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SIMONE! By Mumia Abu-Jamal "She sang songs with bite, and grit, and pride and longing... and rage. Deep, down, boneset rage, at how cheaply life was lived for Africans in America."...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 11:59am PDT
Amnesty International investigating claims US troops tortured Iraqi POWs LONDON (AP) Amnesty International is investigating claims that British and American troops tortured prisoners of war in Iraq with night-long beatings and, in at least one case, electric shocks, the group said Friday....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 9:35am PDT
Coalition Troops Accused of Torture - AI Investigating The human rights organization gathered statements from 20 former detainees who said they had been kicked and beaten by soldiers while being interrogated, Amnesty researcher Said Boumedouha told a news conference in London.
One Saudi Arabian national claimed he was tortured with electric shocks, Boumedouha said....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 9:20am PDT
U.S. health care: Crisis, solutions, action plan The United Steel Workers of America (USWA) hosted a national forum on the health care crisis at its headquarters in Pittsburgh on April 27....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 8:55am PDT
The forbidden truth about Jayson Blair: Were his abuses overlooked because he's black? The forbidden truth about Jayson Blair
It's the issue nobody at the New York Times wants to discuss: Were a reporter's flagrant journalistic abuses overlooked because he's black?...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 6:57am PDT
House Majority Leader Tom Delay Had Feds Join Texas Posse Homeland officials in a statement released Thursday, say they were asked Monday afternoon to look for the plane. The request came from a Texas Department of Public Safety officer who said, "We got a problem. We had a plane. It had state representatives in it and we cannot find this plane."...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 5:04am PDT
BTL: Federal Court Derails Campaign Finance Regulations Supreme Court will... ...decide fate of McCain-Feingold law Interview with Nick Nyhart, executive director of Public Campaign, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 2:41am PDT
Open letter to supporters of direct action: The Road to Revolution--Not by Militancy Alone 
A discussion of the strategies of direct action versus revolutionary Marxism over the question of fighting imperialist wars and the capitalist system behind them....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 11:31pm PDT
Come protest the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit June 1 - 6 in Seattle! Come on up to Seattle for a week of actions against the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit conference! The LEIU is a secret, cops only network that maintains files on individuals and groups, trains intelligence operatives, and basically does some pretty messed up stuff. To find out more about them, go to www.riseup.net/noleiu, or read the introduction to the LEIU document below....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 10:59pm PDT
Fierce Fighting Continues in Eastern Congo In the largest town in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) (Background Report) Ituri province, Bunia, fighting continues to rage for control....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 9:45pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/16/03 ¡Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Spain, Russia, and Cuba...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 6:37pm PDT
July 3, National Public Hearings to Repeal the Patriot Act On July 3, cities throughout the country will host Public Hearings to Repeal the Patriot Act...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 6:32pm PDT
Revolution Summer San Diego The second american revolution is coming......
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 2:34pm PDT
The Hydra's New Head: Propagandists and Selling the US-Iraq War May 14, 2003
The Hydra's New Head:
Propagandists and Selling the US-Iraq War
By PAUL de ROOIJ
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Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 1:56pm PDT
RADIO SUBVERSION for the week of 05/13/03 RADIO SUBVERSION is a weekly audio netcast with news, views, music and humor from the Left side of the internet....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 12:15pm PDT
New gun law will limit magazines to 10 rounds From www.wahtreallyhappened.com - Being a muzzle-loader myself, this doesn't affect me, however, what purpose does this law serve? It won't affect criminals in any way, who commit most gun crimes without pulling the trigger at all. The same holds true for home defense. In the majority of cases the gun is never actually fired. Nor will a 10 round limit have any effect on suicides, murders, or accidents, all of which involve 1 or 2 shots. The only real purpose of limiting civilian magazines is ...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 12:07pm PDT
USA to develop 'mini nukes' considers itself outside international law Interview - Richard Butler
A few days ago, the US Senate Armed Services Committee voted to repeal a long-standing ban on the development of small nuclear bombs - so called mini-nukes....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 3:32am PDT
Documentary: Skull and Bones, at Yale the Anglo-Saxon Ruling Elite (video/x-pn-realvideo 26.3MB) The real history of Skull and Bones Society at yale university. Members include President Bush and Senator John Kerry and many others in power. Realmedia 56k....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 2:56am PDT
BTL: Allegations of War Profiteering Leveled Against Halliburton and... ...Other Companies With Close Ties to White House. Interview with Charlie Cray, corporate reform campaigner at Citizen Works, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2003 2:40am PDT
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