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1836 of 2009 
Panelist Says Bush Victory Made Possible by Cultural Oppression 
Walden Bello speech at the World Social Forum...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 12:20pm PST
Howard Zinn on Iraq - 4 mp3s (audio/mpeg 3.1MB) Ultimately we are going to have to get out of Iraq. It is only a question of how many people are going to die.
excerpts from an interview on cspan which can be viewed here
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/iraq/iraq_wj011405_zinn.rm
have you tried talking sense to friends and family and they just won't believe you... maybe they'll believe howard zinn. mixed with music so you can slyly put it in your playlist (at work ;-)...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 11:48am PST
US Air Force Flies Its Combat Aircraft into Iranian Airspace After Seymour M. Hersh's revelation that "[t]he [George W. Bush] Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer" (Seymour M. Hersh, "The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon Can Now Do in Secret," The New Yorker, January 24, 2005), more frightening news. Two newspapers on the left and right ends of the political mainstream report that the US Air Force is flying its combat planes into Iran's airspace, "templating"...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 11:29am PST
Israelis kill handicapped Palestinian A mentally handicapped Palestinian man has died after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip, hospital sources said....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 8:25am PST
Riot disrupts Iraq expat ballot A riot has broken out at a polling station in Sydney, Australia, between expatriate Iraqi voters and protesters opposed to the poll....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 8:23am PST
Pictures from the World Social Forum 
These pictures were taken at the march on the opening day of the World Social Forum. Local media is reporting that there were over 200,000 participants in the march. There are over 100,000 registered participants at the conference which is being held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The theme is A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 4:48am PST
Should the Anti-war Movement Support the Iraqi Resistance? 
A discussion on strategy and tactics in the anti-war movement...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 4:32am PST
The Global Media Democracy Movement 
World Social Forum participants discuss how to hold corporate media accountable and how to build the alternative/independent media network....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:39am PST
IDF scales back raids; Al-Ayyam: Sharon, Abbas to meet Feb. 8 Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and senior PA official Mohammed Dahlan are to meet Saturday evening to discuss the handing over of West Bank towns and cities to Palestinian control as well as further steps in the redeployment of Palestinian security forces in the territories, Channel 10 television reported Friday night....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 11:28pm PST
East Jerusalem: A property theft that must not be allowed The government's decision from July 2004 to confiscate lands and infrastructures in East Jerusalem that belong to Palestinians who live in the West Bank is odd, to say the least. The decision makers behaved as though the War of Independence had just ended now, and not 55 years ago, and as though it were necessary to transfer the assets of fleeing Palestinian refugees to the guardian of absentees' property for the State of Israel that had just been established and to build new settlements. The...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 11:26pm PST
Australian opposition leader Beazley urges US to avoid Iraq civil war Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has again called on the United States not to get involved in a civil war in Iraq.
The new Opposition Leader is in Sydney, meeting New South Wales Premier Bob Carr and visiting local members.
Mr Beazley has told ABC Radio National too much focus was put on the issue of pulling the troops out of Iraq before the last election, with Labor unable to shift focus to the bigger issues.
"Kevin Rudd tried - he tried to get all of those issues up but now we...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 11:16pm PST
Iraqi Elections: a Kurdish View Even as large numbers of Kurds are expected to go to the polls in Sunday’s Iraqi elections, they do so with mixed feelings....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 10:52pm PST
Mahdi Army Fights for Democracy Shia rebels have put away their pistols to get involved in politics....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 10:50pm PST
Sistani Openly Backs Shia Bloc Iraq’s most revered religious leader now officially supports the list made up of the country’s two top Shia parties....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 10:45pm PST
US-Backed Iraqi Abuses Revealed on Eve of Election 'Prisoners were bound, blinded, gagged. Many had terrible bruises and burns. One room contained hoses, broken lamps (electric shock) and chemicals'
Captain Jarrell Southall, Oregon National Guard
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Hendrickson, the battalion commander, then “radioed up the chain of command in the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division, relaying what he had seen and asking for instructions …
It wasn’t long before the order came: Stand Down....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 9:11pm PST
The streets of Baghdad are empty. It feels like a city preparing for war In the hours before tomorrow's election, Baghdad feels like a city preparing for war. American helicopters roar noisily overhead just above the roof- tops, setting off car alarms. Iraqi police nervously finger their assault rifles. Most people are taking no risks and stay at home, so streets are eerily empty....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 8:50pm PST
Iranian and Saudi cash weighs against local parties Tomorrow's supposedly free and fair elections have been undermined by a wealth of "soft money", an absence of inspectors and no limits to how much candidates can spend....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 8:49pm PST
Israel's fantasy stands in the way of peace Saree Makdisi, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2005...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 7:23pm PST
Sanctions against the Israeli occupation - it's time 
Report, ICAHD, 27 January 2005...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 7:23pm PST
The Iraq Elections: The Tension (and Bloodshed) Mounts Attacks on Polling Stations Leave 13 Dead...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 6:12pm PST
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