It decides it has no jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit against the organisation brought by survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. By Simon Jennings in The Hague Judges at the District Court in The Hague this week granted absolute immunity to the United Nations in a lawsuit brought against it by relatives of the victims […]
Security Scare for Sarkozy in Israel
Posted by Maya Norton to Global Voices Online As French President Nicholas Sarkozy departed Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, shots rang out. A quick assessment revealed that one of the Israeli members of Sarkozy’s security detail had turned his weapon on himself, apparently committing suicide. The victim, whose name has not been revealed at his family’s request, […]
AFSCME Endorses Obama
AFSCME has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president, following a unanimous vote today by the union’s International Executive Board in favor of the endorsement. AFSCME President Gerald McEntee said the 1.4 million-member union would mobilize enthusiastically to elect Obama. Barack Obama has mobilized a historic movement to reclaim the greatness of America. With his leadership, […]
Severed Heads Reflect Grisly “Marketing” Savvy
Drug cartel killers are taking a page from the marketing techniques of today’s publicity machines, “advertising” their grisly activities in messages accompanying bodies and decapitated heads. The most recent was on a poster, found amid four severed heads along a northern Durango highway. It read, "This is a warning," and listed several Mexican police agencies […]
Out of Iraq
An exit strategy is chugging into view, but the US will need to embrace its softer side before it can get on board Lenny Small, the physically imposing and mentally feeble character in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” likes to play with soft, vulnerable things like bunny rabbits. When a young woman allows […]
Happy Mother’s Day-Now Get Back to Work
by James Parks This Mother’s Day, we’d like to wish every mother a Happy Mother’s Day. Today is the day we show how much we appreciate the innumerable contributions that mothers have made to our lives and our country in a big way. This is one of the busiest days of the year for restaurants, […]
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