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di Uri Avnery
The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli Prime Minister will be assassinated. The extreme right-wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir succeeded in murdering the Oslo process, why shouldn’t another Amir succeed in murdering the process of dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip?
But the Security Service also entertains an even greater fear: (…)

MORE than half of voters believe Australia should not have a presence in Iraq, a poll taken a week after the Jakarta embassy bombing has found.
The Morgan Poll, conducted on September 15 and 16 and involving 1055 voters nationwide, found 51 per cent of Australians, up three percentage points since early August, believed Australia should not be in Iraq.
Forty-six per cent, down three points, said Australia should be in Iraq, while three per cent could not say either way.
But the (…)

By William Greider
The presidential pageant has now risen full in the sky and is blocking out the sun. Until November, we dwell in a weird half-light, stumbling into spooky shadows but shielded from the harsh glare of the nation’s actual circumstances. Down is up, fiction is truth, momentous realities are made to disappear from the public mind. The 2004 spectacle is not the first to mislead grossly and exploit emotional weaknesses in the national character. But this time the consequences (…)

By Sean Rayment
Gen Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the Army, has admitted that British troops in Iraq are "back at war". He is the first authoritative figure to concede that war is still being waged in Iraq, 16 months after President George W Bush declared that combat operations were over.
In an interview with The Telegraph, the Chief of the General Staff said that August had been a difficult month for soldiers serving in southern Iraq.
"Soldiers are now fighting a counter-insurgency (…)

By DEXTER FILKINS
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Faced with a growing insurgency and a January deadline for national elections, American commanders in Iraq say they are preparing operations to open up rebel-held areas, especially Falluja, the restive city west of Baghdad now under control of insurgents and Islamist groups.
A senior American commander said the military intended to take back Falluja and other rebel areas by year’s end. The commander did not set a date for an offensive but said that much (…)

By Maurice Lemoine
THE Massacre river in northern Hispaniola divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is crossed by a crumbling bridge, with Ouanaminthe, Haiti, on one side and Dajabón, Dominican Republic, on the other. In 2002 Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government announced the creation of a free trade zone in Ouanaminthe. The proposal was fiercely resisted by local landowners, tenant farmers and agricultural labourers, who were promised compensation but have received none. But (…)

by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, D.C., A team of 20 independent democracy experts from 15 countries and five continents has arrived in the United States in order to observe this year’s presidential election campaign.
The election monitors, who have been brought here by the San Francisco activist group "Global Exchange," will be fanning out in the coming days initially to research how the election preparations are being conducted in five states. They will then return just before the actual polling (…)

Meet strategists to get the best idea out into mainstream, that 9/11 was an Inside Job. The ideas should focus on NON-activist or NON-politics related issues, i.e. : Comedy, Sex/Porn, Drugs, (fast) Food, Music etc...
Check out more Infos at: http://tinyurl.com/5x7ww
9/11 was an Inside job. PERIOD. We have to reach progressive (and lazy) strategists, who have no time for the streets. We have only 40 days left until the election. This meetup should not support Bush or Kerry!
Current (…)

Zamora interview, Air America radio, Oct. 4, 9:30 AM
On Monday, October 4, progressive Democratic candidate for Congress
(14th district of Illinois) Ruben K. Zamora will be interviewed on the
"Unfiltered" show on Air America radio. The show airs at 9:30 AM
(Central Standard Time) and you can listen to it at
http://www.airamericaradio.com
http://zamoraforcongress.org

For Immediate Release
Contact: John M. Miller, 718-596-7668, 917-690-4391
“Military Has Already Won” Indonesian Election, Says East Timor Action Network/U.S.
Candidates Unlikely to Limit Military
September 19 - As Indonesians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, the East Timor Action Network (ETAN) stated, "No matter which presidential candidate prevails, the Indonesian military has already won."
"Military reform in Indonesia is dead, and neither candidate is likely to resuscitate (…)