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The Independent
A Mohammed Atta: The Bush Administration claimed that a meeting between the lead hijacker of the September 11 attacks and a senior Iraqi intelligence officer proved a connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. But there is no evidence such a meeting took place.
B Bush and Blair: The two leaders have reacted strongly to all suggestions they misled their respective electorates over the war, and maintain time will prove they were right to go to war. Both, though, are (…)

By Mike Ingram
A recent edition of Channel Four News included a special report by independent reporter Tara Sutton, who was one of the first journalists to enter Fallujah after the US siege of the city ended on April 30. Sutton has since returned to the city several times.
Introducing the footage, anchor John Snow said, “The importance of the battle of Fallujah was recognised by President Bush in his keynote speech earlier this week, praising US troops for their handling of the revolt by (…)

Congress and President Bush have so far provided $119.4 billion for the war in Iraq. Here are examples of what else that money could buy. It could send 748,495 people, nearly everyone in Jacksonville, Fla., to Harvard University for four years. Based on Harvard’s 2004-05 school year costing $39,880 for tuition, fees, room and board, multiplied by four. Or send 2,806,506 people — almost all the residents of Chicago — to the average-priced public university for four years, based on The (…)

Chris Shumway
June 2, 2004 - In what has increasingly become an outsourced war, the Coalition Provisional Authority has just added half a billion dollars to the amount being spent on private security contractors.
The role of such mercenaries has taken on new dimensions in Iraq. Heavily-armed personnel frequently engage in work traditionally done by the military, though they may not be sufficiently trained for the task and are not subject to the same regulations and public review systems (…)

An Army general who visited Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last fall complained that the military was violating international war standards by incarcerating common criminals along with insurgents captured in attacks against U.S.-led forces. It was one among dozens of observations in a still-classified report, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, portraying an overcrowded, dysfunctional prison system lacking basic sanitation and medical supplies.
"Due to operational limitations, facility (…)

Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera aired a tape on Wednesday of three Italian hostages held hostage in Iraq which it said was dated May 31.
One of the three men, shown eating at a table and then seated next to each other, said they were being treated well, Al Jazeera said. The man was speaking in Italian.
The three, dressed in short-sleeved shirts and trousers, appeared to be in good health.
"Today is Monday, May 31, 2004. We tell the government, the Pope, the Catholic church and our (…)

The Stop the War Coalition is calling on Senator Robert Hill to resign following the revelations that the government failed to fully disclose when it first found out about the prisoner abuse in Iraq. It is also calling for the Australian troops to be withdrawn from Iraq immediately.
"The Howard government has again been caught out trying to fool the public into believing it bears no responsibility for the growing scandal surrounding human rights atrocities committed against Iraqis by the (…)

(New York, June 2, 2004)—Indonesia’s decision to expel Sidney Jones, a prominent American political analyst, raises concerns about the country’s crackdown on critical observers ahead of the July 5 presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Indonesian government has also announced that it has placed 20 international and local nongovernmental organizations on a “watch list” as threats to the country’s security.
The decision to deport Jones, Indonesia country director for the (…)

We are a group of artists who, since several years, undertake in different forms (cinema, theatre, dance, sculpture, painting etc.), to dounce decay and suffering social situations.
During these years we carried on projects with public administrations, private subjects, class organizations, groups for environmental protection, disadvantaged persons, etc., with help from several people belonging to cultural world such as Dario Fo, Marco Paolini, don Luigi Ciotti, Mino (…)

Antirep leaflet dealing with photo- an film material on demonstrations and behavior on a possible arrest
by : Indymedia Suisse
Media activism - some reflections
For us to film, to take pictures, to make an interview on a demonstration or during an action is a kind of action like spraying, speaking with megaphone or carrying the reinforced front banner. You’re a part of the demo/action and therefore also responsible for it. Because of that, and especially because your (…)