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  • The Plot Thickens in Iraq
    25 August 2003

    Asia Times
    August 22, 2003
    http://www.atimes.com
    THE ROVING EYE
    The plot thickens
    By Pepe Escobar
    HANOI - Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon erstwhile protege, leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), member of the American-appointed Iraqi interim government in Iraq and a convicted criminal in Jordan, went on record in Baghdad saying that he had received intelligence on Thursday, August 14, that "a large-scale act would take place ... against a soft target, such as Iraqi political (…)

  • Missing Martin
    25 August 2003

    Missing Martin
    by Paul M. Gaston
    Forty years ago a quarter of a million Americans came to Washington in a march for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, "I Have a Dream" speech, the riveting highlight of the occasion, began with a prediction that the day would "go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation." And so it did.
    Now at its fortieth anniversary, the March on Washington is being commemorated all over the world, putting me (…)

  • CIA Accused Of Iraq Bank Heist
    25 August 2003

    CIA Accused Of Bank Heist
    Shortly before U.S. forces began streaming across the Iraqi border, commencing Persian Gulf War II, the CIA and the Department of Defense, with a little help from Israel and some Europeans, pulled off a massive bank heist in Iraq to the tune of several billion dollars.
    Exclusive to American Free Press
    By Gordon Thomas
    The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International Currency Review, the London- based journal, (…)

  • ’We Have Ways of Making You Talk’
    25 August 2003

    We Have Ways of Making You Talk
    by Christopher Dickey
    The United States figures it can get plenty out of the newly captured Chemical Ali. But how? And are these ’interrogation’ techniques being readied for American citizens?
    NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
    Aug. 22 - So Chemical Ali is back from the dead. You may remember that this infamous cousin of Saddam Hussein was reported killed early in the war, during those heady days when ’smart bombs’ supposedly solved big problems in (…)

  • Reuters Cameraman Killed For Filming U.S. Graves
    25 August 2003

    Reuters Cameraman Killed For Filming U.S. Graves, Brother Says
    Mazen found U.S. troops covered in plastic bags in remote desert areas and he filmed them for a TV program
    IslamOnline.net
    8-19-2003
    By Awad al-Ragoub, IOL Correspondent
    AL-KHALIL, West Bank, August 19 -
    The brother of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana said he was deliberately murdered for discovering mass graves of U.S. troops killed in Iraqi resistance attacks. "The U.S. troops killed my brother in cold blood," (…)

  • VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: REPORTS ON TEN COUNTRIES
    25 August 2003

    A third collection of reports, Violence Against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2002 has been published by the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of its Violence against Women Programme.
    Over the past year, OMCT submitted ten alternative country reports to the five "mainstream" human rights treaty bodies on: Croatia, Czech Republic, Moldova, Poland, Spain, Sudan, Togo, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Yemen. Besides being the victims of violence perpetrated by state agents and (…)

  • Thirty Percent Of Black Men In Us Will Go To Jail
    25 August 2003

    "Black men born in the United States in 2001 will have a one in three chance of going to prison during their lifetime if current trends continue, according to a report by the US Justice Department."
    Thirty Percent Of Black Men In Us Will Go To Jail
    by Gary Younge in New York - August 19, 2003 - The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1021430,00.html
    Black men born in the United States in 2001 will have a one in three chance of going to prison during their (…)

  • Support Stephen Funk - Marine Reservist Charged With Deserti
    25 August 2003

    Support Stephen Funk - Marine Reservist Charged With Desertion
    [Stephen Funk’s trial is re-scheduled for September 4. Please sign the on-line petition:
    http://www.petitiononline.com/stephenf/petition.html ]
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    STATEMENT FROM STEPHEN FUNK:
    My name is Stephen Funk. I am a Marine Corps reservist who spoke out against the invasion of Iraq. Now I am being charged with desertion, even though I returned to my unit after completing an application for discharge as a conscientious (…)

  • Missile Defense Test Carried Out in California
    25 August 2003

    VAFB launches 3-stage booster
    8/17/03
    By NORA K. WALLACE
    NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
    A key part of the Pentagon’s missile defense program streaked across clear blue skies Saturday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base, leaving a billowing white contrail in its wake.
    The Orbital Sciences Corp. booster blasted out of a silo on the north base at 11 a.m., while close to 100 spectators watched from several miles away.
    The three-stage booster is a prototype for an eventual ground-based (…)

  • Labor Day parade is canceled
    25 August 2003

    Detroit Free Press
    August 13, 2003
    Labor Day parade is canceled
    BY SARAH A. WEBSTER
    Tens of thousands of union brothers and sisters will not march down Woodward Avenue on Labor Day this year, bearing their local banners, singing songs of solidarity and chanting political battle cries.
    Detroit’s renowned Labor Day parade — one of the largest in the nation and a longstanding platform for Democratic presidential candidates — has been canceled, the Michigan State AFL-CIO announced (…)