There is considerable disagreement on the numbers who attended a Washington D.C. rally against the war today. Radio New
Zealand says 10,000, organisers say 100,000. See... Washington D.C. Indymedia for extensive coverage.
The unit was also involved in a violent disruption at the Sde Teiman military base
in the Negev desert, where detained Palestinians from the Gaza Strip had been subjected
to various forms of torture and maltreatment.
When a democracy begins to slide into fascism, only a reckoning with the darkness
and deadness at its core that’s giving rise to despotism can arrest the degeneration.
While Israel is extending its failed military campaign in the Strip with no clear
strategic objectives, its war on the West Bank is driven by clear strategic motives:
the annexation of the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of large sectors of the ...
Beyond that and arguably more worryingly, the government’s refusal to act also
sends a clear message that at least so far as culture and heritage is concerned this
government has no interest in upholding the well-being responsibility it is about ...
National is willing to waste time and money on supporting Act's Treaty Bill's first
reading and sending it to a select committee – where more time and money will be
wasted on public submissions and on committee hearings that are bound to receive ...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Air Force Sgt. David Price, disguised in civilian clothes
as a Lockheed employee, was operating a "classified CIA" mountaintop navigation
beacon in Laos for U.S. planes bombing Communist North Vietnamese troops when he ...