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Israel extends offensive in Gaza Israel has widened a major, two-week operation in northern Gaza by thrusting deeper into the town of Beit Lahiya....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:34am PDT
Iraqi civilians and police die in Ramadi Two Iraqi civilians have died after a mortar bomb landed on a house near a regional government building in the city of Ramadi.
The deaths came as US troops moved in to the town early on Wednesday, sealing off streets and searching buildings....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:31am PDT
FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship The US government move to shut down nearly two dozen antiwar, anti-globalization web sites on October 7 is an unprecedented exercise of police power against political dissent on the Internet. The World Socialist Web Site denounces the attack on the Indymedia sites and demands a halt to all such attempts at suppressing political criticism of the US government....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:28am PDT
Bush special envoy embroiled in controversy over Iraq debt 
James Baker's double life...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 3:00am PDT
Many Iranians Believe Iran Already Has Nukes, And Needs Them To Defend Against Israel I think we must carry on with our nuclear activities, we have a right to. Why do the US, Israel and other countries have a right to nuclear technology but not us?...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:55pm PDT
A strange and bitter crop: the spectacle of torture Do the terrible images from Abu Ghraib represent break or continuity in American tradition? Hazel Carby excavates the history of lynching in the United States and finds disturbing parallels between Mississippi's past and Iraq's present...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:31pm PDT
CIA has 11 Al-Qaida suspects in Jordan facility The Central Intelligence Agency runs a top secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered Al-Qaida's most senior cadre are being held, Haaretz has learned from international intelligence sources....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 8:43pm PDT
Iraq faces soaring toll of deadly disease Soaring rates of disease and a crippled health system are posing a new crisis for the people of Iraq, threatening to kill more than have died in the aftermath of the war. Deadly infections including typhoid and tuberculosis are rampaging through the country, according to the first official report into the state of health in the country....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 5:54pm PDT
Michael Meacher Interview (video/quicktime 15.7MB) INN World Report interview former UK government minister, Michael Meacher about the war on terrorism....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 5:13pm PDT
Amin Salem 1969 - 2004: UHWC staff member killed during Israeli operation 
Dr. Mona El Farra writing from Gaza, Live From Palestine, 12 October 2004...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Culture and dissent: Khalil Sakakini Center looks towards creative resistance About a fifteen minute walk from the street vendors and businesses of the downtown Palestinian cultural capital of Ramallah, is a dangerous subversive place according to the Israeli authorities. So much so that in 2002 they raided the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center and according to the Miami Herald "seized a computer and a cellphone, broke dozens of windows, swept books off shelves, peppered walls with shrapnel and bullets, spit pumpkin seeds on the floor and allegedly stole 3,700 sheke...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 5:07pm PDT
Shaath: Disengagement plan aims to destroy Gaza BEIRUT: Israel's real intention behind its disengagement plan was "to destroy Gaza," according to Palestinian Authority Foreign Relations Minister Nabil Shaath.
Speaking in Beirut on Monday, Shaath said, "In reality, it only aims to mark a blow to the national PA, and hit the infrastructure and the economy and divert international attention from the policy to expand settlements and gobble up the land of the West Bank."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 5:05pm PDT
ABB - Don't Believe the Hype! (video/quicktime 48.1MB) Dr. Jess Ghannam, President of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination League, speaks at the Nader / Camejo 2004 Rally at UC Berkeley, October 11, 2004
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"Don't believe the hype about Anybody But Bush, especially when it comes to Iraq, and the Middle East and the greater Arab world."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 4:35pm PDT
Israeli Parliament rejects Sharon's pullout plan Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was stepping up his efforts to stitch together a new governing coalition Tuesday after his Gaza pullout plan suffered an embarrassing reverse in Parliament....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 3:30pm PDT
EFF Challenges Secret Government Order to Shut Down Media Websites Seizure of Servers Hosting Indymedia Websites Violates the First Amendment...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 3:30pm PDT
The Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti A recounting of recent events in Haiti is reminiscent of a statement written by an American Marine private during the first U.S. occupation of Haiti that began in 1915 and lasted nineteen years. The homesick marine wrote:
''Dear Mother,
All is well for me here. I have taken well to my duties in Haiti but I still can't believe how they let the niggers have the run of the place.''...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 3:18pm PDT
Afghanistan election descends into farce Even as Afghans were still going to vote in the country’s presidential election on Saturday, 15 of the 16 candidates launched a concerted protest over widespread voting irregularities favouring the US-backed incumbent Hamid Karzai. As of today, counting had still not begun as Washington, with the assistance of the UN, attempted to find a way to squash the opposition....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 3:16pm PDT
Army chief 'emptied his magazine' at girl in Gaza Two separate official investigations are under way into the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Gaza by the Israeli army after soldiers testified that their company commander "emptied his magazine" at her after she had been shot and was presumed dead....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 3:15pm PDT
Christian Parenti in Afghanistan: Saturday's Elections Were A "Farce" We go to Afghanistan to speak with The Nation's correspondent covering Saturday's election where all 15 of incumbent Hamid Karzai's opponents announced they were boycotting the election because of voting problems. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Spanish shipyard workers continue protests 
Spanish shipyard workers continued their anti-privatisation demonstrations and protests on October 1 by blockading traffic in the port of Ferrol in the northwestern region of Galicia...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 11:06am PDT
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