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CIA Pushes to Scrap Ban On Assassinations and Work with Human Rights Abusers

The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks have led to harsh Congressional criticism of alleged intelligencefailures by the FBI and CIA and calls for a rapid expansion of their budgets and powers. US intelligence officialshave responded by saying Congress should scrap legislation that prohibits the CIA from engaging in assassinations orusing human rights abusers as intelligence agents. These restrictions, they say, may have hindered their ability...
Sep 24, 2001 | Story
Religious Communities Mobilize for Peace

In the days since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, people of all faiths and even little faith haveflocked to churches, mosques and synagogues seeking comfort, prayer and a sense of meaning in the midst of suffering.Mainstream religious leaders around the country have organized interfaith prayer services proclaiming unity andpreaching tolerance, such as the one held yesterday at Yankee Stadium that was attended by 50,000 people....
Sep 24, 2001 | Story
British Prime Minister Tony Blair Visits the US and Pledges Assistance in Coming War:Interview with John Pilger

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in New York yesterday, visiting ground zero where the World Trade Center oncestood, and pledging British military assistance in what seems is an imminent US war against Afghanistan. Britain lostmore than three hundred of its citizens in the attacks last week. This as thousands of Afghanis flee their country interror and the UN warns of massive starvation if food and other aid is not brought in immediately.
Sep 21, 2001 | Story
As President Bush Warns of An Imminent Military Attack On Afghanistan, Families Who Lost Loved Ones in the World Trade Center Attacks Say "Not in My Name"

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers today refused to hand over Osama bin Laden and warned that U.S. attempts to apprehend him by force could plunge the whole region into crisis.
Sep 21, 2001 | Story
Organizing for Peace: New York Police Revoke Permit for Muslim Peace Vigil; a Round Robin Of Students Around the Country Who Are Mourning and Mobilizing

As President Bush leads the US and its allies into a war on terrorism and vows military retaliation, students across the country are reclaiming their historical role as advocates for peace. In a minute, we will hear from students around the country about their organizing and the emerging student anti-war movement.
Sep 21, 2001 | Story
Noam Chomsky On Terrorism in Practice and in Propaganda

The Bush Administration announced last night that the US will soon go to war against terrorism. The media haveendlessly pounded on the theme that the US must fight terrorism, attack and destroy terrorist networks, andpotentially go to war with nations that harbor or support terrorists.
Sep 21, 2001 | Story
The View From Yugoslavia On Terrorism, War and the U.S.

In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center last week the mass media went around the world to get international reaction, showing scenes of vigils, a handful full of anti-American demonstrations. The places they didn’t go were just as instructive, places like Iraq, Columbia, East Timor and Yugoslavia, the last country to be visited by a prolonged campaign of bombing by the US.
Sep 21, 2001 | Story
Bush Administration Presses for Authority to Detain Immigrants Indefinitely and Deport Themwithout Hearing

Since the brutal attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., thousands of people have expressed their grief andsympathy for the victims and their families with candles, flowers, pictures and notes of support around the city.
Sep 20, 2001 | Story
As the U.S. Sends Aircraft and Troops to the Middle East, An Interview with Ambassador Farhadi, Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the U.N.

Bush will address the nation tonight about the US military response to last week’s terrorist attacks. Analysts say the US response is likely to be a series of air strikes and relatively small-scale raids by special forces. The military deployments ordered today involved about two dozen bombers, tankers and support aircraft. In addition today,the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying battle group left Virginia and headed...
Sep 20, 2001 | Story
A High Ranking Palestinian Official Who Once Engaged in Hijacking Condemns the Attack On Newyork and Washington, Describes Israel's Crackdown On the Occupied Territories in the Aftermath

Repercussions of last week’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have been felt throughout the world,but particularly in the Middle East. In the Gaza Strip, where some 700,000 of the Palestinian residents live asrefugees, Palestinians say the military crackdown has intensified in the occupied territories.
Sep 20, 2001 | Story

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CIA Pushes to Scrap Ban On Assassinations and Work with Human Rights Abusers

Religious Communities Mobilize for Peace

British Prime Minister Tony Blair Visits the US and Pledges Assistance in Coming War:Interview with John Pilger

As President Bush Warns of An Imminent Military Attack On Afghanistan, Families Who Lost Loved Ones in the World Trade Center Attacks Say "Not in My Name"

Organizing for Peace: New York Police Revoke Permit for Muslim Peace Vigil; a Round Robin Of Students Around the Country Who Are Mourning and Mobilizing

Noam Chomsky On Terrorism in Practice and in Propaganda

The View From Yugoslavia On Terrorism, War and the U.S.

Bush Administration Presses for Authority to Detain Immigrants Indefinitely and Deport Themwithout Hearing

As the U.S. Sends Aircraft and Troops to the Middle East, An Interview with Ambassador Farhadi, Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the U.N.

A High Ranking Palestinian Official Who Once Engaged in Hijacking Condemns the Attack On Newyork and Washington, Describes Israel's Crackdown On the Occupied Territories in the Aftermath

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