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Nepal: Bush Supports Human Rights Violations
People’s Revolutionary War To Resume Shortly In Nepal...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 8:34pm PDT
WTO Demo in Montreal - 340 Arrests Yesterday
hadn't been following this . . . more repression, illegal police attacks. In the past Montreal has seen *massive* gas attacks, so it looks like the cops are taking on the American ways - just arrest everyone in sight....
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 6:33pm PDT
outFarpress presents- ACLU Speaker On Patriot Act And Gay Rights July 28
On July 28th, Bob Kearney, Associate Director of the Northern California American Civil Liberties Union, spoke on the Patriot Acts, Privacy Rights, and the Rights of Gays. 2 files, broadcast quality (26MB) and slow modem (6.7MB) LINK- http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=7488 This is the 4th in a series of speeches given by ACLU speakers produced by Dan Roberts and outFarpress....
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 5:53pm PDT
Sharon Visit to Washington! (VinGraphic)
Generous Offers being made?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 3:51pm PDT
Basque? What is that?!
Who are the Basques and why does Spain call them terrorists? What are the real issues?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 2:34pm PDT
Kurt Nimmo: Christian Zionists show lack of compassion for the Palestinian tragedy
"Christian Zionism offers an uncritical endorsement of the Israeli political right and at the same time shows an inexcusable lack of compassion for the Palestinian tragedy," writes Stephen Sizer. "In doing so it has legitimized their oppression in the name of God."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 1:52pm PDT
Robert Fisk, July 30, 2003: Paul Wolfowitz tries to muzzle Al Jazeera and other Arab media
It seems that showing Iraqi (or Palestinian) casualties is considered "incitement to violence." Showing Israeli victims over and over or victims of 9-11 apparently is not....
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 1:14pm PDT
US troops turn botched Saddam raid into a massacre
Obsessed with capturing Saddam Hussein, American soldiers turned a botched raid on a house in the Mansur district of Baghdad yesterday into a bloodbath, opening fire on scores of Iraqi civilians in a crowded street and killing up to 11, including two children, their mother and crippled father. At least one civilian car caught fire, cremating its occupants....
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 10:11am PDT
Bush in Portland and Seattle Aug. 21-22
San Francisco, Arcadia, Ashland, Medford, Eugene, Portland, Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver, Juneau, Cascadia. (and all the lesser-known places we left out)
Week of REVOLT! And Cascadia rain on Bush’s fundraising parade Aug 21-22....
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2003 4:09am PDT
U.S. Defense Dept. Program Taking Terror Bets
A new U.S Department of Defense program allows traders to bet on the likelihood of future terrorist attacks. The department's "Defense Advanced Research Project Agency" designed what it calls the "The Policy Analysis Market."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:46pm PDT
Soldiers of misfortune
Every politician worth his or her salt speaks sweet words of endearment about the young soldiers on the periphery of the American Empire. They're "brave," "courageous" and defenders of "our" freedoms....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 6:04pm PDT
Robert Fisk (July 29, 2003): American agents are blamed for raid that became a massacre
Fadi Barash, an unemployed car mechanic, told The Independent yesterday how his relative Mazen Elyas was shot in the head by US troops as he drove towards them on his way to church [Mansur is a Christian neighborhood] with his mother Tamantin and brother Thamir. "Mazen was killed - his brain was blown out - but his mother and Thamir were wounded," he said. "The Americans took them away in some kind of pick-up and didn't tell anyone where they went. Mr Barash appealed yesterday,...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 5:57pm PDT
Ali Abunimah responds to NPR's Linda Gradstein on the Apartheid Wall
The Apartheid Wall (which dwarfs the Berlin Wall) is also another major land grab for Israel. It surrounds and steals a great deal of the Palestinians' water resources. It will cost over $2 Billion dollars (that's Billion not Million) and as usual will be financed courtesy of us (US taxpayers)....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 3:55pm PDT
Come to the Campus Greens National Convention
Come to the Campus Greens National Convention; University of Texas, Austin; August 7-10, 2003...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 11:09am PDT
Massacre in Iraq - 11 civilians killed by U.S. troops
U.S. Army soldiers remove two destroyed vehicles from the scene of a massacre in the Al Mansour suburb of Baghdad, Sunday July 27, 2003. U.S. troops searching for Iraqi fugitives raided a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday and witnesses said up to 11 civilians had been killed when occupation troops fired on cars on nearby streets (photo REUTERS/Chris Helgren)...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:12am PDT
Diesel Fuel & Blood. Two more G.I.s killed in Iraq
A U.S. soldier stands guard near an army Humvee leaking a pool of diesel fuel and blood at the scene of a grenade attack in Iraqi capital Baghdad on July 28, 2003. A grenade attack in downtown Baghdad Monday killed two U.S. soldiers in broad daylight, the latest in an increasingly bold and deadly guerrilla campaign. George... where are the weapons of mass destruction? (photo by Oleg Popov/Reuters)...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:10am PDT
US troops in Iraq 'are terrorist magnet'
The commander of US ground forces in Iraq today said that his soldiers had become a "magnet" for foreign terrorists who wanted to strike at America....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:02am PDT
Definitions to keep on top of current events by ERIC MARGOLIS
from the Toronto Sun...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:02am PDT
Stated purpose of Aug. 2003 "Christian Zionist" conference. Land theft of Gaza,
Read the history and goals of Christian Zionism at this San Francisco conference web page:
http://www.schindlersark.com/history.htm
Land theft of East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank ("Samaria and Judea") are clearly approved nowadays. See purposes section at the end....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 5:16am PDT
A Report from Syria: Attitudes and opinions of the people there
From Bosra in the south to Aleppo in the North, I saw a rich agriculture: wheat, fruit, olives and vegetables. I saw Bedouins and Christians of several varieties living alongside Muslims of different stripes. I even met a Jewish antique dealer who returned to Damascus because I like it here better than Brooklyn. He can go to Israel but says he's happy in the place where he was born and grew up and feels no fear or discrimination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 10:59pm PDT