Stories from 2002-06-21
"As Palestinian suicide attacks on Israel have intensified in recent weeks, so has Arab criticism of bloody attacks on civilian targets. On June 19, a group of 54 Palestinian intellectuals and public figures called on the organizers of the suicide attacks to cease their operations. The "urgent appeal" followed public criticism of suicide attacks in the Lebanese, Egyptian, and Palestinian press." [more]
"No one in the 15-member council agrees with the American stance on the court, the world's first permanent tribunal to try the worst crimes: genocide, war crimes and systematic, gross human rights abuses." [more]
"Washington will stop supporting United Nations peacekeeping operations unless Americans taking part are given immunity from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court, scheduled to begin its work July 1. The United States has refused to endorse it — arguing its citizens may face politically motivated prosecution." [more]
"They hoped it would galvanise co-operation between hundreds of groups seeking alternatives to what they see as an undemocratic way of global rule represented by the G8." [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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