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TURKEY reforming its Penal Code
New penal code doesn't mention queers, according to Turkish newspapers....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 11:13am PDT
Haiti Human Rights Office Attacked
U.S. "client" human rights group may be behind attacks......
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 9:43am PDT
Weekly Report On Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Territories
Last week was the bloodiest week in the last two months, as 24
Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 6 children, were killed and
dozens of other civilians were injured by Israeli troops.
The difference between the suicide bomber and soldier(s) killing
civilian population including children, is the IDF uniform and the US
tax dollar in foreign aid ....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 9:07am PDT
Basra, Iraq: How bad can things get?
Just how bad are things in Iraq? Since just last week it has seen hundreds of deaths, suicide bombings, beheadings, yet more people kidnapped....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 8:25am PDT
The Take
Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 4:44pm PDT
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Threatens To Kill Gays, TV Station Apologizes
A Canadian television station has apologized publicly to viewers for a telecast of American evangelist Jimmy Swggart's television program in which he threatened to kill gays....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 2:31pm PDT
Two Weeks in Beit Arabiya -- Putting Palestinian Homes Back Together
For Israelis it is the battle of remembering. "Never Again!" is an imperative that is meaningless if not extended to the rest of humanity...As difficult a task as it is for Israelis to maintain their humanity, the demands made on Palestinians are in another category altogether. While the challenge for Israelis is remembering, that confronting Palestinians is forgetting-forgetting the constant brutal reminders that you are less than fully human; forgetting the poison that must inevit...
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 9:43am PDT
DEFYING INTIMIDATION, TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH AGAINST THE COUP AND OCCUPATION
Tens of thousands of protestors march in Haiti on September 11 (anniversary of military massacre of Haitians), calling for end to coup government and international occupation, and a return of President Aristide. Targeted killings of activists characterize week following protest....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 8:44pm PDT
Lessons of Vietnam
The lessons learned by the US military during the Vietnam war and their application to the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with particular reference to casualty figures....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 1:49pm PDT
The myth of Gandhi and Palestinian reality
The recent visit of Mohandas K. Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, to Palestine has sparked new discussion about the role of nonviolence in the Palestinian struggle for freedom. In a speech before the Palestinian Legislative Council, Gandhi called upon 50,000 Palestinian refugees to march back home en masse from their exile in Jordan, forcing the Israelis to choose between relenting to a wave of people power, or gunning the marchers down in cold blood....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Sharon threatens to kill Arafat
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week made a clear threat to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an interview to mark the Jewish New Year holiday.
Sharon reiterated an earlier threat to expel Arafat from the Palestinian territories at a “convenient” time. But he went on to stress that he saw no difference between Arafat and Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in March, and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, who was killed the following month....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Al-Sadr officials targeted
US forces and the Iraqi National Guard have raided the homes of a number of officials affiliated to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 10:24am PDT
CONGRESSWOMAN WATERS: DISARM THE THUGS IN HAITI!
Paramilitaries used to back ouster of Aristide on Feb.29, 2004 are now in struggle with phony "civil society" faction of coup regime. The ultimate victims continue to be poor Lavalas/Aristide supporters. Waters: ""The United States, France and Canada created this mess, and they have an obligation to clean it up. There can be no democracy in Haiti until these thugs and killers are disarmed."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 8:40pm PDT
One Man's democracy is another man's chains: The untold story of
broad overview of February 29, 2004 forced ouster of President Aristide from Haiti, and role played by Washington...for more info go to www.haitiaction.net...
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 8:32pm PDT
"Military Has Already Won" Indonesian Election, Says East Timor Action Network
As Indonesians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, the
East Timor Action Network (ETAN) stated, "No matter which presidential
candidate prevails, the Indonesian military has already won."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 7:57pm PDT
Lithuania shuts Chechen rebel site
Lithuania has temporarily shut down a website publishing information on the activities of Chechen rebel leaders.
The website - kavkazcenter.com - was apparently used by Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev to claim responsibility for the Russian school siege....
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 3:17pm PDT
Insurgents seize more hostages
n Iraqi group calling itself Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Brigades has claimed to have abducted 10 employees from an "American-Turkish" company operating in Iraq.
The group threatened in a videotape obtained by Aljazeera, to kill the captives if the company failed to cease operations and pull out of Iraq within three days....
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 2:22pm PDT
Latest News From Iraqi Bloggers
On Sunday, the area was filled with fighting, violence, and blood…this was not the first time, but perhaps the most violent…
Blood…blood…blood… all over the curbstones, the street, the shops, the residential buildings, then the camera lenses of News Agencies.
Al-Arabiya Channel correspondent was killed, Ghaith and other photographers were wounded. Tens of Iraqi civilians were killed and wounded.
American Helicopter planes were hovering, and bombing…the bodies were piling, and nobody could ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 2:19pm PDT
Iraq: Into the abyss
The week Iraq's dream of peace fell apart: 300 civilian lives lost; 16 coalition troops killed; 17 foreign hostages killed; three headless corpses found; battles rage in Fallujah, Basra, Hillah and Ramadi; Kofi Annan declares the war illegal; and US shifts $3.4bn from reconstruction to security...
Posted: Sat, Sep 18, 2004 9:30am PDT