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March 25, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
the War
Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Ralph Nader
A Pre-emptive War on a Defenseless Country
Gilad
Atzmon
Strategic Blunders by American Generals
March 24, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
Ominous Signs
David
Lindorff
Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
Diane Christian
Blood Sacrifice
Kathy
Kelly
The Morning After Shock and Awe
John Stanton
US Bombs Iran
Wayne
Madsen
How to Live with a Rogue Superpower
Anthony Gancarski
Iraq and the Death of the West
David
Vest
Earth vs. Bush
Ahmad Faruqui
The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
Robert
Fisk
We Bomb, They Suffer
March 22 / 23, 2003
Edward Said
The Other America
Saul Landau
The Threats of Empire
Kathleen and Bill Christison
On the Road in the West Bank
Joanne Mariner
Suing Seymour Hersh
Ann Harrison
The Battle of San Francisco
Robert Fisk
A Cauldron of Fire
Hani Shukrallah
The Gates of Hell
Chris Floyd
Memory Lane
Kathy Kelly
Imagine Chicago Under This Kind of Attack
Ramzi Kysia
Bombing Away a Chance for Joy
Linda Heard
Baghdad Burns While Bush Does Lunch
Bradley Burston
Could the US be at War for Years?
Salvador Peralta
Mass Murder as Liberation?
Tom Gorman
Now That's a Coalition!
Jorge Mariscal
Johnny Mack, When Are You Coming Back?
Cindy Milstein
The Grassroots Go Global
Josh Frank
Blocking Portland's Bridges
Elaine Cassel
The Case of Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping and Insanity
Gordon Solberg
Drowning in Niceness: the Lessons of Elizabeth Smart
Tom Crumpacker
Getting to Know the Real Havana
Poets' Basement
Dobie, Guthrie, Alam, Wechsler
March 21, 2003
Ben Tripp
Blood for Oil:
the Exchange Rate
Cathy Breens
Report from Baghdad: Mothers, Kids and Crash Kits
Scott Handleman
Fourth
Generation Protesting: Shutting Down San Francisco
Vanessa Jones
Paint Them
Red
Brian J. Foley
Patriotic Protest
for Professors
Zoltan Grossman
After Saddam, a War on Iraqi Rebels?
Philip S. Golub
Inventing Demons
Richard Lichtman
On the Current Experience of Terror
Milan Rai
Blitz-Coup
Pepe Escobar
A Cheap Family Farce
Floyd Rudmin
The Nightmare at the Back Door: Nuclear Plant's as Terror Targets
Chris Floyd
See Rome (poem)
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
March 20, 2003
Stephen Banko
I Was a Soldier
Once
Kevin Alexander Gray
How Did We Become
an Outlaw Nation?
Shane Claiborne
Nomadic
Solidarity: Glimpses of Life in Baghdad on the Eve of War
Kathy Kelly
Waiting on the Baghdad Skies to Crack
Anthony Gancarski
Michelle
Makin's "Liberty Shields"
Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
Myths and
Facts About the War on Iraq
Jason Leopold
Cheney's
Lies About Halliburton and Iraq
Ron Jacobs
If War is Business as Usual, There Should be No Business as Usual
Chuck O'Connell
Predictions About the Iraq War
Douglas Herman
US Air Force Veteran on the Coming Air Campaign
Ralph Nader
Come On Democrats,
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William Hughes
War is Theft
Sima Saeedi
Dispatch from
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Hammond Guthrie
John Philip Sousa
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March
26, 2003
Chrétien's Shame
Canada Abetting
Illegal War
By GLORIA BERGEN
The
day before winning an Oscar in the Sound category for Chicago, Canadian
David Lee lounged around at a posh poolside lunch in Los Angeles and
said how proud he is "as a Canadian that our prime minister said
no to this dam war."Well Mr. Lee, that Californian sun must have
given you heat stroke to make you forget so soon the history of our
Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien and his complicity in this sickening
war.
I guess you didn't demonstrate and protest against George Bush and the
G8 in Quebec when Chrétien ordered the building of the hated
fence and the tear-gassing of 80,000 demonstrators. Were you also out
of the country when he invited Bush and the same heads of imperialist
gangs back to Canada in the solitude of Kananaskis with tanks and overhead
patrols and no-fly zones to discuss their strategies? Did you see our
Prime Minister standing side by side with his good friend George W.
in Genoa, and not say a word about the murder of a protestor, Carlos
Guiliani? What do you think they were discussing at these meetings?
Do you really believe that the war on Iraq, and strategies and tactics
was not discussed, if not formally, then informally over cuban cigars
and russian vodka?
Maybe you would not be so dam proud if you knew that our Prime Minister
has lied to us, gassed us, spent over 200 million of our tax dollars
to protect and provide safe refuge to his "friend" Mr. Bush
while watering down the Kyoto Accord, cutting money for education and
transportation and health care. And he's invited his good friend back
to Canada in May, meaning more repression against Canadians who are
against the war and neo-liberalism that will be out there to greet him.
Perhaps you'll think twice about the Canadian government's complicity
in this barbarous act of aggression if you know that currently 1,259
Canadians are serving in the Persian Gulf. Not only are they serving
as spies and providing escort and protection for American and British
troops, but are also commanding a multinational naval task force of
about 20 vessels in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the North
Arabian Sea. 30 other military personnel are serving in the war against
Iraqi's on exchange with American and British units: technicians, logistics
experts, headquarters staff, in surveillance aircraft, and other roles,
which aid and abet Bush and Blair's filthy war.
Our Prime Minister said that Canada will not go to war without UN approval.
Yet, right now we have three frigates in the Gulf: The HMCS Montreal,
The HMCS Winnipeg, and the HMCS Regina. Just so they don't get lonely,
the HMCS Iroquois, a destroyer, is on route - as is the HMCS Fredericton.
Canada has also sent in a long-range patrol detachment with two CP-140
Aurora maritime patrol aircraft and a tactical airlift detachment with
three CC-130 Hercules tactical transport aircraft.
Do you still feel proud of our Prime Minister? While he lies to try
to appease the majority of Canadians in the anti-war movement at the
same time he is in cahoots with the warmonger, George Bush.
At last Saturday's anti-war rally in Toronto, a good 20,000 or more
stood in the rain in front of the heavily guarded American Consulate
where we heard what Canadians want Mr. Chrétien to unequivocally
say before we can say we are proud of him: " this war is an illegal,
immoral war, and we are shutting down all American embassies and consulates
and deporting your diplomats, and bringing our military personnel home."
David Lee, let me ask you one question: what do you believe Jean Cretien's
and George Bush's responses would be to any group or nation that sent
over 1259 people, plus frigates, plus technical and surveillance aid
to assist Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden in their war against American
terrorism?
Are you still proud that Jean Chrétien said "no to this
dam war."
Gloria Bergen
is an environmental health and safety writer. She can be reached at:
bergengloria@hotmail.com
Today's Features
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why
Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
the War
Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gilad
Atzmon
Strategic Blunders by American Generals
Ralph Nader
A Pre-emptive War on a Defenseless Country
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
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