Photo courtesy: sorb First Guantanamo trial under Obama begins
By Tim Fitzsimons Special to GlobalPost/TheUrbanFly Published: August 12, 2010 06:44 ET in The Americas
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Thirteen hundred miles from Washington, on a sun-drenched corner of this iguana-dotted island, the U.S. military is gearing up for the trial of the youngest and last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
Photo courtesy: PIX News/Jaynorris117 Steven Slater's Slide
J. Letness TheUrbanFly August 11, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS: It was a Monday moment. JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater quit his job in spectacular fashion today. The scene was New York's JFK airport. As a flight from Pittsburgh was taxiing up the tarmac at the end of the flight, a passenger impatiently attempted to remove her bag from the overhead compartment before the "All Clear" was announced. When Slater attempted to stop her, he was hit on the head with the bag. when he asked for an apology, she cursed him. It was reported that the two had had a disagreement in Pittsburgh before the flight began. Obviously furious, Slater got on the intercom, told off the passenger with some obscenities, then announced he was quitting, grabbed his carry-on and a few beers and exited the plane via the emergency slide.
Photo courtesy: TheYoungTurks Mexico celebrates ruling on Arizona law. By Ioan Grillo GlobalPost/TheUrbanFly Published: July 29, 2010 07:19 ET in The Americas
MEXICO CITY — In the heart of the Mexican capital a crowd of 100 activists stood silently outside the imperious American Embassy on Wednesday waiting for a judicial decision 1,800 miles away in Phoenix, Arizona.
Photo: Public Domain The Mosque at Ground Zero Voices of the people, Mayor Bloomberg's speech on August 3: Editor's Note:The following speech was given August 3 by New
York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, on New York's Governor's Island, in
an effort to show support for the proposed Islamic mosque and community
center near the World Trade Center site. Incidentally the Statue of
Liberty served as background as he was joined by 10 religious leaders of
various faiths as well as the New York City Coucil Speaker Christine
Quinn. The New York Daily News called it "one of his most heartfelt
speeches ever."
“We've come here to Governors Island to stand where the earliest
settlers first set foot in New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of
religious tolerance were first planted. We come here to see the
inspiring symbol of liberty that more than 250 years later would greet
millions of immigrants in this harbor. And we come here
to state as strongly as ever, this is the freest city in the world. That's what makes New York special and different and strong.
Photo courtesy:AlJazeeraEnglish The Racism That Sec. Vilsack Freaked-Out About. By Mel Reeves TheUrbanFly August, 5, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS: In the wake of the Shirley Sherrod controversy and the recent effort by Rahm Emmanuel to secure 1.2 billion for Arkansas farmers for damages suffered in 2008 the Congressional Black Caucus, established black media and the black blogosphere are demanding that president Obama find a way to find a way to pay the black farmers.
Hamid Gul, retired Pakistan Army and former chief of Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence. Photo courtesy: AlJazeeraEnglish WikiLeaks: the Taliban, the ISI and U.S. strategy in Afghanistan
By Michael Moran GlobalPost Columnist/TheUrbanFly Published: July 27, 2010 06:46 ET in Worldview
NEW YORK — Back in November 2001, just a week after Kabul fell to the U.S.-led invasion forces in Afghanistan and just as the city of Kunduz began to capitulate, the air filled with the steady drone of C-130 transport aircraft landing at the dusty airstrip.
Photo courtesy: Russia Today Shockwaves from Wikileaks bombshell hit Kabul
By Jean MacKenzie GlobalPost/TheUrbanFly Published: July 26, 2010 14:20 ET in Asia
The Wikileaks documents have hit Kabul like a small-scale nuclear explosion: from media analysts to shopkeepers, everyone is talking about the more than 90,000 classified reports on the Afghan war that have now been made public by the whistle blower website Wikileaks.org.
