[A-List] News Archive: June 22, 2003 - Outrage Edition

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

With Wagner's ''Ride of the Valkyries'' still ringing in their ears and
the clatter of helicopters overhead, soldiers rammed vehicles into metal
gates and hundreds of troops raided houses in the western city of Ramadi
after sunrise as part of a drive to quell a spate of attacks on U.S.
forces.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters06-21-045159.asp?reg=MIDEAST

Each day the newspapers carry stories from Israel and Iraq describing
another IDF or US soldier shot; each day another story about the failed
roadmap for peace and the failed promise for Iraqi freedom.
http://www.counterpunch.com/cook06212003.html

As we settle into the twenty-first century, the United States has the
highest incarceration rate in the world.
http://www.counterpunch.com/jacobs06212003.html

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday that security forces
would continue tracking Palestinian militants if the Palestinian
Authority does not crack down on violent groups.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/06/22/int
ernational0537EDT0416.DTL

On the shores of the Dead Sea at the World Economic Forum, Elizabeth
Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, emerged Saturday as the
Middle East's new pinup.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-chen22.html

U.S.-led coalition forces poured into border areas in eastern
Afghanistan to prevent insurgents from crossing in from Pakistan to
launch attacks, the U.S. military said Saturday.
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jun/06222003/nation_w/68570.asp

[ha ha ha] An explosion and massive fire have shut down a key Iraqi oil
pipeline west of Baghdad.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=90820E05-35D9-4229-8916F4807
A01FD98

Afghanistan is still the source of almost all of the heroin sold in
London, even though Britain has poured millions into trying to stamp out
the war-wrecked country's resurgent drugs production business.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=417713

Tulia is one of 15 scandals in the past five years to plague Texas
regional narcotics task forces.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6143184.htm

''For the people of free Iraq, the road ahead holds great challenges,''
the president said in his weekly radio address. ''Yet at every turn,
they will have friendship and support from the United States of
America.''
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/173/nation/Security_progressing_as_pla
nned_Bush_says+.shtml

Edwards was asked by a panelist if he supports the repeal of NAFTA. He
spoke out against unfairly crafted trade deals but never directly
answered the question.
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2639238p-2447967c.html

Vice President Dick Cheney urged Congress on Friday to pass an energy
bill that he said would reduce the nation's dependence on foreign
resources while strengthening the economy.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030620/APN/306
201012

Bush is held in high esteem by the military, because of his leadership
of successful military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq and his
unstinting defense budgets. But opponents say he has rewarded American
troops' heroism by skimping on their housing benefits, tax cuts, health
care, and education for their children.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/173/nation/Bush_s_military_cuts_critic
ized+.shtml

At least $426,640 a day, seven days a week, every week from now until
November 2004. That's how much President Bush plans to spend on his
re-election under the most conservative calculations of his campaign
staff. It could be much more.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/22/MN271984.
DTL

While Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, playing down recent deadly
attacks on US troops in Iraq, has said Baghdad has less violent crime
than the US capital.
http://www.balochistanpost.com/item.asp?ID=4115

The world's efforts to counter the proliferation of nuclear weapons have
not been successful, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said June 19.
If they had, he said, the United States would not have had to go to war
in Iraq.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2003/n06202003_200306204.html

While President Bush wants to mend fences with France over its
opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald
H. Rumsfeld is not so forgiving.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/6136201.htm

Certainly you would never know from media imagery that women's income
lags far behind men's, that domestic violence against women is
frighteningly common, and that women still perform the bulk of domestic
labour.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,967618,00.html

THE government must legalise sex tourism because of the high
unemployment rate. Government encourages self-employment and
prostitution is a form of self-employment.
http://www.mmegi.bw/2003/June/Friday13/21999571438.html

President Bush, trying again to explain the failure to find weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq, said on Saturday that suspected arms sites had
been looted in the waning days of Saddam Hussein's rule.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0621-01.htm

The Massachusetts Legislature today repealed the state's Clean Elections
Law, which has provoked political squabbling, court battles, a car
auction and an imbroglio over state office furniture after voters
approved it overwhelmingly in 1998.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0621-05.htm

The Bush administration has found its next target for pre-emptive war,
but it's not Iran, Syria or North Korea -- not yet, anyway. Before
launching any new foreign adventures, the Bush gang has some homeland
housekeeping to take care of: It is going to sweep up those pesky
non-governmental organizations that are helping to turn world opinion
against U.S. bombs and brands.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0620-06.htm

September 11, 2001 offered the Bush Administration an opportunity to
pursue an even more ambitious program of control, which may be called
Global Bonapartism.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0603tabb.htm