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Renegade Afghan Overruns Provincial Capital
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A renegade commander has taken control of most of a remote Afghan provincial capital after clashes in which 18 people were killed or wounded and the governor was forced to flee, combatants said on Friday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 11:55pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/18/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, Spain, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 4:50pm PDT
Moat will turn Gaza into 'big prison'
Israel on Thursday set in motion a plan to build a moat along the Gaza-Egypt border, inviting contractors to bid on the project aimed at putting and end to alleged weapons smuggling....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 2:21pm PDT
17June - Update on Brooke Atherton resisting deportation from Israel
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Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 12:59pm PDT
Poll Shows Iraqis Would Feel Safer Without Occupiers
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Most Iraqis have lost confidence in the U.S.-led occupation and would feel safer if foreign troops left their country, a poll commissioned by the coalition authority has found....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:44am PDT
Background / Israel's new peace groups - a field guide
"One more historic victory like this," goes the mordant Hebrew expression, "and we are lost."
It was only last month that the settlement movement, along with allies in the right and far-right, scored perhaps its most dramatic political triumph on record. In a come-from-behind landslide, Likud members responded to an all-out settler campaign and repudiated Ariel Sharon's withdrawal proposal in a referendum the prime minister had vowed to honor....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:28am PDT
Beirut, Iraq
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 16, 2004 at 11:32 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:15am PDT
Hep E on 'Vietnam Street'
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 14, 2004 at 07:50 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:13am PDT
The address for protest is Labor's headquarters
How can we explain the conjurer's trick by which Sharon has turned into the darling of the Israeli peace camp?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:01am PDT
We need a Zionist halakha
The non-Jewish wave of immigration has brought the issue of relations between religion and state - chiefly regarding marriage and conversion - to a moment of truth. Even those who favor continued Orthodox monopoly on marriage will not be able to accept a situation in which hundreds of thousands of immigrants are unable to marry in Israel. This is what led former chief rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron to propose a sweeping annulment of the monopoly....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:59am PDT
Former head of Israeli prime minister's bureau accused of incitement
Yahad MK Avshalom Vilan and the Peace Now movement petitioned Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Thursday to investigate Uri Elitzur, former head of the prime minister's bureau during the Benjamin Netanyahu administration, on allegations of incitement....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:56am PDT
Israel issues tender for moat on Philadelphi Route in Gaza
The Defense Ministry announced Thursday morning that it is issuing a tender for the construction of a moat along the Philadelphi Route on the Egypt-Gaza border, aimed at deterring the smuggling of weapons over the frontier into Palestinian areas....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:54am PDT
Second bomb targets Iraqi security forces
A second car bomb has exploded near Baghdad, killing six Iraqi civil defence guards, hours after another massive car bombing killed at least 35 people in the capital....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:52am PDT
Pastry Operations in Poland and Brazil
On June 2, 2004, an activist from Food Not Bombs-Warsaw (Poland) pied the
President of the City, Lech Kaczynski. The pie action was made to protest
Kaczynski's moves to prevent the city's annual gay parade from taking place....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 10:16pm PDT
South Korea struggles against WEF
While we are since 214 days in sit-in strike, last weekend we supported the struggle of S. Korean workers, peasants and students against WEF....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:59pm PDT
Bay Area Resident Threatened with Deportation from Israel
Brooke Atherton threatened with deportation 7:30 p.m. today, Pacific Daylight Time for attempting to enroll in Arabic language school in Palestine...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 3:46pm PDT
Miami TV Invites Terrorists to Talk Openly About Attacks on Cuba and Venezuela
Cuban television tonight broadcasted remarkable segments of a one hour program on Miami TV Channel 41 in which known paramilitaries from the Florida based Comandos F4 (www.comandosf4.org) organization openly spoke of their preparation for an armed attack against Cuba....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 12:23pm PDT
Nine dead in Ramadi blast
Nine people have been killed, including four foreigners, and 10 wounded after a vehicle was targeted in the western Iraqi town of Ramadi....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:09am PDT
Israeli undercover forces raid Jenin
Israeli occupation forces have shot dead a Palestinian, wounded a second and arrested several others in the West Bank city of Jenin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 7:59am PDT