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1824 of 1910 
The New Haiti: Arrest, Murder and Repression We speak with Rep. Maxine Waters about the arrests of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and prominent Haitian singer Annette Auguste (So Anne) by the new US-backed regime in Haiti. And labor leader David Welsh, who recently returned from Haiti, discusses the situation on the ground and the case of a local Haitian mayor who has been in hiding since the overthrow of democratically-elected Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:31am PDT
Levi Strauss jeans company must press Grupo M to end violations of workers' rights in Hait In letter sent today - June 30th - to Michael Kobori, director of global code of conduct for the San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co., the Haiti Support Group expressed its very grave concerns regarding the behaviour of Grupo M, at the Codevi free trade zone in Haiti....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 8:02am PDT
Deep unrest threatens Andean leaders Indigenous groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are experiencing a political awakening that could have profound repercussions for each country's democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 10:50pm PDT
Iran's Ruling Mullahs, Al Qaeda & Hezbollah The translation of the duly signed, sealed top-secret document in Farsi (Persian), shown here for verification reasons.
We must ask, why the 911 Commission in their infinite lack of wisdom did not disclose the Iran’s ruling mullahs close ties with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah?
Top Secret Memo From the Office of Ali Akbar Nateqeh-Nouri, the director of Supreme Leader's Intelligence Service Operational Unit 43 (English translation below the document)...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 12:23pm PDT
The Crash Begins on the Golf Course "Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Israel pounds Gaza Strip targets Israeli tanks have pushed into a town in the Gaza Strip in the wake of air strikes by helicopter gunships on Palestinian facilities....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 12:48am PDT
Purported Iraqi group executes US soldier In videotaped and written statements mailed to Aljazeera, a previously unknown Iraqi group has claimed it has executed a US soldier it captured in April....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 5:06pm PDT
U.S. ambassador John Negroponte arrives in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) John Negroponte, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, arrived in Baghdad Monday to take over political contact between Washington and the fledgling Iraqi interim government....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 11:52am PDT
Toward a Single State Solution -- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine The claim that the Jews have a special right to Palestine has no more validity than would an Irish claim of a divine right to establish a Celtic state all across Germany, France, and Spain on the basis that Celtic tribes once lived there. Nevertheless, on the basis of ascribed descent, the Zionist officials assign those they have selected a privileged place within the state. If that is not racism, then the term has no meaning...Israel is a racial state, where rights are assigned on the basis ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 11:13am PDT
U.S. Transfers "Sovereignty" to Iraq Two Days Early In a surprise move the U.S. held a brief ceremony in Baghdad earlier today to mark the so-called handover of power to the new unelected government of Iraq. The handover was scheduled to take place on Wednesday June 30 but the US moved up the date with hopes that it would pre-empt further attacks by members of the Iraq resistance to coincide with the handover....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 9:17am PDT
Iraqis sceptical as 'power' is transferred The US occupation authority has officially transferred power to an interim Iraqi government in a move greeted with a mixture of scepticism and hope in the still-occupied country....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:14am PDT
Supreme Court: U.S. Citizen Can't Be Held in Bush's War on Terror WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an American captured overseas in President Bush's war on terrorism cannot be held indefinitely in a U.S. military jail without a chance to contest the detention....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:07am PDT
Supreme Court: Enemy Combatants' Can Challenge Detentions WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that foreign terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can use the American legal system to challenge their detention, a major defeat for President Bush....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:05am PDT
U.S. pre-empts its own Iraqi Puppet Show In line with the Bushed 'Doctrine' of pre-emption, the Imperial ProConsul Paul Bremer handed "full sovereignty" to his chief Iraqi puppet Allawi(an ex-CIA asset), unceremoniously, in front of "half a dozen" Invader-appointed 'apparatchiks,' 2 days ahead of schedule.......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 2:55am PDT
Iraqi "handover" 'brought forward' to Monday June 28th!! The handover of sovereignty to Iraq is being brought forward from 30 June to today, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has said....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:26pm PDT
Caricom must do more than talk this time AS Caribbean Community Heads of Government prepare for their 25th regular annual summit next week in Grenada, it is to be hoped that the peoples of the region can benefit from some precise information on a range of important issues, such as:...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:13pm PDT
US backed Haitian Government arrests Yvon Neptune, Haiti's Elected Prime Minister PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mon. June 28: Yvon Neptune, the man who served Haiti as prime minister until the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, was yesterday detained at his Port-Au-Prince home by authorities of the interim government....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:09pm PDT
More Than 40,000 Protest Bush in Turkey ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Tens of thousands of Turks chanting anti-Bush slogans demonstrated against the president's visit to their country on Sunday and a NATO summit....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:03pm PDT
UN asks Israel to go nuclear-free The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, says Israel should start discussions on ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 12:29pm PDT
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