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Caribbean women support Aristide
Following are excerpts from a letter being circulated on the internet:...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:19pm PST
US Backed Haitian Police Begin Rounding Up Supporters Of Democratically Elected President
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitian police rounded up supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide over the weekend, and the impoverished Caribbean country's new police chief warned on Sunday the jails would be packed in coming weeks....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:17pm PST
African leader undecided whether exiled Haitian leader can leave
The president of the Central African Republic said Sunday he will decide soon whether the exiled Jean-Bertrand Aristide can leave to return to the Caribbean, Aristide's lawyer said....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 3:40pm PST
Socialists Score Spectacular Spanish Election Win
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish voters swept the center-right government from power on Sunday in a spectacular general election upset over last week's suspected al Qaeda attack in Madrid....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 3:35pm PST
Why They Had to Crush Aristide
"Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in November 2000 with more than 90% of the vote. He was elected by people who shared his determination to improve the conditions of the most poorly paid workers in the western hemisphere.."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 2:38pm PST
FBI pushing for wiretapping backdoors to Internet programs
A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 2:36pm PST
Robert Fisk: One year on - war without end
There was a fearful battle along Highway 1 on the western bank of the Tigris where Saddam's guerrillas fought off an American tank column for 36 hours, the US tanks spraying shellfire down a motorway until every vehicle - military and civilian - was a smouldering wreck. I walked the highway as the last shots were still being fired by snipers, peering into cars packed with the blackened corpses of men, women, children. Carpets and blankets had been thrown over several piles of the dead. In the...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 2:38am PST
Revealed: the full story of the Guantanamo Britons
The Observer's David Rose hears the Tipton Three give a harrowing account of their captivity in Cuba...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:44pm PST
Haiti’s Democracy in Flames
Powell’s dirty-dealing demolishes the tattered remnants of his credibility...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:42am PST
Return Aristide to Haiti: Try Bush as a Global Pirate
March 11, 2004-The Bush men have the Madness Touch. Their very presence warps conventional notions of reality...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:39am PST
Noam Chomsky: The Tragedy of Haiti
"Haiti was more than the New World's second oldest republic," anthropologist Ira Lowenthal observed, "more than even the first black republic of the modern world. Haiti was the first free nation of free men to arise within, and in resistance to, the emerging constellation of Western European empire." The interaction of the New World's two oldest republics for 200 years again illustrates the persistence of basic themes of policy, their institutional roots and cultural conco...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:30am PST
US revealed to be secretly funding opponents of Chavez
Washington has been channelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the political opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - including those who briefly overthrew the democratically elected leader in a coup two years ago....
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:27am PST
FTAA Minesterial postponement
Negotiations to complete the Free Trade Area of the Americas are crumbling under the weight of injustice....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 8:49pm PST
Secret Service Blocks 9-11 Family Members, Protesters From Rally Against Bush
Almost every news story says absolutely nothing about any protest except for the families who disagree with the ad campaign. It's all pretty pro-Bush oriented. Sad I have to get this in an email to know what actually happened....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 2:18pm PST
British Guantanamo detainee accuses US of 'torture'
One of the five Britons recently returned to the UK from Guantanamo Bay has claimed that he was subjected to cruel and sadistic treatment by US authorities....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:37pm PST
Bodies donated to medical school sold on to US army for landmine tests
SEVEN bodies donated to a medical school in the United States were sold to the US army and blown up in landmine experiments, it was revealed yesterday.
Tulane University in New Orleans said it had suspended its dealings with a distributor of donated bodies in the wake of the revelation, the second allegation of the misuse of bodies donated to universities for research.
Last week, Los Angeles police arrested the director of the willed body programme at UCLA’s medical school, as part of...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:32pm PST
Riots In The Streets and Parliament In Korea As Leader Who Stood Up To The US Is Impeached
Mr Roh's election campaign was based on the promise of better relations with communist North Korea and a more equal footing with the country's biggest ally, the US....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:26pm PST
An interview with Sherman Austin's Mother in G-spot
An interview with Sherman Austin's Mother...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:05pm PST
Haiti’s New Prime Minister Says Elections May Be Two Years Away
After supporting the overthrow of a democratically elected government, the US appointed government in Haiti is now saying there wont be elections for years? Its amazing how people can talk about "democracy" while rejecting the will of the people in favor of the will of the Bush administration....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:58pm PST
S. Florida Haitians assume control of government in strife-torn nation
Haiti's new prime minister comes from Boca Raton. The proposed defense minister is from Miami Shores. And the latest adviser to the new government hails from Lauderhill....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:50pm PST