FEATURED ARTICLES
- Much Has Been Done, But..., by Desmond Tutu, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Karl and Karma, by James Moore, Huffington Post
- Rhino's Bottom Line:
Supreme
Court - Media Ignore Possible "Fascist" Play, by Thom Hartmann
THE QUOTE:
"Failed countries and regions are breeding grounds for disaffection
and violence. We live in an interdependent world, and what happens in Africa
will affect all of us. This opportunity must be seized, and the time is now."
- - Desmond Tutu (Former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town)
THE HISTORY:
July 6, 1998 -- International blockade at Temelin, an unfinished nuclear power plant in the southern Czech Republic. Using barrels, concrete tubes, their bodies, the core Czech group is joined by hundreds from Germany, Slovakia, Poland, the European Union, the CIS (former USSR), Sri Lanka, & the US.
July 7, 1979 -- 2,000 Indian activists & anti-nuclear demonstrators march through the Black Hills (South Dakota) to protest the development of uranium mines in sacred lands.
July 8, 1980 -- US Congress enacts the Hopi-Navajo [forced] Relocation Act to "solve" the problem of impeded access to coal deposits at Big Mountain, Arizona. Dine (Navajo) families at Big Mountain continue their resistance to this day.
RHINO HERE:
A lot going on post July 4; the G-8, the Supreme Court vacancy, and the outing of Karl Rove as the source of the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative. What follows are links to Rhino selected articles offering insight on these important, potentially world changing events.
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Much Has Been Done, But... Much more is needed.
G-8 leaders must follow up on debt relief with a smart plan to aid Africa
by Desmond Tutu, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 2005
This is a historic moment of opportunity for Africa. The continent has changed
dramatically in the last decade and, with the right kind of support, can now
take the lead in ending its history of poverty and conflict. Starting tomorrow,
the leaders of the G-8 - the world's richest industrialized nations - meet in
Gleneagles, Scotland. A key part of their agenda will be to agree on how to provide
that support. Why focus on Africa? When British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched
the Commission for Africa last year, he called the continent "a scar on
the conscience of the world" - unique in being the only region where people
are poorer than they were 30 years ago. More than 40 million African children
will never set foot inside a classroom. More than half the population live on
less than a dollar a day. Poverty is being exacerbated by the spread of HIV/AIDS
and other diseases, lack of basic services, corruption and poor governance, violence,
and a technology deficit. Yet Africa is showing signs of hope that need to be
grasped...
MORE AT: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0705-27.htm
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Karl and Karma
by James Moore, Huffington Post, 7/5/05
...The simple, unavoidable truth is that Karl Rove orchestrated the
leak of Valerie Plame's identity. No one who knows this man and has watched him
work has any doubt that Rove came up with the idea of the leak and then set the
plan in motion. Having watched him as he leaked, lied, obfuscated, and denied
for political goals over the past 25 years, my own conviction of Rove's involvement
is unwavering. He has a history of seeking revenge and the Texas landscape is
cluttered with political cadavers he left behind before departing for the big
show. In every campaign Rove has managed, there have been questionable tactics
and unethical attacks. None of them has happened by accident because nothing
that happens in Rove's world is accidental. And neither was the eposure of Ms.
Plame. It was no more spontaneous, independent, or random than the campaign run
by the Swift Boat Veterans...
READ IT ALL AT:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/featuredposts.html#a003659
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