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U.S. Accused of Lying About Its Troops Killing Journalists in Iraq
Reporters Without Frontiers has issued a new report titled "Two Murders And a Lie" examining the Pentagon's handling of the killing by the U.S. of two foreign journalists at the Palestine Hotel in Iraq on April 8....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:44am PST
How the US is trying to make it so it can keep troops in Iraq for years
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Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:11am PST
On The Opression Of Women In Occupied Iraq
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Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 12:30am PST
Portland IMC responds to SF Indymedia Conflict
Portlands response to whats going on...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 7:39pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/16/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 5:14pm PST
SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS — Behind the handshakes lies resistance
George W. Bush’s handlers tried to prepare a soft-landing for him during his Jan. 12-13 trip to Monterrey, Mexico, but they failed. The announcement of a new immigration proposal was mainly geared for the 2004 elections, but the timing of the announcement was planned to smooth over rough relations between the U.S. and Latin America, in particular with the host of the Special Summit of the Americas, Mexican President Vicente Fox....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 4:10pm PST
Economic crisis, threats of Jihad, and more violence in Iraq
Dahr Jamail is a freelance journalist and political activist from Anchorage, Alaska. He has come to Iraq to bear witness and write about how the US occupation is affecting the people of Iraq, since the media in the US has in large part, he believes, failed to do so....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 3:28pm PST
audio from the press conference protesting Bush's planned wreath laying on MLK's tomb
Audio from the press conference protesting Bush's planned wreath laying on the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. scheduled to happen the next day- Dr King's birthday. The press conference, organized by Rev. Tim MacDonald, president, Concerned Black Clergy, drew a diverse crowd featuring speakers from organizations including: Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Physicians for Social Responsibility, Jobs with Justice, and the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition. After the press confere...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:26pm PST
Iraqi women protest proposed changes to family laws
BAGHDAD (AFP) - About 100 Iraqi women led by a minister protested in central Baghdad against a Governing Council proposal to scrap the secular family affairs code and place it under Muslim religious jurisdiction....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:49pm PST
Iraqis protest against poll plans
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims have protested against US plans for the handover of power....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:44pm PST
1/14/2004: Haitian military officer linked to human rights violations arrested in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former Haitian military officer linked to human rights violations in his homeland was arrested Wednesday and will be deported, federal officials said Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 10:22am PST
Statement on Tom Hurndall's Death
Tom Hurndall , the British Photographer shot in Gaza while shepherding young children out of the line of fire, died this week....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:20am PST
Rebellious townspeople clash with Mexican police after declaring autonomy
Dissidents battled police Wednesday in a small town south of Mexico City after police entered to reinstate a mayor run out by opponents....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 8:53pm PST
Pentagon: Suicides of U.S. Troops Rising in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 21 U.S. troops have committed suicide in Iraq, a growing toll that represents one in seven of American "non-hostile" deaths since the war began last March, the Pentagon said on Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 5:10pm PST
British peace activist shot by IDF dies in London hospital
The Israeli embassy in London on Wednesday promised that the government would "ensure that justice is served" in the case of a British activist who died late Tuesday night, nine months after he was shot in the head by an Israel Defense Forces soldier in the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 4:56pm PST
Casualties across Iraq in more violence
A car bomb has exploded outside a police station in the central Iraqi town of Baquba, killing at least two people and injuring 29 others as the US military said another eight Iraqis have been killed during clashes....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 4:53pm PST
Paradoxical Upswing: The Growth Puzzle
"Productivity is a very important standard of economic power. Productivity measures how much an economy produces per working hour.. A computer does the work. Vast numbers of office jobs have disappeared in the United States.. Will the person disappear like the horse in agriculture?"...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:46am PST
Tom Hurndall Dies, mudered by Israeli military sniper
Tom Hurndall, shot by a Israeli sniper in April and ever since in a coma, dies in London....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 4:29pm PST
U.S. Arrests Iraq's Union Leaders
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (12/10/03) -- US occupation forces in Iraq escalated their efforts to paralyze Iraq's new labor unions with a series of arrests this weekend....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 12:57pm PST