CommonDreams: News & Views | 08.15.08

 

Friday 08.15.08 Headlines... World's Chronically Poor Need Empowerment Most of All http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11009/ US Rendition Victim Given 'Extraordinary' Decision http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11005/ Suffocating Dead Zones Spread Across World's Oceans http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11004/ Pentagon Legal Adviser's Objectivity Challenged http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11007/ Russia Accused of Dropping Cluster Bombs on Georgian Civilians http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11010/ White House Reporter Helen Thomas Profiled on HBO http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11013/ Raleigh County Mountain at Center of Coal vs. Wind Debate http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11011/ and more... ********************************************************************* Views... Eliot J. Chandler | Behind Politics, A Philosophy of Fear http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11017/ Tom Hayden | The Defunding of the Peace Movement http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11008/ David Michael Green | My Army Went to Iraq and All I Got Was This Lousy Airlift http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11002/ Maura Kelly | Death and Texas http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11014/ William Hartung | Georgia: Background to War http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/10998/ Deborah Stone | Two Ways to Think About Gas Prices http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/10997/ Stephen Zunes | US Role in Georgia Crisis http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/15/11000/ and more... **************************************************** Newswire... Peace Action Maine: Mainers Unite to Prevent War With Iran http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0815-08.htm International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) Condemns Russian Use of Cluster Munitions in Georgia http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0815-05.htm CIVIC: Georgia: After Dropping Cluster Bombs, Russia Has Responsibility to Help Civilians http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0815-07.htm American Friends Service Committee (AFSC): California Becomes First State to Condemn Use of Torture in 'War on Terror' http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0814-15.htm and more...

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