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April 26, 2004 - 3:18pm -- jim
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In the Streets

"Interrupting the Empire"

Montreal, 18 April, 2004

As US bombers continued to terrorise people in Fallujah, and as their troops
surround the holy city of Najaf, a small group of people in Montreal
succeeded in closing down the US consulate for four hours on Friday.

April 25, 2004 - 12:15pm -- jim
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Decision on Possible Attack on Iraqi Town Seems Near

David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker, New York Times

Washington, April 24 — Facing one of the grimmest choices of the Iraq war, President Bush and his senior national security and military advisers are expected to decide this weekend whether to order an invasion of Falluja, even if a battle there runs the risk of uprisings in the city and perhaps elsewhere around Iraq.

April 25, 2004 - 12:08pm -- jim
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Natives Not Bound by Laws of Canada, Lawyer Argues

Jake Rupert, Ottawa Citizen, April 25, 2004

An Ottawa lawyer is challenging the authority of Canadian governments to
apply laws to native people. It's an issue that has been debated for years in native and legal
academic circles but hasn't been answered by Canadian courts, say
aboriginal law experts.

April 23, 2004 - 5:22pm -- nolympics
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From the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
Translated by irlandesa

#1
Corazón Céntrico de los Zapatistas Delante del Mundo Good Government Junta

Snail Tzobombail Yu'un Lekil J'amteletik Tao'lol Yo'on Zapatista Ta Stukil Sat Yelob Sjunul Balumil. Los Altos Region of Chiapas, Mexico.
April 15, 2004.

Sisters and brothers:

After calmly investigating the situation, this Good Government Junta is apprising you of the following:

1. -  The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) has joined in with the war which the bad government is waging against the zapatista Indian peoples.  Through its municipal presidents and caciques who are affiliated with their party, the PRD has moved from making threats against our compañeros and compañeras to attacks with firearms.  The good of the people does not matter to the PRD.  They only want to hold positions in order to make money, and that is why they make friends with the caciques and paramilitaries, in order to exploit the people, just like the PRI and the PAN.  The only difference is that the PRDs appear in videos.

April 22, 2004 - 11:58am -- jim
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Independent Media

"Chalabi Nephew Will Preside at Saddam's Trial"

Juan Cole


Ahmed Chalabi's nephew Salem has been put in charge of the trial of Saddam Hussein. Salem is a partner in Zell and Feith, a Jerusalem-based law firm headed by a West Bank settler, in which Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of Defense for Planning, is also a senior partner when not in the US government. You can be assured that the trial will be conducted on behalf of the Bush administration and the Neocons, and on behalf of the Chalabis. Since the Chalabis have been trying to overthrow Saddam for decades, it is hard to see how this can have even the appearance of an impartial tribunal.

Full story: Juan Cole

April 22, 2004 - 9:51am -- jim
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Mainstream Media

U.S. Moves to Rehire Some From Baath Party, Military

Robin Wright, >Washington Post

The United States is moving to rehire former members of Iraq's ruling Baath Party and senior Iraqi military officers fired after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, in an effort to undo the damage of its two most controversial policies in Iraq, according to U.S. officials.


The U.S. administrator of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, proposed the policy shifts to broaden the strategy to entice the powerful Sunni minority back into the political fold and weaken support for the insurgency in the volatile Sunni Triangle, two of the most persistent challenges for the U.S.-led occupation, the officials say. Both policies are at the heart of national reconciliation, increasingly important as the occupation nears an end.


Full story is: here

April 21, 2004 - 3:57pm -- jim
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"Theme Park Slammed For 'Ihatework' Web Site"
Reuters


Some U.K. businesses are up in arms over a theme park's promotional Web
site, because they say the site encourages people to skip work, Reuters
reports on CNN's Web site. The Federation of Small Businesses, which has
more than 185,000 members, said it was unhappy with Alton Towers,
Britain's biggest theme park, which launched the Web site,
www.ihatework.co.uk. According to the group, the site — and the mid-week
discount offer it promotes — could cause some employees to blow off work.
(DLF)


Full story: here.

April 21, 2004 - 3:45pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

"Web Hate Sites Luring Sickos, Wackos, Weirdoes"

NY Daily News

It's no surprise to learn that the Internet is full of weirdoes, but
hate groups are increasingly flocking to the Web, reports The (N.Y.) Daily
News. The Simon Wiesenthal Center released a report this week listing
4,500 terror-related and anti-Semitic sites. Al Qaida, Hamas and other
terrorist groups use the Internet as an important propaganda tool, it
says. On one site, masked figures point guns at images of the collapsing
World Trade Center towers and laugh. On another site, visitors can manage
Nazi concentration camps or let players direct suicide bombers, shoot
black people or buy crack dens. "We want people to realize the Internet is
not just a tool of information, but also a tool of disinformation," said
Mark Weitzman, director of the center's Task Force Against Hate. (EGS)


Full story: here.

April 20, 2004 - 2:39pm -- nolympics
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In the Streets

"POW"

Jo Wildings, April 17th

Fallujah — Sergeant Tratner of the First Armoured Division is irritated. “Git back or you’ll git killed,” are his opening words.

Lee says we’re press and he looks with disdain at the car. “In this piece of shit?”

Makes us less of a target for kidnappers, Lee tells him. Suddenly he decides he recognises Lee from the TV. Based in Germany, he watches the BBC. He sees Lee on TV all the time. “Cool. Hey, can I have your autograph?”

Lee makes a scribble, unsure who he’s meant to be but happy to have a ticket through the checkpoint which all the cars before us have been turned back from, and Sergeant Tratner carries on. “You guys be careful in Falluja. We’re killing loads of those folks.” Detecting a lack of admiration on our part, he adds,
“Well, they’re killing us too. I like Falluja. I killed a bunch of them mother fuckers.”

April 19, 2004 - 2:05am -- nolympics
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

Spanish Prime Minister Orders Iraq Troops Home

BBC News


Spain's new prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has given orders for Spanish troops in Iraq to be brought home in "as short a time as possible".


Mr Zapatero said he could not ignore what he called the will of the Spanish people.

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