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Israel 'to step up demolitions'
The Israeli army has said it plans to destroy hundreds more homes in the Gaza Strip, after Israel's Supreme Court said demolitions could go ahead....
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 12:44pm PDT
Clashes intensify across Iraq
Twenty people have been wounded by an exploding shell in a Nasiriyah market, while four members of an Iraqi family have died in a mortar attack in Basra....
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 12:34pm PDT
Iraq - Send in the Clowns - When A Smile can break a thousand chains
An insight into the work of activist Jo Wilding and her charity "circus 2 Iraq....
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 9:00am PDT
Lies, Repression and Imperialist War
9/11 Commission: Democrats Seek to Out-Bush Bush. Lies, Repression and Imperialist War.
U.S. Out of Iraq Now!...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 9:41pm PDT
The Truth About America/Iraq
Learning Truth About "Indians" Can Prevent All "Iraqs" (get this stuff in your schools tomorrow - save your pitiful children who are being lied to DAILY!) Thank You. In Unity To Protect Grand Motherr Earth...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 6:35am PDT
:::Iraqi Women Raped on Film:::Sold to Porn Sites:::
Controversy Continues Over GI Rape Photos; “Iraq Babes” Shut Down
May 14, 2004
By Bruce Kennedy, JUS
The American website, "Iraq Babes," has been shut down as the controversy over pictures depicting US GI’s gang-raping Iraqi woman continues.
Linda MacNew, the site’s registrant, told World Net Daily that she was not able to verify conclusively that the photos, which she said were produced by the Hungarian "Sex in War" site, were legal or illegal – meaning whether ...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 4:19pm PDT
Victory for Haitian Workers in Free Trade Zone!
Continued Vigilance is Necessary for Recently Won Labor Rights
Posted April 23, 2004
This information comes to us from Batay Ouvriye....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 4:13pm PDT
Neocon says US troops would not leave Iraq even if requested to do so by the US puppets
On Thursday, Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman said the new Iraqi government will not have the authority to evict American forces from Iraq [only Israel has that authority], quickly reversing a statement [he] made minutes earlier before a House of Representatives panel...Grossman was asked if that meant U.S. forces would not leave if asked by the interim government. "That is correct," he said....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 1:08pm PDT
Israel must 'immediately' stop demolition of Palestinian homes: EU
Israel must "immediately" stop the destruction of Palestinian homes in the refugee camp of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, the Irish presidency of the European Union said Friday....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Two IDF soldiers killed, two injured in battle in Rafah
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and two others suffered moderate wounds during heavy fighting with Palestinian snipers in a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Friday....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:25am PDT
Palestinians: IDF razing homes in Gaza refugee camp
The Israel Defense Forces launched a mass demolition of buildings Friday in the Rafah refugee camp, adjacent to the Philadelphi Route where five IDF soldiers were killed in a Palestinian attack on an armored personnel carrier two days before.
Witnesses said armored bulldozers had demolished 20 houses and were threatening many more in the camp....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:23am PDT
Battles rage around Najaf's holy sites
At least 10 Iraqi militiamen have reportedly been killed in fierce clashes between US occupation forces and supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:21am PDT
Stan Goff: Another Open Letter to the US Troops in Iraq
Special thanks to the folks at Z magazine and Counterpunch.org....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:47am PDT
Guantánamo abuse same as Abu Ghraib, say Britons
Two British men who were held at Guantánamo Bay claimed that their US guards subjected them to abuse similar to that perpetrated at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In an open letter to President George Bush, Britons Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal accused US military officials of deliberately misleading the public about procedures at Guantánamo....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:51am PDT
Bremer hints at US pullout from Iraq
The US overseer for Iraq, Paul Bremer, has aired the possibility of an American pullout from the country, saying the United States did not stay where it was "not welcome"....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:48am PDT
Holiest Shi'ite Shrine Seen Damaged After Battle
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Aides to militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr blamed U.S. tank fire on Friday for three small holes that appeared in the vast gilded dome of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrine, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:41am PDT
Israelis conduct a scorched earth policy in Zeitun killing 38 Palestinians
The death toll in three days of fighting in the Gaza Strip reached 38 last night when 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces searching for the remains of five soldiers.
There were signs that the Israelis had conducted something of a scorched earth policy before withdrawing, exploding dozens of charges in the road, supposedly to detonate any still active explosives planted by Palestinian militants, and destroying eight buildings, making 92 people homeless....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:11am PDT
Beheading of US citizen condemned by Hamas and Hizbollah
Of the killers shown cutting off Berg's head, Hezbollah said: "This group belongs to the Pentagon school - the school of killings, occupation, crime, torture and immoral practices as exposed by the big scandal in the [US] occupation prisons."...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:02am PDT