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  • We are facing death in Iraq for no reason
    21 September 2003

    A serving US soldier calls for the end of an occupation based on lies
    Tim Predmore Friday September 19, 2003 The Guardian
    For the past six months, I have been participating in what I believe to be the great modern lie: Operation Iraqi Freedom.
    After the horrific events of September 11 2001, and throughout the battle in Afghanistan, the groundwork was being laid for the invasion of Iraq. "Shock and awe" were the words used to describe the display of power that the world was going to (…)

  • Arthur Kinoy, Revolutionary
    21 September 2003

    Future Hope
    September 20, 2003
    Arthur Kinoy, Revolutionary
    By Ted Glick
    "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force." -Che Guevera
    The obituary in this morning’s New York Times for Arthur (…)

  • More Questions For Cheney
    21 September 2003

    Reps. Kucinich, Maloney and Sanders are members of the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations.
    September 17, 2003
    The Honorable Dick Cheney Vice President Office of the Vice President of the United States Eisenhower Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20501
    Dear Mr. Vice President:
    On July 21, 2003, we sent a letter to you inquiring about your role in the dissemination of the disinformation that Iraq purchased uranium from Niger. We (…)

  • New Call for ’Summary Firing’ of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz
    20 September 2003

    Jim Lobe, OneWorld US
    WASHINGTON, D.D., Sep. 18 (OneWorld) —Amid growing concerns that hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush (news - web sites) may have misled the U.S. public about the war in Iraq (news - web sites), a prominent U.S. arms-control group has called for Pentagon (news - web sites) chief Donald Rumsfeld and his chief deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to be "summarily fired."
    The Washington-based Council for a Livable World (CLW), which has long charged that (…)

  • G.M. Accord Finishes Talks for U.A.W.
    20 September 2003

    DETROIT, Sept. 18 - The United Automobile Workers union concluded its contract negotiations with the Big Three and two major suppliers today after granting its most significant concessions in two decades.
    The deals, which will result in thousands of job cuts as roughly a dozen plants are closed or sold, reflect the broad competitive struggles of domestic manufacturers, and the union’s effort to balance the desires of its members with the shrinking market share and profits of the (…)

  • Pentagon Ties Boost Clark’s Business
    19 September 2003

    Reserve pilots to refuse liquidations ===================================== By Lily Galili A group of reserve pilots in the Israel Air Force is planning to publicly announce their refusal to participate in attempts to assassinate senior wanted men in the Palestinian Authority. Ha’aretz 9-19-03 Elul 22, 5763
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/342136.html
    The group has been discussing the initiative for more than three months and members say that they have been badly torn. (…)

  • Pentagon Ties Boost Clark’s Business
    19 September 2003

    Retired General Helps Firms Navigate Homeland Security and Defense-Procurement Maze By Jacob M. Schlesinger and Sara Schaefer in Washington and Greg Hitt in Little Rock,Ark.
    Wall Street Journal, 9/18/03
    IN ANNOUNCING his presidential campaign, Wesley K. Clark promoted himself as the candidate best qualified to prosecute the war on terror. As a businessman, he has applied his military expertise to help a handful of high-tech companies try to profit from the fight. Since retiring from a (…)

  • Seeking honesty in U.S. policy
    18 September 2003

    EX-U.S. DIPLOMAT SAYS WHITE HOUSE IS IN FULL RETREAT FROM IRAQ REALITY By Joseph Wilson
    San Jose Mercury News http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/6769302.htm
    During the gulf war in 1991, when I was in charge of the American Embassy in Baghdad, I placed a copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland’’ on my office coffee table. I thought it conveyed far better than words ever could the weird world that was Iraq at that time, a world in which nothing was what it seemed: (…)

  • Veiled and Worried in Baghdad
    18 September 2003

    By LAUREN SANDLER
    New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/opinion/16SAND.html
    September 16, 2003
    BAGHDAD, Iraq
    A single word is on the tight, pencil-lined lips of women here. You’ll hear it spoken over lunch at a women’s leadership conference in a restaurant off busy Al Nidal Street, in a shade-darkened beauty shop in upscale Mansour, in the ramshackle ghettos of Sadr City.
    The word is "himaya," or security. With an intensity reminiscent of how they feared Saddam (…)

  • When Racial Discrimination Is Not Just Black and White
    17 September 2003

    September 12, 2003 New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/opinion/12FRI3.html
    The historian John Hope Franklin is black to the naked eye. A boulevard named in his honor runs through Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, Okla., where he lived as a child. The Franklins are not just black, however, but also Native American. Milley Franklin, Mr. Franklin’s grandmother, was one-quarter Choctaw and was raised as Choctaw, attending Indian schools. Her children - including John Hope (…)