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NEWS OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
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The Afghan Women Jailed for Being Victims of Rape
by Terri Judd (The Independent UK, Aug. 18, 2008)

U.S. Puts Brakes on Israeli Plan for Attack on Iran Nuclear Facilities
by Aluf Benn (Haaretz Aug 13 2008)

Most of the coverage of the Georgia-Russia conflict has been simplistic and one-sided.
Thomas de Waal's writings are the best I've read.
Thomas de Waal is Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
Below are two links that provide background context and astute analysis.

Georgia's Volatile Risk-Taker Has Gone Over the Brink
by Thomas de Waal (Guardian UK/The Observer, Sunday August 10 2008)

Bullies of the Caucasus by Thomas de Waal (Wall Street Journal Europe May 14, 2008)

The Shin Bet security service has been trying to coerce ill Palestinians to become informants in exchange for medical treatment, according to an 80-page report released recently by the Israel branch of Physicians for Human Rights.
Haaretz , Aug 4 2008

Double bomb blast in Istanbul kills at least 16 and injures 150+.
BBC July 28,2008
Turkish Daily News, July 27,2008

The Mexican government has for the first time given permission to conduct a systemic search for those who disappeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the country's so called 'dirty war ' where American trained Mexican army units "disappeared" 1300+ political opponents. Video includes footage of an army massacre of protesters in Mexico City just 10 days before the 1968 summer olympics where it is believed 300-800 people were murdered. BBC video, July 16,2008

A US air strike in Afghanistan killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says. The eight other people who died were between the ages of 14 and 18. Local people said the dead were wedding party guests. BBC July 11,2008

Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. Seymour Hersh New Yorker Magazine, July 7, 2008

Seymour Hersh Audio

Secretly shot film reveals how Mugabe stole Zimbabwe's election
Guardian (UK) July 5, 2008

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report. Guardian (UK) July 4, 2008

Time to put the brakes on biofuels - Oxfam commentary Guardian (UK) July 4, 2008

Italy's compulsory fingerprinting of Roma (Gypsy)population is reminiscent of Mussolini and Hitler.
Independent (UK) June 27, 2008
Guardian (UK) July 1, 2008
On-line Petition

Esbjorn Svensson leader of tangential jazz trio EST dies in scuba diving accident
Guardian (UK) June 17,2008

Link for band member thoughts and book of condolences

Saban Bajramovic "King of Roma Music" dies
Independent (UK) June 12, 2008
Timesonline (UK) June 23, 2008