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ProletarianNews | 1 Nov 2002 02:15

Greece: Anti-war demo

AP. 31 October 2002. Anti-war protesters march to U.S. Embassy in
Athens.

ATHENS -- Thousands of protesters opposing a possible U.S. attack on
Iraq marched to the U.S. Embassy on Thursday, chanting anti-American
slogans and burning flags.

Police used tear gas to disperse a small group of stone-throwing
demonstrators among the more than 8,000 marchers.

The youths later set fire to a parked car and damaged three other
vehicles, police said.

Other protesters burned American and European Union flags and joined in
chants against President Bush.

"Terrorist Bush, hands off Iraq," the marchers cried before leaving
peacefully.

Thursday's protest was backed by Greece's two largest labor unions.

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ProletarianNews | 1 Nov 2002 04:18

Sison: NDF 'will not be bullied'

AFP. 1 November 2002. Communist leader protests terrorist tag by
European Union.

MANILA -- Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) chief Jose Maria
Sison on Friday protested the European Union's (EU) listing of his group
as a terrorist organization not welcome in EU member states.

Sison said the move to place the CPP, its armed wing the New People's
Army (NPA) and its political National Democratic Front (NDF), was a
conspiracy between the US government, Manila and EU member states.

"These governments are lapdogs of the United States, the superpower,"
Sison said on local radio from his political base in the Netherlands.

The US was the first country to tag the CPP-NPA as a terrorist
organization in August as part of its global campaign against terrorism.

Sison alleged that the move was backed by the Philippines to force the
communist insurgents to "capitulate," lay down their arms and agree to
end their 33-year insurgency.

"It is very clear that this is what the US and Manila government want to
happen, but the NDF will not be bullied by fear and the revolutionary
forces will instead continue the armed struggle," Sison said.

European countries have not become "inhospitable" to communist leaders,
Sison said, but said the NDF will go the courts to be removed from the
listing.

Foreign Secretary Blas Ople announced Thursday that the EU Council of
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ProletarianNews | 1 Nov 2002 05:45

Canada marches against FTAA

CP (with additional material by AP). 31 October 2002. Thousands of
students protest freer trade.

QUEBEC and MONTREAL -- Thousands of students from across Quebec
protested Thursday against freer trade in the Americas, saying it
threatens affordable education in Canada.

Large crowds marched through downtown streets waving placards that
denounced the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.

Many students said they're worried about a section of the trade deal
that could allow foreign corporations to sue governments to get public
funds for private universities.

An organization representing students, The University of Montreal's
student federation, said the deal will force public universities to
charge tuition fees that most Canadian students can't afford.

As police stood watch nearby, about 1,000 students gathered at McGill
University and then marched off campus to meet another 1,500 students
from Concordia University at a downtown park.

Thousands of students also marched through the streets of downtown
Montreal, to coincide with the latest round of trade talks in Ecuador.

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Tom_Childs | 2 Nov 2002 00:42
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No Blood for Oil letter to U.N. (fwd)

  ----- Forwarded message: -----
Delivered-To: infoshop-news <at> flag.blackened.net
Message-ID: <04d901c28218$145d9ae0$f200a8c0 <at> vaio>
From: "Eric Laursen" <laursene <at> earthlink.net>
To: "NYC Tribes" <nyctribes <at> lists.riseup.net>,
        "NYC-DAN" <dan <at> lists.riseup.net>, "AWIP" <AWIP <at> lists.mutualaid.org>,
        "S11NYC" <s11nyc <at> topica.com>,
        "MGJ-Announce" <mgj-announce <at> lists.mutualaid.org>,
        "Indymedia NYC" <imc-nyc <at> indymedia.org>,
        "Infoshop News" <infoshop-news <at> infoshop.org>,
        "No Blood for Oil" <nobloodforoil <at> lists.riseup.net>
Subject: [Infoshop News] Anti-Iraq invasion activists to deliver
			letter to UN Secy Genl Monday noon
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:32:05 -0800

NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
www.nbfo.org

Contact: Eric Laursen

Ph: (212) 620-7615

Cell: (917) 806-6452

November 1, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ACTIVISTS DEMAND UN UPHOLD ITS CHARTER,
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shniad | 2 Nov 2002 01:19
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Bush involved in insider trading?

Boston Globe  10/30/2002

Board was told of risks before Bush stock sale 

Harken memo went to SEC after probe 

By Michael Kranish and Beth Healy 

Washington - One week before George W. Bush's now-famous sale of stock in
Harken Energy Corp. in 1990, Harken was warned by its lawyers that Bush and
other members of the troubled oil company's board faced possible insider
trading risks if they unloaded their shares. 

The warning from Harken's lawyers came in a legal memorandum whose existence
has been little noted until now, despite the many years of scrutiny of the
Bush transaction. The memo was not received by the Securities and Exchange
Commission until the day after the agency decided not to bring
insider-trading charges against Bush, documents show. 

The memo, a copy of which was obtained by the Globe, does not say directly
whether Bush would face legal problems if he sold his stock. But it does lay
out the potential for insider-trading violations by Bush and other members
of the Harken board, and its existence raises questions about how thoroughly
the SEC investigated Bush's unloading of $848,000 of his Harken stake to a
buyer whose name has not been made public. 

The SEC cleared Bush after looking into whether he had insider knowledge of
an upcoming quarterly loss at Harken. But the SEC investigation apparently
never examined a key issue raised in the memo: whether Bush's insider
knowledge of a plan to rescue the company from financial collapse by
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shniad | 2 Nov 2002 01:19
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A Day at the American Enterprise Institute

From: Robert Weissman <rob <at> essential.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:29:05 -0500
Subject: A Day at the American Enterprise Institute

A Day at the American Enterprise Institute

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Didn't have anything good to do earlier this week, so decided to spend
the day at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

AEI is the granddaddy of the big corporate front groups.  Their job?

Re-engineer the political economy to the liking of their corporate
paymasters.

Last year, AEI took in $23 million from corporations, corporate
foundations, and wealthy individuals.

Need to undermine the antitrust laws?

Hire AEI scholar in residence Robert Bork to spew his ideology.

Need to slander the United Nations?

Hire AEI scholar in residence Jeanne Kirkpatrick to do the dirty work.

AEI, Heritage, and Cato, the big three corporate fronts in our nation's
capital, have done immeasurable damage to our democracy, advancing
corporatist and extremist right-wing views.
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shniad | 2 Nov 2002 01:20
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Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-10/30prashad.cfm

ZNet Magazine	October 30, 2002 

Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War 

By Vijay Prashad 

On the 3rd of October, 2001, I wrote a ZNET commentary called "Forward into
the Past: US War Aims." This was four days before the bombardment began.
Already the war aims of the administration seemed to escalate as each day
went by. First we heard about retaliation for 9/11, perhaps the capture or
murder of bin Laden and the top al-Qa'ida leadership. 

But, since the Bush doctrine spoke about "those who harbor" terrorists, it
had become clear that the Taliban would face the barrage as well. But the
jargon of political science departments flew from Bush's mouth: he did not
want to conduct "nation-building," we heard, although "regime change" was on
the cards. 

As I wrote then, "US war aims, then, are simultaneously as brutal and
unfocused in Afghanistan as they are in Iraq - to overthrow one corrupt
regime and put in place another, but this time friendly with the US." When I
wrote of Iraq then, I meant the Gulf War of 1990-91, not the impending
chaos. 

So it is fitting, one year later, to assess the war aims, to see what the US
has done both with the war and with the region, to tally up the accounts of
the Fifth Afghan War.
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shniad | 2 Nov 2002 01:18
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Bush's Iraq adventure is bound to backfire

http://www.iht.com/articles/75500.html


International Herald Tribune  Friday, November 1, 2002 

Bush's Iraq adventure is bound to backfire 

Youssef M. Ibrahim 
 
Marching into a trap 
 
New York – Let us not be fooled: The upcoming war against Iraq has nothing
to do with the war against terror.

President George W. Bush's war is fueled by two things: bolstering the
president's popularity as he attempts to ride on the natural wave of
American patriotism unleashed by the criminal attacks of Sept. 11; and a
misguided temptation to get more oil out of the Middle East by turning a
''friendly" Iraq into a private American oil pumping station.

Both will backfire and may indeed cost this president and his warmongering
cabinet their sought-after second term.

To begin with, the emperor is naked because the real war on terror is far
from finished. If anything it is falling apart.

In Afghanistan, where it all started, things are so bad that the puppet
president the United States installed, Hamid Karzai, is now guarded by U.S.
special forces because he cannot trust his life to his own people.

Al Qaeda, according to the CIA and the Pentagon, is reconstituting itself.
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shniad | 2 Nov 2002 01:18
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Road Map - Hanan Ashrawi

http://www.mediamonitors.net/hanan36.html

Media Monitors Network	    October 31, 2002

Road Map 

by 

The American-cum-Quartet draft road map for a permanent two-state solution
to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has already come up against its major
Israeli roadblocks. 

Beyond Sharon's initial dismissive attitude, Israeli responses have ranged
from a total rejection of the June 4, 1967 borders, to the negation of the
establishment of the Palestinian state, to the refusal to cease settlement
activities and dismantle any settlements, to the rejection of any binding
timetables, to the elimination of any aspect of monitoring or third party
involvement, to further demands and preconditions specifically designed to
abort the initiative (including collection of Palestinian weapons, arrest of
"suspects," the total cessation of "violence," the political "elimination"
of President Arafat, comprehensive Palestinian "reform," among other
dictates). 

By now, Israeli tactics have become all too familiar. After sabotaging the
substance, Israel proceeds to raise procedural and technical objections with
the aim of prolongation and obfuscation. Thus with the parties totally
bogged down in micromanaging the most obscure detail and side issue, Israel
buys more time to create more facts to render the whole exercise entirely
irrelevant.
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Macdonald Stainsby | 2 Nov 2002 01:49
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Re: Albanian and Russian observers sent to monitor American elections


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From: <shniad <at> sfu.ca>
> Mandated by the OSCE, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in 
> Europe...

That's the Organisation for Sanctioning Corrupt Elections.

Macdonald

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