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My Family In Iraq: Views on a Silenced Majority Since my return from this fall's busy touring schedule, I have been able to reach my family in Iraq regularly for the first time since the beginning of the war. One of the most important things we can do for them, and for the people of Iraq, is to counteract the unjust dehumanization of their entire nation of people, by giving voice to the silenced majority there who want peace. This silenced majority rarely makes it in the mainstream press because they are not killing people, and because the...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 9:50pm PST
Gaza Strip: At least 14 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, tunnel collapse Palestinian rescue forces on Friday searched for three Palestinians declared missing after a weapons-smuggling tunnel collapsed along the Gaza Strip -Egypt border, killing at least five Palestinians who were trapped inside....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 9:47pm PST
Al Ahram On The Palestinian Election Old beginnings:
The world breathed a collective sigh when Marwan Barghouti announced he would not be standing for Palestinian president. But it is a setback for Palestinian democracy, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem ---
Democracy at gunpoint:
Whatever its public stance, on the ground Israel is intent on obstructing Palestinian elections, writes Khaled Amayreh ---
Unity in difference:
Shortly after being assaulted by Israeli troops, Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti s...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 9:40pm PST
Captures of civilians continue in Chechnya Kavkazky Uzel, citing the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, reported on December 14 that a brother and sister were being treated in Grozny's Hospital No. 9 for serious wounds they received on December 3, when a helicopter gunship fired a rocket into their home in the Vedeno district village of Tazen-Kala. Their 14-year-old younger brother was killed in the attack, the website reported....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:06pm PST
Violence greets vote campaign An Italian hostage was reported killed in Iraq, adding to the violence around Thursday's start of campaigning for the first post-Saddam Hussein elections, while for the first time since his capture a year ago the ousted president met his family-appointed lawyers....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:04pm PST
Adalah: JNF lands come from state, not Jewish contributors Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Thursday refuted Jewish National Fund claims, saying that most JNF land was not purchased with Jewish people contributions but was given to it by the state during the first years after the War of Independence....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:02pm PST
Anti-US attacks in Iraq 'more effective' A senior American general has said anti-US violence in Iraq is becoming more effective....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:00pm PST
"They Laughed at Him and Kicked Him More" Who Killed Baha Mousa?...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 10:53pm PST
Iraqi official killed as violence continues Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi official in Baghdad yesterday as more violence broke out across the country. Qassem Mehawi, the deputy head of the communications ministry, was killed in his car. Eight of his bodyguards were wounded....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 5:14pm PST
Vanunu is elected rector The nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been elected rector of Glasgow University. His supporters hope that will help his campaign to be allowed to leave Israel, where he is still forbidden from talking to foreigners....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 5:12pm PST
Students Make up for Israel-destroyed Traffic Lights NABLUS , West bank, December 16 (IslamOnline.net) – “Yes, I might be still very young but I'm very proud of the service I do to my city and my colleagues,” Shaimaa Ghassan Zoqan, a11 -year-old Palestinian schoolgirl, said of her voluntary work as a traffic officer....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 5:10pm PST
BTL:U.S. Involvement in Ukraine Election Crisis Could Trigger a... ...New Cold War with Russia ~ Interview with Stephen F. Cohen, professor of Russian Studies at New York University, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 7:12am PST
With the ISM in Balata refugee camp Tom Feakins writing from Balata refugee camp, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 15 December 2004...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:40pm PST
GE TREES DENOUNCED FOR CARBON SINKS Buenos Aires, Argentina--A press conference was held this morning featuring presenters from World Rainforest Movement (Uruguay), FERN (U.K., Belgium), Global Justice Ecology Project (USA), a Mapuche scientist from Chile, and the Union of Ecoforestry (Finland) at La Rural, the site of the tenth Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 1:33pm PST
Thousands of Iraqis Have No Votes BAGHDAD, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Tens, and may be hundreds of thousands, of Iraqi voters will most likely be unable to cast their ballots in the general elections slated for January30 ,2005 , either for being homeless or detained by the US-led forces....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:21am PST
UN troops stage major military operation in Haiti U.N. troops staged a major military operation in Haiti on Tuesday. According to reports coming from Port-au-Prince, they seized control over a city district, the stronghold of supporters of the ousted ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 9:57pm PST
Haiti is Unraveling and No One is Saying Anything Since the de facto overthrow of the democratically-elected Aristide government on February 29 of 2004, the international community, along with the UN peacekeeping force, has either turned a blind eye on the human rights abuses perpetrated by interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue's regime or, at best, showered favoritism on the hapless, extra-constitutional government. Much of the lawlessness now found in the country is due to the ill-trained and out-of-control police force, particularly when...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 9:54pm PST
US says ousted president should have no place in Haiti's future THE United States wants all democratic institutions in Haiti, including Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party, to participate in the country's political process but does not believe that Aristide himself should be part of Haiti's future, a senior Washington official said here yesterday....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 9:53pm PST
Muslim Scholar Gives Up Notre Dame Post SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A Muslim scholar resigned his appointment to the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday four months after the Bush administration revoked the scholar's work visa before he could take up his teaching position....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 8:46pm PST
Israel’s "Jews-only" Law Under Fire CAIRO, December 14 (IslamOnline.net) - Israeli critics have warned that the proposed law, allowing Jews to bar Arabs from buying homes in their communities, could expose Israel to a fresh wave of condemnation and could further deepen Israel’s image as an aparthied state....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 8:13pm PST
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