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This is “republican” opposition to empire, imperialism and Bush? I wonder how important that rift is within the US?
The story behind the Bin Laden Tape
One Battlefield, Two Wars, by Justin Raimondo
Interesting bit of insight into what bin Laden is on about AND how the media supress that to suit the Bushies.
A useful source?
Later:
Useful, as it has regular updates and insights I am not seeing readily elswhere. Interesting to note the editor’s politics, conservative, libertarian, see here. How interesting that there is this movement on the right, which like the socialist left opposes this war, UN sanctions or not, and like the left sees it as a move towards empire.
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
February 02, 2003 – February 08, 2003 Archives
Tom Morrow’s weblog. The reason for war in Powell’s speech, in one line.
Working for Change features Tom’s comic.
Otautahi Christchurch New Zealand Peace Action Network
Otautahi Christchurch New Zealand Peace Action Network
We have now confirmed Victoria Square, 1pm on February 15th as the venue.
The next planning meeting will be 6:30 pm Tuesday February 11th at the WEA. We will be finalising Picnic For Peace organising, followed by a longer-term strategy discussion at 7 pm. This is an open meeting, all are welcome.
There is lots of discussion on organising this event on the PANNZ list (see contact details below) so we recommend you join the list if you want to be involved.
John Perry Barlow
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Good to hear this from someone in the music world:
All of this stuff about ‘piracy’ is fomented entirely by the record and film industries to perpetuate business models that are completely disadvantageous to both the creator and the audience. They are the biggest pirates in the deal. But unfortunately, they have made huge amounts of campaign donations and essentially created all the government that money can buy. And they have Congress. Congress is passing laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which make it so you can’t break open the bottles that they’re pouring your knowledge into. They directly contravene the right to know. The right to know, I think, though it may not be explicit in the Constitution is every bit as important as the right to speak.
US is misquoting my Iraq report, says Blix
Dr Blix took issue with what he said were US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s claims that the inspectors had found that Iraqi officials were hiding and moving illicit materials within and outside of Iraq to prevent their discovery. He said that the inspectors had reported no such incidents.
Similarly, he said, he had not seen convincing evidence that Iraq was sending weapons scientists to other countries to prevent them from being interviewed.
Nor had he any reason to believe, as President George Bush charged in his State of the Union speech, that Iraqi agents were posing as scientists, or that his inspection agency had been penetrated by Iraqi agents and that sensitive information might have been leaked to Baghdad.
Finally, he said, he had seen no persuasive indications of Iraqi ties to al-Qaeda. “There are other states where there appear to be stronger links,” such as Afghanistan, Dr Blix said. “It’s bad enough that Iraq may have weapons of mass destruction.”
It really is bad how the US admin machine generates lies, this info is also reported but somehow the might of the lies machine overwhelms it all. I got this link of daypop, not Google News for example, which means people find this but search engines don’t?
Later:
It might make no real sense to have UN inspectors (backed by US might) in Iraq but for all that the battle there is holding off the war for now, perhaps because of a falling out among thieves. For all that if the US had its way millions would be dead by now. But ultimately Blix and the UN can’t be trusted to keep the peace.
The Unseen Gulf War by Peter Turnley – The Digital Journalist
How can we stop this now?
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Poets Against the War
And it’s madness
to ask poets to celebrate,
when people can’t even
breathe deeply
for fear of war’s imminence.— Gregory Orr
How i feel at times going about simply living – let alone celebrating life. Particularly acute with the more fun and trivial stuff…