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The TLC and Oil drilling in the Amazon spell disaster...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 4:27pm PST
Press Release, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 8 January 2005...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 3:53pm PST
Fatah candidate Mahmud Abbas is heading for a landslide victory in the Palestinian presidential election, according to an exit poll....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:58pm PST
Never before has a case of
Unlawful and Unconstitutional
Been Exposed in Canada like this.
Please go to www.thewrongguy.ca
'21 years' of incarceration.
Letter from 'The Law Society of Upper Canada':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf
The Starting of the Re-Instated 'Habeas Corpus Act':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:03pm PST
The Pentagon is debating whether to set up elite hit-squads to target leaders of the Iraq insurgency in a new strategy based on tactics used against leftist guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago, Newsweek magazine reported on Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:59am PST
Returning refugees angered by law that prevents them taking part in elections for Kurdistan assembly....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:54am PST
NEW YORK, Jan 7 (IPS) - For the first time, many more civilians are being killed and maimed in Afghanistan by dud munitions than by landmines, which were more or less outlawed in 1999 but linger around the world as the wreckage of earlier wars....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:47am PST
Iraqi trade union leader Hadi Salih, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, was tortured and killed in his home in Baghdad Tuesday night [1/4/05]--but a Nexis search reveals not a word has yet appeared in the U.S. Press....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:33am PST
The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I'm still overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to describe this....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:49am PST
Many Palestinians are boasting that they will soon enjoy, again, the most free and democratic elections in the entire Arab World. The only problem is that electing a Palestinian president while still under the boot of the occupier is an oxymoron. Sovereignty and occupation are mutually exclusive. The world, including many well-informed readers, seem to think that the Palestinian people is actually practicing the ultimate form of sovereignty by freely choosing its own president. This is easily...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:46am PST
A French officer serving with U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon was killed by Israeli shelling Sunday, shortly after a Hezbollah bomb attack killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three others near the southern border, Lebanese and U.N officials said....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:43am PST
Thousands of Palestinians, defying the grim reality of Israeli occupation, have been converging on polling stations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to elect a new president....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:40am PST
The Palestinian election to choose a successor to the late leader Yasser Arafat has been extended by two hours....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:38am PST
Background on Aceh: 1999-2000 nonviolent independence movement....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 7:56pm PST
Tom Ashbrooke's program on the Palestinian elections this week failed to mention the West Bank detention and beating of Dr. Mustapha Barghouti while he was campaigning (he is running second to Mahmoud Abbas in Palestinian public opinion) and, in a separate and more recent incident, the IOF's refusal to let him return to the West Bank from Gaza, where he was continuing to campaign. (See the press release by Dr. Barghouti below.) These constitute both assault and batter and election tampering. ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 3:17pm PST
Palestinians have accused Israel of not carrying out a promised easing of its military grip on the West Bank and Gaza for a presidential election to pick Yasir Arafat's successor....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:22pm PST
The elections in occupied Iraq, scheduled to take place on January 30, are looming as a political debacle for the Bush administration. The US objectives are being thwarted by the mass opposition to the American presence in the country and the entrenched insurgency against the occupation....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:19pm PST
From December 29 to January 1, a WSWS team spoke with tsunami survivors in and around the eastern Sri Lankan town of Ampara. At least 25,000 people from the area were killed and more than 166,000 were left homeless by the December 26 tragedy. Another 80,000 are now living in refugee camps....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:18pm PST
Three senior Iraqi officials were abducted, a man who worked for the U.S. occupation was beheaded and at least four others were killed in another day of violent incidents, Iraqi officials said Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:58pm PST
Senator determined to see whether country is drawing nearer to stability or falling deeper into chaos...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:55pm PST