On this day in history...

In pursuing this historic mission Sharon is ruthless and merciless. Rivers of blood do not deter him, the number of casualties (theirs and ours) is just one item in his calculations. He acts cautiously, uses ruses and does not shrink from committing war crimes.

An educational film for
workers & unions that
seeks to answer basic
questions such as what
are the laws that are
to be amended?

Republican Congressional Candidate Mark Augustin Denies That He's Being Investigated By A Grand Jury For Sodomy, Loitering

I couldn't escape the Irony of the situation. Brown and black bodies being
brought to Cuba again. This island used to be the biggest breeding station
of slaves in the New World And once more there were being brought, by their
white masters the protectors of the "Holy Grail ", to sit somewhere and rot.
I sat there and thought of my own experiences for I too was once a prisoner
of the US Military.

The War on Terrorism is a fraud. Its purpose is to maintain carte blanche for the ever more desperate agenda of American capital: the domination of the continent of Eurasia, and the crushing of the Left worldwide, especially its anti-capitalist core.

An open forum for
discussion on India
& Pakistan issues is
located at
www.dialognow.org

Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Qasymzhomart Toqayev quit his job today, forcing the entire government to resign. Last November, Toqayev had accused foreign oil companies of undermining the government for their interests. Did President Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's dictator, bow to pressure from oil companies?

All the bottlenecks for raising the height of the Narmada dam to 100 metres have been removed by successful intervention of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at a high level meeting attended by the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

"In 2000, the international diamond industry produced more than 120 million carats of rough diamonds with a market value of US $7.5 billion. At the end of the diamond chain this bounty was converted into 70 million pieces of jewelry worth close to US $58 billion.

America's real face

This is a call for spiritual aid for the protests coming up in New York against the WEF.

The latest news received from Bhachau is that 7 NGO activists have been
arrested. These 7 people include:

Mr. Prasad M. Chacko, the Director of Behavioural Science Centre,

Mr. Moyuddin Sheikh of Behavioural Science Centre,

Mr. Gautam Shah,

Mr. Tapan of SUCI

3 women activists of SUCI.
They have been booked under sections 141 and 144 of the IPC. One of the members was also severely beaten up. The government has started to clamp
down violently on the people who are trying to democratically protest and get their issues in the public eye.

Please clarify how people who depend on earnings from the interest on their investments will be able to manage under LETS or Community Currencies or Mutual Credit systems because in these systems there is no provision of interest income. Particularly the disabled or the retired people and senior citizens.

The world's "financiers" would not have us understand how "Argentina's" "economy" collapsed under insoluble debt — because the debt of Argentina was ultimately multiplied beyond the means of Argentina, without rendering Argentina anything but multiplying debt.

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More than 20.000 people remembered Carlo Giuliani in a very touching demonstration yesterday in Genova.

Violation of human rights

The late Eqbal Ahmed was an indefatigable campaigner for peace and sanity in the subcontinent. This article is an edited version of an eight part series on Kashmir that he wrote for Dawn in 1996. It is an index of Eqbal’s perspicacity that the passage of time – the Lahore bus ride, Kargil, and other developments – has not diluted the validity of his propositions for a situation as fluid and fluctuating as Kashmir.

Ngawang Choephel, Released on Medical Parole (ICT)