to do real UNBIASED research funded by established international institutions.
We would truly appreciate if you could bring a balance to this type of inaccurate information, by clearly publishing the opposing views of many like me. I sincerely thank you.
Regards,
Eddie Edussuriya
*****
Dear Editor:
I do not how much truth in what Nimalka has said during her dialogue. Certainly, this is not the true picture she has depicted to the outside world. There is no mention regarding LTTE activities; abduction of children and forceful recruitment as child soldiers, and killing of people, drugs and arms smuggling, international terrorism etc. Also discrimination of the educated Tamil persons against others within their own community and the cultural differences of women and their rights within the group have never being highlighted.
Can the LTTE make a safe haven for their own people and fight for their own rights? This is not the ideology of terrorists.
We need peace loving people in Sri Lanka and this my vision for future developments and prosperity.
In my opinion Nimalka does not deserve her place as an UN ambassador. I pass my vote of no confidence. I hope others will agree on this.
Ranjan
*****
Editor, IPSnews,
This is just letting you know that most statements made by Nimalka Fernando are false and biased. It is true that everyone has the right to express their own opinion but this is just a distortion of what is really happening in Sri Lanka.
Most of these so called lawyers are highly paid by Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to distort the truth. There is no ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka since most of the Tamil community lives among the majority Sinhalese in the capitol. The only problem is terrorism.
Please distinguish between facts from fiction before you publish such biased articles.
MALAYSIA: Vigilante Attack on Indian Workers Under Probe March 22nd, 2006
That IPS has taken the trouble to print the events in front of the Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur in such detail is in itself evident that the world is taking notice of the prevalent ‘terrorism’ carried out by the para military forces who create terror not only for the immigrant workers but for ignorant citizens as well.
Most of the members of the para military forces like RELA are wasters and those who have no jobs or have never bothered to get a decent job and have now found the immigrant workers to be ‘rich picking’.
It is pitiful to watch the immigrants surrendering their purses and ‘passes’ to the para military (both men and women partake in this infamous role) and having whatever monies and wealth they have in their purses just being taken away. Most are lucky if they do not get beaten up also… COMPASSION, MORALITY, SPIRITUALISM have all been put in the back burner.
…It is most sickening that those of us who travel overseas have to explain for the immoral conduct of our politicians and para forces whever confronted with news on Malaysia in the foreign Presses. People the world over are not fools. They only feel sorry for those Malaysians who show remorse for what others in Malaysia are doing to ruin a wonderful nation.
POLITICS: Israel Lobby Dictates U.S. Policy, Study Charges March 22nd, 2006
Editors,
As a distant observer of U.S.- Israel relations over the last 30 years, I must agree that time after time we have subordinated our needs to those of Israel. Still, I don’t expect the views expressed in that study to make the slightest dent in U.S. policy.
Charles Scott
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Dear Editor:
I think you have the premise backwards. The US government is not a passive responder, the US let itself be manipulated not only by the Lobby but by the neoconservatives who knew exactly what they were doing and acted according to plan. Put the responsibility where it lies–squarely on our own government and those who support it. They are not victims of anything other than their own stupidity. To come now whining that they were manipulated by the big bad Lobby is a bit much over the top.
They got what they wanted, force-fed the world on their pre-war gibberish and we are all paying the price but we should not have to listen to any further lamentations. Enough is enough!
gwennms
*****
Dear Editor:
I could not quite understand why you overrode the significance of the Iraqi struggle by refrerring to the freedom fighters as insurgents. I am just curious.
Raymond Watts
The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration March 21st, 2006
Dear Editors,
Why would a Democratic takeover of the House and Senate be so unlikely? Even though the established Demos are viewed as part of the problems and they seem to lack the ability to think outside the beltway, the Rebumblikins and their idiotic country-destructive job outsourcing, war looting and indifference to the American people are noted and generally disliked.
The only reason that the Republicans are so cocky is that they still think that they have the voting machines fixed. Well, that may be changing faster than they can hide what they did.
ARGENTINA: Young Women Lured into Trafficking by Job Ads March 21st, 2006
Dear Editor:
As I read your article I realize how much more training, awareness and outreach needs to happen to communities infected with this new disease of human trafficking, slavery and child sexual exploitation. It is unfortunate that systems that are put in place to help victims are not able to understand the impact of trauma in a child/teen developmental stages, girls may develop physically but not mentally due to their trauma history. Young girls don’t choose to become prostitutes, if they go back to being prostituted is because there are no other opportunities or resources being offer to them. If they engage in survival sex is because the system has once again failed them.
Olinka Briceno
Director, A Way Back
Roxbury Youthworks Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
POLITICS-US: Forum Over Substance March 19th, 2006
Dear Editor:
I clicked the “about us” button of your web site and read that this organization was fair in reporting and non bias. With all the words like neocon and rightwingers in identifying people and commities it doesn’t sound like your non biased at all!!! How about just writing about people and things without your opinion about who or what they are.
Just because you think there a certain way, doesnt make them so. My opinion is that the way in which you write makes you a left winger. Though I’m probably right, it’s ok for me to write these things because I’m
not a “journalist.” The news isn’t a place for your opinions, it’s a place for the news!!!
RIGHTS: UN Women’s Meet Targets AIDS, Armed Conflict March 18th, 2006
Dear Editor:
A good report on the rights of women. I agree with comments made by women’s groups that it is mostly lip service without taking action or passing laws to protect women and girls. In many countries, the majority of AIDS patients are women as they have no way to protect themselves from the violence of war and domestic violence which includes rape and the sexual abuse of young girls. Until laws are passed and enforced, this plague will continue to spread rapidly. When a woman becomes pregnant, the virus is passed on to the unborn child. When the mother dies from this disease, more orphans are left to fare for themselves.
As women are the victims of sexual violence and war, they must be on the committees that decide what course of action to be taken to halt this violence against them and their children.
AGRICULTURE-LATIN AMERICA: Transgenic Crops Make Their Mark March 17th, 2006
Dear Editor:
In the above article, the following sentence appears to be incorrect:
“Brazil not only exports grains, but also imports transgenic wheat and corn products from Argentina, and it is in its interests to have precise information.”
It is my understanding that transgenic wheat, though under development, is not commercially grown anywhere.
Joe Jordan
News & Information Director
Soyatech
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
HAITI: Which Way Forward? - IPS special coverage March 17th, 2006
Dear IPS editors;
I’ve been reading Amy Bracken’s work since she began writing for the Haitian Times. She does a very good job and seems dedicated to telling the unbiased truth.
If it’s not too much trouble, I would appreciate your passing her my compliments. I support your continued relationship with Ms. Bracken and look forward to more of her articles.
LATIN AMERICA: Victims of Glyphosate March 17th, 2006
Dear Editor:
An excellent story that reveals the truth about America’s neo-colonialism and double standards when it comes to the health and well-being of non-U.S. citizens. Keep up the good work!
Anju Mary Paul
(Mar. 20)
*****
Dear Editor:
The illnesses and deaths are unfortunate, and I would like to examine medical reports. Are any available?
Bob Krieger
Extension Toxicologist
Personal Chemical Exposure Program
University of California, Riverside
*****
Dear Editor:
This is ridiculous to let this happen in ANY country. To me this seems like a legal way to kill people so they (Monsanto, the vine of destruction) can have more land to grow their killer crops and have less people to protest. Why is Monsanto untouchable? They are doing what they want, when they want! They are doing this in other countries that really have no voice now, but when will the same thing happen in the United States?? Something needs to be done about this company!! They need to be stopped or they will be the destruction of the world and its people! This is no better than in the wars when they would spray gases to kill people. Mustard gas, made from the Mustard plant, related closely with the rapeseed plant, the same plant that produces Canola oil, the same oil that is added to almost every ready to cook food you can buy in a box or can!! You start reading labels and see how many say Canola oil is in it. They even had to disguise the name, because who in their right mind would buy a bottle of poisonous RAPESEED OIL??? This is no better, what Monsanto is doing, than what Hitler and Stalin was doing in the early 1900’s!! They must be stopped!!!
Very nice story, Maryam Rajavi’s ideas on women’s leadership as a solution to Iran’s problems are exceptional.
Regards,
Jubin Afshar
Director of Middle East Studies
Near East Policy Research
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
*****
Dear Editor:
Excellent story on women’s struggle for freedom in Iran. I have full sympathy for you. I’m a male Iranian, and I’m sure women in Iran will overcome one day.
I am a nurse working in Iraq. If the US army is continually attacking hospitals in Iraq they have, more than likely, received information stating that insurgents are using the hospitals as hiding places. It is widely known that the insurgents are not following the rules of war so US soldiers have to bend the rules as well to be effective. Here at Ibn Sina we take care of many Iraqi civilians as well as insurgents just as well as we take care of Americans. War is ugly but it is more the insurgents than the Americans that are hindering health care admission by attacking doctors and nurses and looting hospitals.
RIGHTS: UN Creates New Watchdog Over US Opposition March 17th, 2006
Editor,
What does it matter that the UN creates a Human Rights Watchdog? The U.S. ignores such groups. The active definition of chaos is happening now (Now!). It began with moral chaos: The Lie(s) and continues, under the name of “endless war”.
AGRICULTURE: Social Movements Call for “New Agrarian Reform” March 16th, 2006
Dear sir/madam,
It is satifying to hear of such recommendations made by grassroots communities. If our world listened and acted on them we would have a fair and dignified world. Thanks.
Robert Waswaga
Civil Society and Poverty Reduction Programme
Community Development Resource Network www.cdrn.or.ug
Kampala, Uganda
LATIN AMERICA: Water Polluters “On Trial” March 16th, 2006
Dear Editor:
What about the pollution by mining operations in the Andes of the Mapocho River, which flows through Santiago, Chile and supplies much of the water for consumption to millions of people? You can watch the water change color from one day to another as different pollutants are released or washed into it.
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