Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
1855 of 1910 
Report finds Housing Ministry sent $6.5 million for illegal West Bank construction The Housing and Construction Ministry has funneled nearly $6.5 million to illegal settlement construction in the West Bank in the past three years, more than half of it to outposts Israel pledged to remove, according to the annual State Comptroller's Report, released yesterday....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 5:30pm PDT
Robert Fisk: Criticize Israel? Behold Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, would-be graduation commencement speaker at Emory University in the United States. She has made a big mistake. She dared to criticise Israel. She suggested - horror of horrors - that "the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the occupation". Now whoah there a moment, Mary! "Occupation"? Isn't that a little bit anti-Israeli?...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 5:26pm PDT
Soldiers Fire Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets at Birzeit University Three Birzeit students were beaten by Israeli soldiers today and 7 others received medical treatment after being badly affected by tear gas fired at the university campus by Israeli soldiers....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 5:22pm PDT
Kofi Annan's pro-Israel policy discredits the UN UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's recent statements on the situation in Palestine confirm that under his weak leadership the United Nations will have no role in resolving the conflict or protecting its victims. Rather, he has aligned himself with the logic that Palestinians, uniquely, must earn from their oppressors the basic human rights that for all other people are inherent....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 5:20pm PDT
Falluja and the Forging of the New Iraq A defiant slogan repeated by residents of Falluja over the last year was that their city would be "the graveyard of the Americans." The last two weeks has seen that chant become a reality, with most of the 88 US combat deaths falling in the intense fighting around Falluja. But there is a bigger sense in which the slogan is true: Falluja has become the graveyard of US policy in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 5:08pm PDT
Roy -- How Deep Shall We Dig? "...wherever you go... you have TV monitors in which election promises have already come true.... You only have to close your ears to the sickening crunch of the police man’s boot on someone’s ribs, you only have to raise your eyes from the squalor, the slums, the ragged broken people on the streets and seek a friendly TV monitor and you will be in that other beautiful world....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 1:57pm PDT
Wife, Daughters Tell of Iraqi Man Discharged from U.S. Custody in Coma Baghdad , May 4 - Not all evidence of military personnel mistreating Iraqis held in US custody come from leaks within the American- and British-run detention facilities. In many cases, such as that of Sadiq Zoman, 57, who last year entered US custody healthy but left in a vegetative state, the story originates with family members desperate to share their loved one’s story with anyone willing to listen....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 12:12pm PDT
French TV screens images 'of US helicopter crew killing Iraqis' PARIS, May 4 (AFP) - The French cable television station Canal Plus on Tuesday will broadcast images, stolen in Iraq, of a US army helicopter killing three Iraqis, one of them wounded, who do not appear to be posing any threat....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 12:07pm PDT
US diplomats blast Bush for his one sided support of Israel which endangers US citizens More than 60 former US diplomats yesterday lambasted George Bush for running a one-sided Middle East policy, claiming that the President's open-ended support for Israel was costing the US "credibility, prestige and friends". They must make their voice heard in a country where public support for Israel is instinctive...It warned that current US policies were placing US diplomats, civilians and military overseas "in an untenable, even dangerous position." Mr Killgore, the pr...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 11:41am PDT
Democrats and Republicans take the same positions on the Middle East and Israel ...cannot the fourth largest military in the world, defending a population of five million, care for itself against a population that has no army, air force, or navy but only the stones created by the demolition of homes by the IDF? And should we, after all, pay for the removal of the Gaza settlements as Sharon has requested after we paid for them to be built in the first place despite whispering to Sharon that he should cease building them? After fifty-seven years of support to the 16th weal...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 11:36am PDT
US diplomats blast Bush for his one sided support of Israel which engangers US citizens More than 60 former US diplomats yesterday lambasted George Bush for running a one-sided Middle East policy, claiming that the President's open-ended support for Israel was costing the US "credibility, prestige and friends". They must make their voice heard in a country where public support for Israel is instinctive...It warned that current US policies were placing US diplomats, civilians and military overseas "in an untenable, even dangerous position." Mr Killgore, the pr...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 11:25am PDT
Kurdish Leader Talabani Tries to Justify US Torture Of NonKurds WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - A Kurdish leader sought to play down U.S. soldiers' mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners on Tuesday by recalling that similar abuses were committed under former President Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 10:57am PDT
Disney To Censor Michael Moore's New Film LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax Films division from distributing Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 911, which criticizes U.S. President George W. Bush, according to a statement on Moore's Web site....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:23am PDT
Rep. Maxine Waters Calls on Congress Not To Recognize New Haitian Government The new US-supported Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue arrived in Washington Tuesday for his visit since the U.S. helped oust President Jean Bertand Aristide. Waters is calling on members of Congress not to recognize the new prime minister....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:20am PDT
U.S. Assassinates Two Shiite Clerics Meeting to Organize Nonviolent Resistance As the tense standoff between the United States and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr continues in Iraq we go to Najaf and Hilla to get a report from Aaron Glantz of Free Speech Radio News on the killing of two Sheikhs by U.S. soldiers in Hilla....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:19am PDT
WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION GLOBAL ACTION DAY
CICLONUDISTA (WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION)
SATURDAY JUNE 19, 2004
NAKED BEFORE THE TRAFFIC! JUSTICE ON THE STREETS!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 6:04am PDT
Collateral Damage finally slams into Pentagon With the published photos of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners arousing worldwide condemnation, the sickening Bushit has finally hit the proverbial fan....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 2:38am PDT
Coalition of the Unwilling Will the draft be re-introduced to defeat Iraq?...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 1:17am PDT
Staff Of U.S.-Funded Iraqi Paper Quits, Cites U.S. Control BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Much of the editorial staff of a U.S.-funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in a management dispute....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 7:10pm PDT
Prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison dropped off north of Baghdad TIKRIT, Iraq - Scores of prisoners released from the controversial Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday were forced to take a winding, nearly five-hour journey through central Iraq on three hot, rickety buses escorted by U.S. military Humvees before being deposited without explanation in the middle of a gravel quarry near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 7:03pm PDT
1855 of 1910