Archive for April, 2002
Alexandria Library (re) opens!
(Wired) …celebratory plans were scuttled because of the heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Instead,Bibliotheca Alexandrina — which ostensibly replaces the original that was destroyed more than a thousand years ago — opened quietly to the public this week. … Historians quibble over details of the original library
Revenge? What happened in Jenin?
(The Independent)
What really happened when Israeli forces went into Jenin? Just as the world is giving up hope of learning the truth, Justin Huggler and Phil Reeves have unearthed compelling evidence of an atrocity.
Mysterious Appearance Of Bank Notes Surprises Currency Speculators
(Afgha)
The Afghan National Bank and the interim Finance Ministry both say they have not authorized the printing of new afghani bank notes recently. The National Bank says somebody flushed some 20 billion afghanis onto the market just as Zahir Shah arrived in Kabul.
Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley Appeal For Help.
(IAP) … as a consequence of organizing the demonstration and sit-in, the University of California at Berkeley has decided to susp! end Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as an organization on campus pending an investigation. This means, that as long as the investigation continues, SJP is functionally barred from holding events on campus, tabling, […]
AFL-CIO Involvement in Venezuela Coup
(LaborNotes)
Could the bad old days be returning to the AFL-CIO’s operations in other countries? Fear that in Venezuela the AFL-CIO was supporting both a right-wing union federation and a U.S.-backed coup led some solidarity activists to mount a picket line at AFL-CIO headquarters in February.
For Rumsfeld, it is a “strategic void” …
(UMI)
Humanitarian aid groups are also clamoring for more peacekeepers and for them to be deployed throughout the country. The stability they engender makes it possible for food and medical care to be delivered to populations hard hit by war and drought. … But Rumsfeld believes that a large and long-lasting peacekeeping force will only […]
China’s net usage leaps to second in world
(New Scientist)
China now ranks second in the world for home internet use and could leapfrog the US as the biggest online nation in the next few years.
Said on Israel
(Nation)
By what inhuman calculus did Israel’s army, using dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers, along with hundreds of missile strikes from US-supplied Apache helicopter gunships, besiege Jenin’s refugee camp for over a week, a one-square-kilometer patch of shacks housing 15,000 refugees and a few dozen men armed with automatic rifles and no missiles […]
Gore’s attack under scrutiny
(Slate)
A good critical assessment of Al Gore’s Earth Day Op-Ed in the NYTimes this past Saturday, in which he accused “President Bush of jettisoning Robert Watson, head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, at the behest of an oil company.”
Water in the West Bank
(RedPepper)
When supplies run low during the summer months, the Israeli water company, Mekorot, simply shuts off the valves that supply Palestinian towns. This means settlers get their swimming pools topped up while Palestinian villages a few miles away run out of drinking water.
When tensions are high — as they are now — the situation becomes […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
