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Alan Cassels
Thirty years ago the British physician, Julian Tudor-Hart published his famous ‘inverse care law’: “those who most need medical care are the least likely to get it.” Modern pharmaceutical research is playing Dr. Hart’s law out on a macabre global scale. While the debilitating diseases of the poor - such as malaria, tuberculosis and sleeping sickness - have few or no treatments, the drug companies are busy working on cures for a ballooning set of ‘made-up’ diseases of the rich and privileged.
Danny Dayus
Iraqi resistance fighters early this morning carried out an audacious raid in Baghdad, from which Paul Wolfowitz, USA Deputy Defence Secretary, barely escaped with his life. Wolfowitz was staying in the heavily defended al-Rasheed hotel in the centre of the Iraqi capital, along with a number of other top-ranking USA military officials, when several co-ordinated rocket attacks were launched against the hotel, at the same time and from different parts of the area.
Sarah Louise Baker
It won?t get you much mileage in the playground if you get into a fight and you say: “My uncle?s George Bush.” But mention Osama and the enemy backs off. To be the hardest kid on the block you would get no credibility saying your grandfather was Tony Blair, but kids who claim their grandfather is Osama bin Laden get instant respect, especially if they have some Middle Eastern credentials.
John Bell
The unfortunate truth is that, according to his own political dynamic, Sharon simply must act when there is a militant attack and he has the character to do so, but it leads nowhere except the spiral of violence already witnessed in his relations with the Palestinians. This may be enough for Sharon, but is it enough for the Middle East?
William Pfaff
The power of the weak lies in a people’s acceptance of suffering. The weakness of the strong is that a disproportionate use of force against the weak eventually corrupts their own society.
Danny Dayus
Barely two years after the USA invasion of the ‘Axis of Evil’ that was Taliban Afghanistan, a Karzai government spokesmen confirmed today that a key Taliban government minister has been released from USA custody, is back in his Qandaha home, and may soon take a place in the government.
Geoff Pevere
For those who think that hollywood and the fashion industry don’t care about world poverty, think again. This hilariously satirical review of a recent back-passage motion picture, shows that the corporate world not only cares about starving children, they positively love the idea.
Ramzy Baroud
A solemn message was delivered on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Seville, Spain. “Suicide bombings are immoral. They are counter-productive. They must be stopped,” he said. Annan’s seemingly upright observations however, underscored a profound, even a formidable presentation of a political and intellectual trend, essential for Israel to sustain its genocidal war against the Palestinians.
Various News Agencies
Spring 2003. George Bush and Tony Blair invented lies, and crowed for war. The nation roared its opposition. Elected representatives of the British people made self-righteous platitudes one way or another. All except one. Labour M.P. George Galloway bravely spoke the truth, knowing that it meant risking his career in parliament. Today, his executioners took the knife to him.
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