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POPSHorror of horse-fighting in Philipines Thousands of people turned out to watch the bloodbath, including hundreds of children. Many of the adults were drunk and spent their time gambling and jeering at the battling animals. Though horses do not normally fight one another, these stallions had been whipped into a fighting frenzy by the presence of a young mare who was "in season" and had been staked to the ground in the middle of the muddy arena. Overwhelmed by desire, the stallions attacked each other in a bid to defeat their sexual rivals.
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POPSWe Didn’t Stop That War, but May Have Stopped the Next The anti-war movement has lived under the shadow of that immense mobilisation too. But it was followed the next month by the biggest demonstration against a war British troops were actually fighting, by the biggest-ever weekday march (against the Bush visit to London later in 2003), by an unprecedented movement of military families against the war, and by a dozen further marches - including one which will mark the fifth anniversary of the war itself, on March 15. Opposition to empire has been put at the heart of politics as never before.
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POPS The Danse Macabre Of Us-Style Democracy
Another excellent Zmag rant with the usual disclaimer--a sustained article on ZNET--visit and join Travelling with Robert Kennedy in 1968 was eye-opening for me. To audiences of the poor, Kennedy would present himself as a saviour. The words "change" and "hope" were used relentlessly and cynically. For audiences of fearful whites, he would use racist codes, such as "law and order". With those opposed to the invasion of Vietnam, he would attack "putting American boys in the line of fire", but never say when he would withdraw them. That year (after Kennedy was assassinated), Richard Nixon used a version of the same, malleable speech to win the presidency. Thereafter, it was used successfully by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the two Bushes. Carter promised a foreign policy based on "human rights" - and practised the very opposite. Reagan's "freedom agenda" was a bloodbath in central America. Clinton "solemnly pledged" universal health care and tore down the last safety
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POPSThe $5 million Ibrahim Prize: Bringing Better Governance to Africa
More: Using an index designed by Harvard University professor Robert Rotberg, the Ibrahim Foundation measures progress in key areas, such as security and safety, the rule of law, transparency and corruption, public participation and human rights, sustainable economic development, and human development such as poverty and education. Mr. Chissano was chosen by a small committee who used research from the new Ibrahim Index to assess every African leader who has left office in the last three years on their exercise of leadership Anticorruption groups such as Transparency International generally rank African nations at the bottom in terms of governmental corruption. Theft from public coffers means less money available for clean water, medical care, roads, and schools. African Union experts estimate that corruption costs African economies more than $148 billion a year, or roughly 25 percent of the continent's gross domestic product.
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POPSWhat a bloodbath How could this of happened, the two most likely teams to make it to the final have been eliminated by the smallest margins. Its a sad day for the south pacific nations.
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POPSHow about a Blackwater IPO? Um, when did we the U.S.begin outsourcing its military needs? I guess you don't need a draft when you can hire an army. Seems like you don't really need to have accountability either. Maybe there should be a Blackwater IPO on Wall Street. Then we could really show off the benefits of war and capitalism.
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POPSNow Bush says Iraq IS like Vietnam... Bush will say just about ANYTHING to keep his war going, going going. It is so obvious, he wants his despicable war to continue until the end of his incumbency, so he can dump it in someone else's lap and I'm sure he's hoping that someone will be a Democrat. Then perhaps all the blame of this sad, quagmire of a war will not be associated with his name in the history books... That's what HE THINKS!
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POPSIs Iraq the new Vietnam? I really don't know what to say.............I'm not old enough to remember Vietnam, but surely citing one atrocity in defense of another does not make it right.
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POPSCiting Vietnam, Bush Warns of Carnage if US Leaves Iraq At last; the President states the obvious. He is so right. I remember (my husband was there) watching the retreat/withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam. I see, in my mind's eye, the people standing on rooftops, pleading and jumping towards helicopters as US government personnel were being lifted out. It was horrible. And Sen. Kennedy's statement are false. Our troops were not 'trapped', they were deserted and undermined by our government.
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POPSIraqi Ministry Gun Running from Iraly Al-Handal has figured in questionable dealings before, having been identified by U.S. investigators three years ago as a "front company" in Iraq's Oil-for-Food scandal. The Interior Ministry's need at that point for such a massive weapons shipment is unclear. The U.S. training command had already reported it would arm all Interior Ministry police by the end of 2006 through its own three-year-old program, which as of July 26 has bought 701,000 weapons for the Iraqi army and police with $237 million in U.S. government funds.
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POPSGuns Don't Kill People--People WITH GUNS Kill People
I know of no gun that up and walked itself into a building and began shooting, reloading and shooting some more by itself. That being said, it is a certainty that without the gun attached to the hand of the person doing the shooting there would be far less carnage in this world. Seung-Hui Cho was a well prepared assassin ten days ago. He was prepared to shoot at least one round every three seconds for as long as he was the only armed person in the building. I know, I know, wouldn't it be just ducky if we had a concealed weapons law so that students or professors or the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker could have shot Cho before he did more damage. Or would that just lead to more carnage? I suggest the latter. The more guns the more gun violence. Cho would not be deterred by the fact that some bozo carried a weapon in his pants, around his ankle, or under his jacket. It would just have made the situation more interesting for him. He knew he was going to die anywa
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POPSVirginia Tech Tragedy This is very sad and scary... Bush was right when he said "Schools should be places of safety, and sanctuary, and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community."
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POPSyou meet the nicest people in prison... The night I got out of prison, I went shopping at a local supermarket. While I was standing in the checkout line, someone bumped into me and kept walking without apologizing.I was stunned. I didn’t know what to do. I hadn’t been treated like that in years. People are never that rude in prison.
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