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Dr. Wasfi: "For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day." Dahlia Wasfi, MD 2007-07-15 1:22 AM

Dr. Wasfi concluded her prepared remarks with this question: " Since 1958, Iraqis have hoped that each regime change might bring a better life. Have they hit rock bottom now?" (image/jpeg)

PHILIPPINES: Aksa leader killed by Maoist rebels PDSP 2007-07-12 11:20 PM
San Pablo City, A woman peace advocate and the local head of the social movement Aksyon Sambayanan (People's Action) was killed Monday night by armed men believed to be members of the Maoist New People’s Army (NPA). (text/plain)

NIFC Statement regarding the Twelfth NIFC/ National Irish Freedom Committee 2007-07-12 7:31 PM
For over three centuries, the nationalist/republican community has dreaded The Twelfth as the high noon of fury. The annual terror onslaught of countless acts of intimidation including murder, burnings of homes and forced relocations (ethnic cleansings) under British rule (text/plain)

[btlsummary]Commutation of Lewis Libby's Jail Sentence Last Act of... Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-07-12 1:02 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Unite to Shut Down the War Steven Ceci 2007-07-11 8:58 AM
UNITE! Take the Antiwar Struggle Back to the Streets in September SEPT 29: Mass March on the White House SEPT 22- 29: Encampment in front of Congress. Cut off the War funds Stop the War at Home and Abroad! All Troops Out Now! Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes! (text/plain)

The Animals' Rachel Corrie Is Jill Phipps ARC 2007-07-09 12:36 PM
As Rachel Corrie was crushed to death protesting Sharon treatment of Palestinians, Jill Phipps was crushed to death protesting the live shipment of calves by the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the US' Heifer International and other agribusiness (text/plain)

Report of NIFC Commemoration of the Molly Maguires National Irish Freedom Committee 2007-07-08 10:45 PM
On June 10th, 2007 the National Irish Freedom Committee held a commemoration for the "Molly Maguires'" at the Hibernian House at Giraraldsville, in the "coal country" of Pennsylvania. The Hibernian House is the original building owned by "Black Jack" Kehoe, who along with 19 other men were railroaded and executed in June, 1887. (text/plain)

September 15 — Turn Up the Heat in Washington DC! ANSWER Coalition 2007-07-06 3:08 PM
September 15 — Turn Up the Heat in Washington DC! (text/html)

[btlsummary]Journalists in Afghanistan Targeted for Assassination... Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-07-06 12:58 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

G4 process is undemocratic, No WTO deal in Potsdam! Stop the New Round Coalition 2007-07-06 3:16 AM
Trade ministers of the G4 countries (the European Union, the United States, Brazil and India) are meeting in Potsdam, Germany, this week try to stitch together a trade deal to which each of them could agree. (text/plain)

18 Reasons American Children Not Yet Slender ARC 2007-07-05 11:07 AM
cutting the dairy lobby's power, cutting fast food advertising, educating the public about the 23 pounds less a vegan weighs on average than a nonvegetarian etc. (text/plain)

Aksyon Sambayanan leader killed by NPA in the Philippines PDSP 2007-07-02 12:06 PM

27 June 2007, SAN PABLO CITY, PHILIPPINES - A woman peace advocate and the local head of the social movement Aksyon Sambayanan (People's Action) was killed Monday night by armed men believed to be members of the Maoist New People’s Army. (image/jpeg)

Cancer toll for Iron Range miners grows Alan L. Maki 2007-07-02 12:56 AM
It is completely irresponsible for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party’s Legislative Caucus to continue holding off in calling for real single-payer, universal health care in response to this present horrendous health care mess. (text/plain + 1 comment)

In the military, thinking of joining? email 2007-06-30 9:37 PM

video of presentation at AFSC in Pasadena during 2002 (image/jpeg)

MOVE 9 Up for Parole after 30 Years in Jail! BE47 2007-06-25 2:39 PM
Ramona Africa is speaking on why the MOVE 9 need to be released on parole in 2008. Ramona is the only adult survivor of the 1985 fire-bombing of the MOVE home in 1985. She has a very personal understanding of what happened to the MOVE activists in 1978 when the MOVE 9 were put in prison. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Mammoth electoral fraud in Philippines elections: Padding and shaving CMS 2007-06-23 8:14 AM

Nearly three weeks after election day, there are still no definitive results for the Philippine elections to the Senate and House of Representatives. Counting is still continuing and in a number of provinces it has not even begun. This has nothing to do with inefficiency and everything to do with ballot-rigging. The Philippines is one of the most corrupt ‘democracies’ in the world. (image/jpeg)

Pelosi, Hillary, and Lieberman: funded by Lockheed Peacemaker 2007-06-22 11:37 PM
Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Lieberman each received $10,000 in campaign contributions from neocon-linked weapons maker Lockheed-Martin's Political Action Committee during the 2006 election cycle. Could this be one reason Pelosi and Hillary refuse to stand firmly for peace while Lieberman blatantly calls for even wider war? (text/plain)

[btlsummary] Federal Court Challenges President's Right to Hold Detainees... Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-06-21 7:20 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Smoke Bans Blame Victims, Excuse Perps Watchdog 2007-06-19 10:07 PM
Pennsylvania's planned Smoke Ban, wrapped in For-Your-Protection language, is an evasion by cigarette makers, their many ingredients suppliers, their insurers/investors AND complcit public officials, of significant liabilities & penalties. It's a Nice-Sounding law, based on lies. (text/plain)

Why your revolution is no liberation! MAD Cologne 2007-06-18 3:10 PM

During the recent weeks and months a spirited debate developed in different German left wing newspapers and groups about the sense or non-sense, the perspectives and the means and goals of the mobilisation against the G8 summit. Different German and Austrian anti-fascist groups started a campaign to criticise a wrong analysis of capitalism widely spread in the anti-globalisation movement. In the context of this campaign several public discussions and lectures were held, a special webpage was set up but above all reader was published that contains a set of basic texts referring to this problem. This reader is available in German and English and will soon also be published in French in order to spread the debate also across other countries. Check it out: www.no-liberation-reader.tk (image/png)

Clintons Forced To Sell War Profiteer, Environmental Desecrator and Animal Abuse Stocks ARC 2007-06-16 11:18 AM
By federal law, Clintons were forced to disinvest from their blind trust which included stocks of animal killers, war profiteers, the worst oil and vivisecting drug companies, environmental desecrators because Mrs Clinton is a candidate for president. (text/plain)

Geiger Counter Shootout At the OK Corral Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner 2007-06-15 9:24 PM

"I told General Lee on March 19 to stop lying to the [Hawaiian] Legislature. And, I told him I would get him and I did on April 21 in south Kona with those high radiation monitor readings from Pohakaloa. And it wasn't just me, the citizens who have supported and followed through are the real strength of all of this. The media has to deal with these global voices now because they are the 'shot heard round the world.'" (image/jpeg)

BTL:Resignation of U.S. Attorney In Arkansas Linked to GOP Voter Suppression Operation Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-06-15 11:57 AM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

PHILIPPINES: Lack of accountability makes reconciliation impossible AKBAYAN 2007-06-15 1:59 AM
The President's call for reconciliation is hollow and vacuous in the face of loose ends left hanging beyond the May 2007 elections and the adjournment of the 13th Congress. (text/plain)

Venezuela: The case of RCTV and the fictional democratization of communication El Libertario's editorial staff 2007-06-10 1:51 AM
* The Collective of “El Libertario”, Venezuelan anarchist newspaper, makes public its reasoned out position in the debate generated by the case of RCTV, in where the current government imposes a solution where we pass from the meanness that the capitalistic private oligopoly of TV to the dreadful that could be the monopoly of a bureaucratic and authoritarian state. (text/plain)

Smoking Bans: Still Frauds that SERVE the cigarette makers Watchdog 2007-06-09 7:59 PM
Pennsylvania is pushing ahead with a smoke ban...despite truckloads of evidence that justification for such laws is non-existent, incomplete, arbitrary, and fraudulent. Bar owners who oppose ought take care who they ask for help. (text/plain)

Sofia EU: Mass Farming of Stray Animals Emil Kuzmanov 2007-06-08 1:56 PM
An Open Letter to Mayor Boyko Borissov, a very ambitious and popular politician, leader of the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party and former Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior. Since May 30 2007 multiple copies were emailed to The Municipality of Sofia (<info@sofia.bg>), The Public Ombudsman of Sofia (<ombudsman@sofia.bg>) and The Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria (<n.markov@prb.bg>) - without reply. (text/plain)

Bulgaria EU: Mass Illegal Traffic of Companion Animals Emil Kuzmanov 2007-06-08 1:49 PM
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Sergei Stanishev. After May 22, 2007 multiple copies were emailed to: Government of Bulgaria (<GIS@government.bg>), Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Minister of European Affairs (<mtsankova@mfa.government.bg>), Parliamentary European Affairs Committee (<kei@parliament.bg>) and Parliamentary Internal Security and Public Order Committee (<kns@nt52.parliament.bg>) - without reply. (text/plain)

Molly Maguire Commemoration National Irish Freedom Committee 2007-06-07 5:53 PM
The National Irish Freedom Committee invites you to a commemoration for the Molly Maguires. On Sunday the 10th of June an 12.00 noon, a remembrance for the executed coal mining union leaders known as the Molly Maguire's in Girardsville, PA (text/plain)

BTL:Immigration Reform Bill Draws Fire from All Sides Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-06-07 10:03 AM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

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