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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 17:20 by pat c
 8 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 - 15:59)
This is a very strange story. The relative casualties - seven coalition dead, 300 insurgents dead, suggests that a massacre took place. In the Irish Times it is stated that the Iraqi government originally claimed that the dead were Sunnis. I haven't managed to find an independent assessment of this story. If anyone can find one then please post a link here. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 29, 2007 - 16:35 by pat
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A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the senior UN relief official, Jan Egeland, and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 11:40 by pat c
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Robert Drinan SJ, who was elected to the US Congress on an Anti-War ticket has died. Drinan was elected in 1970, after he beat longtime Democratic Rep. Philip J. Philbin. He became the first member of Congress to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon for what Drinan viewed as the administration's undeclared war against Cambodia. Drinan was forced to step down from Congress due to pressure from the Vatican. Full text at link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 04:33 by Anarchy Rules
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A roundup of the death toll in Iraq over the last week. The least become the most and the most become the least. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 29, 2007 - 03:46 by Brian Wardlow
National Irish Freedom Committee Free Forum Video Discussion Series ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 01:55 by Mocha
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According to the Independent (UK) : "Magistrates have jailed Lindis Percy, 64, after she failed to pay fines and court costs relating to a protest outside the United States Signal Intelligence Station, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire". The pensioner undertakes weekly vigils at the US intelligence station. She formed the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) in 1992 and was sent to jail in March 2003, as the invasion of Iraq began. Though her protests have resulted in 12 prison sentences before, including a four-and-a-half-month spell in Holloway jail, Percy was adamant that she was not guilty of the crime that led to Friday's court appearance: wilful obstruction of the highway outside Menwith Hill, on 10 and 31 January last year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 01:03 by Over The Edge
Against The Wall is a poetry project designed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Gaza and West Bank by the Israeli Defence Forces, and to raise awareness of the cultural boycott of Israel initiated by John Berger and 93 other international artists in December 2006. ... read full story / add a comment |
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