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July 2004
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 31, 2004
¤ Israeli troops open fire on funeral
¤ Two Afghan Officials Killed, Taliban Blamed
¤ Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll
¤ Gen. saw chaos coming
¤ Iraq teacher's institute chief assassinated
¤ Iraq Funds Are Focus of 27 Criminal Inquiries
¤ Frenchmen Say Guantanamo Detention Was Like Hell
¤ Outside Kerry's Tent
¤ Five Questions with Noam Chomsky
¤ The Shame of the DNC
¤ The Disturbing Words of John Edwards
¤ All Blame and No Responsibility
¤ Genocide in Darfur?
¤ The IMF and the Indonesian Elections
¤ Was Iraq a Mutual Charade?
¤ the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy
¤ Bush camp solicits race of Star staffer
¤ Penned protesters outnumbered
¤ Man said to be Zarqawi captured: Reports
¤ Al-Zarqawi Arrest Denied
¤ MIA: ABC, CBS, NBC
¤ A Secret Operation of British Intelligence
¤ A woman's place is to wait and listen, says the Vatican
¤ Magazine: US troops abused, sodomised Iraqis
¤ Al-Qaida detainee misled US
¤ 20 insurgents killed in Fallujah
¤ ‘Serious’ water crisis looming in Basra, UN warns
¤ Head of Iraq Teacher's Institute Killed
¤ Floods leave 1m Bangladeshis out on a limb
¤ Uzbek suicide bombers kill two
¤ Americans' spending power plummets as oil price rises
¤ Cover-Up of Iraq Bridge Incident Admitted
¤ Tossing Iraqis from Bridges
¤ CFR to Bush: Stop Israeli strike on Iran's nuke sites
¤ The Secret File of Abu Ghraib
¤ U.S. Shifts Stance on Nuclear Treaty
¤ Doctors and Torture
¤ Throwing the Book at Bush
¤ Decision 2004: Iran or Sudan?
¤ Repeat After Me: 'I Am Getting Safer and Safer'
¤ When Will They Figure It Out?
¤ Why Sudan?
¤ Anti-War Activist Dragged off DNC Floor in Handcuffs
¤ 'Terror' Against the Press
¤ Documents Showing Bush Illegal activities
¤ John Kerry's Pure Wind
¤ Business Booming for Soldiers of Fortune
¤ Occupation Causes Drop in Palestinian Living Standards
¤ Military spying on soldiers
¤ Pipeline blast kills at least 15 in Belgian factories
¤ Captives' throats slit in Iraq
¤ Iraqi governor: Free my sons and I'll quit
¤ Sudan rejects UN resolution on Darfur
Latest News
Posted: Friday, July 30, 2004
¤ Developing nations rally against subsidies at WTO
¤ The Pathology of George Bush***By FIDEL CASTRO
¤ PAKISTAN FOR BUSH. July Surprise?
¤ Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border
¤ Three killed in Uzbekistan blasts
¤ Tug-of-war over Uzbekistan
¤ Pakistan caught in terror tit-for-tat
¤ Bush Charges Castro with Promoting Sex Tourism
¤ Iraq, the US and the World
¤ Hope Is Not On the Way, But Hopefully Bush Is On the Way Out
¤ Sharon: U.S. Wants Israel to Have Nukes
¤ Johnnie Been Good?
¤ UN: Palestinians suffer Israeli occupation
¤ Fear of Death Wins Minds and Votes, Study Finds
¤ Sudan rejects 'misguided' UN resolution
¤ Documenting death
¤ Anybody but Bush - and then let's get back to work
¤ Lurch and the gang
¤ Threats force delay of key Iraqi congress
¤ U.S. Soldier Found Guilty in Carjacking Case
¤ Afghanistan could implode, MPs warn
¤ Powell Makes Unannounced Stop in Baghdad
¤ U.S. Lacks Records for Iraq Spending
¤ Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death
¤ The Unbearable Costs of Empire
¤ Why is Mr Blair still in Downing Street?
¤ Help! We're going to die
¤ Federal Bureau of Incompetence
¤ U.S. Media kills a Troubling Story again
¤ US air strike on Falluja kills nine Iraqis
¤ US Arabs feel squeezed by tighter security
¤ Kerry's aides complain: Sharon prefers Bush
¤ U.N. warns of humanitarian crisis in southern Iraq
¤ Israeli Soldier Filmed Beating, Shooting Palestinian
¤ Captors threaten to kill Indian hostage
¤ American Client States
¤ From wall to wall
¤ Belgian Gas Explosion on Fluxys Pipeline
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2004
¤ Patriot Game, Media Shame
¤ Israel Ignores the Lessons of History
¤ Enough About Vietnam. What about Iraq?
¤ They're Not Neo-Cons, They're Con Men
¤ How Israel Created The Myth of Al-Qaeda
¤ Bush's search for clean Cuban hookers goes awry
¤ Does Iraq Mark Start of Decline?
¤ U.S. Lacks Records for Iraq Spending
¤ Heavy casualties in US air strike on Falluja
¤ 126 die in Iraq suicide bombing, clashes
¤ Suicide bomb havoc as Iraq attacks claim 100 lives
¤ Death Toll Rises to 70 in Suicide Bombing
¤ Baquba blast toll climbs
¤ Scores killed in al-Suwayrah clash
¤ Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers
¤ Pakistan condemns beheading of its nationals
¤ Soldiers joked as they beat Iraqis, court told
¤ GI: Officer Ordered Carjacking of Iraqi
¤ Shantytown in the shadow of a gold mine
¤ Military Says Two Marines Killed in Iraq
¤ Somali driver captured in Iraq
¤ Iraqi governor's sons taken captive
¤ Coke or Pepsi? It's all in the head
¤ US soldier: Drowning of Iraqis was ordered
¤ Oil prices ignore supply and demand
¤ British troops accused of torture
¤ A frontier too far
¤ 120 killed in Iraq suicide attack, clashes
¤ Should the U.S. Stay in Iraq?
¤ U.S. Crude Prices Hit 21-Year High
¤ How the US blurred the line between aid and the armed forces
¤ Iran terms war on terror US political tool
¤ Whether it's Bush or Kerry, Israel wins
¤ Clueless in Baghdad
¤ Democracy of Dolts
Why Americans Believe Only American Deaths Count in Iraq
Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Nationalism can be a vicious disease, and an infectious one, too. It can take all sorts of forms, and its most destructive strains can surely sneak up on any country. Just think of the tens of thousands of German Jews--German nationals--who refused to believe what was happening, even after Kristallnacht and the ghettos, until the trains arrived at Dachau. We know well from this past century what sentiments intense nationalist fervor can ignite among a country's people, but we have yet to learn deeply those lessons after two "great" wars, hundreds of so-called conflicts and countless millions of young men, women, and children dead. It's striking how rarely we talk about the most recent abuses of nationalism as well as the genocides--attempted eliminations of groups considered impure or unwelcome in a society--they engendered, in Bosnia or Rwanda, for example. Shouldn't the ones we read about firsthand logically instill the most compassion, the most closeness? We say never again while it happens under our knowing gaze. And yet Americans are not fully immune. Think of the violent attacks on, and illegal detainment of, thousands of Arabs and Muslims after September 11, 2001. Never again?
Full Article : informationclearinghouse.info
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
¤ 68 dead in Iraq blast
¤ The real reasons Bush went to war
¤ High court challenge over Iraqi civilian deaths
¤ Iraq suicide blast kills 68
¤ Iraq captors kill two Pakistani hostages
¤ After the Fact, the International Community Moves to Bail Out...
¤ Bulgarian opposition wants troops in Iraq out by January
¤ Six killed including two UN staff in central Afghanistan
¤ Iraq Insurgents Kill 2 Coalition Soldiers
¤ Aid doctors to leave Afghanistan
¤ Two Us Aircraft Damaged, 11 U.S. Troops Wounded In Western Iraq
¤ Bush Floats War Against Iran
¤ Computer Glitches Lost Voting Data
¤ How 9/11 Report Soft-Pedaled Root Causes
¤ The Democrats and Their Conventions
¤ Saddam could die before his trial
¤ U.S. Crude Prices Hit 21-Year High
¤ Give Up 'Delusional Hope' of Iraq WMD, Kay Says
¤ Human Rights Horrors in Haiti
¤ Who is a Terrorist?
¤ Suicide Car Bombing Kills 51 in Iraq
¤ Iraq police station bomb 'kills more than 50'
¤ Opium trade booms in 'basket-case' Afghanistan
¤ $200 Million Ad Campaign Must Lure Recruits in Wartime
¤ UK troops held torture contests, Iraqi claims
¤ Eight killd in Afghan violence
¤ ‘Iraq will not cave in to kidnappers’
¤ Jordanian firm pulling out of Iraq to help free hostages
¤ Body of Turkish driver in Iraq found
¤ Iraq War Straining U.S.-Turkey Ties
¤ Aid agency pulls out of Afghanistan
¤ Veterans Demand End to Occupation
¤ Health fears grow in polluted Iraq
¤ Free Speech Behind the Razor Wire
¤ Over His Head
¤ Why Americans Believe Only American Deaths Count in Iraq
¤ US war on terror is "void" after decision to protect Mujahedeen: Iran
¤ Flashback America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims
¤ Flashback Bystanders to Mass Murder
¤ Whether It’s Bush or Kerry, Israel’s Laughing
¤ Baghdad is a city that reeks with the stench of the dead
¤ The real reasons Bush went to war
¤ South Asia floods claim 1,100 lives
¤ Sudan to face 'genocide' inquiry
¤ There can be no quick fix in Sudan
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
¤ So this is what self-determination looks like
¤ Woman sentenced for anti-semitism lie
¤ South Asia floods crisis grows
¤ U.S. colonel admits holding Iraqi children
¤ If We Were Venezuelans... We Would Vote for Hugo Chavez
¤ First the Contra Butchers, Then the Sweatshops
¤ Dodging the Issue of Palestine-Israel
¤ Maybe Spinning our Safety
¤ Axis of Eve
¤ Baghdad Becomes Captive of Extremists
¤ 'You can't be a war president one day, a peace president the next'
¤ 'What war?'
¤ A few questions for the president
¤ Reality: irrelevant
¤ Armenian con artists
¤ Iraqis seek legal redress in UK
¤ Iraq reconstruction flawed, say experts
¤ Mortar Attack Kills Iraqi, Injures 14
¤ Techies Reshape 9/11 History
¤ Castro Slams Bush 'Lies and Slanders' on Sex Tours
¤ Castro outraged at Bush's allegations
¤ US Stands Behind Cuban Sex Tourism Allegations
¤ Bush Took Quote Out of Context, Researcher Says
¤ US finds new weapon in Iraq - cash
¤ The complex politics of lying
¤ And still they cry wolf . . .
¤ Force will be met with force: Sudan
¤ Is Blair deceiving himself about America yet again?
¤ Israel expands West Bank settlements
¤ Assassins kill top Iraqi official as eight die in attacks
¤ On 9/11, All Failed But Rugged Individuals
¤ US weapons research industry grinds to a halt
¤ Rhetoric becomes reality
¤ Iraq hostages survive deadline, UN envoy slams US-led invasion
¤ U.S. Sneaks Uranium Out of Iraq
¤ Palestinian girl, 13, said killed by IDF fire in Gaza
¤ IDF soldier assaults Palestinian at West Bank roadblock
¤ Iraq the last big lie
¤ Where are the bodies of evidence?
¤ Civilian killed in Baghdad mortar attack
¤ Britons 'more vulnerable to terrorism than 60 years ago'
¤ Iran warns Israel of retaliation if attacked
¤ US Veto Over the Israeli Wall Would Threaten the Rule of International Law
¤ Sovereignty: "If they want it that bad, they can have it"
¤ Incompetent Imperialists
¤ Spain reprimands Australia over Iraq
Latest News
Posted: Monday, July 26, 2004
¤ Same old story
¤ How Chechnya Inspired the Iraqi Kidnappers
¤ Arresting the Curious
¤ The Democrats and Their Conventions
¤ Warnings of Threats are Threatening
¤ Is That All There Is?
¤ Stay Out of the "Free Speech Zone"
¤ Dissent is Now Dangerous
¤ Terrorists Attacked America Because They Hated "Freedom"? You Bet They Did
¤ Democrats remove Aljazeera banner
¤ Manipulating US elections is not an Al-Qaeda goal
¤ U.S. 'Correctional Population' Hits New High
¤ Bush Arrogance vs. CIA Intelligence
¤ Gunmen kill top Iraqi official
¤ When Grozny comes to Fallujah
¤ Russia sticks with Iran
¤ US lessons on India and Pakistan
¤ Democracy a tool in neo-con hands
¤ Iraqi official killed on day of bombings
¤ Spain reprimands Australia over Iraq comment
¤ Convention Demonstration Zone is a Dark, Shadowy Place
¤ Sudan warns against foreign intervention
¤ Chief of Staff of New Iraqi Army Dismissed
¤ By the banks of Lake Tunk
¤ Iraq Militants Kidnap 2 Pakistanis, Iraqi
¤ Bestseller on honour killing 'is a fake'
¤ Bomber Explodes Car at U.S. Base in Iraq
¤ GM protest reignites in France
¤ How to Lose the War on Terror
¤ The Army's whitewash
¤ Empire building is nasty work
¤ Baghdad's Officers impose gun control
¤ The Uncertainty of Iraq's Transition
¤ Intelligence officer fired for criticising Blair over Iraq's WMD
¤ Iran Says U.S. Senators 'Daydream' of Regime Change
¤ US indictment complicates Colombian peace process
¤ U.S. Soldier Guarding Iraq Oil Tankers Killed In Roadside Bombing
¤ MPs criticise MoD 'failures'
¤ Understanding US History and Mythology
¤ Survey: Arabs Detest US Policy
¤ Israeli Hit Squads in US
¤ International Assassination Squads
¤ Israeli troops kill six Palestinians
¤ China: powerhouse of world economy
¤ Suicide Bomber Kills Three in Iraq
¤ Car bomb blasts rock Mosul, Baghdad
¤ Three family members beheaded in Kashmir
¤ Darfur can best be resolved by Africans
¤ Philippines blasts Australia
¤ Convention Protesters Upset With Site
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, July 25, 2004
¤ Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
¤ Iran new U.S. whipping boy
¤ How much of the Iraq mission is about profit?
¤ U.S. Air Raid Goes Astray, Hurts 8 Afghan Soldiers
¤ Israeli bank at centre of probe into Holocaust victims' millions
¤ Flood report whitewashes Iraq WMD lies
¤ North Korea Accuses U.S. of Spy Flights
¤ Looking for an Iraq precedent? Try Honduras
¤ No Shortage of Fighters in Iraq's Wild West
¤ Venezuela: Chávez Effort Boosts Voter Rolls
¤ 'America is not a Charitable Organisation - They Came to Steal from Iraq'
¤ Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood, Is Now Its Social Currency, Too
¤ Iran: the next target?
¤ Israel moves to highlight Iran's nuclear threat
¤ Israel Woos Foreign Jews, Including Americans, to Keep Up in Population
¤ Blair: my way or it’s the highway
¤ Iraq Committee Shows Torture Equipment
¤ NZ: 2 more passport suspects may have fled to Israel
¤ Correcting the Record on Sept. 11, in Great Detail
¤ Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood, Is Now Its Social Currency, Too
¤ Two Pakistanis kidnapped in Iraq
¤ ‘More vigilantes active in Afghanistan’
¤ History repeats itself
¤ Arafat waits for Bush's failure: Israeli intelligence
¤ Unclear casualty toll in Baquba fighting
¤ Sudan: Darfur issue being used against it
¤ Iraq clashes continue, toll rises
¤ Bushmen of Botswana, visit U.S to Publicize Human Rights Violations
¤ Nine gunmen killed in Algeria
¤ Four Afghan Soldiers Killed In Ambush
¤ 2,000 U.S. troops killed in Iraq: Russian expert
Flashback ¤ Russian Expert Predicts 500,000
¤ Iraqi forces aim at each other
¤ Effect of Iraq war, support for Israel go unaddressed
¤ N. Korea rejects U.S 'sham offer'
¤ Whitewashing 9-11; "When everyone is to blame, No one is to blame"
¤ A Daily Look at Military Deaths in Iraq
¤ 9/11 panel plays it safe and makes no enemies
¤ Out of touch, but not out of the woods
¤ Haitian Rebels Still Armed and Active
¤ Soldiers, who had served in Iraq, Die in Apparent Murder-Suicide
¤ Afghan border region has new boss
¤ U.S. Soldier Dies While Escorting Convoy
¤ Darfur's deep grievances defy all hopes for an easy solution
¤ The UN must not fail Sudan again
¤ Sudan's Darfur crisis and US/European concern
¤ UK banking link to fraud by Pinochet
¤ Butler 'wrong' on Iraq uranium link
Challenges to Garifuna & Afro-Brazilian Communities
Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2004
Shackled together and piled on top of each other, men, women and children crossed the Atlantic crammed in the dark leaky hulls of creaking slave ships. Upon arrival in the New World, they suffered a daily existence of backbreaking labor, endless abuse and the subjugation of their religions and cultures. Although African slaves endured relentless brutality in the Americas, many did not acquiesce to their captivity; they were not docile subjects. Resistance characterized their new lives: from covert sabotage of plantation equipment and working at a turtle’s pace when possible, to outright violent rebellion and escape. Many opted for the latter.
As slavery spread across the Americas, so did autonomous communities of runaway slaves. Living off the plantation allowed these groups to preserve and reproduce their original African cultures. The modern descendants of these courageous renegades amazingly have kept much of their culture, religion and language intact.
Full Article : americas.org
Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood
Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2004
Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood,
Is Now Its Social Currency, Too
CARACAS, Venezuela - Seventeen months after an antigovernment strike crippled production, Venezuela's state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, has made what analysts call a Herculean return.
Though energy experts say production remains below prestrike levels, the oil-and-gas monolith is, once again, one of the world's great producers of crude. Its giant refining arm is talking of adding two refineries to the three already operating in the United States. The company says it is embarking on a strategy, heavily dependent on foreign oil companies, to nearly double production by 2009.
All this is part of a grand design made possible largely by sky-high oil prices, which have nearly doubled the expected revenue of Pdvsa (pronounced peh-deh-VEH-sah), as the company is known.
But while Pdvsa's talk of foreign investment and ramped-up production is welcome in the boardrooms of the world's biggest oil companies, in recent months much of the new earnings have been siphoned from exploration and production projects that some energy analysts say Pdvsa needs to recover fully from the strike. Instead, the windfall is financing a social revolution long promised by President Hugo Chávez's 5½-year-old government to extricate the country from its malaise and ease life for the poor, an effort that had been hobbled by the strike and a 2002 coup that temporarily ousted the firebrand leader.
Full Article : nytimes.com
Reproduced on: Trinidad News board
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2004
¤ Those 16 Words Still Smell
¤ The Struggle for Iraq is Just Beginning
¤ What's at Stake in Venezuela
¤ U.S. President George W. Bush a Big Winner at World Stupidity Awards
¤ Brazil Investigates American Corporation for Spying
¤ Official US Body Count Is A Lie
¤ U.S. West Nile virus matches Israeli strain
¤ Iran's next
¤ Bomb thrower
¤ Coup-less
¤ Iraq clashes continue, toll rises
¤ North Korea rejects US nuclear offer
¤ Trouble ahead for Bush from 9/11 panel
¤ Some Firms Will Halt Business in Iraq
¤ Ruling throws doubt on Bali convictions
¤ Eqyptian diplomat becomes latest victim of Iraq's hostage takers
¤ The “Invisible” U.S. War in Colombia
¤ Muslim cleric would not get fair trial in US, court told
¤ Bush: GOP Must Work to Appeal to Blacks
¤ Bush uses civil rights speech to win black vote
¤ Occupied Haiti
¤ Afro-Latinos and African Americans: Making the Connections
¤ U.S. policy on Israel key motive for effort
¤ Kerry: I can do better than Bush on fighting terrorism
¤ Iran, Saudis Feel Vindicated After Report
¤ Iran's Challenge to the Bush Doctrine
¤ US Must Stay Out of Sudan
¤ Bush should stop bashing Tehran and seek better relations.
¤ Prison abuse not systemic: US Army
¤ Army: Much higher estimates of abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan
¤ The Puzzling 9/11 Report
¤ Destroying Freedom to Save It
¤ New Zealand Has Solid Evidence of Mossad killing Austalian tourists
¤ From Iraq to Latin America
¤ Fresh bombings in Falluja
¤ US proposes sanctions against Sudan
¤ Selling War to a Willing Public
¤ Continuing Challenges to Garifuna & Afro-Brazilian Communities
¤ Iran dismissive about 9/11 report
Latest News
Posted: Friday, July 23, 2004
¤ "Anyone But Bush" and the Anatomy of Moral Failure
¤ Analysis: Permission to speak freely?
¤ Bali bombers court shock
¤ Sudan Arabs Attack U.S. Stand on Darfur 'Genocide'
¤ First Skirmish in the Battle of NYC
¤ Zaniest President in US History
¤ The 9/11 Whitewash
¤ Macho Politics and Major Consequences
¤ Remember Afghanistan?
¤ Hezbollah and Three Alive 9/11 Hijackers
¤ Multiple identities of hijack suspects confound FBI
¤ Israel's Condition For Peace Conference: No Palestinians
¤ Tall Buildings and Tall Tales
¤ Clueless 9-11 Commission Cheats American Public
¤ Powell condemns Philippine pullout
¤ Against the whole world: Bush's AIDS policy
¤ Roadside bomb kills US soldiers
¤ Two sides of the same coin
¤ An Occupation by Any Other Name
¤ Bush accused of pressuring countries to stop producing generic drugs
¤ U.S. Military Spending vs. the World
¤ The Mass Graves in America
¤ U.S. pressures Sudan
¤ Hard Reign
¤ Train crash death toll revised to 36
¤ Egyptian diplomat in Iraq taken captive
¤ US tank crash kills Iraqis
¤ Radicals in the ashes of democracy
¤ Sudan warns Blair against sending troops
¤ Turkish train crash kills 139 as carriages derail
¤ U.S. Irate Over Philippines' Iraq Pullout
¤ EU and Israel clash over support for UN resolution
¤ Yesterday's heroes could soon be tomorrow's traitors
¤ US worked with torture suspect
¤ Australia went to war on back of 'thin' intelligence
¤ UN report accuses Rwanda of breaking Congo arms ban
¤ 'The system was blinking red'
¤ Intervention: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba
¤ No "collaborative operational relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda.
¤ Halliburton Ignores Sanctions
¤ Iran had no active role in 9/11: CIA
¤ Violence Surges in Baghdad and Sunni Area to the West
¤ Yes Means No for al-Jazeera in Canada
¤ Axis of liars
¤ Israel's wall just keeps on growing
¤ U.S. forces attack insurgents linked to al-Zarqawi in Fallujah
¤ Fresh bombings in Falluja
Top 30 Bush - Iraq Lies Debunked BEFORE The Invasion
Posted: Friday, July 23, 2004
Since the release of a blistering report by a U.S. Senate committee blaming the CIA for miserable intelligence leading to our pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, the White House and its apologists have had a field day pointing their fingers anywhere and everywhere except where it most certainly belongs...at the White House.
After the incomprehensible incompetence and abhorrent, deceptive tactics used by both the Bush and Blair administrations, you would think that they would let sleeping dogs lie.
Well that has never been the case with these people and I don't think it ever will be.
Thus I think it appropriate to take a stroll down memory lane and see just how innocent this administration was of all the supposed CIA foul-ups.
Grab a coffee. This might take a while.
Full Article : politicalstrategy.org
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, July 22, 2004
¤ Kenya citizens 'must leave Iraq'
¤ Haiti's loan-aid deal a debt trap
¤ Howard, Bush and Sharon
¤ Chirac v. Sharon
¤ Accidental Explosion Kills 18 in Yemen
¤ Outsourcing War Crimes
¤ Cheney Lobbied Congress To Ease Sanctions Against Terrorist Countries
¤ Democracy in Peril
¤ Don't Call It A Comeback
¤ 9/11 Airport Surveillance Video
¤ Whoopi doo
¤ IS CUBA NEXT?
¤ Mean and clean streets
¤ Lies and human blunders
¤ Train Derails in Turkey, Killing 36
¤ 2 Killed in Gaza City Explosion
¤ Israeli rocket kills Islamic Jihad leader
¤ Army Announces 94 Allegations of Abuse
¤ The Oft-Asked Question: Why Do They Hate Us?
¤ US interest in peace process waning, says UK
¤ Howard's obsequiousness to America exceeds even Holt's
¤ The selling-out of Tasmania
¤ EU freezes £83m aid to Kenya
¥ These hypocritical 'bastions of morality'
¥ now pontificates to Africans about corruption and greed.
¤ Profits of war
¤ Report Alleges Halliburton Overcharges
¤ Missing in Action: $20 Billion
¤ Grand jury probes Cheney's role in 'illegal' Iran trade
¤ Israel warns Britain over UN barrier resolution
¤ Israel lashes out at EU stance
¤ Israel shows contempt for international opinion
¤ Facing the Facts About The U.S.-Israeli Relationship
¤ Hanging the bell on Israel’s neck
¤ More Palestinians made homeless
¤ Israel warns Iran will have nukes in 2007
¤ From vigilantism to terrorism
¤ 'Two governments are calling him a liar'
¤ GAO: War Cost Underestimated by $12.3 Billion
¤ Bush OKs Arms Sales to Iraq
¤ Al Qaeda Relationship With Iran Is Debated
¤ Rumsfeld knew all about me, says American 'jailer' held in Kabul
¤ Blair may send troops to Sudan
¤ Root of Sudan's Darfur crisis and US concern
¤ Fortress America
¤ Some of my best friends
¤ Venezuela Officials Question Bush’s Remarks on Referendum
¤ Space programs out, cemeteries in as war-time US budget ax falls
¤ Ice cream entrepreneur totes Bush effigy
¤ Six US soldiers among 25 killed in Iraq
¤ Many Iraqis killed in Ramadi fighting
¤ Exactly How Has Bush’s War Made Us Safer?
¤ John Kerry: 'George Bush Lite' on Iraq
¤ Blame the CIA? Top 30 Bush - Iraq Lies Debunked BEFORE The Invasion
Bush's 'Moral' Remarks
Posted: Thursday, July 22, 2004
Venezuela Officials Question Bush's Remarks on Referendum, Cite Lack of Morals
www.venezuelanalysis.com
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
¤ Deserting a Ship of Rats
¤ Bush May Lose, But His War Will Go On
¤ How About an October Naval Skirmish?
¤ A Disease of Conceit
¤ The Emotional Casualties of War
¤ U.S. helicopter shot down in Iraq
¤ Vigilante in Afghanistan Says He Worked for U.S.
¤ IAEA has no evidence to prove Syria's nuclear weapons attempt
¤ UK firms in Iraq 'unaccountable'
¤ UN 'to detail lack of Iraqi WMDs'
¤ Head of slain U.S. hostage found in Saudi raid
¤ In the face of stubborn insurgency, troops scale back Anbar patrols
¤ The genocide we're missing
¤ Unrecorded victims
¤ Iraq dismisses nuclear find report
¤ Even CNN and BBC Beating Drums of a New War, on Sudan This Time
¤ Annan Urges Sudan to Disarm Militias
¤ Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies
¤ New Niger/uranium tale flops
¤ 11 Killed, 6 Kidnapped in Iraq Violence
¤ Israel shows contempt for international opinion
¤ Three brothers killed in Ramadi bombing
¤ The tongue of the mujahideen
¤ American Exceptionalism: A Disease of Conceit
¤ Oops, They Invaded the Wrong Country?
¤ 70 go on trial in Zimbabwe over alleged coup plot
¤ US press hit by new scandal
¤ Alarm at US drift over Middle East
¤ U.N. Demands Israel Tear Down Barrier
¤ 'Rejoice over Iraq': fury at Blair's echo of Thatcher
¤ 900th GI Dies Since War Began in Iraq
¤ Bush-Hitler: Hypnotizing The Masses
¤ Russia denies plans to send troops to Iraq
¤ Abu Ghraib: Male Rape Witness Statement from Taguba Report
¤ The Ghost Prisoners
¤ African Americans suffer Abu Ghraib treatment in America
¤ Senior official killed in Basra
¤ Blair ridiculed for fuzzy grasp of Iraq intelligence
¤ America sings a new song of celebrity censorship
¤ A Shrinking Base
¤ Running scared
¤ Why tyrants rule Arabs
¤ Bush: "I want to be the peace president"
¤ Pressured by U.S., Greece Will Allow Troops at Olympics
¤ General Assembly demands that Israel tear down barrier
¤ UN assembly votes against Israeli wall
¤ Annan: Israel must accept ICJ ruling
¤ ICJ: Israel must stop building wall now
¤ Israel Vows to Continue Building Barrier
¤ Bush State Of The Union Address 2005 Cartoon
¤ US soldier, four Iraqis killed
¤ Iraq’s new terrorist prime minister part II
¤ Donors pledge billions in aid to Haiti
¤ Nearly all the funds could end up in the pockets of foreigners and elite
African Americans suffer Abu Ghraib treatment in America
Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
In terms of African American history in this country it's a "been there, done that," sort of approach to these controversial topics dominating much of the media coverage.
African American men disproportionately fill prison facilities in the United States, not abroad in a foreign setting obscure to most Americans, but in our own prisons. For many years men like journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal have written prison memoirs in which they describe the ways that men are physically, mentally, and morally broken down by the prison system, and their lives can be endangered more by the prison atmosphere than by life on the roughest city streets. Little in the way of national outrage has been mustered over these accounts.
Full Article : rawstory.com
Food Security Program
Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Venezuela Expands Food Security Program to Provide Free Food to Street Children
Caracas, July 19, 2004--In a country that has long endured wide social disparity created by an oil economy in which oil revenues reached only a small minority while the majority suffered from poverty, the government of Venezuela under initiated a new program meant to provide emergency relief to those Venezuelans most in need.
Yesterday Chavez announced the creation of a new food program to benefit the poorest of Venezuelans; adults and children who live on the street. Chavez said the program will draw from the existing Mercal (Mercados de Alimentos) food security program, which consists of government supermarkets with basic food supplies at fixed discount prices.
Chavez announced that one thousand houses for prepared food distribution will be opened next week, each house with the capacity to feed approximately 100 people, adults as well as street children, who Chavez called "Children of the fatherland."
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
¤ Bush Says Castro Welcomes Sex Tourism
> Student whose paper on Castro was used in a speech is 'annoyed.'
> He says the president misconstrued the Cuban leader's stance.
¤ Bush Took Quote Out of Context, Researcher Says
¥ Another example of plagiarism of a student's paper
Flashback ¤ Downing St dossier plagiarised
¤ Everyone Knows This is Theater
¤ Banking on Your Desperation: The Bush / Kerry War Ticket
¤ Black Americans Discovered By Democratic Party
¤ Putin Considering Sending 40,000 Troops to Iraq — Agency
¤ Russia not to send troops to Iraq
¤ White House Won't Give UN Details on Halliburton in Iraq
¤ Bush Administration Has Blocked Court-Approved Payments to Black Farmers
¤ As Iraqi police take over, they use their only resource: threats
¤ Bush, CIA at Odds on Iran
¤ Another Campaign of Misinformation?
¤ Lies Even the U.S. Doesn’t Believe
¤ NZ 'evidence' against Israel
¤ New Iraqi leader says bounty no big deal
¤ Bush Cronies Profit from War in Iraq While Soldiers Die
¤ Did the Bush Administration Allow a Violent Coup in Haiti?
¤ Torturing Children
¤ Bush: Re-Election Will Ensure U.S. Safety
¤ Iraq: the crowning glory of George W. Bush
¤ All power to the sheikh
¤ Israeli army warns of strike against Syria
¤ More Palestinians made homeless
¤ 14 to 1 Against the Wall
¥ That should be 14 to 2 don't forget The U.S.
¤ Filipino Hostage Is Released in Iraq
¤ Arab women singers complicit in rape, says Amnesty report
¤ 9 Killed in Truck Bomb Blast in Baghdad
¤ How has the US been spending other people's billions?
¤ Riled Putin shakes up top brass
¤ Our lies led us into war
¤ The Daily Show With George Bush
¤ The Iraq Scandals: Media Failures Are Next
¤ House Republicans Fight International Criminal Court
¤ Iraq's Transition to Dictatorship
¤ Iraq is not improving, it's a disaster
¤ Four missiles, 14 deaths and the crisis of information in Baghdad
¤ A Nation Whose Govt Rules Only Its Capital
¤ Fox News' use of 'Fair and Balanced' deceptive advertising
¤ French Jews caught up in a war of words
¤ Basra Council Member Killed by Gunmen
¤ The Daily Show With George Bush
¤ America's Not Safer
¤ Three Palestinians killed in West Bank
¤ Bush ‘flat-out lied’ on Iraq
¤ No, I am not ‘devastated’ by Butler
¤ The rule of law and the rule of exceptions
¤ Iran may provide Hezbollah with chemical weapons
Flashback ¤ Sharon: Iran Next on War List
¤ Israel accuses Iran of resuming suspect nuclear activities
> Unlike Israel, which is widely thought to possess
> up to 200 nuclear warheads, Iran has signed up to the
> IAEA's nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).
¤ Israel Will Prosecute Holocaust Deniers
¤ Israeli missile strike on Gaza leader
¤ Israeli soldiers continue killing spree
¤ Senior Basra official, guards shot dead
¤ Philippines Forces Leave Iraq
¤ Methane Blast Kills 31 at Ukrainian Mine
¤ Ruling on Israel's wall: A veto on the U.S. veto
Latest News
Posted: Monday, July 19, 2004
¤ Pakistan pledges to pursue peace with India
¤ MAURITANIA: Oil, copper and gold exports to start in 2005
¤ "Locusts invade Mauritania"
¤ Blacks are Invisible at AIDS Conference
¤ A brief history of imperialist intervention in East Africa
¤ Is A New Era Ahead of De Beers in Africa?
¤ A very British coup? Top Tories dragged into brewing heir's African adventure
¤ Sudan: 'Rape as weapon of war'
¤ Africa develops appetite for patents
¤ Kuwait Of Africa?
¤ Halliburton Subpoenaed Over Unit's Iran Work
¤ 9 killed in blast outside Baghdad police station
¤ Senior Iraqi official assassinated
¤ Blair and Bush 'Should Have Realised Pre-War Truth on Wmd'
¤ How We Got It so Wrong in Iraq
¤ Forget WMD -- It's Conventional Arms That Are Killing GIs and Iraqis
¤ Chirac Says Sharon Not Welcome in France
Flashback ¤ Sharon: Iran Next on War List
¤ Regime change in Iran if Bush wins?
¤ Lack of Iran Contacts Said Harming U.S. Interests
¤ Allawi, Our Puppet with a Pistol
¤ The Crisis of Information in Baghdad
¤ Scant Coverage of US Labor Opposition to Iraq War
¤ Berg family says U.S. gov't is stonewalling them
¤ Lies deception, cover-up; the bush legacy
¤ The Big "Mistake"?
¤ US casualty rate high since handover
¤ Bush, unprincipled and unwise to the extreme
¤ The Fallujah model
¤ Three wounded in Gaza rocket attack
¤ Six killed in Kashmir bomb attack
¤ Iran rejects US claim of al-Qaida link
¤ Blair: the attacks mount up
¤ Troops kill 19 Chechen separatists
¤ Red Cross urged to investigate Allawi claims
¤ Fallujans: Use oil revenue to rebuild homes
¤ Rights groups slam Israel's citizenship law
¤ 3 in Afghan Abuse Case Claim U.S. Link
¤ US media kills story that Iraqi PM executed 6 prisoners
¤ US Sikhs Shocked by 'Inflammatory' AP Article
¤ We can't prove Iran-Sept 11 link: CIA
¤ Americans ran illegal jail, Kabul alleges
¤ Car bombs kill two officers
¤ Woman killed as rockets hit Kabul
¤ Kicking the Bully’s Dog
¤ The era of strategic deception
¤ Do you ever get the strange feeling you’re being watched? You are
¤ France angered over Sharon's call
¤ ICJ ruling, Israel’s reaction and Sudan in headlines
¤ Top commanders in Iraq allowed dogs to be used
Downing Street admits Iraqi mass graves claim untrue
Posted: Sunday, July 18, 2004
Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.
In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'
On 14 December Blair repeated the claim in a statement issued by Downing Street in response to the arrest of Saddam Hussein and posted on the Labour party website that: 'The remains of 400,000 human beings [have] already [been] found in mass graves.'
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, July 18, 2004
¤ How intelligence was bent to one will and purpose
¤ PM admits graves claim 'untrue'
¤ Invisible casualties
¤ Israel's Mossad's litany of blunders
¤ Hidden Angle
¤ Security chaos as Gaza boils over
¤ Sharon Urges Exodus of Jews From France
¤ The problem was in the Oval Office
¤ Bushites are trying to rewrite history
¤ Our troops died on a false pretext... but never mind
¤ Women and children among 14 dead in US attack on Fallujah house
¤ Why Philippines is pulling out
¤ US unhappy over Phillipines' Iraq withdrawal
¤ Five arrested for India school inferno
¤ Iran, Al-Qaida Not Connected, CIA Says
¤ Germany to drop 9/11 plot charges
¤ U.S. Strike in Fallujah Kills at Least 10
¤ Palestinian PM offers to resign
¤ Bomb Explodes in Indonesian Town
¤ Europe or the US? Britain must choose
¤ Attorney General warned Blair on legality of war
¤ Inquiry into British WMD intelligence watered down to protect Blair
¤ Like Jeeves, this Butler's first language is Euphemism
¤ What Butler missed
¤ U.N. quits Afghan province after attack
¤ Iraq Amnesty Excludes Killers of Americans
¤ US is obliged to support its 'old friend' Israel - Bush
¤ 'How can Blair live with Iraq deaths?'
¤ Now America accuses Iran of complicity in World Trade Center attack
¤ Regime change in Iran now in Bush’s sights
Flashback ¤ Will Iran Be Next?
¤ Soldier in U.S.-Led Afghan Force Struck Army Man
¤ Iraqi Police Chief Killed
¤ British army sanctioned hooding Iraqi prisoners
¤ 'Here you go. Here's Iraq. Take it'
¤ Former CIA director used Pentagon ties to introduce Iraqi defector
¤ Suicide is top killer of Israeli soldiers
¤ How to Prevent a US Election (with the Help of 'al Qaeda')
¤ Anybody but Bush or Kerry
¤ Philippine Troops to Complete Iraq Pullout Monday
¤ US again denies money to population fund
¤ US attack in Falluja leaves 11 dead
¤ Assassinations, bombings sweep Iraq
US writes off over $495m Pak debt
Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2004
ISLAMABAD: The United States wrote off $495.3 million bilateral debt that Islamabad owed to Washington in an agreement here on Friday.
"This final instalment of debt cancellation marks an evolutionary transition from stabilisation assistance to participation in Pakistan’s economic take-off and sustained development," US Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell said after signing the agreement with Dr Waqar Masood Khan, Secretary Economic Affairs Division (EAD). She ruled out more debt relief.
In the post-September 11 period, the United States has helped Pakistan by agreeing to the Paris Club terms under the stock of the debt operation, which paved the way for writing off the $1 billion debt in April 2003, and finally another half a billion dollar to reduce the bilateral US debt from $3 billion to about $1.6 billion, according to the EAD. However, the US administration has only waived off concessional loans borrowed under the Official Development Assistance (ODA). These loans, with a weighted average cost of just 2.54 per cent, were repayable in 38 years, leaving their Net Present Value (NPV) at just $200 million. The US administration approved these funds in its 2004 budget, as part of an overall package of $395 million.
Full Article : jang.com.pk
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2004
¤ Oil is the only reason for the African Focus
¤ Gunmen Kill at Least 25 Indian Separatists
¤ Israel's alliances with Turkey, India start to fray
¤ Roadside Bomb Blast Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq
¤ Vanishing the Palestinians
¤ Israel Builds Another Wall
¤ Israel, Iran and the IAEA: Nuclear Ambiguity or Hypocrisy?
¤ Italy Govt Crisis Threat Remains Despite Reshuffle
¤ Car Bomb Hits Iraqi Minister's Convoy
¤ Gunmen pick off Baghdad councillors
¤ Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence
¤ Palestinian militants ban UN envoy
¤ No 10 admits Hutton cover-up
¤ How judge was misinformed about Iraq's WMD threat
¤ Downing Street forced into the open on discredited spies
¤ Blair faces quit call in backbench backlash
¤ US writes off over $495m Pak debt
¤ Iraqi clerics: US occupiers must leave
¤ Civilians, policemen killed in Iraq
¤ Baghdad blast targets Minister of Justice
¤ Gaza kidnappings: Security chiefs quit
¤ NZ's Palestine stance said to rule out formal apology
¤ ‘America gripped by unease over Pakistan’
¤ A French call on Arafat fuels a diplomatic furor
¤ Afghans get to vote, sort of
¤ Obedience Is an Option
¤ Betraying Iraqi Women
¤ Guide to age
¤ Car bomb blasts in Iraq kill six
¤ Car bomb targets US convoy; Philippine, Thai troops trickle out of Iraq
¤ Where Is This 'Safer' America?
¤ Padilla, Hamdi, and Rasul: Charge Them or Release Them
¤ Colorism in Sudan
¤ Britain calls Kenya government corrupt
¤ UK envoy attacks graft 'gluttons'
¤ The politicians may 'eat like gluttons' but Kenyan people face starvation
¥ What could possibly prompt these types of attacks?
¤ Preliminary Surveys Find OIL DEPOSITS in KENYA
Latest News
Posted: Friday, July 16, 2004
¤ 'Acrimonious' talks continue
¤ Darfur peace talks start in Addis Ababa
¤ Iraqi PM executed six insurgents: witnesses
¤ Darfur Rebels Set Six Conditions for Sudan Talks
¤ Libya to help speed up aid delivery to Sudan
¤ 100 girl students feared killed in school fire
¤ Allawi vows to 'annihilate' insurgents
¤ China delivers blunt warning to U.S.
¤ They're True Because They're Said A Lot
¤ Allawi shot inmates in cold blood, say witnesses
¤ 32 killed as attacks rock Iraq
¤ Turning History Upside Down
¤ Now It's Coffin Bombs in Baghdad
¤ The Iraq War is All Right Then
¤ Terrorism and the Election: Trial Balloons and Spin
¤ Whoopi Goldberg Brings Hypocrites from Under Their Rocks
¤ Labour loses safe seat in Iraq war backlash
¤ Blair tells aides: find a way I can apologise for dossier
¤ Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape
¤ Cameron Kerry: Bush too soft on Saudis
¤ Elections, what elections?
¤ Waging Another Losing War
¤ $18m slap on the wrist for Uzbekistan
¤ Bush on the Bus
¤ Gaza kidnappings: Security chiefs quit
¤ Bid to cut Egypt aid rejected by US Congress
¤ Headless corpse found in Iraq
¤ U.S. to Withhold $34M to U.N. Fund
¤ Philippines to Pull Out of Iraq to Save Hostage
¤ US threaten cutting diplomatic ties with Philippines
¤ Hawking changes his mind on black holes
¤ New Zealand PM says Israeli apology not enough
¤ Report slams Saudi abuse of workers
¤ Philippines orders partial Iraq pullout
¤ Libya to open corridors for Darfur aid
¤ Vital US nuclear weapons data goes missing
¤ Insurgency in Iraq: a dangerous development
¤ US House of Representatives Rejects Hague Court Ruling
¤ American Israel Public Affairs Committee Applauds
> Strong Bipartisan Condemnation of ICJ Ruling
¤ Call to suspend Israel from United Nations
¤ Angry Prime Minister hammers Israel
¤ Islamic Website Baffled at 'Al-Qaeda Threat' Attributed To It
¤ 'These people are treating us like idiots'
¤ 'Secret film shows Iraq prisoners sodomised'
¤ Experts Dispute Bush Line on Zarqawi
¤ U.S. Won't Turn Over Data for Iraq Audits
¤ Baghdad tackles the disaffected with carrot and stick
¤ UN pulls staff out of central Afghan province
¤ The Damning Evidence
¤ Watchdog finds weak controls over Iraqi oil funds
¤ Subpoena seeks Iraqi oil records
¤ US, Israel Against the World on Wall
¤ Bush needs second term ‘to help the world’
¤ Iraq City Becomes Symbol of Resistance
¤ UK blocks US plans to spend oil fund on museum
¤ 'Mossad agents' jailed in fake New Zealand passport scandal
¤ Delusions of grandeur
Tutu: No Security Without Justice
Posted: Thursday, July 15, 2004
Palestinians are urged, rightly, to trade terrorism for non-violence. When they do, as in turning to the International Court of Justice regarding Ariel Sharon's wall in the West Bank and Jerusalem, they are told that the ruling means nothing.
Israel says the court is irrelevant, and the White House adds: "We do not believe that that's the appropriate forum to resolve what is a political issue." Canada says the same thing.
Zalman Shoval, an adviser to Sharon, says the World Court's historic ruling "is not a legal event; it's a political event."
The conundrum that follows is this: The issue must be tackled politically but the court's ruling must be ignored because it is political.
There are other obfuscations and distortions.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, July 15, 2004
¤ Africa Lags In U.N. Wealth Ranking
¤ Philippine troops await Iraq pull-out order
¤ U.S. Works to Sustain Iraq Coalition
¤ NYC's anti-war billboard in court
¤ Democracy is best taught by example
¤ Car Bombing in Western Iraq Kills 10
¤ Iraq Pipeline Attacks Halt Turkey Exports
¤ Villagers: Nigeria Troops Kill 15 in Raid
¤ Israel breached NZ's sovereignty and international law, says PM
¤ NZ freezes ties with Israel after agents jailed
¤ Bush and Lay Have Same Lawyer
¤ You know your veep is in trouble, if...
¤ Iraq Follow the Money
¤ What Does the Bush Regime Object To?
¤ Corporate Power is the Driving Force behind US Foreign Policy
¤ All Together Now
¤ Dissent at the War Memorial
¤ The Illusion of Safety
¤ 'The Ministry of Fear'
¤ 'George W. Bush: Presidential or pathological?'
¤ Bad Lay
¤ Why the media failed Americans
¤ More Iraq prison abuse cases emerge
¤ Five Iraqis killed in mortar attack in Kirkuk
¤ Flaws Cited in Powell's U.N. Speech on Iraq
¤ Philippine-US ties strained over Iraq?
¤ Israel invades and detains Palestinians
¤ Fresh blast kills Iraqi police officers
¤ Slim-Fast Dumps Goldberg Over Bush Jabs
¤ Prisoners Swim to Escape in South Asia Flood Chaos
¤ High radioactivity recorded in Israel
¤ US urges Pakistan to step up crackdown against Taliban
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