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In This Edition: An Unusually Clear Moral Dilemma - US Officials Wring Their Hands (In Their Own Words) - The US
Position In Summary - And So There Is Now No Way Out… For Pakistani Teenagers! - Is This A War Crime?
As an American Citizen, who was essentially forced to read your "propaganda" for my work, I am compelled to tell you
that I am offended. Not that that will mean anything to you, as far away as you are.
The Alliance appears to be fracturing. The crisis is partly a result of maintaining the identity of a party which is in
government as a minority partner. (The Greens in Germany have similar problems, indeed triggered by the same issue; the
war in ...
Whether New Zealand should have an air combat force is now not the main issue. What is at issue is whether the
reasoning in a judgement of Justice Heron in the High Court defies logic and is, therefore, a logical fallacy. Maree
Howard writes.
SPECIAL ANTIQUARIAN NUMBER: Upton-on-line reflects on swearing fealty to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II as a member of
Her Majesty’s Privy Council .
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (AFIE) -- U.S. special forces troops ride horseback as they work with members of the Northern
Alliance in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 12, 2001. (DoD photo)
On 11 September there were two entire squadrons of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews. Their job was to protect the
skies over Washington D.C. They failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a terrorist attack in
progress, not a ...
New research has found that the eruption that formed modern-day Lake Taupo 27,000 years ago is the world's biggest
eruption in the last 75,000 years.
This morning I witnessed the 50-minute Taliban press conference held in Spin Boldack in Southern Afghanistan, broadcast
on BBC World. It was held for the sole purpose of telling Western journalists that the Taliban were going to continue
the fight ...
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite
television channel
Green co-leader Rod Donald said his first reaction was to laugh when he saw the likes of BP, Mobil, Shell, and British
American Tobacco in a list of New Zealand's 20 greenest companies.
Some media, including Scoop, is not convinced the explanations of the U.S. administration that American Airlines flight
587 out of JFK New York simply came apart and crashed over Long Island passes the smell test. Maree Howard writes.
Auckland will be one of over 100 cities around the world on December 2, 2001 to host the WalkForCapitalism - the first
annual Global Rally for Capitalism.
On Sunday, September 16th, Vice-President Richard Cheney was interviewed on NBC TV's 'MEET THE PRESS.' During that
interview he made the claim that the military needed authorization from President George W. Bush before scrambling
fighter jets to intercept ...
The world has plunge into recession for the first time in 20 years, says the OECD.
Alliance leader Jim Anderton will take a series of proposals to his caucus next week.
Green Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke said today our SAS troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan to stop New
Zealand being involved in an imminent massacre of troops in the northern city of Kunduz.
Even as the Berlin Wall was taken apart brick by brick, another institution was crumbling around the world: the enforced
socio-economic integration of different ethnicities within former Communist nations.
New Zealand’s most environmentally responsible companies were honoured last night at Parliament in the Unlimited-Massey
University Corporate Environmental Awards.
It is rare that I wax lyrical about a film. But the independently-produced documentary, An Evergreen Island, about
Bougainville, a South Pacific island which survived nine years with little assistance from the outside world has left a
big impression on ...
The world’s greatest, gutsiest and gruelling adventure race will take place in New Zealand over 28 days at the end of
this year.
In a rare moment of ideological weakness I find myself "at one" with the Green Party.
EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are
raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.
New Zealand has nearly 5000 unemployed artists, spread all around the country, according to figures released today by
ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman.
The Department of Conservation's decision to give final approval GRD Macraes' proposed Reefton hard rock gold mine is a
toxic legacy of the National Government.
The beards are coming off, and singing is heard again in Kabul. Although the war against terrorism is far from over, the
Taleban retreat makes it possible to believe the war in Afghanistan just might be reaching a conclusion, and that
civilisation ...
The day the World Trade Organisation (WTO) came into existence, on January 1, 1995, the Indian Express had carried a
pocket cartoon on its front page. It showed two people walking amidst high rise buildings with huge billboards for
popular multinational ...
Those of us who live in relative security and affluence need to be honest enough to apologise most sincerely for our
years of blindness to the plight of suffering peoples, the poor, and those who carry the heavy and tragic burden of
history, wars, ...
The West is fighting a war on the other side of the globe. To determine how soon we will extricate ourselves from that
regional tar pit, we need to consider how we got into it. Maree Howard writes.
A huge database of DNA from almost every New Zealander born since 1969 is being held in storage without the knowledge of
most donors and with no adequate control over its security and the use it can be put to, Green Party Health Spokesperson
Sue Kedgley ...