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Emergency Response Protests In the case of a new U.S. war against Iraq
Emergency Response Protests. In the case of a new U.S. war against Iraq. Powell and Market Streets. San Francisco. Day of: 5:00 pm. Following Saturday: 12noon...
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 10:38pm PDT
PETITION TO CONGRESS CALLS ATTACK ON IRAQ A CRIME
A national drive to petition Congress against war on Iraq is underway, supported by nine organizations. The petition, available on www.warandlaw.homestead.com, is headed,
"Affirm the rule of law! To attack Iraq is a crime."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 9:55pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Sept 12: Bush at UN; Israel in Tulkarm: Kucinich in Bay Area
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Thursday, Sept 12, 2002
-Robert Knight: Bush lectures the UN (4 min)
-Israel invades Tuldarm, interview with ISM member there (3 min)
-Phyllis Bennis on Bush and Iraq (14 min)
-Professor Fancis Boyle on Bush and Iraq (4 min)
-Congressman Dennis Kucinich on banning weapons in space (9 min)
-Berkeley City Council passes a resolution to ban weapons in space, interview w resolution sponsor, Dona Spring (9 min)
-Youth Radio (4 min)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 8:49pm PDT
QUESTIONS THAT WON'T BE ASKED ABOUT IRAQ
Soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned there are some questions that won’t be asked- and maybe will not even be allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are urging us to start this war....
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 5:10pm PDT
Chomsky's Demystification of Policymaker Mindset Vital To Understanding: speech
Chomsky's extremely vital, must-read speech on Iraq and policymaker planning: "Media Control, The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda." Published here in full, Chomsky does what ideological Leftism seldom does: demystifies and humanizes the *meta* of high-level policymaker psychology and propaganda. Published previously on the net (at www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6904--now censored), ***with Chomsky's permission***...
Posted: Wed, Sep 11, 2002 2:29pm PDT
Flashpoints Sept 9: more DEA raid on WAMM; NYC theater; K Kelly+ B Lubin to Iraq
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Sept 9, 2002 (audio link/s in full story text below)
-Robert Knight and the Knight Report, Iraq has psychedelics of mass destruction?
-Update on last week's DEA raid on a Santa Cruz medical marijuana co-op
-Dancing for Your Life, Immigrant Theater in NYC
-Kathy Kelly and Barbara Lubin ready to go to Iraq...
Posted: Mon, Sep 9, 2002 10:15pm PDT
By attacking Iraq, the US will invite a new wave of terrorist attacks
The current "campaign of hatred" in the Arab world is, of course, also fuelled by US policies toward Israel-Palestine and Iraq. The US has provided the crucial support for Israel's harsh military occupation, now in its 35th year.
One way for the US to lessen Israeli-Palestinian tensions would be to stop refusing to join the long-standing international consensus that calls for recognition of the right of all states in the region to live in peace and security, including a Palestin...
Posted: Sun, Sep 8, 2002 8:13pm PDT
Honesty about the Middle East
A dozen years ago, during the debate over war with Iraq, Patrick Buchanan caused a storm by
observing that the chief advocates of war were the Israelis and “their amen corner in this country.” Nobody really
denied this; at least nobody could deny that there was such an “amen corner” and that it was pushing for war. But
you weren’t supposed to talk about it. It was a sort of unwritten law....
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 10:58pm PDT
War and Peace: The Israeli Lobby and Neo-Cons
The War Party wants to turn the US into a fighting machine for alien
interests, to destroy Iraq, to seize Saudi Arabia, to reshape the Middle East
and to turn Israel into the new centre of the world. The Jewish Lobby
became the moving force of the War Party....
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 10:44pm PDT
Iraq War May Be America's Suez, War Games Show (UK Guardian)
If the US and Iraq do go to war, there can only be one winner, can't there? Maybe not. This summer, in a huge rehearsal of just such a conflict - and with retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper playing Saddam - the US lost. Julian Borger asks the former marine how he did it...
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 3:01pm PDT
Wake-up call
If the US and Iraq do go to war, there can only be one winner, can't there? Maybe not. This summer, in a huge rehearsal of just such a conflict - and with retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper playing Saddam - the US lost. Julian Borger asks the former marine how he did it
Julian Borger
Thursday September 05 2002
The Guardian...
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 9:10am PDT
Propaganda Wars Flood of lies preceding Iraq attack threatens to drown us in bullshit
Jews step up the lies to get US to attack Iraq...
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 4:36am PDT
US Lies Told In Persian Gulf War
The US is trotting out the same "intelligence" lies and phony Iraq threat "intelligence" to justify attacking Iraq now as it did in 1991. The entire world stands against the evil three, Bush, Blair and Sharon....
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 4:31am PDT
US & Britain launch 100 plane airstrike against Iraq
The attack is described as a necessary first step before a major campaign against Iraq, although the US says it's just routine....
Posted: Fri, Sep 6, 2002 9:06am PDT
US Should Threaten War on Israel, Not Iraq!
While the US President and his supporters are trying hard to justify a war against Iraq, they are also trying to divert our attention from what should be the real target : Israel, the fourth largest military in the world and the proud owner of a nuclear bomb....
Posted: Fri, Sep 6, 2002 7:52am PDT
Breaking News: 100 jets join attack on Iraq
About 100 American and British aircraft took part in an attack on Iraq's major western air defence installation yesterday in the biggest single operation over the country for four years....
Posted: Fri, Sep 6, 2002 2:02am PDT
"Let's Be Judeo-Nazis!"
A senior Israeli Defense Force officer admonished his soldiers "In order to beat the Palestinians, let's be Judeo-Nazis!" Read the chilling truth about immoral Israel in the following letter from a former Israeli soldier, who is now a Refusenik. You can verify this letter by doing a Google-search with the keywords "Letter to Amercian Jews from an Israeli Refusenik". Read the astoundlingly horrid truth about why Israel is urging the US to wage war on Iraq! Now you can s...
Posted: Thu, Sep 5, 2002 9:40pm PDT
A Decade of Terrorism Against Iraqi Civilians
A decade of state-sponsored terrorism by the United States in the form of sanctions and bombings has caused over a million deaths in Iraq. Now, you are told to forget your money problems and support a long and costly escalation of these murderous policies. Obey Fuhrer Bush?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 5, 2002 1:41am PDT
AMERICAN WARMONGER DICK CHENEY CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE
Tricky Dick Cheney is caught in another lie concerning his allegations about Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction hype. The following anecdote, excerpted from the below article is most revealing about the credibility of both Tricky Dick and American War propaganda in general......
Posted: Tue, Sep 3, 2002 5:52pm PDT
Mandela forced to talk to Bush's father about his son's misbehavior
Nelson Mandela said Monday that he is "appalled" by U.S. threats to attack Iraq and warned that Washington is "introducing chaos in international affairs." He said he had spoken with President Bush's father and Secretary of State Colin Powell....
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2002 8:08pm PDT