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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
BUSH-ido is filling Iraqi cemeteries, just like Saddam
Who would have thought that George W Bush is the American reincarnation of Saddam? Yet, this week the American dictator is both destroying the sacred cemeteries in Najaf and filling them with more Iraqi civilians killed by his wanton use of U.S. weapons of Mass Destruction....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 7:21pm PDT
Hope Floats!
"Hope floats! eternally light above these darker times. Hope floats! and gives cause to celebrate the small and large gestures we make individually and together towards one another. Hope floats! and gathers momentum, purpose and solidarity. Hope Floats and carries the human spirit higher as the work continues...."...
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 2:27pm PDT
Talibanism in Technology: 7 Reasons Why Women in Tech are Invisible
A lot has been written about the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women, which resulted in the worldwide outcry against women wearing full-length burkhas, which rendered them invisible and the denial of their fundamental rights. However, there’s not even a whimper about the systematic Talibanism of women in technology, which has made them invisible throughout the ages. Despite a large number of talented and successful women in the field, why is it that society tends to associate only men with te...
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:57am PDT
Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners
This is from May, but still worth posting in case people haven't seen it. And maybe this is particularly important with the upcoming election in Venezuela . . ....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 9:49am PDT
Update On Recent Fighting From An Iraqi In Baghdad
it seems that Americans, are masters in creating enemies, not only around the world, but also inside every country they "liberate", in a year and a half, this american adminstration managed to get ammounts of hate and anger towards America, more than all the past adminstration all together did in the last 50 years inspite of their foolish policy in the ME, still, this admestration, created in a year and a half, more enimies, more anit-American people, that there was ever there....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:38am PDT
Middle Eastern press round on Iraq's new leaders
The Middle Eastern press largely blame US allies in Iraq for a week of bloodshed in Shia cities though some accuse radical cleric Moqtada Sadr of aggravating the situation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:28am PDT
Iraqi people want resignation of Allawi’s government: Sadr
NAJAF, Iraq - Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr said on Saturday that the Iraqi people wanted the US-backed caretaker government of Iyad Allawi to resign and insisted he would not take up any post under US occupation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:27am PDT
Many killed in US bombing of Samarra
The US military has dropped a series of half-tonne bombs on a number of locations in the city of Samarra, killing at least 50 people....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:25am PDT
Iraqi officials resign over US 'aggression'
Several Iraqi officials working within the interim government have resigned in protest of the US-led assault on Najaf and Kut....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 10:39pm PDT
US forces reoccupy heart of Najaf
US marines backed by tanks and aircraft have seized the heart of the Iraqi city of Najaf in a major assault on Al-Mahdi Army fighters....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 7:13pm PDT