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Honduras to follow Spain's lead; pulling its 370 troops out of Iraq
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Honduras plans to follow the lead of Spain and withdraw its 370 troops from Iraq by the end of June, Defence Secretary Federico Breve said Tuesday....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 7:06pm PST
The RAAF's Fugitive
Suicide is all too common in today's military. So why did the RAAF allow a highly rated technician, who dared to blow the whistle on drug abuse and weapons theft, almost pay the ultimate price? Paul Toohey reports....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 4:49pm PST
Right Wing Manipulates Spanish Attacks
Conservatives have willingly manipulated the war on terrorism for partisan and ideological gain since 9/11. But in the aftermath of the tragic terrorist bombings in Madrid last week, right wing vitriol reached a new low as conservatives assaulted Spanish supporters of incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as "appeasers" and "supporters of al Qaeda." Knight Ridder syndicated columnist Joel Mowbray stated, "Voters in Spain pulled the lever for al Qaeda o...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 1:12pm PST
Bay Area update from El Salvador
Here is an update urging others to take action to ensure that election observers are allowed into El Salvador!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 12:50pm PST
El Salvador Election Observers Detained!
Find out how you can help! Free elections are being threatened in El Salvador, once again....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 12:44pm PST
S Korea's class conflict sparks fury
To his supporters Roh Moo-hyun is a champion of reform, who had the courage to stand up to a corrupt and conservative political establishment....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 12:40pm PST
Blast rips through Baghdad hotel
A powerful blast has ripped through a small hotel and houses in central Baghdad, killing at least 25 people and injuring 40, the US military reports....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:39am PST
Berkeley Student Sees Wake of Spain Attacks
Berkeley Junior Studying in Spain Faces Heightened Anti-U.S. Political Sentiment...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:36am PST
'Making politics with horror and blood'
The prominent Madrid novelist and anti-war campaigner Almudena Grandes on how the horror of Spaniards turned to rage against their government...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:56am PST
What's going on en el Estado Español?
I've tried to summarise here what has been going in in Spain leading up to the terrible attacks in Madrid and Today's general elections in order to provide some background....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:47am PST
Haiti's History: Noam Chomsky Traces Underpinnings Of Aristide's Ouster
We hear an excerpt of MIT professor Noam Chomsky speaking days before President Aristide was flown to the Central African Republic about the first coup against Aristide in the early 1990s....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:31am PST
One Jewish American Activist Still Held By Israel
Kristin (Flo) Razowsky, a Jewish American
activist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, is currently being held facing
deportation charges in an Israeli detention center, in Nazareth....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:31am PST
Jamaica, Venezuela Refuse to Recognize U.S.-Backed Haitian Government
Two days after President Aristide defied the Bush administration and the Haitian government by returning to the Caribbean, we go to Kingston, Jamaica to get a report from a veteran Jamaican journalist....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:30am PST
Haiti: Class Hatred and the Hijacking of Aristide
But almost all Haiti-watchers agree that various
anti-Aristide forces have been at work in the
U.S. capital for as long as the former Catholic
priest has been leading his campaign on behalf of
the poor in the western hemisphere's most
impoverished nation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:30am PST
Aristide Talks About the Leaders of the Coup and U.S. Funding of the Opposition
Part II of Democracy Now!s exclusive broadcast of Amy Goodman's interview with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide aboard his flight from the Central African Republic to Jamaica. [Includes transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:29am PST
Aristide backers locked out of new government
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's U.S.-backed leader formed an interim government that excludes ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Party — one that still commands a formidable following....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 7:20am PST
Probing U.S. ties to Haiti coup
WASHINGTON - Sen. Christopher Dodd says he wants to know whether U.S. taxpayers paid to train Haitians who plotted to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 7:17am PST
Haiti's New Government : Con-men out for your money
WHAT a shameful blunder by an unelected, interim Prime Minister of Haiti to have declared a suspension of that Caribbean nation's relations with the Caribbean Community....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 11:07pm PST
40 million strike--against a ban on strikes!
One of the biggest strikes in world history took place 3 weeks ago in India, but the U.S. media chose to ignore it! (I just found out about it today). Briefly, India's supreme court had ruled that it was illegal for government workers to strike, so in order to protest the ruling and pressure the government: the workers--went on strike!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 9:09pm PST