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Loya Jirga Off To Shaky Start Delegates Coerced, Threatened, Spied On |
by HRW (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 13 Jun 2002
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Delegates, regardless of their political affiliations, expressed consternation at U.S. intrusiveness in undermining the popular former king. "It has created the perception among Afghans that the U.S. is preempting the loya jirga's choice," said Zia-Zarifi. |
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$4.4 million for Environmentalists framed by FBI |
by The Guardian via DJM (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 Jun 2002
Modified: 13 Jun 2002 |
Two radical environmentalists were awarded $4.4m in damages yesterday after a jury in California agreed that nine FBI agents and police officers tried to frame them for planting a bomb in 1990 that destroyed the activists' own car. |
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Castro Leads Millions of Cubans in Anti-U.S. March |
by Larry (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 Jun 2002
Modified: 13 Jun 2002 |
HAVANA (Reuters) - millions of Cubans led by President Fidel Castro marched along Havana's waterfront on Wednesday in a show of fervor against U.S. pressure for privitization of the well run island. |
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Bush Stops One Dirty Bomber, But Targets US Cities With Huge Dirty Bomb Program |
by NIRS (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 11 Jun 2002
Modified: 13 Jun 2002 |
Major US cities in 43 states are in the cross hairs for Yucca shipments, which in the current era, could well become dirty bombs if exploded in transit. |
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President Bush's Speech on Homeland Security |
by Jonathon Burwitz (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 Jun 2002
Modified: 07:02:55 PM |
"The first and best way to secure America's homeland is to attack the enemy where he hides and plans, and we're doing just that." |
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US Trade Policy: "Do as We Say, Not as We Did" |
by Mark Weisbrot (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 Jun 2002
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The truth is that equalizing the enforcement of bad rules will not make the world better off, any more than spreading street crime from poor to middle-class neighborhoods would. If we look at the few countries that have made it out of poverty in the last half-century -- for example South Korea or Taiwan -- they didn't get there by adhering to the "Washington Consensus" of free trade and unrestricted foreign investment flows. |
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Rolling Thunder Tour rolls into Chicago Saturday |
by DJM (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 Jun 2002
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The Chicago Rolling Thunder event will showcase how we can strengthen our democracy by becoming more active in and informed of the core issues that we face everyday: workplace conditions, education, social justice, environmental health, corporate takeovers, etc. |
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Dirty Bombs, Blowback, and Imperial Projections |
by Fran Shor (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 12 Jun 2002
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During the Gulf War, the Pentagon unleashed massive amounts of depleted uranium (DU). According to Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's Depleted-Uranium Project, "numerous US Department of Defense reports have stated that the consequences of DU were unknown. That is a lie. They were told. They were warned." |
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