The Independent (UK)
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18 July 2004
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By

Sophie Goodchild and Andrew Johnson

Satellite technology will be used to track 5,000 career criminals who are
responsible for one in every 10 crimes in Britain, the Home Secretary David
Blunkett will announce tomorrow.

The radical new technology, which has been developed in the US, will enable
law enforcement officers to pinpoint the exact location of criminals who
have been released early from prison and fitted with electronic tags.

Vancouver Sun ; July 16, 2004
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By Scott Simpson

The B.C. New Democrats want to shed their confrontational past and form an
unprecedented partnership with the province's business community, leader
Carole James said Thursday in an address to some of her party's toughest
critics.

Inter Press Service ; July 2, 2004

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Sanjay Suri

Evidence offered by a top CIA man could confirm the testimony given by
Saddam Hussein at the opening of his trial in Baghdad Thursday that he knew
of the Halabja massacre only from the newspapers.

Forward ; July 16, 2004
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By Eric J. Greenberg

In an unprecedented victory for pro-Palestinian activists, leaders of the
largest Presbyterian denomination officially equated the Jewish state with
apartheid South Africa and have voted to stop investing in Israel.

The Guardian ; August 14, 2003

Iraq was not the first illegal US-led attack on a sovereign state in recent
times. The precedent was set in 1999 in Yugoslavia writes Kate Hudson

Did Vancouver police fail to save Roman Andreichikov's life? Or did they have a hand in killing him? The mystery may centre on a factor called 'excited delirium'.

1. OPP OFFICER ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING

demoted for smashing unmarked swine car...

2. TRANSEXUAL COP SEVERELY HARRASSED ON JOB

toronto pigs can't control their homophobia...

3. PART OF ANARCHIST OWNED CAFE DESTROYS SWINE CAR!!

flash flood hammers peterborough ontario...

4. PRO-PIG COLLABORATOR STILL TRYING TO CONTROL KANEHSATAKE

jimmy gabriel attempts to set up shop in Oka...

"Yes, World War II had a strong moral aspect to it--the defeat of fascism, (but) I deeply resent the way the so-called good war has been used to cast its glow over all the immoral wars we (the U.S.) have fought in the past fifty years: in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan. I certainly don't want our government to use the triumphal excitement surrounding World War II to cover up the horrors now taking place in Iraq."

Like the rest of Latin America over the last 15 years, Bolivia has been subjected to neo-liberal policies designed to fail the poor and benefit the rich. Hypocrisy at the imperial centre and in the neo-colonial periphery about poverty reduction in Latin America has never been clearer or more obnoxious.  In Bolivia, the US marionettes are now openly criminalizing legitimate protest in order to cover up popular rejection of their policies.

Escort Brigade

by Steve Ammidown; July 16, 2004

Steve Ammidown is a 29 year old office worker for a publicly traded company just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (who is) getting active because (he's) tired of being fed up.

I was at "the (pro-choice) March" on April 25th, 2004. On that particularly warm spring day, I remember yelling a lot, holding signs and how sore my feet were by the end.  But the thing that will stay with me always is that feeling- the feeling of being at a complete loss for words when I realized how many people were there. The feeling that, my god, maybe we young'uns weren't as apathetic as we had been so persistently painted. For a couple of hours that day, slogans were the only words that flowed easily out of my mouth. I just didn't have the vocabulary to express how I felt.

As a guy, it's hard sometimes to have an opinion on women's health issues. I've never had an abortion, I have never had my insurance company decide to bill me more to see my gynecologist because he or she is considered a "specialist". I have never had to choose between birth control and food. All I could do was empathize, shake my head and donate what I could afford to organizations like Planned Parenthood. Anything else, I felt, would be viewed with suspicion or maybe even anger.

Posted by-Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha

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by Gerald Kaufman ;
Monday July 12, 2004 ;
The Guardian

The bomb attack in Tel Aviv yesterday highlights the desperate need to achieve a peace settlement. It highlights, too, the futility of the wall Israel is building in Palestinian land, a wall condemned by the international court of justice last Friday and whose route was condemned by Israel's supreme court last month.

PRINCE GEORGE - Some people from the Seton Lake First Nation say their temporary rail blockade Thursday was only the beginning of their fight for justice. It came one day after the $1 billion sale of B.C. Rail to Canadian National was finalized.

Members of the Seton Lake Indian Band stopped one freight train south of Lillooet before lifting their blockade.

by Robert Fisk; UK Independent; July 14, 2004  

The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today's Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi teachers of books.

Since the Anglo-American invasion, they have murdered at least 13 academics at the University of Baghdad alone and countless others across Iraq. History professors, deans of college and Arabic tutors have all fallen victim to the war on learning. Only six weeks ago - virtually unreported, of course - the female dean of the college of law in Mosul was beheaded in her bed, along with her husband.

The following article, by U.S. Labour Journalist & Anti-War activist David Bacon, is an inspiring example of what working people have historically achieved through democratic organization and militant action.  As Bacon explains:

"The general strike and the creation of the ILWU (International Longshore & Wharehouse Worker's Union) had a ripple effect. Other workers saw dockers win a hiring hall, freeing them from the humiliating shapeup, when workers had to beg a job from a gang boss every morning. The workforce was integrated. Today Black, Latino and Asian workers are the majority in big ports like San Francisco and Los Angeles, and women drive huge container cranes. People called bums and derelicts in the 20s and 30s had some of the best-paying, most secure jobs in industrial America by the 50s and 60s. As a result, a wave of union organizing spread inland from the ports, a social movement inspiring everyone from department store clerks to farm laborers."

A Kahnawake man living in Kanehsatake was brutally assaulted by members of the Kanesatake Mohawk Police. The incident occurred on the evening of Thursday, July 1 in the town of St. Eustache. Shawn Hurley, along with his girlfriend Kim Gabriel and their two daughters, 8 and 11, were on their way to St. Hubert Barbecue in St. Eustache.