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textAUDIO: Scott Lipscomb of IraqBodycount.org on why the 8000 dead figure is conservative by flashpoints.net
Thursday July 24, 2003...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 8:13pm PDT
textAmnesty International Accuses Coalition Authority of Human Rights Violations by Lisa Ashkenaz Croke
In a news report released July 23, Amnesty International (AI) stated it has received reports of unlawful imprisonment of Iraqis and torture by coalition forces, as well as shooting of civilians and theft of property....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 4:33pm PDT
textRobert Fisk: 28 July 2003 Report. US troops turn botched Saddam raid into a massacre by Robert Fisk, independent.co.uk
It appears the killings started as the troops were searching the building and as motorists approached the barbed wire which the soldiers had placed without warning across the road. Witnesses said the first car contained at least two men. "The second contained two children about 10, their mother and their father who had been wounded in the Iran-Iraq war ­ he was a cripple," a local shopkeeper told me. "They all died. The man's legs were cut in half by the bullets," he added...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 4:20pm PDT
textKristen Ess: The Stage is Set for Ethnic Cleansing by Kristen Ess, ISM
Throughout this time the IOF is destroying hundreds of dunams of agricultural land. The Gaza Strip was a fertile area, with Palestinian farmers growing produce for internal consumption and for the residents of Jericho in the southern West Bank. But after destroying most of the farmland over the past year and confiscating much of it for Israeli settlements, there is little produce in the last month found inside the Gaza Strip, and what the residents of Jericho must now rely on comes from Israe...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 11:46am PDT
textThe Zapatistas on the offensive by Rafael
The Zapatistas have announced some major changes and there is a lot to expect from them in the next few weeks....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 10:25am PDT
textOpposition Rally in Venezuela by Jeremy Le Page
Opposition has once again reared its head in Venezuela...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 9:06am PDT
textRecalls Are for Cars, Not California Governors by Bill Maher
When did the Target parking lot replace the voting booth?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 4:58am PDT
textThe Quality of Mercy by Mary La Rosa
...Releasing militants? while innocent administrative detainees are left in jail...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 4:45am PDT
textFLASHPOINTS: Anne Gwynne and Phyllis Bennis on the Occupied Territories. Ed Rosenthal by Dennis Bernstein, flashpoints.net
Friday July 25, 2003...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 2:29am PDT
textBBC chairman mounts savage attack on the Government by reposte
the TIMID bay area and national media refusing to opening up the debate........
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 1:36am PDT
textRobert Fisk in Baghdad. July 26 and 27 reports by Robert Fisk, independent.co.uk
For this is not an army of liberation but an army of occupation, already deeply mired in a wilderness of ideology dreamt up by the sinister friends of the US Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld - those who would "liberate" Iraq and create democracy as America changed the map of the Middle East, and help Israel into the bargain....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 11:19pm PDT
textBIG BROTHER GETS BIGGER—Domestic Spying & the Global Intelligence Working Group by Michelle J. Kinnucan
With virtually no media coverage or public scrutiny, a major reorganization of the US domestic law enforcement intelligence apparatus is well underway and, in fact, is partially completed. The effort to create a new national intelligence collection, analysis, and sharing system has frightening implications for privacy and other civil liberties....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 3:42pm PDT
imageJAPAN SENDING TROOPS TO IRAQ!
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by barefoot gen
Opposition lawmakers opposed to a Japanese military role in Iraq, rush to the chairman to stop the passage of a bill allowing Japanese "Self Defense Forces" to be sent to Iraq. Imagine U.S. Congresspeople putting their bodies on the line to oppose war. (AFP/JIJI PRESS)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 11:42am PDT
videoPolice Filmed Beating Up & Setting Up EU Protester (video/quicktime 0.1KB) by decoder
June 21, 2003, Thessaloniki: EU protester Simon Chapman was filmed and photographed as he was beaten up, and then set up by police. Police are shown placing bags filled with hammers and molotov cocktails around Chapman, who now faces 7-25 years in prison. Following is a low-resolution (67kbps) form of the 6:46 video....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 10:59am PDT
textBTL:House Passes White House Plan To Deprive Millions of Workers Overtime Pay. by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Interview with Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 4:59am PDT
textChild Trafficking Ring Reported Near Baghdad by www.NewsFromTheFront.org
The summary of a new Human Rights Watch report includes testimony from an abducted girl who says she witnessed negotiations for the sale of captive children:...
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 9:28pm PDT
textThe Cost of the War in Iraq - homepage embedable counter and 3 important websites!! by Joseph Anderson
Check out three new/updated progressive websites -- and a home/webpage embedable monetary "COST OF THE WAR" counter. Good tools especially for progressives. And FANTASTIC, INSPIRING anti-war photos from around the world!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 5:06pm PDT
textAnti-War Nuns Sentenced to 2 1/2 Years by JUDITH KOHLER
DENVER - Calling them "dangerously irresponsible," a federal judge sentenced three nuns to at least 2 1/2 years in prison Friday for vandalizing a nuclear missile silo during an anti-war protest last fall....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 4:45pm PDT
textMy Reflections on Leaving Palestine by Brooke Atherton
Reflections of SF activist and ISM volunteer Brooke Atherton on leaving occupied Palestine....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 3:41pm PDT
textIntimidation of peoples opposing a dump of 203200 tonnes of cyanide by Rosia Montana
Canadian company Rosia Montana Gold Corporation is intimidating peoples opposing an open pit gold mine that will simply dynamite 5 mountain peaks to leave in place a 700 ha lake with cyanide water....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 1:34pm PDT
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