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AEI to Colombia: "I Can't Give You Anything but Guns, Baby"
Mark Falcoff's February 23, 2004 American Enterprise Institute post, "Facing up to the Conflict in Colombia" broaches an important topic. But Falcoff does not face up to reality as promised....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 8:51pm PST
Copy Adorno, Go to Jail?
Intellectual property "owner" of Adorno's "Anti-Semitism and Fascist Propaganda" - posted within - are suing textz.com. Mirror this file....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 3:40pm PST
Kurds demand vote on independence
Kurdish activists have collected 1.7 million signatures on a petition demanding a referendum on the future of northern Iraq's Kurdish region....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 12:52pm PST
Chaos and fear grip Haiti capital
Looting has erupted in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, which advancing rebels have vowed to capture....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 12:50pm PST
Arrested: Two American ISM Activists
TWO ISM AMERICAN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED WHILE PROTESTING AGAINST THE WALL (one still held as of press time)...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 11:11am PST
Haiti: Throttled by history
Haiti's political class has failed it, but the first black republic has also been squeezed dry by a vengeful west...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:37am PST
Clean the Oil out of the Whitehouse
2004 Election : Clean the oil out of the White House
$74.7 billion for an oil war? That's your tax money folks! Unless you collect serious dividends from Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Texaco, BP, Haliburton, Bechtel, Nabors Industries Ltd, and any of the other companies that will be granted 're-construction' contracts in Iraq, you should be outraged....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:36am PST
Renowned Haitian Journalist Michele Montas Discusses Haiti
Award-winning Haitian journalist Michele Montas fled Haiti last year after her bodyguard was killed and continued threats against her forced her close her radio station and leave the country four years after her husband, Jean Dominique, was assassinated....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:14am PST
Aristide Warns of Possible Refugee Crisis in Haiti
In the past week, more than 400 Haitian refugees have reportedly landed on beaches in Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands. We speak with the Center for Constitutional Rights' Michael Ratner who has dealt extensively with the issue of Haitian refugees for many years....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:13am PST
Haiti's Lawyer: U.S. Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries
As opponents of Haitian President Aristide reject a U.S.-brokered peace plan, we speak with Ira Kurzban who has served as General Counsel for the government of Haiti since 1991. [includes transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:12am PST
Aristide supporters prepare for last stand in Haiti capital
Supporters of Haiti's embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide steeled themselves for a last stand in the capital, Port-au-Prince, yesterday. They faced a rapidly expanding rebel insurgency which tightened its grip on the country's second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, and vowed to have the country under its control within two weeks....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 9:55am PST
Plea for a Critical Christianity
"For me, a critical Christianity is a Christianity oriented forwards. Adaptations to existing conditions and a mere status quo are questioned., Dreams of a better world are dreamt here.." K. Luthi is an Austrian liberation theologian....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 5:45am PST
AHP News from Haiti 2/18-24
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune calls on the opposition Platform to adopt the
plan proposed as a way out of the crisis by the international community, and thus
put an end to the escalation of violence......
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 3:55pm PST
Canada - Wildcat Strikes and Ongoing Workers' Struggles
Workers' Struggle in Quebec and British Columbia (Canada)...
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 2:36pm PST
Progressive Radio Station Shut Down by Free Traders
Radio for Peace International (RFPI) one of the few world wide progressive short wave voices broadcasting to rural and third world communities has been evicted by the UN’s University for Peace (U-Peace) in Cost Rica....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 2:23pm PST
(Pal) 50 Trees Uprooted as Court Still Out on Whether Removal is Legal
On the second day of the hearing at
The Hague International Court, the Israeli authorities started to
destroy olive groves in Beit Surik to expand the Wall of Apartheid in
the North-Western region of Jerusalem....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 9:45am PST
2/23 ISM from Occupied Palestine
As the hearings concerning
the legality of the Wall started in The Hague, thousands of
Palestinians and Internationals throughout Occupied Palestine took on
the streets to protest the construction of the Wall of Apartheid....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 9:44am PST
God or no God, I don't like that demon antiChrist, Our Mr. bush Jr. very much
By Annan not publicly addressing this very serious
issue, will not be fooling me he hasn't heard it
mentioned. The families of Iraq are accounted almost
entirely by "comprehensive, extremely detailed"
measurements. So what the hell is going on about
supporting our world community by not condemning war
crimes?, Just where is Annan on the issue of an
international commitment kept I want asked religiously
across this world. Now....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 8:22am PST