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Please Act Immediately to Lift the Siege off Nablus, Balata and Beit Foreek!
Greetings from Nablus Under Siege....
Posted: Sun, Jan 4, 2004 11:40am PST
WSF and the Intercontinental Youth Camp 2004
The World Social Forum (WSF) 2004 together with the Intercontinental Youth Camp (IYC) 2004 are taking place in Bombay (Mumbai), India from January 16th to 21th 2004. The mobilising and organizing work is in progress. Here some impressions......
Posted: Sun, Jan 4, 2004 5:50am PST
Robert Fisk: British soldiers 'kicked Iraqi prisoner to death'
Original report by Robert Fisk...
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 11:28pm PST
The Economics of Empire
The globalist project is in crisis. Whether it can make a comeback via a Democratic or Liberal Republican presidency should not be ruled out,
especially since there are influential globalist voices
in the U.S. business community-among them George Soros-
that are voicing opposition to the unilateralist thrust
of the Bush administration.[iv] This, however, is
unlikely, and unilateralism will reign for some time to
come. We must have a healthy respect for U.S. power, but
neither must we o...
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 5:28pm PST
African American Student Gets 10 Years In Jail For Consensual Sex With A White Girl
Sex Across the Color Line: Marcus Dixon, Emett Till and the New/Old South...
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 5:24pm PST
Veterans' Drug Bills May Soar
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is considering
dramatic increases in the fees military retirees pay for
prescription drugs, a step that would roll back a
benefit extended just 30 months ago and could alienate
an important Republican constituency at the dawn of the
2004 campaign season....
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 5:17pm PST
Top Colombia rebel leader seized
Colombia has announced the capture of a top commander of the main left-wing rebel group, the FARC....
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 9:49am PST
Radical Puppetry and Protesting: Condensed
Talks about the history of radical puppetry; how it has developed into protest, and how the people use it to reclaim their commercialized public spaces....
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 12:24am PST
2003 Privacy Year In Review
Privacy in 2003: The Year In Review.
Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)...
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 8:01pm PST
Freedom From Nauru - Electronic Sit In
The Liberals in Australia and Amanda Vanstone's websites are under attack from cyber activists. In solidarity with hunger strikers on Nauru, cyber activists are staging a 'virtual sit in' creating a traffic jam through repeated visits to the above web sites - you can take part by downloading these files and suport the urgent pleas for freedom....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 7:31pm PST
January 1st - New Year Report From Baghdad
The year ended with a car bomb and both the conventional and the Baghdadi kind of fireworks...
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 6:02pm PST
US Military's Brutality, Intimidation in Al-Adamiyah Iraq
On September 24th, there was a huge demonstration in the Al-Adamiyah sector of Baghdad in support of Saddam Hussein, but even more, the demonstration was in opposition to the US occupation of Iraq. Photos were taken of the demonstrators by the Americans, and that night there were home raids and over 100 people detained, from teenagers to old men. Even some women were detained....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 5:56pm PST
Pentagon dumps Halliburton deal
The Pentagon is to axe its controversial contract with Halliburton, the company formerly headed by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, to oversee oil imports to Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 4:58pm PST
2003 Was A Deadly Year For Journalists
Thirty-six journalists were killed as a direct result of their work in 2003, with the US-led war in Iraq accounting for more than a third of the casualties, a media rights group says....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 4:15pm PST
Building Bridges Radio presents David Rovics (audio/mpeg 10.0MB)
Building Bridges Radio presents this 58 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INDYMEDIA LINK...
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 3:21pm PST
Save Our Civil Liberties Action Alert
Save Our Civil Liberties Action Alert...
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 2:49pm PST
Hundreds protest against separation fence at al-Garbiyeh
Israeli Arabs protesting Friday in Baka al-Garbiyeh against the separation fence being built next to the town. (Itzik Ben-Malki)...
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 2:12pm PST
Iraqi insurgents shoot down US chopper
Guerrillas have shot down a US military helicopter in central Iraq, killing one pilot and injuring another, officials and witnesses said....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 2:09pm PST
No Human Right to Water
"Four billion people have no access or poor access to clean drinking water..$40 billion annually would be enough to guarantee clean water.. The only thing that the UN and World Bank accomplished was the declaration that access to water is a human need, not a human right.."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 6:15am PST