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Jews vote in Iran election. "We have no complaints"

Source: Reuters

Those Iranian Jews who spoke to Reuters after voting in Friday's parliamentary election, in which conservatives are expected to retain their grip, said they faced no problems in the Shi'ite Muslim country for their religion.

Post-Katrina migrant shipyard workers walk out to protest 21st century slavery at the hands of Northrup Grunman et al.

Source: Workday Minnesota

More than 100 workers, carrying signs reading "I Am A Man," walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard last week to protest conditions of slavery. Their struggle for justice comes 40 years after the Rev.

Coalition Slams U.S. Human Rights Record at Home for Litany of Abuses and Coverup

Source: Inter Press Services

A coalition of more than 200 not-for-profit human rights and social justice organisations charge that the George W Bush administration is contributing to racial, religious and ethnic discrimination in the US and attempting to cover up its violations in a report to the United Nati …

In the war zone: Pregnant Angelina Jolie dons helmet and flak jacket to tour Baghdad's mean streets | the Daily Mail

Source: the Mail online

Angelina Jolie, who is rumoured to be pregnant with twins, donned a helmet and flak jacket as she visited Iraq as part of her role as a UN goodwill ambassador.

Time to Stop Swimming with Musharraf

Source: southasiaanalysis.org

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is presently on a visit to West Europe. He arrived in Brussels on January 20, 2008. After Belgium, he was scheduled to visit France and the UK and address the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland before returning to Pakistan.

What Bhutto Was Worried About

Source: The Washington Post

By Robert D. Novak Monday, December 31, 2007; A15

Update: NATO Staff Designed Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract for Sudan peace mission

Source:

UNITED NATIONS, November 6 -- In order to requisition Darfur peacekeeping infrastructure services, in a way that resulted in U.S.-based Lockheed Martin getting a $250 million no-bid contract, the UN earlier this year brought in six outside procurement officials from NATO, also on …

Diplomats angry over forced posts in Baghdad

Source: The Boston Globe

Angry US diplomats lashed out yesterday against a State Department plan that would send them to Iraq against their will, with one likening it to "a potential death threat" and another accusing the department of providing inadequate care to diplomats who have returned home traumat …

United Nations gives no-bid contract to US war firm Lockheed Martin for Sudan peace mission

Source: Inner City Press

UNITED NATIONS, October 15 -- Two weeks after notifying the UN General Assembly that he had "exceptionally authorized" himself for "entering into non-competitive single-source contracts" for the Darfur hybrid force, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday announced, through his s …

Why are so many afraid of Bolivian President Evo Morales?

Source: New America Media

They fear him not only because he is indigenous, not only because he is a leftist in the presidential palace with a massive base of support across the entire insurgent continent; they fear him because his public and private persona, his gentle charisma and ethical approach forces …

U.S. sees sharp rise in global terrorism deaths

Source: The Washington Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people killed by terrorism around the world surged by 40 percent to more than 20,000 last year largely because of greater violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, a U.S. report said on Monday.

US Anti-terrorism official says WMD attack inevitable

Source: Reuters

The real "24." A real US CTU boss told Londers that a boiological terror attack in the West is inevitable. He credited the war on terror with slowing Al-Qaida attack plans. Oh, and he says bin Laden is still alive.