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1/19 Haiti Update
Agence Haitienne Presse is an independent news agency based in Haiti...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 11:15pm PST
Spring Equinox 2004 Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes - Mexico
This is the Spring Equinox 2004 Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes & Eco-Village Project(s) in La Paz County. Baja California Sur, Mexico: March 15th - 30th, 2004...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 3:23pm PST
Lebanon says UN probe found Israeli bulldozer hit on its soil
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said that a UN investigation had found that an Israeli military bulldozer hit by a Hezbollah rocket attack was in Lebanese territory at the time of the strike....
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 1:34pm PST
Montesinos in Court on FARC Gun-Running Charges
Rightwing Peruvian spymaster Montesinos is being accused of running guns to the FARC. In Peru Montesinos was known for his violent anti-Communist views and is thought to have been working for the CIA. Does this mean the CIA is/was secretly funding both sides in the war in Colombia?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 9:27am PST
More Afghan civilians killed by US
Four children were among 11 people killed when a US air strike targeted an Afghan village in southern Oruzgan province, local officials say....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 7:28pm PST
Fresh clashes in Haitian capital
Police have fired tear gas in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in fresh clashes with anti-government demonstrations on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 7:27pm PST
*Deep Reality* at www.antiwar.com
www.antiwar.com is now a Go To website for Deep Reality about the Bush Regime. Today's essay by Justin Raimondo exposes the latest NeoCon reality: Conrad Black's company, who fired him alleging looting of $200 million has many NeoCons on its corporate board including Richard Perle, Henry Kissinger...and more...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 11:42am PST
Human Rights are not Abstract
"Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes warned that the idea of freedom could atrophe to neoliberal liberation from social respnsibility and freedom rights could have only trade, investments and capital transactions as their object.."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 6:12am PST
Daily Double-Shot of Reality: Iraq
Article sums up status of Iraq. There will be no *democracy*. The US will maintain bases there to rule Iraq and the Middle East until the oil is gone. Turnover to a puppet regime in June means turning over accountability and blame while retaining for the Bush Regime the real power in Iraq. Bush lied again......
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 12:00am PST
Mexico: Armed Riot Police Storm Tlalnepantla, Morelos
The town of Tlalnepantla, Morelos, Mexico faces brutal repression as it declares itself autonomous....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 9:17pm PST
Israel to fight World Court's jurisdiction
Israel plans to challenge officially the World Court's right to rule on whether it should tear down an apartheid wall it is building seizing and cutting off parts of the occupied West Bank into Israel....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 1:03pm PST
Mexico Case Study Complete: Poor women worse off after NAFTA
The case study provides, for the first time, an accurate and quantifiable picture of how NAFTA affected women differently from men, and shows that the negative consequences of trade agreements often have an even greater impact on poor women....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 12:00pm PST
Day One at the World Social Forum in India
Over one-hundred and twenty thousand delegates
of the "world's second superpower" converged today at this historic international gathering of those who believe that the current rules of
economic globalization are creating a future of war, inequality and environmental degradation and that “a better world is possible.”...
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 11:58am PST
How The US Media Treats Post-Saddam Iraq
Break past the media lies and spin and read from real Iraqis just trying to get by as the war rages around them....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 11:57am PST
Open Letter to San Francisco area IndyMedia
The recent split betewwn sf.indymedia and indybay leaves me, as a naive but sincere reader, with one question. Which site should I visit?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 8:06pm PST
Human rights groups: US may be guilty of “collective punishment” war crime in Iraq
US military forces in Iraq appear to be committing war crimes by detaining the relatives of suspected insurgents and demolishing their homes, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international human rights organization....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 6:17pm PST
1/17 Urgent Update from Kate Raphael
Well, the hearing in my case today did not go well. The judge felt I was acting in
bad faith and had, in fact, only thought about making Aliyah after signing the
agreement to leave on the 17th. Gaby (attorney) thinks it is important that people fax the Minister of Interior, preferably by
Sunday morning but after is still good....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 11:28am PST
US casualties in Iraq rise to 500
Three US soldiers and two Iraqis have been killed in a bomb attack on a patrol north of the capital Baghdad, the US military says....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 11:03am PST
Death beat goes on in Iraq
TIKRIT, Iraq - The number of American service members who have died in the Iraq conflict since war started last March reached 500 Saturday after a roadside bomb exploded near Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi civil defense troopers....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 9:06am PST