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  • US accused of spying on UN Security Council delegates
    18 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interesting with the new story of the bugging of the UN- no one wants to point out that the US was responsible for bugging the UN when they were trying to bribe/swing voters on the Iraq resolution before the war...
    US accused of spying on Security Council delegates
    March 3 2003 By Peter Fray Europe Correspondent London
    Condoleezza Rice: President Bush’s National Security Adviser is believed to have requested the surveillance operation.
    America’s top spy agency is reportedly (…)

  • Freighter failed to communicate
    16 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by ERIC NALDER
    For hours last week, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley repeatedly radioed the captain of the cargo ship Selendang Ayu, asking him what was wrong with his engines.
    They never got a clear answer, said Coast Guard Capt. Jack Davin, who is in charge of marine safety in Alaska.
    "It just seemed unusual we couldn’t get an answer," said Davin, who was among the officers at the Juneau command center last week who tried unsuccessfully to find out what was wrong with (…)

  • Workers Demand Union at Wal-Mart Supplier in China
    16 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by HOWARD W. FRENCH
    SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 15 - The scene on the street did not look like much, just the comings and goings of small groups of women from their factory dormitory, with a few lingering here and there in knots to discuss their situation.
    Since Friday, though, work has stopped inside the Uniden factory’s walls here, where 12,000 workers, mostly young women from China’s poor interior provinces, make wireless phones, which the Japanese manufacturer supplies in large number to (…)

  • Respite
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Respite
    December 11-13, 2004
    11 Dec. “My list is now 32,” says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, “Now 32 of my friends have been killed.”
    He still has tears in his eyes, even though he’s being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed.
    “You know I feel like shit every time I add someone to my list. Sometimes it feels like it is every day,” he says.
    Welcome to Iraq. Where the news gets better with each passing day.
    Heavy fighting is continuing in Fallujah. While the (…)

  • La La Land
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    La La Land Maxine Nash, Electronic Iraq, 13 December 2004
    Living here in Iraq I sometimes get a distinct sense of unreality. Recently, I was working in CPT’s office. My colleague Tom Fox was in the office with me, working on the computer. Next to the computer he had placed a kerosene lamp so he could see the papers from which he was working because the electricity was off. In Iraq, the name for a kerosene lamp is la la. I couldn’t help but be struck by the sheer sense of the bizarre in (…)

  • Alaska senate race recount has begun
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://alaskarecount2004.org/ Exit polls showed Tony Knowles winning (50 - 47 %) http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/000738.php , but in the results he lost by a significant margin.
    The recount has begun. Precincts to be counted by hand were randomly selected from regions and districts all over the state. Twenty optical scan machines will do the full recount of the state. These machines have been specially reprogrammed for doing this recount, so they do not contain the (…)

  • Iraqi Resistance Speaks
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    .A Message From The Iraq Resistance
    "We are simple people who chose principles over fear."
    People of the world! These words come to you from those who up to the day of the invasion were struggling to survive under the sanctions imposed by the criminal regimes of the U.S. and Britain .
    We are simple people who chose principles over fear.
    We have suffered crimes and sanctions, which we consider the true weapons of mass destruction.
    Years and years of agony and despair, while the (…)

  • Finally Some Common Sense
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Schiller
    New York Times journalist Eric Schmitt reported today (December 14, 2004) that the Air Force is finally taking control of supply transportation in Iraq via airlifts. For months now, U.S. troops had been expected to transport supplies via ground transports through dangerous terrain where they were regularly attacked and killed. It was bad enough that they had been asked to travel on these routes at all for such routine and non-combat related missions, and without armor for (…)

  • China: Capitalism means war against the working class
    14 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Heiko Khoo
    China’s drive to the “socialist market” has fostered a booming economy. This concealed a mass of contradictions which an economic crisis will unravel. Here we expose the terrible price paid by the working class for capitalist “reforms.” The leadership of Hu Jintao
    September 2004 saw the transfer of leadership from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao, thus consolidating his political and military power. Born in 1942, Hu is the first leader to have grown up after the revolution. (…)

  • Winning Hearts and Minds US Style
    14 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dahr Jamail / Common Dreams
    BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say.
    Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10km to the east of Fallujah, the town to which U.S. forces have laid bloody siege. Amiriyat al-Fallujah has been the source of several reported resistance attacks on U.S. forces.
    The main hospital in (…)