Anti-WTO protesters smash windows, burn cars in Genevahttp://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fgw-wto-29-2009nov29,0,632506.story

Anti-capitalism protesters smashed windows and set cars on fire in Geneva Saturday during a demonstration against the World Trade Organization. An otherwise good-natured crowd of 2,000 people demonstrated against the WTO conference starting Monday. Protesters held up signs saying: "WTO is enemy of the climate" and: "We will not sell our souls to the multinationals.

US pressures EU to let CIA peek at bank recordshttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112476&sectionid=351020605

The European Union appears set to allow US spy agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the EU after “massive” pressure from the US. The EU has been clandestinely allowing US intelligence agencies access to financial records since 2001. EU officials were meeting Monday to make a decision on officially allowing the US access to bank data.

CNN spouts “High turnout for Honduras election" propagandahttp://www.quotha.net/node/595

Critics have dismissed CNN’s report of a “High turnout for the Honduras election" as propaganda. CNN reported “electoral observers” had said a turnout of “more than 60 percent” was expected. However, reports from international observers in San Pedro Sula said only 35% of the electorate appear to have voted. The Greenburg Quinlan Rosner poll earlier found 42% of voters said they would regard elections as illegitimate. Deposed President Jose Manuel Zelaya had called for a boycott of Sunday's vote

Rwanda becomes a member of the Commonwealthhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8384930.stm

The British Commonwealth has admitted Rwanda as its 54th member. The African country was admitted at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago. A Rwandan minister said the move showed his country's "tremendous progress" over the last 15 years. Some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda's genocide in 1994

Native Orientalists at the Daily Timeshttp://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/68914

"Pakistanis had failed to seize sovereign control over their country at its birth. In August 1947, the departing British had few worries about losing their colonial assets in Pakistan. They were quite confident that the brown Sahibs, who were succeeding them, would not fail in their duty to protect these assets. Within a few years, these brown Sahibs had strapped the new country to the wheels of the neocolonial order. Without effective resistance from below – from intellectuals, workers, students and peasants – these neocolonial managers have been free to cannibalize their own people as long as they could also keep their masters happy."

Indian nuclear workers 'deliberately poisoned'http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6684989/Indian-nuclear-workers-deliberately-poisoned.html

Routine tests showed 55 employees from the plant in Kaiga in the state of Karnataka had increased levels of the radioactive element tritium, which is used in nuclear reactors. Exposure to tritium is believed to increase the risk of cancer. B. Bhattacharjee, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, said someone had inserted contaminated water into a water cooler, according to the Press Trust of India.

Fred Cederholm: Uncle $ugar paying an estimated $600 a gallon for fuelhttp://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=86548

EU pleased with ‘broadly peaceful' Honduran electionhttp://euobserver.com/9/29075

Elections in Honduras held by the country's right-wing coup regime have "neither been recognised nor not recognised" by the European Union, although Brussels has welcomed what it believes was a peaceful process. Human rights groups however are contesting the EU assessment.

Hamas approves law to execute drug dealershttp://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35964

Holocaust Exhibit Sheds Light on Story of Unlikely Rescuers: Muslimshttp://bit.ly/5GVKyV

“In rescuing this story of Muslims saving Jews during the dark days of the Nazi occupation of Albania from the dustbin of history, Norman Gershman has helped to encourage dialogue and understanding between Jews and Muslims. Along with Christianity, Judaism and Islam constitute the three “Abrahamic” religions- that is descended from the prophet Abraham. It is a message that is sorely needed today.“ -BESA: Muslims Who Saved Jews in WWII

Honduran Elections Marred by Police Violence, Censorship, International Non-Recognition, CEPR Co-Director Sayshttp://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/honduran-elections-marred-by-violence/

The election day was marred by reports of police violence and intimidation, including a crackdown on a peaceful march in San Pedro Sula where marchers were tear-gassed, beaten, and detained. Authorities also shot a man in the head at a checkpoint on the eve of the elections, and raided the offices and homes of various civil society groups, including a Quaker agricultural cooperative. Opposition broadcasters had their signals jammed, and the authorities threatened criminal charges for anyone advocating a boycott of the election.

5 suspected cololmbian paramilitaries arrested and retrieved the machine guns thats killed  GNB(venezuelas national guards) officershttp://www.vtv.gob.ve/noticias-nacionales/25805

In morning hours of Thursday in the border zone with Colombia, a clash involving  troops from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and a group of colombian paramilitaries, which left one killed and 5 captured.Also recovered the machine guns that were stolen from two members of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) killed last Monday, on the border with Colombia.This was announced by the Deputy Iris Varela, vice president of the Foreign Policy Committee of the National Assembly, on the phone with The News of Venezolana de Television.

Finally Mrs Varela called hypocritical attitude of Colombia's foreign minister, who expressed readiness to assist in clearing up the murder of 10 people, chururu, Tachira State.He also told the Colombian foreign minister, "if you want to capture those responsible for the deaths, start the search within the AUC in Colombia, which protects its own government and believe that their own government. Why dont you ask Álvaro Uribe Velez and own Department of Administrative Security (DAS)

Declaration by Portugal condemns coup in Hondurashttp://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/62814-NN/declaracion-de-portugal-condena-golpe-en-honduras/

The Iberoamerican Summit endorsed a statement on Tuesday by the Portuguese Presidency Honduras condemning the coup as "a fundamental step" to restore normalcy return of the deposed Manuel Zelaya and supports national dialogue in Honduras. "We condemn the coup and we consider it unacceptable for serious violations of human rights and freedoms to the Honduran people," says the text.  It also considers "an essential step towards the return to normal," the restitution of Zelaya, and calls to end the "harassment" at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa and to ensure "its inviolability and people under his protection"

Caravan travels more than 300 vehicles to reject elections Tegucigalpahttp://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/62781-NN/caravana-de-mas-de-300-vehiculos-recorre-tegucigalpa-en-rechazo-a-elecciones/

Over 300 vehicles drive on Monday by the city of Tegucigalpa, called by the Front of Resistance Against State coup in Honduras in a caravan which has rejected Sunday's elections, which they consider fraudulent. According to the report of the Special Envoy teleSUR in Honduras, Adriana Sivori, cars are right now facing the military checkpoint that surrounds the Brazilian embassy, where it is hosted since last Sept. 21, the constitutional President of Honduras , Manuel Zelaya. The reporter added that they also pass through the front of the U.S. Embassy (USA), which asked not to recognize the election results. "They stopped in front of the military checkpoint in the Brazilian embassy and they will pass the United States not to recognize this election," he noted Sivori.

Argentina:''You can not talk of democracy in Honduras''http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/62815-NN/argentina-no-se-puede-hablar-de-democracia-en-honduras/

The president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, ratified the rejection he has expressed his country's coup in Honduras and said "you can not talk of democracy" in the Central American nation "without respect for all constitutional rights, it violated fundamental rights, human rights. "