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BTL:Congress Gives Green Light for War with Iraq as...
...Media Narrows National Debate. Interview with Norman Solomon,author and syndicated columnist by Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Oct 17, 2002 2:31am PDT
Placid Consent
We have entered into a state of placid acceptance......
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 11:42pm PDT
Poll Results Suggest Public Opinion Polls Don't Reflect Public's Views
The Retro Poll organization released results of a pilot poll on the War on Terrorism which show that people who have succumbed to government-media misinformation on Iraq and Terrorism are 2:1 in favor of war on Iraq; but people who have the facts straight are 4:1 against war....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 10:37pm PDT
Flashpoints Oct 16: Robert Fisk on Bali bombing, US Iraq war; new documentaries
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Wednesday October 16, 2002
-Robert Knight and the Knight Report, news update (6 min)
-British journalist Robert Fisk, about the Bali bombing and the Israeli led US war on Iraq. (14 min)
-interview with the producers of a great new documentary, Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election, about the Florida stealing of the US 2000 election. (10 min)
-The Pinochet Case, documentary about the arrest of Chilean dictator (5 min)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 9:26pm PDT
What's So Bad About Israel?
It's hard to say what's so bad about Israel, and its defenders--having nothing better to use--have seized on this. Some do so soberly, like Harpers publisher John R. MacArthur, who thinks Israel comes off no worse than the Russians in Chechnya, and much better than the Americans in Vietnam (Toronto Globe and Mail, May 13th, 2002). Others do so defiantly. True, Israel has taken the land of harmless people, killed innocent civilians, tortured prisoners, bulldozed houses, destroyed crops, yada y...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 8:33pm PDT
No Nukes at Newe Sogobia (Shoshone tribal land)
Reflections from the 800 mile Family Spirit Walk for Mother Earth and Peace Camp at the Nevada Test Site....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 8:26pm PDT
I'm an American tired of American lies
This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them "hawks", but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 8:20pm PDT
President Bush Makes 21 Decisions
These 21 items illustrate the thinking of our President....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 6:39pm PDT
Gabriel Ash on Iraq
"A U.S. intervention in Iraq will not be a one-off affair. It will be one moment in a continuous history with a past and a future. It is impossible to guess the future shape of this intervention without examining its history."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 5:01pm PDT
Clean lies, dirty wars
Did the US slaughter 300,000 Iraquis in 1991? In addition to the open season on civilians on the Highway of Death, thousands of women and children were murdered in bunkers where the US was just so sure Saddam might also be there....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 1:56pm PDT
George W. Bush, the Washington's Sniper (by Latuff)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 11:11am PDT
Belgian Company Linked to Rural Slavery in Brazil (Media)
The Federal Police and the Ministry for Employment have found around 180 people who have been working for four months in conditions analogous to slavery on a farm in the state of Pará, Brazil. The farm is linked to the Belgian capital investments company SIPEF....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 9:55am PDT
All out for OCTOBER 22nd National Day of protest agaisnt Police Brutality
Info and regional Logistics on the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Also is a post on O22 activists attacked and arrested in the twin cities...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 8:05am PDT
Help Ireland Throw a Spanner in the works of the GATS Machine.
Help Ireland Throw a Spanner in the works of the GATS (http://www.gatswatch.org/index.html) Machine. A call to action Ireland (http://www.indymedia.ie/article133/) to anti-GATS campaigners worldwide....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 6:18am PDT
Chem & Bio Warfare Tests Info
A follow up to discussions of chemical and biologocal warfare tests....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 4:11am PDT
US exploits famine to push GM 'foods'
us tells african countries: 'beggars cant be choosers'...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 2:03am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Oct 14/15: Michael Parenti; Vieques update; Election 2000 docu
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Monday/Tuesday Oct 14/15, 2002:
-Oct 15: RObert Knight and the Knight Report (5 min)
-Oct 15: Dennis Bernstein interview Michael Parenti, on the real reasons behind US attack on Iraq (17 min)
-Oct 14: Vieques Update: Robert Rabin free after six months in prison for trespassing on his native soil (15 min)
-Oct 14 and 15: exerpts from the great new documentary, 'Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election' about Bush's stealing the 2000 election in Florida...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 12:59am PDT
Biotic Baking Brigade strikes in New Zealand
The public face of the Pro GE lobby group New Zealand Life Sciences Network (LSN), William Rolleston, was on the receiving end of a hand-to-face pie. The meticulously planned operation left Rolleston licking his lips just minutes before the AGM of the LSN at the Westpac Trust Stadium....
Posted: Tue, Oct 15, 2002 5:04pm PDT