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Occupation HQ attacked in central Baghdad Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars have hit the headquarters of US-led occupation forces in Baghdad....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 7:11pm PDT
8/13SF Rally Against Korean Troops In Iraq Anti-war activists will join together on Friday August 13 at 3:00 PM at the Korean Consulate on 3500 Clay/Laurel, SF to protest the dispatch of Korean troops to Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 5:09pm PDT
Apartheid Roads in Israel In this rather long-winded article, the Jewish Israeli peace group B'Tselem reports on the 'open secret' of apartheid roads aka "by-pass roads" in apartheid Israel. I wonder why this group, if it is so progressive, does not also call for completely equal rights for all in Israel regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Why do they not loudly, consistently and relentlessly also call for the recognition of the Palestinian right to return? Why the limits in their activism?...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 8:06am PDT
Iraqi police chief seized as curfew imposed Aljazeera has aired a videotape showing a group of masked armed men belonging to a Shia Muslim resistance group holding an Iraqi police officer captive in Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 8:50pm PDT
Iraq halts crude output from the south Oil production from Iraq's southern oil fields was stopped on Monday after alleged threats by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army to disrupt operations, an Iraqi official has said....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 8:47pm PDT
Haiti's deforestation caused by 200 years of sanctions Economic sanctions against Haiti from 1804 til present have caused poverty and deforestation. The colonial powers of France and America have actively attempted to prevent Haiti from succeeding as an independent Black Republic. Bush's coup against liberation theologist Arisitide is a continuation of 200 years of racism....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 5:58pm PDT
And Free To Sleep Under A Bridge, Too Three activists of the Vanguard of Red Youth were detained on Sunday during a small rally outside the Federation Council in Moscow. The three, all of whom are participants in a hunger strike which began nearly two weeks ago, were protesting a bill that will replace social benefits with cash payments, which was just approved by the Federation Council. Another four participants in the rally were hospitalized with dehydration....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 2:20pm PDT
Iraqi PM bans al Jazeera from covering Iraq ...al-Jazeera strives to show events in Iraq from an Arab point of view. Its broadcasts and websites emphasise the suffering brought upon the civilians of Iraq by the war there, often with pictures of wounded children and mothers standing before bombed-out homes...Al-Jazeera "no more than other news organisations, has a slant", Kenton Keith, a former US ambassador to Qatar, acknowledged recently. "Its slant happens to be one most Americans are not comfortable with ... "...
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 11:42am PDT
Introducing the Movement for One Democratic Secular State As the Israeli occupation continues to grow ever more entrenched, more and more people around the world are reaching the conclusion that the ethnic separatist "two-state solution" is no longer viable possibility. The level of physical integration between Palestinians and Israelis, both inside and outside the Green Line, as well as simple demographic realities has effectively negated any realistic separatist schemes aside from the current "ghettoization" policy being employ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 10:18am PDT
Incompetence, or Sabotage: US Terror Hype Outs Mole The arrest of an Al Qaeda computer expert in Pakistan last month led to the launch of an "orange alert" in Washington and New York. But according to news reports, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, a Canadian, was actually working under cover as a double-agent when his name was leaked to US newspapers. Dr. Condolleeza Rice told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the Bush administration had confirmed Khan's identity "on background", or off-the-record, and claimed she did not know whether or n...
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 1:42am PDT
Israel 'plans more settler homes' Israel has approved the building of 200 new homes in a major Jewish settlement in the West Bank, reports say....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 1:28pm PDT
Join the Olive Harvest Campaign, 2004 Palestinian agricultural organizations and farmers, in coordination
with the International Solidarity Movement and the IWPS, announce
the 2004 Olive Harvest Campaign. The campaign will take place
between October 5 and November 15....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 12:10pm PDT
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel Go on Hunger Strike Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Prisons Go on Hunger
Strike!
Please Join us in Support of the Prisoners and Their Families!
International Day of Action September 4, Saturday...
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 12:09pm PDT
Sadr Aide Says Iraqi PM "Acting Like Saddam" BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (AFP) - A Baghdad-based aide to Moqtada Sadr accused Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Sunday of acting like former dictator Saddam Hussein and wanting to eliminate the radical Shiite Muslim cleric and his movement....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 9:26am PDT
Iraqi bid to arrest al-Sadr fails NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces staged an unsuccessful raid yesterday to seize rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shi'ite Muslim leader blamed by the United States for a surge in violence in this holy city that has claimed scores, perhaps hundreds, of lives....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 9:21am PDT
Iraq reinstates capital punishment Baghdad — Iraq reinstated capital punishment for people guilty of murder, endangering national security and distributing drugs, the government announced Sunday, saying the death penalty was necessary to help put down the country's persistent insurgency....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 8:31am PDT
Aljazeera vows to cover Iraq despite closure Aljazeera has vowed to continue its Iraq coverage despite the one-month closure of its Baghdad office announced by the Iraqi interim government on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2004 3:31pm PDT
Iraq Media Coverage "Afghanized": US Columnist CAIRO, August 6 (IslamOnline.net) - The only effect the so-called power transfer in Iraq has had on the situation in Iraq was "Afghanizing" the media coverage of the war-torn country, as the only change on the ground was "for the worse", according to a leading columnist in a major US daily Friday, August 6....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2004 9:11am PDT
Aljazeera's Baghdad office closed Aljazeera has vowed to continue its Iraq coverage despite the one-month closure of its Baghdad office announced by the Iraqi interim government on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2004 8:32am PDT
Afghan rebels hit U.S. convoys KABUL (AP) - Insurgents attacked American forces with rocket propelled grenades and explosives on roads in southern Afghanistan on Friday, injuring at least eight U.S. soldiers, two seriously, the U.S. military said....
Posted: Fri, Aug 6, 2004 11:36pm PDT
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