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Those Who Move Clouds Thanks to the artists involved in this presentation....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:17pm PDT
Pakistan being pressed to capture Osama to help Bush win Washington: The White House has intensified pressure on the Pakistani government to capture Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahri and Mullah Mohammed Omar in time for President Bush to recoup his sagging popularity and be re-elected....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 5:23pm PDT
Friday sermons thrash Allawi Muslim leaders in Iraq were united at Friday prayers in their rage against the country's new sovereign government, accusing the interim prime minister of colluding with US-led foreign forces....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 11:18am PDT
Israeli forces kill seven Palestinians and destroys 40 homes in Gaza On Thursday morning, 8 July 2004, Israeli occupying forces, continuing a wide scale offensive on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun which started on the 28 June 2004, killed 7 Palestinians, including a woman. Thus, the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of this offensive has mounted to 13, including 3 children and one woman. In addition, dozens of Palestinians have been wounded and at least 1400 donums of agricultural land have been razed. Also this morning, Israeli tr...
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 11:03am PDT
The Case of Sami al-Arian We take a look at the case of Palestinian Professor Sami al-Arian, who has been imprisoned for over a year and is awaiting trial on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. We speak with his attorney Linda Moreno....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:53am PDT
Felon Disenfranchisement: Purging the Minority Vote As the 2004 election nears, we take a look at how former felons - many of them African American Democrats - were wrongly included on a Florida state list of voters to be purged. We speak with an attorney with the ACLU who threatened to sue the state, a Florida elections supervisor who has publicly refused to purge voters based on the potential felons list and the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging felon disenfranchisement statutes in New York State....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:52am PDT
July Surprise: Is Bush Pressuring Pakistan to Capture Bin Laden During DNC? An article in The New Republic charges that the Bush administration may be pressuring Pakistan to deliver a so-called "High Value Target" before November - ideally at the height of the Democratic National Convention. We speak with the reporter who broke the story....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:52am PDT
World Court to Israel: Tear Down This Wall The International Court of Justice is set to rule today that Israel has violated international law by building a 425-mile wall through the West Bank. According to Ha'aretz, the U.S. representative is the only judge on the 15-person panel backing Israel. We go to outside the court in the Hague to speak with Mustafa Barghouti, secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:51am PDT
ICJ says it has jurisdiction to rule on wall The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Israel's contention that it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the legality of the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:43am PDT
New settler outpost belies Sharon's pledge Jewish settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, have erected a new illegal outpost in the West Bank city of Hebron, grabbing an additional 150 square kilometres of Palestinian land in the process....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:41am PDT
Death toll for U.S.-led coalition in Iraq tops 1,000 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- In a grim milestone, the number of deaths in the American-led coalition in Iraq surpassed 1,000 this week....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:40am PDT
Int'l Court rules Israel must pull down 'illegal' W. Bank fence, compensate Palestinians The International Court of Justice will rule on Friday that the separation fence contravenes international law, that it must be dismantled, and that compensation must be paid to the Palestinian owners of property confiscated for its construction, according to documents obtained by Haaretz....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 11:01pm PDT
Iraqi insurgency is secular nationalist not Islamist or Jihadist as has been claimed Most of the insurgents are fighting for a bigger role in a secular society, not a Taliban-like Islamic state, the military official said...Many in the U.S. intelligence community have been making similar points, but have encountered political opposition from the Bush administration, a State Department official in Washington said, also speaking on condition of anonymity. Civilian analysts generally agreed, saying U.S. and Iraqi officials have long overemphasized the roles of foreign fighters a...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 9:05pm PDT
Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall: A Letter from the Hunger Strikers' Tent ...at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel's apartheid wall..."Israel's wall = Apartheid - Wrong in South Africa, wrong in Palestine" and "Israel's wall (does not equal) security; Israel's wall = land theft, racial discrimination and Palestinian dispossession"....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 5:34pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/9/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 5:00pm PDT
Iraqis Respond to Anti-War Group's Baghdad Ad, "No to Torture and Occupation" US-based anti-war group publishes ad in Baghdad, “No to torture and occupation”; Iraqis respond...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 2:26pm PDT
Exploitative Labor Makes Mockery of Upcoming Olympics The theme of the 2004 summer Olympic Games is "celebrate humanity," yet the workers who make the gear and clothing for the upcoming Olympics suffer terribly inhumane working conditions and have few rights....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 8:57am PDT
Fleeing US soldiers seek asylum in Canada Two US soldiers pleading for asylum in Canada after walking out on their units over fierce objections to the Iraq war have appeared in a Toronto courtroom....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 7:59am PDT
Iraqis, US soldiers killed in Samarra attack At least six Iraqis and four US soldiers have been killed in fresh violence in Samarra, north of the capital, according to US military and hospital sources....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 7:58am PDT
Iraqi regime prepares for martial law After just 10 days in office, the US-appointed Iraqi regime of interim prime minister Ayad Allawi has, on Washington’s instructions, decreed sweeping measures providing for martial law to be imposed over the entire country or any part of it. Under the provisions, signed into law by Allawi yesterday, he can impose curfews, cordon off towns and cities, conduct search operations and detain individuals with weapons on them, which in Iraq is nearly every male citizen....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 7:56am PDT
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