The News Review:

- Inviting Intervention
- Cocaine Could Destabilize Guinea-Bissau
- Comment: America’s lost children
- Printer Friendly Format – Sunday Herald

Inviting Intervention
Asian Tribune – Nov 3, 2007
The thrust is made politically, economically or militarily. From UN to NATO from IMF to World Bank integrated are human right concerns and aid is conditional on an ethical agenda. The Human Rights bandwagon has rolled on from Bosnia to Sudan to Somalia to Haiti to Sierra Leone to East Timor to Congo to Kosova to Afghanistan to Iraq during the last decade. Was the dominant consideration of the receiving state obtained by the Western interventionists before entering as believed by Pieris?Under different pretexts Russia intervened in Chechnya, India in East Pakistan and China in Tibet and the United States in Cuba (Bay of Pigs),Nicaragua (Contras) Grenada (removal of Maurice Bishop),Guatemala (overthrow of Jacobo Arabenz) Viet Nam (Communist takeover ) Chile (installing Pinochet) El Salvador (backing Salvadorian National Guard). Human Rights after the Cold War and the War on Drugs replaced the Communist threat to interfere and intervene. Such interventions breaches international law, Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and disregards the concept of sovereignty and therefore requires an ethical and moral human face with human rights utilized as the licensed vehicle to intervene in the affairs of other states. Hiroshima and Nagasaki is never treated as genocide and what would otherwise be termed barbaric and treated as uncivilized becomes moral and ethical and lauded as an honorable triumph.

Cocaine Could Destabilize Guinea-Bissau
FOX News – Nov 3, 2007
Guinea-Bissau’s minuscule economy has traditionally been driven by cashew, fish and peanut exports that only total around $100 million annually. Though the country of 1. 5 million people suffered a 1998-1999 civil war, rivals there _ unlike nearby resource-rich Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone _ have had little to fight over. At least until now. “The fear is that the influx of drug money can easily generate a situation of instability, because the appetite among different local partners to get involved is getting bigger and bigger,” Antonio Mazzitelli, West Africa director of the U.

Comment: America’s lost children
New Scientist – New Scientist (subscription) – Nov 3, 2007
The UK’s infant death rate is 5 per thousand. Countries with faltering or failed governments or endemic poverty, and those experiencing social, economic or political disruption, fare far worse. In Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, to name two tragic examples, 1 in 7 babies die before reaching 1 year of the age. What then should we make of the fact that in Mississippi and a handful of nearby states in the southern US, infant mortality rates appear to. The complete article is 843 words long.

Printer Friendly Format – Sunday Herald
Sunday Herald – Nov 3, 2007
In May this year, in Malta, they completed their outward trips. Sixty-seven of the 71 Commonwealth territories and nations have been visited. The only ones missed out have been Canada, after their own bid was withdrawn, the Falkland Islands and St Helena, who told Glasgow to save their time and travel costs, and Sierra Leone, which proved just too problematic to visit despite repeated attempts. In the end the team managed a conference call with the representatives of the troubled West African country. This week it will all be about face-to-face contacts. And making sure every opportunity is taken to ensure Friday’s ballot comes out in Glasgow’s favour. 8:00pm Saturday 3rd November 2007By Natasha Woods.