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Likud votes down Gaza withdrawal Exit polls in Israel indicate that the governing Likud party has rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out from the Gaza strip....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 1:08pm PDT
US suffers multiple attacks in Iraq A mortar attack has killed six US soldiers in western Iraq, with five more dying in other parts of the occupied country....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 11:46am PDT
Saddam General in Falluja Questions U.S. Demands FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The general from Saddam Hussein's army put in charge of the volatile city of Falluja challenged his U.S. backers Sunday, saying they were wrong to say foreign Islamic guerrillas were behind an insurgency there....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 11:08am PDT
Remembering Falluja Here is a compelling article on Falluja from the Israeli paper, Haaretz. It contains a defense of Al Jazeera news service, and a summary of the slaughter.
While the article does a great job of explaining some aspects of Falluja deleted by the US capitalist media, it does not hail the resistance of the united Iraqi people against U.S. imperialism. The people of the world can take pride in the heroic resistance, which proves that imperialism's grip on Iraqi can be challenged, and points...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 9:29am PDT
Cinco horas de protesta en Quito/1o de Mayo en Am Latina Ayer, en las marchas por el Día de Trabajo participaron alrededor de 40 mil personas. Representantes de los movimientos sociales se ubicaron detrás de una gran bandera roja donde se leía: "Trabajadores y fuerzas populares, fuera Gutiérrez, Gobierno popular"....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 8:58am PDT
Abortion, "reproductive rights", homosexuality and so on... THE BILLIONAIRE BOMB Just look who's funding anti-population programs.
Bill Gates ($63 billion), Warren Buffett ($28 billion), and Ted Turner ($9 billion) have billions on their minds, and not just in their bank accounts and stock portfolios. On a planet inhabited by 6 billion people, they claim that overpopulation is the greatest threat to survival in the 21st century — “the single most important issue facing mankind today,” according to Turner, founder of the Cable News Network (CNN).
Turner statement ...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:44am PDT
ROBERT FISK: Crude depictions of Arabs in Hollywood movies has led to racist abuse in Iraq Add to that the poisonous, racial dribble of a hundred Hollywood movies that depict Arabs as dirty, lecherous, untrustworthy and violent people - and soldiers are addicted to movies - and it's not difficult to see how some British scumbag will urinate into the face of a hooded man, how some American sadist will stand a hooded Iraqi on a box with wires tied to his hands. Even today, we still show the revolting Ashanti on our television stations, a feature film about the kidnapping of the wife ...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 10:40pm PDT
Mexican Student Activist Found Dead: Justice for Pavel Mexican Student Activist Found Dead: Justice for Pavel...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 9:36pm PDT
Warnings of abuse in Iraq's prisons that were ignored Photographs of American and British troops humiliating prisoners could change the public mood across the world. But the coalition has brushed aside similar complaints for six months...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 7:52pm PDT
US report 'confirms' serial Iraq abuse An American magazine has reported that Iraqi prisoners faced numerous "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" by US soldiers including sodomy and beatings....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 7:44pm PDT
Seven Westerners killed in attack in Saudi Arabia, one reportedly dragged behind car RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Gunmen entered the office of an oil contractor in Saudi Arabia and began shooting at random Saturday, killing at least seven people, including two American engineers. They then dragged one body down the street, a witness said....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 5:08pm PDT
Families return to devastated Falluja Hundreds of Iraqi families are returning to their homes in Falluja, west of the capital, after a month-long siege of the city by US occupation forces....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 3:39pm PDT
British Troops Clash with Iraqi Shi'ite Militia AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three British soldiers and an Iraqi policemen were wounded in a rare clash between British forces and the Shi'ite Mehdi Army in south Iraq on Saturday, a British officer said....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 10:57am PDT
'I asked for help and warned of this but nobody would listen' After an investigation was launched into the alleged abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick decided to keep a journal to ensure his side of the story would be revealed. The journals seen by the Guardian begin on January 19 2004 and detail the conditions of the prisoners, apparent torture, and the death of one inmate after interrogation....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 10:41am PDT
WILLIAM COOK: Both Democrats and Republicans take the same positions on the ME and Israel cannot the fourth largest military in the world, defending a population of five million, care for itself against a population that has no army, air force, or navy but only the stones created by the demolition of homes by the IDF? And should we, after all, pay for the removal of the Gaza settlements as Sharon has requested after we paid for them to be built in the first place despite whispering to Sharon that he should cease building them? After fifty-seven years of support to the 16th wealthi...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 1:40am PDT
Sexual humiliation of Iraqi men Public stripping might not faze a queer and/or hip Australian man -- but it could devastate an Arab Muslim man....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 10:55pm PDT
California governor's Israel trip disappoints Arab-Americans ANAHEIM, California - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plans for a 24-hour trip to Israel have angered some Arab-Americans, who say he hasn't set aside time to hear from Palestinians....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 8:23pm PDT
Macedonia faked 'militant' raid Macedonian officials have admitted that seven alleged Pakistani militants killed in March 2002 were in fact illegal immigrants shot in cold blood....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 7:16pm PDT
Around 1,361 Iraqis killed in April's violence, 10 times the U.S. death toll BAGHDAD, Iraq – Volunteers hunting for bodies in Fallujah find a woman and her daughter in their home, killed in the siege but undiscovered for days. Chanting mourners bury two boys caught in the crossfire of a Baghdad gunfight. A morgue in Basra overflows with torn and burned bodies from a suicide bombing....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 3:03pm PDT
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