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textKurdish Leader Talabani Tries to Justify US Torture Of NonKurds by kurdistan observer (repost)
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - A Kurdish leader sought to play down U.S. soldiers' mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners on Tuesday by recalling that similar abuses were committed under former President Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 10:57am PDT
textDisney To Censor Michael Moore's New Film by g&m
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax Films division from distributing Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 911, which criticizes U.S. President George W. Bush, according to a statement on Moore's Web site....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:23am PDT
textRep. Maxine Waters Calls on Congress Not To Recognize New Haitian Government by Democracy Now (repost)
The new US-supported Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue arrived in Washington Tuesday for his visit since the U.S. helped oust President Jean Bertand Aristide. Waters is calling on members of Congress not to recognize the new prime minister....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:20am PDT
textU.S. Assassinates Two Shiite Clerics Meeting to Organize Nonviolent Resistance by Democracy Now (repost)
As the tense standoff between the United States and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr continues in Iraq we go to Najaf and Hilla to get a report from Aaron Glantz of Free Speech Radio News on the killing of two Sheikhs by U.S. soldiers in Hilla....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:19am PDT
textWORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION by Radio Topo
GLOBAL ACTION DAY CICLONUDISTA (WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION) SATURDAY JUNE 19, 2004 NAKED BEFORE THE TRAFFIC! JUSTICE ON THE STREETS!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 6:04am PDT
textCollateral Damage finally slams into Pentagon by DLi
With the published photos of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners arousing worldwide condemnation, the sickening Bushit has finally hit the proverbial fan....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 2:38am PDT
textCoalition of the Unwilling by Vngelis
Will the draft be re-introduced to defeat Iraq?...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 1:17am PDT
textStaff Of U.S.-Funded Iraqi Paper Quits, Cites U.S. Control by sources
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Much of the editorial staff of a U.S.-funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in a management dispute....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 7:10pm PDT
textPrisoners from Abu Ghraib prison dropped off north of Baghdad by KR (repost)
TIKRIT, Iraq - Scores of prisoners released from the controversial Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday were forced to take a winding, nearly five-hour journey through central Iraq on three hot, rickety buses escorted by U.S. military Humvees before being deposited without explanation in the middle of a gravel quarry near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 7:03pm PDT
text'Good guys' should be ashamed by Robert Fisk (repost)
Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness toward Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities where race hatred has a home: Tennessee and Lancashire....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 6:57pm PDT
textJailed Iraqis hidden from Red Cross, says US army by Guardian
US military policemen moved unregistered Iraqi prisoners, known as "ghost detainees", around an army-run jail at Abu Ghraib, in order to hide them from the Red Cross, according to a confidential military report....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 6:54pm PDT
textPalestinian olive trees destroyed by Israeli military by moth
What is the future of the Palestinians after the destruction of their olive trees by the Israeli military? For hundreds of years the Palestinians tended the drought tolerant olive trees, now the trees are no longer there.....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 2:49pm PDT
textFrom Allied to Alienated by repost
A Shiite cleric who fled Iraq for the U.S. returned, euphoric, after American troops invaded. Today, he just wants them gone....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 12:17pm PDT
text‘Indians were slaves in American kitchens’ by sources
New Delhi, May 4: India on Tuesday expressed concern over "disturbing reports" about the conditions in which some of its nationals are being forced to work in Iraq and requested the US Embassy here for details of those compelled to remain in the war-ravaged country against their will....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 9:37am PDT
textIraq's Abu Ghraib prison should be closed now by IHT
The practice of armies putting the prisons of the barbaric regimes they topple to new use has a history. The Soviet Army, for example, employed the Nazi Buchenwald camp to grim effect for several years after 1945....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 9:16am PDT
textItaly media boss quits in protest by BBC
The chairwoman of the Italian public broadcaster, Rai, has resigned....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 9:08am PDT
textFresh clashes in Iraq by Aljazeera
Clashes have occurred in the southern Iraqi town of Karbala, while US occupation forces are blamed for the Najaf clashes which left five Iraqis dead on Monday....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:09am PDT
textFallujah: Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave by antiwar
Despite relative peace on the streets, there is still no electricity or running water in Fallujah. But the near end to bombings and sniper fire means the city can begin to mourn and give proper burial to its hundreds of dead....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:08am PDT
textFallujah residents emerge from homes to survey their shattered city by Th Daily Star (repost)
FALLUJAH, Iraq: Scores of residents ventured out to check the state of their city Monday after weeks of heavy fighting appeared to have ended with the agreement between the US Marines and a group of former Iraqi Army soldiers....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:05am PDT
textUS Accused Of Using Slave Labor At Military Camps In Iraq by Khaleeh Times (repost)
NEW DELHI - A group of 20 Indians who ran away from a United States military camp in Iraq, where they worked in the kitchen, claim they were abused for nine months, it was reported on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:01am PDT
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