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courant.com
New Government Had Vowed To Push For The Move
By ROD McGUIRK
January 30, 2008
CANBERRA, Australia — - Australia will issue its first formal apology to the country’s indigenous people next month, a senior minister said today, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority once subjected to policies including the removal of mixed-blood children from [...]

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Online Journal, FL
By Michael Payne
Online Journal Contributing Writer
By now it should be crystal clear that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are totally unfit for the leadership positions that they hold in Congress; and so the members of the House and Senate should take immediate steps to force them to resign or to remove them from [...]

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands
by Richard Backus
Joel Hirschhorn, in recent articles on Atlantic Free Press has encouraged the American public to petition for a constitutional convention under Article V of the constitution in order to rectify the ever-increasing creation of laws harming the interests of the working classes of the U.S. His article, “An Open Letter [...]

Independent, UK
Three years after the devastating US assault, our correspondent enters besieged Iraqi city left without clean water, electricity and medicine

By Patrick Cockburn
Monday, 28 January 2008
Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. “The siege [...]

Jackson Free Press
The daughter of John F. Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama this weekend on the op-ed page of The New York Times. In a statement that cannot make the Clintons happy, she said that Obama is the first potential president who has inspired her as other people say her father inspired them. Take a read:
My [...]

The Daily Scare, OH
by Stephen Lendman
B’Tselem is the independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied (Palestinian) Territories (OPT) based in Jerusalem with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy and integrity. It was founded in 1989 to “document and educate the Israeli public, policymakers (and concerned people everywhere) about human rights violations in the [...]