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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
audio from the press conference protesting Bush's planned wreath laying on MLK's tomb Audio from the press conference protesting Bush's planned wreath laying on the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. scheduled to happen the next day- Dr King's birthday. The press conference, organized by Rev. Tim MacDonald, president, Concerned Black Clergy, drew a diverse crowd featuring speakers from organizations including: Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Physicians for Social Responsibility, Jobs with Justice, and the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition. After the press confere...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:26pm PST
Iraqi women protest proposed changes to family laws BAGHDAD (AFP) - About 100 Iraqi women led by a minister protested in central Baghdad against a Governing Council proposal to scrap the secular family affairs code and place it under Muslim religious jurisdiction....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:49pm PST
1/14/2004: Haitian military officer linked to human rights violations arrested in Florida ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former Haitian military officer linked to human rights violations in his homeland was arrested Wednesday and will be deported, federal officials said Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 10:22am PST
Statement on Tom Hurndall's Death Tom Hurndall , the British Photographer shot in Gaza while shepherding young children out of the line of fire, died this week....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:20am PST
Rebellious townspeople clash with Mexican police after declaring autonomy Dissidents battled police Wednesday in a small town south of Mexico City after police entered to reinstate a mayor run out by opponents....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 8:53pm PST
Pentagon: Suicides of U.S. Troops Rising in Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 21 U.S. troops have committed suicide in Iraq, a growing toll that represents one in seven of American "non-hostile" deaths since the war began last March, the Pentagon said on Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 5:10pm PST
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