Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 30 March 2007

Friday, 30 March 2007, 1:31 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Disarmament: Jeremy Rose On De-Nuking The Middle East
Scoop's Yasmine Ryan Reports From Lebanon: Divided We Fall
Kids: Celebrating A Son's First Birthday In A Troubled World
Iraq War: Congress Votes To End Iraq War – Bush Has Control Issues
US Attorneys: USAG Alberto Gonzales's Story Unraveling
Nepal: More Comment From Nepal On Gaur Massacre
American Coup: Diebold Amuses A Boston Legal Eagle
MORE SCOOP COMMENT AND OPINION:
Lent 2007: Katya Rivas' Passion Part 20

Disarmament: Jeremy Rose On De-Nuking The Middle East

- The United Nation’s General Assembly, The Security Council, the Arab League, Iran, Israel, Egypt, and the Non-Aligned Movement are just some of those who have publicly lent their support to a Middle East nuclear free zone over the past three decades. It’s no exaggeration to say that representatives of virtually the entire world have expressed support for Middle East nuclear free zone (MENFZ). Yet in the dozens of articles I’ve read in recent weeks about the Iranian nuclear crisis I’m yet to see a single mention of the proposal. See... Time To Get Serious About Nuclear Free Middle East [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00549.htm

Scoop's Yasmine Ryan Reports From Lebanon: Divided We Fall

One unified Lebanese delegation? Yeah, like that was going to happen. Today the Arab League Summit begins, and on Tuesday afternoon the Saudis met two separate delegations at the airport – each with very different ideas on how the negotiation process should go. Now the Lebanese are leaning on the other regional powers – especially Saudi Arabia – to resolve their domestic dispute. See... Letter from Lebanon: Divided We Fall [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00505.htm

Kids: Celebrating A Son's First Birthday In A Troubled World

- You are one today, March 29, 2007, Wesley Neil Swanson, and 365 days ago you had not yet seen the light of day. Now you love it. Now you wake up every morning with the sun and shout your delight at being alive. You make the hand sign for light, ... David Swanson: You Are One [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00520.htm

Iraq War: Congress Votes To End Iraq War – Bush Has Control Issues

- For George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them. 2008 is too soon to bring our men and women home to their ... See... David Swanson: A Veto Is a Vote for Eternal War [1] & earlier… David Swanson: Veto This [2] MORE COMMENT:

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US Attorneys: USAG Alberto Gonzales's Story Unraveling

- Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his closest advisers have stated repeatedly over the past two months that the selective firings of eight United States attorneys last year were justified because President Bush has the authority to purge federal prosecutors at will, a fact that is not under dispute. See... DOJ Emails Illustrate Plan to Mislead Congress [1] US ATTORNEYS COMMENT:

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Nepal: More Comment From Nepal On Gaur Massacre

- Understandably, the horrendous slaughter last Wednesday of 29 persons in Gaur by lathis, strangulation, and gunshot wounds, among other means, has been universally and very rightly condemned both at home and abroad. While the official version of ... See... Gaur Massacre: Issues, Contradictions & Conundrums [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00542.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00541.htm

American Coup: Diebold Amuses A Boston Legal Eagle

BOSTON - Diebold Election Systems, Inc., the controversial voting machine supplier, won't be supplying Massachusetts with its machines in 2008 and the company is not happy about it. So they are suing the state over the lost contract bid. But the solemn tone of Diebold's lawyer, William Weisberg, speaking in a hushed voice almost swallowed up by the stately, high-ceilinged courtroom of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week, drew laughter from the jovial judge with a Cheshire cat grin and raised chuckles from the courtroom audience. See… Diebold's MASS Alice-In-Wonderland Jester's Court [1] MORE AMERICAN COUP:

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Lent 2007: Katya Rivas' Passion Part 20

I am on My way to Calvary. Those wicked men, fearing to see Me die before reaching the end, look for someone to help Me carry the Cross, and from the vicinity they seized a man called Simon. See... Katya Rivas: Jesus Is Helped to Carry the Cross [1] EARLIER EXTRACTS FROM THE PASSION:

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