Young Palestinian dances his way to peace

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/young-palestinian-dances-his-way-to-peace/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307396061/counterpunchmaga

The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

by Brian Steidle (

This impassioned memoir is a cry of conscience and an informative, if politically and historically limited, analysis by a former U.S. Marine. Steidle began work in Sudan in 2004, as a military contractor with the two-year-old Joint Military Commission to monitor the fragile cease-fire agreement in Africa´s longest civil war between the Arab-dominated government of Sudan in the north and the rebel SPLA representing black African tribes of the south. As his career advances, Steidle is drawn into the province of Darfur, where government troops and government-backed Arab militias (known as Janjaweed or "the devil on a horse") operate against a 2003 uprising of black African tribes (overwhelmingly fellow Muslims) in a campaign whose virulence and destruction clearly amount to genocide. Steidle, who eventually became an unarmed American military observer for the African Union´s cease-fire coalition, composed this account with his sister, an activist and founder of Global Grassroots, in conjunction with their documentary film of the same name and a traveling photo exhibit and college lecture tour. Drawing heavily on notes and e-mails home, Steidle´s personal and fluent account effectively channels an idealistic, adventuresome young man´s growing frustration and horror in the face of ongoing crimes against humanity and international complacency.

Thanks for posting this, quite interesting.

1. Russia is threatening to attack Poland after Poland signed anti-missle defense with the US

2. 153 people killed in Madrid plane crush...

3. Russia cuts all military ties with NATO...

1. No way! They´ll just "punish" by limiting our export there. And I´m not surprised at all  after what our stupid president said about Russia having always been Poland´s enemy. It´s not really about those missile interceptors, ever since that mockery of a diplomat - Kaczynski was elected he´s been doing his best to spoil our relationship with Russia, hoping that the US whose butt he licks will become our partner and best friend. Of course that´s not gonna happen - the US has always been working in their own business only, forgetting their allies when it was convenient.

2. That´s terrible, just think that an hour earlier the pilot asked for a technical check-up as he thought there was something wrong with the engine

3. Not surprising

I´d add:

4. 3 Poles killed and one wounded in Afghanistan. About time to leave that country!

In exchange for the missile interceptors the US will locate in Poland, they want to present us with...our own Statue of Liberty whose estimated cost will be $50mln. Yeah, that´s exactly what we need

 Typically crass of them, or I should say " NOT teribly astute of them"

Forgive the spelling error, but the anagram jumped out at me. 

Award Willing Palestinian Journalist, Mohammed Omer, Detained, Strip-Searched, and Beaten by Israeli Occupation Security Forces, on his return to Illegally Occupied Gaza

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/07/01/p26628

http://www.wrmea.com/action

Obama chooses Biden as running mate

Foreign Relations Committee chairman has globe-trotting credentials

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/timeline-of-bidens-life-and-career-20080823-40q3.html