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Red Cross condemns 'illegal' Israeli wall
The International Red Cross has said the security barrier that Israel is building in the West Bank is contrary to humanitarian law, and should not be built....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 11:18am PST
Police fire tear gas to break up Indian protest in Ecuador
In a bottom-up uprising Ecuador's indigenous and campesinos are confronting their government....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:32am PST
Unemployed Workers in Chile on Hunger Strike
Due to the cut off of emergency jobs in the town of San Pedro de la Paz,
Tuesday February 17th at 2 PM six women and two men have begun a hunger strike
to demand their jobs back....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 9:47am PST
Future-Friendly Economies
Neoliberals sometimes claim that destruction of resources creates jobs. The truth is that conserva-tion creates far more long-term jobs. Accepting and acknowledging the taboos and errors in neolibera-lism is vital in envisioing future-friendliness, an alter-native to increasing unemployment and inequality,...
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 5:25am PST
Haiti split in two as rebels advance
The armed rebellion in Haiti extended its reach over the central third of the country yesterday after 50 men led by a former army death-squad commander stormed the town of Hinches, near the border with the Dominican Republic, killing the police chief and breaking open the local prison....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 8:01pm PST
Jeb Bush to Visit El Salvador on Eve of Historic Elections
eb Bush to Visit El Salvador on Eve of Historic Elections
Fear that Mission to Promote Free Trade will lead to Increased US Intervention in Highly Contested Presidential Race...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:49pm PST
Media vs. Reality in Haiti
Judging by the corporate media’s recent coverage of the crisis in Haiti, one might be led to believe that they are “aiding and abetting” an attempted coup d’etat aimed at the democratically elected Jean Bertand Aristide. On a daily basis, mainstream international media is churning out stories provided mainly by the Associated Press and Reuters that have little basis in fact....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:40pm PST
Flashpoints: US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti
Today on Flashpoints: The General Council for the government of Haiti in the United States speaks out against US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti; Robert Fisk discusses the ongoing violence in Iraq; and Larry Everest talks about Empire and the US Global Agenda...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:35pm PST
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Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 6:49pm PST
2/15 Haiti News
Serious internal divisions at an opposition demonstratiom in Port-au-Prince:
acts of vandalism are committed against members of the public...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 5:46pm PST
Autor Saramago llama a luchar por la democracia
El premio Nobel portugués recibió una condecoración esta semana en la ciudad de México, donde calificó de 'monstruoso' que George W. Bush se defina como el Presidente de la guerra...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 1:26pm PST
Manifestaciones contra la guerra en Irak un año después
Decenas de miles manifiestan su rechazo de la ocupación de Irak en Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia en el Estado Español....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 1:15pm PST
Violaciones de los derechos humanos en Palestina
Violaciones de los derechos humanos en Palestina llevadas a cabo por las fuerzas de ocupación israelíes. Sumario de la primera mitad de febrero....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 1:11pm PST
Se incian protestas en Ecuador
Protestas contra privataciones y ALCA antes la convocada de una huelga nacional el 3 de marzo....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 12:31pm PST
Halliburton Hires Bush Family Lawyer To Conduct Internal Probe Over Nigeria Bribes
alliburton hired James Doty of the law firm Baker Botts to conduct an internal investigation into allegedly corrupt payments the company made in Nigeria in the late 1990s when Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO. We speak with Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime reporter about how both the lawyer and the law firm have close ties to the Bush family and administration....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:54am PST
Archbishop Tutu Condemns Iraq War, Urges Bush, Blair Apologize
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is condemning the Iraq war as "immoral," and he says U.S. President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair should apologize for the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:48am PST
France ponders Haiti peace force
France says it is ready to consider sending a peacekeeping force to its former colony Haiti, where civil unrest has left more than 50 people dead....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:41am PST
Shia fume over Bremer sharia threat
Shia clerics in Iraq are furious over a threat by top US administrator Paul Bremer to use his veto should the interim Governing Council choose Islam as the main basis for legislation....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:40am PST
Aristide Gov't Will Investigate Revlut'ary Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress
FRAPH, (Revolutionary Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress), a paramilitary organization formed during the second half of the coup d'etat (1991-1994) has been reported on and denounced by all international human rights groups
for their use of various methods of torture against Aristide supporters during that time....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 6:48pm PST
Haiti rebellion hits another town
At least three people have been killed as armed rebels launched a new attack in the central Haitian town of Hinche....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 4:30pm PST