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imagePictures of 13 year old Palestinian schoolgirl gunned down by so-called Israeli 'soldiers'
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Iman Al Shams was shot by an Israeli sniper as she was going to school carrying her books in her satchel. An Israeli commander approached her where she had fallen and shot her twice in the head and then proceeded to unload an entire clip into the rest of her body which was riddled with 20+ bullet holes. He was arrested but then acquitted: "The investigation concluded that the behaviour of the company commander from an ethical point of view does not warrant his removal from his position...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:22pm PDT
text'When we came back they had destroyed all the houses by UK Guardian
The Israeli general who commanded the destruction of the only Jewish settlement in the Sinai before it was returned to Egypt recently offered Ariel Sharon advice on how to carry out his pledge to remove settlers from the Gaza strip. "Evicting someone from the home they've lived in for 20 years isn't a simple matter," wrote Brigadier General Obed Tira. "To remove a family from its home is embarrassing and difficult, and that is why the removal needs to be done with a lot of l...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:18pm PDT
textIraq says 'come and get us' to Western oil companies by indep
Iraq has issued an open invitation to the world's largest oil companies to exploit its vast reserves. The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields. But it thinks that the only way to do this is by involving the West's energy giants....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:05pm PDT
textHaiti’s US-installed government cracks down on opponents by wsws (reposted)
A fresh eruption of political violence in Haiti has claimed at least 46 lives in the past two weeks as the US-installed interim government of Prime Minister Gérard Latortue has sought to silence supporters of the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in advance of the scheduled 2005 elections. Aristide was driven to exile last February following an armed rebellion by former officers of the disbanded Haitian army and the combined pressure of Paris, Ottawa and Washington in what amounted t...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:04pm PDT
text'They want Zarqawi. They can't kill him so they're killing us' by indep
The missiles struck at just after 3am with devastating effect. Eight members of the al-Jabouri family were killed as they slept, their home destroyed. The following morning the US military issued a statement saying that fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America's number one enemy in Iraq, had been taken out in a precision strike in Fallujah. The town had been pounded nightly for three weeks, with the Americans insisting that those killed and maimed were insurgents mainly from Zarqawi...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:03pm PDT
textSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono: More of the Same by Ben Terrall
though touted as a "reformer" by Washington, new Indonesian President "SBY" is a defender of the status quo out to please international investors and preserve Indonesian military hegemony throughout the archipelago...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 3:36pm PDT
textBrazilian general in Haiti campaigns for Bush by Commentary by the Haiti Information Project (
Brazilian government further curries favor with Bush forces; UN forces insure there is no resistance as the Haitian police get away with arbitrary dentenions and murder(see:http://blackcommentator.com/109/109_haiti.html)....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:28pm PDT
textDeath squads rampage in Haiti: Flashpoints Radio Interviews Kevin Pina by By Dennis Bernstein and Kevin Pina
Death squads rampage in Haiti: 600 killed in 2 weeks...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:19pm PDT
text European Social Forum fails to attract the poor, activists say by repost
LONDON : Activists have hit out after the latest European Social Forum (ESF), held in London, failed to attract the most vulnerable and deprived members of society due to being staged in one of the world's most expensive cities. The three-day forum ended Sunday with the publication of a text calling for a Europe that was both pacifist and social-minded, and also for a day of demonstration throughout the continent on March 19, 2005....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:52pm PDT
textFallujah Reportback Via Iraqi Blog by Khalid (reposted)
yesterday we sent someone to Falluja, to see how the situation is there. he is from Falluja originally, and he goes there often, but this Time when he went he came back depressed, although he is in his twenties or early thirties, he had a drop in blood pressure and went to the hospital....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:10pm PDT
textIDF: Killing children is no longer a big deal by Haaretz
More than 30 Palestinian children were killed in the first two weeks of Operation Days of Penitence in the Gaza Strip. It's no wonder that many people term such wholesale killing of children "terror." Whereas in the overall count of all the victims of the intifada the ratio is three Palestinians killed for every Israeli killed, when it comes to children the ratio is 5:1. According to B'Tselem, the human rights organization, even before the current operation in Gaza, 557 Palestinian ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:05pm PDT
textVanunu Interview by repost
Freed whistle-blower about Israeli nukes, Mordechai Vanunu speaks out in defiance of Israeli intimidation....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:28am PDT
textUK Ministry of Defence gags soldier’s grieving mother by SW
“THEY HAVE lied and lied and lied—and they are continuing to lie”. This is what David Miller, the editor of Tell Me Lies, told the meeting on “The lies of war— exposing propaganda and fighting censorship”. Miller also revealed that the government is trying to gag Rose Gentle....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:37am PDT
textThousands march to Trafalgar Square to protest war by repost
LONDON (AP) Thousands of anti-war and anti-globalization activists marched through central London and filled Trafalgar Square on Sunday to protest the U.S.-led coalition's presence in Iraq. The march marked the culmination of the third European Social Forum three days of speeches, workshops and debates largely dominated by Iraq and the U.S. presidential election....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:34am PDT
textAnarchists storm European Social Forum by UK Guardian
Anarchists stormed the stage at the European Social Forum in London on Saturday night, barring London Mayor Ken Livingstone from speaking. Up to 200 demonstrators, some of them masked, took control of the Forum claiming that the event, which purports to be a celebration of global justice and peace, has sold out....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:32am PDT
textEuropean Social Forum: Sunday October 17th London - Preventitive arrests, police violence by globalproject.info
Constant updates from the activists’ social forum in London......
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:27am PDT
textFalluja clerics call for civil disobedience by ALJ
Religious officials from Falluja are calling on Muslim scholars and humanitarian organisations to take a united stand in response to US attacks against the people of the city....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 10:16am PDT
textIsraelis in fresh Gaza incursion by sources
Israeli troops have entered the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza in a new incursion to locate Palestinian weapons smuggling tunnels, the army says. About 10 tanks and three bulldozers went into the camp, on the border with Egypt, where they came under automatic gunfire. There were no casualties....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:22am PDT
textIs Mary Cheney a gay pawn? Her father can answer that by UKG
If the scandal was about John Kerry and gay porn, that would be one thing. But John Kerry and a gay pawn? Now that's something completely different. Gays and lesbians have reacted with anger to the latest twist in the US election - but not with Kerry for bringing up the subject of Vice-President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, during the presidential 'Duel in the Desert' in Arizona last week. No, gays are furious that the Cheneys are, supposedly, furious, and that the mainstream m...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 6:59pm PDT
textStreet Resistance to Occupation Regime Surges by Haiti Progres
UN occupation forces continue to side with Haitian armed forces killing demonstrators...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 6:30pm PDT
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