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Talibanism in Technology: 7 Reasons Why Women in Tech are Invisible A lot has been written about the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women, which resulted in the worldwide outcry against women wearing full-length burkhas, which rendered them invisible and the denial of their fundamental rights. However, there’s not even a whimper about the systematic Talibanism of women in technology, which has made them invisible throughout the ages. Despite a large number of talented and successful women in the field, why is it that society tends to associate only men with te...
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:57am PDT
Update On Recent Fighting From An Iraqi In Baghdad it seems that Americans, are masters in creating enemies, not only around the world, but also inside every country they "liberate", in a year and a half, this american adminstration managed to get ammounts of hate and anger towards America, more than all the past adminstration all together did in the last 50 years inspite of their foolish policy in the ME, still, this admestration, created in a year and a half, more enimies, more anit-American people, that there was ever there....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:38am PDT
Middle Eastern press round on Iraq's new leaders The Middle Eastern press largely blame US allies in Iraq for a week of bloodshed in Shia cities though some accuse radical cleric Moqtada Sadr of aggravating the situation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:28am PDT
Iraqi people want resignation of Allawi’s government: Sadr NAJAF, Iraq - Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr said on Saturday that the Iraqi people wanted the US-backed caretaker government of Iyad Allawi to resign and insisted he would not take up any post under US occupation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:27am PDT
Many killed in US bombing of Samarra The US military has dropped a series of half-tonne bombs on a number of locations in the city of Samarra, killing at least 50 people....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:25am PDT
Iraqi officials resign over US 'aggression' Several Iraqi officials working within the interim government have resigned in protest of the US-led assault on Najaf and Kut....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 10:39pm PDT
US forces reoccupy heart of Najaf US marines backed by tanks and aircraft have seized the heart of the Iraqi city of Najaf in a major assault on Al-Mahdi Army fighters....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 7:13pm PDT
The Vanishing An “unbroken forest” of oaks and conifers blanketing the highlands of Iraq and Iran . . . The hills of Palestine and Lebanon, crowned with cedars and pines . . . “Dense forest growth” in arid North Africa . . . Juniper, fir and sycamore woodlands blanketing Syria, and oak groves dotting the Arabian peninsula....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 1:16pm PDT
US bombing of Iraqi city of Kut kills 72 people and wounds 148 Heavy US bombardment of Kut has killed 72 people and wounded 148, one day after clashes between police and Shia fighters in the southern Iraqi city, a Health Ministry official said....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 6:48am PDT
Najaf official resigns as fighting continues The deputy governor of Najaf has resigned in protest against the US offensive on the city even as a series of explosions rocked Najaf as fighting between US marines and Al-Mahdi fighters entered a second week....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 6:36am PDT
RIVER: Clashes and Churches...in Iraq Najaf...has seen a rain of bombs and shells from none other than the ‘saviors’ of the oppressed Shi’a- the Americans... It’s déjà vu- corpses in the streets, people mourning their dead and dying and buildings up in flames. The images flash by on the television screen and it’s Falluja all over again. Twenty years from now who will be blamed for the mass graves being dug today?
We’re waiting again for some sort of condemnation. I, personally, never had faith in the American selected proxy go...
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 9:54pm PDT
Protesters set fire to Allawi's party offices Thousands of Iraqis in the southern city of Nassiriya calling for the fall of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, have set fire to the local office of his political party.
The demonstrators are enraged by military action against Shiite rebels in the sacred city of Najaf....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 7:04am PDT
Hundreds of casualties in Iraqi clashes At least 30 people have been killed and 219 wounded in clashes in the past 24 hours between US occupation forces and Shia fighters in Iraqi cities, not including Najaf where fierce fighting is going on....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 6:43am PDT
US troops 'poised to storm Najaf' US and Iraqi forces are preparing for a major assault against Shia Muslim fighters in the holy city of Najaf, the US military has said....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 6:40am PDT
Occupation HQ attacked in central Baghdad Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars have hit the headquarters of US-led occupation forces in Baghdad....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 7:11pm PDT
8/13SF Rally Against Korean Troops In Iraq Anti-war activists will join together on Friday August 13 at 3:00 PM at the Korean Consulate on 3500 Clay/Laurel, SF to protest the dispatch of Korean troops to Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 5:09pm PDT
Apartheid Roads in Israel In this rather long-winded article, the Jewish Israeli peace group B'Tselem reports on the 'open secret' of apartheid roads aka "by-pass roads" in apartheid Israel. I wonder why this group, if it is so progressive, does not also call for completely equal rights for all in Israel regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Why do they not loudly, consistently and relentlessly also call for the recognition of the Palestinian right to return? Why the limits in their activism?...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 8:06am PDT
Iraqi police chief seized as curfew imposed Aljazeera has aired a videotape showing a group of masked armed men belonging to a Shia Muslim resistance group holding an Iraqi police officer captive in Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 8:50pm PDT
Iraq halts crude output from the south Oil production from Iraq's southern oil fields was stopped on Monday after alleged threats by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army to disrupt operations, an Iraqi official has said....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 8:47pm PDT
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