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Stop Them Before They Kill Again It wasn't but three or four hours after the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down by the US Marines (and a few dozen Iraqi extras) in the center of Baghdad before the maddest man on the Potomac, Donald Rumsfeld, issued a warning to the nation of Syria. In effect, Rumsfeld told Syria that its fate would be the same as the Iraqis unless it did his bidding. Further remarks from Rumsfeld and Colin Powell have clarified this threat while simultaneously ratcheting it up....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 3:48am PDT
How Our Iraq Invasion Serves Israeli Interests 
It is understood from diplomatic sources that the Bush administration has said it will not support lifting UN sanctions on Iraq unless Saddam's successors agree to supply Israel with oil. All of this lends weight to the theory that Bush's war is part of a masterplan to reshape the Middle East to serve Israel's interests. Haaretz quoted Paritzky as saying that the pipeline project is economically justifiable because it would dramatically reduce Israel's energy bill....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 1:32am PDT
Why Syria Is Our Newest Target For Invasion 
Indeed, the Arabs see a deeper plot and they may not be entirely wrong. Some members of the Bush administration came into office determined to overthrow Saddam, occupy Iraq and extend American control through as much of the region as possible. For these officials, some of them close to the Likud party, the invasion of Iraq was only a first step intended to pave the way for the removal of Syria as the last strategic opponent of Israel....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 1:28am PDT
War with Syria planned if Bush re-election in doubt. "If Bush's re-election in 18 months should be endangered by the poor economic situation, his advisers could consider a new confrontation useful to get the voters back behind the commander-in-chief in the White House,"......
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 11:33pm PDT
The U.S. Government is Proud to Present... (VinGraphic) 
Syrian oil reserves could last 10 years longer than previously thought...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 11:14pm PDT
Pepsi, Coke Vanish as Anti-U.S. Feeling Grows in Kerala 'Bottled America', as represented by Pepsi and Coke, has vanished from grocery stores and outlets in India's southern Kerala state, thanks to an increasingly popular campaign to boycott goods associated with the perpetrators of the war in Iraq. ''Our aim is to make Kerala a 'Pepsi-Coke-Free Zone'' from this week onwards, said Dr B. Ekbal, distinguished medical scientist and vice chancellor of Kerala University who is one of the leaders of the national anti-war movement....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 10:12pm PDT
Arabs call for WMD ban in the Middle East Arab countries are pushing for a United Nations resolution declaring the Middle East a zone free of weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 10:03pm PDT
They Beat Journalists, Don't They? IMCista Brutalized In DC Footage from the NBC affiliate in DC....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 9:58pm PDT
Cable's War Coverage Suggests a New 'Fox Effect' on Television The two commentators were gleeful as they skewered the news media and antiwar protesters in Hollywood....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 9:46pm PDT
JULY 4 Vigil for the Constitution and Bill of Rights In light of repression by the police of residents in Arab Communities; In light of criminalization of anti-war protestors and, in light of the complicity of corporate media with the war crimes of the Bush Administration, this response seeks to address these issues in a creative and non-violent, yet assertive manner....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 9:24pm PDT
COLLATERAL DAMAGE FROM AN ILLEGAL WAR THE preamble to the United Nations Charter - the shared law of our planet - states: "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims." The first article of the Charter says that the purpose of the UN is to "maintain int...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 9:20pm PDT
Powell admits 1973 coup in Chile Well, we already knew the U$ was behind the coup against Allende. But Powell screwed up and admitted it on TV. The State Department is pissed....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 4:01pm PDT
Arizonans Fight Over Renaming Mountain PHOENIX - A proposal to rename an Arizona mountain after an American Indian killed in Iraq (news - web sites) has led to a surprisingly nasty fight between the Democratic governor and Republican lawmakers....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 2:39pm PDT
Iraqi Protesters Block Marines in Kut 
KUT, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of protesters blocked U.S. Marines from entering Kut's city hall Tuesday to meet a radical anti-American Shiite cleric who has declared himself in control here, military officials said....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 2:10pm PDT
Syria to submit UN resolution to ban WMD in Middle East including Israel's nuclear weapons ......
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 1:53pm PDT
U.S. Forces Initiated Looting In Iraq “I happened to be there just as the US forces told people to commence looting.”...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 1:48pm PDT
Singapore uses walk-through heat detector to spot travellers with fever at airport Singapore is using a walk-through heat detector to check if air travellers arriving from China and Hong Kong have fever. It is the first country in the world to use a thermal imaging system at its airport to spot travellers with SARS symptoms....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 1:44pm PDT
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