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  • China and Russia Urge Space Arms Ban
    3 August 2003

    Washington Post July 31, 2003
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8251-2003Jul31.html
    China and Russia Urge Space Arms Ban
    By Robert Evans
    GENEVA (Reuters) - China and Russia, with the United States clearly in their sights, said Thursday "Star Wars" dangers were growing and called for a quick start to talks on a treaty to ban weapons in space.
    The two powers delivered their plea at a session of the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament just over a year after (…)

  • Israel has officially become an Apartheid state
    3 August 2003

    Dear Friends,
    Today, the Israeli parliament has voted in favour of a law that
    prohibits Israeli Palestinians from marrying Palestinians from the
    territories.
    A "mixed" couple can choose between separating and leaving Israel.
    Children to such a marriage can be deported as of 12 years of age.
    This law, widely accepted by the Israeli public
    (53 for and 25 against) is a very dark day in the history of Israel,
    and an even darker day in the relations between Jews and Muslims
    in (…)

  • An open letter from political prisoner Robert ’Seth’ Hayes
    3 August 2003

    An open letter from political prisoner Robert ’Seth’ Hayes
    Dear friends,
    The following is an open letter from Robert ’Seth’ Hayes, a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army and a political prisoner who has been unjustly jailed for over 30 years. This letter serves as an update as to his medical condition and his campaign for release on parole. Seth was denied parole again in the summer of 2002 and has waged a long struggle to receive medical treatment for (…)

  • The War on Truth
    3 August 2003

    The War on Truth publié sur www.zmag.org/weluser.htm le 31/07/ 2003
    Studies now put the death toll at as many as 10,000 civilians and 20,000 Iraqi troops. If this does not constitute a "bloodbath", what was the massacre of 3,000 people at the twin towers?
    John Pilger
    07/31/03: (Z Net) In Baghdad, the rise and folly of rapacious imperial power is commemorated in a forgotten cemetery called the North Gate. Dogs are its visitors; the rusted gates are padlocked, and skeins of traffic (…)

  • After 30 Years, Ozone is Recovering, Study Claims
    3 August 2003

    A report shows the rate of ozone destruction declining for the first time since CFCs were banned.
    By Peter N. Spotts Staff writer The Christian Science Monitor from the August 01, 2003 edition
    For the first time, scientists have uncovered what they see as unambiguous evidence that Earth’s sunscreen, a tenuous shield of ozone in the stratosphere, is slowly beginning to recover from nearly 30 years of human- triggered loss.
    In addition, new research is showing for the first time that a (…)

  • Worst Government US Has Ever Had’ Says Nobel Laureate Econom
    3 August 2003

    US Nobel Laureate Slams Bush Gov’t as "Worst" in American History - Der Spiegel (Berlin) ================================================
    George A. Akerlof, 2001 Nobel prize laureate who teaches economics at the University of California in Berkeley.
    BERLIN - American Nobel Prize laureate for Economics George A. Akerlof lashed out at the government of US President George W. Bush, calling it the "worst ever" in American history, the online site of the weekly Der Spiegel magazine reported (…)

  • Pentagon scraps terror betting plans
    3 August 2003

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1008215,00.html Pentagon scraps terror betting plans
    Mark Tran and agencies Tuesday July 29, 2003 The Guardian
    The Pentagon today said it would abandon plans to create a futures trading market to help predict terrorist attacks and assassinations in the Middle East, after fierce criticism by politicians.
    The initiative, called the Policy Analysis Market (Pam), was to allow traders to place money on an online market to back their hunches on, (…)

  • US Forces intimidate and censor Al-Jazeera in Iraq
    3 August 2003

    US Forces Free Detained Al-Jazeera Reporter Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:59:03 +1000 De: Dave Muller
    The US forces in Iraq Monday set free an Arabic TV journalist after a day of detention.
    Nawfal Al-Shahwani, a reporter of the Arabic Al-Jazeera TV channel, was held by US forces Sunday for filming a civil Iraqi car coming under the heavy fire of a US patrol. The reporter was taken to hospital after going on a hunger strike.
    *Al-Jazeera Refutes Wolfowitz’s Accusations Of Biased Reporting* (…)

  • Stop demolitions
    3 August 2003

    Stop demolitions
    We need your help in the next few hours ! 30 juillet 2003
    The Ministry of the Interior has scheduled at least 6 demolitions in the village of Jabel Mukaber for this Wednesday, Rosh Khodesh Av. I wonder whether these demolitions will help Palestinians identify with the mourning of the Jewish people over the demolition of the two Temples which once stood in Jerusalem, thereby contributing to the "Trust building measures stipulated in the "Road Map."
    RHR, ICAHD, (…)

  • Union of the Unemployed Plans Sit-in in Iraq
    3 August 2003

    Union of the Unemployed Plans Sit-in in Iraq
    http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/inthenews.php?singleItemFlag=
    1&news_id=1 399#
    Announcement from the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq -
    UUI Sit-in Protest Against Unemployment
    The Union of the Unemployed in Iraq - UUI - will be holding a sit-
    in, to protest vast unemployment in Iraq. There will be a general
    gathering first in front of the union-s office in Al Rashid St.
    close to the old Turkish Restaurant at the location of the old (…)