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Well, why aren't these girls in uniforms??...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 9:07am PDT
Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 9:04am PDT
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger branded Democrats, who were delaying the state budget by catering to special interest groups, as 'girlie-men' - a comment which has been branded homophobic and sexist by both Democrats and liberal Americans....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 8:54am PDT
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 8:14am PDT
Backing down in the face of widespread protests, Yasir Arafat has replaced his cousin as Palestinian security chief and asked the former chief to return to his job...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 7:57am PDT
Second report of Break the Silence on holding the peace movment accountable....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:40pm PDT
The Israeli Mossad agent Zev Barkan has been running Asian criminal gangs used to obtain Australian Identity documents and other passports stolen from Australians Killed in Asia, a New Zealand security official has said....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:34pm PDT
...Zionists today relentlessly accuse these Western publics of anti-Semitism, of singling them out because they are Jews. For too long, the Zionists have acted with impunity against the Palestinians, because they have succeeded in using the Holocaust to shield themselves against the censure of Western publics. That makes the Occupation a perfect crime, without any perpetrators. Better yet: the perpetrators became the primary victims of those they victimize....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:06pm PDT
The rebels attack because the marines are there. The marines are there because the rebels attack. In an extraordinary dispatch, foreign correspondent of the year James Meek describes life in a Catch-22 world where a human life is valued at $500, the mercury rarely falls below 40 and the daily carnage goes largely unreported...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 8:51pm PDT
A US air strike authorised by Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi hit what were said to be trenches and fighting positions in Fallujah used by al Qaida-linked foreign fighters, killing 14 people....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 7:30pm PDT
Fallujans carrying banners reading "rebuild our houses from our oil revenues" are staging sit-in protests demanding compensation for property destroyed during last April's US military offensive....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 7:29pm PDT
Israeli and international human rights organisations have labelled as racial discrimination a government extension of a law barring Palestinians married to Israelis from obtaining their spouse's citizenship....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 7:01pm PDT
In 2000, Congressman Julian Dixon sold me out like a $2 dollar whore when, as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, he announced the CIA was not complicit in the destruction of the inner cities by crack cocaine. I'm tired of being sold out like a $2 dollar whore by Black people living the good life as my representative in our nation's capitol....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 4:37pm PDT
The new Palestinian security chief has taken command, vowing to face down fierce protests against his nomination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:13am PDT
This crisis was predictable, and its source was the aggression and occupation of Iraq by the United States. The solution is the quick end to the occupation, the installation of a government comprising all elements of the Iraqi people and the cooperation of the international community to bring stability and reconstruction.
– Iranian President Mohammad Khatami...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:08am PDT
In Occupied Brunswick, site of several demonstrations opposing the 2004 G8 Summit in South Georgia, police and military units not only outnumbered protesters by a factor of 50 to one(!), there were more of them than actual Brunswick residents. Funny thing is, the Summit wasn’t even taking place in Brunswick....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:02am PDT
Subjecting a civilian population to collective punishment is an archetypal war crime, although American disdain for the Geneva Conventions has preceded Abu Ghraib by many decades...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:57am PDT
A protester is arrested for refusing to show identification to a federal officer. An MIT alumna is arrested for leafleting the entrance of this year’s commencement. A college student who dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner is accused of falsifying a bomb threat, charged with felonies and required to undergo psychological evaluation. Eight housing activists who enter an abandoned building during a protest are held at gunpoint and charged with multiple felonies....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:50am PDT
With just a few weeks to go before the Olympic Games in Athens, preparations for the world’s biggest athletic competition are well under way. So far, international media have focused on the delayed construction of the Olympic venues, mostly ignoring the Greek government’s ecological destruction and trampling of human rights....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:44am PDT
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq, July 18 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Under summer temperatures that can soar up to 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), over 2,600 Iraqis are still being held, some for as long as 14 months, without trial in the US-run Camp Bucca desert camp on the outskirts of the southern port of Umm Qasr....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:38am PDT