News and Views: January 2008
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- Climate Change: Wars Dwarf Warming in U.S. Budget (Jim Lobe, IPS News)
- Iraq: Violence Draws Veil Over Women (Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail, IPS News)
- Chomsky on the Rise of the South (Michael Shank, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Kenyan Women's Consultation Group on the Current Crisis in Kenya (Pambazuka News)
- Counterinsurgency in Chiapas (John Gibler, In These Times)
- Haiti: UN organizes workshop for police to address problem of sexual violence (UN News)
- Kenya: Mediation effort "fails to stem violence, tension" (IRIN News)
- Guatemala: Legal Action by Activists Against Judges Stymied (Inés Benítez, IPS News)
- Gaza explodes (Soumaya Ghannoushi, The Guardian)
- The Strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza (Chris Hedges, Truthdig)
- DRC: The Invisible War (Amy Goodman, TruthDig)
- U.S. Stymies Security Council Action on Gaza (Haider Rizvi, IPS News)
- Are U.S. Policies Killing Women? (Michele Kort, Ms. Magazine)
- Sudan: Rebel positions bombed in West Darfur (AFP)
- Castro 'ready to return' - Lula (BBC News)
- Kenya: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence (IRIN News)
- Development: Quantum Leap in South-South Investments and Trade (Thalif Deen, IPS News)
- Over 500,000 people displaced in DR Congo last year, says UN (UN News)
- EU rethinks biofuels guidelines (Roger Harrabin, BBC News)
- Brazil: Land Shortage Provokes Murders of Indigenous People (Mario Osava, IPS News)
- Stiglitz says GDP may be poor indicator of economy (AFP)
- Jordan: Government moves to curb domestic violence (IRIN News)
- Bush Urged to Add Iraqi Refugees to Mideast Agenda (Aaron Glantz, OneWorld US)
- Diary: Delivering relief in Kenya (BBC News)
- New effort to solve Kenya crisis (BBC News)
- Sudanese Soldiers Fire on U.N. Peacekeepers in Darfur (The Associated Press)
- Women in India Form Their Own Political Party (Aditi Bhaduri, Women's eNews)
- Rights Groups Urge International Efforts for Kenya (Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US)
- Watchdog Faults IMF Loan Conditions (Abid Aslam, IPS News)
- Kenya's Rigged Election (Tavia Nyong'o, The Nation)
- Video & Animation: The Story of Stuff (Annie Leonard)
- Animation: Voluntary Regulation (Mark Fiore)
- Iraq: Islamic extremists target women in Basra (IRIN News)
- Kenya: Rape on the rise in post-election violence (IRIN News)
- Egypt Opens Gates to Gaza for Pilgrims (Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post)
