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U.S. Muslims React to Exclusion of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, September 22, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference in Washington, D.C., in reaction to today's exclusion from the United States of Yusuf Islam, an internationally-known Muslim activist and educator....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 10:51pm PDT
US forces attack Sadr City US tanks raided the Baghdad area of Sadr City in the early hours of Wednesday as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:07pm PDT
Coalition refines policy on pre-emptive strikes The Coalition has re-fashioned its policy of unilateral pre-emptive strikes against terrorist strongholds overseas after regional governments expressed disquiet and disbelief after the proposal was raised again at the weekend by the [Australian] Prime Minister....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Cat Stevens, on Government Watch List, Diverts Plane A PLANE bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine today after passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens - showed up on a US watch list, a federal official said.
United Airlines flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between the passenger and the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 6:57pm PDT
Gary Leupp: Kerry's Middle East foreign policy is little different from Bush's Kerry continues: "we are not secure while Israel, the one true democracy in the region, remains the victim of an unrelenting campaign of terror."
[Comment.] This is a democracy premised on a Jewish majority and Jewish privilege, which must not be threatened by the return of Palestinian refugees, or even by natural demographic trends that will inevitably produce a (voting) Israeli Arab majority population within decades, unless the situation is carefully engineered to sustain the...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 2:09pm PDT
TURKEY reforming its Penal Code New penal code doesn't mention queers, according to Turkish newspapers....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 11:13am PDT
Haiti Human Rights Office Attacked U.S. "client" human rights group may be behind attacks......
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 9:43am PDT
Weekly Report On Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Territories Last week was the bloodiest week in the last two months, as 24
Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 6 children, were killed and
dozens of other civilians were injured by Israeli troops.
The difference between the suicide bomber and soldier(s) killing
civilian population including children, is the IDF uniform and the US
tax dollar in foreign aid ....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 9:07am PDT
Basra, Iraq: How bad can things get? Just how bad are things in Iraq? Since just last week it has seen hundreds of deaths, suicide bombings, beheadings, yet more people kidnapped....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 8:25am PDT
The Take Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 4:44pm PDT
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Threatens To Kill Gays, TV Station Apologizes A Canadian television station has apologized publicly to viewers for a telecast of American evangelist Jimmy Swggart's television program in which he threatened to kill gays....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 2:31pm PDT
Venezuela: después del Referendum * Los resultados de la votación del 15/08/2004 ratificaron a Hugo Chávez como Presidente, bendecido por los poderes transnacionales a pesar de los alegatos oposicionistas de fraude electoral. El Libertario (# 39, septiembre-octubre 2004) presentó amplias reflexiones sobre las consecuencias de ese evento y propuestas sobre cómo actuar en las nueva situación. De lo publicado allí, van dos notas con lo esencial de la visión de los anarquistas venezolanos....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 12:54pm PDT
Two Weeks in Beit Arabiya -- Putting Palestinian Homes Back Together For Israelis it is the battle of remembering. "Never Again!" is an imperative that is meaningless if not extended to the rest of humanity...As difficult a task as it is for Israelis to maintain their humanity, the demands made on Palestinians are in another category altogether. While the challenge for Israelis is remembering, that confronting Palestinians is forgetting-forgetting the constant brutal reminders that you are less than fully human; forgetting the poison that must inevit...
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 9:43am PDT
A Trinity of Evil: George Bush, Big Oil, 9-11 As more documents concerning 9-11 surfaces, it is becoming increasing clear the top officials in the Bush administration were at least complicit if not an active participants in the attacks. There is enough evidence now to bind George W. Bush, big oil companies and 9-11 into a trinity of evil. By allowing the 9-11 attacks to take place unhindered Bush and all of his top advisers are guilty of the mass murder of over 3000 innocent people....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 8:09am PDT
DEFYING INTIMIDATION, TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH AGAINST THE COUP AND OCCUPATION Tens of thousands of protestors march in Haiti on September 11 (anniversary of military massacre of Haitians), calling for end to coup government and international occupation, and a return of President Aristide. Targeted killings of activists characterize week following protest....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 8:44pm PDT
Lessons of Vietnam The lessons learned by the US military during the Vietnam war and their application to the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with particular reference to casualty figures....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 1:49pm PDT
The myth of Gandhi and Palestinian reality The recent visit of Mohandas K. Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, to Palestine has sparked new discussion about the role of nonviolence in the Palestinian struggle for freedom. In a speech before the Palestinian Legislative Council, Gandhi called upon 50,000 Palestinian refugees to march back home en masse from their exile in Jordan, forcing the Israelis to choose between relenting to a wave of people power, or gunning the marchers down in cold blood....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Sharon threatens to kill Arafat Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week made a clear threat to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an interview to mark the Jewish New Year holiday.
Sharon reiterated an earlier threat to expel Arafat from the Palestinian territories at a “convenient” time. But he went on to stress that he saw no difference between Arafat and Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in March, and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, who was killed the following month....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Al-Sadr officials targeted US forces and the Iraqi National Guard have raided the homes of a number of officials affiliated to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 10:24am PDT
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