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i found this picture at the washington post web sites. i'll let people comment about it before i put my 2 cents in...
ISM founder Huwaida Arraf was taken into custody at Huwara Checkpoint near Nablus today after she protested the abusive treatment Palestinians were receiving from Israeli forces.
Ever notice that pro-Palestinians who protest peacefully get thrown in jail?
Good summary of some of the problems with industrializing world food supplies.
British military sources last night voiced growing concerns over the efficiency of the American-led reconstruction operation in Iraq.
Bush is saying nice things about student demonstrations in Iran. Bush may be making things worse.
By all accounts, the behind-the-scenes battle within the Bush
administration over just what information should be used, or spun, or hidden, to make the case that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to America and the rest of the world was a knockdown, drag-out fight between the facts and a zealous, highly politicized, "who needs proof?" mindset. And, at the end of the day, the truth was left writhing on the floor.
I had to really dig to find some of these stories that were formerly listed on google, and now are completely gone. Even the search on Commondreams no longer lists the major anti-Dean stories - I had to go search imcs just to find one that someone reposted. That sort of thing alarms me, when sites are actively trying to lose all negative mention of someone.
Is Dean really worth all this just because he's pro-gay rights?? He's not an environmentalist (brought big box places to beautiful Vermont), he's against medical marijuana (a doctor!), he only decided to be against the war in Iraq when it became clear that the others he was up against would support it (so he could distinguish himself), he is a self-described pro-AIPAC Zionist, and he believes the Palestinian violence is not due to the occupation but to 'terrorism itself.' Wake up Dean supporters! Switch to Green or vote Kucinich. Dean will sell us all out in a heartbeat. He only appears 'liberal' because Vermont voters forced him to be. Take a look at some of these stories, and decide for yourself.
The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq plans to censor the country's press.
HEALTHCARE UNIONS END STRIK E
Striking Doctors and Workers Leave Occupied Hospitals, Prepare to Return to Work Fifth Round of CAFTA Negotiations Begin Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Looks like PNAC right on schedule...schedule
"Many private American households have exhausted their credit limits with banks and credit card firms..The average debt service of a US household has reached a record of 14 percent of disposable income..Altogether the private debt of American households rose to an historic high of $1.7 trillion and the number of personal bankruptcies climbed around five percent last year..Very different signals are given to American consumers because no one knows the seriousness of the situation." Translated from the German in DIE ZEIT 2003
by nikolai haddad
Some 70 percent of all land in Mexico is vulnerable to desertification, one reason why some 900,000 Mexicans leave home each year in search of a better life as migrant workers in the United States.
A history of the Democratic Party's role in coopting and diverting independent social/political movements, and how it relates to the coming presidential elections. For this article, and much related stuff, see
The War
A perfect example of "journalism" tripping over itself to grovel at the feet of power.
You may already be aware that the Anthrax virus that was released through the U.S. Postal Service was less lethal than the original strain of Anthrax. But what you probably don't know is that it was sent out by a division of the C.D.C. (Center for Disease Control). If they are found out they have not only plausible deniability, but also can call it a test of their S.E.B.R.T. (Special Emergency Biological Response Team)
Probes swirl around London and Washington to determine if Blair/Bush were lying about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and had other reasons to launch pre-emptive attack.
This coming Sunday June 23rd (7:00pm) at Laughing Horse Books, ACE SATURAY will speak on globalization and US imperialism as it affects the Filipino people.
Sponsered by: Portland Anti Capitalist Action Contact:  pdxaca@ziplip.com
The Biotech Wars.............
The world will be watching and, since most of us aren't corporate fascists, we'll be rooting for you as you smash the WTO!
As these whitewashed 9-11 hearings are going on in DC, let's remember that the actual terrorist smirks in the White House and bombs an increasing list of foreign countries and destroys the Constitution--all based on a false story about the 9-11 events.
Cast you votes online to impeach Bush.
French troops under Fire
These reports are based on human rights monitoring and/or nonviolent direct action in resistance to the Israeli occupation. This report arrives from:
International Women's Peace Service in Hares, Salfit, Palestine:
"Trade is the functional equivalent to force", Bolz says self-assuredly. Whoever pursues trade and consumes doesn't wage wars apart from weapons- and drug trade. Consumers as a rule are peace-loving beings. They don't hurl bombs, capture aircraft or cut the throats of others in two in God's name. Consumerism is the immune system of the world society against the virus of fanatical religions. This is the core thesis of the book..Economic success converts hostilities into customer relations." Translated from the German
A major grassroots mobilization and convergence is planned in Sacramento from June 20-25. This is an opportunity for people to say no to a genetically engineered future, and to voice instead a living world vision, rooted in social justice and ecological sanity. It is also a chance to stand in solidarity with the people's movements and hundreds of peasant farmers groups from around the world that have called on social movements in the US to denounce and protest this meeting.
One more nail in the coffin of the lies about weapons of mass destruction.
250 personas circularon con su carrocería al desnudo para denunciar la violencia del automóvil privado y reivindicar una ciudad más humana, en la que peatones y ciclistas puedan moverse con libertad y sin miedo.
(In ENGLISH: public and international call.)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Police on Saturday arrested dozens of pro-clergy militants who smashed their way into university dormitories and beat up sleeping students in a wave of violence aimed at putting down protests against Iran's Islamic government.
Israeli Defense Forces stop Israelis en route to help with Palestinian harvest.
Far more numerous are the unpublicised number of attacks on American positions that do not injure or kill soldiers. Attacks occur daily - more than a dozen every day in the past week, according to some accounts. Troops patrolling even the calmest neighbourhoods in Baghdad still wear bullet-proof jackets and Kevlar helmets and raise their rifles, finger on the trigger, whenever approached. Attack helicopters are flying low over Baghdad day and night without lights.
by steve niva
gives evidence for israel use of provocateur tactics against the palestinians, thus making it seem palestinians are the agressors and israel merely responding
Call for Translators
The expanded role awarded to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company cost taxpayers $184.7 million (U.S.) as of last week, up from $76.7 million a month ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed this week.
The Israeli occupying army stopped a Palestine Medical Relief Ambulance at gunpoint. The soldiers got into the ambulance and forced the team at gunpoint, to drive around the village. The soldiers used the cover of the ambulance to try and arrest people. After 20 minutes, the ambulance team refused to carry on and announced that they would rather be shot, than be forced to help the soldiers arrest the villagers.
The real objectives of US foreign policy are vastly different from the propaganda that is fed to the American people, and peace is not one of these objectives.
the proudhoniana republic
All through May the people of Peru built a powerful wave of struggle--isolating the corrupt government and shaking the rotten system that holds them in misery. Peru's President Toledo responded with bloody repression--imposing a fascistic "state of emergency" and unleashing his soldiers to kill people in the streets.
The people of the Democractic Republic of the Congo and critics in neighboring nations are not kindly disposed to what they see as inadequacy, ineffectiveness, and disinterest on the part of the U.N.
Genetically engineered Soya is destroying livelihoods and ecosystems in Argentina.
As Sacramento rolls out the red carpet for a 'global food security' summit, protesters from around the country are laying plans of their own.
wherat?
"I am very pleased that President Bush has included in his supplemental budget request that just went to Congress $1 billion in Foreign Military Financing funds to help Israel strengthen its military and civil defenses. And that's just for starters." Colin Powell, AIPAC: March 30, 2003
There is only one life. It is the life of resistance. The lives of millions are on the line. The corporate interests want to own all the water, all the food, all the land, all the trees, all the species, all the seeds, all the biology, all life. When they are through we will have no air, no water, no earth, no life force.
Come to Sacramento and resist. There is nothing more important.
Coallition:Oil is a part
The Taliban is back, if it ever really left at all. Al-Qa'ida is known to have returned to Afghanistan as if they were ever completely removed from Afghanistan. The Taliban is starting to reclaim dominance and power in many of their old strongholds.
The only thing different in the scheme of things is that the U.S. military bases have been established at great expense to the U.S. taxpayers and U.N. peacekeeping forces. Kabul has been supposedly been stabilized, but firefights and violence break out almost daily between rival factions feuding for power.
"The theologians of the Third World resist the deactivation of the Christian faith in its public and political dimension and the misuse of Christian faith for legitimating unjust structures. Therefore they focus on God's actions in history with the poor and oppressed as attested in the Old and New Testament. The `world of the poor' is seen as the place of God's presence, suffering with them and liberating them to struggle against injustice and oppression." Translated from the German
"Faith is produced most effectively", says church father Schlingensief, "where nothing is more urgent than unbelief in the parliaments, stock exchanges and television studios." The starting point of the Church of Fear is the confession of fear, the confession of one's own imperfection and vulnerability from which propagandists in all camps and sys3ems want to profit.
Article written about police presence in Sacramento..
The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched.
3 members of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus held a press conference earlier this afternoon to denounce the action taken by House Republicans linking reforms in immigration and migration policies with opening the Mexican petroleum sector to the U.S. oil industry. A full transcript of the English part of the press conference follows:
NEWS CONFERENCE WITH REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT MENENDEZ (D-NJ); REPRESENTATIVE CIRO RODRIGUEZ (D-TX); REPRESENTATIVE SILVESTRE REYES (D-TX)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Spain, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, China, and Cuba.
Bush and the Economy
Corruption
Turns out that CNN was the Pentagon's Bitch after all. That was my rather unladylike phrase for AOL Time Warner's news network throughout the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.
But, in fairness to America's "most trusted'' news source, my indelicate term can also be applied to ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume and, yes, even unto PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.
Three human rights groups issued a joint communique stating that Syrian authorities continue to deny the imprisonment of Lebanese citizens, despite the findings of several international organizations. Now they fear Syria may be hiding mass graves...
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