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Flashpoints Aug 19: journalist Robert Fisk, and Dr. Eyad Al-Saraj from Gaza
Flashpoints Aug 19, 2002:
-Robert Knight: war crimes coming home to roost (6 min)
-UK Independent journalist Robert Fisk on the US failure in Afghanistan (22 min)
-Palestinian psychologist Dr. Eyad Al-Saraj from Gaza (26 min)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 11:14pm PDT
Why I Am a Pro-Palestinian Activist
Since I am not Jewish or Muslim, people are often surprised at how passionate I am about the injustices that the Palestinians are suffering at the hands of the Israeli government, which is propped up with our US tax dollars. The following explains why I am a pro-Palestinian activist....
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 9:01pm PDT
The textbook scandal
The US government ships schoolbooks to the Middle East, schoolbooks filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines....
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 8:59pm PDT
Brainwashing America
The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to change the very way Americans think and feel....
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 1:06pm PDT
Bush going to be in Stockton on Saturday!!!8/24
Oppose Bush and the Capitalist War machine!!! Stand with others as we tell Bush to get out of Afganistan, Iraq, Columbia, and Vieques. No Blood for Oil!!!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 11:27am PDT
Seismic Event: New Flight 93 info out
Found this week at Centre for Research on Globalisation: A sonic boom recorded by an earthquake monitoring station serves to place a jet fighter very close to United Flight 93 on 9/11....
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 6:41am PDT
American Jews Pressure US Public Opinion to Love Israel
American Jews, allegedly not connected to Israel, to begin massive propaganda campaign on US TV in September to convince the American public to love Israel for its brutal occupation of Arab lands...
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 4:10am PDT
Queer “Settlers” Land on Berkeley Starbucks, Analogy to Israeli Colonists
About 25 queer settlers descended on a downtown Berkeley Starbucks on Saturday, August 17, claiming Berkeley as “a city without people for people without a city.” The street theatre called attention to Israeli colonies in Palestine....
Posted: Sun, Aug 18, 2002 11:01pm PDT
Don't Be a Goon for Oil!
Justice, Democracy, Constitutional Rights, Jobs, Dignity,Affordable Housing,etc...NOT WARS!...
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2002 8:51pm PDT
U.S. Aided Iraq despite use of gas
The NYTimes points out as newly discovered 'news' that the U.S. was allied with Iraq and actively supported them militarily during the Iran/Iraq war when Saddam Hussein ordered the gassing of kurdish civilians, a fact cited to support current US military actions against Iraq...
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2002 8:07pm PDT
Huge trade deal draws Russia to Iraq
Now that Russia is investing in Iraq, its more evident than ever that the US can not (and will not) attempt regime change and is threatening others in what can only be described as a national form of machismo....
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2002 11:16am PDT
Liberty Requires Privacy.
From the book "The End of Money"...
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2002 8:32am PDT
9/11 - one year on
One year on and yet still even the most basic of questions remain, why is that so?...
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2002 12:14am PDT
Consumers on Strike against the War!
Oklahoma peace activists have launched Consumers On Strike Against the War. They are advocating that people target an economic attack on the white collar big money psychopaths running our economy and government (collectively known as the War Party) by spending less money and shifting their remaining purchases to locally owned, independently operated, businesses and cooperatives or collectives....
Posted: Fri, Aug 16, 2002 9:08pm PDT
SF Caravan to Protest Bush Friday
Let’s send a loud and clear message to George Bush
when he visits California next Friday: No War on Iraq!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 16, 2002 4:01pm PDT