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01 Apr 2005 10:26:18 AM |
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The mythology of people power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1449869,00.html
The glamour of street protests should not blind us to the reality of
US-backed coups in the former USSR
John Laughland
Friday April 1, 2005
The Guardian
Before his denunciation yesterday of the "prevailing influence" of the
US in the "anti-constitutional coup" which overthrew him last week,
President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan had used an interesting phrase to
attack those who were stirring up trouble in the drug-ridden Ferghana
Valley. A criminal "third force", linked to the drug mafia, was
struggling to gain power.
Originally used as a label for covert operatives shoring up apartheid
in South Africa, before being adopted by the US-backed "pro-democracy"
movement in Iran in November 2001, the third force is also the title
of a book published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
which details how western-backed non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
can promote regime and policy change all over the world. The formulaic
repetition of a third "people power" revolution in the former Soviet
Union in just over one year - after the similar events in Georgia in
November 2003 and in Ukraine last Christmas - means that the
post-Soviet space now resembles Central America in the 1970s and
1980s, when a series of US-backed coups consolidated that country's
control over the western hemisphere.
John Laughland
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The party formerly known as Tory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1449754,00.html
The Conservatives no longer wish to be called Tories. If this is an
attempt to rebrand themselves, it won't fool the voters, warns Lucy
Mangan
Friday April 1, 2005
The Guardian
'Just a quick thought," the Tory party's head of broadcasting, Michael
Salter, emailed to assorted television channels earlier this week. "In
the run up to the general election, is there any way people could call
us 'Conservatives' rather than 'Tories'?" He went on to say that they
would happily settle for an initial "Conservative" reference and then
let the speaker revert to "Tory", but that it would (I paraphrase) be
awfully decent of the chaps in charge to call the party by its full
name wherever possible.
Lucy Mangan
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Another country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1449753,00.html
As rumours persist of US plans to invade Iran, Rageh Omaar, the face
of the BBC during the Iraq war, visits Tehran - and finds a nation far
removed from the one George Bush seems to fear
Friday April 1, 2005
The Guardian
One of the first things that western visitors see at Tehran's Mehrebad
airport is two large portraits of Imam Khomeini, and his successor as
the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamanei. Next to them is an
advert for a Nokia mobile phone. It is a useful symbol of what is
happening in Iran. Two years after the invasion of Iraq, the talk
again is of war, as George Bush and Tony Blair claim that Iran
supports terrorism. Commentators on both sides of the Atlantic use
words like "eerie" to describe the similarities between the crises.
Rageh Omaar
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Stelios makes a splash with no-frills Med cruises
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1449811,00.html
Andrew Clark
Friday April 1, 2005
The Guardian
Anybody with a taste for all things orange will find paradise on the
world's only no-frills cruise liner. EasyJet's founder, Stelios
HajiIoannou, yesterday showed off his first "floating hotel" -
complete with orange ceilings, orange shelves, orange bedheads and
orange bathrooms.
The self-styled "serial entrepreneur" has begun taking bookings for
the first voyage of the good ship easyCruiseOne, which will ply its
trade from May on a route along the French and Italian riviera
stretching from St Tropez to Nice, Cannes, Monaco and Genoa.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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America backs down on Darfur inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1449927,00.html
Gary Younge in New York
Friday April 1, 2005
The Guardian
The international criminal court was poised to launch a war crimes
investigation yesterday into the mass murder and rapes in the Darfur
region of Sudan, after international pressure forced the US to
withdraw its objections.
The UN security council was expected to back a resolution authorising
the prosecution of Sudanese war crimes suspects by the court in a case
that could prove crucial to establishing the court's legitimacy.
Gary Younge
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US intelligence on Iraq chaotic and incompetent, says Bush commission
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1449845,00.html
Julian Borger in Washington
Friday April 1, 2005
The Guardian
A presidential commission investigating the intelligence debacle that
preceded the Iraq invasion reported yesterday that the damage done to
US credibility would "take years to undo".
American intelligence was described by the report as being in chaos,
often paralysed by the rivalry of 15 different spy agencies and
affected by unchallenged assumptions about Baghdad's supposed weapons
of mass destruction.
The incompetence described in the report occasionally descends into
farce, particularly over an Iraqi defector codenamed Curveball, whose
fabricated tales about mobile biological laboratories and their
influence on US decision-makers were reminiscent of Graham Greene's
accidental spy in Our Man in Havana. Despite warnings that he was
"crazy", "a waste of time", and that he had not even been in Iraq at
the time of an event he supposedly saw, his claims became the subject
of almost 100 Defence Intelligence Agency reports and a focus of the
National Intelligence Estimate in October 2002.
Prosecutors said in January they would welcome the Darfur case if they
were given jurisdiction by the UN. But that was thought unlikely given
US opposition to the creation of the court and its involvement in
Darfur, where hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered and even
more displaced over the past 18 months.
Julian Borger
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Israel's Orthodox groups face challenge over Jewish identity
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=625286
By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
01 April 2005
Israel's Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling, reviving a
controversy as old as the Jewish state and as divisive for Jews as the
Reformation was for Christians.
By a majority of 7-4, the court ruled yesterday that gentiles who
studied for conversion to Judaism in non-Orthodox Israeli training
courses, completing the process abroad, had an automatic right to come
back and obtain instant Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.
Study of Social Interactions Starts With a Test of Trust
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/science/01trust.html
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Scientists are reporting that they have succeeded in visualizing
feelings of trust developing in a specific region of the brain.
Pentagon Blamed for Lack of Postwar Planning in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16942-2005Mar31.html
By Bradley Graham and Thomas E. Ricks, Page A03
A study of U.S. military operations in Iraq, prepared for Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, sharply criticizes Pentagon attempts to
plan for the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion two years ago, saying
stabilization and reconstruction issues "were addressed only very
generally" and "no planning was undertaken to ensure the security of
the Iraqi people."
E.U., Canada Warn of Tariffs Over U.S. Anti-Dumping Law
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16917-2005Mar31.html
By Paul Blustein, Page A04
The European Union and Canada said yesterday that they will begin
imposing punitive duties May 1 on several American exports because the
United States has failed to repeal a controversial anti-dumping law
that was ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.
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