[Media-watch] Extracts from www.globalecho.org

[Antony Wright]

Faith & Reason: When the scriptures are violent, it's time to argue with God - 22nd May, 04
Instead of accepting the plain and obvious meanings of holy texts we must subject them to a higher truth

A vile policy of persecution in an American archipelago of gulags - 22nd May, 04
The well-publicised release of Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison yesterday was a late and vain attempt by the US military to stem the damage from the torrent of allegations about prisoner abuse.

Shiite Demonstrations in Bahrain - 22nd May, 04
Violent demonstrations broke out in Bahrain protesting the US fighting in Karbala

Neocons target "Liberal Media" for Iraq Outcome - 22nd May, 04
The Iraq war is shaping up to look like Vietnam in many ways. The latest example is to put the blame for the 'failure' in Iraq squarely on the shoulders of the liberals and the left.

Putin U-turn could rescue Kyoto - 22nd May, 04
Russian President Vladimir Putin has surprised the world by promising to move quickly on ratification of the Kyoto climate change treaty. 

Seas, ice, animals show global warming impact - 22nd May, 04
A look at greenhouse* gas effects reported by scientists and other observers:

Federal whistleblower quits, alleges politicization of science - 22nd May, 04
SACRAMENTO, California - A federal biologist who said his team's advice was illegally ignored prior to a massive 2002 Klamath River fish kill has resigned, accusing the government of politicizing scientific decision-making and misleading the public.

Poem - 22nd May, 04
This poem is by Rachel Corrie and was written in February 2003.
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah on 16 March 2003, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a a Palestinian doctor, his wife, and three children from demolition.

Genocide by Public Policy - 22nd May, 04
Many words are taboo when used to describe Israel's actions against Palestinians. One word in specific, genocide, sparks emotions that echo across Israel, Europe and America.

Forensic death expert: Berg video staged - 22nd May, 04
America, you're brainwashed every second you look at the idiot tube. Prime example: the Nicholas Berg "beheading" that aroused so much outrage and, of course, additional hatred directed at Eastasia and the Muslim hordes, as programmed. Most Americans have not seen the Berg video, only snippets, and believe what the corporate liars and propaganda ministers tell them to believe.

The Big Lie - 22nd May, 04
The frightening shark swimming with toothy grin in a giant aquarium does not see the human faces looking in from the other side of the glass. The shark is in a world of its own, with its own reality. Like the shark, Americans don't see the people outside the glass. It is as though America is in a 3,000 mile wide terrarium, an immense biosphere which has cut it off from the rest of the world and left it to pick its own way down the path of history.

9/11 to 3/11, A view from Madrid. - 22nd May, 04
Following the savage attacks in Madrid on March 11th, 2004, the political strategy of misinformation by the Popular Party (PP) crumbled, causing a public display of civic outrage and restoring to the political arena the strong opposition of Spanish society to the war in Iraq. 

My Trek to Lesser-Evil Electoral Politics - 22nd May, 04
When I became a socialist in the mid-1970s, my electoral perspective was shaped by the Trotskyist milieu of the Socialist Workers Party. The SWP rejected any support for the Democratic Party and viewed elections primarily as opportunities to lay bare the 'shell game' of the twin capitalist parties.

BBC Newsnight - interview transcript On American Imperialism and British Me Too-ism - 22nd May, 04
If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter.

Watching Blood and Gore - 22nd May, 04
The moment Donald Rumsfeld had been warning about - the worse-to-come moment - arrived last Wednesday (May 12), when new images of atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison were released.
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