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Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence
This is the classic initial stage of guerrilla warfare against a colonial occupation
By Tariq Ali
The Guardian (UK) November 3, 2003
Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo’s anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening was purely educative. The French won that battle, but lost the (…)

São Paulo, 27-29 October 2003
Declaration of São Paulo
1. The Socialist International, the global movement of social democratic, socialist and labour parties, holding its XXII Congress in São Paulo at the invitation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores, calls on all socially and politically progressive people and organisations to come together in a global coalition to promote a new world order based on a new multilateralism for peace, security, sustainable development, social justice, (…)

By Robert Fisk
The worst problem facing US forces in Iraq may not be armed resistance but a crisis of morale. Robert Fisk reports on a near- epidemic of indiscipline, suicides and loose talk
I was in the police station in the town of Fallujah when I realised the extent of the schizophrenia. Captain Christopher Cirino of the 82nd Airborne was trying to explain to me the nature of the attacks so regularly carried out against American forces in the Sunni Muslim Iraqi town. His men were (…)

http://www.fivelies.org
AlterNet’s new book, "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us
About Iraq," by Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer and
Lakshmi Chaudhry, arrives in our office Monday morning.
Buy a copy for only $9.95, and we’ll get it into the
mail to you before the week is up. If you’ve already
bought the book, we’ll get it to you as fast as we can
get the postage on the envelopes.
"Five Lies" is a fast-paced, fascinating revelation of
the convoluted story of how and why we came (…)

Top Israeli Officer Says Tactics Are Backfiring ===============================================
By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, October 31, 2003; Page A01 washingtonpost.com
JERUSALEM, Oct. 30 — Israel’s senior military commander told columnists for three leading newspapers this week that Israel’s military tactics against the Palestinian population were too repressive and were fomenting explosive levels of "hatred and terrorism" that might become impossible to (…)

Thousands Expected for Four-Day Veterans Day Weekend Celebration
Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2003—This Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11, 2003, marks the 10th anniversary of the historic dedication of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation, Inc., (formerly "Project") will commemorate the day with a host of events for women and men veterans of the Vietnam era, their families, friends and the general public.
According to Vietnam Women’s (…)

HARD KNOCK RECORDS PRESENTS "WHAT ABOUT US?"
A HIP HOP COMPILATION THAT SETS OUT TO EXPOSE THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR AND HOW IT AFFECTS OUR COMMUNITIES.
Oakland, CA - Hard Knock Records has just released the highly anticipated album "What About US". The compilation is a critical response by the Hip Hop community to what has taken place since the tragedies of September 11th. "The concept behind the creation of the album is in the title "What About US?" states Executive Producer Nick Huff. (…)

Even administration insiders are starting to worry about how the war will affect the president’s re-election chances. In New Hampshire, the omens aren’t reassuring
By Howard Fineman NEWSWEEK
Nov. 3 issue — Hilary Cleveland of New London, N.H., goes way back with the Bush family. Her late husband, James Colgate (Jimmy) Cleveland, was a Republican in Congress, where his paddle-ball partner in the House gym was George H.W. Bush. Hilary served on the Andover board with Barbara Bush and was (…)

By Tom Squitieri,
USA TODAY WASHINGTON http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-10-27-iraq-no-troops_x.htm
Bangladesh and Portugal, two nations the Pentagon has pressed to send combat troops to Iraq, have decided against contributing to the U.S.-led force there. A third nation that once promised to send troops, South Korea, says it has not made up its mind and has delayed a decision pending further study. Turkey has agreed to send 10,000 troops but is waiting to hear from the (…)

By Mike Davis
Tomdispatch.com
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/
Sunday morning in San Diego. The sun is an eerie orange orb, like the eye of a hideous jack-o-lantern. The fire on the flank of Otay Mountain, which straddles the Mexican border, generates a huge whitish-grey mushroom plume. It is a rather sublime sight, like Vesuvius in eruption. Meanwhile the black sky rains ash from incinerated national forests and dream homes.
It may be the fire of the century in (…)