Archive for June 14, 2004
Scenes of “Liberation”: The American military launched some 50 air strikes designed to kill specific targets during the Iraq war, it emerged yesterday, but none of them found its mark. Instead the air strikes had a high civilian toll, according to military officials serving at the time. Until now only a few of the air [...]
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
Defense bill to top $1 trillion: Congress backs budget heavy on future weapons
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
American Taliban: U.S. drags feet on ratifying UN treaty on women’s rights
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
For “Freedom” to prevail in Iraq, U.S. Slaughter Fills Iraqi Cemeteries
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
ALL IN THE SERVICE OF “FREEDOM”: Interrogation abuses were ‘approved at highest levels’
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
ALL IN THE NAME OF “FREEDOM”: Terror inquiry snares art exhibit: FBI seizes material intended for Mass MoCA display on genetically modified food; four artists subpoenaed
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
From a poem by Iraqi poet Badr Shakir As-Sayyab (my translation): I learned: how the tyrants have changed their skins in the age of defeat and they put on new masks and chanted the old song. I saw, my beloved, all the tyrants of the old world how they sleep and eat how they love [...]
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
For the sake of patriotism: The Pentagon—Spying in America?
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad
Egyptian government empowers its official clerical Book Burners: all books that promote feminism, enlightenment, progressiveness, and secularism will be banned.
Posted on June 14, 2004 by As'ad