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1896 of 1986 
A soldier's tragic suicide Was the tragic suicide of a British soldier his final protest against an unjust war?...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 10:52pm PDT
Why He Crushed the Oligarchs: The Importance of Hugo Chávez The turn-out in Venezuela last Sunday was huge. 94.9 percent of the electorate voted in the recall referendum. Venezuela, under its new Constitution, permitted the right of the citizens to recall a President before s/he had completed their term of office. No Western democracy enshrines this right in a written or unwritten constitution. Chavez' victory will have repercussions beyond the borders of Venezuela. It is a triumph of the poor against the rich and it is a lesson that Lula in Brazil an...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Leader of American Viginates in Afghanistan Claim to be FBI-CIA Covert OP 
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Americans running private 'war on terror' allege cover-up
Bounty hunter says fbi seized documents linking group to us government
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
KABUL: An alleged American bounty hunter on trial for allegedly running a private jail, kidnapping and torturing prisoners in Afghanistan on Monday accused Federal US agents of seizing evidence proving his links to US authorities....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 7:45pm PDT
US forces surround the offices of Iraq's Association of Muslim Scholars US occupation forces have encircled the mosque housing the office of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), Iraq's highest Sunni authority, in Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 6:34am PDT
Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote 
Caracas, Venezuela. Aug 16. (Venezuelanalysis.com).- At 4:03AM, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that according to preliminary results, Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez will continue his term until 2006....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 6:25am PDT
US Backed Iraqi Government Bans Journalists From Covering Najaf Massacre The Iraqi authorities ordered foreign journalists to leave Najaf yesterday, threatening to arrest or even shoot reporters as US marines and Iraqi government forces resumed the fight against Shia militants....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 7:04pm PDT
Mahdi Army digs in, hopes for peace deal In an exclusive interview with Aljazeera, a Muqtada al-Sadr spokesman says the Mahdi militia are prepared for any attack against Najaf, but are also ready to accept any peace intitiative....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 3:45pm PDT
Antiwar Protests Rock South Korea 
More than 10,000 Korean antiwar protesters marched on the US embassy in Seoul Aug. 15, 2004, demanding an end to the US occupation of Iraq. They also called for the total withdrawal of all South Korean troops from Iraq as well as the resignation of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun for having placed them there. The South Korean President has vowed to send up to 3,000 more troops to join the 600 already in Iraq. The South Korean government has placed a total news blackout on the story of sen...
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:14pm PDT
Factional violence flares in western Afghanistan; one commander says 21 killed KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fighters loyal to rival warlords clashed in western Afghanistan Saturday, sending tanks into the streets of a regional capital in the latest jolt to the country's shaky security ahead of national elections. More than 20 fighters were killed by one estimate....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:03am PDT
Aristide still Haiti's president: South African Foreign Affairs Minister SOUTH Africa continues to recognise deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide as the legitimately elected president of Haiti, says Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:00am PDT
Talibanism in Technology: 7 Reasons Why Women in Tech are Invisible A lot has been written about the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women, which resulted in the worldwide outcry against women wearing full-length burkhas, which rendered them invisible and the denial of their fundamental rights. However, there’s not even a whimper about the systematic Talibanism of women in technology, which has made them invisible throughout the ages. Despite a large number of talented and successful women in the field, why is it that society tends to associate only men with te...
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:57am PDT
Update On Recent Fighting From An Iraqi In Baghdad it seems that Americans, are masters in creating enemies, not only around the world, but also inside every country they "liberate", in a year and a half, this american adminstration managed to get ammounts of hate and anger towards America, more than all the past adminstration all together did in the last 50 years inspite of their foolish policy in the ME, still, this admestration, created in a year and a half, more enimies, more anit-American people, that there was ever there....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:38am PDT
Middle Eastern press round on Iraq's new leaders The Middle Eastern press largely blame US allies in Iraq for a week of bloodshed in Shia cities though some accuse radical cleric Moqtada Sadr of aggravating the situation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:28am PDT
Iraqi people want resignation of Allawi’s government: Sadr NAJAF, Iraq - Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr said on Saturday that the Iraqi people wanted the US-backed caretaker government of Iyad Allawi to resign and insisted he would not take up any post under US occupation....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:27am PDT
Many killed in US bombing of Samarra The US military has dropped a series of half-tonne bombs on a number of locations in the city of Samarra, killing at least 50 people....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 8:25am PDT
Iraqi officials resign over US 'aggression' Several Iraqi officials working within the interim government have resigned in protest of the US-led assault on Najaf and Kut....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 10:39pm PDT
US forces reoccupy heart of Najaf US marines backed by tanks and aircraft have seized the heart of the Iraqi city of Najaf in a major assault on Al-Mahdi Army fighters....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 7:13pm PDT
The Vanishing An “unbroken forest” of oaks and conifers blanketing the highlands of Iraq and Iran . . . The hills of Palestine and Lebanon, crowned with cedars and pines . . . “Dense forest growth” in arid North Africa . . . Juniper, fir and sycamore woodlands blanketing Syria, and oak groves dotting the Arabian peninsula....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 1:16pm PDT
US bombing of Iraqi city of Kut kills 72 people and wounds 148 Heavy US bombardment of Kut has killed 72 people and wounded 148, one day after clashes between police and Shia fighters in the southern Iraqi city, a Health Ministry official said....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 6:48am PDT
1896 of 1986