Posted by Maya Norton to Global Voices Online Six days after Israeli and Palestinian forces brokered a ceasefire agreement, four kassam rockets fired from Gaza blasted the Western Negev. Islamic Jihad claimed credit for the attack, while Hamas, Palestine’s ruling party, encouraged “all Palestinian factions to abide by the calm agreement,” asserting, “Hamas is keen […]
Premier Wen Responds to the Chinese Earthquake Crisis
Posted by John Kennedy While the Chinese internet moved out of its three-day mourning period earlier this week following the 5.12 earthquake, many questions remain to be answered. And the questions are being answered. Phoenix TV reporter and editor Rose Luqiu had a chance to ask Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao a few while he visited […]
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, […]
Electrocuted at Age 22
– by Tula Connell This is a cross-post from the firedoglake blog. Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat. But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home. In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms processing […]
India Is Urged To Stop Implimenting The Death Penalty
According to the human rights group known as Amnesty International, it is concerned about discrimination in regards to the courts handing out the death penalty. As a result, it has urged India’s government to ban executions and do away with the death penalty. So far, the practice of the death penalty has been halted in […]
China: Netizens Defend Zimbabwe Arms Sales
by John Kennedy As the post-election crisis looms in Zimbabwe and Mugabe clings to power, the fate of the vessel holding the latest arms shipment from China remains unclear. Sightings of armed uniformed Chinese soldiers in the country have for some raised the question: how long have they been there and what exactly is their […]
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