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elf-appointed Elder, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke out in Chicago this week on the Rev. Wright controversy. Desmond Tutu believes that Wright says the things that all black Americans want to say... Really? The Chicago Tribune and LGF Quick Links reported: "You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've ever come across in the world." But he chided Americans for getting "very, very upset" with the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama,...

Desmond Tutu: Equality of U.S. blacks an 'illusion' By Storer H. Rowley Tribune reporter May 14, 2008 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu weighed in on the presidential campaign Tuesday in Chicago, praising America's ability to produce the first viable African-American presidential candidate while describing the nation as haunted by a racial divide that still offers blacks what he called only "the illusion of equality." "You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've...

“Alan from Upland CA” has finally stepped up to challenge Tony Wicher’s anti-Semitic hate speech at Barack Obama’s official Web site. ...Alan replies to Mr. Wicher’s “Obama’s Jewish Problem” as follows. Obama’s sanction of Wicher’s commentary, plus his unbelieveable cowardice (heck, he all but called Abraham Lincoln a “Racist”) in denouncing the Black Nazi Wright is enough of a turn-off. Wicher just adds more fuel to the fire. Could have been set by David Duke or Farrakhan... ...Tony Wicher’s and Desmond Tutu’s terminology for Zionists and even Jews is identical to material from David Duke’s Web site. Again, all this...

Wicher repeatedly refers to Israel as an apartheid state, and in fact claims that Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs is “worse than apartheid.” ...He dismisses any who call his claims of Israeli “apartheid” anti-Semitic as members of the “Zionist thought police.”

Tony Wicher’s “My Favorite Antisemite” at the Official Website of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign attacks the Zionist Thought Police and then quotes Desmond Tutu, who suggests that the “powerful Jewish Lobby” will fall like Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, and other dictators. When circulating this story to your associates, please keep the following in mind: (1) This is Barack Obama’s official campaign site, and it is under his editorial control. (2) Tony Wicher’s material cannot be written off as a hit and run smear job by a Republican or Clinton operative. His point score, a measurement of his activity at...

The utterly charming thing about the Zionist Thought Police is their apparent inability to restrain themselves, even from the very excesses that will prove to be their own undoing. Having asked sane and rational people to believe that Jimmy Carter is a Holocaust denier simply for pointing out the obvious about the apartheid regime Israel maintains in the occupied territories, the same crew now want us to believe that Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an anti-Semite. “But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the U.S.], and to criticize it...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The council of world leaders launched by former President Nelson Mandela is sending a three-person team to help ease tensions in the troubled Middle East, the organization known as The Elders said Friday. Former President Jimmy Carter, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and former Irish president Mary Robinson will visit Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia from April 13-21. Launched last year to celebrate Mandela's 89th birthday, the group of 12 world leaders is dedicated to fostering peace and resolving global crises. Annan noted his recent mission to Kenya in which...

Later this month, representatives of Israel's government are slated to attend a new peace summit at Annapolis, Md., sponsored by the Bush administration. Desperate not to be seen as obstructing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's goal of creating a Palestinian state before her boss's term expires in January 2009, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has enthusiastically endorsed the conference. Given the fact that the history of Mideast "peace" summits shows that such conclaves are as likely to increase violence as they are to engender reconciliation, the stakes for Israel's future at Annapolis are enormous. Placed in this dramatic context, can there...

Zimbabwe needs your help, Tutu tells Brown By Peta Thornycroft and Sebastien Berger Last Updated: 2:34am BST 19/09/2007 Gordon Brown should put more pressure on President Robert Mugabe to improve Zimbabwe's human rights record, Desmond Tutu said last night. The Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel peace prize winner said the "quiet diplomacy" pursued by the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) had "not worked at all". He called on Britain and the West to pressure SADC, including South Africa, which is chairing talks between President Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, to set firm deadlines...

Looks like Desmond Tutu won't be making a visit to Israel after all. Upset that Israel refused to roll out the red carpet for the Archbishop, Tutu packed off in a huff, taking his six-person band of merry UN pranksters with him. Too bad for the people who think the peace effort could use another biased report on Israel from the UN Human Rights Council, a body so blatantly anti-Israel that it makes one long for the old, discredited UN Commission on Human Rights. In only six months of existence, the UNHRC has managed to condemn Israel eight times, compared...

Israel will not cooperate with a UN fact-finding mission to investigate last month's botched shelling in Beit Hanoun that killed 19 people, but will not bar entry into the country to the mission's head, South African Noble Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid efforts, is by no means "persona non-grata" in Israel, a senior government official said Sunday. But, he added, Israel would not cooperate with the mission, just as it did not cooperate with a fact-finding mission the UN sent in 2002 to investigate what the Palestinians claimed then...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been named to head a United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, where 19 civilians were killed by a misfired Israeli artillery shell earlier this month, UN officials said Wednesday. Tutu, who has compared Israel to Hitler in the past, has made numerous public statements that many acknowledge to be borderline anti-Semitism while others claim to be anti-Semitism outright. In 2002, Tutu told a Boston audience that, "People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful." Tutu, a...

Tutu to head UN rights mission to Gaza Jacob Slosberg and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 29, 2006 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has in the past compared Israeli policies with those under apartheid, has been named to head a United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, where an IDF artillery barrage killed 19 civilians earlier this month, UN officials said Wednesday. The Nobel Peace laureate will travel to Gaza to "assess the situation of victims, address the needs of survivors, and make recommendations on ways and means to protect Palestinian civilians against further...

South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has used his 75th birthday to warn that the widening gap between rich and poor is turning South Africa into a powder keg that may explode into civil unrest. The Anglican Archbishop was a key activist in ridding South Africa of apartheid but, at 75, his work is not over. Now he is speaking on behalf of the poor blacks who make up the majority of the country's population. "I am very surprised that it has taken them so long to vent their anger and their impatience," he said. In the lead-up to his...

It is getting late in the season, but John Yarmuth still wants in—into the club, the entourage. He is the Democratic candidate for Congress in Louisville, Ky., hoping to oust Republican incumbent Anne Northup. The club is the Democrats' Red to Blue Program. If you are a member—there will be about 40 of them—donations from strangers across the country will blow through your campaign mail slot like letters from Hogwarts. All you have to do is convince Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Chicago that you are worthy and that you can win. But that is the hard part. Under Emanuel, the...

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Take Aim at U.S. By CHASE SQUIRES, AP DENVER (Sept. 17) - Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates chbishop called for world peace and took aim at U.S. policy makers, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand that the United States pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries. The Archbishop Desmond Tutu had stern words for the Bush administration. "Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country," he said. Only the Dalai Lama, whose speech at the three-day PeaceJam convention at the University of Denver was...

White 'ingratitude' worries Tutu Archbishop Tutu and Mr de Klerk are both Nobel peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said South Africa's white community has not shown enough appreciation of the generosity shown to them by black South Africans. Ex-President FW de Klerk said in turn that black citizens should be grateful to whites for surrendering power. Archbishop Tutu headed the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which began work in April 1996. In an interview with BBC News, he said the commission failed to engage the white community sufficiently. He also expressed concern about social inequalities and levels of poverty...

NBC News : Tutu Much ! It was difficult to say which was the greater display of arrogance:Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s hypocritical condemnation of the United States – or NBC’s broadcast of this condemnation to the American people – at a time when American men and women are risking their lives overseas. Let me address NBC first. What the network did last night was the moral equivalent of interviewing Joseph Goebbels orTokyo Rose or Axis Sally during World War II : slimy beyond belief ! As to the good Archbishop: his nation (South Africa) has , for many years, interfered...

Mandela wins BBC's 'global election'   Mandela was selected by more than half the players Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government.More than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game, in which players were invited to choose a team of 11 to run the world from a list of around 100 of the most powerful leaders, thinkers and other high-profile people on the planet. The second choice was former US President Bill Clinton. The winning 11 were...

MIDI - DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY Ronnie Reagan surely doesn't have, doesn't have, doesn't have His great father's brains In his tutu, Hitchens tore him up, tore him, tore him up Ronnie was in pain He just couldn't seem make a point, make a point, make a point It was all in vain What a sissy...Ron's a sissy...little girly...little girly man (cute little tippy toe music) Chris abused him and he wiped the floor, wiped the floor, wiped the floor With the little punk When it comes to terror, Ronnie is, Ronnie is, Ronnie is Really full...

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Fordham University in New York awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters Feb. 23 to retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The presentation brought a prolonged standing ovation by students, faculty, trustees and visitors who packed the church on the university's Bronx campus for the event. "Fordham University feels a special bond of spiritual kinship with Archbishop Tutu," said the degree citation read by Nancy A. Busch, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The archbishop's "lifelong quest for peace and justice, inspired by Gospel values," corresponds to what Jesuit-run Fordham considers...

Dec. 30 - During the harshest years of apartheid, Desmond Tutu was always an outspoken voice of conscience. The 73-year-old Anglican archbishop faced down dirty tricks, arrests and assassination threats to lead protest marches and highlight racial injustice in his native South Africa. And when his country finally became a democracy in 1994, Tutu went on to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission—a widely-admired panel that granted amnesty to human rights violators and set a global model for other countries trying to come to terms with legacies of political violence.

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu yesterday fired the latest salvo in a bitter row with South African president Thabo Mbeki that is threatening to divide the country’s black leadership. The public slanging-match between the two leaders began last week when Mr Tutu accused the president of deepening the country’s poverty and stifling debate among his party. Mr Mbeki, who led the ANC to a 70 per cent victory in elections in April, hit back, charging the Nobel Peace laureate with speaking out of turn and resorting to "empty rhetoric". Yesterday, Mr Tutu responded with a sarcasm that will do nothing to defuse...

NEW YORK -- Moving from the pulpit to the stage, Archbishop Desmond Tutu is appearing off-Broadway in a drama blasting the Bush administration's handling of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The South African prelate and Nobel laureate was to appear Saturday night at a tiny theater in lower Manhattan, playing a judge in "Guantanamo: Honor Bound To Defend Freedom." The play portrays the plight of British detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Tutu's engagement is limited to two performances; the second is on Sunday afternoon. Weeks before the U.S. presidential election, Tutu is drawing attention to the treatment of hundreds...

However, the consequences of such a significant troop withdrawal have a couple of downsides, too, most of all for the Germans. One mostly overlooked but important side effect is the departure of the US troops themselves. With their visible presence of African-Americans and immigrants from Asia and Latin America, they enriched the German shopping malls and restaurants, representing a multi-ethnic society. If they are gone, German society will lose a bit of color, so to speak. This step will play into the hands of right wing xenophobes whose aim is to purify the German nation. Here, by accident, the goal...

An urgent security review is under way today after a fan managed to disturb an Olympic event in front of millions of TV viewers.Divers were stunned as the barechested man, wearing a blue tutu and leggings, appeared on one of the boards just as they were about to plunge into the water. He stood next to them on an adjoining board for nearly a minute before landing in the Olympic pool. A security guard dived into the water to apprehend the young fan, who had an advertising slogan written on his chest in large black lettering. The announcer said...

Who cares about real Parkinson's patients when there's a Brave New World to sell?RON REAGAN'S SPEECH at the Democratic convention last night was expected to urge expanded funding for stem cell research using so-called "spare" embryos--and to highlight these cells' potential for treating the Alzheimer's disease that took his father's life.He did neither. He didn't even mention Alzheimer's, perhaps because even strong supporters of embryonic stem cell research say it is unlikely to be of use for that disease. (Reagan himself admitted this on a July 12 segment of MSNBC's Hardball.) And he didn't talk about current debates on funding...

In his column today, Robert Novak salutes the only man who could put Bush-bashing Ron Reagan in his place. "Nobody knew how to respond in a time of national mourning. Nobody, that is, except William F. Buckley Jr.," Novak writes. Among the shots junior Reagan fired at the president: that his father never wore "his faith on his sleeve," that his "father did not know George W. Bush from Adam," that his "father was a man - that's the difference between him and Bush." And: "This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, they're...

RON REAGAN, JR. TO GIVE PRIMETIME SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ON STEM CELL RESEARCH, Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter tells ABC News' Dan Harris...

Cape Town - Former archbishop Desmond Tutu criticised government's policy on Zimbabwe on Sunday, saying South Africa would have been in trouble if the rest of the world acted the same way against the former apartheid government. "What is happening there (in Zimbabwe) is totally unacceptable," Tutu said in an interview on the BBC programme, Breakfast with Frost, on Sunday. "Government's current approach to Zimbabwe was not delivering any results," Tutu said. "Many people (in Zimbabwe) are looking toward South Africa for help. They are not saying use force. They believe it is possible to bring about change through applying...

Tutu: Bush, Blair Should Apologize for 'Immoral' War Mon February 16, 2004 09:41 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu will challenge British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush to apologize for pursuing a counterproductive and "immoral" war in Iraq, a British newspaper reported Monday. In a speech he is due to give in London Monday Tutu will say the turmoil after the war proved it is an illusion to believe that "force and brutality" leads to greater security, the Independent reported. It said Tutu would ridicule the "dangerously flawed" intelligence Britain and the United States used to...

LONDON (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu will challenge prime minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush to apologise for pursuing a counterproductive and "immoral" war in Iraq, a newspaper reports. In a speech he is due to give in London on Monday Tutu will say the turmoil after the war proved it is an illusion to believe that "force and brutality" leads to greater security, the Independent reported on Monday. It said Tutu would ridicule the "dangerously flawed" intelligence Britain and the United States used to justify military action in Iraq. "An immoral war was thus waged...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - In his three-year effort to reengineer the racial and economic landscape of Zimbabwe by forcibly taking farms away from whites and giving them to blacks, President Robert Mugabe has long counted on - and gotten - support from almost all of Africa's leaders. Until now. With half of Zimbabwe's 12 million people facing hunger, inflation over 600 percent, and state-sponsored torture a common tool, hints of criticism by regional leaders that began showing up last month have now started to expand. Everyone from Nigeria's President Olesegun Obasanjo to Archbishop Desmond Tutu has distanced themselves from Mugabe....

ANC divide feared: Similar policy would have perpetuated apartheid Tim Butcher The Daily Telegraph Tuesday, December 16, 2003 JOHANNESBURG - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the moral leader of the fight against apartheid, yesterday turned on the African leaders who still support President Robert Mugabe's tyrannical regime in Zimbabwe. Although he did not cite Thabo Mbeki by name, it was clear the South African President was the subject of Archbishop Tutu's stinging criticism. The prelate hit out at those who have called for Zimbabwe to be readmitted to the Commonwealth in the face of Mr. Mugabe's continuing human rights violations and abuse...

Tutu attacks Mbeki's stand on Zimbabwe By Peter Fabricius in Johannesburg 16 December 2003 The former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa's credibility is at stake over its failure to criticise human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. "The credibility of our democracy demands this," he said in a statement yesterday. "If we are seemingly indifferent to human rights violations happening in a neighbouring country, what is to stop us one day being indifferent to that in our own?"At the recent Commonwealth summit, South Africa lobbied for the re-admission of Zimbabwe, suspended in March last year. South Africa also...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu kicked off a four-day visit to Seattle yesterday with a message of peace and inclusion to a standing-room-only crowd at St. Mark's Cathedral. During a time of unrest and conflict, the Nobel laureate reminded those attending the Episcopal service that no matter a person's background or beliefs, "we are all family." Tutu is in Seattle to officially launch the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation USA. The Seattle-based organization plans to work with universities across the country to create leadership academies that will spread Tutu's philosophies of peace, social justice and reconciliation. Tutu, who helped lead the struggle against...