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  • "What are You Doing? What Have You Become?"
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel as an Extension of American Empire
    By JEFF HALPER
    There are many tragic and self-destructive features of the Occupation for Israel itself. Although the country was founded on the "original sin" of exclusivity and the expulsion of the refugees, it nevertheless had (has?) the potential to develop into a normal, even progressive society. Many of the socialist principles that accompanied the Zionist program led in those directions. Israel always talked of democracy, even extending (…)

  • Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians.
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Shocking revelation on RAI News 24 of the use of chemical weapons by the US military in Iraq. Veteran admits: ’Bodies melted away before us’.
    by: Paper Tigress
    In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and (…)

  • France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOCELYN GECKER
    France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
    The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (…)

  • Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for Recognition
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spreading Rampage in Country’s Slums Is Rooted in Alienation and Abiding Government Neglect
    By Molly Moore
    LE BLANC-MESNIL, France - Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.
    He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can almost everyone else in the (…)

  • The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America’s revolt
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters
    by Naomi Klein
    When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in south-west Colombia, ringed by soldiers, rightwing paramilitaries and leftwing guerrillas, strangers asking questions is never a good thing.
    The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which (…)

  • PARIS : THE FIRE RAISER
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Patrick Apel-Muller
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed that efficiency shall guide his policy... But the impacts of his provoking statements, of his visits in the neighbourhoods where he nags the populations, of his shying away from prevention policy can be measured against burned cars, stones and fire bombs thrown at civil servants, and increasing unrest in some French cities.
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas (…)

  • BOOK ON CIA’s SECRET JAILS: "Operation Hotel California" by Guido Olimpio
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The first book-length expose of CIA kidnappings and prisons — two of the greatest evils in the Bush government, and the world — by the Italian investigative journalist Guido Olimpio is here, and it’s new and as current as todays news stories about secret jails the CIA runs! The book is a must-read for anyone wanting to know about the CIA’s practice of "rendition": kidnapping people and transporting them to places like Egypt for torture. It’s an extremely controversial practice, a threat to (…)

  • CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11
    By Dana Priest
    The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
    The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, (…)

  • Bush faces Latin fury as popularity sinks at home
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rupert Cornwell
    President George Bush, his presidency foundering and his popularity at record lows at home, ran into new protests abroad yesterday at a Western hemisphere summit in Argentina - a gathering that is theoretically focussed on trade but which has so far only served to highlight the battered image of the US across Latin America.
    Mr Bush went into the 34-nation meeting intent on promoting traditional US doctrines of free trade and liberal market economics, with the goal of a (…)

  • Many held as French riots spread
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    French police have arrested more than 250 people following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France.
    Nearly 900 cars were burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
    Nurseries and a school were burnt overnight and unrest spread to Nice, Lille, Marseille and Toulouse.
    Hundreds of people have heard a call for calm at a rally in one of the Paris suburbs worst hit.
    The mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, (…)