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European Social Forum: Sunday October 17th London - Preventitive arrests, police violence Constant updates from the activists’ social forum in London......
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:27am PDT
Falluja clerics call for civil disobedience Religious officials from Falluja are calling on Muslim scholars and humanitarian organisations to take a united stand in response to US attacks against the people of the city....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:16am PDT
Israelis in fresh Gaza incursion Israeli troops have entered the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza in a new incursion to locate Palestinian weapons smuggling tunnels, the army says.
About 10 tanks and three bulldozers went into the camp, on the border with Egypt, where they came under automatic gunfire. There were no casualties....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:22am PDT
International poll: World opposes Bush, except Israel and Russia Two weeks before the U.S. election, hostility toward President George W. Bush has reached new heights internationally. A joint poll taken by 10 newspapers worldwide reveals that most of those surveyed oppose Bush's policies, want to see him defeated, and paint his influence on the global situation in the gloomiest colors. Two weeks before the U.S. election, hostility toward President George W. Bush has reached new heights internationally. A joint poll taken by 10 newspapers worldwide reveals ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:16am PDT
Blair warned against troops help to US in Iraq British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been warned not to put British troops in Iraq in danger merely as a “political gesture” to the American administration.
Shadow Defence Secretary Nicholas Soames called for a Commons statement amid intensifying speculation that UK forces are about to be deployed to support US forces around Baghdad. It is believed that US commanders want the British to “back fill” for American troops so that they could be released to join the assault on the insurgent stron...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:06am PDT
Brazilian General Attempts To Influence US Election In an interview posted on the website of Agencia Brasil, the Brazilian government's official news agency, Lieutenant-General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro said comments made in March by Kerry had raised the hopes of supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide that the former Haitian president would be able to return to power.
"Statements made by a candidate to the presidency of the United States created false hopes among pro-Aristide supporters," Ribeiro told the agency. "His (the candida...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 10:03pm PDT
Is Mary Cheney a gay pawn? Her father can answer that If the scandal was about John Kerry and gay porn, that would be one thing. But John Kerry and a gay pawn? Now that's something completely different.
Gays and lesbians have reacted with anger to the latest twist in the US election - but not with Kerry for bringing up the subject of Vice-President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, during the presidential 'Duel in the Desert' in Arizona last week.
No, gays are furious that the Cheneys are, supposedly, furious, and that the mainstream m...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 6:59pm PDT
Street Resistance to Occupation Regime Surges UN occupation forces continue to side with Haitian armed forces killing demonstrators...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 6:30pm PDT
Haiti slum repels police amid angry protests slum residents stand up to U.S.-backed killers...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 6:16pm PDT
A Clandestine Interview from Haiti: Resistance in the Slums of Port-au-Prince As AP, the New York Times, and other corporate news sources dutifully recycle disinformation about situation on the ground, the U.S.-backed coup forces ramp up killing of Lavalas supporters...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 5:54pm PDT
Bush signs global anti-Semitism law The US State Department had opposed the legislation, saying it was unnecessary as the department already compiles such information in its annual reports on human rights and religious freedom....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 3:42pm PDT
ULTIMATE AIDS RESOURCE The Dissident Action Group of "Interactive Information Resources" covers every aspect of AIDS. Topics like HIV tests, condoms, Latino AIDS, African American AIDS, Dissident Scientists, latex allergies, Robert Gallo, Glaxo Kline Wellcome and many more. Our International Dissident forum is in 12 languages and our links section has over 150 web sites Worldwide....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 2:49pm PDT
Inside besieged Falluja Residents of the rebel-held city of Falluja in Iraq are packing their bags and leaving town after one of the heaviest US bombardments for weeks.
BBC News Online spoke by phone to a reporter in the city, contacted by the BBC's Arabic Service, who gave the following account of life there....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Locals flee as US steps up its offensive in Fallujah THE battle for Fallujah gathered momentum yesterday as US troops moved into positions on the edge of the city, and Iraqi families fled the most intensive air and artillery bombardment since April’s failed effort to pacify the city....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 12:42pm PDT
Palestinians Sift Through Ruins After Israeli Onslaught JABALIYA, Gaza Strip, October 16 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Hundreds of Palestinian families on Saturday, October16 , sift through the ruins of their homes in the hope of recovering some valuables after the18 -day onslaught by Israeli occupation army on the northern Gaza Strip.
"This is worse than an earthquake. The Israelis threw out the Palestinians in 1948 and in 1967 and they're trying to do the same thing now," said54 -year-old Jamila Yehya....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 11:10am PDT
Why Do Bush and Kerry Fear Hugo Chavez? The US government and Presidential candidate John Kerry have announced that President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is a threat to the United States. What is most ironic is that while using a different framework through which to analyze this statement, this is true. The vision of Hugo Chavez and the strong community organizing of the Venezuelan people little by little destroys the corrupt, imperialist, and repressive vision and practice of the US government and its cap...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 11:05am PDT
NYC Mayor Sues To Block Gay Benefits New York City) New York Mayor Bloomberg is going to court to overturn a law that would force companies doing business with the city to offer benefits to the domestic partners of their employees.
The legislation was passed by city council in May. The following month Bloomberg vetoed it saying the law would hurt the city. Two weeks later council overrode the veto by a 41 - 4 vote....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:41pm PDT
UN says thousands of schools in Iraq lack basics for decent education UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Thousands of schools in Iraq lack the basics for decent education and over 700 have been damaged by bombing, more than 200 burned, and over 3,000 looted, according to a United Nations-backed survey.
The survey, conducted by the Iraqi Ministry of Education and released yesterday by the United Nations Children's Fund, found that one-third of all primary schools lack water and almost half have no sanitation facilities....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:31pm PDT
Afghanistan: The intimidating face of America KABUL, October 16 (Online): The American behind the machine gun on top of the tan Humvee was not interested in discussion....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:21pm PDT
Israeli Forces Pull Out of Northern Gaza GAZA CITY, 16 October 2004 — The Israeli Army began pulling troops out of northern Gaza last night after a17 -day offensive that left120 Palestinians dead and 450 wounded.
Palestinian witnesses said nearly all the 200 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles withdrew from the area and the remaining forces began moving to the outskirts of Jabaliya and Beit Lahya refugee camps....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:19pm PDT
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