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US Missile Kills Palestinian Journalist 
JEDDAH, 13 September 2004 — Mazen Al-Tomaizi, a Palestinian television journalist working for Saudi news channel Al-Ekhbariya and Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, was killed yesterday by an American missile as he was reporting live from Baghdad on deadly clashes between US forces and insurgents....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 5:59pm PDT
When The Security Council Violates the UN Charter The UN Security Council, tasked with the protection and maintenance of international peace and security, was established to enforce the aims and principles of the United Nations. And the council’s decisions are, most of the time, in accordance with those lofty aims. However, the situation has changed after the world came to live under the “new world order”. Under this new dispensation, the Security Council has lost its objectivity and its decisions have come to serve the interests of larger c...
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 5:56pm PDT
Pinochet fuels clashes 31 years on THREE people suffered gunshot wounds and 205 were arrested in unrest across Chile after the anniversary of the bloody 1973 coup that swept former dictator Augusto Pinochet to power. Protesters clashed with police officers in the suburbs of Santiago as well as in Rancagua, Concepcion, Valdivia and other cities. In Santiago, two police officers and a protester were injured by gunfire in the violence which broke out in poor neighbourhoods. Protesters raised barricades, raided shopping centres, h...
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 3:39pm PDT
Violent protests grip Afghan city Supporters of the sacked governor of the Afghan city of Herat, Ismail Khan, have set fire to local UN offices on the second day of unrest there....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 9:46am PDT
New Israeli political party urges non-Jews' expulsion Dozens of right-wing Israeli leaders have announced the creation of a new political party which founders say will be dedicated to the expulsion of millions of Muslims and Christians from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 9:38am PDT
Caribbean hurricane devastation linked to global warming Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 12:36am PDT
Sept 12th in Baghdad 
Iraqis celebrate around a burning U.S. armored vehicle, following heavy clashes in the center of Baghdad, September 12, 2004. Heavy gunfire erupted in a street at the heart of the city, leaving a U.S. armored vehicle on fire, witnesses said. Gunfire flared as more than a dozen explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and thick plumes of smoke rose above the Green Zone compound housing Iraq 's interim government and assembly and the U.S. and other embassies. Photo by Aladin Abdel Nab...
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 12:25am PDT
US goverment tries to cover up covert funds to Opposition in Venezuela ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 11:16pm PDT
Robert Fisk: We should not have allowed 19 murderers to change our world Merely to ask why the murderers of 11 September had done their bloody deeds was to befriend "terrorism". Merely to ask what had been in the minds of the killers was to give them support. Any cop, confronted by any crime, looks for a motive. But confronted by an international crime against humanity, we were not to be allowed to seek the motive. America's relations with the Middle East, especially the nature of its relationship with Israel, was to remain an unspoken and unquestioned s...
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 6:43pm PDT
Samira Bellil Memorial (audio/x-wav 13.0MB) Thirty-one year old Samira Bellil a French Muslim woman whose book recounted being gang raped as a teenager in a Paris suburb, died last week of stomach cancer. The controversial memoir called “In Gang Rape Hell” was published in 2002 and became a best-seller in France. Ms. Bellil explored her violent childhood growing up in a marginalized immigrant community in France. One minute audio memoir....
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 3:50pm PDT
Karzai "sacks" regional governor Ismail Khan At least two protesters were killed when supporters of a sacked Afghan governor clashed with US and Afghan security forces in the western city of Herat....
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 1:24pm PDT
En memoria de Lee/In Memory of Lee 1 año despues de su muerte...one year after his death...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 3:23pm PDT
VENEZUELA REPORT-BACK VENEZUELA REPORT-BACK
OIL WORKERS, the GRASSROOTS and the HISTORIC REFERENDUM
International Election Observers Selma James and Nina Lَopez (with video clips)
and
Documentary Premiere: The Bolivarian Revolution: ENTER THE OIL WORKERS!
Contribution from Identidad Bolivariana, The Netherlands
Saturday 18 September 3-6 pm
Trinity United Reform Church, Buck St, London NW1
Camden Town Tube Level entrance, accessible toilet nearby
Entrance: £3 waged; £1.50 unwaged
Followed ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 8:45am PDT
Palestinian's killing caught on video Aljazeera has aired exclusive footage showing an Israeli military jeep crushing a Palestinian teenager under its wheels in the West Bank city of Ram Allah....
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 6:22am PDT
Crossing Rafah: Commuting in the time of occupation To our east lay the illegal settlement of Netzarim, its 400 inhabitants living in a world within a world. A little more than 8000 settlers occupy approximately 40% of the land in the Gaza Strip; about 1.3 million Palestinians live on the remaining 60%....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 8:34pm PDT
FINAL OCAP APPEAL BEFORE WE ARE FORCED TO LAY OFF ORGANIZERS The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty is asking for help....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 5:15pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/10/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, Germany, and China....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 5:02pm PDT
Chile: Rebels clash with riot police On Tuesday, September 7, about 300 masked rebels constructed barricades in the streets and distributed leaflets outside of the University of Santiago to commemorate the upcoming 31st anniversary of the 1973 U.S.-backed fascist coup....
Posted: Wed, Sep 8, 2004 12:19pm PDT
Resistance Art from autonomous Lab (UK) 
Being autonomous also means liberating your mind!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 8, 2004 9:54am PDT
9/9 Call to Local Vigil to Commemorate the 1000th U.S. Deaths in Iraq URGENT ACTION: Vigils for 1,000 U.S. soldiers and thousands of Iraqis killed!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 10:18pm PDT
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