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Many Pro-War people have accused antiwar protestors of being treasonous to the American Empire.......
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 11:24am PDT
"Who elected him president of this planet anyway?..Would we elect a president who was deaf to the population? Would we elect a man incapable of hearing any but the echoes of his own voice? A man deaf to the ceaseless thunder of millions of voices..?"...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 11:16am PDT
U.S. attacked journalists at hotel and office in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:58am PDT
Don't let your money flow freely and ignorantly into the pockets of those whose actions you oppose. Find out more about the Global Boycott for Peace....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:01am PDT
This is the latest Robert Fisk dispatch....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 8:58am PDT
The Indiana Guard is training at the Port of Indiana to quell civil protests. Guardsmen dressed as protesting dock workers were attacked by soldiers in this "Indiana Guardian" training operation for "Homeland Defense."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 7:08am PDT
International journalists killed, missing and held in Iraq. The International Federation of Journalists condemns both sides in the Iraq war over the deaths of reporters and says those responsible must be brought to justice....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 6:02am PDT
There have been explosions in two of the main pipelines in Pakistan's Punjab province, badly disrupting the supply of natural gas to large parts of the country....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:38am PDT
An audio recording said to be of Osama Bin Laden has emerged in which he urges Muslims to rise up against their governments that support the war on Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 3:56am PDT
· Journalists taken to hospital
· Bid to secure key bridge
· Saddam targeted in US raid
· German and Spanish Journalists die...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 3:39am PDT
This is an excerpt of Robert Fisk's latest article that includes what I thought were his most important observations. To see the entire article, follow the link at the bottom....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:42am PDT
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Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:31am PDT
Gulf War II is a re-run of a British classic. Almost 85 years to the day when Tommy Franks spoke of "liberating" Iraq and not conquering it, the British Lt General Stanley Maude had assured the people of Iraq: "Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators". For the Iraqis of the early 20th century, "liberty through occupation" meant having their country carved up, a puppet regime put in place, buttressed by British...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:23am PDT
Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, was fast asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms. "It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died. My mother was five months pregnant," the traumatised boy said....His aunt, three cousins and three other relatives staying with them were also killed in this week's missile strikes on their house in Diala Bridge...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:15am PDT
"We have all seen some very disturbing pictures of child victims of this conflict - children with burn injuries, a young boy lying in a hospital bed, both his arms blown off," WHO spokesperson Fadela Chaib told the daily briefing in Amman, Jordan, on UN humanitarian activities. "And away from the cameras, these scenes are being repeated every day."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:06am PDT
'Mr Gates interest in HIV/AIDS projects in India is not meant for charity,
as it appears. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributing funds to
fight AIDS is to protect his billions of dollars of investments in
pharmaceutical companies interested in conducting field trials in India,''...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 1:20am PDT
US is trying to silence the Arab press because of their coverage of civilian casualties. The US government wants no witnesses to what's about to take place in Baghdad. They want the civilian victims to die quietly without a lot of publicity....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 1:15am PDT
"We were targeted because the Americans don't want the world to see the crimes they are committing against the Iraqi people." Ayoub aged 35, was married with one daughter. He travelled to Baghdad only five days ago to join the Al-Jazeera team from the channel's Amman......
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 1:10am PDT