"How about Reparations!"

Tutu urges G8 leaders to go even further on debt relief
ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu yesterday called on leaders of the world's eight richest nations to show the world cares about Africa, as Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Moscow for the start of a week-long diplomatic marathon where he hopes to set the scene for the upcoming G8 summit.

African 'trade not aid' coffee on sale
A brand of African coffee appearing on supermarket shelves this month offers a variation of "fair trade" to tap the rapidly increasing market for ethically-produced goods.

British arms sales to Africa reach $1.8b
British arms sales to Africa have reached a record $1.8 billion after rapid increases over the past four years, the Observer reported Sunday.

S. Africa collects 80,000 illegal firearms
South Africa collected a total of 80,147 firearms during the firearms amnesty period in thecountry, according to a local report on Sunday.

Mbeki welcomes G8 relief plan
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday saluted an historic deal by the world's most industrialised nations to write off debt owed by 18 of the world's poorest countries, saying it would boost Africa's regeneration.

Caution over G8 debt plan for poor countries
While the Group of Eight finance ministers were hailing a "historic breakthrough" at the weekend after they agreed to cancel the debts of 18 poor but well-governed countries, doubts were already being raised about how great an impact the deal would have.

'Write-off alone won't be enough'
A G8 deal to scrap billions of dollars of debt owed by the poorest countries must be matched by huge increases in aid and an end to European and US agricultural subsidies in order to eradicate poverty, debt experts and British newspaper editorials said on Sunday.

How about Reparations!

Debt deal a fraction of Africa's real needs

Is class struggle on South Africa's political agenda?
South Africa's ruling African National Congress is currently facing a major national crisis that, in all truth, was to be expected.

Extraordinarily Rancid Justice
As the Senate votes in Bush's long-filibustered nominees, the nuclear option compromise is looking more rancid than reasonable. The seven Democrats who helped broker the compromise pledged not to filibuster except in the most extraordinary circumstances. But given the track record of Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor, I wonder how extreme a candidate has to be before these Democrats and their seven Republican colleagues would reject them.

U.S. expands its fight on terrorists in Africa
A growing number of Islamic militants from northern and sub-Saharan Africa are fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Iraq, fueling the insurgency with foot soldiers and some financing, U.S. military officials say.

The Scourge of Militarism
Imperial dreams are undermining our political institutions. Is America going the way of the Roman Republic?

Forgotten US Allies Emerge from Jungles of Laos
Up to 4,000 ethnic Hmong, remnants of a US-backed anti-communist guerrilla army in the Laotian jungles during the Vietnam War, are ready to surrender after 30 years on the run, a US activist said on Thursday.

Ministers were told of need for Gulf war 'excuse'
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.

PNA: Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks 'a Myth'
'Israeli Children Are Taught to Hate Arabs, Trained to Kill Them'
US Congress is taking the unprecedented step of establishing an in-house oversight apparatus to monitor daily how American aid money to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is being spent.

Found: Europe's oldest civilisation
Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.