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U.S.-R.P. MILITARY EXERCISES IN MINDANAO A TRIPWIRE TO A NEW VIETNAM?
By sending 650 US combat troops, including 160 Green Berets and Navy Seals, with the approval of the puppet Macapagal regime, into a battle zone in Southern Philippines, U.S. imperialism is deliberately setting up a tripwire to a new Vietnam....
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2002 12:25am PST
Berkeley peace movement coverage in SFweekly
Lengthy but worth the read. Yes it's not original work, but it's a very fair, truthful, lengthy article about the messy student anti-war movement in Berkeley and the whole fuckup with the ISO. Anyone involved with the movement should take some pointers from the writer's observations....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 4:25pm PST
The American Way of Life: Moments of a Negative Utopia
"The US has sovereignly ignored condemnations of the Haage International Tribunal... US foreign policy and the economic and military power of the US represent a first obstacle for every emancipatory interest on this globe."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 3:06pm PST
The Shortwave Report 1/18/02 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.4MB & quick/streaming-3.4MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Germany, Netherlands, Russia, China, Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 11:15pm PST
Palo Alto Demonstration/March
A local weekly peace demonstration turned into a march this week to the local Congresswoman's Office to Demand a Congressional Inquiry of 9-11...
Posted: Wed, Jan 16, 2002 5:01pm PST
Jan 17th Emergency Protests for Colombia
Links, Times, Dates & Medical Information of the Use of Glyphosate-Round Up (TM).
Jan 17th Emergency Protest STOP PLAN COLOMBIA!*...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2002 6:33pm PST
Palo Alto event/March demanding a Congressional Inquiry of 9-11
Following the March to Senator Feinstein's office last week to demand a Congressional Inquiry of 9-11, the weekly peace event will turn into a march and visit Congresswoman Eshoo's office to demand an inquiry of 9-11....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2002 1:53pm PST
Situation Normal, All F**ked Up
commentary on the damocles sword of war...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2002 8:02am PST
Kidnapping of Afghan POWs Denounced Worldwide
The kidnapping of Afghan Prisoners of War from Afghanistan via Europe to Cuba is a worldwide scandal. We now a wide variety of articles on this story....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2002 10:09pm PST
WWII Conscientious Objectors documentary
World War II has become known as "the good war." A recent film documents the 42,000 conscientious objectors who refused to fight it....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2002 11:02am PST
GREEN PARTY USA URGES: COME HOME TO PEACE
The Green Party USA calls for activists and Greens worldwide to join in
solidarity against the illegal U.S. war on the people of Afghanistan.
We have urged a "hands off" policy in that region, but now we are
disappointed to find some European Greens in government breaking solidarity
and supporting our agressor government against Green values. We urgently
call on Die Grunen, the German Green Party, to come home, to reverse their
vote and withdraw from their government coali...
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2002 9:12pm PST
Is Kamikaze Kid's Dad a Boston Top Hoodlum?
Tampa’s kamikaze kid pilot was (pick one): a. A Bin Laden sympathizer b. An American Patriot. c. A British Citizen.
Answer: All of the above. Puzzled? So is everyone else...
In an exclusive investigation the MadCowMorningNews has discovered startling and critical discrepancies in key elements in the official account of the life and death of Charles Bishop, the kamikaze pilot who a week ago flew a Cessna into a Tampa skyscraper.
now at www.madcowprod.com
the MadCowMorningNew...
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2002 7:46pm PST
reportback -Demanding a Congressional Inquiry of 9/11-
what happened January 8th, 2002 when People Gathered and Marched to Senator Feinstein's office...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 9:29pm PST
Amnesty Int'l Condemns Illegal Transfer of Afghan POWs
According to Amnesty International and news reports, the United States is illegally transporting Afghan prisoners of war to another country, namely Cuba, shackling, drugging and hooding the prisoners, also in violation of international law, in transporting these prisoners to Cuba, where they will be imprisoned under conditions that violate international law and perhaps tried by military tribunals, after living in conditions of torture, both of which violate international law....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 11:43am PST
...and the march goes on, in Eugene
peace march in eugene, or -- 11 jan 2002...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 11:00am PST
1/16 SF Anti-War Demonstration
On January 16, 2002 at 5 p.m. at Powell and Market Streets, San Francisco, there will be an International Day of Protest demonstration for (1) No New War Against Iraq: End the Sanctions Now; (2) Stop the War Against Afghanistan! Stop Racist Profiling and Racist Attacks; (3) Fight Back to Defend Civil Rights & Liberties & Immigrant Rights; (4) Money for Jobs, Housing, Healthcare, not for War! This is part of the many Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday activities....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 10:25am PST
Leveraging our collective power
What can we do? Contemplate and post your suggestions...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2002 10:46pm PST
A Double Standard of Morality
Six Months Before Twin Towers Attack Octogenarian World War II Veteran, Describes A Century Of Conditions Leading To It:
The United States Government’s “morally reprehensible pattern of conduct over the past century has caused death and suffering for millions in Third World countries and provides the motivation and rationale for terrorist attacks against the U.S.A. We can never have a just world when America persists in maintaining a double standard of morality."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2002 2:20pm PST
SAT F2: PERMITTED DEMO vs. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
In response to permit applications placed by organizers at International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), the New York Police Department have told us they *WILL NOT* be creating a Quebec-type exclusion zone surrounding the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the site of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF)......
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2002 11:10am PST
Indictment of Bush's guilt for Sept 11th attacks
right-wing talk show hosts were put in the uncomfortable position of trying to figure out whether or not to be a Bush apoligist. ... I noticed the moderate left wasn't saying much about recent revelations of dirty deals Bush is being implicated in. The people calling in to the right-wing talk shows, however, were pissed! Bush is in trouble, folks......
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2002 10:14am PST