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UN, US, Lebanese People and Church to Syria: LEAVE LEBANON!
UN, US, Lebanese People and Church to Syria: LEAVE LEBANON!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 3:57pm PDT
6000 Bicyclists Terrorrize NYC
Here is a report back from one Northern Californian who joined the largest Critical Mass ride in NYC history and was one of those 264 cyclists wrongfully arrested....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 3:47pm PDT
September 4 International Day in Solidarity with Palestinian
Prisoners' Hunger Strike!
Since August 15, more than 3,500 Palestinian prisoners have joined
the strike protesting conditions that are contrary to both
international as well as Israel's own military law. Another 4,000
prisoners are expected to join the strike in the upcoming days,
including women, children and prisoners....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 10:30am PDT
Dozens killed, wounded in Sadr City clashes
At least 17 Iraqis have been killed and 96 wounded in fierce clashes between US soldiers and fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Health Ministry official said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 6:43am PDT
ISM Announcements and Updates
1. International Solidarity Movement, (ISM), Activists Join
Palestinian Political Prisoners and Stage Hunger Strike; Women and
Children, Joined by ISM, March in Tulkarem to Support Prisoner
Demands
2. Interview with Fadwa Barghouti, Wife of Imprisoned Marwan
Barghouti
3. Update on British Journalist Detained 21 Days as of September 1,
2004...
Posted: Sun, Aug 29, 2004 10:27am PDT
US torturers in Afghanistan were redeployed to Iraq
American intelligence officers, in interviews with journalists, have alleged that US military interrogators involved in the atrocities at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were also involved in earlier cases of prisoner abuse that took place in Afghanistan. This helps give the lie to official claims that the Abu Ghraib crimes were the independent actions of low-level soldiers and not the result of a deliberate policy aimed at bullying and intimidating the Iraqi people into accepting the occupation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:07pm PDT
Blair's world of 'lies and bullying'
Greg Dyke, former director-general of the BBC, today lays bare the astonishing inside story of the war waged by the Prime Minister and Downing Street against the BBC over its coverage of the Iraq war and the controversial issue of weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:02pm PDT
Shia clerics deny opposing Iraqi resistance
Iraq's top Shia authority is denying media reports that it has opposed armed resistance against the US occupation of the country....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 10:47pm PDT
Black Friday for U.S. Empire today
From the basketball "Nightmare Team" to the successful repulse of U.S. Invasion troops from Najaf, today was a Black Friday for all USA Imperial ambitions......
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 3:56am PDT
Najaf Standoff Ends
US forces out of Najaf as thousands of Shia flood the mosque of Imam Ali. Thousands dead from the past few weeks of US bombing. Imam al Sistani is given control of the Mosque of Imam Ali. Some militants keep their weapons, leery of those who have collaborated with the US "It (al-Mahdi Army) includes honourable fighters from the Iraqi people who have been fighting to defend their country, land, sanctuaries and doctrine," Is how the al Mahdi militants have been described. Needle...
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 4:20pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/27/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.1MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 5:00pm PDT
Notes from the West Bank -- Build, Demolish, Rebuild
The sheer magnitude of the oppression of the Palestinians is almost overwhelming_far greater than last year and getting worse. It's hard to find words to describe...We have group discussions over lunch and dinner most days, and it's amazing to hear how casually so many people_and, interestingly enough, particularly the Israelis_talk about being non-Zionist and can do so without automatically being labeled anti-Semitic or Israel-hating. It's a refreshing change to encounter so many people who ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 11:05am PDT
Cardinal denounces killing of homeless in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 25 (CNA/CWNews.com) - Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Sao Paulo, Brazil, issued an official statement this week condemning the anonymous attacks on homeless migrant people, which in less than a week have left six dead and another ten seriously wounded....
Posted: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 1:56am PDT
Iraqi Resistance Report 08/ 19-22 /04
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 19 August 2004 through
Sunday, 22 August 2004. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu
Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice...
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 8:08am PDT
Restoring human health without animal cruelty
The future will remember the brave people at SHAC who first stood against the immense monolith of corporate animal testing cruelty for a more humane world.....
Posted: Tue, Aug 24, 2004 9:45am PDT
200 Birds: The First Victims of Dimona's Nuclear Reactor
GAZA, August 24, 2004 (IPC + Al Bayan) -- Israeli environmental officials declared that about 200 migrating birds between Africa and Europe died when they stopped near the Israeli nuclear reactor Dimona....
Posted: Tue, Aug 24, 2004 7:21am PDT
S. KOREA, "Summer Struggle"...
...a great experience of unity and solidarity...
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 10:11pm PDT
Interview with human shield Ken O'Keefe (pt.1)
An in-depth interview with "human shield" Ken O'Keefe during his recent Japan tour, on direct action for Palestine, standing up to US military might in Iraq, the legacy of Hiroshima....and the better world to come...
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 9:42pm PDT