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Why is the DEA doing the FDAs Job While our attention is elsewhere?
While America's attention is diverted, the Drug Enforcement Administration 'clarifies' it's position on Hemp in food...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 11:59pm PDT
Media calls anti-war protestors supporters of Osama Bin Laden
Fresno Fox affiliate calls anti-war protestors "supporters of Osama Bin Laden"....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 11:51pm PDT
Questions surround jail suicides of NW youth
On the evening of Sept. 24, Miles Eli Schulmeister was found dead in his cell at the Clallam County Jail. Port Angeles Police, who ruled the death a suicide, say
Schulmeister hung himself with a bed sheet from an 18" bunk bed post, twisting his body around to strangle himself. His friends and family believe his suicide was a result of hostile police interrogation....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 11:04pm PDT
New Candy for Afghans- Bunker Buster
Dropping Humanitarian Aid? Uncle Sam is feeding the 7 millions Afghans with a piece of rice and creating a mass-famine in the same time....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 10:58pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 10/12/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. Broadcast quality and streaming/quick download. Free to rebroadcast. Times and freqs for listening at home...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 10:56pm PDT
To Young Men (and Women) of Fighting Age
...Wars destroy both bodies and souls......
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 9:31pm PDT
US: A CULTURE IN DENIAL
How can the people of the US come to grips with the knowledge that their leadership has been involved in some of the worst acts of terror known to the planet?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 9:30pm PDT
No Right of War
"For the attacks on the US to be Afghan attacks, the terror pilots would have had to be armed, trained and dispatched by Afghanistan." Article 51 of the UN Charter limits self-defense to an armed attack of a state. This article is translated from the German by Marc Batko....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 8:44pm PDT
"The Poor are not Rebeling"
Terrorists cannot be overcome with bombs. the social and political causes of terrorism, the breeding grounds of poverty, hopelessness and powerlessness, must be removed. "The structural background of terrorism is an unjust world" (Johannes Rau, President of Germany)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 8:40pm PDT
Osama isn't Oprah, but...
In media terms, the Osama bin Laden video broadcast on October 7th used the simplest of means to parasitize the reach & scale of American technology, in much the same way as the attacks of September 11th did. This may be why the Americans are so upset.
(This article is free for non-commercial distribution.)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 4:42pm PDT
FALLOUT Event Saturday Oct 13 in Hunters Point
FALLOUT: From Hunters Point to Outer Space - Communities Gathering for Action, Celebration and Support
Hundreds of organizations in 109 places around the world are having actions on October 13, the
International Day to Stop the Militarization of Space. Buddhist Fellowships, to Baptist
church, peace and justice organizations, legal groups. With the begining of military action against Afganistan it is even more
important to push for real change, abolition of nuclear weapons not smoke
...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 3:47pm PDT
BUSH, Exxon-Mobil, Pennziol, British Petroleum and Unocol
This article links the Bush Administration to Oil interests near the Caspian Sea. It appeared in the paper version of April 4, 2001's San Francisco Chronicle on page A10 in the World Section. The main article on the page was called "Far From Home"; it was a briefing on Caucasus. This piece was a companion or sub article. Sfgate -- the Chronicle's online rag --has no record of it. I looked more closely at it and noticed that it was kind of pieced together, the text was from the Baltimore Sun...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 3:09pm PDT
We drop our "smart bombs" like droping "Smart ies" to starving Afghans
many people will be enduring our freedom to kill......
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 1:25pm PDT
CORRECTION Berkeley - Lead Banner & Marchers (photos)
2 photos......
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 10:39am PDT
(Correction) - Berkeley Anti-War March - Lead Banner & Marchers (photos)
2 photos......
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 10:30am PDT