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The Iraqi revolt against occupation is spreading in qualitative developments. The Pentagon is reacting with a murderous iron fist that is making the popular Iraqi position increasingly clear to the world: that the occupation forces are indeed an enemy - not liberators.
In the last 72 hours, as the colonial force attempts to hold the country in a tight grip, the number of casualties has mounted, as Iraqi cities are besieged and bombed by missiles and tanks. Street fighting is raging (…)

Friday, April 9 - Monday, April 12
From Friday, April 9 through Monday, April 12 there will be nationally-coordinated emergency local demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the country. Thousands will demand U.S. OUT OF IRAQ, Bring the Troops Home Now and Money for jobs, education and healthcare - Not for wars of aggression in response to a call initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition.
The revolt sweeping Iraq in opposition to foreign occupation has resulted in the White (…)

Rahul Mahajan Empire Notes http://www.empirenotes.org/gatesofhell.html
Baghdad, Iraq — Before the Iraq war, at a meeting of the Arab League, Secretary General Amr Moussa famously said that a U.S. war on Iraq would "open the gates of hell."
In Iraq, those gates are yawning wider than they ever have before — at least for the United States.
"Sunni and Shi’a are now one hand, together against the Americans," a man on the street in the mostly Shi’a slum of Shuala on the west side of Baghdad (…)

SmartMoney.com
http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20040406-000047-0158
WASHINGTON — More than 60% of U.S. corporations didn’t pay any federal taxes for 1996 through 2000, years when the economy boomed and corporate profits soared, Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reported, citing the investigative arm of Congress.
The disclosures from the General Accounting Office are certain to fuel the debate over corporate tax payments in the presidential campaign. Corporate tax (…)

Associations, syndicates, and netizens denounce a fake report and ask new minister Patrick Devedjian for immediate report of the LEN (Law for confidence in digital economy) draft. A broad coalition of associations for defense of individual and public liberties, internet and netizens associations, syndicates and activist groups were about to send new industry minister Patrick Devedjian an Open Letter asking for the immediate report of Len (Law for confidence in digital economy) draft, (…)

Old Karl Marx would surely have been happy to see them: on the boulevard named in his honor, the Karl Marx Allee in what was once East Berlin, at countless buses were lined up in good, German-orderly rows. Though they were tourist buses of every size, color and advertising slogan, their passengers were not tourists, but union members, about 200,000 of them. They looked happy enough, especially when they climbed out, often after five, six and more hours on the road and pre-dawn departures. (…)

The Star (S.Africa)
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=393104
To the horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country’s ever more bloody insurgency has at last spilled over into the majority Shi’ite Muslim community.
Coalition soldiers fought gunmen in the holy city of Najaf yesterday with the loss of at least 20 lives.
The shooting started after protesters gathered at the Spanish base on the outskirts of the city following the arrest of an aide to (…)

http://www.dawn.com/2004/04/04/op.htm#2
What has happened to the ’Coalition Provisional Authority’, also known as the occupying power? Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq. Last week’s horrors proved that.
Yet just a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, America’s deputy director of military operations, assured us that there was only an "uptick" in violence in Iraq . Not a sudden wave of violence, mark you, not a down-to-earth increase, not even a "spike" in violence - (…)

Coalition of the Mercenaries
The Independent (UK)
An army of thousands of mercenaries has appeared in Iraq’s major cities, many of them former British and American soldiers hired by the occupying Anglo-American authorities and by dozens of companies who fear for the lives of their employees.
Many of the armed Britons are former SAS soldiers and heavily armed South Africans are also working for the occupation. "My people know how to use weapons and they’re all SAS," said the British (…)

No Sweat (UK)
March 29,2004
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/
By Charles Arthur
It didn’t take long for the new order in Haiti to reveal itself. The day after President Aristide ’left’ for exile, 34 union members at the Ouanaminthe garment assembly factory run by the Dominican Grupo M company, were fired. The next morning, when the 600-strong workforce decided to strike, a group of armed men launched a violent attack. Some unionists were handcuffed, many others were beaten up, and the (…)