[Media-watch] Globalecho on Iraq, Arafat and Haiti

Fri Nov 12 10:10:21 GMT 2004

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Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal by: John Pilger
Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign "insurgents". In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2156

A Distant Mirror of Holy War by: Norman Solomon
On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New York Times front page Nov. 10 was simply matter-of-fact: "In Taking Fallujah Mosque, Victory by the Inch." Yet it’s not mere happenstance that American forces have bombed many of Fallujah's mosques.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2161

We seize servers, you can't complain - US gov by: John Lettice
The US Government is attempting to block efforts to find out who seized Indymedia's servers in London last month. The Government has filed a motion in San Antonio District Court opposing the Electronic Frontier Foundation's motion to unseal the court order which resulted in the seizures, and arguing among other things that unsealing would "seriously jeopardize" an "ongoing criminal terrorism investigation".
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2150

Blaming Arafat for Israel's torpedoing of Oslo by: Nigel Parry
With Arafat gone, the television screens of America are filled with "Middle East experts" who tell us that it was Arafat who was the obstacle to peace and that a new dawn is now upon us.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2159

Australian soldiers fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians by: Terry Cook
After an initial airing, all mention of the shooting and possible killing of an Iraqi civilian by Australian troops late last week has disappeared from the pages of the Australian media. The incident occurred on the evening of November 5 when a “security detachment” of the Australian Defense Force (ADF) on a routine foot patrol near the Australian Embassy in Baghdad fired on a car containing two Iraqi men.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2165

Amnesty condemns Haiti's human rights failures by:  www.haitisupport.gn.apc.org 
Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday condemned what it said were summary executions by police, serious human rights abuses and an alarming number of illegal detentions in Haiti.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2179

After Arafat by: Ewen MacAskill
There is little to suggest Sharon will seize this chance
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2175

Our own Palestinian De Gaulle by: Afif Safieh
There is now a chance for peace - but not because of Arafat's death
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2173

A thousand Fallujahs by: Pepe Escobar
"The bombs being dropped on Fallujah don't contain explosives, depleted uranium or anything harmful - they contain laughing gas - that would, of course, explain [Pentagon chief Donald] Rumsfeld's misplaced optimism about not killing civilians in Fallujah ...
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2171

HOLY WAR, BATMAN by: www.schnews.org.uk
“The redeployment of British forces in Iraq to support a US assault on Falluja marks another stage in a creeping return to the colonial era, when popular revolts against occupation were routinely suppressed by overwhelming force.” - Mark Curtis, historian
“The assault on Fallujah has started. It is being sold as liberation of the people of Fallujah; it is being sold as a necessary step to implementing ‘democracy’ in Iraq. These are lies.” - Rahul Mahajan, author and journalist
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2162

Prayers for Vengeance by: Dahr Jamail
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2167

The Leader Who Offered Nationhood to Refugees by: Julio Godoy (IPS)
The death of Yasser Arafat marks the end of an era. He spent his life struggling to find nationhood for Palestinians, one way or another. Will Palestinians find what he never could live to see?
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2178

Four Times Fallujah Equals? by: Mark LeVine
As American forces penetrate ever deeper and more destructively into the city of Fallujah, each of the major players in this violent drama is engaged in a complex, constantly shifting calculus involving ways of turning events to their advantage.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2169

Arafat's Passing Poses Major Test for Bush II by: Jim Lobe (IPS)
The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will test whether U.S. President George W Bush intends to maintain his staunch support for Israel's right-wing government at the risk of further alienating the U.S.' European allies and Muslim public opinion.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2176

Democrats ready to confirm defender of torture as new US attorney general by: Joseph Kay
President George Bush announced Wednesday his nomination of current White House Legal Counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft, who submitted his resignation on Tuesday. The nomination of Gonzales confirms that the Bush administration is preparing to escalate its attacks on democratic rights and its defiance of international law.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2166

Yasser Arafat: 1929-2004 by: Chris Marsden and Barry Grey
Yasser Arafat will be remembered as a man of tremendous personal courage and unswerving loyalty to the cause of Palestinian liberation. Millions throughout the world will dismiss with contempt the slanders heaped on Arafat, the international symbol of Palestinian resistance for nearly four decades, by the likes of Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush, war criminals both, who have the temerity to call Arafat a terrorist.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2164

Death and Democracy by: Pieter J. Friedrich
With the purpose of "liberating" that city so January elections can be held there, the U.S. military began the third invasion of Fallujah on Monday. With the invasion now underway, it would be wise to stop and consider the fruits borne by U.S. "liberation" efforts.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2168

Bush's risky gamble at Fallujah by: Patrick Seale
"There is not a single surgeon in Fallujah. We had one ambulance hit by U.S. fire and a doctor wounded. There are scores of wounded civilians in their homes whom we can't move. A 13-year-old child just died in my hands."
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2170

U.N. Report Slams Use of Torture to Beat Terror by: Thalif Deen (IPS)
No country can justify torture, the humiliation of prisoners or violation of international conventions in the guise of fighting terrorism, says a U.N. report released here.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2177

Arafat's Inconvenient Death by: Matthew Rothschild
Yasser Arafat is dead. - How inconvenient for Bush and Sharon.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2160

'We’re Committing Genocide in Iraq' by: Jeff Riedel
Former Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey, a 12-year Marine veteran, lives in Waynesville, North Carolina, a small town in the Smoky Mountains just outside of Ashville, where he spoke to the World Socialist Web Site. He is one of a growing number of American soldiers returning from Iraq who have become outspoken opponents of the war.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2163

Arafat and Vanunu: Two Prisoners of War by: Justin Raimondo
Israel's move against Mordechai Vanunu, the man who exposed their nuclear secrets, couldn't have been timed better
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2158

Palestine Greater Than Arafat by: Sam Bahour
The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger than the late President Yasser Arafat. The decades-long symbolism that Arafat embodied should not be underestimated. It is this symbolism that Palestinians are mourning.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2155

Yasser Arafat, 1929-2004 by: electronicintifada.net
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2145

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