US “precision” strikes killed hundreds | UN acknowledges error | Annan against war crimes immunity | Earth Liberation Front | DuPont defends Teflon | Dow Chemical & Bhopal | Environmental hazards are a big killer of children | A Third Time Homeless | Company Challenges U.S. for Safeguarding Environment | Coffee Crisis a Forgotten Issue on Global Agenda | The Torturer-in-Chief | A strategy, but not one for freedom | Improvising a Homeland Defense | Repression of Globalization | ctivists | Iraqi Sovereignty | Disengaging Resistance | Who's Sovereign Now? | 'New Europe' Rejects GM Vote
US killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in “precision” strikes - 18th Jun, 04
Fifty so-called “precision” strikes were carried out by the US military in Iraq between March 19 and April 18, 2003, in attempts to kill Saddam Hussein and 12 other high-ranking Iraqi leaders. The cruise missiles and laser-guided bombs used in the attacks destroyed dozens of homes and other civilian buildings, and killed and wounded hundreds, if not thousands, of Iraqi civilians.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=703
UN acknowledges error in Iran nuclear report - 18th Jun, 04
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog admitted on Thursday that it had wrongly accused Iran of withholding information about imports of potentially weapons-related machinery.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=702
Annan against US bid for war crimes immunity - 18th Jun, 04
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has firmly opposed US efforts to extend immunity of US citizens from prosecution for war crimes.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=701
Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for lumberyard fire - 18th Jun, 04
SALT LAKE CITY, USA — A radical environmental group claimed responsibility Thursday for a suburban lumberyard fire that caused $1.5 million in damage.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=700
DuPont defends Teflon ingredient as EPA signals fight ahead - 18th Jun, 04
Chemical maker DuPont is preparing for a clash with the Environmental Protection Agency over a document containing data on birth risks associated with an unregulated chemical used to make Teflon.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=699
Court summons Dow Chemical representative in Bhopal gas leak tragedy - 18th Jun, 04
BHOPAL, India — A court has summoned a Bombay representative of Dow Chemical Co. to explain why the company should not be forced to pay for environmental damages and compensation to the victims of the gas leak that killed thousands of people in central India nearly 20 years ago, a court official said Thursday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=698
Environmental hazards are a big killer of children, says study - 18th Jun, 04
Environmental hazards such as pollution, unsafe water, poor sanitation, lead poisoning, and injuries are the cause of one-third of child and adolescent deaths in the European region, health experts said Friday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=697
A Third Time Homeless - 18th Jun, 04
JERUSALEM, (IPS) - Standing amid the rubble of their homes demolished during the latest fighting last month, they said it was the third time they had been made homeless by the conflict.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=696
Company Challenges U.S. for Safeguarding Environment - 18th Jun, 04
BROOKLIN, Canada,(IPS) - A Canadian company will be nearly one billion dollars richer if it becomes the first firm to win a trade challenge against Washington under the investment section of North America's free trade deal, but experts say a victory would deal a serious blow to any government's ability to pass laws to protect health and the environment.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=695
Coffee Crisis a Forgotten Issue on Global Agenda - 18th Jun, 04
SAO PAULO,(IPS) - In Haiti a woman must work three days harvesting coffee in order to earn the three dollars Europeans spend on an espresso, says Luc Saintville, a technician with the humanitarian watchdog Oxfam International who is assisting coffee growers in his Caribbean country.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=694
Tension Grows as November Elections Near - 18th Jun, 04
HAVANA,(IPS) - Relations between Cuba and the United States keep heating up as November elections in the northern country approach.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=693
The Torturer-in-Chief - 18th Jun, 04
The Torture Convention, ratified by the United States, is part of the supreme law of the land under the Constitution. Congress implemented our obligations under this treaty by enacting the Torture Statute, which provides 20 years, life in prison, or even the death penalty if death results from torture committed by a U.S. citizen abroad. The USA PATRIOT Act added the crime of conspiracy to commit torture to the Torture Statute.
Bush would be liable under the doctrine of command responsibility for war crime.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=692
A strategy, but not one for freedom - 17th Jun, 04
While Iraqis reject the occupation, and George Bush's administration admits that even after 30 June Iraq will have only "limited sovereignty", there has been little change in the widespread supposition that the US is there to bring democracy to Iraq.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=691
Improvising a Homeland Defense - 17th Jun, 04
The 9/11 Commission's report promulgated this morning, Staff Statement 17, Improvising a Homeland Defense, is an absolute must-read. It is a minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow reconstruction, based on a great deal of research, of the events of that fateful morning. And it is absolutely gripping.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=690
Due Process in Guadalajara: Repression of Globalization Activists - 17th Jun, 04
On May 28th representatives and Presidents from 25 European countries joined 33 of their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts - speaking on behalf of more than one billion of the world’s people – at the third EU, Latin American and Caribbean (EU-LAC) summit, hosted in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=688
Iraqi Sovereignty Established - 17th Jun, 04
I think I can firmly state that, as President Bush has firmly and repeatedly stated, full Iraqi sovereignty has finally been established, or at least has a reasonable foothold -- in the United States and in our media.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=687
Disengaging Resistance - 17th Jun, 04
Sharon continues to push his ‘Gaza disengagement plan’ despite obstinate opposition from within the Likud. The defeat by his far-right constituency in the party referendum on May 2 was a further indicator that Israeli party politics is beholden to the extremists of the extreme.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=686
Who's Sovereign Now? - 17th Jun, 04
After weeks of contentious negotiation, the UN Security Council unanimously passed the fifth version of a U.S.-Great Britain resolution designed to confer legitimacy on the newly formed Iraqi interim administration, and declaring that its June 30th launch would involve a transfer of "full sovereignty" (Hoge, New York Times, 6/9/04).
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=685
'New Europe' Rejects GM Vote - 17th Jun, 04
BRUSSELS,(IPS) - The European Union's new member states have blocked calls from Brussels to allow the import of a genetically modified oilseed rape into the bloc.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=684
Fifty so-called “precision” strikes were carried out by the US military in Iraq between March 19 and April 18, 2003, in attempts to kill Saddam Hussein and 12 other high-ranking Iraqi leaders. The cruise missiles and laser-guided bombs used in the attacks destroyed dozens of homes and other civilian buildings, and killed and wounded hundreds, if not thousands, of Iraqi civilians.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=703 UN acknowledges error in Iran nuclear report - 18th Jun, 04
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog admitted on Thursday that it had wrongly accused Iran of withholding information about imports of potentially weapons-related machinery.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=702 Annan against US bid for war crimes immunity - 18th Jun, 04
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has firmly opposed US efforts to extend immunity of US citizens from prosecution for war crimes.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=701 Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for lumberyard fire - 18th Jun, 04
SALT LAKE CITY, USA — A radical environmental group claimed responsibility Thursday for a suburban lumberyard fire that caused $1.5 million in damage.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=700 DuPont defends Teflon ingredient as EPA signals fight ahead - 18th Jun, 04
Chemical maker DuPont is preparing for a clash with the Environmental Protection Agency over a document containing data on birth risks associated with an unregulated chemical used to make Teflon.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=699 Court summons Dow Chemical representative in Bhopal gas leak tragedy - 18th Jun, 04
BHOPAL, India — A court has summoned a Bombay representative of Dow Chemical Co. to explain why the company should not be forced to pay for environmental damages and compensation to the victims of the gas leak that killed thousands of people in central India nearly 20 years ago, a court official said Thursday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=698 Environmental hazards are a big killer of children, says study - 18th Jun, 04
Environmental hazards such as pollution, unsafe water, poor sanitation, lead poisoning, and injuries are the cause of one-third of child and adolescent deaths in the European region, health experts said Friday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=697 A Third Time Homeless - 18th Jun, 04
JERUSALEM, (IPS) - Standing amid the rubble of their homes demolished during the latest fighting last month, they said it was the third time they had been made homeless by the conflict.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=696 Company Challenges U.S. for Safeguarding Environment - 18th Jun, 04
BROOKLIN, Canada,(IPS) - A Canadian company will be nearly one billion dollars richer if it becomes the first firm to win a trade challenge against Washington under the investment section of North America's free trade deal, but experts say a victory would deal a serious blow to any government's ability to pass laws to protect health and the environment.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=695 Coffee Crisis a Forgotten Issue on Global Agenda - 18th Jun, 04
SAO PAULO,(IPS) - In Haiti a woman must work three days harvesting coffee in order to earn the three dollars Europeans spend on an espresso, says Luc Saintville, a technician with the humanitarian watchdog Oxfam International who is assisting coffee growers in his Caribbean country.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=694 Tension Grows as November Elections Near - 18th Jun, 04
HAVANA,(IPS) - Relations between Cuba and the United States keep heating up as November elections in the northern country approach.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=693 The Torturer-in-Chief - 18th Jun, 04
The Torture Convention, ratified by the United States, is part of the supreme law of the land under the Constitution. Congress implemented our obligations under this treaty by enacting the Torture Statute, which provides 20 years, life in prison, or even the death penalty if death results from torture committed by a U.S. citizen abroad. The USA PATRIOT Act added the crime of conspiracy to commit torture to the Torture Statute.
Bush would be liable under the doctrine of command responsibility for war crime.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=692 A strategy, but not one for freedom - 17th Jun, 04
While Iraqis reject the occupation, and George Bush's administration admits that even after 30 June Iraq will have only "limited sovereignty", there has been little change in the widespread supposition that the US is there to bring democracy to Iraq.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=691 Improvising a Homeland Defense - 17th Jun, 04
The 9/11 Commission's report promulgated this morning, Staff Statement 17, Improvising a Homeland Defense, is an absolute must-read. It is a minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow reconstruction, based on a great deal of research, of the events of that fateful morning. And it is absolutely gripping.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=690 Due Process in Guadalajara: Repression of Globalization Activists - 17th Jun, 04
On May 28th representatives and Presidents from 25 European countries joined 33 of their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts - speaking on behalf of more than one billion of the world’s people – at the third EU, Latin American and Caribbean (EU-LAC) summit, hosted in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=688 Iraqi Sovereignty Established - 17th Jun, 04
I think I can firmly state that, as President Bush has firmly and repeatedly stated, full Iraqi sovereignty has finally been established, or at least has a reasonable foothold -- in the United States and in our media.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=687 Disengaging Resistance - 17th Jun, 04
Sharon continues to push his ‘Gaza disengagement plan’ despite obstinate opposition from within the Likud. The defeat by his far-right constituency in the party referendum on May 2 was a further indicator that Israeli party politics is beholden to the extremists of the extreme.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=686 Who's Sovereign Now? - 17th Jun, 04
After weeks of contentious negotiation, the UN Security Council unanimously passed the fifth version of a U.S.-Great Britain resolution designed to confer legitimacy on the newly formed Iraqi interim administration, and declaring that its June 30th launch would involve a transfer of "full sovereignty" (Hoge, New York Times, 6/9/04).
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=685 'New Europe' Rejects GM Vote - 17th Jun, 04
BRUSSELS,(IPS) - The European Union's new member states have blocked calls from Brussels to allow the import of a genetically modified oilseed rape into the bloc.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=684 
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