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44 killed in US air strikes near Fallujah: health ministry
A badly wounded Iraqi girl receives medical treatment at a hospital in Fallujah. At least 44 people were killed as US forces continued their relentless strikes against targets allegedly connected to Al-Qaeda-linked extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi near Fallujah....
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 10:08am PDT
Lebanese slam US double standards regarding Israel's occupations of Lebanon and Palestine
Obeid slammed the U.S. Congress' latest call on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon and U.S. criticism of Syria and Lebanon on human rights grounds. "The U.S. Congress would do better to focus on human rights violations in the West Bank and in Iraq."
He said Lebanon was being asked to deal with the issue of the national anti-Israeli resistance without bearing in mind that there is Lebanese land still under Israeli occupation....
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 8:32am PDT
US soldier's mother vents fury at Laura Bush
A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of a soldier killed in Iraq has been detained after she interrupted a campaign speech by US first lady Laura Bush....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 11:09pm PDT
Iraqi Kidnapping has Mark of Undercover Police Op - Left Media Catching On, Finally
In the eight days since their abduction, pleas for their release have crossed all geographical, religious and cultural lines. The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah, the International Association of Islamic Scholars and several Iraqi resistance groups have all voiced outrage. A resistance group in Falluja said the kidnap suggests collaboration with foreign forces. Yet some voices are conspicuous by their absence: the White House and the office of Allawi. Neither has said a word.
Wh...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 2:08pm PDT
U-Lock bike locks defeatable by ballpoint pen
Certain kinds of bicycle U-Locks can be opened using a ball point pen...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 12:04am PDT
NGO Workers Captured In Iraq
Last week two Italian NGO workers and two of
their Iraqi co-workers were kidnapped. While details are slim it is believed that the kidnappers may be based in Falluja -- the site of renewed American bombing and counterinsurgency activities. Because of these American military manoeuvors, negotiations for the release of the
NGOers are difficult and Falluja continues to become an expanding graveyard.
Independent journalists who have travelled to the region have confirmed that these people ar...
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 7:42pm PDT
Iraq war illegal, says Annan
The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 7:26pm PDT
35,000+ Indigenous Colombians March Against Violence, Free Trade
About 40,000 Indians from southwest Colombia marched on Tuesday to protest against abuse of their communities by forces fighting the country's 40-year-old war. The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia says 57 Indians have been killed and 4,500 forced from their homes in the conflict this year....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 1:52pm PDT
Iraqi ambulances targeted by US snipers
US snipers target ambulances in Ramadi, killing women and children. The war crimes of GW Bush continue.....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 10:57am PDT
Northern pipeline blown up in Iraq
A multiple oil pipeline in northern Iraq has been blown up by saboteurs....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 5:07pm PDT
New Animal Rights Website Launched
A new website for animal rights activists to use has been launched.
A.R.M.O.R.Y (Animal Rights Media Online Repository) is an open access resource site designed to allow anyone to upload/download any form of useful media....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 3:50pm PDT
An Anarchist Perspective of Australian High School Life
Let us analyse our school days. Let us dissect the pre-determined routine that is imposed upon us, regardless of our needs and desires. The unsolicited schedules and activities that we are forced to comply with. Though were we consulted?...
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 3:11pm PDT
Bush/Cheney agenda = Operation ENDURING FAILURE
from Afghanistan to $Trillions of mounting national Debt, the Bush Regime is driving the U.S. economy(& what's left of the previous American motto of "freedom & democracy")into a true "ABYSS of EVIL." Voting for Bush/Cheney in 2004 will be formal endorsement of Operation Enduring Failure......
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 1:04pm PDT
Economics for a Shrinking Planet
The expansion of humanity's ecological impact on the planet cannot continue much longer without violating natural thresholds. To survive, we must develop a new way of thinking about our economic activities. This article briefly describes the author's approach to such a new mode of thought....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 10:22am PDT
The conscientious objectors go free
"It is hard to defeat youngsters who refuse to cooperate with continuous anomaly. It is hard to prevent the trickling down of the objectors' message, and hard to ignore their accumulative influence on the revulsion the public feels toward the occupation and the settlement movement, which prevents putting an end to it."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 9:12am PDT
Turkey warns US on northern Iraq
Turkey says it will end cooperation with the US in Iraq if the Americans continue with their offensive in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar....
Posted: Mon, Sep 13, 2004 8:20pm PDT
Palestinians, Israelis, and Int'ls Rally Against the Wall
A concrete wall is rapidly being built to surround the Al-Ram
neighborhood from all sides. Tens of thousands of people, the entire
community of this East Jerusalem neighborhood (the vast majority of
whom are official residents of Jerusalem, paying municipal taxes and
holding "blue" Jerusalem IDs) will be closed inside a ghetto,
isolated from the rest of the world....
Posted: Mon, Sep 13, 2004 1:05am PDT
Over 100 Iraqis die in 24 hours
At least 110 people were killed across Iraq in a sharp escalation of anti-US forces violence that saw gun battles, car bombs and bombardments....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 6:07pm PDT