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Anthrax Taints Off-Site White House Mailroom
Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, once more differing with some Senate and White House officials, insisted the anthrax found so far was "weapons grade material."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 8:20pm PDT
Flashpoints Oct.23: Bethlehem, Arundhati Roy
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Tuesday, October 23, 2001:
-Robert Knight report from New York (5 min)
-Israel Pounding Bethlehem, Beit Jalla Bloody. Attacks against symbolic landmarks continue. (14 min)
-Arundhati Roy, fem author of #1 bestseller, Gods of Small Things, live interview and new essay banned by the 'free press' (28 min)
-Pacifica Watch (6 min)
(link to audio in full story text below)...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 8:15pm PDT
WHITE HOUSE STAFF GIVEN CIPRO SIX WEEKS AGO..
All White House mail – more than 40,000 letters a week – is examined at military facilities across the Potomac River....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 8:14pm PDT
Other Agents Are Worse!
Tests are underway to see if the vaccine stockpile can be stretched by diluting it and work has begun on making a new vaccine. The U.S. government has said it wants to build up a supply of 300 million doses, just in case....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 8:09pm PDT
Call Bush on 10/24! National Anti-War Call-In
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and other national peace organizations are calling for a National Call-In to the White House, Representatives, and Senators on Wednesday, October 24, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST, TO STOP THE BOMBING OF AFGHANISTAN! Below is information about the action steps to take.
Please take a few moments on 10/24 to make these calls! This is easy to do and our phone calls in huge numbers won't go unnoticed. And please forward this information to all your friends...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:53pm PDT
FDNY REFILLS RANKS
"If anything, it would intensify it. You know, trying to live up to what came before us," he said....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:47pm PDT
A-Infos Workers Collective Against War
The A-Infos Workers Collective has unanimously decided to oppose war in an international libertarian coalition....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:38pm PDT
U.S. Forces Blast Al-Qaida Base
From rooftops in this northern alliance stronghold, U.S. jets could be seen as tiny white specks roaring far overhead, before they swooped down to unleash their bombs. A series of nine blasts from several miles away could be heard.
Witnesses said at least five of those strikes hit the Taliban front line. "God Willing these bombs will let us move into Kabul," said one witness, northern alliance fighter Saeed Rafik. During strikes late Monday, one bomb landed behind northern alliance lines....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:37pm PDT
HARD TIMES AT HAPPYLAND
Waters said the voluntary work reductions were "an opportunity" to employees "because some people would like to do that for lifestyle reasons."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:31pm PDT
10,000 Mail Workers on Anthrax Drug
Two Washington area postal workers have died – one Sunday, one Monday – and officials strongly suspect they were sick with inhalation anthrax, the most serious form of the disease. Another two men, already diagnosed, are in serious condition in a northern Virginia hospital....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:25pm PDT
Terror Attack Cell Based in Germany
"Their connections to the hijackers are extensive," said Ashcroft, appearing at a news conference with German Interior Minister Otto Schily. He identified the three hijackers as Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, the suspected pilots of the hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, and Ziad Jarrah, suspected of flying the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:22pm PDT
Picture of U.S. Propaganda w/Translation
this is the propaganda we are dropping on afghani people right before we murder them....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:21pm PDT
Israel: We Will Not Pull Forces
Tens of thousands of demonstrators filled downtown Jerusalem on Monday night, calling for Sharon to demolish the Palestinian Authority and expel Arafat....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:19pm PDT
Cannabis smokers will not be arrested
LAND OF DOPE AND GLORY: Pot smokers will not be arrested in UK......
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 7:13pm PDT
Charleston Five go to trial November 14! (video/x-pn-realvideo 3.2MB)
this 13 minute video is from the Labor Video Project....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 6:15pm PDT
Arundhati Roy: "War is Peace"
"War is Peace" or 'Brutality smeared in peanut butter' / Why America must stop the war now. By Arundhati Roy...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 6:14pm PDT
Assassinations and the West's Memory
Stop ALL terrorism. ALL OF IT....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 5:35pm PDT
N11: WTO-Meeting - Global Action Day against
Their last ministerial was the comming out party for the anti-globalization movement. This time they are holding their meeting in Qatar, a tiny, remote Arabian state ruled by a repressive absolute monarchy. See:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/qatar/index.htm...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 5:02pm PDT
IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT OF UN AUTHORITY TO ENFORC
LIVE!S.Pa.Violence Prevention in Collaboration with Columbia Univ.Law Students and Global Sisterhood Network petition for IMMEDIATE UN action to ASSERT ITS AUTHORITY for INTERNATIONAL LAW to stop violence related to Sept. 11th and restore peace. Demand Nuremberg Trial style trials NOW!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2001 2:03pm PDT