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Eye witnesses in Falluja have claimed this morning (Wednesday, September 22) that some civilians have detected a mass grave in the north western sector of the city containing the bodies of sixteen people of foreign appearance.
The witnesses have informed the correspondent of the German News Agency that the inhabitants of that area have detected a grave this morning at 11 a.m. local time which contained the dead bodies of 16 foreigners who have recently been killed and probably belong to (…)

In these trying times in our country, after so many absurdities and lies, many are now willing to speak out and complain about President Bush. Bush, however, would not have been able to commit any of these atrocities without the complicity of congress. It is bad enough that many in Washington DC did not take the time to read the intelligence(or lack there of) before the war, they have taken no steps to hold this administration accountable for their lies. Nancy Pelosi has supposedly been (…)

by Manuel Valenzuela
Imagine my surprise, having returned from a research and exploratory sojourn through the mesmerizing beauty of the lands, coasts and peoples of Mexico where the spirit re-energized, mind meditated and appreciation for humanity returned, all of which enabled me to escape, at least for a small respite, from the madness of a troubled world, to see that Iraq had almost overnight been transformed into a nation on the verge of a Renaissance, becoming a new beacon of (…)

by Michael Moore
Tomorrow I begin a little 20-state, 60-city tour to try and convince the fed-up, the burned-out, and the Nader-impaired to leave the house for just a half-hour on November 2nd and mark an "X" in a box (or punch a chad or touch a screen) so that America and the world can be saved.
(I don’t mean "saved" as in all workers will henceforth control the means of production. That’s, um, going to take a few more years.)
What I’m asking is that our fellow Americans, as the (…)

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president
by Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of (…)

By Bill Van Auken
Nature has dealt a cruel blow to the people of Haiti, deepening the intense suffering and oppression that centuries of imperialist domination have inflicted upon the Caribbean nation’s impoverished population.
Tropical Storm Jeanne has buried Gonaives, the birthplace of Haiti’s struggle to cast off slavery and colonialism 200 years ago, in a sea of mud. Over 1,700 bodies have been recovered and dumped in mass graves. Thousands more people in the city as well as in (…)

By Vicki Allen
WASHINGTON - Iraq’s elections should be nationwide, a top Bush administration official has said, clashing publicly with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s suggestion that voting might not take place in the most violent areas.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the elections scheduled for January will not be perfect, but they should encompass the entire country.
Rumsfeld also appeared to back away from his outspoken remarks on Thursday that while the (…)

Here’s the piece that ‘60 Minutes’ killed for its report on the Bush Guard documents
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Sept. 22 - In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush’s National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same “60 Minutes” broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger. The journalistic juggling (…)

A few pioneering experts want to remove the English barrier so the continent can fully join the computer age, STEPHANIE NOLEN reports By STEPHANIE NOLEN
JOHANNESBURG - Dwayne Bailey hears the question all the time. ’’Why bother translating software into isiZulu?’’ people ask him. ’’Who needs it? English is the language of global business — you’d be better off spending your energy teaching people English.’’
To which Mr. Bailey replies, quite simply, "Izixhobo kufuneka zisebenzele (…)

by Jonathan Steele
They sit in their solitary cells all day, uncharged with any crime. No family member, no friend, no lawyer may visit. Their freedom depends on a callous game of Pentagon roulette. Word filters out that they are about to be released. Then word follows that - alas - it will take a bit more time.
These are America’s Iraqi hostages, whose captivity in a high-security camp at Baghdad airport has already lasted for over a year. The two women scientists whose fate has been (…)