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WASHINGTON, 20 November 2004 — Appalled by squalid living conditions of Palestinians in the occupied territories, several American churches have decided to take a stand against the Israeli occupation by proposing a “divestment of holdings by multinational corporations doing business with Israel” who, they say, are profiting from the occupation. The possible divestment process could result in the sale of stock in June2006 ....

I am reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary, a journalist's account of Nazi political propaganda during the 1930's, as I watch the US 'news' reports of the violent assault on Fallujah. The US mass media 'reports', the style, content and especially the language echo their Nazi predecessor of 70 years ago to an uncanny degree. Coincidence? Of course! In both instances we have imperialist armies conquering countries, leveling cities and slaughtering civilians--and the mass media, private in form,...

* The Venezuelan Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas (CRA) calls for solidarity with a project which is the first of its kind in our country: the opening (sunday 14th November 2004) of a Libertarian Social Studies Centre (Centro de Estudios Sociales Libertarios - CESL), together with a social library....

November 16, 2004 - He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy....

after decades of work by animal welfare and animal rights groups to stop the live shredding of foxes by hunting dogs in Britain, their work finally paid off as the Parliament overruled the House of Lords and banned this largely-elitist "sport". hunter's are now protesting the new law and promising to defy the ban...

hechen commander Amir Abdullah has reported a successful attack by a mobile group of his subdivision against a Russian convoy in the Zavodskoi district of the capital Jokhar on Saturday. In a telephone report to Kavkaz Center the commander said that Mujahiddeen opened fire on a Ural truck and microbus “UAZ”. Local residents said that there were many victims among the Russian aggressors....

In Mosul, Iraqi commandos, again backed by US forces, focused on the city's al-Zaharawi hospital, which they cordoned off after receiving information that insurgents were using it to treat their wounded....

Adri Nieuwhof and Jeff Handmaker, The Electronic Intifada, 18 November 2004...

"This is the 21st century and it is not acceptable that injured people be left lying in the street," Rana Sidani, spokesperson of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was speaking in an interview with Al- Jazeera on Monday, commenting on the situation in the city of Falluja, 60kms west of Baghdad, where 10,000 US marines and 2,000 Iraqi security forces have been conducting a major military onslaught since 8 November. Sidani's reminder predictably fell on deaf ears....

Three people are reported to have been killed when Iraqi security forces, backed by US troops, raided one of Baghdad's most important Sunni mosques....