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Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy....

For Israelis it is the battle of remembering. "Never Again!" is an imperative that is meaningless if not extended to the rest of humanity...As difficult a task as it is for Israelis to maintain their humanity, the demands made on Palestinians are in another category altogether. While the challenge for Israelis is remembering, that confronting Palestinians is forgetting-forgetting the constant brutal reminders that you are less than fully human; forgetting the poison that must inevit...

The lessons learned by the US military during the Vietnam war and their application to the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with particular reference to casualty figures....

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week made a clear threat to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an interview to mark the Jewish New Year holiday. Sharon reiterated an earlier threat to expel Arafat from the Palestinian territories at a “convenient” time. But he went on to stress that he saw no difference between Arafat and Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in March, and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, who was killed the following month....

Paramilitaries used to back ouster of Aristide on Feb.29, 2004 are now in struggle with phony "civil society" faction of coup regime. The ultimate victims continue to be poor Lavalas/Aristide supporters. Waters: ""The United States, France and Canada created this mess, and they have an obligation to clean it up. There can be no democracy in Haiti until these thugs and killers are disarmed."...

As Indonesians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, the East Timor Action Network (ETAN) stated, "No matter which presidential candidate prevails, the Indonesian military has already won."...

n Iraqi group calling itself Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Brigades has claimed to have abducted 10 employees from an "American-Turkish" company operating in Iraq. The group threatened in a videotape obtained by Aljazeera, to kill the captives if the company failed to cease operations and pull out of Iraq within three days....

The week Iraq's dream of peace fell apart: 300 civilian lives lost; 16 coalition troops killed; 17 foreign hostages killed; three headless corpses found; battles rage in Fallujah, Basra, Hillah and Ramadi; Kofi Annan declares the war illegal; and US shifts $3.4bn from reconstruction to security...

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....

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