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July 2002World NewsPosted: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 • After crash in Chicago, 2 men fatally beaten • Draconian terrorist measures targeted foreigners • Bush stockpiles oil for multibillion-dollar war with Iraq • Wedding bombing report 'rewritten' • American map of 1434 is a modern fake, scientists claim • Kabila Says He Wants Peace and Will Get It • Pretoria Pact "A Positive Step", Says Rwandan President • Uncle Sam wants war • Al-Qaeda linked to plot to kill Afghan leader • Soul voice of protest • US faces daunting threat to economy in event of Iraq war • Algerian rebel chief killed in army raid • Bush greases the wheels of war • Palestinians give up plan to end suicide bombings • Nablus re-opens shops to defy Israeli curfew • Rumsfeld Doubts Iraq On Inspections • FBI Shifts From Drug War To Terror • War on Iraq 'will cost US $80 billion' • The Great War of Africa on path to peace • India rejects Powell's call for poll monitors • Get out of Africa, king of Morocco tells Spain Pretoria Pact "A Positive Step", Says Rwandan President Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 allAfrica.com - Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Pretoria "Without peace in this region, without peace and development in central Africa we couldn't possibly talk about peace in the rest of Africa". The words of the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, encapsulated a reality that was not lost on the African leaders and dignitaries who gathered in Pretoria on Tuesday for the signing of a peace pact between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. Mbeki, the first chairman of the newly-launched African Union, is also the new facilitator in the Congolese peace process. MORE Kabila Says He Wants Peace and Will Get It Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 allAfrica.com - Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Pretoria The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo says he is optimistic about the latest South African and United Nations' brokered peace initiative to end the war in his country, which has sucked in half a dozen of Congo's neighbours. Interviewed on Tuesday after signing a peace agreement with Rwanda, Joseph Kabila said he sensed a new political commitment by Rwandan and other leaders to end Africa's biggest and most complex conflict. MORE World News Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 • Kabila And Kagame Sign Ambitious Congo Peace Deal • First, you market the disease... then you push the pills to treat it • Terror suspects win appeal against detention • Growing numbers are emigrating to Israel - but why? • King Abdullah: Arabs Lack U.S. Trust • UN's 'Risky' Earth Summit Gambit • UN report suggests higher Afghan death count in U.S. strike • Baghdad strike would aim for jugular • Amtrak Crash Hurts 97 in Md. • Iraq attack plans alarm top military • UN leaves Chechnya after kidnap • Iran court bans oldest opposition party • Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 protesters • King Abdullah warns Blair on Iraq invasion • US wins licence to open second front in terror war • US may put Iranian nuclear plant on hit list • Bush to eliminate threats posed by world's worst leaders >This may be a good idea if he starts with the US leader • The 'inside-out' solution to the problem of Saddam • UN raps US military after Afghan wedding deaths 'cover up' • Blunkett snubs US over terror claim • 'Arrogant' Uncle Sam needs to polish his image • Vice goes right to top, say Catholic victims • 10 easy steps to success • Jesse Jackson meets Arafat, calls for end to suicide bombings • A mother's touch, a lover's caress • Tired-looking pope arrives in Guatemala • Karzai at crossroads as Afghans' leader • Assassination attempt on Afghan leadership is foiled • Why we're nice: the feel-good factor • Is it possible that Mr Blair will not back President Bush over Iraq? Kabila And Kagame Sign Ambitious Congo Peace Deal Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 allAfrica.com - Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Pretoria South African President Thabo Mbeki described the signing Tuesday of a highly ambitious peace accord between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda as "a bright day for the African continent." The idea is that the agreement will be the key to unlock the impasse in the chequered peace process in central Africa and end the war that has engulfed Congo and at least six of its neighbours. MORE The recycled peanuts Posted: Monday, July 29, 2002 by Larry Elliott, Guardian UK This was supposed to be Africa's year. There was talk of fresh starts, of links that would be forged between Africa's new breed of dynamic leaders and western cash, of markets that would be opened and stomachs that would be filled. Instead, it is the same dismal story. In Johannesburg next month, world leaders will gather for the summit on sustainable development, a 10-day talk fest that will only emphasise the gulf in thinking that divides the first and third worlds. It will achieve nothing. Meanwhile, in a band of countries to the north - Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique - more than 14 million people are facing starvation in the continent's worst famine in 10 years. So much for the idea that 2002 would see a new Marshall plan for Africa. MORE World News Posted: Monday, July 29, 2002 • US seeks Pakistan's return to democracy • Army searches for link in base killings • Qwest admits to improper accounting for $1.9b in sales • Dow ends up 447; Nasdaq gains 73 • Dozens of Whales Stranded in Mass • Budget Rent-A-Car Bankrupt... • South Asia Floods Leave 445 Dead • Stop the recycled peanuts • Goodbye Willy Pierce, good riddance • Bush's approval rating down • Israeli forces seized Hamas leader in raid • Palestinians face tough life under West Bank curfew • US accused of Afghan airstrike cover-up • Pakistan Church attack suspects die in ambush • Guards and rebels die in clashes on Chechen border • U.S. Refurbishes Iraqi Air Bases In Kurdistan • U.S. Exploring Baghdad Strike as Iraq Option • Saddam tells Blair to produce evidence over arms factory claims • Jordan's King to tell Bush: Delay Iraq, lean on Israel • Blair warned: Iraq attack 'illegal' • Britain must not support an invasion of Iraq • There should be no war in Iraq without more jaw-jaw • Settlers kill Palestinian girl after Hebron funeral • Powell fears new Kashmir danger • Powell talks tough on Kashmir • Powell Says U.S. Is in S. Asia 'for the Long Haul' • Party support lays ground for exiled Bhutto's return • Witness boycott brings Rwandan genocide trials to a halt World News Posted: Sunday, July 28, 2002 • Portrait of new saint stirs controversy in Mexico • It's Time To Slay the Corporate-Media Beast • Jewish Settlers Kill Palestinian Girl in Hebron • Iraq says taken all measures to face possible U.S. attack • Britain Withdraws From Sierra Leone • 83 die, 116 injured in airshow accident • Four die in fishing contest • Russian Cargo Plane Crash Kills 14 • Powell: India Should Free Prisoners • Bush set to flout test ban treaty • Zanu-PF targets UK for visa ban • Sharon accused of shattering ceasefire • The last thing the US wants is democracy in Iraq • Worker: All Nine Miners Alive • Why globalisation fails to deliver • Blair must stop this evasion about war with Iraq • Indian VP dies of heart attack • 5 U.S. Troops Hurt In Afghan Ambush • Priests caught soliciting sex • India not ready for talks • 'Asian values' fading: expert • 115 yo man commits suicide • Two found dead in US truck thought to be carrying immigrants • War with Iraq is imminent • Rev. Jackson: U.S. call to change PA leadership undemocratic • Peres: Bombing in Gaza was `100 percent a mistake' • Bush Won't Press End to Israeli Settlements • Kashmir's Hindus Show No Zeal for Insurrection • Rape as Punishment • Business Cycle Above the law, and under a cloud Posted: Saturday, July 27, 2002 By Dennis Rahkonen, YellowTimes.org Thanks to our cultural consciousness being pervaded by rightwing notions and biases, it's almost instinctive for us to think of "crime" in street-mugger terms, or as the stereotypical, drug-related activity of warring urban gangs. Seldom do we associate crime with the organized lawlessness of the Mafia, as would have been the case not that long ago. While this at least partially reflects objective changes in where and when criminality occurs in today's America, it's mainly the result of far too many of us buying into reactionary propaganda contrived to give the majority populace a demonized vision of the poor and racial minorities. Nowhere is the usefulness of that misrepresentation to the right more evident than with respect to gun control. While rational souls see a clear logic in gaining prudent strictures on the all-too-ready access to hand guns that exists in this country, gun advocates are able to effectively parlay deliberately generated fears about the alleged criminal character of the supposedly typical ghetto dweller into a tawdry dichotomization which divides us into two, distinct camps. There are the purportedly good, honest, decent denizens of white, middle-class America confronted by a growing scourge involving armed "criminals" invariably presented as low-income and of color. It's us vs. them, in the starkest terms, which best fit the longstanding conservative tactic of divisively pitting us one against the other while a special-interest hierarchy that exploits everyone laughs all the way to the bank. Thus, we're smokescreened from recognizing much greater, more serious lawlessness - namely the crime in the suites that's become endemic to our system, and which has grown so blatant (Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, etc.) that usual, obfuscatory means have proven inadequate in keeping it completely hidden. But lawlessness at the top goes far beyond Big Business and High Finance malfeasance. Consider the current controversy over the World Court's entirely proper insistence on having all nations' military conduct held accountable to international law. The Bush administration, which is currently engaged in such illegalities as bombing Iraq on a sustained basis, has expressed, under the War on Terrorism pretext, plans to put U.S. troops or advisors into what could amount to sixty nations. As the recent, atrocious, wedding bombing "accident" in Afghanistan shows, U.S. forces are quite prone to inflicting lethal damage on civilian targets, a problem that would surely expand as our interventions spread. Bush is seeking, therefore, a prior exclusion from global, legal culpability for the war-crimes violations he knows are certain to come, as the U.S. plays bully/cowboy in behalf of multinational corporate interests on an escalating worldwide scale. On this score - and certainly with regard to new demands that the Securities and Exchange Commission look, again, into apparent improprieties which took place a dozen years ago as Bush seemingly finagled his Harken oil interests into maximum gain - the powers that be want us to focus on a manipulated "threat" emanating from the nearest bad neighborhood. "Watch out for the druggie thugs! Don't look over in our direction!" Falling for this ploy, however, would entail remaining popularly oblivious to what could amount to a revelation of top-level corruption and depravity far beyond what's been disclosed to date. Just how crooked is contemporary American capitalism? That's a question which must be answered to everyone's complete satisfaction, so that we can respond with whatever reforms are required to set things right. Provided things haven't become so rotten that reform itself is impossible, making a truly revolutionary socio-politico-economic change the only workable solution. [Dennis Rahkonen is a freelance writer from Superior, Wisconsin, formerly long associated with the Tyomies (Workingman) Society publishing house, which served progressive Finnish immigrants throughout America for most of the 20th century. Finns encountered much bigotry in the United States, with an infamous boarding house sign "No dogs or Finns allowed!" reflecting the prejudice that many once felt.] Dennis Rahkonen encourages your comments: dennisr@cp.duluth.mn.us Constructive Dissent (Slouching Towards Apocalypse) Posted: Saturday, July 27, 2002 by Heather Wokusch In early 1945, Hiram Bingham faced a tough decision: he could follow his government's orders to ignore the Nazi holocaust, thereby keeping his comfortable position as US vice-consul in Marseilles, or he could defy State Department policy by issuing life-saving US visas to French Jews and anti-Nazi activists. Bingham chose the latter, and as a result helped 2,500 escape persecution. Bingham's reward? He lost his post, was drummed out of the Service, and died almost penniless. Fast forward to 2002, and Hiram Bingham is being feted as a hero. US secretary of state Colin Powell praised his risking "life and career" to do the right thing, and the American Foreign Service association recently gave Bingham a posthumous award for "constructive dissent." "Constructive dissent" - now there's an interesting term, especially in these "you're with us or with the enemy" days of equating dissent with terrorism. It makes you wonder what kind of modern-day law breakers will be trumpeted as heroes 60 years down the road ... and which of our contemporary holocausts will be seen as worthy to have fought. In 1986, a former nuclear technician in an Israeli plutonium processing plant had a tough choice: Mordechai Vanunu could stay quiet and keep his comfortable life, or risk it all by exposing the truth about Israel's nuclear program. Vanunu chose the latter and proved that, contrary to repeated denials, Israel was a fully nuclear state possessing hundreds of thermonuclear bombs, with accelerated clandestine manufacturing of further nuclear weapons. Vanunu's reward? A conviction of treason in an Israeli court, 12 years in solitary confinement, and a prison sentence that continues to this day. As the world slouches towards all-out war in the Middle East, we continue to deny both the potential nuclear component, and its predictably devastating consequences. We read that war is necessary because Iraqis are evil and have mass weapons of destruction, and we're told not to worry our little heads about the accelerated US military build up in Jordan and elsewhere in the region. But it doesn't take a genius to connect these dots. Under pressure to explain past shady business deals, Bush and Cheney need a military diversion; double prize for them in that removing Saddam Hussein would open up Iraq's rich oilfields (and profits) to their oil crony's Western corporations. Meanwhile, Israel currently has 400 nuclear weapons (including a "boosted" bomb up to a thousand times stronger than a regular nuclear device) and Bush has helpfully declared that the US reserves the right to first use of nuclear weapons, even on non-nuclear states. So how farfetched then is the scenario of a "Wag the Dog" US invasion of Iraq, the predictable mass uprising in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere in the Arab World, and a threatened Israel following Bush's lead in first strike with nuclear weapons? How implausible is a coming Apocalypse? One point is clear: if there ever were a time for constructive dissent, it's now. Staring down the barrel of the escalating Mid-East crisis, each of us has the responsibility to make sure our government prevents a cataclysmic disaster. The reward? It's the right thing to do. Heather Wokusch is a free-lance writer. She can be contacted via her web site at www.heatherwokusch.com World News Posted: Saturday, July 27, 2002 • 'Ja-fake-ans' blamed for glamorising Yardie gangs • FBI: Just 200 hard-core Al-Qaeda • Ukraine: at least 78 people killed in plane crash at air show • 65 dead as boat carrying 100 people capsizes in Kerala • Zimbabwe Threatens To Ban British • Khamenei says U.S. to regret if it attacks Iran • Indonesia Bomb Blast Injures 53 • From the other perspective • 4 U.S. Soldiers Injured in Afghan Ambush • Fury as Zimbabwe official held • Bus Collisions In Peru Kill 12 • Reforming capitalism • Three NC activists among 12 killed in held Kashmir • Four settlers killed as gunmen open fire on their cars • Bush and Blair agree terms for Iraq attack • The plight of Palestinian children • Powell reviews use of US arms after outcry at Israeli F-16 raid • Keeping the lid on Iraq • Mugabe's minister held at Gatwick as part of EU-wide travel ban • Dead reckoning • The war on terror needs a sense of proportion • Secret agent admits slur on Islam • Foundations are in place for martial law in the US • African countries close to ending decades of war • U.S. moves on a black history museum • Jenin and its aftermath: a soldier's diary • US sees future without arms treaties with Russia • Pakistan can do more to stop infiltration: Solana • Media owners in Pakistan barred from private TV, radio channels • 60 people killed in Indian floods • SE Asians dispute anti-terror pact with US World News Posted: Friday, July 26, 2002 • Settler's murder signals start of Gaza retaliation • Jesse Jackson Plans Mideast Trip • Justice with a vengeance • Documents show Bush played active role at Harken • War on terrorism or police state? • Victory for a new kind of women’s power at Escravos • Military wife slayings spur review • Volcano Erupts Near Lava-Scarred Congo Town • A glitch in the Matrix • Trial told of Milosevic heart risk • Israeli Tanks Move Into Gaza City • Blair: Iraq Decision Not Imminent • Bush Admin. Urges For Afghan Funding • Lessons for the war on terrorism • Pope Urges Pilgrims To Reject Sin • Child beatings shatter Russian utopia • Killers try to avoid the rope by offering their daughters • Up, down and all around • South Asian floods make 4m homeless • Making enemies make friends • Should Britain join an American invasion of Iraq? • Moussaoui faces trial after changing plea to not guilty • Israeli agencies trade blame for civilian deaths • Cloud over Powell's future • Fujimori accused of encouraging forced sterilisations • Militias to be paid for mass killings • Israel is warned on U.S.-made bomb • Powell to staff: 'I'm not resigning' World News Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 • Israelis row over bombing blame • US threatens to block torture convention • Minister: Nigeria Loyal To Opec • Then what happened? • Southwest Venezuela Floods Kill 5 • Sharon shifts blame for civilian deaths • Call for revenge as Palestinians show their grief and fury • U.S Vote to ease Cuba ban • When companies cook the books, blame the CEO • Rise of the xenophobe could see Australia miss the boat.. • Afghan ministers call for cash • US Conservatives uneasy about Ashcroft's zeal • A nation of spies? • Bush Compassionate? No • Agreement was to end attacks immediately • Fighting intensifies in Somalia • Warlord's son offers US bases in return for aid and support • Powell to be pushed for more pressure on Pakistan • Russia accused of 'thinning out' Chechen youths • Home of the brave, land of the snitches Peru apologizes for sterilizing Indians Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 By Owain Johnson UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL CARACAS, Venezuela — Peru's Health Ministry issued a public apology yesterday after the publication of a report that revealed that the ministry oversaw the forced sterilization of at least 200,000 Indians during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. MORE The Quotable James Traficant Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 Traficant's closing statement to the ethics panel "I want you to disregard all the opposing counsel has said. I think they're delusionary. I think they've had something funny for lunch in their meal, I think they should be handcuffed, chained to a fence and flogged, and all of their hearsay evidence should be thrown the hell out. And if they lie again, I'm going to go over there and kick them in the crotch. Thank you very much." MORE 45,000 homeless evacuated Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 VHeadline.com Wednesday, July 24, 2002 -- 45,000 homeless have been evacuated in a major flood-rescue operation in the south of Venezuela. Military aircraft have flown in tonnes of food and medicine to southwestern Apure State where four people have already died in the emergency. Reports from the frontier town of Guasdualito say the Rio Apure has broken its banks as the 25,000 population town swims in 2 meters of water with sewage popelines ruptured, dead animals floating down the streets and lakes of stagnant water as a gro-ground for malaria-bearing mosquitos. MORE VHeadline News Briefs Wednesday, July 24, 2002 World News Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 • US move to end Cuba travel restrictions • What the papers say about Israel's rocket attack on Gaza City • U.S. General Meets Afghan Warlords • Concessions Made To Palestinians • US to block UN convention on torture • Palestinians vow to avenge victims • Bush faces local wrath in a town called Clinton • Khatami abandoned by U.S. as too weak • Drop plans to attack Saddam, Khatami tells US • U.S. refusal on population fund is blow for Powell • Rumsfeld defends Afghan bombing • Gaza attack 'used 1-tonne bomb' • Powell opposes sale of weapons to India • Dead child is held aloft on another bloody day in Gaza • Executives need employees • Israel stays defiant in face of West's outrage • Only big investors thrive • Palestinian ceasefire plan lies buried in the rubble of Gaza • Mass grave at Ukraine monastery points to Soviet-era terror • Would the British attack like this to kill Adams? • Enron hid debt with banks' aid • Gaza funerals turn to angry protests • Sharon hails on Palestine raid as great success • UK Archbishop will not give blessing for war on Iraq • Space rock 'on collision course' World News Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 • Israel Draws Criticism For Air Raid • Bush joins in condemnation of Israeli attack • Iraq: U.s. Raid Kills 1, Injures 22 • North Dakota Lands Cuban Grain Deals • Afghan regime split over US bombing raids • Bomb Kills 2, Including Former Colombian Legislator • Study: Women recall emotions better than men • Wall Street continues nine-week slide as Dow falls 82 points • $40bn in debt - and counting • 12 dead in attack on Hamas • Afghan regime split over US bombing raids • Uruguay's Economy Minister Resigns • Western officials 'colluding with people traffickers' • Did Iacocca ruin American business? • 'It's better to be thin and dead than fat and living' • 22 die as snowstorms hit South Africa • California defies Bush with drive on global warming • One in 20 women raped, UK survey reveals • War on Saddam will drag on, warns Turkey • Bush seeks global allies for missile defence • Women pay brutal price of 'family honour' • Rwanda and Congo agree to end war • EU foreign policy failings exposed in Parsley dispute • Iran was behind 1994 Argentina bombing, says defector • Tokyo and Seoul show doubts on U.S. policy • A 'Bush market'? He has time to recover • The key step for peace is ending corruption • Designer bacteria bite back against tooth decay World News Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 • U.S. Role in Lumumba Murder Revealed • Dow falls 234 in third straight triple-digit selloff • Afghan Leader's Safety Fears Mount • Israel Air Raid Kills 10 • Bush Says Corporate Health Is Strong • Frail Pope Insists on Traveling • EU explands Zimbabwe sanctions blacklist • Go on, call Bush's bluff • Pointless punishment • Chinese hailstorm kills at least 16 • WorldCom prepares for bankruptcy • Wondering about Bush • New 'superbug' could be immune to treatment • History is everywhere - but whose history is it? • America will have to stay in Iraq • President again sticks finger in markets dike • Europe rethinks its relationship with Washington • Would U.S. economy czar please stand up? • US raids killed over 800 Afghan civilians > Contrast: Disastrous US high-tech tactics killed hundreds • Mbeki minister attacks UN fund's Aids grant • Stocks dive as Australian market opens • Bush knew Harken was in trouble before he sold shares • Deal to end Sudan's civil war brings hope at last • Suicide attacks 'immoral' says Arafat aide • Barman's fire stunt kills 26 in Peru • Israel reaches deal over anti-deportation appeal • High winds and freak hailstones kill 25 in China • How US authorities blocked Charlie Chaplin's knighthood Talks held with Spain after troops pull out Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 by Giles Tremlett in Madrid The Guardian The foreign ministers of Spain and Morocco were preparing for tense talks in Rabat today as their spat over the tiny islet of Perejil threatened to widen into a bitter dispute over half a dozen territories. While calm returned to the tiny, uninhabited islet in the strait of Gibraltar - which Morocco calls Leila and Spain calls Perejil, or parsley - after Spanish troops withdrew on Saturday, the diplomatic gulf separating the countries appeared to grow. Morocco, with its eyes on Anglo-Spanish negotiations over Gibraltar, was expected to try to turn today's talks into the opening round of a debate over the future of other disputed territories it claims. These include the Spanish north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and possibly the Canary Islands. MORE World News Posted: Sunday, July 21, 2002 • Bush rallies US for strike on Iraq • Cheney firm won $3.8bn contracts from government • Train Derails In Sicily, Killing 8 • Militants seek Muslim-free India • West pays warlords to stay in line • Dishonest and greedy? We still need business to do good • Beware peacemakers selling arms • At Least 3 Die In Small Plane Crash • Gore Accuses Bush Admin. Of Lying • Colombian Rebel Commander Surrenders • US wary of Pakistan intelligence services' links to al-Qa'ida • Iraq? Let's not go there • We're coming to get you, Saddam (but it may take a little while) • Failure of rifle was all the fault of Marines, says MoD inquiry • US intervenes over Perejil • Helicopter crashes in Russia's south, 12 dead • Johnson & Johnson faces US probe • Man opens fire on helicopter • Disco inferno kills 25, injures 100 • Indian police hold Kashmiri separatist leaders World News Posted: Saturday, July 20, 2002 • The murder of Imad Abu Zahra • Deadly fire sweeps through Peru disco • Morocco ready to end Parsley standoff • Lima Mall Disco Fire Kills 10 • Israel to deport families of militants • Car bomb blast kills one • U.S. rebukes China firms and Indian man for Iran-Iraq arms • Colombia death squads 'disbanded' • Horrifying tales of torture, execution in North Korea • France's neo-Nazi breeding ground • Alaskan glaciers melting at fast pace • Diplomacy on the rocks • EU urged to turn screw on Mugabe • Be prepared for a long slump • I'm not surprised we're the world's worst tourists • Doctor-murderers are rare, but there is a lesson to learn • Losing ground in Guatemala • Shipman's victimes were trusting to the last • Iraq says British and US planes killed five civilians • Israel army blows up homes of militants • Stocks crumble amid new gloom • Frustrated Marines leave Kabul • Saddam courts his neighbors to help fend off any U.S. attack • Scandals force Bush to take a working holiday • Bush 'refuses to be discouraged' on Mideast • CIA lifts restriction on recruiting 'dirty' informers World News Posted: Friday, July 19, 2002 • Recall of Contaminated Beef Expanded to 18 Million Pounds • Dow tumbles 390, closes below post-terror low • Criminal probe of Johnson & Johnson factory reportedly begun • Israel May Expel Relatives of Bombers • Five Israelis charged in ammunition sales • UK man 'killed 215 patients' • Drug Laws Thin Edge of the Wedge Worldwide • New Studies Raise Alarm About Global Ice Melt • Israel arrests relatives of Palestinian attackers • Pearl murder mastermind appeals death sentence • World's Poorest Nations Lash Out at Globe's Richest • Sharon's War on Moderate Palestinians • Synthetic bioterror • A confession to Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld • Where is the president? • Don't always believe the worst about Russia • Waiting for Arafat to go away • A shameful world scandal named Argentina • Israeli Leader Hears Calls for New Approach • Israeli soldiers accused of selling arms to Palestinians • US to sell Israel 1,000 Bomb Upgrades • Tel Aviv bomber's chilling message of death • Israel keeps curfew active after 11 killed in two days • If you see a tank, just leave the car and run for it • Officials Say Iraq Acts to Forestall U.S. Attack • Turks deny debt deal the price of support • UK Reservists called up in build-up for Iraq • November 17 is exposed > One of Europe's deadliest terrorist groups is finally caught • Greece Catches Up to Elusive Terrorists • Russian nuclear theft alarms US > Chechen rebels have stolen radioactive metals, possibly plutonium • What Spain could teach us about island grabbing • AOL suffers a double blow • Blair in crisis talks to heal rift with unions • Michael Jackson is wrong • More blizzards set to add to death toll in Peru • Irish court convicts first man for raping wife • Weird fossilised flying reptile 'a vision of hell' • US Terror suspect's guilty plea blocked • Costly UK Command Structure is full of risks and problems Blair is no poodle Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2002 by Brendan O'Neill Tony Blair is often accused of being President Bush's obedient little poodle. Throughout the Royal Marines' disastrous stint in Afghanistan, Blair was lambasted by his critics for 'fighting America's war' and following Bush's orders. Now, as Britain and America plan to attack Iraq, the Daily Mirror says Blair is 'sleepwalking towards a terrible crisis', and advises him to 'leave Iraq to the US cowboys'. There are two problems with this characterisation. First, it lets Blair off the hook, suggesting that he is merely being led astray by evil Bush rather than really wanting to intervene around the world - hence the Mirror's 'sleepwalking' jibe, as if we should forgive Blair for he knows not what he does. Second, it depicts modern imperialism as a peculiarly American thing (carried out by brash American 'cowboys'), which good old anti-imperialist Britain should have no part in. Both of these arguments are way off the mark. After New Labour announced that it would stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with the US and help 'find the folks' who carried out the 11 September attacks, anti-war protesters warned Blair not to get too cosy with Bush. From the outset, opponents of the Afghan war claimed that America would drag Britain into a bloody, drawn-out American conflict. They seriously underestimated Blair's desire to jump on the post-11 September bandwagon. Far from being led astray by an overbearing President Bush, Blair was keen to join the 'crusade against evil' - to use foreign intervention abroad to boost his standing at home, just as he had with the Kosovo conflict in 1999. Like the Bush administration, Blair saw opportunities in the wake of 11 September - opportunities to restate his political and moral authority in response to the terrorist attacks. But rather than being challenged on this politically, rather than being criticised for planning military intervention in Afghanistan and elsewhere, Blair was simply 'given advice': keep away from Bush, he was told, don't get too involved, you know what those Americans are like. Blair was presented as being foolish, rather than being imperialist. This does more than allow Blair to escape the flak - it actually boosts his moral authority in international affairs. America is depicted as the bad guy, the mad cowboy that bombs weddings and villages, while Britain is seen as a more rational force, which is just making mistakes. Indeed, there is a fine line between the Blair-as-poodle criticisms and demands that Blair exert a 'calming influence' on Bush. Very often, those who consider themselves radical for labelling Blair America's little puppy end up calling for him to be a rational voice in the new world order. This is a line of attack that Blair will be more than happy to live with. In much of this discussion, foreign intervention is seen as an all-guns-blazing 'American thing' that innocent Britain should reject. In fact, intervention today is most often justified in humanitarian terms - in the name of defending democracy, standing up for human rights, and helping the poor people of the third world (never mind that its consequences are as disastrous as they have always been). Even the allegedly gung-ho America has learned humanitarian-speak - in fact, it invented much of it. Bush made a point of dropping food packages as well as bombs at the start of the Afghan war; he talks about 'his friends, the Afghan people' (while bombing the hell out of them); and he strenuously denies that the war on terror is a traditionally imperialist war on Islam or the East or any kind of Other. This is the new liberal imperialism, where Western leaders justify their domination of the third world in PC language. And as long as Blair is seen as the man who can 'calm Bush', he is certain to play a leading role in this new order. Reposted from: http://www.boneill.blogspot.com/ War Against Iraq, Corporate Corruption Distraction Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2002 Will the White House Distract Attention from Their Corporate Corruption With War Against the "Evil One" in Iraq? by Tom Turnipseed With increasing evidence evolving that President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are caught up in corporate corruption of their own creation and new polls showing that the public is beginning to perceive their perfidy, the danger of desperate men going to war to distract the public is appalling. On July 16, 2002 the Dow Jones lost ground for the seventh straight day. Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan appeared before a Congressional committee attacking dishonest corporate executives and "an infectious greed" as causing "considerable uncertainty" in the U.S. economy. His wife, Andrea Mitchell reported on the Brian Williams Show that "Hawks favoring an attack (on Iraq) are winning in the White House". The same day both Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof chronicled the continuing saga of George W. Bush's slick and unsavory business deals as an official of Harken Energy and the Texas Ranger's baseball team in essays entitled "Bush and The Texas Land Grab" and "Steps To Wealth" on the op.ed. page of the New York Times. Also on July 16, the Ipsos-Reid/Cook Political Report released polling data from July 11-14 revealing that only 42% of those polled would vote to re-elect Bush and the Zogby Poll reported that Bush's approval rating had dropped to 62%, down from 74% in February. The Zogby Poll reported that one in three Americans feel they are worse off than a year ago and 51% said they are less likely to invest in the stock market. Pollster John Zogby said, "Two out of three likely voters tell us they have an IRA or 401k. One look at their quarterly report and there goes confidence in the economy and the government. We are looking at a very close election....this is THE issue." The week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, voters gave Bush a 50% positive and 49% negative job rating, so it is apparent to White House strategists that war works wonders for his popularity. Maybe that's why Andrea Mitchell now reports the war hawks are winning in the White House debate over how and when to make a "regime change" in Iraq. Maybe that's why one of those hawks, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, is in Turkey offering that economically troubled Muslim NATO state an easing of the more than $4 billion owed the U.S. for arms purchases as well as promising to push for congressional approval of a $228 million aid package for Turkey. Wolfowitz said, "Turkey stands to benefit enormously" by a regime change in Iraq. The U.S. maintains airbases in Turkey. U.S. and Britain have used them for flights to enforce a no-fly zone over Northern Iraq. Turkey is publicly opposed to any military action against neighboring Iraq and has lost billions in trade since backing the U.S. in the 1991 Gulf War and observing subsequent trade sanctions, but the White House hawks seem determined to bribe and browbeat their leaders into going along with a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Wolfowitz also promised the Turkish leaders that the U.S. did not want an ethnic Kurdish state in Northern Iraq. The Turks fear an independent Kurdish state because of their 17 year war against the Kurds in which more than 20,000 Kurds were killed. The War Hawks who rail against Saddam, the evil one, and accuse him of using poison gas on his own people, refer to the Kurds as the victims but Kurdish leaders in Northern Iraq say they will refuse to cooperate with any U.S.-inspired action to overthrow Hussein. Massoud Barzani, the leader of one of the two main political parties that control the Kurdish enclave in Northern Iraq said last month that, "The Iraq issue won't be solved by military or covert action." The Kurds have bitter memories of their 1975 struggle with Baghdad when the U.S. abruptly withdrew its support. Some of the Shi'ites in Southern Iraq have opposed Hussein but they also remember the duplicity of George Bush, Sr. who encouraged them to rise up against the Hussein government after the Gulf War but had their rebellion crushed without any help from the U.S. The U.S. news media parrots the propaganda of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and the Bush administration about the imminent Iraqi threat of fomenting terrorism and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, but virtually ignores evidence presented by credible sources like American Scott Ritter, a former U.N. arms inspector based in Iraq, who says that Iraq is effectively disarmed. Mainstream U.S. media has also ignored the blatant fact that the U.S. foreign policy establishment is determined to control the oil reserves of Iraq at any and all costs. With lawsuits alleging crooked accounting tactics used by Dick Cheney as CEO of Halliburton Co. to personally enrich himself, The Washington Post reported that from 1997 till 2000 with Cheney at the helm, the Halliburton Co. did $73 million worth of business with Saddam the evil one. They sold him oil production equipment and spare parts through their subsidiaries in spite of U.S. imposed economic sanctions against Iraq. During the Gulf War we bombed Iraq's eight multi-purpose dams, destroying flood control systems, irrigation, municipal and industrial water storage, and hydroelectric power. Major pumping stations were targeted and sewage facilities were destroyed. Article 54 of the Geneva Convention prohibits attacks on "drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works". After such deliberate destruction, we used sanctions to prevent Iraq from rebuilding, knowing epidemics would ensue. The United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF), estimates that well over a million Iraqis have died as a result. In 2000, UNICEF said that thousands die every month including many children who are without necessary medicine due to the sanctions. No wonder Bush doesn't want an International Criminal Court to have jurisdiction over the U.S. U.S. policy makers could be charged with genocide! Will Bush/Cheney cover their corruption with more war and killing of innocents? Tom Turnipseed is an attorney, writer and civil rights activist in Columbia, South Carolina. www.turnipseed.net World News Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2002 • U.S. Stocks Hit 5-Year Low • Bush Administration Rejects Drug Plan • 60 Killed In Crash In Uganda • Moussaoui seeks to enter guilty plea; judge refuses to accept • Tel Aviv suicide attack kills five • City attack shatters the illusion of security • US spies are wasting billions, inquiry says • UK Militancy grows as thousands strike • Saddam taunts 'evil tyrants' • Saddam warns on anniversary: I will never be defeated • The rhetoric over Iraq is reaching a dangerous pitch • Spain recaptures Parsley island • UN resolution not needed for Iraq action: Blair • New suspects cast doubt on Pearl murder conviction • Is the IRA apology a trick or a sincere expression of regret? • Bush indicates he would accept a compromise on Arafat • India launches cult figure 'Missile Man' as its new president • Officer In Video Arrest Indicted • Dozens Feared Buried Under Landslide • Racism and Zionism • AOL Unconventional Transactions Boosted Sales • AOL Says Accounting 'Was Appropriate' • Scientists identify the spark of life • On the subject of informants • Cycles of scandal and cleanup • Love affair with stocks falls upon hard times • Opening Cuban Markets Good for Cubans and Americans • Hormone therapy: not a simple case of yes or no • Arabs to Give Bush a Palestinian Plan • US recruited Islamic radicals in 1980s World News Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 • Double suicide attack rocks Tel Aviv • Gov. Bush's daughter jailed in Orlando in drug case • Nigerian women storm new oil plants • Gang rape convictions show Sydney's deep racial tensions • Paraguay declares emergency as violence spreads • Gujarat Muslims Get Little Help from Government • Czech Spy Chief Doubts Atta-Iraq Meeting • Independent Group Makes Own Mideast Peace Plan • Spain arrests Qaeda suspects and seizes pre-Sept. 11 video • Gov't: India Withdrew Border Troops • 11 feared dead as helicopter dives into North Sea • Blair justifies case for attack on Saddam • Wall St rollercoaster • Afghan Governors Stall Talks • UN, EU, Russian leaders split with U.S. on future of Arafat • Another CEO gone: Telekom chief falls in political wind • Bush Powers, Money For Security • Bush Unveils Homeland Security Plan • Firm's setbacks raise questions on Cheney • Garza Picked As Ambassador To Mexico • Saddam's son tells Iraq to get ready for conflict • Bush's empty rhetoric • Rumsfeld out to unshackle the military • Papua New Guinea Election count frozen as poll chaos continues • Police accused again • Governor Bush and the Texas land grab • Is it because I'm black? No, Michael, they just don't care any more • An inside look at the hypocrisy of Wall Street culture Midnight's Bastards Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 By Tariq Ali The military response of the American Empire to September 11 has made the world more dangerous and insecure. Its political strategy has led to the promotion of Ariel Sharon and Vladimir Putin as key allies in the 'war against terror' and 'Islamo-fascism'. Palestinian and Chechen lives have become insignificant in the eyes of the Bush administration and have reduced the liberal belligeratti to near-silence on these issues. Hacks in sections of the liberal press have become part of a propaganda campaign to destroy the regime in Iraq and replace it with a puppet administration. MORE World News Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 • Texas Mom Killed Kids, Self • US Economy wounded by accounting scandals • Seven die in West Bank attack on bus • Five Dead, Six Missing in British Helicopter Crash • 1 Dead In Singapore Helicopter Crash • Violent Anti-Government Protests in Paraguay • House passes bill setting new criminal penalties for business fraud • Markets Finish Lower Despite Positive Economic Outlook • Israeli raid shuts down main Palestinian internet service • US Taleban gets 20 years after Bush plea bargain • India ready to discuss Kashmiri autonomy • Jammu massacre casts shadow on J&K elections • Girl, 10, becomes Britain's youngest ecstasy victim • Police puzzled at 'Day of the Jackal' attack • Omar Sheikh has a chilling message - the war must carry on • Let's see who dies first, dares Omar • Pearl tragedy still wreathed in mystery • Pressure mounts on Morocco to withdraw • Report reveals impotent South African army • Firm's Fall Raises Questions About Cheney's Leadership There • U.S. Official Defends Attack on Afghan Village • U.S. Planes Strike Radar Unit in Iraq • For U.S., American 'Holy Warriors' Hard to Track • Allies and Arabs seek softer U.S. Mideast stance • The rats are coming • Democrats speak up on Bush foreign policy • Plot hatched in Malaysia: US intelligence • How to make Americans listen • It's time to cast out our own demons • Oil workers held captive by women's threat to strip • Turn off the war tap • New corporate scandal engulfs Bush deputy • Science adjusts thinking on the origins of man Corporate Control of the Media Posted: Monday, July 15, 2002 Published on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 in The Hill (Capitol Hill) Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media by US Rep Bernie Sanders One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush administration and some horrendous court decisions. Television is the means by which most Americans get their “news.” Without exception, every major network is owned by a huge conglomerate that has enormous conflicts of interest. Fox News Channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a right-wing Australian who already owns a significant portion of the world’s media. His network has close ties to the Republican Party, and among his “fair and balanced” commentators is Newt Gingrich. NBC is owned by General Electric, one of the largest corporations in the world — and one with a long history of anti-union activity. GE, a major contributor to the Republican Party, has substantial financial interests in weapons manufacturing, finance, nuclear power and many other industries. Former CEO Jack Welch was one of the leaders in shutting down American plants and moving them to low-wage countries like China and Mexico. ABC is owned by the Disney Corp., which produces toys and products in developing countries where they provide their workers atrocious wages and working conditions. CBS is owned by Viacom, another huge media conglomerate that owns, among other entities, MTV, Showtime, Nickelodeon, VH1, TNN, CMT, 39 broadcast television stations, 184 radio stations, Paramount Pictures and Blockbuster Inc. The essential problem with television is not just a right-wing bias in news and programming, or the transformation of politics and government into entertainment and sensationalism. Nor is it just the constant bombardment of advertising, much of it directed at children. It’s that the most important issues facing the middle-class and working people of our country are rarely discussed. The average American does not see his or her reality reflected on the television screen. The United States is the only industrialized nation on earth that does not have a national healthcare program. Yet, despite 41 million people with no health insurance and millions more underinsured, we spend far more per capita on healthcare than any other nation. Maybe the reason is that we are seeing no good programs on television, in between the prescription drug advertisements, discussing how we can provide quality healthcare for all at far lower per capita costs than we presently spend? Despite the great “economic boom” of the 1990s, the average American worker is now working longer hours for lower wages than 30 years ago, and we have lost millions of decent-paying manufacturing jobs. Where are the TV programs addressing our $360 billion trade deficit, or what our disastrous trade policy has done to depress wages in this country? And while we’re on economics, workers who are in unions earn 30 percent more than non-union people doing the same work. There are a lot of programs on television about how to get rich by investing in the stock market. But have you seen any “specials” on how to go about forming a union? The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world, and the highest rate of childhood poverty. There’s a lot of television promoting greed and self-interest, but how many programs speak to the “justice” of the richest 1 percent owning more wealth than the bottom 95 percent? Or of the CEOs of major corporations earning 500 times what their employees make? If television largely ignores the reality of life for the majority of Americans, corporate radio is just plain overt in its right-wing bias. In a nation that cast a few million more votes for Al Gore and Ralph Nader than for George Bush and Pat Buchanan, there are dozens of right-wing talk show programs. Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy, Bob Grant, Sean Hannity, Alan Keyes, Armstrong Williams, Howie Carr, Oliver North, Michael Savage, Michael Reagan, Pat Robertson, Laura Schlessinger — these are only a few of the voices that day after day pound a right-wing drumbeat into the heartland of this country. And from a left perspective there is — well, no one. The Republican Party, corporate owners and advertisers have their point of view well represented on radio. Unfortunately, the rest of America has almost nothing. As bad as the current media situation is, it is likely to be made much worse by a recent decision in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that responded to a suit by Fox, AOL Time Warner, NBC and Viacom. That decision struck down a federal regulation limiting companies from owning television stations and cable franchises in the same local markets. The court also ordered that the Federal Communications Commission either justify or rewrite the federal rule that limits any one company from owning television stations that reach more than 35 percent of American households. The bottom line is that fewer and fewer huge conglomerates are controlling virtually everything that the ordinary American sees, hears and reads. This is an issue that Congress can no longer ignore. Rep. Bernie Sanders is an Independent from Vermont. http://bernie.house.gov/ Links from: www.fair.org
President Chavez Frias plans to rule for another 11 years Posted: Monday, July 15, 2002 The President, talking during his weekly radio show, said that he no longer faces a threat of being deposed by a coup, following the failure of the April attempt and intends to rule until 2013. "The world is confident in Venezuela and its government," the President said. "Anyone who thinks there is going to be another shock or coup should forget it." The President urged his opposition to abide by the constitution and the country's legal framework when trying to remove him. He suggested that the opposition should concentrate on a referendum next year if they want to oust him, or failing that on the elections that are due to take place in 2006. "I will do everything I can to rule until 2013." MORE World News Posted: Monday, July 15, 2002 • DNC HEAD: Bush's priorities are out of whack... • Democrats Hosted Firm Under SEC Probe at Donor Retreat.. • US Senate Passes Business Fraud Bill • Army secretary says he plans to testify about Enron • Dow Down 45 After 439-Point Drop • Guard Denies Woods Entry at Muirfield • Euro reaches parity with dollar • Four Islamic militants guilty in kidnap-slaying of Danny Pearl • Pfizer Agrees to Buy Rival Drug Giant Pharmacia for $60 Billion • Banks put WorldCom on the brink • Mystery of share buyer who bailed out Bush • Department of Trade and Industry was warned • Pressure mounts over Bush and Cheney business deals • Pakistan Police arrest 20 over attack on European tourists • South Korean Protesters demand US hand over two soldiers • Man fires shot as French president passes • British clerics denounce plan to strike Iraq • Iraqi opposition leaders warn US and Britain not to invade • Exiled Iraqi officers are setting up a military committee • Military council formed to oust Saddam • Israeli warplanes destroy 'Hamas house' in the Gaza Strip • Bin Laden is alive and planning new attacks, says German intelligence • Tamils break truce, abduct civilians • The September 11 plot was initiated in Malaysia • Bush wants military relations with China • American 'reinforcements' land in Israel • Israel launches air strike ahead of meetings • 27 killed in aim to increase tension in Kashmir • India vows 'befitting reply' to attack • Spain considering sanctions over disputed island • US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies • Vietnam hopes US will accept Agent Orange legacy World News Posted: Sunday, July 14, 2002 • Powell's Plan: President Arafat - Without Powers • Afghan refugees return home to find ruins where towns once stood • The Middle East labyrinth • Dick Cheney: The running mate has stumbled • SEC Chief Pledges Cheney Probe • WorldCom Inc. shifted accounts around as early as 2000 • Gunman targets Chirac during Bastille ceremony • Four Found Stabbed to Death in Calif. • The great charade • War clouds gather as hawks lay their plans • Beware Bush's summer charm offensive • School for scandal • Where did all the protesters go? • Blair and Bush plan Iraq war summit • Exiled officers say U.S. must not destroy Iraq again • British troops will stay in Iraq for five years after Saddam • A Dangerous Lull • Wobbly Words • Iraq Says Seven Hurt in U.S., British Attack • War clouds gather as hawks lay their plans • 52 die after violence breaks out in Colombia • Memory of Dirty War still haunts Argentina • Al-Qaeda among Saddam's opponents in northern Iraq • Islamic guerrillas kill 25 in attack on Kashmir shanty town • Nepal's villagers pay in blood as Maoists sow revolution • Girls go to war as Colombia's frontline killers • No trials in sight for Camp X-Ray prisoners • Freezing Weather Kills 18 In Peru • Britain is now the crime capital of the West • Business chiefs in US sweat as Washington plans crackdown • Vladimir Putin's life is coming to an end • Seven million-year-old skull 'just a female gorilla' • Four Palestinians die as Israeli army tightens grip • US hits $297b deficit World News Posted: Saturday, July 13, 2002 • Mottola Steps Up Spin War on Jacko, Implicates Producer • Iraqi exiles plot Saddam's fall • Pearl Trial Verdict Backlash Feared • Kashmir Attack Kills 20 Hindus • Iraqis Hurt In U.S.-british Air Raids • US wins deal on immunity • Putting a price on integrity: Let the buyers beware • The warning to book-cookers that Bush should have given • Questions for Bush • America the aloof • Nine Europeans hurt in Pakistan grenade attack • Israelis Kill Three Palestinians • America rattles Saddam's cage hoping he will lash out in anger • Palestinian cities Back to full occupation • Illusions of a Separate Peace • US hawks unhappy at improving Beijing ties • China Buildup Said to Target Taiwan, U.S. • Against the boycott of Israeli academics • Show trial awaits leader of intifada • Israel and Hizbollah striking deal to expel Arafat's top aide • Kuwait says it won't serve as launch pad for Iraq attack • Talk of war puts Arabs on same wavelength • Arafat admits he is unsure whether to seek re-election • Pashtuns Losing Faith in Karzai, U.S. • Afghans Look to Control U.S. Moves • Global markets continue slide as WorldCom scandal takes new turn • Echoes of Rodney King alarm city in shadow of Los Angeles World News Posted: Friday, July 12, 2002 • Stop shooting and start talking • Malaysian authorities grapple with cow dung-sniffing addicts • Bush's speech flopped as a confidence-builder • Terrorism begets terrorism: what the U.S. teaches terrorists – Part 1 • Thousands of women told to stop HRT • Despite lawsuits, U.S. has deported most foreigners held after Sept. 11 • Swiss paper's sex story backfires • Papua New Guinea Highlands erupts as troops move in for vote • White House bows to pressure on world court • Bush in more trouble as markets crash • World share crisis catches out Bush • Washington backs down over immunity for its peace-keepers • Mary Dejevsky: We Europeans should claim our bragging rights • Eye on America, global stocks skid • U.S. and German intelligence at odds over terrorism watch • Bristol-Myers faces U.S. probe • Former Argentine junta leader arrested • Turkey coalition government in turmoil • Fears of bioterrorism as scientists create deadly polio virus • Washington backs down over immunity for its peace-keepers • Pentagon officials: Al-Qaeda cells operating in America • Arafat: I oppose suicide bombings; Peres welcomes EU plan • SAS plan to blow up Saddam's germ sites • Jordan insists it will not help US attacks on Iraq • Barghouti lawyer: We will not deal with any court World News Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2002 • A Houston man on trial for taking photos of police from his own yard • Another pilot caught drunk at Miami airport • U.S. Won't Go to Iraq to Talk Pilot • Whitney's New Single Blasts the Press • Transsexual wins right to marry • Skull of 'man's oldest relative' found • Bush Got Harken Low-interest Loans • Israeli actions justified till security improves: Bush • Bush at midterm: in trouble at home and abroad • Capitalism and conscience • Tasks for Russia, China, India and Indonesia • Audit firms hid tax violations, U.S. says • Bigger jail alone can't end U.S. scandals • More law won't work • Iraq surrounded in arc of American firepower • West sees glittering prizes ahead in giant oilfields • Stop the War Before it Starts • Bush's crackdown fails to convince • Palestinians still back Arafat if only to spite US • Americans no different from Russians, say bereaved Afghans • Allies remain lukewarm to US invasion of Iraq • |