May 2003
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By on May 11, 2003
Passengers have been sucked out of a Russian-made plane over the Democratic Republic of Congo after a door opened accidentally during the flight, a military official has said
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on May 10, 2003
A sniper and a close-range gunman have shot two United States soldiers in separate incidents here. At least one other soldier was injured when an American vehicle hit an explosive device near the city’s airport – an area thought to have been cleared of landmines. US Central Command in Qatar said that a soldier from [...]
Posted in Iraq
By on May 10, 2003
THEY were supposed to provide freedom, independence, control and fun. But instead it seems that mobile phones have enslaved us. We are emotionally dependent on them for our identity and feelings of self-worth and incapable even of going to the shops without whipping them out at regular intervals to call family and friends for advice. [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on May 10, 2003
Everybody knows that old stereotype of librarians as meek bookworms, but now that image is being replaced by a new one of librarians as fighters for freedom
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on May 9, 2003
At the mall my wife and I passed a 30-foot-high banner suspended from the ceiling. It didn’t say “Obey.” Rather it displayed a 19-year-old girl wearing nothing but a bikini.
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on May 8, 2003
While the world’s attention has been focused on the recent war in Iraq Russia has resurrected military ties with the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on May 8, 2003
By Carel Moiseiwitsch, Gordon Murray and Drew Penland WE recently returned from the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where we volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Upon returning to Vancouver, we were shocked by the disconnection between our experience of Palestine and its portrayal in the Canadian media. During our stay [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on May 8, 2003
North Korea has at least 100 nuclear missiles aimed at the United States and will use them if new economic sanctions are imposed against it, a propagandist for the Stalinist state claimed Sunday
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on May 8, 2003
The war is not over; it has not even begun. Iraq has been betrayed from within, the regime having cut a deal with the invaders. The resistance now remains deferred
Posted in Iraq
By on May 8, 2003
A first hand report from occupied Iraq: revealing unexpected attitudes and tensions between Coalition forces and ordinary Iraqis
Posted in Iraq
By on May 8, 2003
Slovakian President Rudolph Schuster gets his marching orders with a friendly slap on the back from Bruce Jackson (right) at a Washington soiree. Christopher Bollyn on why Poland and the Vilnius ten supported the war with Iraq.
Posted in Political Intrigue
By on May 8, 2003
In the wake of the SARS crisis an all out assault has been launched against natural health products in Australia. The only beneficiaries will be the transnational pharmaceutical cartels who are using Australia as a testing ground for future strategies
Posted in Health
By on May 8, 2003
In a sudden turn around media magnet Ted Turner now says that too few people own too many media organisations
Posted in The Media
By on May 8, 2003
All governments are projections of elite economic power; all are instruments of a bizarre program to dehumanize and enslave us, writes Henry Makow P.hD.
Posted in The New World Order
By on May 4, 2003
“Your tax dollars at work. We’ve acquired actual footage of an attack on a stronghold in Afghanistan” AC-130 Gunship Footage filmed in Afghanistan [2003]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on May 4, 2003
Last Saturday a huge explosion at an arms dump in Baghdad left many dead, injured and homeless. Pentagon spokesmen claim that it was started after Iraqis fired a rocket propelled grenade at the storage facility. But was it? iraqwar.ru investigates
Posted in Iraq
By Christopher Bollyn on May 3, 2003
According to a retired CIA intelligence analyst: “Some of my colleagues are virtually certain that there will be some weapons of mass destruction found, even though they might have to be planted”
Posted in Iraq
By on May 2, 2003
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – It is one of the most famous images of the war in Iraq — a U.S. soldier scaling a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and draping the Stars and Stripes over the black metal visage of the ousted despot. But for Harper’s magazine publisher John MacArthur, that same image of U.S. [...]
Posted in The Media
By on May 2, 2003
Terrorism is the child of a borderless world and open borders are helping it spread, writes Joe Sansone. Just as they helping to increase the numbers of those infected with SARS
Posted in Miscellaneous
By Charley Reese on May 2, 2003
Embedding reporters — assigning journalists to specific military units — was a good idea — for the Pentagon, writes Charley Reese.
Posted in The Media