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Aljazeera: Iraqi family tells of torture Aljazeera.net has obtained detailed information of an Iraqi prisoner reportedly abused by US-appointed law enforcers. He died shortly after being released on a hefty bail....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 10:10am PDT
Did Saudi Investors Pressure Disney To Drop Michael Moore's New Film on 9/11? Disney has been widely criticized for barring its subsidiary Miramax from distrbuting Fahrenheit 911, Moore's new documentary examining 9/11 and the ties between the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. Peter Hart from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) reveals that a powerful member of the House of Saud, Al-Walid bin Talal, owns a major stake in Eurodisney....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 10:05am PDT
General Antonio Taguba Testifies 
The army officer who first investigated prisoner abuse in an Iraqi prison today told the US Congress the mistreatment resulted from a "lack of discipline, no training whatsoever and no supervision".
In his evidence to the Senate armed services committee, Major General Antonio Taguba said the soldiers at the centre of the allegations acted "on their own volition"....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 9:49am PDT
Red Cross (ICRC) Report On The Treatment Of Iraqi Prisoners By Coalition Forces 
Report Of The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the treatment by the coalition forces of prisoners of war and other protected persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq during arrest, internment and interrogation.
FULL TEXT OF REPORT CONTAINED IN PDF:...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 9:14am PDT
Las Madres y la Conformación de Valores Morales y Éticos Lo Dios no sólo concedió a la mujer el divino proceso de la procreación, también depositó en ella la esperanza de que como madres asumieran la sagrada misión de conformar los valores morales y éticos de la personalidad humana, para dignificar y liberar a la humanidad del futuro, de las confusiones, de la concupiscencia y la corrupción moral y ética en el que ha caído la humanidad....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 5:59am PDT
"In the Class Struggle, Which Side are You On?" - An Interview with OCAP's John Clarke The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty http://www.ocap.ca/ is a grassroots anti-poverty organization based mainly in the city of Toronto in Ontario, Canada....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 2:01am PDT
Native Oaks and Rice over GMO Alternatives to GMO/GE agribusiness monoculture is found in nature's bounty of wild edible foods that can be included into permaculture farming.....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:40pm PDT
Six Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza incursion: report 
At least six Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip after a landmine destroyed a troop transport military vehicle, Dubai-based Al Arabiya television has said.
According to witnesses, the vehicle was completely destroyed in the attack which occurred during an Israeli incursion into the Gaza City neighbourhood of Zeitoun, which is believed to be a stronghold of the militant Hamas group....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:20pm PDT
Afghan Update From KQED's Forum Mon, May 10, 2004 -- 9:00am
Forum welcomes Sarah Chayes, a former reporter for National Public Radio who is now the Field Director of Afghans for Civil Society in Kandahar.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Sarah Chayes...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:06pm PDT
Rally against anti-Semitism planned in Paris France’s main anti-racist organization called for a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Paris on Sunday....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 10:40pm PDT
Army Times: Editorial: A failure of leadership at the highest levels Around the halls of the Pentagon, a term of caustic derision has emerged for the enlisted soldiers at the heart of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal: the six morons who lost the war.
Indeed, the damage done to the U.S. military and the nation as a whole by the horrifying photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees at the notorious prison is incalculable.
But the folks in the Pentagon are talking about the wrong morons....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 6:17pm PDT
British soldiers 'killed civilians' year-old girl, in situations where there was apparently no serious threat, human rights group Amnesty International says in a report....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 4:20pm PDT
Jews continue to build West Bank settlements Jews are developing West Bank settlements on occupied Palestinian land despite Israeli court rulings and hostile world opinion....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 4:15pm PDT
Gaza raids 'leave 1,000 homeless' Israeli military raids in Gaza this month have left 1,100 Palestinians homeless, a United Nations agency says....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 4:13pm PDT
In the Shadow of Abu Ghraib: Death Row Prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal On Iraq Prison Scandal The photos from Abu Ghraib show Spec. Charles Graner Jr. in photographs giving the "thumbs up" over piles of naked Iraqi men. Graner reportedly worked as a prison guard in Virginia and at SCI Greene - the notorious prison in southwestern Pennsylvania where political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is held on Death Row. We hear Abu Jamal's latest commentary recorded by the Prison Radio Project. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:43pm PDT
Knowledge of Prisoner Abuse Investigation "Severely and Unusually Restricted" We speak with Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker which just released a series of photos showing what appears to be a dog attacking a naked Iraqi prisoner. And we hear Sen. John McCain questioning Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Senate and House Armed Services Committee. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:42pm PDT
Pipeline blast cuts Iraq's oil experts; U.S. forces clash with militiamen KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents blasted an oil pipeline, setting off a huge blaze and slashing Iraq's daily oil exports by about 25 per cent. U.S. troops traded gunfire Monday with fighters loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in this Shiite city south of Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:36pm PDT
Iraq: It’s all over now The situation in Iraq is “disintegration verging on collapse”, said Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the United Nations, on the last day of April. It was a month that saw more American troops killed than during last year’s invasion, a decisive US defeat in the siege of Fallouja, and horrific revelations about the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners by both American and British soldiers. It may be years yet before the helicopters pluck the last Americans off the roof of the B...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:34pm PDT
Galeropia: call for articles, inks and digital media This is an open call for articles, inks, digital media or audio files on the topic of insurgency. The work will appear in the first issue of Galeropia, a digital magazine produced by Why War?. Galeropia's vision is a nonviolent theory and practice more potent than the prevailing reliance on polemics and death. Our method will be a targeted expansion of the movement's self-knowledge, aesthetics and practice....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:02pm PDT
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