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Rights Group Says Wiranto Must Stand Trial Not Stand for Office notoriously brutal Indonesian General with years of blood on his hands from East Timor occupation now runnign for president...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:15pm PDT
Who Removed Aristide? excellent article from April 15, 2004 London Review of Books by the author of "the Uses of Haiti" and "The Pathology of Power"...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 9:21pm PDT
US Soldiers Brag Of Numbers Of Arabs They Kill As New Massacre Looms in Fallujah The young American Marine is exultant. "It's a sniper's dream,' he tells a Los Angeles Times reporter on the outskirts of Fallujah. "You can go anywhere and there so many ways to fire at the enemy without him knowing where you are."
"Sometimes a guy will go down, and I'll let him scream a bit to destroy the morale of his buddies. Then I'll use a second shot."
"To take a bad guy out," he explains, "is an incomparable "adrenaline rush.&qu...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 9:19pm PDT
Return to Haiti: The American Learning Zone very thorough overview of current disasters in Haiti by activist who in 2003 wrote a great analysis of attacks on Lavalas and Aristide in Dollars and Sense magazine...this includes good stuff about the completely compromised (by USAID funding that steers its focus to Lavalas "abuses")NCHR (National Coalition for Haitian Rights)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 9:06pm PDT
Annan Recommends 8,322 UN Troops and Civilian Police for Haiti April 20 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for 8,322 soldiers and civilian police to go to Haiti for at least two years to rebuild the violence-plagued Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:26pm PDT
Vanunu feted as his release draws near Whistleblower to meet fans and foes as 18-year term ends...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:19pm PDT
U.S. demanded support for Haiti, premier says The U.S. State Department sent letters to some Caribbean countries ''essentially demanding'' that they recognize Haiti's interim government before regional leaders met for a summit in March, according to St. Vincent's prime minister....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:18pm PDT
US warns of new Falluja offensive The US defence secretary has warned coalition troops in Iraq will not wait indefinitely for gunmen to surrender in the besieged city of Falluja....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 6:47pm PDT
Iraq power handover 'a fraud' TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
Broadcast: 20/04/2004...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 6:06pm PDT
Washington to use UN to select puppet regime in Iraq It is a measure of the political crisis created by the popular uprising in Iraq that the Bush administration has now been compelled to turn to the UN to install a compliant regime in Baghdad. After effectively sidelining the organisation in the lead up and immediate aftermath of the invasion, both Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorsed on April 16 the proposal by special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that the UN play the main role in selecting the members of the “caretaker” Iraqi governm...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 5:52pm PDT
Dominican government to withdraw troops from Iraq HAVANA, April 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Dominican President Hipolito MejiaTuesday declared that Dominican troops would withdraw from Iraq "as soon as possible," Armed Forces Secretary Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 5:45pm PDT
AMERICAN ACTIVIST ARRESTED American Akha Activist Matthew McDaniel Arrested in Thailand!Matthew McDaniel was arrested on 11:00 AM Thursday, April 15th at the Maisai Immigration Checkpoint while going to deliver
vitamins to an Akha friend in Burma. Matthew McDaniel was fighting to save the land of Aooh Yok Akhe that was being taken by the government....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:23pm PDT
Contra-Cumbre: Otro Mayo Guadalajara El 28 y 29 de Mayo de 2004 la ciudad de Guadalajara, en México, será sede de la Tercera Cumbre América Latina y el Caribe - Unión Europea, en la cuál se discutirá -- al margen de las personas -- acerca de la
cohesión social, la gobernabilidad y los acuerdos comerciales. Este tipo
de cumbres, se han realizado en muchas ocasiones, generando distintos mecanismos para fomentar y mantener la desigualdad social, económica, de género y cultural entre otras muchas. Por eso nosotros queremos otro ma...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 12:08pm PDT
Italian Activist Threatened With Extradition Since 1981, 150 former Italian Activists have been legally residing in France. Some of them are now being unfairly threatened with extradition to Italy where they would immediately be sent to prison. Sign a petition to let them reside in France!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 12:05pm PDT
IRAQI CRISIS REPORT FALLUJAH'S FRONT LINE
IWPR reporters fend off charges of espionage and collaboration to speak to the insurgents facing down the Americans.
FALLUJANS BREAK THE SIEGE
Despite the danger from snipers, city residents manage to share food and supplies with each other....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:58am PDT
Bolivia: (en/es) The government is losing control The government of President Carlos Mesa has begun to lose what little control it had over the political and social situation in Bolivia....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:16am PDT
Bush 'enforcer' for Iraq Nominating Mr Negroponte to head the authority is one of the most controversial appointments President Bush could have made. Before being approved by Congress to serve as America's representative at the UN, he faced days of grilling over allegations that at the very least he turned a blind eye to CIA-backed death squads which operated in Honduras when he was ambassador there....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:59am PDT
Police and civilians returning to Falluja Iraqi police today moved back into Falluja, aiming to restore control and collect weapons from insurgents as dozens of families also began returning to the embattled city....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:30am PDT
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