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This discussion guide aims to provide basic information on and analysis of the issue of the Balikatan 02-1 (Shoulder to Shoulder) joint US-RP military exercise in Mindanao. It is necessary to know its nature and context since this is a concrete ramification of the US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the Mutual Defense Treaty. A historical context of US-RP military cooperation is also provided....
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2002 10:50am PST
Malugod naming iniimbitahan kayo at ang mga estudyante ninyo na dumalo
sa isang forum at paglulunsad ng kampanya laban sa Balikatan Exercises
at panghihimasok ng tropang U.S. sa Pilipinas. Pinamagatang U.S. TROOPS
OUT!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2002 10:48am PST
A 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.7MB & quick/streaming-3.4MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Spain, Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2002 9:59pm PST
Like manly anti-globalists, the 9/11 terrorists were spoiled college brats. Could you be the next mass murderer>...
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2002 5:23pm PST
America "accidentally" kills some more Afghani civilians who were disguised as Al-Queda/Taliban/Islamic Terrorists/Evildoers. Some of these civilians were bound and shot. Others had been bound and burned alive. Yet another was bound and mutilated with half a foot missing, and his thigh bone sticking out of his leg. The hell with the Geneva Conventions...
God Bless America!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2002 5:10pm PST
Amid disturbing reports around 9-11, Bush and Cheney tell Senate Don't go there: Bush Asks Daschle to Limit Sept. 11 Probes [Daschle is perplexed by notion of not looking into 9-11]...
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2002 4:10pm PST
>Thousands of immigrant airport workers across the
country stand to lose
>their jobs because of a post-9/11 requirement that
mandates all pre-board
>screeners to be U.S. citizens....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2002 3:09pm PST
Remember this? Here's proof that remote-controlled planes could have been used on September 11th -- straight out of the monkey's mouth!! I wonder if these planes already have this installed in them??...
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2002 10:34am PST
What do Osama bin Laden, the Russian Mafia, and Enron execs have in common? US aids offshore banking, Molly Ivins on Bush's State of the Union address, and more...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 10:22pm PST
Impressions of the first lecture of the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies Series on Foreign Policy after 9-11....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 7:49pm PST
US threat to send Britons home...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 5:07pm PST
SPEAK OUT Against Global Poverty and Militarism!
Saturday, February 2
11am: assemble at 59th St. & 8th Avenue (Columbus
Circle, near the
fountain at the SW corner of Central Park)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 2:03pm PST
The coalition of social justice
organizations known as the Inang
Bayan Movement have announced plans for a mass
anti-war demonstration in
participation with the upcoming Anti-World Economic
Forum Counter Summit on
Saturday, February 2....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 1:14pm PST
The Marin Peace and Justice Coalition will be leading a car caravan on 2 February in order to bring attention to our dependency on oil and the meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York. The caravan will include vegetable powered vehicles as well as electric powered vehicles. There will be 2 caravans, both starting at 10.45am, one starting in southern Marin at Manzanita parking in Mill Valley and the other at the Atherton exit off Hwy 101.
For additional information call 415/ 721-2844...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 10:06am PST
New bill in committee as of December 20th, 2001 requiring the induction into the armed forces for men (voluntary for women) between the ages of 18-22....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2002 12:56am PST
The URL is a little clunky, but it's worth the trip...
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2002 8:32pm PST
CNN's Chief Foreign Correspondant Christiane Amanpour is married to State Dept spokesperson James Rubin.
Now, what kind of news do you think we're gonna hear when the White House is attacking other countries?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2002 7:09pm PST