News and Analysis (3/8/11)

Islamophobe Peter King calls the move a vindication of the Bush administration policies and ACLU’s Anthony Romero calls it “a complete about-face”:

• Obama Creates Indefinite Detention System for Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay (Washington Post)

Amid false rumors of Gaddafi’s departure and speculation as to whether Obama will be suckered into a military intervention, Gaddafi’s forces check the rebel advance with some injuries and no fatalities:

• Libyan Warplanes Strike Rebels at Oil Port (abc News)

The defeated Christian president who refuses to cede the presidency to the Muslim opponent who won the election seizes control of the nation’s cocoa industry, and his security forces kill four more civilians after a demonstration at the scene of the unarmed women they murdered last Thursday:

• Four Dead as Ivory Coast Troops Open Fire on Civilians (Guardian)

Why are women in need of education and respect offered beer and bikinis instead? A scholar of Women’s Studies and Medical Ethics wonders why the Western media confuses sexual exploitation for sexual liberation:

• Are Brothels and Bikinis Signs of Progress for Arab Women? (Christian Science Monitor)

The High Court ruled Tuesday that authorities had illegally obtained the items when they arrested Anwar:

• Evidence to Incriminate Malaysia’s Anwar Expunged (Washington Post)

Iran says it would “make an effort” to find the “former FBI agent who vanished” there in 2007:

• Iran Seeks More U.S. Information on Ex-FBI Agent (Reuters)

After repeated warnings that her department’s denial of Palestinians’ citizenship was a violation of Denmark’s commitment to a 2008 UN convention:

• Danish Immigration Minister Hornbech Fired over Scandal (BBC)

About “200 journalists from official and independent media rallied near the headquarters of Al-Rai, the main state-controlled paper” demanding “”intervention in the media” by the Jordanian government and security agencies, and a change of the state-controlled press ‘to independent newspapers’”:

• Jordanian Journalists Call for Press Freedom (Washington Post)

“The child star said the family was yet to move into a new apartment paid for by a trust set up by the film’s director, Danny Boyle” and she has lost all her awards and press clippings:

• ‘Slumdog’ Star Homeless After Mumbai Fire (Christian Science Monitor)

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