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image Dramatic pictures and film from Chechnya document torture and human rights violations
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by JankyHellface (repost)
Dramatic video published, which documents russian war crimes against prisoners in Chenya. Anna Politkowskaja, a brave russian journalist strikes again: Threatened with murder already several times and allocated with bans on writing, she does not stop to point out the desperate situation of people in Chechnya. Politkowskaja is now able to prove torture, inhuman treatment and homicide in Chechnya with a video, which is dated 21st of march 2000....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 1:34pm PDT
text17June - Update on Brooke Atherton resisting deportation from Israel by repost
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Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 12:59pm PDT
textPoll Shows Iraqis Would Feel Safer Without Occupiers by repost
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Most Iraqis have lost confidence in the U.S.-led occupation and would feel safer if foreign troops left their country, a poll commissioned by the coalition authority has found....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:44am PDT
textBackground / Israel's new peace groups - a field guide by haaretz
"One more historic victory like this," goes the mordant Hebrew expression, "and we are lost." It was only last month that the settlement movement, along with allies in the right and far-right, scored perhaps its most dramatic political triumph on record. In a come-from-behind landslide, Likud members responded to an all-out settler campaign and repudiated Ariel Sharon's withdrawal proposal in a referendum the prime minister had vowed to honor....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:28am PDT
textBeirut, Iraq by Dahr Jamail (repost)
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 16, 2004 at 11:32 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:15am PDT
textHep E on 'Vietnam Street' by Dahr Jamail (repost)
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 14, 2004 at 07:50 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:13am PDT
imageB'Tselem: "Permit System to Cross Separation Barrier is Racist"
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by Electronic Intifada
Since October 2003, Israel has implemented a new permit system in the enclaves it created between the separation barrier and the Green Line. As a result, Palestinians without a permit are denied the right to work their lands to the west of the barrier....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:04am PDT
textThe address for protest is Labor's headquarters by Electronic Intifada
How can we explain the conjurer's trick by which Sharon has turned into the darling of the Israeli peace camp?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:01am PDT
textWe need a Zionist halakha by haaretz (repost)
The non-Jewish wave of immigration has brought the issue of relations between religion and state - chiefly regarding marriage and conversion - to a moment of truth. Even those who favor continued Orthodox monopoly on marriage will not be able to accept a situation in which hundreds of thousands of immigrants are unable to marry in Israel. This is what led former chief rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron to propose a sweeping annulment of the monopoly....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:59am PDT
textFormer head of Israeli prime minister's bureau accused of incitement by haaretz
Yahad MK Avshalom Vilan and the Peace Now movement petitioned Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Thursday to investigate Uri Elitzur, former head of the prime minister's bureau during the Benjamin Netanyahu administration, on allegations of incitement....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:56am PDT
textIsrael issues tender for moat on Philadelphi Route in Gaza by haaretz
The Defense Ministry announced Thursday morning that it is issuing a tender for the construction of a moat along the Philadelphi Route on the Egypt-Gaza border, aimed at deterring the smuggling of weapons over the frontier into Palestinian areas....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:54am PDT
textSecond bomb targets Iraqi security forces by ALJ
A second car bomb has exploded near Baghdad, killing six Iraqi civil defence guards, hours after another massive car bombing killed at least 35 people in the capital....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:52am PDT
textPastry Operations in Poland and Brazil by BBB fan
On June 2, 2004, an activist from Food Not Bombs-Warsaw (Poland) pied the President of the City, Lech Kaczynski. The pie action was made to protest Kaczynski's moves to prevent the city's annual gay parade from taking place....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 10:16pm PDT
textSouth Korea struggles against WEF by jankyHellface (repost)
While we are since 214 days in sit-in strike, last weekend we supported the struggle of S. Korean workers, peasants and students against WEF....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:59pm PDT
textBay Area Resident Threatened with Deportation from Israel by DASW repost
Brooke Atherton threatened with deportation 7:30 p.m. today, Pacific Daylight Time for attempting to enroll in Arabic language school in Palestine...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 3:46pm PDT
textMiami TV Invites Terrorists to Talk Openly About Attacks on Cuba and Venezuela by JankyHellface (repost)
Cuban television tonight broadcasted remarkable segments of a one hour program on Miami TV Channel 41 in which known paramilitaries from the Florida based Comandos F4 (www.comandosf4.org) organization openly spoke of their preparation for an armed attack against Cuba....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 12:23pm PDT
imageFrance - Power workers pull plug over sell-off plan
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by JankyHellface (repost)
Striking power workers cut France's national electricity output and blacked out the homes of targeted politicians on Tuesday as thousands of others marched against plans to partly privatise Electricite de France....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 11:56am PDT
textNine dead in Ramadi blast by ALJ
Nine people have been killed, including four foreigners, and 10 wounded after a vehicle was targeted in the western Iraqi town of Ramadi....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:09am PDT
textIsraeli undercover forces raid Jenin by ALJ
Israeli occupation forces have shot dead a Palestinian, wounded a second and arrested several others in the West Bank city of Jenin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 7:59am PDT
textMcDonald's in Chile Is Destroyed in Bombing by repost
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Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 2:52am PDT
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