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Jim Lobe
The image was not an edifying one: the president of the United States a horse, his vice president, the rider. But that is the image that Senator Joseph Biden, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, used to describe the power relationship between USA President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in a recent interview with the National Journal.
Margo Kingston
Police dog bites cop outside Parliament House. Inside, Green Party leader Bob Brown breaks through a Coalition human shield to shake the hand of George Bush. It was that sort of day when George W Bush visited Australia, as its shuddering democracy proved that despite John Howard’s best efforts at total control, it still refused to privilege form over substance and still insisted on being heard.
Shaista Aziz
A leading British aid group today attacked the USA-controlled provisional authority in Iraq, accusing it of failing to account for four billion dollars - eighty percent of the total - given by international donors for the country’s post-war reconstruction.
Lawrence Smallman
"If America does not leave,” warned Dr. al-Jumaili, “then I expect to see a huge wave of resistance approaching. The White House can deal with one death here, and two there, but very soon… much sooner than they think… it will be 10 dead soldiers here, and 20 there.”
Hasan Abu-Nimah
As the Oslo Accords’ promise of a Palestinian state alongside a Jewish Israel suffocates underneath the sheer weight of demolished houses, separation barriers, illegal Israeli settlements, and murdered civilians from both sides, veteran Jordanian diplomat, Hasan Abu Nimah suggests that the only thing left is the possibility of a single state with democracy for all.
Alistair Lyon
Guerrillas have kept up attacks on USA forces in Iraq, after an Oil Ministry source acknowledged that this week’s pipeline explosion was the most destructive carried out by saboteurs to date, providing a sobering backdrop to an international donors’ conference on Iraq that starts in Madrid on Thursday.
A World Crisis Web Report
In a decision that marks a gauge of world opinion, the UN General Assembly today overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel remove it’s “separation barrier”. The resolution “demands that Israel stop and reverse the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, which is in departure of the Armistice Line of 1949 and is in contradiction to relevant provisions of international law.”
Maxine Frith
International targets to reduce child poverty are going to be missed because globalised trade and cuts to aid budgets are creating an ever-greater chasm between the richest and poorest countries.
Laksamana.net
Protests against USA President George W. Bush were staged in several cities across Indonesia today, one day ahead of his brief visit to Bali. In Jakarta, about 300 members of the Indonesian Muslim Students Action Front (KAMMI) rallied outside the USA Embassy, torching pictures and an effigy of Bush, as well as American flags.
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