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Haiti march calls for Aristide's return
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- More than 5,000 supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Haiti's capital Friday, calling for his return and accusing the U.S. government of forcing his departure....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 1:09am PDT
Vatican should allow priests to have sex with adults
To reduce abuse, make celibacy optional for secular priests of the Latin Rite....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 10:35pm PDT
Elders Block Bulldozers in Salfit, Gassed by Israeli Army
On Thursday, June 17, older men lay down in front of moving bulldozers to stop the destruction of their olive groves for the Apartheid Wall in Salfit, West Bank. The army responded by shooting tear gas and sound bombs at close range, and later threatened youth with live fire. Video 5:40....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 6:11pm PDT
An Interview With Arafat
Arafat is ready to sign an agreement that would give Palestinians 97 per cent of the West Bank and Gaza - with the rest in a land swap, and the right of return of not all, but at least some refugees. In a free-ranging interview with Haaretz, conducted in the carefully preserved ruins of the Muqata, the PA Chairman also spoke of the historical family bonds between the two peoples.
"Definitely," says Yasser Arafat, waving his arm for emphasis. He definitely understands and accep...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 5:39pm PDT
PICTURES OF TODAY'S BEHEADING OF AMERICAN HOSTAGE IN SAUDI ARABIA
Pictures Purporting To Show The Body Of Paul Johnson After His Barbaric Murder: - WARNING - THE PICTURES ON THIS PAGE ARE OF A PARTICULARLY HORRIFIC NATURE AND SHOULD ONLY BE VIEWED BY A MATURE AUDIENCE....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 2:36pm PDT
Hip Hop Artist Michael Franti Reports From Rafah
Franti continues his fact-finding trip through the Middle East. We last spoke with him in Baghdad, he is now in Rafah where Israel recently demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 10:20am PDT
Iraq Insurgents Clash With U.S. Forces
Insurgents clashed Friday with U.S. forces near Baghdad for the second time in as many days, and crews repairing a sabotaged crude oil pipeline expect to have full exports flowing by the end of next week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 9:48am PDT
Iraq 'Prince of the Marshes' Wanted In Murder Case: US Creating A New Sadr?
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S.-appointed Iraqi judge has issued an arrest warrant for one of the fiercest opponents of former President Saddam Hussein in connection with murder, politicians and lawyers familiar with the case said Friday....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 9:46am PDT
G8 backs HIV vaccine plan
POST THIS EVERYWHERE!!!!!
The criminals engaged in the "Business of Disease" and of Tyranny,
are planning a new weapon against humanity !!
Know this: The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall of tyranny at the...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 7:23am PDT
Renegade Afghan Overruns Provincial Capital
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A renegade commander has taken control of most of a remote Afghan provincial capital after clashes in which 18 people were killed or wounded and the governor was forced to flee, combatants said on Friday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 11:55pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/18/04 ¡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, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 4:50pm PDT
Moat will turn Gaza into 'big prison'
Israel on Thursday set in motion a plan to build a moat along the Gaza-Egypt border, inviting contractors to bid on the project aimed at putting and end to alleged weapons smuggling....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 2:21pm PDT
17June - Update on Brooke Atherton resisting deportation from Israel
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Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 12:59pm PDT
Poll Shows Iraqis Would Feel Safer Without Occupiers
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Most Iraqis have lost confidence in the U.S.-led occupation and would feel safer if foreign troops left their country, a poll commissioned by the coalition authority has found....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:44am PDT
Background / Israel's new peace groups - a field guide
"One more historic victory like this," goes the mordant Hebrew expression, "and we are lost."
It was only last month that the settlement movement, along with allies in the right and far-right, scored perhaps its most dramatic political triumph on record. In a come-from-behind landslide, Likud members responded to an all-out settler campaign and repudiated Ariel Sharon's withdrawal proposal in a referendum the prime minister had vowed to honor....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:28am PDT
Beirut, Iraq
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 16, 2004 at 11:32 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:15am PDT
Hep E on 'Vietnam Street'
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 14, 2004 at 07:50 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:13am PDT
The address for protest is Labor's headquarters
How can we explain the conjurer's trick by which Sharon has turned into the darling of the Israeli peace camp?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:01am PDT
We need a Zionist halakha
The non-Jewish wave of immigration has brought the issue of relations between religion and state - chiefly regarding marriage and conversion - to a moment of truth. Even those who favor continued Orthodox monopoly on marriage will not be able to accept a situation in which hundreds of thousands of immigrants are unable to marry in Israel. This is what led former chief rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron to propose a sweeping annulment of the monopoly....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:59am PDT
Former head of Israeli prime minister's bureau accused of incitement
Yahad MK Avshalom Vilan and the Peace Now movement petitioned Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Thursday to investigate Uri Elitzur, former head of the prime minister's bureau during the Benjamin Netanyahu administration, on allegations of incitement....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:56am PDT