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Reporters covering Beslan say they were drugged by officials.
By Scott Peterson
MOSCOW - Like scores of her colleagues, Georgian television journalist Nana Lezhava reported on the terrorist school seizure at Beslan.
But her coverage ended in arrest by the FSB, Russia’s security service once known as the KGB. Tests show she was drugged during interrogation - one of several incidents that are raising questions about Russian handling of the media.
Officials have acknowledged (…)

by Justin Raimondo
Was Iyad Allawi, America’s Iraqi sock-puppet and the country’s unelected "prime minister," lying when he told the U.S. Congress:
"In Samarra, the Iraqi government has tackled the insurgents who once controlled the city. Following weeks of discussions between government officials and representatives, coalition forces and local community leaders, regular access to the city has been restored. A new provincial council and governor have been selected, and a new chief of (…)

by Jackson Thoreau
Another example of how super-wealthy Americans are getting richer under Bush was released Thursday with Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans.
There are now a record 313 billionaires in the country, a 19 percent jump from 2003. The combined net worth of the 400 rose $45 billion this year.
On the same day, the Republican-controlled Congress passed a political tax cut that mostly benefits big corporations and wealthy individuals, adding to the planned total (…)

Kucinich Introduces Legislation To Lower The Price Of Prescription Drugs HR 5155: The Fair Market Drug Act Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced legislation to lower the price of prescription drugs. Prior to flying to Washington to introduce the legislation in the House of Representatives, Kucinich gave the following remarks to seniors in Lakewood, Ohio about the bill:
“By now, its well known that drug costs are high and getting higher. It is also well known that (…)

Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra.
Three Egyptian telecommunications workers abducted last week were among those freed Tuesday, their parent company, Orascom, announced in Cairo. A fourth Egyptian in the (…)

by Crispian Balmer
The release of two Italian women aid workers in Iraq has been greeted with joy and relief following three weeks of anguish in Italy over their abduction.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced the news on Tuesday to cheers in parliament, television stations broke into normal programming with special bulletins and out on the streets, ordinary Italians finally found something to smile at.
"It’s like being reborn. Out of the darkness and into the light," said (…)

We have a problem America, and it’s not the shrub in the White House. The problem is that the ’opposition’ candidate is throwing the election. Millions of US citizens (billions across the globe) know that Bush is an idiot puppet, but they refuse to believe that Kerry is just as bad.
Someone recently told me that I was wrong about Kerry, I replied but what about Kerry chairing the Iran-Contra Hearings? He let Pappy Bush off then, and I’m sure he’ll do the same for Jr. this time around. (…)

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By Abu Assur
US gangsters you are looking for a way to get out of the hell the Iraqi Resistance has dragged you into? Are you looking for an exit? Any exit? No way, you are dreaming, bandits! It is a common knowledge that today you are bled to death in Iraq. Your war was not a kind of nice stroll on the river Tigris or an easy daylight theft of Iraqi wealth. Today even your perfidious advisors, the Zionists, are stuck and they are (…)

Everyone’s a winner... except for the British public. Casino operator Sun International knows how to play the system, and unlike in the case of their customers, nothing is left to chance!
At this year’s Labour party conference in Brighton, on Tuesday 28th September, Sun International is sponsoring a debate with the wholly disingenuous title "Gambling, regeneration, and social responsibility: can everyone be a winner?". Who’s on the discussion panel? No surprises there. Sun International (…)

We artists are not in war!
We Artists are not in war either in the territories of the colonial conflicts in the South of the world neither in the metropolitan territories where there are conflicts against the diverse humans in the North of the world. We don’t want to be dragged on the logics of the propagation of local and global terror.
We Artists
with our expressions, our bodies, the colours, the sounds, the actions, with our imagination and with our creativity are building (…)