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1806 of 1909 
An Open Letter in Support of the Presbyterian Church's Decision to Divest from Israel Recently, and in light of the historic ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 9 July 2004, which found Israel's colonial wall built on occupied Palestinian territories to be illegal, we've issued a press release that called upon people of conscience the world over to participate in diverse forms of boycott against the state of Israel, its institutions and industries, as a minimal show of civil opposition to its persistent violations of international law, its continued military ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 5:01pm PDT
U.S. Invaders to use Iraqi human shields to storm Majaf shrine In another thinly-veiled attempt to put an Iraqi face on the Occupation, the U.S. military will use Iraqi cannonfodders to storm the sacred shrine in Najaf because it fears using GIs will incite even more violent reactons from the Shiite masses in southern Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 2:07pm PDT
Blood Money: The Human-Capital Equation of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Violence flares as delegation quits Najaf Heavy fighting has left many dead in Najaf with the Iraqi defence minister promising a ''decisive battle'' on Wednesday after an attempt to negotiate a peace deal with Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr failed....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 6:22am PDT
S. KOREA, Last Week's Struggle Report Now since 277 migrant workers in Seoul, S. Korea are in sit-in strike. MSSC's (Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective) weekly report...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 11:25pm PDT
Interview with human shield Ken O'Keefe An in-depth interview with "human shield" Ken O'Keefe during his recent Japan tour, on direct action for Palestine, standing up to US military might in Iraq, the legacy of Hiroshima....and the better world to come...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 9:21pm PDT
Bonjour paresse! The number one reason why most Americans avoid political organizing is probably lack of free time. Can they take a page from the latest slacker manifesto from France?...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 4:31pm PDT
Israelis Army Shoots 8 yearold thru the heart in Nablus Palestine today The Israeli military continued its attacks against the civilian population of Nablus Palestine today by killing an 8 year old child. Over 20 people have been shot or beaten in the past 24 hours as the army conducted home invasions and occupations. "Everything they could destroy they destroyed" reported one international observer....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 1:34pm PDT
Venezuela Referendum: Internal Report and Perspective An anonymous reporter gives their impressions of the Venezuela referendum from the heart of Caracas via emails to friends and loved ones......
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 1:10pm PDT
Psychiatric Pharma's forced medication on humans and animals The pharmaceutical psych corporations are still force medicating people and animals against their will. Psychiatric survivor and activist Sara Arenson is being force medicated in a Canadian psych ward. GW Bush's pet pharma corporation Eli Lily profits from animal testing and forcing psych medications into the bodies of human captives....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 10:04am PDT
Pope John Paul II to Broker Al-Sadr - USA Negotiations Radical Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr invited Pope John Paul II to solve the conflict between his militia and U.S.-led Iraqi government forces in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, a spokesman said Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 8:44am PDT
A soldier's tragic suicide Was the tragic suicide of a British soldier his final protest against an unjust war?...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 10:52pm PDT
Why He Crushed the Oligarchs: The Importance of Hugo Chávez The turn-out in Venezuela last Sunday was huge. 94.9 percent of the electorate voted in the recall referendum. Venezuela, under its new Constitution, permitted the right of the citizens to recall a President before s/he had completed their term of office. No Western democracy enshrines this right in a written or unwritten constitution. Chavez' victory will have repercussions beyond the borders of Venezuela. It is a triumph of the poor against the rich and it is a lesson that Lula in Brazil an...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Austin's Garbologists Work Tirelessly to Increase The Quantity of Garbage in Psych I'm proud of by baby....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 11:05am PDT
So it is written, so it shall be done Traitor evil lawless bushite enemy, die for us instead
of our good families of innocent men women and children....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 9:44am PDT
US forces surround the offices of Iraq's Association of Muslim Scholars US occupation forces have encircled the mosque housing the office of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), Iraq's highest Sunni authority, in Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 6:34am PDT
US Backed Iraqi Government Bans Journalists From Covering Najaf Massacre The Iraqi authorities ordered foreign journalists to leave Najaf yesterday, threatening to arrest or even shoot reporters as US marines and Iraqi government forces resumed the fight against Shia militants....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 7:04pm PDT
Mahdi Army digs in, hopes for peace deal In an exclusive interview with Aljazeera, a Muqtada al-Sadr spokesman says the Mahdi militia are prepared for any attack against Najaf, but are also ready to accept any peace intitiative....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 3:45pm PDT
Factional violence flares in western Afghanistan; one commander says 21 killed KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fighters loyal to rival warlords clashed in western Afghanistan Saturday, sending tanks into the streets of a regional capital in the latest jolt to the country's shaky security ahead of national elections. More than 20 fighters were killed by one estimate....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:03am PDT
Aristide still Haiti's president: South African Foreign Affairs Minister SOUTH Africa continues to recognise deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide as the legitimately elected president of Haiti, says Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:00am PDT
1806 of 1909