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November 2001 Archive
Friday, November 30, 2001
- Headlines for November 30, 2001
- The UN Says It Will Continue Economic Sanctions and the Bush Administration Warns Iraq Thatit Faces Attack Unless It Readmits UN Weapons Inspectors. A Talk with Former UN Weapons Inspectorscott Ritter
- The Sharon Files: Palestinians Sue Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for Genocide As Newdocuments Provide "Watertight Evidence" That Israel Directed Militias to Kill Hundreds of Refugees Inlebanon
- As UN Led Talks On Afghanistan’s Future Government Continue in Bonn, Germany, a Somaliwoman’s Activist Describes How Women Helped to Reconstruct Her Country
- UN Talks On Afghanistan’s Future Government Continue in Bonn, Germany
- Media in Wartime: Military Tribunals and Torture
- An Antiabortion Fugitive On the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List Says He Is Responsible Forhundreds of Anthrax Threats Sent to Abortion Clinics Last Month
Thursday, November 29, 2001
- Headlines for November 29, 2001
- Thousands of Detainees and Held in Secret Have Little Or No Connection to Terrorism: Aroundtable Discussion On the Cases of Detainees and Their Treatment in Prison
- As U.S. and British Bombing Raids Intensify and Cold and Drought Worsen Conditions In Afghanistan, Thousands of Afghan Refugees Are Forced to Refugee Camps at the Pakistan Border
- After the Pentagon Awards Lockheed Martin a $200 Billion Dollar Deal to Build Thecontroversial Joint Strike Fighter, Rival Aerospace Giant Boeing Seeks Sweetheart Deals Ascompensation
- From the Margins Erased: When the Towers Fell, Homeless People Disappeared; Their Friends Are Still Searching
- Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Frances Fitzgerald Speaks On the History and Fantasy Ofnational Missile Defense
Wednesday, November 28, 2001
- Headlines for November 28, 2001
- Workers for World’s Largest Natural Gas Company Sue for Retirement Savings
- Afghan Factions Meet in Bonn to Discuss Reconstructing the Afghan Government; But Are The Voices of Women Being Heard?
- The Bush Administration Tells Pesticide Companies It’s Okay to Pay People to Swallow Toxicpesticide Cocktails to Test Their Products
- Here and There: Reflections of a Palestinian Diaspora in a Post-September 11th World
- Hindus and Other Bangladeshi Minorities Fear a So-Called "Talibanization" of Their Countrywith the Spread of Islamic Fundamentalism
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
- Headlines for November 27, 2001
- Democrats Hold Hearings On Military Tribunals for Suspected Terrorists, Which Authorize Unusual Shortcuts and Keep Secret Evidence From Defendents... And Some Say, Will Authorize Torturing Suspects
- With the Help of Multinational Tobacco Corporations, the US Undermines Another World Conference: The Global Tobacco Talks
- Spain Refuses to Extradite September 11 Suspects to the US for a Secret Military Tribunal
- As the Mainstream Media Cheers the Talks in Germany On the Future of Government of Afghanistan, Human Rights Activist Medea Benjamin Leads a Delegation Into Afghanistan to Find Out What Women Want
- Should the Government Be Allowed to Force Patients to Be Vaccinated, Take Over Hospitals and Seize Drug Supplies? As State Legislatures Consider Legislation, a Debate
Monday, November 26, 2001
- Headlines for November 26, 2001
- Hundreds of Prisoners of War Are Killed As U.S. Jets Launch Air Strikes to Bomb An Apparent Prison Uprising; More Than a Thousand U.S. Troops Are Deployed Into Southern Afghanistan
- Ins Arrests a Palestinian Teacher in Florida for Supposed Involvement with Terroristorganizations
- Family Members of September 11 Victims March From Pentagon to New York City to Call for Peace
- A Professor Is Criticized for Saying the U.S. Should Bring Bin Laden Before An International Tribunal Instead of Bombing Afghanistan: A Debate On the Role of the University in Wartime
- Federal Authorities Ransack a Somali Grocery Store in Seattle; Somalis and Anti-Globalization Activists Join Forces in Protest
- Japan Sends Warships to Support U.S. War in Afghanistan
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
- Headlines for November 20, 2001
- Israel Sends Tanks and Bulldozers to Destroy Palestinian Homes and Says It Will Expandsettlements in the West Bank, As Secretary of State Colin Powell Gives a Major Speech On U.S. Policytoward Israel
- As the Group of 20 Countries Unanimously Adopts An Action Plan Aimed at Cutting Off So-Called Terrorists’ Financing Networks, Nigerian Environmental Activist Oronto Douglas Asks, What Is the Price Dev
- As Uzbekistan Prevents Humanitarian Aid From Reaching Millions of Starving Afghans, Another Look at Washington’s New Ally
- An Hour with Scholar, Activist and Theologian Cornel West
Monday, November 19, 2001
- Headlines for November 19, 2001
- Ten Thousand Demand the Closing of the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Fort Benning,Georgia, Saying the Main Threat of Terror Comes From Military Officers Trained at the School
- Filipino Activists Say "U.S. Out of the Philippines!" As the Philippine President Meets Withbush This Week
- Indigenous People Seeking to Reclaim Their Land Are Murdered in the Philippines ­ a New U.S.Ally in the "War On Terrorism"
- Pacifica Board Says It Will Resign, Begin Process of Democratizing the Pacifica Network
- The U.S., Islam, and Terrorism
- War Is On the Global Agenda: Globalization and Resistance
- Pacifica Board Says It Will Resign, Begin Process of Democratizing the Pacifica Network
Friday, November 16, 2001
- Headlines for November 16, 2001
- Landmines and Unexploded Bombs Litter Afghanistan
- Are US Weapons Releasing Depleted Uranium Into Afghanistan?
- World Politics After the War in Afghanistan: U.S. Allies Part 1: The Philippines
- Multinational Banks Fight Tougher Money Laundering Laws, Putting Profits Over Fightingterrorist Financing and Money Launderers
- From the WTO to the G20: From Qatar to Ottawa: The Fight Against Corporate Globalization
- Energy Giant Enron Is Bought Out By Smaller Rival Dynegy in a $9 Billion Deal, Merging Theworld’s Largest Energy Trader and Bush Ally Into An Even Larger Corporation
Thursday, November 15, 2001
- Headlines for November 15, 2001
- Humanitarian Organizations Face Looting and Killing As They Try to Deliver Aid to the Poorest People of Afghanistan
- U.N Security Council Votes Unanimously for a Resolution Encouraging Member States Toparticipate in a Peace-Keeping Force
- The Putin-Bush Summit in Texas: Why Would Putin Agree to Scrap the Abm Treaty? Could It Because the US May Offer to Let Russia Build Part of Its Missile Defense System?
- As the Dominican Community Mourns Losses From Crash of American Airlines Flight 587 Inqueens, Many Family Members of Undocumented Immigrants Are Afraid to Claim Their Dead Or Leave Thecountry to Bury
- As Anti-Terrorism Legislation and Fear of Dissent Sweep the Country, How Can the Activist Left Organize Against Racial Profiling and Against the War?
- In a Time of Crackdown On Immigrant, Arab, and South Asian Communities in the US, Actor Peter Coyote Talks to US About Knowing Our Rights
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
- Headlines for November 14, 2001
- Shooting the Messenger: U.S. Missiles Destroy the Kabul Office of Al Jazeera, the "CNN of the Arab World" ­ After the Northern Alliance Began to Take the City
- "Short On Patriotism"? Lynne Cheney and Sen. Lieberman’s Organization Targets University Students and Professors for Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy
- After a Long Night of Negotiations, the World Trade Organization Talks in Qatar Almost Fallthrough, But Activists Outmaneuver Drug Makers
- Secret U.S. Military Tribunal to Try Non-Citizens; the Justice Department Asks Law Enforcement Agencies to Pick Up 5,000 Legal Immigrants From the Middle East for Questioning It Calls Voluntary
- Thousands of Germans Protest Nuclear Waste Shipments From France
- As U.N. Prepares to Send "Peace-Keeping" Forces, Women Protest the War in Columbus, Ohio
- Ralph Nader Speaks to Thousands–Part II
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
- Headlines for November 13, 2001
- As the Northern Alliance Takes Kabul, Reports Emerge That They Have Already Massacredhundreds of Pakistanis in Mazar-I-Sharif
- Northern Alliance Defies the U.S. and Takes Kabul; the Last Time They Took the Capital 50,000 Civilians Died
- Why Won’t News Organizations Just Say It? First They Delay the News, Then They Bury It: Gorewon
- A Plane Crashes in Queens, New York, Killing 260 People On Board and at Least 6 More On Theground. It’s Hard for a Shaky Country to Believe, But the Crash Appears to Be An Accident
- Former Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Rouses Thousands at a "Democracyrising" Rally in Boston
Monday, November 12, 2001
- Headlines for November 12, 2001
- Abortion Clinics in the Midwest and Northeast Receive More Than 200 Anthrax Threats
- At the WTO Meeting in Qatar Poor Countries Demand That the US Put Human Rights Over Thepatent Rights of Drug Companies, As Thousands Protest Around the World
- Double Standards at Ground Zero: How the U.S. Responds to Terrorism in New York and East Timor
- East Timorese Recall Santa Cruz Massacre Ten Years Ago That Marked Turning Point Inresistance to Indonesian Occupation
- Labor Activists Describe the Changed Landscape for Workers Since September 11
Friday, November 09, 2001
- Headlines for November 09, 2001
- Thousands Gather Around the World in the Streets and in Conference Rooms to Protest the Wtomeeting in Qatar
- Police Shoot and Kill a University Student in Colombia During a Protest Against the U.S. War in Afghanistan; WTO Protest, Cont’d
Thursday, November 08, 2001
- Headlines for November 08, 2001
- The Erosion of Democracy: How the Political Right Will Benefit From the Events of 9/11
- Republican Multibillionaire Media Mogul Michael Bloomberg Takes New York Mayoral Race
- Israel’s Knesset Votes to Revoke Immunity From Popular Palestinian Member of Parliament Azmibishara—He Can Now Be Prosecuted for Publicly Supporting Palestinian Right to Resist Occupation
- As Congress Debates Legislation On Airport Security, Workers and Community Groups Say Realsecurity Means Higher Wages and More Rights for Airport Employees
- Beyond the Borqua in Afghanistan: A Discussion with the Filmmaker
- 60s in An Unforgiving National Climate, Radical Turned Community Activist Sara Jane Olsonpleads Guilty to Charges That She Planted a Bomb Decades Ago But Also Claims She Is Not Guilty
Wednesday, November 07, 2001
- Headlines for November 07, 2001
- Washington Says It Can’t Find Osama, But It Is Communicating with Him: The U.S. Will Attend the WTO Meeting in Qatar After Receiving Assurance From Bin Laden That It’s Safe
- Anti-War and Globalization Activists Try and Reshape Debate Over What Constitutes Security As Elites Call Free Trade a Weapon in the So-Called War On Terrorism
- Roundtable: Should Activists Be Organizing Against the War On Afghanistan?
- Firefighters Protest the City’s Decision to Reduce Their Access to Ground Zero, Saying Themayor Is More Concerned About Removing Gold and Silver From the Rubble Than the Remains of Theirfallen Comrade
- Maine Voters Say State Should Provide Universal Health Care, Despite Being Outspent Onnon-Binding Resolution By 25-1
- Maine Voters Say State Should Provide Universal Health Care, Despite Being Outspent Onnon-Binding Resolution By 25-1
Tuesday, November 06, 2001
- Headlines for November 06, 2001
- A Deliberate Strategy of Disruption: Secrecy and Confusion Surround the U.S. Government’sroundup of More Than 1,000 Potential Terror Suspects
- Reports From the War Zone: What We Won’t Hear From CNN Reporters in Afghanistan
- Iranian Filmmaker Faces Execution
- Violent Crime Rising Sharply Since September 11th Attacks
- Police Raid Homes of Turkish Hunger Strikers with Armored Personnel Carriers, Guns, Tear Gas; Four Dead, at Least a Dozen Wounded
- Gay Human Rights Groups Condemn Anti-Gay Scrawls On a Bomb About to Be Dropped On The Taliban- But What About Dropping the Bomb?
- Russia Says It Will Allow the US to Use Bases in Tajikistan and May Back Down On Missile defense–We’ll Look at the Evolving U.S.-Russian Relationship Since September 11th and What It Means
Monday, November 05, 2001
- Headlines for November 05, 2001
- Nicaraguan Presidential Candidate Tries to Link Sandinista Party Opponent to Terrorism Inelections
- Green Party Member Stopped at Airport in Maine, Barred From Flying
- FBI Detains More Than One Thousand Immigrants, Muslims, and People of Middle Eastern Descentin Largest Dragnet Since Wwii
- President Bush Calls for Enforcement of Bio Weapons Treaty for Individuals, Rejects It Forstates
- US Isolates Itself From World at Climate Talks
- South African Poet and Activist Dennis Brutus Discusses Racism and Global Trade in the Newlight of Terrorism
Friday, November 02, 2001
- Headlines for November 02, 2001
- House Republicans Pass Their Version of Aviation Security
- From Anthrax to AIDS Drugs: AIDS Activists Protest US Trade Representative Robert Zoellickfor Championing Drug Company Patent Abuse
- As the U.S. Carpet Bombs Afghanistan, Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan and Pakistan Deepens
- 60s Radical Turned Community Activist Sara Jane Olson Pleads Guilty to Charges That Sheplanted a Bomb Decades Ago, But Says She Is Innocent and Afraid of Being Tried in This Climate in Thewake of the
- Saudi Oil, U.S. Troops, and the Murky Relationship Between the Saudi Royal Family, the Bin Laden Family, and the Bush Family
- George Bush Senior Furthers the Business Interests of a Lucrative $12 Billion Private Equityfirm with Connections to the Bin Laden Family
Thursday, November 01, 2001
- Headlines for November 01, 2001
- As US Carpet Bombs Afghanistan and the Media White-Out of Alternatives to War Continues, an Hour with the "Father of Peace Studies," Johan Galtung
- As U.S. Carpet Bombs Afghanistan and Civilian Deaths Climb, a Debate: Is It Possible for The U.S. to Wage a Just War?
- A Woman in Britain Seeking Reconciliation with the Ira Activist Who Killed Her Father, Amember of Parliament, in a Bomb Blast Seventeen Years Ago
- As Pakistani and Afghan Refugees Flee the US-Led Attacks, a Boat Carrying Refugees Along Theaustralian Smuggling Route Sinks, Killing Hundreds
