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Discussion of an Inside Job
According to those close to George W. Bush, in the course of the morning, the Secret Service received a telephone call from those behind the attacks, apparently in order to make demands. To give credence to their demands, the masterminds revealed the secret codes giving access to the secure telephone lines available to the president...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 9:55pm PDT
EDWARD SAID: The Meaning of Rachel, Of Dignity and Solidarity
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Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 9:08pm PDT
Why Diversity in Higher Education (Affirmative Action) is Necessary Still in America
Race has often been the deciding factor. The original U.S. Constitution did not recognize slaves as full human beings, let alone citizens. It's not surprising that southern states made no provision for their education. But southern laws went further than that. Slave owners considered Black literacy so dangerous that was illegal for African Americans (whether slave or free) to learn to read, or for anyone to teach them. Until 1905, when the Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional, Ca...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 8:57pm PDT
AUDIO: Elaine Hagopian on US attack on Syrian soldiers. Death toll in Iraq. Francis Boyle
Monday, June 23, 2003...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 8:17pm PDT
Burned Iraqi Children Said Turn Away
Anyone who doubts the appropriateness of applying the term "antichrist stormtroopers" to anyone who has participated in any way in the Iraqi genocide should feel the intense personal shame of the soldier in the shocking article below:
``After today, I wonder if I will still be able to carry the title 'soldier' with any pride at all,'' said Borell....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 7:58pm PDT
Court rules HIV not proven to cause 'AIDS'.
After years of claims by the AIDS establishment that a link between HIV and immune supression had been established a High Court found the claim without merit and a unfounded deception. This is the first legal trail of the HUV/AIDS hypothesis and a historic defeat for AID$ Inc....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 6:39pm PDT
Real 'NY Times' Scandal: Hyping WMDs in Iraq
In a May 20 speech to graduates of Barnard College, New York Times correspondent Judith Miller called upon the media and military to examine the program of embedding journalists with U.S. troops during the Iraq war. "Journalists need to draw conclusions about whether journalistic objectivity was compromised during the war; the military needs to consider whether the strain of taking care of us, and protecting us, and giving us dangerous information was an undue burden on the military. We ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 4:42pm PDT
Slaughtergate
Slaughtergate
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
They owe an explanation to the American people and to the world for the carnage they caused with their lies and exaggerations. There must be a reckoning....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 2:48pm PDT
Obedience Pledge Required for Government Workers
 Iraqi's in the city of Hillah are threatening to strike if the Coaliton Provisional Authority doesn't back off its latest demands that government workers sign a document pledging obedience....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 2:00pm PDT
CAPITALISM KILLS!
An exhaustive peer-reviewed study from Canada's most prestigious medical system shows that if Canada converted to a for-profit health care system thousands would die needlessly each year because for-profit hospitals put cash before people!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 9:47am PDT
UK: Blair's former Environmental Minister Criticizes GMOs
From the Sunday Independent. Michael Meacher, Blair's former environmental secretary criticizes the lack of scientific research to establish the safety of GMOs....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 9:09am PDT
"Superweeds": Setback for GMO Crops
breaking news from the London Independent...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 8:58am PDT
JOSE BOVE ARRESTED!
French Anti-Globalization leader, Jose Bove, was arrested at his farmhouse by nearly 100 Policemen. Militants from the Peasant Confederation demonstrate in the courtyard of Rodez's police headquarters to protest the arrest of anti-globalization hero Jose Bove(AFP/Eric Cabanis)...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 7:56am PDT
CBS 60 Minutes on IIT : Whiz Kids or Migrant Workers?
CBS 60 Minutes claims that IIT is MIT + Princeton + Harvard in India. True. But what about in the USA? An IITian (Bombay) explores gender, caste inequality, brain drain, outdated grading system etc in a personal, yet critical set of essays....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 6:54am PDT
Bremmer decides to sell Iraq...wonder who he'll sell it to?
Gee you think the Iraqi's might be allowed to have something to say about if thier companies and resources should be sold and to who? We are bringing them Democracy and Freedom after all...aren't we?...
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 2:37am PDT
Congo Situation Very Confused; Mixed Reason for Hope
Life in Congo has never been easy but the violence that made up its five year civil war and the recent wave of ethnic atrocities have been particularly hideous and repugnant....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 1:05am PDT
José Bové a été arrêté puis écroué.
Jose Bove leader of French Confederation Paysanne was arrest this morning at 6 am in his Farm by big policies forces...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 7:37am PDT
Mon 6/24, SEIU: CALL IN TO SUPPORT UNION DEMOCRACY
ON MONDAY 6/23, join fellow workers in the Northeast by call SEIU
President Andy Stern at 1-800-424-8592 to demand democracy in the
Northeast:
-STOP ATTACKING AND DENYING REPRESENTATION TO UNION DISSIDENTS
-END THE TRUSTEESHIPS. HOLD FAIR ELECTIONS IN BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA and
NEW YORK...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 7:08am PDT