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The rebellion touches Belgium and Germany!! NEWSFLASH:
The 14th night of uprising in France is the 3rd night of burning cars in Belgium and Germany....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 3:43am PST
Doug Ireland on "Why is France Burning" An artitdleby long-time columnist and now blogger Doug Ireland. Mr. Ireland lived in Frnace for many years. This article reports that the riots have hit downtown Paris....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 12:18am PST
Cheney's Torture Policy Hughes' Worst Nightmare As Karen Hughes goes about her urgent job of trying to repair America's disastrously debased image throughout the world - especially the Muslim world - she is being undercut by what has become her mission's worst nightmare. Dick Cheney....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:48pm PST
The UK "Patriot Act": Terror bill chilling for Muslims The anti-terror bill will create a "significant chill factor" in the Muslim community, censor those who criticise British foreign policy and drive extremists further underground, the government's advisers warned yesterday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:32pm PST
US: Senate Republicans demand probe into leak on CIA’s gulag Republican leaders in Congress responded this week to the Washington Post’s exposure of a global network of CIA prisons by demanding that those responsible for leaking the information be tracked down and punished....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:21pm PST
Learn About Lynne Stewart's Case: a Shakedown of the Injustice System! 
Lynne Stewart's conviction is an upset of the purported ideals of justice and due process as set forth by the laws of this country. Join us in unraveling the complex constitutional questions surrounding this case....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 7:59pm PST
Interrogation broke UN pact, CIA report warned The CIA's inspector general warned last year that interrogation procedures approved by the Bush administration could violate the UN convention against torture, it emerged yesterday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 3:35pm PST
Mounting uproar over secret CIA prisons and torture Shakespeare’s line, “When troubles come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions,” may well apply to the Bush administration. On top of Iraq and New Orleans and the debacle of Harriet Miers, comes what could be a huge international scandal affecting the United States and its relationship with allies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 3:34pm PST
Inside the Riots "If one day we get organized, we'll have hand grenades, bombs, kalashnikovs... We'll say meet at the Bastille and it'll be war," they warn. Neither bosses nor Islamists seem to be telling them what to do, much less manipulating them. For the time being, the 112 gang is acting alone in its neighborhood: the "organization" is more like an improvised party than a warlike undertaking. "Everybody contributes something," Abdel explains....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 1:44pm PST
11/30: National Day of Action for Tookie! The Campaign to End the Death Penalty, along with the California Save Tookie
Campaign, is calling for a NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION to SAVE TOOKIE on
Wednesday, November 30....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 9:06am PST
France: state of emergency escalates attacks on the rights of youth and workers The imposition of a state of emergency by the French government of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin gives the minister of the interior Nicolas Sarkozy the right to impose police-state conditions wherever he sees fit....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 7:52am PST
9/11 Truth Action! Council of Europe to investigate the secret illegal US detention center Please email the below message to the Council of Europe (email addresses below), and “cc” the BBC Radio, and Canadian and US reporters (email below), so that the Council of Europe knows the media knows. After sending this message out, forward it on to all of your contacts requesting they do the same....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 7:30am PST
Trial Begins for State Agent Indicted on Voluntary Manslaughter 
State Agent Michael Walker is finally going to trial for voluntary manslaugther, in San Jose, California, for the murder of Rudy Cardenas which took place on Feb 17, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 2:53am PST
CHALLENGE TO THE US MEDIA . . . Challenge to US Media from the webmaster at the extremely popular site, Whatreallyhappened,com....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 12:32am PST
Robert Fisk on Torture We Have Become the Criminals...We Have No Further Moral Cause to Fight For...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:16pm PST
Blair loses crucial anti-terror vote British Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost a crucial parliamentary vote on sweeping anti-terror legislation, the first major defeat of his premiership and a serious blow to his authority....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:09pm PST
'We hate France and France hates us' 
Sylla summed it up. "We burn because it's the only way to make ourselves heard, because it's solidarity with the rest of the non-citizens in this country, with this whole underclass. Because it feels good to do something with your rage," he said....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 5:31pm PST
Rebellion in France Spreads to Belgium, Germany, Spain 
On November 9th, the police in Antwerp encountered conclusive evidence that the arson was inspired by the situation in France: on a torched car, the remark "Fuck you Sarkozy, Antwerp - Paris" was found. Sarkozy is the hated French Minister of the Interior....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 5:18pm PST
En fins (clichy sous bois): zone d’injustices ?" dub "Pourquoi cette démonstration de force alors?"...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 11:27am PST
Oppose the state of emergency in France! The World Socialist Web Site opposes and denounces the imposition of a state of emergency in France by the Chirac-Villepin-Sarkozy government. The introduction of this anti-democratic measure, a green light to the CRS riot police and other repressive agencies to launch a full-scale assault on the youth, is a major attack on democratic rights and a threat to the entire French working class. It is not accidental that the use of the law was first publicly broached by Marine Le Pen, daughter and ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 6:27am PST
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