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Palestinians sources: IDF destroys 18 homes in Rafah
At least 18 houses were demolished in the latest Israel Defense Forces raid in Rafah, Palestinian security officials said Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:14am PDT
US marines plead guilty to prisoner abuse
Two US marines have pleaded guilty to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner they were guarding at a temporary detention centre south of Baghdad, the US military announced today.
The torture occurred in early April inside the Al Mahmudiya prison, several months after the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, military officials said....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:13am PDT
Iraq demands say in UN resolution
Iraq's interim leaders are demanding input to a United Nations draft resolution, which will set out how much power a new Iraqi government will have....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:11am PDT
Iraqi president questions de-Baathification
Iraq's new president has said that the interim government could bring back former members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:09am PDT
Secrets and Lies: Author Dilip Hiro on Chalabi, the CIA and the Battle for Iraq
With the June 30 deadline for the so-called transfer of power in Iraq just weeks away, we speak with author and veteran Middle East journalist Dilip Hiro whose trilogy of books on Iraq and Iran are considered some of the most definitive histories of the wars in the Persian Gulf....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:08am PDT
CALL TO ACTION: OPPOSE REPRESSION IN GUADALAJARA
FYI the # of the Mexican consulate in San Francisco is 415-354-1700.
please read below, make the call & forward this message...
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CALL TO ACTION: OPPOSE REPRESSION IN GUADALAJARA...
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 1:13am PDT
Haiti's Constitution and the Coup
In the debate over Haiti's events of February 29, we have heard from almost all angles. We have heard from opponents and supporters of the elected government and its replacement, and from officials from France, the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa. We have not, for the most part, heard from the law. Although both the new and old government claim "legitimacy" (from the Latin word lex, or "law"), there has been little analysis of what Haiti's law requires in the circumstances....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:39pm PDT
Monsanto all around the world
Monsanto, the world most prominent biotech company is facing protests all over the world....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:11pm PDT
No consensus on Iraq sovereignty resolution
There is no consensus among UN Security Council members on a new draft US-British resolution on Iraq, Russia's foreign minister has said....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:56pm PDT
Iraq: Nine killed in anti-occupation clashes
Nine Iraqis have been killed and 44 wounded in ferocious clashes between US forces and Iraqi resistance fighters....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:55pm PDT
Massive Blasts at U.S. Base in Kirkuk, Iraq -Witness
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Massive explosions rocked a major U.S. military base outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, shrouding the city in smoke, after what police said was a rocket strike on an arms store.
Shells and rockets screamed into the night sky over the base at Kirkuk's main airport and thick smoke rolled across the whole area, a Reuters reporter said from the scene....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:53pm PDT
Ex-Baathist With Ties to the CIA Picked To Be New Iraqi Prime Minister
The Iraqi Governing Council was dissolved today as a newly selected Iraqi government emerged comprising many key members of the Council including Ayad Allawi who will become prime minister. Andrew Cockburn talks about Allawi's ties to the old Baathist regime, the CIA, MI6, Saudi intelligence and how Allawi claims that Iraq had WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 7:17pm PDT
Haiti: Protection of human rights essential for security and long-term stability
Last week's devastating flooding in Haiti is another compelling reason for the international community to take action to address the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Haiti, said Amnesty International today....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:15am PDT
Israeli Arab rights center calls to forbid talk of transfer
Thousands of Israeli Arab citizens are suffering from increasing racism, xenophobia, incitement and violence, according to the annual "Racism in Israel 2004" report released on Tuesday by the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:12am PDT
Iraq's interim cabinet sworn in, Governing Council Disolved
Iraq's new interim government has been sworn in at a ceremony in Baghdad, to begin the task of preparing the country for elections in January next year....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:10am PDT
UNRWA: Rafah residents need $16 m
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has launched an appeal for $15.84 million from the international community for Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:07am PDT
At least 25 dead in blast at Iraqi Kurdish party HQ
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuters) At least 25 people were killed and many wounded by an explosion which tore through the headquarters of a Kurdish party in Baghdad today, police at the scene said.
The blast was at the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, close to Iraq's Foreign Ministry and an entrance to the ''Green Zone'' compound where the U S-led administration in Iraq is based....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:07am PDT
Al-Yawir appointed interim Iraq president
Sunni Muslim tribal chief Ghazi al-Yawir has been sworn in as Iraq's new interim president by the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 8:02am PDT
Army Court-Martial Sentences Camilo Mejia
Join the international campaign to free Camilo Mejia, U.S. Army Conscientious Objector, from his illegal and arbitrary imprisonment by an Army Court-Martial!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:43pm PDT
Urgent cry for help from Guadalajara
An email from a friend in Mexico about the Guadalajara demos. Can someone please translate this!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 11:55am PDT