http://www.myantiwar.org/LatestHeadlines Headlines from: AlterNet: War on Iraq, Antiwar.com, Antiwar.com original, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII), Chomsky's ZNet Blog, Chomsky.info, Common Dreams, Dahr Jamail, Democracy Now, Electronic Intifada, Electronic Iraq, Indymedia UK, Jyoti Mishra, Media Lens, Media Workers Against War, MyAntiwar.org picks, Robert Fisk, SchNEWS, The NewStandard: Iraq, UKWatch.net, War in Iraq - Analysis, World Crisis Web, ZNet keyvan@myantiwar.org http://www.chomsky.info/2008_05_01_archive.htm#4340812031765301107 2008-05-09 Chomsky.info http://www.chomsky.info http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4881 Summary: Rajavi SaddamThe People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI a.k.a MEK, MKO) is set to be taken off the UK terrorism blacklist. It’s a mistake – this is a violent, criminal group. The UK not only has legitimised the activities of a well-funded and merciless group whose members have slaughtered tens of thousands innocent Iraqi and Iranian civilians over the past three decades and whose leaders are just as criminal as Saddam Hussein, but it has also earned the contempt of tens of millions of Iranians and Iraqis for supp source: Guardianread more 2008-05-09 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4879 Summary: The selection committee and Board Members are pleased to announce 2008 recipients of Student Scholarship and Merit Awards. For scholarship, the recipient is Mrs. Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich. In Merit category, the Award goes to Mr. Daniel (Mehdi) Pourkesali. source: Payvandread more 2008-05-09 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://www.chomsky.info/2008_05_01_archive.htm#408137422128653215 2008-05-09 Chomsky.info http://www.chomsky.info http://www.myantiwar.org/view/151267.html 2008-05-09 Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com http://www.myantiwar.org/view/151266.html 2008-05-09 Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9526.shtml rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rBeirut is exploding all around me. After Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah made his speech this evening, during which he accused the governing coalition of declaring war on the resistance, opposition and March 14 supporters started fighting each other and making their armed presence felt all over West Beirut, including my neighborhood of Hamra. EI editor Maureen Clare Murphy writes from Beirut. 2008-05-09 Electronic Intifada http://www.electronicintifada.net http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9525.shtml rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rBEIRUT, 9 May (IRIN) – Everyone kept insisting it was not a civil war, but jumping for cover as a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into the apartment block beside us, and masked gunmen fired deafening salvos across the road dividing Sunni and Shia neighborhoods of Beirut, it certainly felt like it. “It is impossible for Shia to shoot on Sunnis,” insisted a military commander of Shia opposition group Amal, allied with Shia resistance group Hizballah. 2008-05-09 Electronic Intifada http://www.electronicintifada.net http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4877 Summary: Weapons in KarbalaA plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. source: LA Timesread more 2008-05-09 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4872 Summary: With 8,000 pages of documents online for the world to see, will the networks continue their media blackout? source: PR Watchread more 2008-05-09 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4868 Summary: TEHRAN – Iran?s ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, has called for the implementation of Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty which calls for total nuclear disarmament. source: Tehran Timesread more 2008-05-09 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4865 Summary: This is sounding like an echo of the run-up to Iraq, when Bush and Cheney insisted that Iraq had horror weapons, was in bed with suicide fanatics, and made other false assertions that sucked America into the disastrous Iraq war. source: Charleston Gazetteread more 2008-05-09 Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/9/author_blogger_arianna_huffington_on_how Blogger, author and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington revealed this week that Senator John McCain had told her eight years ago that he did not vote for President Bush in the 2000 election. McCain has angrily denied the claim. Huffington joins us to talk about her disillusionment with McCain, whom she says has abandoned his principles in his quest for the Republican nomination. Huffington is author of the new book, “Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe ? and What you Need to Know to End the Madness.” 2008-05-09 Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/9/free_from_nigerian_military_custody_sweet The Nigerian government, along with foreign oil companies, have reaped enormous profits over the years from the sale of oil and gas reserves, while the residents of the Niger Delta live in abject poverty. We speak to Sandy Cioffi, director of the the upcoming documentary Sweet Crude. She was recently arrested by the Nigerian military and held for a week before being released following international pressure. [includes rush transcript] 2008-05-09 Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/9/14_killed_in_sudanese_government_bombing UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has condemned the Sudanese government for Sunday?s air raids against three villages in north Darfur that killed 14 civilians and injured several others. Antonov bombers targeted a market place, water installations, and a village school that was holding classes. We speak to filmmaker, activist, and writer Jen Marlowe of Darfur Diaries, an independent American project that helped raise funds to restart the school last year. 2008-05-09 Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org