BOOK ROUNDUP #12: PAUL BREMER’S YEAR IN IRAQ & BARRY LYNN’S BOOK ON GLOBALIZATION
The very opening of this review points out the trouble with the US aggression against the Iraqi people. Kakutani(NYT book reviewer) points out that Bush sent Bremer to Iraq as a proconsul (viceroy would be a better term) but that “he knew little about Iraq.”
Gonzales Apparently Lied to Congress over Wiretapping
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have lied about the President’s approval of illegal domestic wiretapping, a letter from US Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to Mr. Gonzales suggests.
The Only Democracy in the Middle East
On January 25, Hamas surprised the world with a dominating victory in the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in ten years. Although the world was stunned, the case for Hamas, and more importantly the case against Fatah, was made over the last few months by the actions of each group.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Adapted from a song by Florence Reece, UNION MINER’S WIFE. 1931 Harlan County, KY.
Against attempts to de-legitimize the Palestinian people's rights
'The Hamas movement's success in the Palestinian legislative assembly election implies a significant change in the state of affairs in the occupied territories, concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and with regard to the Middle East as a whole', stated the Political Bureau of CPI on January 27th.
Sudan is neither prepared nor qualified to lead African summit
Our country witnesses the convening of the African Union Summit Conference which is taking place in circumstances that are neither conducive nor appropriate. This is despite the intensive preparationswhich the regime had undertaken and despite the unprecedented excess financing that is inconsistent with the modest means and abilities of our people.
