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Today's update focuses on two remarkable women from the US state of Washington. Rachel Corrie from Olympia writes an
update on the Gaza Strip's hottest hot spot, while Susan Barclay writes a note of thanks to her supporters (yet still we
wonder, is ...
I was in the centre of Nablus yesterday, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when a youth was shot and killed by the IOF.
He is SAMER ZORBHA, aged 18, a student at the High School in Nablus.
In Rafah, Gaza Strip today Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American woman from Olympia, Washington, who was a volunteer
with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by the Israeli Army. Rachel was standing in the path of the
bulldozer as it advanced ...
Scoop Editor’s Note: Rachel Corrie was murdered by the Israel Defence Force in Gaza this weekend. She was protesting
against the bulldozing of Palestinian homes. Rachel had a loud-hailer and was clearly visible. The soldier bulldozed her
into the ground. ...
At about 5.20 pm today Rachel Corrie from Olympia in Washington State, USA died of her injuries in A-Najar Hospital in
Rafah after being deliberately run over by an Israeli military bulldozer.
I swear we’re living with Alice in Wonderland. Up is down, down is up; black and white have eerily evolved into each
other and Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix believes what he cannot see yet doubts what he cannot deny.
This whole USA-Iraq War crisis boils down to two things: either you support a mass killing of children option, or you
subscribe to an ongoing course of diplomatic resolution. It is your personal choice. Here, courtesy of UNICEF, Scoop
presents a Photo-Essay ...
Since last night I have received dozens of requests for an address to which people can send condolences to Rachel's
family. I apologise for the delay but I was reluctant to disturb her parents with this request until they had time to
come to terms with ...
SECRETARY POWELL: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, last fall, in an act of unanimity the Security
Council came together following President Bush's historic speech to the United Nations on the 12th of September and on
the 8th of ...
Dear George W. Bush, Congratulations! With your decision to bomb and invade Iraq, you are about to make yourself both an
enemy of the state and an international war-criminal.
NY Jews Condemn Killing Of American Peace Activist - Funeral Rally At 4 P.M. Today, Clinton And Schumer Offices
In a stunning development, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein today offered to attack himself in exchange for $30 billion
from the U.S. government.
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the
Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by
joining in demonstrations ...
It took twenty-seven years from the time of the U.N. partition decision creating Israel in November 1947 before the
Palestinians could return to the U.N. and be granted a full hearing. Make no mistake, the Palestinian "question" remains
at the root of ...
The actual tactical situation, never terribly auspicious because of the Kurdish wild card that receives far too little
attention, has deteriorated for the US. The denial of a ground front from both Saudi Arabia and Turkey has completely
reshuffled the ...
We now face a daunting task. An unpleasant and possibly fatal realization now confronts all of us in our daily lives.
Many of our most powerful leaders need to be arrested for numerous and continuing crimes against humanity.
Families with financial means have started to crowd buses leaving Baghdad for the outlying villages, towns, and cities
within Iraq, and for Syria, Jordan and Iran.
The British ambassador to the UN is circulating six tests by which Iraqi compliance would be measured, Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw has said.
President George W. Bush and his foreign-policy team have systematically and knowingly deceived the American people in
order to gain support for an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, former U.S. government military analyst who released the "Pentagon Papers," conducted by
Scott Harris
When United Nations inspectors left Iraq in 1998 , they did so because Saddam's regime was not co-operating on access to
certain sites, including presidential palaces, and because of the fear of consequent US and British airstrikes.
Even before the first bomb falls on Iraq Australia looks set to benefit from joining the "coalition of the willing" as
American trade negotiators gather in Canberra today for talks over the most significant trade deal in Australia's
history. Maree Howard ...
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: In light of her statements regarding an invasion of Iraq, “I think it’s a
very bad precedent to go in without explicit sanction from the UN”, and that she believed some of New Zealand’s “best
friends” were wrong, ...
The Foreign Office has revised its travel advice for Kuwait to advise British nationals to leave urgently and to advise
against all travel to Kuwait. It says there is a risk of an attack from Iraq in the event of hostilities. This might
involve chemical ...
THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade,
the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war.
That regime ...
Despite what the anti-war lobby in New Zealand and around the world think or say, the United States and Britain have
already made their decision to go to war with Iraq.
I am a public health physician. In January I participated in a ten-day emergency mission to Iraq, sponsored by the
Brooklyn-based Center for Economic and Social Rights. Our task was to assess the potential consequences to Iraqi
civilians of a war on ...
"What if this present were the world’s last night?" wondered John Donne. No one suggests that the world is on the cusp
of an Armageddon. But a local war is probable as the US and UK cannot keep their forces on the alert indefinitely. But
...
If you have children, and you've been searching desperately for a way to explain the twisted logic of contemporary U.S.
politics to them, you should document the process when they begin therapy, any notes you might have will come in handy.
MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon. Let me give you a report on how the President spent his day.