Stories from 2001-11-23
In the same region where four journalists were killed Monday, safety and order has all but dissolved. "Armed warlords operating in the hills of eastern Afghanistan have begun ambushing and looting cars and buses as large areas of the country slide back into anarchy." [more]
"The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has recovered up to 600 bodies in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The organisation could not specify whether the victims had died in the fighting or had been summarily executed after the Northern Alliance captured the town from the Taleban two weeks ago." [more]
The author reflects on the new patriotism, and the words of President Roosevelt defending the "Four Freedoms." [more]
"The meeting aim[s] to bring together parties from the Northern Alliance, the Rome Process, the Cyprus Process and the Peshawar Convention to talk about forming a broad-based multi-ethnic government." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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