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Over 50 countries poorer, hungrier than before: UN report
International assistance aimed at helping poorer nations develop is failing and must be drastically reexamined if the world is to meet targets it has set for reducing poverty, hunger, and illness. TheUN report says 54 nations are poorer now than they were in 1990, while life expectancy fell in 34 countries -- primarily because of HIV/AIDS. And it found that the populations in 21 countries are hungrier today than they were in 1990. The reality is, European farmers get a US$3 subsidy for ev...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 12:05am PDT
Charlie Reese: 'Convoy' attacked near Syrian border turns out to be non-military
U.S. forces in a nearby village also killed a young mother and a little girl. The Pentagon was probably too embarrassed to admit that they killed innocent people for no good reason....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 11:50pm PDT
Norman Finkelstein - 'I Won't Take The Insults'
"You're supposed to lie down and take the insults, and I'm not going to do it," Finkelstein says. "The level of arrogance of these people just boggles the mind."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 11:19pm PDT
Israelis force Palestinian children to hold guns than photograph them for propaganda
Wondering whether some of these pro-Israeli pictures depicting Palestinian babies and children with guns are real? These two articles document a racist assault against a Palestinian-American child (he was born in California!) whom Israeli soldiers forced to dress as a militiant. The US State Department and media, of course, declined to investigate....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 11:09am PDT
Stephen Zunes on Israel's special ability to get loans from the US which are really grants
The link at the bottom of the article has all sorts of information on it like aid totals given to Israel and loans which are almost always forgiven, therefore they are actually outright grants even though they are normally not considered part of the 4-6 Billion dollars Israel gets annually....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 10:06am PDT
Edward S. Herman: The road map, Israeli racism, and unmentionable discourse in the media
But Ignatieff would never say that "racial contempt is an official ideology" in Israel, although the facts in that case would warrant such a statement....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 4:52am PDT
VIDEO: Ralph Nader on the Iraq war, Israel/Palestine and the solution to this conflict
On June 14, former Green Party Presidential candidate and Lebanese-American Ralph Nader gave his first major address on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was speaking at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee convention in Washington D.C. He talked about civil liberties; the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and in this speech gave the most comprehensive address he has to date on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The national listener-sponsored radio and television show Democracy ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 3:38am PDT
Prominent Israeli History Professor, Ilan Pappe Praises Jenin Book
Despite a year of a ceaseless attempts by the Israeli government and media to discount the war crimes committed in the refugee camp of Jenin in April, 2002, the truth of what many believe to have been a massacre, has forced itself on the conscience of humanity in a forceful and compelling way. Many believe that “Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion”, edited by Ramzy Baroud, with a preface by Noam Chomsky, played a key role in reversing the tide, by presenting a worthy ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 10:05am PDT
Rabbi charged with incitement to racism against Arabs
"Baruch Goldstein can be justified. He was 100 percent sane. So sane, in fact, that he was able to overcome the fear of Arabs and take action, in a show of complete self-sacrifice, for the people of Israel. This action is a sanctification of God's name...
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 2:10pm PDT
Evidence of Zionists bombing Jewish neighborhoods in Arab countries to get them to migrate
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Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 1:09pm PDT
AUDIO: Kristen Ess: Israeli Occupation Forces Continue Targeting and Killing Palestinians
6/27/2003 -- Each week Kristen Ess files reports and gives voice to Palestinians, providing a necessary forum for understanding and ending the human rights disaster in Occupied Palestine....
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 10:58am PDT
Would you buy a used syndrome from this man
IF YOU STILL BELIEVE IN HIV/AIDS YOU HAVE....
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 3:06am PDT
The historical mistreatment of Jews under Arab/Muslim rule
Time and again it is alleged that Jews had it good under Arab/Muslim rule -- until the establishment of Israel. This is pure fiction....
Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2003 10:30pm PDT
Traces of poison -- History of Israel's use of chemical weapons on civilians
Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent....
Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2003 5:17pm PDT
New media landscape unnerves black press
The Henrys say their newspaper and others in the black press have become a pillar of the African-American community, right behind the family and the church. But now they fear that pillar could collapse in the wake of a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission to relax media ownership restrictions....
Posted: Wed, Jul 2, 2003 10:49pm PDT
ari fleischer on free speech.
the mouth of the shite house with words of wisdom and warning about free speech....
Posted: Wed, Jul 2, 2003 10:26pm PDT
VOTE ON INTERNATIONAL BIGOT BERLUSCONI AT PIRATE WEBSITE
The first article below is the url to a vote on Berlusconi:
http://users.pandora.be/wouter247/berlusconi.htm
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Please note that 3 articles follow:
*Will this be the hope and future of the Union?
*Web pirate attacks Berlusconi
*Berlusconi embroiled in 'Nazi' insult...
Posted: Wed, Jul 2, 2003 10:36am PDT
AUDIO: Robert Fisk on the Iraqi resistance, Palestine/Israel, & attitudes in the region
Monday, June 30, 2003...
Posted: Tue, Jul 1, 2003 8:32pm PDT
California's Population Explosion Due To Immigration
Virtually 100% of California's population explosion between 1990 and 2000 (and continuing through 2002) was the result of a massive inflow of immigrants and births to immigrants, not from internal growth, according to two separate studies commissioned by Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a non-profit group dedicated to stricter management of the state's population size....
Posted: Tue, Jul 1, 2003 7:08pm PDT