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I was just reading a dose of real news (meaning unsanitized) from my favourite new source. This Website is more like an excuse for a mailing list. You can visit and browse, but you may as well just get their newsletter. It works just like real news - topical, current issues are addressed usually from a journalistic analysis viewpoint. But the perspective is that of a global citizen that values all lives as equal, not just Western lives, and reality in all its stark horror is not shied away from. I’d say it is a pretty Humanist publication. It’s based in India.

Here are some excerpts from their content, chosen by me of course:

India And UK-US Bush Wars By Gideon Polya

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The latest UN and UNICEF data indicate that the post-invasion excess mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan totals 2.3 million and the annual under-5 infant mortality totals 0.5 million (1,300 daily and 90% avoidable) – and this largely due to non-provision by the occupying Coalition of life-sustaining requisites demanded by the Geneva Conventions. Further, the latest UNODC data indicate that the post-2001 global opioid drug-related deaths totalling 0.4 million (including 1,200 Scots, 1,600 Australians, 3,000 Canadians, 3,200 Brits and 50,000 Americans) are largely due to Coalition restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry back to global dominance (76% market share by 2002).

The Jericho Prison Raid By Ramzy Baroud

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The Palestinian parliamentary elections last January, which introduced Hamas as a power player, have yielded a most unfavorable formula from the point of view of the US and Britain. Both governments have invested in a carefully designed and self-serving democracy program that would cement and justify their costly meddling in the region and, of course, their lost war in Iraq. Whether they wish to admit it or not, the advent of Hamas, which has provided a moral boost to Islamic political movements everywhere, has most likely signaled the end of the US-led quasi-democracy project.

Man Will ‘Wipe Out’ Rare Creatures Of The Deep By Severin Carrell

The deep ocean is one of the world’s last great wildernesses. But not for long. Two kilometres below the surface, scores of rare and exotic species are being wiped out at a dramatic rate.

These unique species include the goblin shark which boasts a unicorn-like horn, prickly sharks with humped backs and glowing eyes, vast single-celled organisms as large as footballs and tripod fish that stand on their fins.

In a letter passed to The Independent on Sunday, Britain’s leading marine scientists have warned these species face extinction because of the global growth in deep-sea trawlers fishing for edible species such as the orange roughy, hoki and round-nosed grenadier.