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A Message From The Iraq Resistance
This is a rush transcript of an Iraqi Resistance speech on videotape, December 13 2004...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 11:25am PST
Israeli forces shell Palestinian school in Khan Yunis
PCHR strongly condemns the latest attack committed by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) this morning, when they fired an artillery shell at a school in Khan Yunis, wounding 7 Palestinian schoolchildren under the age of 9. PCHR is increasingly concerned for attacks by IOF on educational institutions, threatening the lives and safety of children, even in places where full protection is supposed to be offered to them in all circumstances....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 6:46pm PST
U.S. Caught in Kabul
"Afghanistan's new "democratic" president is the world's most expensive mayor. Karzai rules only downtown Kabul, protected by 200 U.S. bodyguards, 17,000 U.S. troops and a token NATO force that includes Canadians. It costs Washington $1.6 billion US monthly to keep Karzai in power. Without the foreign troops' bayonets, Karzai's little puppet regime would quickly be swept away."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 6:42pm PST
Israelis shoot and kill another Palestinian girl
Israeli troops shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian girl in a Gaza refugee camp on Friday......
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 5:57pm PST
The Slow Creep of Israel’s annexation of Palestine
First they were told that they were building a wall between the two populations for the protection of both.
….. Then they were told them that the wall on their land was necessary for the protection of Israel.
Then they told the Palestinian farmers on whose land the wall rests that they would have unlimited access to their lands……after which gates were erected along the wall – gates which would be opened only three times a day.
…. Then the Palestinian farmers were told that if they wa...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:14pm PST
The War is the War Crime: Abused Iraqis, Abused Americans
This was a war to transcend all wars a war fought not for crass interests or crude motives, but for freedom and democracy. Or so we were told. Once this grand narrative was felled by reality, however, the story of its basic actors was twisted to meet new requirements: since it could not possibly be that the war aims were themselves corrupt, it must be the Iraqis the supposed recipients of liberation, and the American soldiers the deliverers of that liberation who were flawed. This twi...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:12pm PST
"Contract Meals Disaster" for Iraq Prisoners: Rancid Food Sparked Abu Ghraib Riots
Rotten food crawling with bugs, traces of rats and dirt. Rancid meats and spoiled food resulting in diarrhea and food poisoning....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:10pm PST
Pinochet indicted on human rights charges
Pinochet indicted on human rights charges:
Former Chilean leader under house arrest...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 11:52am PST
SEVEN US Marine Terrorists Fallujahed Like Swine
US marines killed in central Iraq...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 10:16am PST
Israel attempts to kill Hamas member in Damascus using car bomb?
A member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas escaped unhurt on Monday when a bomb blew up his car in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Palestinian source said....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 9:43am PST
Veterans Return From Iraq Disabled and Homeless
Studies find a high percentage of Iraq veterans are returning home with mental problems and homeless shelters around the country are reporting they are already seeing some recently returned Iraq veterans showing up in need of shelter. We speak with UPI Investigations editor Mark Benjamin....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 9:38am PST
Dahr Jamail In Iraq: U.S. Military Obstructing Medical Care
BAGHDAD, Dec 13 (IPS) - The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 8:57am PST
Israelis shoot and kill another Palestinian girl
Israeli troops shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian girl in a Gaza refugee camp on Friday......
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 8:07am PST
You're Needed For An Concert 4 Palestine
Please help us in getting an Concert 4 Palestine off of the ground!...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 9:55pm PST
Standing up for justice and truth
SAN ANTONIO, United States, 5 December 2004 (BWNS) -- When she was just a girl, Elsie Austin (1908-2004) bravely stood up for justice and truth, and she never stopped doing so throughout her long life. One of only two African-American children in her Cincinnati classroom, Elsie pointed out errors in a textbook that denigrated the role of Africans in world history....
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:58pm PST
Hamas Considers Joining PLO
"Hamas spokesman said that Hamas sees the PLO as 'one of the great achievements by the Palestinian people that must be preserved'.."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:15pm PST
Noam Chomsky: Reshaping History
"Since the issue of Palestinian national rights in a Palestinian state reached the agenda of diplomacy in the mid-1970s, 'the prime obstacle to its realization', unambiguously, has been the United States government, with the Times staking a claim to be second on the list.."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:14pm PST
Manipulation of the Blogging World on Iraq?
Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 1:01pm PST
Dahr Jamail In Iraq: DEAD AND BURIED
EYEWITNESS: Iraq’s civilian body count may go officially undocumented but the widows and the orphans know the true extent of the toll...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 12:57pm PST