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A New Solidarity Front In Iraq |
by Tim Shorrock
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26 Jun 2003
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The [International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples] conference was timed to coincide with the annual meeting of the International Labor Organization. It was attended by many worker representatives to the ILO, including Hacene Djeman, the general secretary of the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, and worker representatives from Algeria, Sudan and other Arab countries. Subhi Toma, a former Iraqi labor leader living in exile in France, was also there. The conference agreed to launch a Campaign for Labor Rights in Iraq, focusing on restoring basic labor rights, particularly the right to have genuinely independent unions and to work under safe conditions. |
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News :: International Relations |
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White House "Overstated" Iraqi WMD Threat |
by Steven Aftergood, FAS/Secrecy News
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26 Jun 2003
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"The committee is now investigating whether the intelligence case on Iraq's WMD was based on circumstantial evidence rather than hard facts and whether the intelligence community made clear to the policy-makers and Congress that most of its analytic judgments were based on things like aerial photographs and Iraqi defector interviews, not hard facts," said Rep. Harman. |
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BTL:Federal Court Upholds Secret Detentions; Another Victory For... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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26 Jun 2003
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...White House Measures Eroding Civil Liberties. Interview with Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the ACLU's Washington, D.C. office conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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Libertarians Say Hearings Into Iraq's Weapons Program Are Pointless |
by Libertarian Party
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25 Jun 2003
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"Do we really need a congressional hearing to discover that politicians are adept at using words as weapons of mass deception?" |
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News :: Media |
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Embedded Reporters Given Pentagon Payola At Taxpayer Expense |
by Peter Robertson
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25 Jun 2003
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Who paid for this media training, transportation and equipment? Unwittingly, American taxpayers picked up the tab for these and many other expenses in the military's embedded media program.
"That's one way of looking at it," concedes Maj. Tim Blair, Pentagon officer in charge of the program. Another way of looking at it is the embedded media, by accepting military handouts at taxpayer expense, betrayed the public's trust and venerable journalism policies against freebies. |
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News :: Drugs |
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New Poll Shows Greatest Ever Support For Legalizing Marijuana |
by Drug Policy Alliance
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24 Jun 2003
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Zogby Finds 41% of Americans Think Marijuana Should be Regulated Like Alcohol - Up from 34% in 2001 |
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