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The crisis in Darfur, Sudan Features collected by TFF • August 16, 2004 BBC News UN urges global action on Darfur Dawn.com EU sees no evidence of genocide in Darfur Guardian Darfur’s deep grievances defy all hopes for an easy solution Tracy McNicoll, IHT Sanctions on Sudan have little chance of working Omvärldsbilder.se På jakt efter flaskhalsen för bistånd åt Darfur Omvärldsbilder.se Darfur – folkmordet som kanske "bara" blir en humanitär katastrof John Laughland, Scoop Fill full the mouth of famine Enver Masud, The Wisdom Fund Sudan, Oil, and African Muslim vs. African Muslim Norm Dixon, Green Left Sudan: Oil profits behind West’s tears for Darfur Samson Mulugeta, Truthout Humanitarian Disaster in Sudan Back to front page

The ongoing US terror in Iraq Features collected by TFF • August 16, 2004 National Nine News Iraq war a gift to Osama: CIA Sabrina Tavernise, IHT Chalabi calls Iraqi judge a U.S. puppet Kurdish Media Kurdish language banned in the Iraqi Ministry of Defence News and Star War killed my Peter Jamie Tarabay, Truthout Iraq Issues Arrest Warrants for Chalabi, Nephew Robert Scheer, Truthout Bush’s Big Blunder: Chalabi Mike Lee, Truthout Casualty Ward Luke Baker, Truthout Iraq Reimpoes Death Penalty Rawya Rageh, Truthout Iraqi government shuts Al-Jazeera Station Jonathan Freedland, ICH The Failed Occupation John F. Burns, The NYT Iraqi Conference on Election Plan Sinks Into Chaos Larry Chin, Global Research US occupation "hands over" Iraq to lethal puppet regime Back to front page

Picks of global affairs Features collected by TFF • September 2, 2004 Paul Krugman, AlterNet A reckoning for the media machine Howard Kurts, Washington Post On WMD – Prewar articles questioning threat often didn’t make front page Greg Palast, the Observer Why Venezuela has voted again for their ‘negro and indio’ President TruthOut The environment – The big picture C. J. Chivers, International Herald Tribune Georgia’s leader walks a separatist tightrope Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies The roller coaster of relevance: The Security Council, Europe and the US War in Iraq Robert E. Hunter, Christian Science Monitor US troop withdrawal costly to alliances The United Nations 57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference. Millennium Development Goals: Civil Society Takes Action – 8-10 September 2004 United Nations Headquarters, New York Tarq Ramadan, International Herald Tribune What does America have to fear from me? Global Issues US backs out of nuclear inspection treaty Codes...

The 9/11 Report and related issues Features collected by TFF • July 27 – August 3, 2004 The 9/11 Commission Report BBC’s Q & A about the report Richard Clark, International Herald Tribune The 9/11 Report is honorable but incomplete FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Open letter to the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Ray McGovern, at TomePaine.com What price unanimity? Bruce St. John at Foreign Policy In Focus, FPIF Bush policies makes terrorism a growth industry Gerald Posner, Intenational Herald Tribune What about the Saudi who flew off on 9/13 The Independent Institute The 9/11 Commissions reommendations will not improve intelligence Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, on TruthOut Questions persist despite 9/11 investigations Enver Masud, The Wisdom Fund Why no Arabs on the passenger list Richard Falk, TFF Associate Foreword to the essential book, A New Pearl Harbour – about 9/11 Maureen Dowd, International Herald Tribune A scary tale on...

The forthcoming US elections – or could they be cancelled? Features collected by TFF • July 23 – August 2, 2004 Norbert’s bookmarks, very comprehensive link collection U.S. Presidential Elections 2004 The Guardian’s Special Report on the elections Jonathan Schell, TomDispatch.com On the Kerry mandate Paul Krugman, New York Times on TruthOut Fear of Fraud Video – EricBlumreich.com Grand Theft America Ruth Rosen, Common Dreams Bush’s female troubles Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor Kerry’s world view: How big a change? Sharon Theimer, Common Dreams It’s a lobbyists’ paradise in Washington Various authors – RightWeb This week on the right William Greider, The Nation Under the banner of the war on terror Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus The influence of the Christian right on U.S. Middle East Policy Renana Brooks, Information Clearing House Power of presidency resides in language as well as law Paul Kincaid Jamieson Roots of the Neo-Con...

Very comprehensive link collection from Global Issues Handover of power to Iraqis Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll Robert Fis, The Independent, on TruthOut Can’t Blair see this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush? Osha Gray Davidson, Rolling Stone The secret file of Abu Ghraib Robert Fisk, The Independent, from TruthOut The unreported war Michael Weinstein, PINR – Power & Interest News Report Iraq’s transition to dictatorship Robert Fisk, The Independent, from The Wisdom Fund The trial of the century Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu 2,000 US troops killed in Iraq Robert R. Goldberg, Information Clearing House Why Americans believe only American deaths count in Iraq William S. Lind, The Washington Dispatch Civil war in Iraq? William O’Rourke, Chicago Sun-Times Looking for a Iraq precedent? Try Honduras Rajiv Chandrasekaran & Walter Pincus, Washington Post U.S. edicts curb power of Iraq’s leadership Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor...

Så tortur er lovlig? 30 juni, 2004 Man behøver hverken særlig sikkerhedsgodkendelse eller fortrolig information for at begribe størrelsesordenen af, hvad der er hændt i USAs hemmelige fængsler. Enhver, som vil forbinde de enkelte punkter til en sammenhængende figur, kan gøre det. For at se hvad jeg mene,r skal du bare gennemgå nogle få sager, som man nemt kan finde på internet. Sag 1: "Tortur papiret", skrevet i august 2002 af justitsministeriets kontor for juridisk rådgivning efter anmodning fra CIA og siden Det hvide Hus. Papiret argumenterer for, "at det kan retfærdiggøres" at tortere Al Qaeda mistænkte. Papiret, som blev bragt på Washington Post’s hjemmeside den første uge i juni, indeholder også spekulationer om, at international ret, som kategorisk forbyder tortur ", kan stride mod forfatningen". Sag 2: "Rumsfeld dokumentet". Dette dokument, gravet frem af Wall Street Journal blev skrevet af en arbejdsgruppe i Pentagon i marts 2003. Det fastslog...

The DMZ at Panmunjom, South Korea 2003 – a moving transformation of war into reconciliation – pictures of Koreans mourning their relatives on the other side… – a tragedy turned into tourist souvenirs… © 2003 Jan Oberg – Freedom Bridge, the bridge you can’t cross: Monument to the Strategic Battlefield

The Joint Security Area, JSA, 2003 Dogs guarding freedom’s frontier… The UN as a faded blue decoration on a US Army bus. Symbolic? The UN flag – # 2 after Stars & Stripes Freedom House, symbol of the hope for a peaceful reunification, built by the South Korean people The new building through which you enter to visit the border and peep into the North

The border with a body language The Korean DMZ, 2003 Walking towards the border with meeting room, the North Korean Panmun-gak building in the background Watching the North Koreans at full alert

The meeting room of North and South Korea DMZ, 2003 The famous negotiation table Promoting militarism or peace?   

Peeping into North Korea, DMZ, 2003 The beautiful mountains of North Korea North Korean peace propaganda, to be seen by South Korean visitors to the DMZ Probably the highest flagpole in the world, compare with the buildings