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textWar Dictatorship by Wolfram Adolphi
"The US attacked Iraq. The US dictated this war to the whole world. They showed they considered nothing but their national security and their national interests..This war dictatorship is the dictatorship of arbitrariness and unpredictability."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 5:42am PDT
textU.S Government Haunted by Slavery by Bruce Alpert
"At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold," Bush told a small group of Senegalese invited to the island. "Human beings were delivered and sorted and weighed, and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return. One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history." Bush's address, laden with Christian references, appeared to be geared as much to his domestic audience as to Seneg...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 4:54am PDT
textThe Wi-Fi Drug: Cell Phones Kill Africans Everyday by Imtiyaz Delawala
You may not have heard of coltan, but you have it in your cell phone, laptops, pagers and other electronic devices. It is important to everyday communication in the United States, but it is making the conflict in Congo more complicated. On the west coast of Africa, in Liberia, control of the diamonds are the main funding sources of rebel-led terrorism....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 1:40am PDT
textDigital Divide: The icy ideological grip by Thabo Mbeki
If progressive politics is to have any meaning, it must start from the reality that you can't overcome global poverty through reliance on the market....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 1:06am PDT
textNorman Finkelstein - 'I Won't Take The Insults' by Norman Finkelstein, Irish Times
"You're supposed to lie down and take the insults, and I'm not going to do it," Finkelstein says. "The level of arrogance of these people just boggles the mind."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 11:19pm PDT
textSurprised? 9/11 Panel Complains Some Agencies Are Slowing Inquiry by repost
Given that more money was spent on the Whitewater investigation than was spent to investigate why the towers fell, this comes as no surprise. Like Waco, the evidence was whisked away, and engineers had to work for free on the weekends to try to piece a story together from the rapidly dissapearing evidence....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 3:36pm PDT
textHumboldt comes to Houston by By MIKE GLENN
Anti-logging activist stumps local firm...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 2:54pm PDT
imageWould You Pay for Torture?
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by SOA Watch
GUESS WHAT: You Already Do! Each year, millions of your tax dollars are being used for the training of Latin American soldiers at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, GA. The training provided at the SOA contributes to attrocities and human rights abuses...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 2:13pm PDT
textEdward S. Herman: The road map, Israeli racism, and unmentionable discourse in the media by Edward S. Herman, zmag.org
But Ignatieff would never say that "racial contempt is an official ideology" in Israel, although the facts in that case would warrant such a statement....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 4:52am PDT
textVIDEO: Ralph Nader on the Iraq war, Israel/Palestine and the solution to this conflict by Ralph Nader, democracynow.org
On June 14, former Green Party Presidential candidate and Lebanese-American Ralph Nader gave his first major address on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was speaking at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee convention in Washington D.C. He talked about civil liberties; the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and in this speech gave the most comprehensive address he has to date on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The national listener-sponsored radio and television show Democracy ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 3:38am PDT
textScott Ritter on July 5th by pointer
it's not as easy to find Ritter audio these days -- even in the alternative circles. So, here's a pointer. This speech is in Windows Media format and it's a low quality audio recording, but under 1.5 megs in size so easy for dial-up users...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 3:04am PDT
textHouston Tree-Sitters Make a New Nest High by repost
For Immediate Release 7/07/03, Coalition for a Better Way...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 11:10pm PDT
imageWHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT ESPERANTO?
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by James Nestor
An outsider's look on the International Auxiliary Language, published on the SF Chronicle in June 8th 2003...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 10:39pm PDT
textSOS2003 Speak Out at STRATCOM August 1-3, Omaha, NE by SOS2003 Outreach
The Bush administration wants to develop and deploy new nuclear weapons. Come to Omaha NE August 1-3, 2003 to speak out against this madness....
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 9:46pm PDT
textTree-sitter protest MAXXAM in Houston!!!! by repost
For an interview with Trust, the tree-sitter, visit the headlining story at www.houston.indymedia.org...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 3:20pm PDT
textMary Kelly's evidence by Justin Morahan
Evidence given by Mary Kelly at her trial in Kilrush Ireland on a charge of damaging a US Navy plane and causing 1.5 million euro worth of damage without due cause...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 1:27pm PDT
textMumia, the Constitution and the Fourth of July by Watchdog
July 4 in Philadelphia is traditional day for demonstrations in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal...this year with more added....
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 12:54pm PDT
textAIDS Activist Dr. Boyd Graves Arrested In His Own Yard! by Pastor Michael Treis
Activist Graves arrested on Independence Day SAN DIEGO - Human rights activist Boyd E. Graves was arrested in front of his San Diego home early Friday morning on charges of disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct....
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 11:27am PDT
imageBush's Backyard Surprise
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by Keith Koskipaa
A group by the name of "Bush's Backyard Surprise" attended the BP Power of Freedom Independence Day Celebration at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston on Friday. Displaying the Bill of Rights with the word: "canceled", the group handed out flyers with critical information about the Patriot Acts....
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 10:28am PDT
textProminent Israeli History Professor, Ilan Pappe Praises Jenin Book by Ilan Pappe, palestinechronicle.com
Despite a year of a ceaseless attempts by the Israeli government and media to discount the war crimes committed in the refugee camp of Jenin in April, 2002, the truth of what many believe to have been a massacre, has forced itself on the conscience of humanity in a forceful and compelling way. Many believe that “Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion”, edited by Ramzy Baroud, with a preface by Noam Chomsky, played a key role in reversing the tide, by presenting a worthy ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 10:05am PDT
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