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The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040426&s=jamail
[ This article is an edited excerpt from Jamail’s weblog for the New Standard News.]
Falluja, Iraq, a low-rise, mostly Sunni city of about 200,000, has become this war’s Sarajevo. I was there on Saturday and Sunday during what was supposed to be a cease-fire. Instead of calm, I found a city under siege from American artillery and snipers.
At one of the city’s clinics I saw dozens of freshly wounded women and (…)

A.N.S.W.E.R. Response to Bush press conference:
SPRING & SUMMER OF PROTEST & RESISTANCE TO THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
Although he rejected the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam, George W. Bush is closely following the script of Johnson and Nixon during the Vietnam War. While predicting that the U.S. would be ultimately victorious, the administration is in fact desperately preparing for an escalation, including the sending of more troops to suppress the rebellion in Iraq. In (…)

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 Kurds in a continuing campaign against the Kurdish minority, a Syrian human rights group claimed Monday.
It was the second report in less than a week of an alleged clampdown on Kurds here since last month’s clashes in the northeast between Syrian security forces and Kurdish rioters in which 25 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
In a statement faxed to foreign news agencies in Damascus, Aktham Naisse, the (…)

UJFP (French Jewish union for Peace)
The politic world reluctantly reproved the strategy of target assassinations led by Israel for the last three years.Some simple facts nevertheless: one target murder is still a murder and it makes the one who plans it as well as the one who performs it, murderers.
Murder is not an attribute of democracy. It is that of sordid dictatorships and a democracy using such methods indeed looses its democratic status.
The assassination of Sheikh Yassine, (…)

day of global action against benetton Terror allert: Benetton in Argentina
The multinational Benetton owns massive amounts of land in Argentina. Most of this land is situated in the south, in Patagonia, and used te be land of the indigenous inhabitants (Mapuches).
Some Mapuche families have been trying to fight back and to live and work on the land. They have been evicted by force. At the moment Benetton is starting a courtcase against Mapuche families that refuse to be thrown off their (…)

BASRA, April 12 (MNA) — Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.
Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.
An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor’s Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large part (…)

Paul Farmer reports from Haiti
London Review of Books
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n08/print/farm01_.html
On the night of 28 February, the Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced from power. He claimed he’d been kidnapped and didn’t know where he was being taken until, at the end of a 20-hour flight, he was told that he and his wife would be landing ’in a French military base in the middle of Africa’. He found himself in the Central African Republic.
An understanding of the (…)

by Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies
[TO: Member Groups of United for Peace and Justice FROM: Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator, UFPJ
Below are talking points on the present crisis in Iraq, prepared by Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies. Please share these with the members of your group or other people who might be interested. Thanks.]
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Almost one year from President Bush’s announcement of the end of "major combat operations" in Iraq, the (…)

While we’re still on the subject of Cuba... By Michael Moore
(Micheal Moore is one of the most popular of US film-makers in Cuba. BOWLING FOR COLUBINE was shown at the Havana Film Festival in 2003 and soon played on Cuban television. Comments by Moore are translated and reprinted in the Cuban media as well. Moore is one of the most talented people at translating a wide range of images and connecting the dots in a way that makes sense to a broad audience which others of a leftist (…)

In the varied explanations for the 9/11 attacks and the rise in terrorism, two themes keep recurring. One is that Islamic culture itself is to blame, leading to a clash of civilizations, or, as more nuanced versions have it, a struggle between secular-minded and fundamentalist Muslims that has resulted in extremist violence against the West. The second is that terrorism is a feature of the post-cold-war landscape, belonging to an era in which international relations are no longer defined by (…)