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July 29, 2002
David Vest
A Blind Mule and
a Box of Medals
July 28, 2002
Bob Geary
Our Dinner
with Fidel Castro
July 27, 2002
Ian Daoust
The New
Mahler, Seattle Style
Gavin Keeney
Zizek
and Lenin
Ralph Nader
Citigroup
Heal Thyself
M. Shahid Alam
American
Presidents (Poem)
Mokhiber / Weissman
Push Back: Women Take
on the Corporate Beasts
July 26, 2002
Jerre Skog
American
Dictatorship:
It Couldn't Happen...Could It?
Philip Farruggio
Lie,
Rob and Steal
Rep. Ron Paul
Monitor
Thy Neighbor
Ron Jacobs
Thinking
About the
Weather (Underground)
Walt Brasch
Ashcroft's War on Bookstores
July 25, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Paul
Krugman's Howl:
Populism, War and
the Melting Economy
Gavin Keeney
Van Morrison: In September
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
War
on Terrorism or
Police State?
July 24, 2002
Gary Leupp
An Islam Primer
July 23, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Battle
for Zuni Salt Lake
Ansar Ahmed
Am I with You, George?
Bill Christison
The
Disastrous Foreign Policies of the US: Oppression Abroad Means
Repression at Home
July 22, 2002
Rick Giombetti
Glaxo Raises White Flag
in Paxil Case
Wayne Madsen
Forbidden
Truth
The Press, Bush, Oil
and the Taliban
July 21. 2002
Francis A. Boyle
The Rogue Elephant
Jennifer Harbury
Why are
the FBI & CIA Targeting Me?
Joan Claybrook
Time
for a Special Prosceutor
for Thomas White
Gloria Bergen
The Struggle
of Workers
in Palestine
Dave Marsh
Mr. Big Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
The Human Rubble of War
July 20, 2002
Gavin Keeney
The Grave
New Urbanism
World Trade Center Burlesque
Jacob Levich
"I
Was Schooled in Hate"
Confessions of a
Summer Camp Terror Tot
Thomas Croft
Augusta,
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Growing Up in the Deep South
Alexander Cockburn
The
Market Hogwallow:
Popgun Populism Isn't Enough
July 19, 2002
Abe Bonowitz / SueZann
Bosler
A Discussion
with Jeb Bush on the Death Penalty
Jonathan Power
No Need
for War Against Iraq
Rick Giombetti
Qwest
Death Watch
Kurt Nimmo
Of Mice,
Bullets & Bombs
M. Shahid Alam
Through
Racist Eyes:
Is Eurocentrism Unique?
July 18, 2002
Mokhiber / Weissman
Business
As Usual
Jerre Skog
I Spy: Now
Let's be Fair,
the USA Ain't East Germany
Ralph Nader
The CEO
Crimewave:
Corporate Socialism
Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)
The Rising Tensions
Between Spain and Morocco
Alexander Cockburn
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July
29, 2002
Colombia's
Disappeared:
25 People
a Week Go Missing
by Alfredo Castro
Bogota. The number of people being forcibly disappeared
in Colombia each year is rapidly increasing and according to
a local human rights organisation state sponsored forces, both
official and unofficial, are responsible for over 99% of the
cases.
New statistics released by the Colombian
Association of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared --
known as ASFADDES -- show that last year some 1,283 people were
taken away and have not been seen since. ASFADDES says that three
of these people were disappeared by rebel groups while the remainder
of the cases can be blamed predominantly on paramilitary and
other state agents such as the army and police.
The average daily rate of disappearances
in Colombia has increased from three to four over the past few
years according to Gladys Avila Fonseca, the national coordinator
of ASFADDES. Avila herself lost her brother Eduardo when he disappeared
off a street in Bogota on April 20th 1993. Four days later, however,
he was found dead outside the city having been severely tortured
and since then she has dedicated her life to the cause of truth,
justice and reparation at ASFADDES.
The statistics ASFADDES released show
that between 1994 and 2001 there were 3,413 forced disappearances
in Colombia. Gladys Avila also explained that ASFADDES has no
way of knowing the true number of cases as their statistics only
include those instances in which the family or friends of the
victim denounce the crime, and that on many occasions, because
of fear of reprisals, people stay silent.
ASFADDES also released details of the
recent disappearance of Alvaro Sanchez Rojas on the outskirts
of Bogota whom witnesses say was taken away by a group made up
of paramilitaries and members of the "Rincon Quinonez"
Battalion of the Colombian Army.
Regarding the problem of forced displacement
a second local NGO, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, announced
that the numbers now being forced from their land in Colombia
had increased to approximately 1,000 people per day. Experts
say that the phenomenon is largely caused by counterinsurgency
strategies -- devised by the Pentagon in Vietnam and now implemented
in Colombia -- that call for people to be forcibly shifted from
rural areas in an attempt to deprive guerrilla organisations
of civilian support networks in the countryside.
According to the director of the Commission,
Gustavo Gallon, "the increase in numbers and the territorial
expansion of the problem of displacement during the Pastrana
[the Colombian President] administration has been massive, with
more than 1 million people being forced from their homes and
land during his time in power -- including 90,000 in the first
few months of this year alone".
This article originally appeared in ANNCOL, the news agency of
the new Colombia.
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