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The Recent Election in Taiwan and Potential Chinese Military Intervention
However, the victory can result in bad consequences both for Mr. Chen Shui-bian and the independence of Taiwan. He surpassed the opposing candidate only by 13,000 votes (totally 13 million Taiwanese voted at the elections). The worst thing is that 330 thousand voting bulletins were considered not valid....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 3:50pm PST
Local Testimony On El Salvador Deportation
Deported from El Salvador and back in the Bay Area......
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 2:59pm PST
El Salvador Elections a Campaign of Fear - local report
A report on the El Salvador elections from Bay Area local Rachel Montgomery....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 2:43pm PST
The Lord of the Rings: Good versus Evil
A comparison of the two good versus evil confrontation theories being propagated by the Bush administration with one that I think bears a closer resemblance to reality...
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 10:34am PST
Robert Fisk: Israel's nuclear weapons and the man who knew too much
...the real problem that Vanunu represents is that he will remind the world at a critically important moment in the history of the Middle East that Israel is a nuclear power and that its warheads stand ready to be fired from the Negev desert. He will also remind the world that the Americans, despite battering their way into Iraq to destroy Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, continue to give their political, moral and economic support to a country that has secretly amass...
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 9:55am PST
Two Finnish Business Executives killed on an unscheduled trip
Clarified summary on killed Finns in Iraq based on some news articles....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 4:39am PST
Latortue praises Haiti gunmen who started uprising
Thousands of people turned up at a rally to cheer for Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, who praised the gunmen who began the uprising that chased Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power -- and even paid tribute to an assassinated gangster....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 6:24pm PST
Self-Determining Haiti : History repeats itself
Once again there are US troops in Haiti, in the bicentennial year of the world's first black republic. They were there from 1915-34, and in 1994, each time, ostensibly, to quell anarchy and establish democratic rule. But the real story has never been that simple, or that noble....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 6:22pm PST
Alarm at Haiti PM's 'Unholy Alliance' with Rebels
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haiti's new leader promised reconciliation but may instead be widening divides in his troubled Caribbean country by praising an armed gang that helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 6:18pm PST
The World Condemns Israeli Assassination Act
But you can bet the Terror Betting Parlor is going into high gear, somehwhere in the bowels of DC....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 4:14pm PST
Tens of Thousands Mourn, or Hundreds of Thousands Mourn?
Tens of Thousands . . . or 200,000? Why is the WP trying to downplay the actual response to state sponsored assassinations of leaders? Oh that's right, because they're a State Dept mouthpiece. For a second I thought they were an actual newspaper....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 2:16pm PST
April 17th: Int'l Day of Farmers' Struggle
i am forwarding Via campesina's call for international action for April
17th, international day of farmer's struggle.
This date was established following the massacre of 19 farmers of the
Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 11:20pm PST
Israel kills Hamas' Shaikh Ahmad Yasin
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon personally supervised the attack on Yasin, Israeli public radio reported. Sharon had given the green light to Yasin's assassination and supervised the operation, the radio said. ... "Sheikh Ahmad Yasin rest in peace. They will never enjoy
rest. We will send death to every house, every city, every
street in Israel," Hamas resistance fighters shouted through loudspeakers in the streets of Gaza City....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 9:34pm PST
Israel kills Hamas' Shaikh Ahmad Yasin
Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed at daybreak Monday when Israel Air Force helicopters fired missiles at a car carrying the wheelchair-bound head of the radical Islamic group as he left a mosque near his house in Gaza City....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 9:31pm PST
Hamas chief Sheikh Ahmed Yassin killed in air strike
The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, has been killed in an Israeli air strike....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 9:28pm PST
Great Anarchist Noam Chomsky backs Bush-lite Kerry
Could he now be the WORLDS MOST DUMBEST MAN?...
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 1:55pm PST
One Year Later: Iraq is in Shambles
A short article about the problems with the Bush
Administration's policies in Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 12:17pm PST
Millions protest U.S.-led war on Iraq
LONDON - Millions of people have taken to the streets around the world to denounce the U.S. occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Mar 20, 2004 7:04am PST
Palestine: Defend the land of Azzawiye, Rafat and Deir Ballut villages!
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Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 6:18pm PST