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1905 of 1988 
US-held Iraqis Cry For Help, Grill Rights Minister CAMP BUCCA, Iraq, July 18 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Under summer temperatures that can soar up to 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), over 2,600 Iraqis are still being held, some for as long as 14 months, without trial in the US-run Camp Bucca desert camp on the outskirts of the southern port of Umm Qasr....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:38am PDT
Betraying Iraqi Women Remember when the Bush administration told us that American soldiers would be greeted as liberators? How about when we were told that the war would free Iraqi women? We know that the citizens throwing flowers never materialized, and now it turns out that helping Iraqi women was just a PR line too. Women in Iraq still face poverty, fear of imprisonment, rape and repressive laws. Only now, the United States is in charge of it all....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:35am PDT
Israel, Iran and the IAEA: Nuclear Ambiguity or Hypocrisy? Last week, Mohamad ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), paid a visit to Israel. The visit was prompted mostly by the charge of duplicity that is often levied against the agency by the indigenous people of the Middle East, who perceive the IAEA as one among many instruments in the US-Israeli (USraeli) arsenal of colonial domination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:31am PDT
Fighting for independence intelligently I just feel like wailing every time I read about the crimes that Russian military clique is committing in Chechnya. But you can’t help the Chechen people by wailing. So what needs to be done then? And can anything actually be done to stop the tragedy of that small yet freedom-loving nation?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:27am PDT
Afghanistan at the mercy of U.S.-backed warlords Afghanistan’s coming elections are in jeopardy, and not just because of a revived Taliban. The warlord armies that Washington used to oust the Taliban in 2001 now pose an even greater danger, as Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, made plain this week to Carlotta Gall and David Rohde of The Times. President Bush is largely responsible for this situation, having first decided to fight the war against the Taliban on the cheap and then leaving the job of nation-building undone while he divert...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:23am PDT
523 Pakistanis are still in Afghan jails ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Friday told the Senate that as many as 1,135 Pakistani nationals were detained in Afghanistan. Out of these, 612 had been handed over to Pakistan....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:20am PDT
Countdown for Haiti's return to Caricom begins THE countdown has begun for Haiti's interim government to participate in the business of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), pending the outcome of new and internationally supervised competitive elections in 2005....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:13am PDT
Thirteen killed in US Falluja attack A US air strike on a house in Falluja has killed 13 Iraqis, including women and children, Aljazeera has reported....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:05am PDT
Israeli war planes fly over Lebanon and Israeli destroyers enter Lebanese waters Israeli war planes violated Lebanese air space Saturday as they flew over southern Lebanon, officials said.
They added that Israel had also beefed up its military presence along the Israeli border with Lebanon and that Israeli destroyers entered Lebanese regional waters near the shores of Naqoura....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 6:23pm PDT
uglf communique 07 14 04 uglf details a new tactical approach to liberation...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 11:17am PDT
Arafat issues decree merging security apparatuses into three GAZA, July 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has issued a presidential decree that stipulates the merge of the Palestinian security apparatuses into three, his top aide Nabil Abu Rudeineh stated on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:13am PDT
Officials in Blair Administration Admit Hutton Cover-Up Downing Street admitted yesterday that MI6 embarked on an unprecedented cover-up after it withdrew intelligence supporting the Government's dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction because it was unreliable....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:11am PDT
Car Bomb Targets Iraqi Justice Minister A suicide bomber has attacked a convoy carrying the Iraqi justice minister in Baghdad, killing four of his security guards....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:08am PDT
Quraya tenders resignation to Arafat Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya has told legislators that he has submitted his resignation to President Yasir Arafat....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:03am PDT
It’s the Occupation, Stupid! One can say the same to both Israel and the U.S. when they complain of terrorism and a lack of security. It’s the occupation, stupid!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 11:28am PDT
Turning Reality Upside Down: Dershowitz, Israel's Wall and the Jim Crow Era Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz compared the International Court of Justice to the white courts of Mississippi during the Jim Crow era...Mr. Dershowitz has it backwards. He would like to place Israel above the law in the same way that the courts of Mississippi tried to place white citizens above the law who blatantly and wantonly violated the rights of African Americans...Israel is a Jewish democracy, not a liberal democratic society -- the distinction being that a liberal democracy is ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 10:30am PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/16/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, Germany, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 5:30pm PDT
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) And Free Speech A contested anti-war billboard planned for Times Square was nixed by the hotel where it was to be placed because of its political content, according to a hotel spokeswoman....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 3:14pm PDT
Ann Petter Update after Court Date Supreme Court Returns Case of Detained American Peace Activist to District Court
Judge to View Secret Evidence and Make Further Judgment on Case...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 11:28am PDT
Alcohol shops targeted in Baghdad At least seven alcohol shops have been bombed or shot at in the Iraqi capital in the past two days, shop owners and witnesses have said....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:27am PDT
1905 of 1988