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Iraqi regime prepares for martial law After just 10 days in office, the US-appointed Iraqi regime of interim prime minister Ayad Allawi has, on Washington’s instructions, decreed sweeping measures providing for martial law to be imposed over the entire country or any part of it. Under the provisions, signed into law by Allawi yesterday, he can impose curfews, cordon off towns and cities, conduct search operations and detain individuals with weapons on them, which in Iraq is nearly every male citizen....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 7:56am PDT
Klamath River Tribes Head to Scotland 7/17 Representatives of four Klamath River native tribes and their supporters will head to Scotland on July 17 to save the Klamath River from the continued destruction of salmon populations by Scottish Power-owned dams....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 12:24am PDT
Baghdad fighting as emergency powers signed Four Iraqi policemen have been killed and 13 wounded in fighting between armed assailants and security forces in central Baghdad even as the interim government signed into effect a new emergency law giving itself wider powers to control the fighters....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 11:32am PDT
A Line in the Sand: Azmi Bishara's Hunger Strike Dr. Bishara's effort might easily be misunderstood. An Israeli Arab born in Nazareth eight years after Israel was founded, he grew up in a country that consistently demoted his family and ethnic community as second-class citizens. For the first years of his life, Arabs in Israel could not leave their towns without security passes. Today, their communities remain crippled by land restrictions and underemployment, with a fraction of the public spending accorded to Jews, rendering Israel the mos...
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 11:13am PDT
JAMES BROOKS: Israel continues its use of nerve gas against Palestinian civilians "On June 10th, 2004, the two clinics in Al-Zawiya treated 130 patients for gas inhalation. The patients were children, women, old people and young men. Dr. Abu Madi related that there was a high number of cases of [tetany], spasm in legs and hands, connected to the nervous system. Pupils were dilated...Other symptoms included shock, semi-consciousness, hyperventilation, irritation and sweating." We have photographs of the canisters. We have film of victims suffering in the hospital...
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 10:46am PDT
8pm tonight-Radical Tea Party on Enemy Combatant Radio Listen to the Radical Tea Party tonight at 8pm, live on enemycombatantradio.net...
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 10:36am PDT
Death4Bush Candidate for state office David Blomstrom is advocating the death penalty for President George W. Bush....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 2:18am PDT
American Peace Activist Ann Petter Detained 14 Days by Israel American peace activist Ann Petter who has been detained for 14 days at
Ben Gurion airport, appeared today before Judge Oded Mudrik at Tel Aviv District
Court. Petter was charged with being a security threat to the State of Israel....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 11:58pm PDT
Documentales: Afroméxico Nos complace mucho el anunciarles la publicación de
nuestra página www.afromexico.org.
Pretendemos convertirnos en un vehículo permanente de
divulgación sobre diversos aspectos acerca de la
herencia cultural africana en México.
El núcleo principal de este proyecto consiste la
producción de diversos documentales videográficos
sobre este tema....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 11:28pm PDT
Carta/Anuncio sobre los detenidos Hoy, cinco semanas despues de las detenciones arbitrarias de Manifestantes durante la cumbre entre America Latina, el Caribe y la Unión Europea en Guadalajara, demandamos la liberación inmediata de todos los detenidos....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 11:10pm PDT
More info about torture of Guadalajara Arrestees The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is
extremely concerned by reports it has received of the mistreatment and torture
inflicted on several of the individuals who were indiscriminately arrested in the
course of street protests in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and concerned also that many of
them remain under arrest....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 9:53pm PDT
Car bomb kills 14 in Baquba, wounds 70 At least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in a car-bomb attack in Khalis, near the Iraqi town of Baquba, police and medical sources said....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 11:22am PDT
Allawi backs Falluja strike Baghdad has confirmed that a US bombing raid on Falluja took place after consultation with the appointed interim government....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 11:21am PDT
Michael Moore, Blind, Or A Coward? Maybe this has been said before—I’ve hardly read all of the criticism of Moore—but if so, I haven’t seen it. Moore totally avoids the question of Israel...Here are some questions for Moore: If Bush is so “in the pocket” of Saudi Arabia, why is he Ariel Sharon’s strongest backer? Why, when he had Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah down at the Texas ranch a few years ago, did he flip off the Saudi’s peace plan? And most important, why did he invade Iraq—since Saudi Arabia was strongly opposed to the U...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 8:00am PDT
Israel treated with kid gloves by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mr ElBaradei, whose visit follows a call last December by Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, for a "nuclear-free" Middle East said in Moscow it was unsustainable that some countries had nuclear weapons and others did not. He added: "As long as you continue to have countries dangling a cigarette from their mouth, you cannot tell everybody not to smoke, with a high degree of credibility."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 7:48am PDT
US Air Strike kills 15 civilians in Fallujah On Monday, U.S forces dropped two tons of bombs on a purported militant safe house in Fallujah, killing 15 members of one family, according to witnesses, and turning the building into a 30-foot-deep pit of sand and rubble...Rescue workers in Fallujah picked up body parts after the U.S. airstrike, witnesses said. Video from Associated Press Television News showed the explosion had thrown bricks blocks away. Blood was splashed on a nearby wall. Men gathered at the pit where the house had been a...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 7:34am PDT
Guadalajara prisoners:international fax& e-mail campaign July 6-9 Hey folks. Can you please read this (it's in both spanish and english),
and then follow thru and fax and/or email the #s and emails listed. AND
please PLEASE send this to folks you know. I have a friend who was
tortured in jail in Guadalajara and greatly fears being convicted when
this goes to trial. Please help. All I'm asking is a fax and/or email. If
you can fax AND email that would probably be most effective.
Thank you for all that you can do....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 1:51am PDT
Save our Springs! No to Nestle!! Nestle is attempting to hijack Florida's freshwater aquifer of Wakulla Springs, a seemingly innocent change in zoning and water diversion is a foot in the door for this water bottling giant that already "owns" most of the world's water, alongside Coca-cola and Pepsi.....
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 2:20pm PDT
soldier testimonies: Occupying Hebron the ease in which you actually do whatever you want to do unsupervised, the unbearable lightness of these things that happen. 12,643 words of testimonies...
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 5:54am PDT
Initiative one state in Palestine/Israel Final declaration of Lausanne conference
English / French / German...
Posted: Sun, Jul 4, 2004 9:26pm PDT
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