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 October 7, 2005
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|  Newsday Dec. 9, 2004
|  Christian Science Monitor Nov. 29, 2004
| | OVERLOOKED STORIES 11/3/05 - Bush approval rating now 35% - CBS poll (read) 11/2/05 - US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border - 40 killed, most women & children according to hospital (read) 10/31/05 - Rumsfeld cashing in on bird flu scare (read) 10/29/05 - Syrians tense as Iraq war laps at Border (read) 10/24/05 - Stop the Troops! No Glory or Honor in Iraq (read) 10/25/05 - Cindy Sheehan: "It's time to start practicing non-violent civil disobedience ( C.D.) on a large scale." (read) 10/24/05 - Pat Tillman: anti-Iraq war, pro-Chomsky (read)
10/23/05 - 82% of Iraqis "strongly opposed" to presence of coalition troops, according to British military survey (read) 10/18/05 - Catholic High School Teacher Forced Out Over Flag (read) 10/18/05 - Iraqi Civilians Killed in US Raid - at least 39 according to witnesses (read) 10/16/05 - Iran blames UK for bombings - reports (read) 10/15/05 - GIs and Syrians in Tense Clashes on Iraqi Border (read) 10/12/05 - "They're determined to have martial law." Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation (read) 10/12/05 - At least 2,225 Children Sentenced to Life without Parole in U.S. (read) The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world (read) 10/12/05 - Two mainstream polls: Bush approval below 40%, two-thirds think U.S. headed in wrong direction (read 1, 2) 10/7/05 - Ex-marine says soldiers committed atrocities in Iraq - including shooting unarmed protesters (read) 10/6/05 - BBC: Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan; White House denies claim (read) WHO'S BEHIND THE BOMBINGS IN IRAQ?
10/2/05 - FBI: Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks in Iraq (read) 9/19/05 - Two British Marines disguised as Arabs carrying out a "special security task", arrested for firing on civilians in Basra, Iraq; may have been planting a car bomb (read) (more) | 10/5/05 - Fox's Bill O'Reilly calls for assassination of Syrian leader Assad (read) 10/5/05 - Israeli Defense Minister: US 'aiming at Syria regime change' (read) 10/1/05 - A 'Dear Judy' Letter from 'Scooter'--With 'Admiration' (read) 9/30/05 - Israeli lawmakers: use force to stop Iran's nuke goals, if necessary (read) 9/29/05 - Survey: 6 in 10 Military Women Harassed (read) 9/29/05 - Army captain calls prisoner abuse ‘systemic’ (read) 9/28/05 - U.S. military treatment of journalists 'out of control', says Reuters chief (read) 9/28/05 - Free speech victory in Miami (read) 9/27/05 - FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure (read) 9/24/05 - Tal Afar Residents Return to Ghost City, Razed Homes (read) 9/25/05 - GI: anything short of death was acceptable in abusing Iraqis (read) 9/26/05 - Top Democrats Flee Peace Protests (read) 9/21/05 - Bush Waives Saudi Child Sex Trafficking Sanctions (read) 9/23/05 - Prisoners in New Orleans city jail were 'abandoned' (read) 9/20/05 - Hurricane Contractors Get Affirmative Action Exemption (read) 9/20/05 - Afghan president wants end to many U.S. operations (read) 9/14/05 - Hugo Chavez tells Ted Koppel he has proof U.S. is planning Venezuelan invasion. (article) (transcript) 9/12/05 - Norway elections: Christian right out, left-leaning gov't in. (read) [watch Norwegian video 'Banned by the Feds'] 9/14/05 - More Gitmo detainess join hunger strike - now 128 (read) 9/11/05 - Draft U.S. Defense Paper Outlines Preventive Nuclear Strikes (read) 9/8/05 - Court Rules U.S. Can Indefinitely Detain Citizens (read) 9/3/05 - Fox News reporters rail government response to hurricane victims (link to video: "Horror Show") 8/28/05 - Protest Warriors mistreated at a pro-war rally in Crawford (video - IE req'd) 9/1/05 - "Spying on the Protesters" - The Nation (read) 8/30/05 - U.S. airstrikes kill 56 civilians, 7 'insurgents' (read) 8/26/05 - 5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness a machete massacre of up to 50 victims by national police (read) 8/26/05 - Nine of 10 people surveyed in the U.S. say it's OK to protest the Iraq war (read) 8/25/05 - American Legion Declares War on Peace Movement. ALSO: MSNBC Journalist Calls Crawford Protesters ‘Anti-war Extremists’ (read) 8/24/05 - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez offers cheap gas to poor in U.S. (read) 8/20/05 - Pittsburgh counter recruitment demonstrators shot with tasers, bitten by dogs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) SPfP SOLIDARITY STATEMENT 8/19/05 - Free Speech & The War on Terror - Thomas Friedman's Blacklist (read) 8/16/05 - 26 Iraqi workers wounded as US troops mistake them for 'rebels' (read) 8/14/05 - Angered farmer fires shots near Cindy Sheehan's Iraq war protest at Bush ranch (read) (more) 8/15/05 - The Iraqi constitution under Saddam prohibited all forms of discrimination and guaranteed freedom of expression. (read)
8/12/05 - Voices in the Wilderness refuses to pay U.S. gov't $20,000 fine for bringing medicine to Iraqi citizens (read) 8/9/05 - Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US (read) 8/10/05 - 5 died in recent taser police shootings. This brings the total number of people killed in the United States by stun guns to at least 147 (story near bottom of page) 8/11/05 - A series of massacres by Haitian death squad police leave dozens wounded and dead, including a pregnant woman and a teenager (read) (more) 8/5/05 - Karl Rove was fired from 1992 Bush Sr. campaign reportedly for leaks to Robert Novak (read) 7/31/05 - New U.S. military base at Syria-Iraq border (read) 8/1/05 - Cheney orders contingency plan for a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons (read) 7/26/05 - Who's Taking Blame for Christian Violence? (read) 7/31/05 - U.S. forces recruiting overseas (read) 7/21/05 - News Flash: The Military Doesn't Protect Our Freedom (read) 7/29/05 - Pakistan rounds up 600 Muslims - can be detained without charge for 1 year. (read) Pakistan says 1,400 foreign students at religious schools must immediately leave country (read) 7/28/05 - 30% of Returning GIs Have Mental Problems. (read) 7/28/05 - Targeting the 15 Democratic Sellouts Who Passed CAFTA (read) 7/27/05 - US majority doubts America will win Iraq war; 51% now think that Bush intentionally misled on WMD's; 58 to 37% believe the U.S. will not be able to establish a stable democracy in Iraq - USA Today/Gallup poll (read) 7/27/05 - Iraqi Prime Minister: "The great desire of the Iraqi people is to see the coalition forces on their way out." (read) 7/26/05 - Bush Administration Files 11th Hour Papers Blocking the Release of More Photos and Videos Of Abu Ghraib Torture (read) 7/26/05 - 'Die America!' chants Afghan mob at U.S. base (read) 7/26/05 - Innocent Iraqi civilians are increasingly being killed by US troops (read) 7/26/05 - Iraq constitution may erode women's rights (read) 7/22/05 - Haitian Priest Assaulted by Mob at Funeral and Arrested for Murders (read) 7/19/05 - Bush: U.S. probes possible IRAN links to 9/11 (read) 7/21/05 - Yemen: 13 Dead in Riots Over World Bank-Backed Price Hikes (read) 7/17/05 - Study by Israel and Saudi Arabia: the vast majority of foreign fighters in Iraq are not former terrorists and became radicalized by the war itself (read) 7/15/05 - Iran Ayatollah says Blair government could have bombed London (read) 7/12/05 - Democrats (including Hillary Clinton) aim to increase size of Army (read) 7/9/05 - The claim of responsibility for the London attacks was first posted on a website that is hosted in Houston, Texas. (read) 7/12/05 - 128,000 Iraqis have been killed - of which 55% were women and children according to an Iraqi humanitarian organization (read) 7/11/05 - Protesters not allowed to distribute leaflets. (read) 7/7/05 - Israeli Embassy in London was warned minutes before blasts. (read) 7/5/05 - Afghanistan condemns US airstrike - up to 17 Afghan civilians killed. (read) 6/28/05 - The USA: World's Biggest Prison. (read) 6/28/05 - Two FL 'anarchist' teens arrested in flag burnings. (read) 6/29/05 - Patriots owner gives Super Bowl ring to Russia's Putin as Rupert Murdoch looks on. (read) 6/27/05 - Chavez says Venezuela has "the largest petroleum reserves in the world.". (read) 6/27/05 - Former Iraqi PM Allawi: Militants from Syria not backed by Damascus. (read) 6/27/05 - Bogus Analysis Led to Terror Alert in Dec. 2003. (read) 6/26/05 - U.S. General Admits to Secret Air War. (read) 6/25/05 - Cheney's Gitmo resort comment rebuked (read) 6/23/05 - Ecuador Refuses to Sign U.S. Immunity Pact (read) 5/12/05 - UN: "Daily living conditions in Iraq dismal." (read) 6/20/05 - Uzbek units linked to deadly crackdown got U.S. training. (read) 6/19/05 - 82 members of Iraqi Parliament demand U.S. pullout. (read) 6/17/05 - U.S. military drops nine 500 pound bombs on Iraq. (read) 6/18/05 - Bush says U.S. in Iraq because of 9/11. (read) 6/17/05 - Police in Haiti continue the killing. (read) 6/19/05 - New U.S. Move to Spoil Climate Accord. (read) 6/16/05 - Senate's No. 2 democrat Dick Durbin compares Gitmo to Nazis, gulags, and Pol Pot. (read) But later apologizes (read)
6/16/05 - Ex-Marine detained by U.S.: "I was more worried about my life from the (U.S.) military than from the insurgents". (read) 6/15/05 - Only 4 of Gitmo's 520 detainees have been charged. (read) 6/14/05 - Antiwar protesters face federal conspiracy charges. (read) 6/14/05 - Sept. 11 WTC Collapse Likely Due to Controlled Demolition, "Inside Job" According to Former Bush Team Member. (read 1, 2) 6/14/05 - Marines, Iraqis kill five civilians. (read) 6/14/05 - US Blocks Probe of Uzbekistan Killings. (read) 6/9/05 - Repression 101: Anti-War Students Sanctioned at San Francisco St. (read) 6/9/05 - Former CIA director calls for Iraq withdrawal (read) 
6/8/05 - Ethiopia: Another Pro-U.S. Ruler Goes Berserk, Massacres Protestors (read) 5/18/05 - Iraqis Endure Worse Conditions Than Under Saddam, UN Survey Finds (read) (survey) 5/31/05 - Six Burnt Alive as Protesters Torch US Fast Food Outlet in Pakistan (read)  5/31/05 - Israel's leading TV anchor: "Since 1967, we have been brutal conquerors, occupiers, suppressing another people" (read)
5/31/05 - Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi admits Israel comes first; denounces Iran (read)
5/25/05 - U.S. Selling More Weapons to Undemocratic Regimes (read) 5/30/05 - U.S. ally Azerbaijan bans protests of its president (read) 5/28/05 - Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded (read)
5/19/05 - Nazi-like Experiments at N.I.H. Testing AIDS Drugs on Unwitting Foster Children (read) 5/24/05 - North Carolina church puts up sign "Koran Needs to Be Flushed" (read)  5/23/05 - Afghan president Karzai says recent protests "not related to the Newsweek (Koran) story." (read); Richard Myers previously made a similar statement. (read) .
5/21/05 - Afghan prisoners 'tortured to death' by American guards. (read) 5/20/05 - Muslim protesters called for the bombing of New York  in a demonstration outside the US embassy in London. (read)
5/20/05 - Iraqi Government, in Statement with Iran, Admits Fault for 1980s War. (read) 5/16/05 - Marine-led Campaign Killed Friends and Foes, Iraqi Leaders Say - "The Americans were bombing whole villages and saying they were only after the foreigners. (read)
5/9/05 - 84 percent of Iraq's higher education establishments were "destroyed, damaged and robbed" ; 50 University teachers assassinated according to U.N. study (read)
5/11/05 - Eight civilians killed by U.S. in Afghanistan (read) U.S. Army mistakenly kill innocent Iraqi (read) 5/11/05 - Real Wages Fall at Fastest Rate in 14 years (read) Ford and GM Now Junk Bonds (read) 5/11/05 - Jay Shaft: 'When Silence Becomes Betrayal' (read) 5/6/05 - Palestinian Local Elections - Hamas wins 23 of the 84 contests (read) 4/30/05 - Student 'sting' leads to Army recruiter's suspension (read)
4/29/05 - Pepper Spray Trial Jury Agrees Excessive Force Used by Officers Against Protesters (read)
4/28/05 - Ahmad Chalabi named Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq; his nephew named Finance Minister (read) 4/27/05 - Marine hung 'death sign' by bodies, witnesses testify (read)
4/26/05 - U.S. Inspectors find no proof Iraq hid weapons in Syria (read)
4/21/05 - Greenspan Warns Senate of 'Unsustainable' Budget (read)
4/21/05 - Condi Rice calls for change in Belarus (read) 4/15/05 - There were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than any year since 1985 - in response, the State Dept. will stop publishing the annual report (read)
4/15/05 - 73 Democrats Side With Credit Card Industry Over Consumers (read)
4/13/05 - TV ad portrays Iran nuking the U.S. (read) (watch video) Washington gives $3m to 'boost democracy' in Iran (read) 4/11/05 - U.S. Funds to Promote Democracy in Iran (read) 4/9/05 - Mexico mounts huge protest over threat to left wing presidential candidate. (read 1, 2, 3) 4/5/05 - UC Santa Cruz students kick miliary recruiters off campus. (read) 4/4/05 - NYU antiwar protesters force CIA to cancel appearance. (read) 4/5/05 - Afghanistan likely to have permanent U.S. military. (read) |
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