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  • Wal-Mart factory workers assaulted, fired for going on strike
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Action urgently needed: Contact Wal-Mart now!
    Maquila Solidarity Network
    Workers producing clothes for Wal-Mart at the Korean-owned Chong Won Fashion garment factory in the Philippines desperately need your support to put a stop to their employers’ attempt to destroy their union through violence, mass firings and intimidation.
    This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully (…)

  • Protester Arrested at U.S. Capitol Asks: What About the First Amendment?
    27 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The times are ominous!” - The late Phil Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, in his final public appearance, March 19, 2002. (1)
    Washington, D.C. - A rally against the Iraqi War at the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday, September 26, 2006, led to the arrests of 71 protesters by the police, according to a spokesperson for one of the organizers. The passionate demonstration was co-promoted by the “National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance” (NCNR) and the “Declaration of Peace” organizations. These (…)

  • VENEZUELAN FOREIGN MINISTER ILLEGALLY DETAINED AT JFK AIRPORT AND STRIP-SEARCHED
    25 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan Foreign Minister Illegally Detained at JFK Airport and Strip-Searched - by Stephen Lendman
    VHeadline.com broke the news early Saturday evening that Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Madura was prevented by airport officials from departing the US from JFK airport on a commercial flight on Saturday following the UN General Assembly meeting. He said officials demanded he surrender his ticket and boarding pass claiming his name was on a so-called "red list." He was then (…)

  • 9th Circuit: Laptops May Be Subject To Customs Inspections After Overseas Trips
    16 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    9th Circuit: Laptops May Be Subject To Customs Inspections After Overseas Trips By Steve Seidenberg Friday, September 15, 2006 With a conviction for online child exploitation, Stuart Romm is hardly a sympathetic advocate for computer privacy.
    Still, what happened to Romm when he crossed the border into the United States worries some legal experts. The laptop computer that he carried with him was intensively searched by customs officials. On July 24, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (…)

  • Israeli Diplomat Carrying Large Quantity Of Explosives Arrested In Argentina
    15 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israeli Diplomat Carrying Large Quantity Of Explosives Arrested In Argentina
    23/08/2006 Red Kalki Last week, (mid August 2006) a very serious event transpired at the Buenos Aires international airport which the local mainstream press did not however bring to the attention of the public. Today, Red Kalki, relying on reliable sources, brings this matter into the open.
    On Wednesday 9th August 2006, Ezeiza airport police arrested an important Israeli diplomat carrying a considerable (…)

  • How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist: My Adventures with the FBI
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JIM BENSMAN
    I was sitting at home on July 31st when the phone rang and the caller ID said Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wanted to know if they could come to my place and talk to me. So I asked what he wanted to talk to me about.
    It all started a few days earlier when I went to a public hearing on the Army Corps of Engineers proposal to build a fish bypass for a dam by me on the Mississippi River.
    The Army gave a powerpoint presentation. They showed the initial (…)

  • Operation “Clean-Up” in Oaxaca
    29 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Operation “Clean-Up” in Oaxaca
    Following the CIA’s “Psychological Operations” Manual for the Nicaraguan Contras, the State Government Has Unleashed a Bloody Counterinsurgency Strategy to Eliminate the Social Movement
    By Diego Enrique Osorno Special to The Narco News Bulletin
    August 28, 2006
    OAXACA CITY: One of them, the one in a white cap, black shirt and denim pants, smiles like a child upon being discovered in the middle of the street with his machine gun.
    He’s maybe 32 years (…)

  • The Thought Police Have Arrived: Be Scared But Don’t Act Nervous
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ‘Spot’ teams to spy on passengers
    London Times | August 21 2006
    ELITE teams of security officers are to be trained to monitor passenger behaviour at airports in a new attempt to combat terrorism.
    The “behaviour detection squads” will patrol terminals to monitor the gestures, conversations and facial expressions of passengers. One of their aims will be to spot those who may be concealing fear or anxiety.
    People deemed to be acting suspiciously will be taken for questioning and (…)

  • Police may charge Katsav with rape in light of woman’s claims
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Police may charge Katsav with rape in light of woman’s claims
    By Jonathan Lis and Roni Singer-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondents
    Officials investigating an alleged extortion attempt aimed at President Moshe Katsav are expected to question him following claims by a female former employee that she was coerced into engaging in sexual relations with the president.
    Police said Thursday that Katsav will be questioned in the coming days. Investigators have yet to determine which specific charges (…)

  • Mexico poll protests turn violent
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexico poll protests turn violent
    This is the first time force as been used on the election protesters Mexican riot police fired tear gas and used clubs to break up a protest by supporters of left-wing presidential challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
    Leftist lawmakers were among at least 30 people injured in the scuffles outside Congress in Mexico City.
    Mr Lopez Obrador’s supporters have been camped out in protest at the 2 July election they say was stolen by conservative rival (…)