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Convicted felons responsible for thousands of deaths are calling the shots at the White House
By Isabel Hilton The Guardian August 7, 2003 Comment
The announcement that Admiral John Poindexter’s latest brainwave - to encourage betting on the likelihood of a terrorist attack - had been terminated was characteristically bland. It began: "The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced today that DARPA’s participation in the Futures Markets Applied to (…)

America silences Niger leaders in Iraq nuclear row ==================================================
By David Harrison in Niamey, Niger The Telegraph (UK) (Filed: 03/08/2003)
America has warned the Niger government to keep out of the row over claims that Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium for his nuclear weapons programme from the impoverished West African state.
Herman Cohen, a former assistant secretary of state for Africa and one of America’s most experienced Africa hands, called (…)

U.S. Backs Florida’s New Counterterrorism Database ==================================================
’Matrix’ Offers Law Agencies Faster Access to Americans’ Personal Records
By Robert O’Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 6, 2003; Page A01 washingtonpost.com
Police in Florida are creating a counterterrorism database designed to give law enforcement agencies around the country a powerful new tool to analyze billions of records about both criminals and ordinary (…)

Hiroshima Mayor Hits Out at U.S. ================================= Wednesday, August 6, 2003 Posted: 11:36 AM EDT (1536 GMT) Associated Press
Doves released at the Hiroshima memorial mark the 58th anniversary of the bombing.
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The mayor of Hiroshima has criticized the U.S. for pursuing new nuclear weapons technology, as he marked the 58th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack.
Tadatoshi Akiba said Washington’s apparent worship of "nuclear weapons as (…)

Initiative to launch international campaign against US overseas military bases The struggle of the peoples to throw out the US military bases from all countries in the world becomes especially important under the current world conditions. The wild aggressiveness of US imperialists for world domination, the frequent military interventions in various countries and regions that are of strategic importance to US interests and the recent invasion and occupation of Iraq, more than ever bring (…)

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=429232
Iraq isn’t working
There is a veneer of normality about life in the new Iraq. But America’s failure to deliver on its promises has triggered a spiral of murderous anarchy that threatens to become an epic tragedy
By Robert Fisk
The Independent, 31 July 2003
Paul Bremer’s taste in clothes symbolises "the new Iraq" very well. He wears a business suit and combat boots. As the proconsul of Iraq, you might have thought (…)

U.S. Is Delinquent In Reporting On U.S. Human Rights Abuses And Racism Since 9/11
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2003 by Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Contact person: Prof. Ann Fagan Ginger, Executive Director, at (510) 848-0599
U.S. IS DELINQUENT IN REPORTING ON U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND RACISM SINCE 9/11
August 5, 2003. — "The U.S. Government is six years late in filing reports on human rights, law enforcement, and racism in the U.S. since 9/ll," claims (…)

The Harvey Milk School
by Andy Humm
August 08, 2003
Gotham Gazette - http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/civilrights/200308 05/3/484
A New York City high school for gay students is making front-page news. The New York Post claimed an exclusive on its front page July 28, trumpeting, "GAY HIGH: New City School A First" about the Harvey Milk High School that the paper said is "devoted exclusively to gay kids." But the school, which is named after a member of the San Francisco board of (…)

Mail&Guardian Online http://www.mg.co.za/
August 1, 2003
Cape Town
A Western Cape Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) official who met leaders of the Zimbabwean trade union movement in the Cape Town on Friday says President Robert Mugabe’s time as head of his state should end.
Cosatu Western Cape regional secretary Tony Ehrenreich has also called on the South African government to impose sanctions as a tool to end the unjust government in the neighbouring country and (…)

US anti-war activists hit by secret airport ban
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
August 03 2003
The Independent (UK) http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp? story=430073
After more than a year of complaints by some US anti- war activists that they were being unfairly targeted by airport security, Washington has admitted the existence of a list, possibly hundreds or even thousands of names long, of people it deems worthy of special scrutiny at airports.
The list had (…)