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  • You Call This Normal? The New York Times in Fallujah
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seattle, Washington, April 18, 2005
    "Things are almost back to normal here. We have teachers and books. Things are getting better."
    New York Times 3-26-05 "Vital Signs of a Ruined City Grow stronger in Falluja"
    "I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today "my own government."
    Rev. Martin Luther King
    Cameras aren’t allowed in Falluja; (…)

  • Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals,power cuts and funding shortage
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals, power cuts and funding shortage, meanwhile the US is building itself permanent bases and ignoring billions of missing Iraqi money.
    Iraq blighted by poor services
    Two years since the fall of Baghdad, there is deep frustration among Iraqis at the state of public services.
    Stagnant water and litter on the streets of Baghdad Stagnant water lies on the street in Baghdad’s Sadr city There are continuing power cuts in much (…)

  • The Hundred Days of Abu Mazen
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    Next Saturday, 100 days since Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas) assumed the office of President of the Palestinian National Authority, Jews will celebrate Passover, in memory of the Exodus from Egypt - one of the great stories in human annals.
    According to the story (Exodus 5), Pharaoh ordered the Children of Israel to produce bricks from straw, but did not provide the straw. “And the Children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: Wherefore dealest thou with thy servants? (…)

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger sued for groping and libel
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London groping case dogs governor British libel law seen as benefit to TV host’s suit
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s treatment of women he encountered as a movie star has largely faded from public discourse, aside from the occasional Doonesbury cartoon that depicts the governor as a giant hand addressed by reporters as Herr Gropenführer.
    But there’s one incident that refuses to go away. A British television interviewer, Anna Richardson, says Schwarzenegger pawed her during a publicity stop (…)

  • Iraqi Rebels attack US Base, 3 troops killed
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THREE US soldiers were killed by mortar fire at a US base in the city of Ramadi overnight, the US military said today.
    Seven servicemen were also wounded in the attack, three of them seriously, the military said in a statement. The attackers were believed to have fled into a nearby mosque. But when Iraqi security forces searched it, they found no insurgents.
    Ramadi, about 110 km west of Baghdad, has been one of the most violent cities over the past two years, with daily attacks on US and (…)

  • Popular Uprising Forces President of Ecuador to Rescind Martial Law Order
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez has lifted a state of emergency in the capital, Quito, less than 24 hours after he imposed it.
    Thousands of people had taken to the streets of the city in defiance of the new emergency powers.
    They were also protesting the president’s decision on Friday to dismiss the Supreme Court for the second time in four months.
    The security forces took no action to stop the demonstration.
    Speaking on national television, Mr Gutierrez said he was lifting the (…)

  • Water Loss, seed destruction - Saving the World’s Seeds - Dr. Vandana Shiva
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thank you for joining us on Catalyst Radio.
    Would you start by talking about some general issues surrounding globalization.
    Dr. Vandana Shiva: Well those of use who are concerned about the globalization that has been contrived and yet made to look as if it is a natural evolutionary step, we are concerned about the injustice and undemocratic system on which it is based.
    And everything we said, fifteen years ago, when these rules were being put in place, very artificially, under GAT (…)

  • What I Didn’t See in Iraq
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JIM MCGOVERN
    "Trust me when I tell you things are so much better in Iraq," said one US military official to me on my recent visit to that war-ravaged country. I didn’t know whether to scream or pull the remaining two strands of hair out of my head. I was in Iraq as part of a delegation of eight members of Congress, led by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Everything we have been told about Iraq by the Bush Administration has either been an outright lie or overwhelmingly false. There (…)

  • Chirac asks France to OK constitution
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 13 consecutive opinion polls in the past month, French voters have said that they are planning to reject the EU constitution in a referendum on 29 May. A French Non would in effect wreck the treaty and leave the enlarged EU to struggle on with its existing system of decision-making. This would also deal a near-fatal blow to the continent’s bold unification ambitions.
    A French rejection would all but destroy the charter - which European leaders agreed on five months ago after years of (…)

  • Don’t be fooled by the spin on Iraq
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US is failing - and hatred of the occupation greater than ever
    by Jonathan Steele
    Saddam Hussein’s effigy was pulled down again in Baghdad’s Firdos Square at the weekend. But unlike the made-for-TV event when US troops first entered the Iraqi capital, the toppling of Saddam on the occupation’s second anniversary was different.
    Instead of being done by US marines with a few dozen Iraqi bystanders, 300,000 Iraqis were on hand. They threw down effigies of Bush and Blair as well as the (…)