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Global Report: July 21-26 2010: Netanyahu Admits to Deceiving the US
This week: a video reveals Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitting he deceived the United States into believing Israel was working towards peace; the United States and its allies are accused of aiding and abetting the killing and displacement of hundreds of Somali civilians; Argentina approves same-sex marriage; and unexploded bombs dropped on Laos by the US military during the Indochina War have killed or injured around 50,000 people since the mid-1960s. These stories and more. Global Report news anchors Eamon Martin and Allie Morris review highlights from the week in under-reported news.
Email this page"Democracy Now!": Fri. June 4 2010
As Obama refuses to condemn the flotilla assault, survivors recount shootings and beatings aboard Mavi Marmara; 43 Years after surviving an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, US veteran Joe Meadors was seized by Israeli forces on the Gaza aid flotilla; nearly 5 Years after Katrina, the African American fishing community in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish faces a new struggle in the oil spill devastation and BP's Obstruction; family members fear for the life of jailed US attorney Peter Erlinder in Rwanda. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
"Democracy Now!": Tues. Apr. 13 2010
President Obama is vowing a speedy appointment to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Nan Aron and Glenn Greenwald talk about the retiring judge and why Elena Kagan would shift the Supreme Court to the right and the death of Dawn Johnsen’s OLC nomination; Alice Walker talks about her new book “Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel.” "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: Bodies as Battlefields: Yoga in Rwanda
In Rwanda, the bodies of women were too often the site of battles--rape and abuse were used as weapons of war. Trying to overcome that trauma, the women and children -- many of whom are HIV-positive -- have an almost unimaginable struggle. When Deirdre Summerbell was approached about teaching yoga to the women in Rwanda, she was skeptical, but she decided to try it. "Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," she says now of Project Air, where she helps women and girls reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan.
GRITtv: Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
It's a heartwrenching story: more than five million dead, and rape is used to terrorize the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where spillover from the Rwandan conflict has led to the ongoing violence of daily life despite an official ceasefire. And minerals like coltan, used in your laptop or cell phone as well as aerospace technologies, are funding the violence. We all use cell phones and computers, but what can we do to stop supporting the horrific abuse of women and children in the Congo? Joining to discuss this are Eve Ensler, Rose Mapendo, and Kambale Musavuli, and they debate the "climate of impunity" under which rape is normalized, and the responsibility the rest of the world has to help the women in the Congo help themselves. For more information, check out Congo Week's Take Action page.
