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2002

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The End of the World: How Rome Fell—and Why
Possible subtitle: Present Day USA History in the Making

"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, Chicago Daily News, 28jul41

Conservative estimates of the massive antiwar march on Saturday, 18 Jan. 2003:
More than 200,000 in San Francisco - Over 300,000 in Washington
Even more in other cities around the world

Die Bush Krieger: Amerikas feldzug gegen das böse The Bush Warrior: America's Mission Against Evil. Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq? Take the War on Iraq IQ Test Is the President Nuts? Maybe not, but his actions are convincing The World Will Know The Truth - New Statesman (London) 16dec02 Why Kids Flunk History  - MUMIA ABU-JAMAL / Free Speech Radio News 15may02 A Brief History of Terrorism by the USA - Excerpted from Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn 2002 Bush Tax Dollars FY2003 Is This The Way You Want Your Money Spent? A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain 1889 Cowboy - Michael McClure 2001 [mindfully.org note: For all those who think war will keep the US safe] Somebody Blew Up America  - poem about 9-11 by Amiri Baraka 1oct01  Overview of Foreign Policy Segments of Bush's State of the Union Address  - STEPHEN ZUNES 30jan03 Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) - supports individual & collective resistance to war.

2002

• Bush Seeking Political Gain from the Sept. 11 Attacks: Leaked Bush Document  - AP 28dec02

• Kroger Fingerprints Shoppers - Reuters 24dec02

• US Public Is Unconvinced on Need to Wage War Against Iraq, Says Council on Foreign Relations President Les Gelb / Interview / NY Times 24dec02

• Quiescent Objector - Troy Melhus / NY Times Magazine 22dec02

• Public Military Academy Brings Clash of Cultures  - Washington Post 22dec02

• The World Will Know The Truth - John Pilger / New Statesman (London) 16dec02

• Pre-emption  - NY Times Magazine 15dec02

• Tens of Thousands S. Koreans Participate in Anti-American Rallies - Yonhap News (S. Korea) 15dec02

• Annan Says U.N. Not U.S. Puppet Over Iraq Dossier - Reuters 11dec02

• Russia Opposes Using Pretext to Topple Iraqi Regime  - People's Daily 11dec02

• US,  Canada Reach Agreement to Let Troops Cross Border: Continental Terrorism Concerns Cited  -  Washington Post 10dec02

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Refuses Palestine Film Entry: Goes to War with Bush - Au-Cinema.com 9dec02

• NJ Governor's Racist Request: Eliminate Poet Laureate Position in order to Silence Amiri Baraka MICHAEL SYMONS / Courier Post (NJ) 5dec02

  • I WILL NOT “APOLOGIZE”, I WILL NOT “RESIGN!” Statement by Amiri Baraka, New Jersey Poet Laureate 2oct02

  • Somebody Blew Up America  - poem about 9-11 by Amiri Baraka 1oct01

• Dick Armey Leaves House with Call for Freedom: Americans Must NOT Sacrifice Liberty for Security  -   SF Chronicle 5dec02

• For Some Kuwaitis, Savior Is Now Enemy  - LA Times 2dec02

• Guantanamo Prisoners Seek U.S. Appeals  - AP 2dec02

• Kissinger Denies ___________ (Fill in the blank)  - Washington Post 2dec02

• Sri-Sathya-Sai -Baba: A Friend in India to All the World  - NY Times 1dec02

• Ramadan 'Drummer' Shot Dead by Israelis  - Washington Post 28nov02

• Kissinger? Kissinger?  - The Nation 28nov02

• Signing Homeland Security Bill, Bush Appoints Ridge as Secretary  - NY Times 26nov02

• Petaluma High School Suspends 50 Student Protesters  - The Press Democrat 26nov02

• Slouching Toward Tyranny - Chris Floyd / Metropolis (Russia) 26nov02

• DOJ Acts to Use New Power in Terror Inquiries -  NY Times 24nov02

• CIA Paying Millions in Qaeda Hunt: Foreign leaders fear impact on own intelligence  - Boston Globe 24nov02

• FBI Focus on Iraqi Professor Sparks UMass Protest  - Boston Globe 24nov02

• Politics, Pork and Homeland Security  - Wall Street Journal 21nov02

• "Bush is a Moron" Reflects Strains in Canada-U.S. Ties  - Reuters 22nov02

• In First-Ever Ruling, Secret Appeals Court Allows Expanded Government Spying on U.S. Citizens  - ACLU 18nov02

• More than 90 Jailed at School of the Americas Protest  - Ledger Enquirer (Georgia, US) 18nov02

• Reelected Okinawa Governor Wants US Troops Cut  - AP 17nov02

• $11 Theft of Wine, Lip Balm and Breath Freshener Gets 25 Years to Life in Prison for Ronald Herrera - AP 15nov02

• Worst turnout ever for a California general election -  SF Chronicle 15nov02

• Government Privatization Plan May Make Private Up to 850,000 Jobs -  NY Times 15nov02

• Release of Detainees' Photos Is Probed: Images of Terror Suspects in Transit Were Sent to Web Site  - AP 9nov02

• Iraq: U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 - US Department of State's Office of International Information Programs 8nov02

• In Defense of Environmental Right to Know Echeverria & Kaplan / Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute, Georgetown University Law Center 4nov02

• Developing Effective Non-Lethal Weapon Options Is Needed To Enhance Naval Force Capabilities - NAS Press Release 4nov02

  • An Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology (2002) (Exec. Summ.) - NSB, NAS 4nov02

• Guantanamo: Administration's Position Shifts on Plans for Tribunals  - NY Times 2nov02

• U.S. May Abandon Support of U.N. Population Accord  - NY Times 2nov02

• Bush Withholding Funds from WHO on Objections from Anti-Choice Groups - Congressional Letter to Secretary Colin Powell 31oct02

• Russia's Poison Gases Christopher Chyba / Opinion /NY Times 30oct02

• Chechen Roulette - Ivan Rybkin / Wall Street Journal 29oct02

• Air Force One: Peace and Political Status at 39,000 Feet  - NY Times 29oct02

• France, Russia: Opposition to Iraq Resolution still Firm  - Financial Times (UK) 29oct02

• FBI's Theory On Anthrax Is Doubted  - Washington Post 28oct02

• The Enemy Within - Gore Vidal / The Observer (UK) 27oct02

• Lie Detector: Polygraph Fails Scientific Review National Academy of Sciences  -  The Lancet 26oct02

• $159 Billion Budget Deficit for 2002 - Wall Street Journal 25oct02

• Homeland Offense: Pentagon Declares War on America - Frank Morales / South Bay Mobilization Fall 2002

• The war debate: The Shame of the Politicians - DANIEL ELLSBERG / Interview / SF Chronicle 23oct02

• President Enhances His Facts: Key Assertions Often Stretch the Truth -  Washington Post 22oct02

• Talk Shows Prove Key to White House  - NY Times 21oct02

• Robert P. Hanssen: FBI Paid $7 Million for File On American Spying for Russia - New York Times 18oct02

• Harry Belafonte Interview "Colin Powell was permitted to come into the house of the master" - CNN Larry King Live 15oct2002

• Belafonte Won't Back Down from Powell Slave Reference - CNN 16oct2002

• IRS Weighs Debt Collectors As a Way to Get Back Taxes  - Wall Street Journal 15oct02

• Reform by Imprisonment - Sam Bahour Reform by Imprisonment (Al-Bireh, Israel) 14oct02

• Last days of the Republic  - The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) 12oct02

• Bush's Evidence of Threat Disputed: Ambiguous, Contradict CIA - SF Chronicle 12oct02

• 44 War Protesters Arrested at Federal Building in San Francisco  - SF Chronicle 12oct02

• Carter's Nobel Prize reflects Bush Snub  - The Financial Times (UK) 11oct02

• What's Up on the Docks?  - InTheseTimes 11oct02

• Chavez Foes Gather for Venezuela Opposition March  - Reuters 10oct02

• 20,000 Palestinians March in Gaza  - AP 10oct02

• Just Asking. . .  - The Nation 7oct02

• Vietnamese Refugee's Trial Draws Crowd  - SF Chronicle 5oct02

• FBI Watch on Mosques in SF Bay Area - SF Chronicle 5oct02

• A Longshoreman's Life - William Mandel 4oct02

• After Sept. 11, CIA Becomes A Growing Force on Campus  - Wall Street Journal 4oct02

• Is the President Nuts? Psychopathology of the President  COUNTERPUNCH 2oct02

• Privacy Today: A Review of Current Issues - Privacy Rights Clearinghouse 1oct02

• Harold Pinter's Speech at 'No War on Iraq' Liaison Meeting in Parliament October 2002

• HUD's Homeless Management Information System: Orwell's Vision becomes Reality for the Homeless - Street Sheet Oct02

• 52% Fail California High School Exit Exam - Press Release California Department of Education 30sep02

• Voyeur Cams Ruled Legal by Washington Supreme Court  - CNET 30sep02

• The Jack Welch War Plan  - Editorial / NY Times 28sep02

• Beating Them to the Prewar David Sanger / NY Times 28sep02

• Alternatives to War - Barbara Lee / Commentary / SF Chronicle 27sep02

• No-fly Blacklist Snares Political Activists  -SF Chronicle 27sep02

• Sweatshop Workers in  Saipan  Win Lawsuit  - SF Chronicle 27sep02

• Post 9/11 Economic Windfalls for Arms Manufacturers  - The Progressive Response 26sep02

• 3 Retired Generals Warn of Peril in Attacking Iraq Without Backing of U.N.  - NY Times 24sep02

• At Least 70,000 Terrorist Suspects on Watch List  - LA Times 22sep02

• Interrogations Mix Science and Art  - SF Chronicle 22sep02

• Did the U.S. Help Saddam Acquire Biological Weapons? Congressional Record: (Senate) 20sep02

• OMB Role with Federal Agencies Under Investigation  - Society of Environmental Journalists 20sep02

• Court reinstates suit against Unocal in Myanmar Slave Labor Violations  - AP 19sep02

• Bush Tactics Similar to those of Adolf Hitler  - AP 19sep02

• The Rape of a Nation: Palestine SALAM RAHAL 18sep02

• Federal Judge Holds Norton in Contempt for Failing to Fix Indian Trust  -AP 17sep02

• Corporate Scandals Tainting Donations  - Washington Post 15sep02

• InVision Stock has Soared after 9/11 -  SF Chronicle 12sep02

• The New Brown Shirts? NYT Photo 15sep02

• Cheney, Libby, Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz: On the Job and at Home, Influential Hawks' 30-Year Friendship Evolves - NY Times 11sep02

  • (Accompanying chart of associations between four of present-day Bush advisors)
• The American Enemy is Within Neve Gordon / South Bend Tribune 10sep02

• Colombia Makes Arrests Without Warrants -  AP 10sep02

• Locked Up and Patted Down: A Year of Making U.S. Safer  - NY Times 9sep02

• Long-Term Joblessness Rose by 50% Over the Last Year  - NY Times 9sep02

• FBI and Police Appeal $4.4 million Earth First! Verdict  - (and Trib. articles dating to verdict) Oakland Tribune 8sep02

• Eyes in the Sky, Ears to the Wall, and Still Wanting - James Bamford / NY Times 8sep02

• Coca Spraying Poses No Risk to Colombians, U.S. Declares - NY Times 6sep02

• Voices of Human Rights Muted by Corporate Convenience and War on Terrorism  - Drillbits & Tailings v.7, n.7, 5sep02

• A Look at the Patriot Act, Nearly One Year Later  - Wall Street Journal 5sep02

• Murder by Public Policy -  The Nation 2sep02

• Relax, the Republicans' Days are Numbered - Comment / The Guardian (UK) 2sep02

• The Race to Predict Terror's Costs  - NY Times 1sep02

• Are Lifetime Incomes Growing More Unequal? - Regional Review Q4 2002 (Sep02)

• Activists Win BIG Against the FBI - Karen Pickett / Green Worker v.3, n.2, Sep02

• The FBI at UC Berkeley -  California Monthly Sep02

• California's anti-SLAPP Law Clarified  - SF Chronicle 30aug02

• Warren Anderson Found: Wanted For 20,000 Deaths at Bhopal - The Mirror (UK) 29aug02

• Two on the Prison Industry

  • Study Finds Big Increase in Black Men as Inmates Since 1980 -  NY Times 28aug02

  • One in Three Adults in US Behind Bars: Probation and Parole in the United States 2001 -  Bureau of Justice Statistics / USDOJ 25aug02

• Accused Felon Promoting Security  - San Jose Mercury News 25aug02

• Treadmills of His Mind - Maureen Dowd / Commentary / NY Times 25aug02

• The Demographic Difference between America and Europe  - The Economist (UK) 24aug02

• Medea Benjamin Ejected as Bush stumps for Simon - SF Chronicle 24aug02

• Officers Say US Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas - NY Times 18aug02

• Public Pensions Come Up Short As Stocks' Swoon Drains Funds  - Wall Street Journal 16aug02

• US Attorney General...the head of the "Corporate Crime SWAT Team" Accused of Fraud - Washington Post 15aug02

• Suing Gunmakers gets OK in California -  SF Chronicle 15aug02

• Congress Already OK'd Iraq War  - RUSH LIMBAUGH / Wall Street Journal 13aug02

• The Odds of That in the World of Bioterror & Germ Warfare - NY Times Magazine 11aug02

• Bush's Terrorism Tip Network Scaled Back  - LA Times 10aug02

• Colombia Launches Informant Plan  - LA Times 9aug02

• Ralph Nader Interview  - Time 8aug02

• 'Cheney is a Corporate Crook' Hecklers Surprise Cheney at Commonwealth Club - San Jose Mercury News 7aug02

• Corporate Crackdown - Wall Street Journal Special 7aug02

• Isn't That Strange! An American perspective..... That Strange American Perspective? - Media Monitors Network (MMN) 7aug02

• Sharon's Goal to Reform Palestinian Authority  - Neve Gordon / South Bend Tribune (IN) 1aug02

• Father Bill O'Donnell Protested Terrorism by the US: Gets Six Months in Jail   - Daily Planet 31jul02

  • Father Bill O'Donnell: The High Priest of Protests  - SF Chronicle 16jun02

• Interior Official Ousted Over His Efforts to Reform Indian Accounts  - AP 31jul02

• Salesmanship Got Us In. Can It Get Us Out?  - NY Times 28jul02

• Scientists Worry Journals May Aid Terrorists -  NY Times 26jul02

• US Loses Fight to Block UN vote on Torture Convention  -  AP 25jul02

• EU Boosts aid to UN Population Fund after US Holds Back  - AP 24jun02

• 1776 and All That  -  Commentary/The Nation 22jul02

• How Big Media Missed the Big Story - Orville Schell / Newsweek Website 19jul02

• ChevronTexaco Held by Nigerian Women Demanding Better Conditions -  Vanguard (Nigeria) 19ju02

• Teachers Study Reveals Charter Schools Not Meeting Expectations - AFT 17jul02

• Army Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Army Vulnerable to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse - GAO 15jul02

• Brookings Study Calls Homeland Security Plans Too Ambitious - NY Times 14jul02

• Scientists (Again) Warn 'Star Wars' Threatens the Safety of Space Orbit -  Wall Street Journal 14jul02

• Greedy People are really Needy People - JENNIFER STONE / Stone’s Throw / KPFA 11jul02

• Scientific Integrity in a Regulatory Context: An Elusive Ideal at EPA  -  Second Look 9jul02

• The Honorable Kweisi Mfume 2002 NAACP Annual Convention Address - NAACP 8jul02

• War Shifts From Combat Sweeps To Small Units Probing Shadows -  Washington Post 7jul02

• Court Rules Same-Sex Law Unconstitutional -  AP 6jul0

• Stick it!  Political Stickers Draw Sneers -  Berkeley Daily Planet 6jul02

• Cops, FBI Lied at Trial about EarthFirst! Probe: According to Juror - SF Chronicle 3jul02

• Gale Norton says it could cost billions to account for Indian money -  AP 3jul02

• “Gold Greed and Genocide” Native American documentary a small, powerful effort  -  Berkeley Daily Planet 2jul02

• Pentagon Program Promotes Psychopharmacological Warfare - The Sunshine Project News Release 1jul02

• Just Like America - Opinion / Dilip D'Souza / India Currents v.16, n.4, Jul02

• Prisoners in 2001 - U.S. Department of Justice Statistics Jul02

• Ida B. Wells and her Brave Fight Against Lynching -  Smithsonian Jul02

• US Customs Antiterror Inspections Will Begin at 3 European Ports -  NY Times 30jun02

• Jerusalem Under Attack - Neve Gordon 27jun02

• I Have A Dream: Ich habe einen Traum - Martina Navratilova / Die Zeit 27jun02

• Pledge of Allegiance Found Unconstitutional by US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 26jun02

  • The Pledge of Allegiance: A Short History - Dr. John Baer 1992

• President Bush the Martyr - Sam Bahour & Michael Dahan / electronicIntifada.net 25jun02

• Abner Louima Today  - NY Times 23jun02

• Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Enter Balata Refugee Camp Near Nablus - International Solidarity Movement (ISM)  Jun02

• Last laugh is sweet for Cherney - SF Chronicle 14jun02

  • Jury Awards $4.4 Million To Earth First!  - Wall Street Journal 12jun02

• What Company, that has a little more than 500 employees, has the following statistics ? - 12jun02

• Kerr Reacts to Past and Present FBI Involvement -  Daily Californian (UCB) 11jun02

• Air Force Officer Removed for accusing Bush of having prior knowledge about 9/11 -  Monterey County Herald 3jun02

• American War Airpower - Atlantic Monthly Jun02

• The Judi Bari Bombshell -  SF Bay Guardian 29may02

• Space Tourism: Space buffs could use a boost -  SF Chronicle 26may02

• Joint Declaration Between the USA and the Russian Federation  - Moscow 24may02

• 15,000 Protest Bush and 'War on Terrorism' in Germany  -  NYT 23may02

• 1,844 Homeless Died in San Francisco in past 15 years - SF Chronicle 21may02

• Bush's Cuba Policy: Senator Chris Dodd's Reaction  -  Press Release 20may02

• Bush's Shade of Green - The Nation 20may02

• Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work - The American Prospect 20may02

• Information about terrorism that U.S. officials received before Sept. 11, 2001 - AP 19may02

• Airlines Warned of Terrorist Threats 5 Months Before 9/11 - AP 18may02

• Palestinian Authority official discusses democracy at UC Berkeley -  Berkeley Daily Planet 16may02

• Why Kids Flunk History  - MUMIA ABU-JAMAL / Free Speech Radio News 15may02

• As Sex-Abuse Suits Mount, Church Tries to Protect Real-Estate Assets -  Wall Street Journal 15may02

• A Woman's Face, and the Shattered Faces of Children - MUMIA ABU-JAMAL / Free Speech Radio News 12may02

• Some Arab states citizens may be banned in future from entering the USA - ArabicNews.com 10may02

• Support for Refuseniks - Neve Gordon / Editorial / The Nation 9may02

• Bush's Little Secret: Classified National Security Information Federal Register 9may02

• Syria Charges Two Intellectuals with Incitement, Defaming the Government - AP 9may02

• Let us Not Make Children Pay for Our Failures any More  - UN Secretary General Koffe Annan at the UN Children's Summit 8may02

• How the F.B.I. Tracked His Phone Calls and His Trash -  New York Times 7may02

• U.S. to Renounce Its Role in Pact for World Tribunal -  NY Times 5may02

• To Make a Zombie - a poem by STAAJABU / Straight Out Scribes 1may2002

• Judge Rules Against U.S. on Material-Witness Law  -NY Times 1may02

• The trappings and Glitter of War - MUMIA ABU-JAMAL / Free Speech Radio News 1may02

• How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents (1848-1989) RICHARD SANDERS / Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) May02

• The Nation’s Report Card: U.S. History 2001, NCES 2002–483 USDE, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) May02

• Oakland Housing Authority Misuses One Strike Policy -  Street Spirit v.8, n.5, May02

• Wen Ho Lee: Anatomy of a Scandal -  Pressing Times Spring02

• Where Are the Peaceniks? - Neve Gordon / The Nation  29apr02

• Army Secretary Tom White—It Gets Worse  -  The Nation  22apr02

• Thousands march in S.F. protest: At least 20,000 - SF Chronicle 21apr02

• War Tax Resisters Renew Call to Divert Cash -  AP 15apr02

• Nine Armenians: a play - Golden Thread Productions 15apr02 

• Reparations for Slavery: Recalculating the price of human bondage -  SF Chronicle 14apr02

• Terror In The Territories -  InTheseTimes 12apr12

• Rep. Cynthia McKinney's, D-Ga: "White House May Have Ignored Warning Of 9/11" - AP 12apr02

• Spending For Defense No Public Debate - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 11apr02

• The Bush Doctrine is Very Simple - Tom Meyer 8apr02

• A different kind of 'terrorism' on Vieques - Melanie Feliciano / SF Chronicle 8apr02

• Robert P. Hanssen: Agent Who Betrayed F.B.I. Cites Its Laxity -  New York Times 5apr02

• Fit The Profile, Go To Jail: Rabih Haddad  - War Times Apr02

• Pentagon Seeks Exemption From Environmental Laws -  NY Times 30mar02

• High Court Rules That Government Can Use Evictions to Combat Drugs  -  Wall Street Journal 26mar02

  • NY State Attorney General Sues Mount Vernon Landlord: Tenant Convicted of Drug Offenses NY Times 8apr02

• Mayor Mogul: Mike Bloomberg wants to be New York City's CEO. Too bad he's only mayor. -  Fortune 1apr02

• A Virtual Reality: The expressway between Bangalore and Mysore - RITU PRIMLANI / India Currents Apr02

• 20,000 People Protest to Save San Francisco's beloved Musée Mécanique  -  SF Chronicle 26mar02

• Alastair Wood's Favor of the Month -  The New Republic 18mar02

• Sharon’s Lessons In Terror - Neve Gordon / In These Times 15mar02

• On Both Sides in the Mideast, Fear and Stress Are Building  -  NY Times 15mar02

• Enron lobbying correction: $2.5 million for six months of pressing its agenda on Bush  - AP 8mar02

• Malcolm X Family Fights Auction of Papers  -  NY Times 7mar02

• Identity Politics: The Science of Biometrics  - Your Physical Traits are the Password -  SF Chronicle 3mar02

• Offensive New Pentagon Defence Doctrine: Making Enemies  - Le Monde Diplomatique Mar02

• Letter of Resignation by Eric V. Schaeffer, Director Office of Regulatory Enforcement for US EPA - 28feb02

• Office of Strategic Influence: Is it the truth, or is it a lie? -  San Diego Union-Tribune 28feb02

• Three Convictions Overturned in Louima Torture Case -  (several articles) NY Times & AP 28feb02

• World's Richest People - Forbes 28feb02

• 'A Prayer for America' -  US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich / The Nation Website 26feb02

• An Antiwar Movement Grows in Israel  - Neve Gordon / The Nation  25feb02

• Rotten to the Core - Mokhiber and Weissman / Corporate Focus 21feb01

• AFRICA: More than 13 MILLION Displaced - IRIN 13feb02

• Drug Control in Colombia: Efforts to Develop Alternative Crops:  Little Progress and Serious Obstacles - (partial report) GAO-02-291 8feb02

• Spirit of the Games: Homeless Casualties of Olympic Rents -  SF Chronicle 7feb02

• Two big lies in Filipino-American History: U.S. Lies And Broken Promises - Emil Guillermo / SF Gate 5feb02

• European Security Leaders Alarmed by Bush's Stance  - Washington Post 3feb02

• Bush wants $120 BILLION Boost for Pentagon  -  NY Times 2feb02

• Enron and the Bushes ( 21nov94 reprint ) The Nation 4feb02

• Bush Appointed Enron's Favorites to FERC Posts -  AP 1feb02

• Barbara Lee Holds Her Own -  Bay Area Business Woman Feb02

• GAO to Sue White House to Access Bush's Energy Task Force/Enron Documents  (plus GAO text) -  AP 30jan02 

• Treatment of Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay Cuba Exposes America -  The East African, Nairobi, Kenya 27jan02

• Suit by Severed Enron Employees Coalition (SEEC) - US District Court for the Southern District of TX, Houston Div. 24jan02

• Coca Eradication: Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World - Economic and Social Council / United Nations 24jan02

• Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World - Economic and Social Council / United Nations 24jan02

• U.S. Mistreating al Qaeda, Taliban detainees at Guantanamo - SF Chronicle 22jan02

• Wen Ho Lee Speaks Briefly in S.F.  - AP 17jan02

• Crony Capitalism, U.S.A. - NY Times 15jan02

• On the Public's Right to Know: Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) - EDITORIAL / SF Chronicle 6jan02

• Replace all those American Flag Bumper Stickers: Let's Roll THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN / NY Times 2jan02

• Television Seen for the First Time in History - NYT 8apr27 (major contribution in the dumbing down of US)

• R.U.R. Rossums Universal Robots  - Karel Capek 1920

• Income Tax Law in Effect To-Day - New York Times  1nov1913

• "I don't think all this dirt will fit back into the hole.  We'd better dig another one."

• Seven Deadly Sins -  Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

• Common Sense Chapter 1 On the Origin and Design of Government in General, With Concise Remarks on the English Constitution  - Thomas Paine 1776

• Tao Te Ching -  Lao-tzu (551-479 BCE) translated by Stephen Mitchell 1988

• The Art of War  -  Sun Tzu (China abt.500 BC) 

• Kali: The Feminine Force

More...

• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) - supports individual & collective resistance to war.

• Ten Reasons Why The U.S. is an OUTLAW NATION

• US Patriot Registration Website - must-see humor

• US Policy in Seeking World Peace

• Civilian Victims of US Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting - Prof. Marc W. Herold Ph.D., M.B.A., B.Sc. Dec01

• Feeling Like a Piece of Meat?

• Why grammar is the First Casualty of War - Terry Jones / The Telegraph 1dec01

• What is the Problem with those People anyway? -  Paul Goettlich 20sep01

• Official 2000 Tax Form 1040 Schedule 'W'

• George W. Bush (Alfred E. Newman) Quotes

• Things You Learn From the Movies

• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting -  www.fair.org

• The Media Crisis - Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Robert W. McChesney / The New Press 2000

• Thich Nhat Hanh What I Would Say to Osama bin Laden - Zen monk  talks about how listening is the first step towards peace. Sep01

• A Children's Story by Hans Christian Andersen that offers insight into how we got to where we are,
                                         as well as the science behind many of our most outstanding technologies such as 
                                         plastics, pesticides, genetic engineering, cancer research and many more.

• Schedule of the Lethargarians from The Phantom Tollbooth Chapter 2 Beyond Expectations / Norton Jester 1961

• Why the Military and Diplomats cannot bring Peace to Middle East 
                                         or bring the 'War-Against-Terrorism' to a successful conclusion anywhere in the World.