"Hurricane Crisis Highlights Racist Media"

Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer During Hurricane Katrina Coverage
Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, one web surfer on an Atlanta message board did not let the disaster blind him of how racist the media in American remains. A message board poster with the alias “Noah_The_African” pointed out a prime example of how America’s racist media will quickly portray African Americans in a different light than White Americans even in a time of crisis.

Venezuela Offers $1M, Oil, Food and Equipment
Sources at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC, told Venezuelanalysis.com that apart from the million dollars in monetary assistance, Venezuela is offering two mobile hospital units, each capable of assisting 150 people, 120 specialists in rescue operations, 10 water purifying plants, 18 electricity generators of 850 KW each, 20 tons of bottled water, and 50 tons of canned food.
According to The Washington Times, a senior State Department official said he was not aware of the Venezuelan offer, but noted that unsolicited offers can be "counterproductive."

South Africa Opts for Pan-Africanism
IN mid-March 2005,the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) convened its conference co-hosted by the governments of Jamaica, South Africa and the African Union, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica entitled "Towards Unity and United Action by Africans and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean for a Better World - the Case of South Africa", otherwise known as "The South Africa-African Union-Caribbean Diaspora Conference" held in Kingston 16th-18th March 2005.

Zimbabwe pays IMF $120m
Zimbabwe has paid back $120m of its $300m (€245m) debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had threatened to expel Harare for arrears, state television said on Wednesday.

Globalisation 'exploits' Africa
Globalisation exploits, denigrates and humiliates Africa in the same way slavery and colonialism once did, said Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa in a speech to the African Union on Wednesday.

Uganda not to force Sudanese refugees to return
The Ugandan government will not force Sudanese refugees to return to their country when the time for repatriation comes, a top official has said.

China to develop economic co-operation with Africa
China will strive to strengthen economic co-operation with Africa, particularly in developing human resources, a senior official of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) said yesterday.

South Africa says continuing mediation, cautious on sanctions
South Africa denied on Wednesday that it was concluding its mediation in the Cote d'Ivoire crisis as it warned the UN Security Council to take care that any sanctions action did not negatively affect the peace process.

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Children living in borderland limbo

UN stays in Sierra Leone after peacekeepers leave
The United Nations will remain active in Sierra Leone after peacekeeping troops leave the West African nation at the end of this year under a resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.

Thousands trapped in Sierra floods
AID workers in Sierra Leone have managed to distribute aid to about 7000 people stranded or made homeless by torrential rains in the south of the country, but another 10,000 remain out of reach, the Red Cross said.

Hurricane Katrina Exposes Racism And Inequality
Decades of official neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other parts of the South.

Iraq’s draft constitution: a recipe for neo-colonial rule
The constitution that was endorsed by Iraq’s presidential council on Sunday, and is to be put to a referendum by October 15, is an outrage against the Iraqi people. From beginning to end, it has been written to advance US imperialist ambitions in the Middle East, notably long-term control over Iraq’s oil reserves and permanent military bases in the country.

America's Corrupt Legal System
Rigged courts, bribed judges, phony trials, extortion by lawyers, and over 2 million prisoners in the USA gulag.

Katrina, Bush and global warmingl

Bush is the real threat

How the US got its neoliberal way in Iraq

Lies Of Omission

Turk 'genocide' author faces jail

RIA Novosti: US Offered USD 75 Million to Iraqi Sunnis for
Signature under Constitution

Bu$hCo's flood for oil - leaky levees and offshore looting

Cuban parliament expresses solidarity with hurricane-affected US people