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Iraqi forces 'turn on coalition'
The new coalition-trained Iraqi police force is being infiltrated by insurgents, a US army general has said....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:32am PDT
Nike Watch: Building Toward May Day Actions!!!
May 1 is international workers' day in many parts of the world and will be
a key day for the "Play Fair" campaign in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden and many other countries. The on-line
campaign tool-kit has a printable campaign petition and lots of ideas for
how you can support the campaign on May 1 in your town or city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:43pm PDT
Israel kills seven in Gaza invasion
Nine Palestinian men have been shot dead, the youngest 13 years old, in an Israeli raid on the the town of Bait Lahiya in the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:17pm PDT
Civilians die as Fallujah ceasefire fails
United States forces and Iraqi insurgents traded machine-gun fire, mortars and grenades for four hours in Fallujah early yesterday, killing six civilians and breaking a tentative ceasefire, residents said....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:14pm PDT
Poland mulls Iraq exit options
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Wednesday it was reviewing its position in Iraq but would not pull its troops out suddenly or without Washington's approval....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:11pm PDT
Bush Says World Owes Israel's Sharon a 'Thank You'
US President George Bush has lavished praise on the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, saying world leaders owe him a 'thank you.'...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:08pm PDT
Bush threatens Iran over nukes as Israeli nuclear whistleblower is silenced
Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Be 'Intolerable' -Bush
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Israel continues to produce atomic weapons and already has as many as 300 warheads, experts said today as the country released a man imprisoned for 18 years for leaking nuclear secrets....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:16pm PDT
Tension forms when Soldiers take down posters of Al-Sadr
When the US talks about "freedom" one really has to wonder what they mean. Closing a newspaper for inciting violence is bad enough, but going into businesses and homes and destroying anything thats anti-coalition seems about as despotic as one can get. Soldiers will beat up Iraqis and confiscate and destroy pictures of Saddam or Sadr. One wonders if US soliders would do they same if they found a picture of Kerry or other leaders the mostly Republican Coalition Provisional Authority ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:08pm PDT
Saudi dissidents: 'Regime' is cracking
Leading Saudi dissidents have said the latest attack in the kingdom's capital is an indication of the government's failure to adequately address calls for reform....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:01pm PDT
Venezuela:The Coup Makers- The Invisible U.S. Hands
U.S. War in Venezuela...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 1:27pm PDT
Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Released After 18 Years
On the morning that Mordechai Vanunu is released from prison after serving 18 years for revealing to the world that Israel had a nuclear arsenal, we go to Ashkelon to speak with his adoptive parents and a coordinator of the US Campaign to Free Mordecai Vanunu....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 11:15am PDT
Tripping up on Iraq's crossed wires
The US is not only failing to engage with Iraqi politics to good effect, it is also engaging in tactics that will inflame things further, says Paul McGeough....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:57am PDT
Blast levels Saudi Arabia security building
At least 10 people are feared dead after an explosion in the Saudi capital, with witnesses saying a car bomb destroyed the seven-storey security forces building....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:53am PDT
Bonobos make love, not war
Bonobos are near relatives of Chimpanzees, resolving their conflicts with sexual interactions, far less violent than chimpanzees. Deforestation from logging, illegal pet trade and biomedical/pharma research is decreasing their number drastically.....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:33pm PDT
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