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White House 'lied about Saddam threat'
A former US intelligence official who served under the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of lying about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2003 2:53am PDT
BTL:U.S. Plan to Privatize Iraqi Industry May Signal New...
...'Bomb Before You Buy' Doctrine. Interview with Naomi Klein, author and columnist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2003 2:31am PDT
Weekly news from the resistance
It distributes news and activities rom the resistance struggle of peoples against capital...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 3:32pm PDT
Bay Area United Against War Denounces Bush's Visit to South Africa
Greetings to the Anti-War Coalition in Cape Town, South Africa from the Bay Area United Against War of San Francisco, California, United States:...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 2:48pm PDT
Iranian Students Cancel Protest Plans
Faced by swarms of police and right-wing vigilantes, students canceled plans to hold a protest Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a 1999 raid on a hostel that killed one person and sparked nationwide anti-government protests....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 1:13pm PDT
Sign the Feminists For Kucinich statement
Read and sign the FEMINISTS FOR KUCINICH statement.
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/feminists_4_kucinich/...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 9:02am PDT
Charges Dropped Against Alleged Coup Plotters
Insufficient evidence exists to pursue charges against 16 military officers accused of inciting an uprising against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, reports South American media (Background Report)....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 8:20am PDT
WELCOME TO THE 1930'S
Investigative journalist Ritt Goldstein's chilling commentary upon the growth of contemporary fascism. Versions have been printed in Europe, but this is the first time in English, this version created for Goldstein's fellow Americans....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 6:29am PDT
War Dictatorship
"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
U.S Government Haunted by Slavery
"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
The Wi-Fi Drug: Cell Phones Kill Africans Everyday
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
Digital Divide: The icy ideological grip
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
Norman Finkelstein - 'I Won't Take The Insults'
"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
Surprised? 9/11 Panel Complains Some Agencies Are Slowing Inquiry
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
Humboldt comes to Houston
Anti-logging activist stumps local firm...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 2:54pm PDT
Would You Pay for Torture?
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
Edward S. Herman: The road map, Israeli racism, and unmentionable discourse in the media
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
VIDEO: Ralph Nader on the Iraq war, Israel/Palestine and the solution to this conflict
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
Scott Ritter on July 5th
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
Houston Tree-Sitters Make a New Nest High
For Immediate Release 7/07/03, Coalition for a Better Way...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 11:10pm PDT