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Iraq's Strategic collapse A year and a half after its "liberation", Iraq appears to be coming apart at the seams. Hassan Hamid reports from Baghdad...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 11:23pm PDT
Hepatitis spreads in 2 Iraqi districts BAGHDAD A virulent form of hepatitis that is especially lethal for pregnant women has broken out in two of Iraq's most troubled districts, Iraqi Health Ministry officials said in interviews here this week, and they warned that a collapse of water and sewage systems in the country is probably at the root of the illnesses....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 11:22pm PDT
The Republican campaign to suppress the Black vote The African American people from slavery to today have had to wage a hard, bitter and bloody struggle for the right to vote. The right to vote, therefore, is sacred; it is a basic part of achieving full democracy, including equality for all.
Eighty-three percent of Black registered voters told CBS/BET they would definitely vote this year. That is up from the record 71 percent Black turnout in 2000. It would be a decisive factor in the defeat of George W. Bush and the ultra-right Republican...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 11:19pm PDT
Washington turns its back on Haitian catastrophe Nature has dealt a cruel blow to the people of Haiti, deepening the intense suffering and oppression that centuries of imperialist domination have inflicted upon the Caribbean nation’s impoverished population....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 11:17pm PDT
Action Alert: Bombs to Israel Action Alert: U.S. to give 5,000 "smart bombs" to Israel...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:46pm PDT
"Finally It Broke My Heart" -- Random Impressions from Palestine A few weeks spent in Palestine is always an assault on the senses, on the emotions. And after three trips to the West Bank in the past eighteen months, it is impossible not to draw some conclusions. For most Americans, the eleventh commandment of the politics of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is Thou Shalt Not Reach Conclusions, for conclusions that Israel wants the land of Palestine without the people; that the Israeli settlements, the roads accessible only to Israelis, the land confisca...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 8:37am PDT
Disparaging treatment toward Black Cowboys and Black Farmers The 'Crown Jewel' of our California State Fair Network continues to decline in attendance as a direct result of disparaging treatment towards Black Cowboys and Black Farmers....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:30am PDT
Violence erupts in Haiti Violence erupts in Haiti as survivors fight for food and water
PORT-AU-PRINCE - The floodwaters are beginning to recede in the Haitian city of Gonaives, revealing the extent of the devastation brought by tropical storm Jeanne....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 8:01pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/24/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Russia, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 5:12pm PDT
IT'S ALWAYS PALESTINIAN PROPERTY THAT IS SEIZED FOR THE APARTHEID WALL. No Justice. No Peace.
http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Index.asp.
A Blessing on the Olive Trees! and the people of Palestine!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 1:45pm PDT
Boycott of Israel strikes a responsive chord In a report to the to the UN General Assembly early last month, [John] Dugard [South African law professor] said there is "an apartheid regime" in the territories "worse than the one that existed in South Africa".
Dugard was a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the end of the apartheid regime. In May, he called for an arms embargo against Israel similar to the one imposed on South Africa in 1977....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 7:41pm PDT
Spanish shipyard workers block railways and clash with police 
Izar rebelde!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 1:01pm PDT
US military toll in Afghanistan rising Three American soldiers have been killed in eastern Afghanistan this week, the US military says....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 6:28am PDT
W is "best al Qaeda recruiting sergeant" UK Ambassador to Italy Sir Ivor Roberts unabashedly called the U.S. pResident Bush "the best recruiting sergeant of al Qaeda" last weekend, according to Italian papers....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 1:51am PDT
UN Conference on Palestine Sets Stage for the 59th UN General Assembly UN Conference on Palestine creates background for UN General Assemby Action...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 11:00pm PDT
U.S. Muslims React to Exclusion of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, September 22, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference in Washington, D.C., in reaction to today's exclusion from the United States of Yusuf Islam, an internationally-known Muslim activist and educator....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 10:51pm PDT
US forces attack Sadr City US tanks raided the Baghdad area of Sadr City in the early hours of Wednesday as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:07pm PDT
Coalition refines policy on pre-emptive strikes The Coalition has re-fashioned its policy of unilateral pre-emptive strikes against terrorist strongholds overseas after regional governments expressed disquiet and disbelief after the proposal was raised again at the weekend by the [Australian] Prime Minister....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Cat Stevens, on Government Watch List, Diverts Plane A PLANE bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine today after passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens - showed up on a US watch list, a federal official said.
United Airlines flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between the passenger and the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 6:57pm PDT
Gary Leupp: Kerry's Middle East foreign policy is little different from Bush's Kerry continues: "we are not secure while Israel, the one true democracy in the region, remains the victim of an unrelenting campaign of terror."
[Comment.] This is a democracy premised on a Jewish majority and Jewish privilege, which must not be threatened by the return of Palestinian refugees, or even by natural demographic trends that will inevitably produce a (voting) Israeli Arab majority population within decades, unless the situation is carefully engineered to sustain the...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 2:09pm PDT
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