Tuesday, October 29, 2002
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Iraq Journal: General Director of Iraq’s Oil Ministry: U.S. Will Send His Country Into Armageddon for Iraqi Oil Fields
If there is one place in Iraq where people know what the Bush administration has to gain by seizing the country’s oil wealth, it’s the Iraqi oil ministry.
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Russia Refuses to Identify the Narcotic Gas Which Killed 117 in Moscow; Meanwhile Scientists Say the U.S. Is Developing An Arsenal of Chemical and Biological Weapons in Violation of International Chem
Russia is ignoring international requests–including many from the US embassy in Moscow–to identify the gas, which left 117 hostages dead in a Moscow theater raid this weekend.
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Terrorism Against Cuba? Attorney Leonard Weinglass Calls for the Release of Five Cuban Men Who Tried to Investigate a Series of Terrorist Bombings in Cuba
For more than 40 years, Cuban right-wing groups based in Miami have engaged in numerous terrorist activities against Cuba. Also against Cuban-Americans and other people who advocate a normalization of relations between the two countries and an end to the blockade.
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Saying "No" to War: From Boston to Washington, D.C. to Madison, Wisconsin, We Hear From Howard Zinn, Medea Benjamin and Others
According to CNN, over 200,000 people protested US plans to invade Iraq at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC on Saturday.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]





