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Human Rights are not Abstract "Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes warned that the idea of freedom could atrophe to neoliberal liberation from social respnsibility and freedom rights could have only trade, investments and capital transactions as their object.."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 6:12am PST
Daily Double-Shot of Reality: Iraq Article sums up status of Iraq. There will be no *democracy*. The US will maintain bases there to rule Iraq and the Middle East until the oil is gone. Turnover to a puppet regime in June means turning over accountability and blame while retaining for the Bush Regime the real power in Iraq. Bush lied again......
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 12:00am PST
Mexico: Armed Riot Police Storm Tlalnepantla, Morelos The town of Tlalnepantla, Morelos, Mexico faces brutal repression as it declares itself autonomous....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 9:17pm PST
Mexico Case Study Complete: Poor women worse off after NAFTA The case study provides, for the first time, an accurate and quantifiable picture of how NAFTA affected women differently from men, and shows that the negative consequences of trade agreements often have an even greater impact on poor women....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 12:00pm PST
Day One at the World Social Forum in India Over one-hundred and twenty thousand delegates
of the "world's second superpower" converged today at this historic international gathering of those who believe that the current rules of
economic globalization are creating a future of war, inequality and environmental degradation and that “a better world is possible.”...
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 11:58am PST
How The US Media Treats Post-Saddam Iraq Break past the media lies and spin and read from real Iraqis just trying to get by as the war rages around them....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 11:57am PST
Baghdad car bomb leaves '17 dead' 
At least 17 Iraqis are reported killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside the US headquarters in central Baghdad....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 10:40pm PST
Human rights groups: US may be guilty of “collective punishment” war crime in Iraq US military forces in Iraq appear to be committing war crimes by detaining the relatives of suspected insurgents and demolishing their homes, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international human rights organization....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 6:17pm PST
1/17 Urgent Update from Kate Raphael Well, the hearing in my case today did not go well. The judge felt I was acting in
bad faith and had, in fact, only thought about making Aliyah after signing the
agreement to leave on the 17th. Gaby (attorney) thinks it is important that people fax the Minister of Interior, preferably by
Sunday morning but after is still good....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 11:28am PST
US casualties in Iraq rise to 500 Three US soldiers and two Iraqis have been killed in a bomb attack on a patrol north of the capital Baghdad, the US military says....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 11:03am PST
Death beat goes on in Iraq TIKRIT, Iraq - The number of American service members who have died in the Iraq conflict since war started last March reached 500 Saturday after a roadside bomb exploded near Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi civil defense troopers....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 9:06am PST
Kurds Head Towards Separation Up North Recent developments in Northern Iraq may lead to the division of post-Saddam Iraq along ethnic lines....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 12:00pm PST
100,000 In Bombay For 2004 World Social Forum As the World Social Forum kicks off in India, Democracy Now goes to Bombay to speak with an independent reporter about the international movement against globalization....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:45am PST
U.S. Accused of Lying About Its Troops Killing Journalists in Iraq Reporters Without Frontiers has issued a new report titled "Two Murders And a Lie" examining the Pentagon's handling of the killing by the U.S. of two foreign journalists at the Palestine Hotel in Iraq on April 8....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:44am PST
How the US is trying to make it so it can keep troops in Iraq for years :: Friday, January 16, 2004 ::...
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:11am PST
VIDEO from WSF (video/mpeg 5.4MB) Video montage of music and dancing from the WSF...
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 3:22am PST
On The Opression Of Women In Occupied Iraq :: Friday, January 16, 2004 ::...
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 12:30am PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/16/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 5:14pm PST
SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS — Behind the handshakes lies resistance George W. Bush’s handlers tried to prepare a soft-landing for him during his Jan. 12-13 trip to Monterrey, Mexico, but they failed. The announcement of a new immigration proposal was mainly geared for the 2004 elections, but the timing of the announcement was planned to smooth over rough relations between the U.S. and Latin America, in particular with the host of the Special Summit of the Americas, Mexican President Vicente Fox....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 4:10pm PST
Economic crisis, threats of Jihad, and more violence in Iraq Dahr Jamail is a freelance journalist and political activist from Anchorage, Alaska. He has come to Iraq to bear witness and write about how the US occupation is affecting the people of Iraq, since the media in the US has in large part, he believes, failed to do so....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 3:28pm PST
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