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Al-Sadr 'rejects ultimatum' to surrender Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr has rejected an Iraqi government ultimatum to renounce violence and disband his militia, says a senior aide....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 6:22am PDT
Nepal Maoist Execute Reporter Thap was kidnapped in Dailekh (500 km west of Kathmandu) by Maoist troops who accused him of spying for the government. Among 10 charges against him was one of helping to organise a ceremony to honour King Gyanendra in April. The leaflet, signed by "Comrade Ranajeet," the local party secretary, said he was executed after being found guilty of spying....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 5:35pm PDT
An Open Letter in Support of the Presbyterian Church's Decision to Divest from Israel Recently, and in light of the historic ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 9 July 2004, which found Israel's colonial wall built on occupied Palestinian territories to be illegal, we've issued a press release that called upon people of conscience the world over to participate in diverse forms of boycott against the state of Israel, its institutions and industries, as a minimal show of civil opposition to its persistent violations of international law, its continued military ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 5:01pm PDT
Blood Money: The Human-Capital Equation of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Violence flares as delegation quits Najaf Heavy fighting has left many dead in Najaf with the Iraqi defence minister promising a ''decisive battle'' on Wednesday after an attempt to negotiate a peace deal with Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr failed....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 6:22am PDT
Interview with human shield Ken O'Keefe An in-depth interview with "human shield" Ken O'Keefe during his recent Japan tour, on direct action for Palestine, standing up to US military might in Iraq, the legacy of Hiroshima....and the better world to come...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 9:21pm PDT
Hezbollah Hit Targets of Opportunity on Blue Line 
By Nicholas Blanford
Special to The Daily Star
In the event, it was a Hizbullah sniper that took advantage of a mistake by the Israelis in allowing two soldiers, neither wearing helmets nor body armor, to climb on top of an outpost in the western sector to fix a broken antenna. Whether the sniper was already in place or moved swiftly into position after the soldiers were spotted is unknown. But The Daily Star has learned that the sniper killed the soldiers with three rounds - two head sh...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 5:18pm PDT
Israelis Army Shoots 8 yearold thru the heart in Nablus Palestine today The Israeli military continued its attacks against the civilian population of Nablus Palestine today by killing an 8 year old child. Over 20 people have been shot or beaten in the past 24 hours as the army conducted home invasions and occupations. "Everything they could destroy they destroyed" reported one international observer....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 1:34pm PDT
Venezuela Referendum: Internal Report and Perspective An anonymous reporter gives their impressions of the Venezuela referendum from the heart of Caracas via emails to friends and loved ones......
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 1:10pm PDT
Psychiatric Pharma's forced medication on humans and animals The pharmaceutical psych corporations are still force medicating people and animals against their will. Psychiatric survivor and activist Sara Arenson is being force medicated in a Canadian psych ward. GW Bush's pet pharma corporation Eli Lily profits from animal testing and forcing psych medications into the bodies of human captives....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 10:04am PDT
A soldier's tragic suicide Was the tragic suicide of a British soldier his final protest against an unjust war?...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 10:52pm PDT
Why He Crushed the Oligarchs: The Importance of Hugo Chávez The turn-out in Venezuela last Sunday was huge. 94.9 percent of the electorate voted in the recall referendum. Venezuela, under its new Constitution, permitted the right of the citizens to recall a President before s/he had completed their term of office. No Western democracy enshrines this right in a written or unwritten constitution. Chavez' victory will have repercussions beyond the borders of Venezuela. It is a triumph of the poor against the rich and it is a lesson that Lula in Brazil an...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Leader of American Viginates in Afghanistan Claim to be FBI-CIA Covert OP 
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Americans running private 'war on terror' allege cover-up
Bounty hunter says fbi seized documents linking group to us government
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
KABUL: An alleged American bounty hunter on trial for allegedly running a private jail, kidnapping and torturing prisoners in Afghanistan on Monday accused Federal US agents of seizing evidence proving his links to US authorities....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 7:45pm PDT
US forces surround the offices of Iraq's Association of Muslim Scholars US occupation forces have encircled the mosque housing the office of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), Iraq's highest Sunni authority, in Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 6:34am PDT
Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote 
Caracas, Venezuela. Aug 16. (Venezuelanalysis.com).- At 4:03AM, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that according to preliminary results, Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez will continue his term until 2006....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 6:25am PDT
US Backed Iraqi Government Bans Journalists From Covering Najaf Massacre The Iraqi authorities ordered foreign journalists to leave Najaf yesterday, threatening to arrest or even shoot reporters as US marines and Iraqi government forces resumed the fight against Shia militants....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 7:04pm PDT
Mahdi Army digs in, hopes for peace deal In an exclusive interview with Aljazeera, a Muqtada al-Sadr spokesman says the Mahdi militia are prepared for any attack against Najaf, but are also ready to accept any peace intitiative....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 3:45pm PDT
Antiwar Protests Rock South Korea 
More than 10,000 Korean antiwar protesters marched on the US embassy in Seoul Aug. 15, 2004, demanding an end to the US occupation of Iraq. They also called for the total withdrawal of all South Korean troops from Iraq as well as the resignation of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun for having placed them there. The South Korean President has vowed to send up to 3,000 more troops to join the 600 already in Iraq. The South Korean government has placed a total news blackout on the story of sen...
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:14pm PDT
Factional violence flares in western Afghanistan; one commander says 21 killed KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fighters loyal to rival warlords clashed in western Afghanistan Saturday, sending tanks into the streets of a regional capital in the latest jolt to the country's shaky security ahead of national elections. More than 20 fighters were killed by one estimate....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:03am PDT
Aristide still Haiti's president: South African Foreign Affairs Minister SOUTH Africa continues to recognise deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide as the legitimately elected president of Haiti, says Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:00am PDT
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