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Outrage At Britain and Italy During Protests At EU Meeting In Athens 
Reports said a bank had also been set on fire, shop windows smashed, and petrol bombs and other missiles thrown at the UK and Italian embassies....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 11:10am PDT
Informers for a Day 15.04.2003 - In war-torn Saravena, a town of 30,000 in Arauca department in eastern Colombia, soldiers dressed as clowns befriend local children by offering them candy, rides on armored personnel carriers, and the use of the army's swimming pool in return for the opportunity to pummel them with pro-army and anti-rebel propaganda. Read the article by Garry M. Leech at Colombia Report....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 11:09am PDT
Of God and Man in the Oval Office "In an nuclear age, American triumphalism is not only spiritually bereft, it is, quite possibly, apocalyptic in its implications."
Rev. Fritz Ritsch is pastor of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 11:04am PDT
Noam Chomsky on the Achille Lauro and the many Lebanese civilian ships destroyed by Israel The outrage over hijacking does not extend to Israeli hijackings that have been carried out in international waters for many years, including civilian ferries travelling from Cyprus to Lebanon, with large numbers of people kidnapped, over 100 kept in Israeli prisons without trial, and many killed, some by Israeli gunners while they tried to stay afloat after their ship was sunk, according to survivors interviewed in prison....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 10:08am PDT
The Real Heroes of Gulf War II: Conscientious Objectors Thousands of troops have blindly followed the Bush-Blair-Sharon sanctioned mass-murder of the Iraqi people. Unnamed re the hundreds, possibly thousands, of U.S. personnel in the armed forces have applied for conscientious objector status since January. Though few have gone public, they emerge the true heroes of the armed forces, in refusing to participate in an illegal war of aggression on Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 9:53am PDT
Sharon Demands Action Against Syria, Iran Will Not Remain Neutral Mohsen Rezai, secretary of the Iran’s powerful Expediency Coucil, underlined that any military action against Syria would be unjustified. “If Syria is attacked, Iran should not stay neutral,” he said....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 8:22am PDT
US shoots into crowd of protestors killing 10-12, wounding 100 ......
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 7:29am PDT
US admits Mosul killings A US commander has admitted that American troops did shoot and kill a number of Iraqis during a protest in the northern city of Mosul....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 7:23am PDT
What America Says Does Not Go Between 1945 and now, the US has never stopped being at war with the world. For fifty-eight years, there has never been a single year in which it has not bombed and occupied another country, and in most years, it has attacked two or more countries at the same time....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 6:57am PDT
Levi Strauss stands accused Two ex-employees of Levi Strauss are suing the clothing firm, alleging they were sacked for refusing to cover up fraudulent accounting practices at the jeans maker....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 6:07am PDT
Iraqi anarchy abounds while US ups the stake against Syria The cabal has set Syria firmly in its sight as the next target. Ariel Sharon, in December 2002, claimed that Iraq had shipped some of its chemical and biological weapons to Syria. Rumsfeld accused Syria of allowing war materials and Islamic fighters to cross its border to help the government of Saddam Hussein. Paul Wolfowitz stated, "there's got to be a change in Syria". James Woolsey, a former CIA director stated that the "fascist" government in Syria has to be replaced....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 4:27am PDT
Treatment Grim for Wounded Iraqis Ali Left Behind Ali Ismaeel Abbas leaves behind scores of wounded Iraqis at the mercy of the collapsing Iraqi heath system. Baghdad's three main hospitals are shut and doctors warn that those still open will follow suit if order is not restored to the Iraqi capital. Iraqi and foreign doctors said Baghdad's Medical City, Yarmouk and al-Kindi hospitals were closed due to power cuts, a shortage of medicines and staff and fear of the looting that swept the city after Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed last week. Th...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 4:20am PDT
Actor Robbins slams critics of his opposition to war 'A chill wind is blowing through this nation... A message is being sent through the White House and its allies in talk radio... 'If you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications'...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 4:19am PDT
International Anti-war Boycott Day 
Brussels, 15th April 2003 - In Brussels and Antwerp, peace activists shut down an Esso petrol station. For the third time in as many weeks, For Mother Earth targetted Esso and Texaco petrol stations, in protest against the role of Exxon-Mobil and Chevron-Texaco in US policy.
The action opposed the role of oil companies in fuelling the war in Iraq, as well as their opposition to the Kyoto protocol on global warming....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 4:12am PDT
Iraqi Islamic Party Forms Front To Resist Occupation A new front to rebuild and liberate Iraq from the U.S. occupation will be set up in cooperation with a number of national Iraqi movements, head of Iraq’s Islamic Party -- Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq - Eyad al-Samra’i announced Tuesday, April 15....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 3:43am PDT
US bans media from (Baghdad) protests US bans media from protests
Baghdad
April 16 2003
US forces yesterday tried to stop the media from covering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis outside a hotel housing a US operations base, according to a reporter at the scene....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 2:22am PDT
Coca-Cola (7) Last from series (by Latuff) 
Copyright-free artwork(s) by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. Boycott Coca-Cola and the rest of U.S. made products. Big corporations, big massacres....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 1:31am PDT
US Troops fire on protesters Kill 10 Injure 100 From correspondents in Mosul, Iraq
Agence France-Presse: April 15, 2003
US troops opened fire on a crowd Protesting the new US-puppet governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today, killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and doctors said.
And US forces tried today to prevent the media from covering a third day of anti-US protests by Iraqis outside the hotel housing a US operations base in central Baghdad....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 1:06am PDT
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