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textAmnesty International's Double Standards and Curious Silences regarding Israel by PAUL de ROOIJ
Given the current escalation of Israeli depredations in Gaza and the daily US bombings of Falluja, it is interesting to examine Amnesty International's (AI) statements on the situation. AI is widely viewed as an authority on human rights issues, and thus it is of interest to analyze its output on these recent events. Careful scrutiny of AI's record reveals that, its typical response to the daily obscene deeds by either Israeli or US armies is a few barely audible ruminations with an occasiona...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 7:53pm PDT
textIsrael/Palestine: Turning Myths into Truth. The media's bias in favor of Israel by WILLIAM A. COOK
Alison Weir, Executive Director of "If Americans Knew," established...that 150% of Israeli children's deaths (more than one story on some) were the subject of front page articles and photos in the San Francisco Chronicle while only 5% of Palestinian children's deaths made it to the front page. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting noted that NPR reported on 89% of Israeli children's deaths and only 20% of Palestinian children's deaths. These studies mirror the reality for most American...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 7:48pm PDT
textTurkey Vultures Flew Over America by Genevieve Cora Fraser
As we seek to protect our personal environment the USA destroys any hope of a protected life for others...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 7:06pm PDT
textThe SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/15/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! by Dan Roberts
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia,...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 4:50pm PDT
textMarine in Iraq: 'It's worse every day' by repost
He knew he'd be going to battle. His father said that's why he'd signed up — to protect his country. After a few stateside assignments, his unit went to Iraq. And it is there that the education of Lance Cpl. Jonathan Snyder really began. His lessons culminated Sunday, when he was quoted in the Washington Post, saying, "Every day you read articles in the states when it's like 'Oh, it's getting better and better.' But when you're here, you know it's worse every day." In Ju...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 4:48pm PDT
textThe War on Haiti's Priests by Maxine Waters (reposted)
I write to urge you to take immediate action to protect the life of Father Gerard Jean-Juste, the pastor of Saint Claire Church in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as the lives of several other Haitian priests and parishioners, who are reportedly in imminent danger....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:20pm PDT
textClanedestine interview from Haiti: resistance in the slums of Port au Prince by Black Commentator, reposted
Backed by United Nations so-called peacekeepers, the U.S.-installed Haitian regime continues its siege of poor neighborhoods in the capital, Port au Prince, in an attempt to crush ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas party. The following is the result of a clandestine interview with a woman called Nancy, conducted last Sunday in the slum of Bel Air....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:19pm PDT
textAfghan warlords poised to take up power by Indep
Alleged war criminals are poised to take positions of power in Afghanistan's new government, threatening hopes of democracy taking shape after last week's historic election, a human rights grouphas warned. Men with bloody records from years of conflict will become judges, police chiefs and government ministers unless their appointments are blocked by presidential decree, according to a report by Afghanistan Justice Project....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:11pm PDT
textIsrael: Medieval State, Medieval Carnage by Arab News (repost)
As Israel’s circle of vengeance closed in on Gaza last week, and ashen-faced civilians cowered in their homes, one wondered if Zionist leaders this time around may have crossed a line — that line in Immanuel Kant’s “Perpetual Peace,” published in1795 , where the German philosopher wrote: “No state at war with another shall permit acts of hostility as would make mutual confidence impossible during a future time of peace.” The carnage that the Israeli entity has wrought in Palestine in recen...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:09pm PDT
textAmericans want negotiations to fail: Fallujah delegation member by sources
BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- A member of a delegation of the people of Fallujah, 50 km south of Baghdad, told Xinhua on Thursdaythat he accused American forces of attempting to torpedo negotiations between the delegation and the interim Iraqi government. "It seems that the Americans do not want the negotiations to succeed between the people of Fallujah and the government," said Sheikh Abdul Hamid Jadoo, a member of the Fallujah delegation....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:07pm PDT
textDeath Toll from Israel's Gaza Offensive Rises to 100 by Mutter
"Rockets were never fired from among our houses and not from my garlic store," said Anwar al-Shafai, 60, gazing at the rubble of his business. It seems to us that Sharon's so-called unilateral withdrawal will be only an illusion. An Israeli bulldozer uprooted the graves of my mother and uncle. I will have to rebury their remains."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 1:23pm PDT
textIsrael withdraws charge that driver loaded rocket into UN ambulance by Uzza
Israeli PR in Action: After releasing FALSE CHARGES to news medias, Israel withdraws FALSE CHARGES...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 9:47am PDT
textAttackers strike Iraq Green Zone by sources
Insurgents have penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to carry out two bomb attacks that killed five people and injured 18 others. Three Americans were among the victims of the blasts at a market and cafe. The Green Zone, where Iraqi government offices and US forces are based, comes under frequent mortar attack. But this appears to be the first time militants have managed to carry out suicide bombings in what is supposed to be the safest place in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:45am PDT
textPoor Iraqis by Scott C. Barta
The poor Iraqi people face thesame fate that was committed agaist them by u.s. troops 130 years ago as the government began to illegally steal Black Hills Lakota gold reserves from 1851 Treaty Territories....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:45am PDT
textDeath Toll from Israel's Gaza Offensive Rises to 100 by repost
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians in Gaza Thursday as the Palestinian death toll rose to 100 in a 16-day-old army offensive aimed at crushing militants behind rocket salvoes into Israel....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:34am PDT
textAllawi Threatens Massive Onslaught on Fallujah by IOL
BAGHDAD, October 14 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – US-backed Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatened a massive assault on Fallujah unless the resistance bastion turns in militant Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi, but a negotiator for the city dismissed the warning, insisting Zarqawi was not in the city. On the ground Thursday, October14 , Fallujah was struck again by US air raids, as nineteen Iraqis were killed in separate attacks. In what seemed to be the beginning of the impleme...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:32am PDT
text Two 15-year-olds arrested for assaulting Arabs in Jerusalem by Hatred Starts Young
Two 15-year-old boys were arrested on Thursday for allegedly assaulting and harassing Arabs in Jerusalem in recent months. The two have already admitted to the allegations against them....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:29am PDT
textIsrael could become pariah state, warns report by UK Guardian
Israel is set on a collision course with the EU and could turn into a pariah state, on a par with South Africa during the apartheid years, if the conflict with the Palestinians is not resolved, Israel's foreign ministry has warned. In a confidential 10-year forecast obtained by the Associated Press, the ministry's Centre for Political Research said the EU is pushing to become a major global player in the next decade, and that as a result the US, Israel's main ally, could lose international...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:27am PDT
textCheney Vows To Attack U.S. If Kerry Elected by The Onion
GREENSBORO, NC—In an announcement that has alarmed voters across the nation, Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he will personally attack the U.S. if Sen. John Kerry wins the next election....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 10:43pm PDT
textBill and Kathleen Christison: Israel as Sideshow by Bill and Kathleen Christison
In the last year, there has been a rash of investigative films and in-depth studies and analyses put out by progressive journalists and media outlets that examine the U.S. drive for global hegemony and try to look at why terrorists are targeting the U.S. These journalists and media outlets, the very progressives who should best be able to "get it," have all totally or almost totally ignored the Israeli connection to the Iraq war and to the various other Bush administration plans for...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 10:04pm PDT
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