16 April, 2003
Final Chapter:
Burning Books
By Robert Fisk
Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents
are Set Ablaze in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
US Troops Kill
10 Injure 100 As they fire on protesters
Agence France-Presse
US troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the
new pro-US governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul , killing at
least 10 people and injuring as many as 100
Deadly fruits of
Baghdad
By Peter Ford and Scott Peterson
Hundreds of unexploded cluster bombs lie scattered
in Baghdad, threatening the lives of its citizens
Baghdad Did Not
Fall - It Was Handed Over
By Jalal Ghazi
Arabic media are speculating that a secret deal
was arranged between the United States and the Baath regime to hand
over Baghdad.
Iraqis Say
Lynch Raid Faced No Resistance
By Keith B. Richburg
Gizzy and other doctors said no Iraqi soldiers
or militiamen were at the Saddam Hospital in Nassariya that night, April
1, when the U.S. Special Operations forces came in helicopters to carry
out the midnight rescue.
Israel is Planning
for Ethnic Cleansing
After another peace activist was rendered clinically
dead by an Israeli sniper, it is becoming clear that Israel is speficifically
targeting international peace activists
Dalit threat
to Gujarat conversion law
A Dalit organisation is threatening mass conversion
as a mark of protest against Gujarat anticonversion law
15 April, 2003
Why Syria Is in
Americas Gunsights
By Robert Fisk
Syria, Israels second most powerful enemy
is now in Americas gunsights
US' New Found
Syria-fixation Draws Ire
By Chidanand Rajghatta
Washington's new-found Syria-fixation amid its
military swagger in Iraq is drawing sharp criticism both in the US and
abroad
ISM Rejects Israeli
Investigation into
Death of US Peace Activist
The army report claimed Corrie was struck as she
stood behind a mound of earth that was created by an engineering vehicle
operating in the area and she was hidden from the view .
"US
Forces Encourage Looting"
By Ole Rothenborg
An eye witness says, he saw american soldiers encouraging
people in Baghdad to loot
RSS Supports
Americas War on Iraq
By Ram Puniyani
RSS chief Sudarhan is embarrassing the BJP Government
by defending the US aggression on Iraq
Ambedkar As Hindu
By Shamsul Islam
The RSS lie machinery does not leave even Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar alone. They present him as a leader in league with Hedgewar
and Golwalkar and as a defender for the cause of the Hindu Rashtra.
14 April, 2003
Noam Chomsky
Interviewed
By Noam Chomsky and MIchael Albert
Noam Chomsky talks about the invasion and occupation
of Iraq
Americans Knew What
to Defend
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
If the Americans looked on as looters plundered
and vandalized Baghdad musuem, tanks and armoured personnel carriers
were positioned to defend the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry
of Oil
The Rape of Mesopotamia
By Paul Street
American soldiers encouraged the looters to vandalize
Baghdad museum.
13 April, 2003
Vandalization
of Iraq's History
By Robert Fisk, In Baghdad
In Baghdad's most important museum, something truly
terrible has taken place, while the occupation looked on
Common Images Of
Brutality
By Jonathan Cook
2,000 men aged between 15 and 40 rounded up by
the Israeli army a week ago in the refugee camp of Tulkarm, in the northern
West Bank, for questioning.
The Realignment
of the World
By Stanley Kober
As USA goes ahead with its programme of Empire
building other nations around the world are building coalitions to confront
the empire
Screening The
Truth
By Anupama Katakam
In a concerted effort to muffle the hard truths,
the CBFC has denied a certificate of release to Aakrosh, a 20-minute
documentary film on Gujarat riots
12 April, 2003
Image-Making,
Lies and the "Liberation" of Iraq
By Patrick Martin
The Images of the toppling of a statue of Saddam
Hussein in Firdos Square was stage managed to give the false impression
that the vast majority of the Iraqi people are joyfully welcoming the
invasion and occupation of their country by US and British troops.
Revealing Photographs
Here are the photographs from Information Clearing
House
'Embedded Dancers?'
Was That Another PR Masterpiece?
Cathy Breen, Iraq Peace Team
Is it true that the revelers who danced to welcome
the occupation forces 'embedded dancers' the American military brought
with them to Baghdad?
11 April, 2003
LS adopts resolution
against cow slaughter
The Hindu
The Lok Sabha adopted by voice vote resolution
moved by Prahlad Singh Patel, asking the Centre to enact a law banning
cow slaughter.
Spoils of War
By Bob Herbert
The Pentagon and its allies are close to achieving
what they wanted all along, control of the nation of Iraq and its bounty,
which is the wealth and myriad forms of power that flow from control
of the world's second-largest oil reserves.
Crime
Against Humanity
By John Pilger
Nothing Bush and Blair, their cluster-bombing boys
and their media court do now will change the truth of their great crime
in Iraq.
Israel Eyes Iraqi
Pipeline Project
By Atul Aneja
As the Anglo-American forces consolidate the occupation
of Iraq Israel is exploring the possibility of revivvin the oil pipeline
from Mosul in northern Iraq to the Israeli Mediterranean port of Haifa
Privatizing Water:
What the European Commission Doesnt Want You to Know
By Daniel Politi
Leaked documents and an exchange of e-mails reveal
that the European Union has asked 72 countries to open up their markets
to private water companies.