Blows Against the Empire
Posted: Monday, February 28, 2005

Israeli officials smile, and build more outposts on the ground
Some six years ago, a settlement outpost was established near the village. The settler who first drove up his caravan on an empty hilltop has since become notorious. All the villagers know him as Boaz. He is no longer alone. Now, some 50 caravans stand beside his. According to Israeli law, these settlement outposts are illegal. But the Israeli government has nevertheless provided them with paved roads, electricity and running water.

Haitian Police Open Fire on Nonviolent Demostrators
One year ago today, the elected government of Haiti, led by President Jean Betrand Aristide, was forced out of office and replaced by unlected people more satisfactory to business interests and the US, France and Canada. Today there was a large nonviolent March for Democracy called for the neighborhood of Bel-Air (Beautiful Air).

'It's called torture'
As a nation, does the United States have a conscience? Or is anything and everything O.K. in post-9/11 America? If torture and the denial of due process are O.K., why not murder? When the government can just make people vanish - which it can, and which it does - where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?

Huge Baghdad blast kills 125
A bomber has killed 125 people and wounded 130 by detonating a car near police recruits in a crowded market south of Baghdad. Monday's blast was the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Blows Against the Empire

Death of a democracy
Gangs of killers roam freely, rape is systematic and the poor eat mud to survive. In Port-au-Prince, people crushed by the dark hand of US foreign policy

A Plot Thickens



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