Indymedia’s Internet Servers Confiscated

LONDON - Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in Britain that host the Web sites of the global news network Indymedia. Two days later, there was still no clarification of why the computers were confiscated...

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Mendacity Without End

When you realize that communication is the most basic survival skill of the human race, then you must also see that lying is the cardinal sin, since a lie is a deliberate attempt to sabotage communication. It is an immoral attempt by one person to manipulate another...

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Afghan Irregularities Prompt Candidates’ Protests

Inter Press Service/Pajhwok News KABUL - Voter turnout was heavy in Afghanistan's first direct presidential election in recent history, but irregularities in the voting process prompted calls for the results to be nullified. Due to a heavy turnout, and despite rain...

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Egyptian Tourism Expected to Withstand Bombings

CAIRO - Bomb blasts at two holiday resorts in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have sent shivers through the tourism industry, but tour operators expect the country's biggest foreign currency earner to suffer only minor damage. "The attack was very contained and seemed to...

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Nuclear Bait and Switch

President Clinton inherited the Nunn-Lugar Act mandate to assist Russia – financially and technically – dismantle thousands of excess Soviet nukes, to securely store and to peacefully dispose of the hundreds of tons of excess weapons-grade materials...

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Gaza Offensive Deepening Hatred

NORTHERN GAZA STRIP - The rapidly mounting civilian death toll as a result of Israel's massive offensive in the north of the Gaza Strip is deepening hatred and may lead to continuing cycles of bloodshed, Palestinian politicians and human rights activists in Gaza say....

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Riding the Tiger

Banking is difficult during the National Holiday in China. For seven days, everybody is on vacation – everybody. Cooks and old bearded cardboard collectors still do their routines, but their relatives are coming through from afar and filling the apartment up...

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Not Enough Troops – or Truth

It's not an if, it's a when. Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 more troops to Iraq during the first four months of 2005, and President Bush continues to insist that "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized....

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No Palestinian State, No Peace for America

Now we know the truth. Neither the Bush administration nor the Israeli government has any intention whatsoever of allowing the Palestinians to establish their own state. That means, of course, that both have been lying, not only to the Palestinians but to the American...

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