November 2003
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By Robert Fisk on November 13, 2003
Almost unreported, the Riyadh Government’s own “war on terror” is now provoking bombings, gun battles and killings almost every day in the kingdom
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on November 13, 2003
According to one of the king pins of modern slavery: “You can buy a woman for $10,000 and you can make your money back in a week if she is pretty and she is young. Then everything else is profit.”
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on November 13, 2003
Hostility thrives in a place like Ar Ramadi. It’s a guerrilla’s paradise of deserted factories, twisted alleyways and overgrown vacant lots on the banks of the Euphrates. When the Guardsmen first arrived, they gave it the name the name RPG Alley
Posted in Iraq
By on November 12, 2003
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour says the US media allowed themselves to be ‘intimidated’ into following the US official line in Iraq. But others disagree, according to one journalist ‘the American mass media put itself at the service of the state’
Posted in The Media
By on November 12, 2003
A new treatment is reverting to the ancient way of the shaman, to help fight a modern malaise
Posted in Health
By on November 11, 2003
A series of shocking pictures revealing US soldiers tying up Iraqi women and children in their own home has provoked international outrage
Posted in Iraq
By on November 11, 2003
The claim that Jessica Lynch was raped, has been disputed by the Doctors who treated her. “Why are they saying such things?” Dr. Khodheir al-Hazbar said. “We were good to her.”
Posted in Behind The "News"
By Charley Reese on November 10, 2003
Charley Reese reflects on the growing mess in Iraq, and exactly how President Bush handling it
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on November 10, 2003
Archaeologists are being forced to revise their views of the ancient past. As sensational new discoveries are made around the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, high in the Andes
Posted in The Ancient Past
By on November 10, 2003
For the first time since her rescue, Jessica Lynch has spoken publicly of her ordeal. But what she says is distinctly at odds with military spokesmen
Posted in Iraq
By on November 9, 2003
History tends to get rewritten by the victors in war and it’s already happening in Iraq. Where, later this month revised history books will be introduced into Iraq’s school curriculum
Posted in Iraq
By on November 8, 2003
Sitting in his shop drinking a 7Up he has bought, it is difficult to grasp the depth of his anger. Despite his Masters degree in computer science, Ithir wants the Ayotolah to declare Jihad, so he can go and kill American soldiers.
Posted in Iraq
By on November 8, 2003
For every soldier killed in battle, many more are injured. The number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq is mounting daily, and for some the battle only really begins when the shooting is over
Posted in Iraq
By on November 8, 2003
Mystery behind Aug. 28 incident puzzles Army officials
Posted in Iraq
By on November 8, 2003
Another peace activist has been shot by Israeli troops. Fortunately Ulrika Anderson was hit by a rubber bullet, unlike Rachel Corrie and Thomas Hurndall, but it reinforces suspicions that Israeli troops are deliberately targeting peace activists
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on November 7, 2003
A 27-year veteran of the CIA, who regularly briefed George H. W. Bush as vice president and, earlier, worked with him closely when he was director of CIA, looks at the growing parallels between Iraq and Vietnam
Posted in Iraq
By Charley Reese on November 7, 2003
Charley Reese examines the latest statement from Osama bin Laden, one that is addressed directly to the American people
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on November 7, 2003
The corporate-media is distancing itself from the war it wanted all along. Burning it’s U.S. and U.K. lapdog-governments along the way – with headlines that scream about the injustice of this ill-conceived, criminal war
Posted in The Media
By Uri Avnery on November 7, 2003
Now we are back in the ghetto. Again we are poor, fearful Jews. Even when we are in uniform. Even when we are armed to the teeth. Even when we have tanks, airplanes, missiles and the nuclear option.
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on November 7, 2003
In response to former butler Paul Burrell’s revelations last week, Prince William and Harry have issued an unprecedented statement. But it prompts even more questions
Posted in Princess Diana. What Really Happened?