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Jan-Jun 2003

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"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

Favorites 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.

• FBI's New Focus Places Burden on Local Police  - Wall Street Journal 30jun03
• Aqaba Summit: Bumps in the Road Map  - The Nation 30jun03
• Condoleezza Rice: USA Thinks Multipolar World Harmful - ITAR-TASS (Russia) 28jun03
• NYC Passes $43.7 Billion Budget - NY Times 28jun03
• Osama bin Laden Mars Royal Birthday Bash  - Guardian Weekly 26jun03
• Bush on Mission From God: `Road Map is a Life Saver for Us,' PM Abbas Tells Hamas ARNON REGULAR / Haaretz (Israel) 26jun2003
• TALON: DoD Logging Unverified Tips - Wired 25jun2003
• As Fatalities Rise, Will Support Wane?  - Christian Science Monitor (25jun03 edition) 24jun03
• Convoy Wasn't Carrying Hussein: US Forces Crossed Syria  - Christian Science Monitor 24jun03
• Bush Forced to Defend Rising US Death Toll in Iraq  - The Guardian (UK) 24jun03
• UFCW: Wal-Mart Ordered to Recognise and to Negotiate With UFCW Local - Press Release 23jun03
• In Volatile Iraq, US Curbs Press -  Christian Science Monitor 19jun03
• The Homeless in Japan Find A Place in Cities' Public Parks: Long Economic Slump - Wall Street Journal 18jun03
• Medgar Evers Fought With Relentless Force In Civil Rights Struggle - Denisha DeLane / Berkeley Daily Planet 17jun03
• Facts about Iraq? Who cares? Editorial / DesMoines Register 17jun03
• Rebuilding Iraq Proves to Be A Gold Mine for Middlemen  - Wall S5treet Journal 16jun03
• Che Guevara - The Symbol of Rebellious Youth  - Pravda 14jun03
• Desertification is Both a Cause and a Consequence of Poverty - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan / Press Release 12jun03
• Bush Cited Iraqi Uranium Bid AFTER Investigator Concluded Documents Forged  - Washington Post 12jun03
• The Ever-Growing US Military Footprint -  Asia Times 10jun03
• 19.8 Million Refugees in 2002: One out of every 300 persons on Earth was a Refugee - UNHCR Global Report 2002
• Wal-Mart Wages Don't Support Wal-Mart Workers  - AlterNet 10jun03
• Young Republican Brown-Shirts Hit Berkeley: Right turn on Telegraph -  California Monthly Jun03
• Kucinich Reloaded  - Sacramento News & Review 9jun03
• Supreme Court Deadlocks on Agent Orange Case - AP 9jun03
• Operation Rockingham Revealed: The Secret Cabal which Spun for Blair Investigation  - Sunday Herald (Scotland) 8jun03 
• Lies Are No Longer Damned Lies: Americans Reduced to Expecting Deceit  - SF Chronicle 8jun03
• Unexploded Cluster Bombs Litter Iraq  - Washington Post 5jun03
• Four in Ten Americans Unaware Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Have Not Been Found - Program on International Policy Attitudes 4jun03
• Gas-Masked Queen Stamps Fumes Britain's Royal Mail - AFP 4jun03
• Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil  - The Guardian (UK) 4jun03

• The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization - Harper's Magazine Jun03

• An Illusion of Progress - The Ecologist Jun03

• The Day of the Jackals - Arundhati Roy / at the United For Peace and Justice teach-in 31may03
• Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review - British Medical Journal 31may03
• "Wag the Dog" Waggy Dog Stories - Commentary / NY Times 30may03
• Supreme Court Allows Secret Deportation Hearings To Stand - Lawyers Committee for Human Rights / Alternet 29may03
• Patriot Act: We Are The Patriots - Gore Vidal / The Nation 2jun03
• Another Side of Black History Month - Mumia Abu-Jamal / Commemorator May03
• The Other War: Global Poverty And The Millennium Challenge Account (Forward & Introduction) - Brookings Institution Press 29may03
• Vieques: Last Civil Disobedient to be Released from Prison on 10 June - Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques 26may03
• $1.3B Bush Foreign Aid: New Washington Consensus - NY Times 25may03
• On the Role of a Journalist In a Democracy - Bill Moyers / Now (Toronto) 25may03
• The Unconquerable World: Waging a War of Words on the Very Idea of War  - Book Review / NY Times 24may03
• The Resume of George Walker Bush 23may03
• Homeland Security Buys Town, Playas, N.M., for Training - Reuters 23may03
• Republicans Talk, But Don't Walk Green - Mark Hertsgaard / AlterNet 22may03
• Bush Commencement Address to United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut 21may03
  • Washington's AIDS Promises Misleading  - InterPress Service (IPS) 21may03
• Terrorism: Chemical Manufacturers Elude Crackdown on Toxic Materials  - Wall Street Journal 21may03

• TIA: Pentagon Readies Total Information Awareness system (TIA): Massive Spying System  - AP 20may03

• Statue of Liberty Wears Cloak of Russian Copper  - Pravda 20may03

• Marching in Baghdad, Thousands of Shiites Protest Against the U.S.  - NY Times 20may03

• Big Brother Is Tracking You. Without a Warrant  - NY Times 18may03

• Police Harass St. Louis Biodevastation 7 Demonstrators with False Arrests and Lies  - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 16may03

• France Protests 'Plot' by US  - International Herald Tribune (France) 16may03

• France Claims U.S. Is Engaging in Disinformation Campaign  - International Herald Tribune (France) 15may03

• Empire and the Capitalists - Commentary / Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University 15may03

• CIA Officials Who Failed to Put Hijackers on Watch List Not Named  - NY Times 15may03

• Iraq: A New Kind of Democracy  - Al Muajaha (Iraq) 14 May 2003

• GPS Tracking: Washington Supreme Court to Decide if Warrant Needed for GPS Tracking  - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 13may03

• Empire: Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy: Buy One, Get One Free - Arundhati Roy at the Riverside Church, Harlem, New York City 13may03

• Texas Redistricting Plan: Statement from Texas Democrats not on the House Floor Today 12may03

• White House's Dollar Dilemma: Weak Currency Helps Economy -  Wall Street Journal 13may03

• TV Wrapped in the American Flag: The China Syndrome - NY Times 13may03

• USA: A Technological Power of Inferior Culture and Values?  Mohammed Alkhereiji / The Arab News 13may03 

• War is Yet to Come  - Frontline (India) 9may03

• Oakland Teacher Informed Homeland Security of Student's Criticism of Bush: Secret Service Questions Students - KRON TV 7may03

• Envoy Dubs US a Police State  - The Times (UK) 6may03

• Vieques, Puerto Rico: What Next? - Paul Goettlich 6may03

• Why Ecocide Is 'Good News' for the GOP  - E Magazine 5may03

• Illegal Elections in Florida Give Glimpse of Upcoming Elections - Letter from actor Peter Coyote to Senator Barbara Boxer 2may03

• How the Bush Administration Uses the Judicial System to Weaken Environmental Protections (Executive Summary) - Defenders of Wildlife 2ma03

• Unemployment Keeps Rising, But Investors Appear Relieved  - Wall Street Journal 2may03

• 1/2 Million Jobs Cut in Last 3 Months  - AP 2may03

• The Acid Test: Eliot Spitzer is Losing the War Against Malefactors of Great Wealth  - NY Times 2may03
• Vieques: Navy Leaves a Battered Island, and Puerto Ricans Cheer  - NY Times 2may03
• Vieques: U.S. Navy Bombing on Vieques Now Ended! - ENS 1may03
• U.S./U.K. Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says  - Bloomberg 1may03
• Is Silence Killing Your Company? - Harvard Business Review May03
• Oakland Cop Probe Ordered  - Oakland Tribune 30apr03
• Mexicana Pilot Inadvertently Sends Hijack Signal - AP 29apr03
• Repression of Free Speech: A Flashback to the 60's for an Antiwar Protester  - NY Times 27apr03
• American Power Moves Beyond the Mere Super - Opinion / Gregg Easterbrook / NY Times 27apr03
• How Jihad Made Its Way to Chechnya - Washington Post 26apr03
• Brazil: Neoliberalism with a "Human Face"  - Global Research 25apr03
• Court Gives Hollywood Broad Powers To Violate Your Privacy - Music Industry News Network 25apr03
• DU: Is the Destruction of Hospitals and Public Health Records a Coverup of "Depleted" Uranium Health Impacts in Iraq? Press Release 25apr03
• What's Going On?  - Information Clearing House 24apr03
• Amy Biehl: Why do they forgive us? BELLA ENGLISH / Boston Globe 23apr03
• US Ag Secretary Names Dan Amstutz to Lead Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq  - USDA 21apr03
• Give Us Back Our Democracy - Edward Said / The Observer 20apr03
• The Masters of the World: The World Order of the Superpower - Der Spiegel (Germany) 19apr03
• Cashing in on Reconstruction - Aljazeera (Doha) 19pr03
• NATO's Shadow Over South Asia - Outlook India 18apr03
• Thousands in Baghdad Call for US Withdrawal - Aljazeera (Doha) 18apr03
• Iraq's War of Liberation from the Americans is about to Begin  - New Zealand Herald 18apr03
• Thousands of Iraqis March, Demanding U.S. Withdrawal - AP 18apr03
• Black Panther Party Photo Exhibit Reframes Image  - Berkeley Daily Planet 15apr03
• Monsanto's "Shock and Awe" - Devinder Sharma / AgBioIndia Bulletin 17apr03
• Zalmay Khalilzad - Envoy for Islamic Terror  - Emperor's Clothes Newsletter 16apr03
• Bio-Terrorism & SARS - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / The Institute of Science in Society 16apr03
• How and Why the US Encouraged Looting in Iraq  - World Socialist Web Site 15apr03

• US Troops Kill 10, Wound 100 Iraqi Protesters  -  News Interactive (Sydney) 15apr03

• Korans Set Ablaze at the Ministry of Religious Endowment in Baghdad - The Independent (UK) 15apr03

• White House Seeks to Expand DNA Database to Include Juveniles -  USA Today 15apr03

• Privatization in Disguise  - The Nation 15apr03

• US Guards Only Oil and Intelligence as Looters Ransack Government Buildings  - New Zealand Herald 14apr03

• The Best Defense - William Safire-  NY Times 14apr03

• Liberty Vanishes While the Press Sleeps  - Village Voice 13apr03

• America's War Machine Will Continue to Roll  - Toronto Star 13apr03

• Insuring Weddings in Uncertain Times  - NY Times 13apr03

• History: Involvement of the USA Latin America - Chavezthefilm.com (accessed) 13apr03

• Hans Blix: US was Bent on War  - The Guardian (UK) 12apr03

• Vanishing Liberties  - The Village Voice (NY) 11apr03

• U.S. & British Soldiers Killed in Iraq - AP 11apr03

• Killing the Independent Media  - Centre for Research on Globalization 11apr03

• Murdoch Adds to Empire With Control of DirecTV - Transnationale.org 10apr03

• Spoils of War  - NY Times 10apr03

• Army Must Halt Iraq Chaplain's Coerced Baptisms - Americans United 9apr03

• Baghdad Hotel Hit 'Deliberate': French TV 3 - (Links to Videos) Daily Telegraph (Australia) 9apr03

• U.S. May Need to Pay to Install Antimissile Devices on Airliners  - NY Times 9apr03

• US Military Wants to Take Out Journalists?  - The Independent (UK) 9apr03

• Iraq War Profitable for Son of Hitler's Chemical Defense Corps General -  NY Times 8apr03

• Suspended San Francisco Chronicle Reporter Continues Fight Against War -  Berkeley Daily Planet 8apr03

• Violence Erupts At Oakland Port; Protesters Hurt  - Berkeley Daily Planet 8apr03

• Report from the Oakland Docks: The Cops Had No Reason to Open Up on Them -  Counterpunch 8apr03

• US Intentionally Bombs Al-Jazeera Baghdad Office - Kills Cameraman - Reuters 8apr03

• Killing Of Reporters Sparks World Outrage - IslamOnline.net 8apr03

• Nuns Convicted in War Protest  - NY Times 8apr03

• US Intentionally Bombs Al-Jazeera Baghdad Office - Kills Cameraman - Reuters 8apr03

• Arab League Not to Admit New US-controlled Iraqi Government - People's Daily (Beijing) 8apr03

• The Real Face of War  - AlterNet 8apr03

• The Weird Men Behind George W. Bush's War  - New Statesman (UK) 7apr03

• Iraq Special Report  - The Guardian 7apr03

• Iraqi Ambassador to Russia, Abbas Khalaf Kunfud Proud of His Nation - Pravda (Russia) 7apr03

• Pity Geoff Hoon - New Zealand Herald 7apr03

• Procession of the Russian Ambassador in Iraq was Attacked - Arabic News.com 7apr03

• What Happened to Unruly Mary Cheney?  - Pravda (Russia) 7apr03

• Food, Too, Can Be a Weapon of the War in Iraq  - NY Times 6apr03

• Russia Furious over Shooting Incident in Iraq - UPI 6apr03

• "It Really is Disgustingly Sanitized on Television"  - The Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) 5apr03

• Carlyle Group: US Arms Group Heads for Lisbon - The Portugal News 5apr03

• War in Iraq Devastating for Rural Economy - FAO Press Release 3apr03

• Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates - Arundhati Roy / The Guardian 2apr03

• Ordinance No. 1339 Arcata Municipal Code To Defend the Bill of Rights and Civil Liberties - City Council, Arcata, CA 2apr03

• Rancho Viejo v. Norton - United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Argued November 12, 2002 Decided April 1, 2003 No. 01-5373 1apr2003

• Bush, Rumsfeld, Blair, Straw Banned From Entering Church of Nativity in Bethlehem - Qatar News Agency 1apr03

• No war for whose oil? Collateral Damage from an Illegal War  - Le Monde diplomatique Apr03

• Mr Bush Should Heed the Humble Words of his Election Campaign - The Independent (UK) 31mar03

• Military Mirrors Working-Class America -  NY Times 30mar03

• Second Journalist Dies in Iraq: "Fell Off Roof" - ITV (UK) 30mar03

• Venezuelan Government Position on the War Against Iraq - LAN 30mar03

• DU: US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal'  - Sunday Herald (UK) 30mar03

• Bush & Blair: They Do Not Know What they are Doing or Why they are Doing It - The Independent (UK) 30mar03

• Consequences of Iraqi War, As Writers See It - Alexander Barinov / Pravda 29mar03

• Richard Perle Aided Maker of Satellites  - NY Times 29mar03

• Bechtel Top Contender in Bidding Over Iraq  - NY Times 29mar03

• Oakland CA may Block Big-Box Grocery Stores: Two Council Members Propose Moratorium - Argus 28mar03

• Dick Cheney: Halliburton’s Axis of Influence  - InTheseTimes 28mar03

• Richard Perle: Pentagon Adviser Is Stepping Down  - NY Times 28mar03

• Geneva Convention Can't be Applied Selectively  - Editorial / Le Monde Diplomatique (France) 26mar03

• Afghan-Born Restaurant Owner Set On Fire in Indianapolis  - Indianapolis Star 26mar03

• Iraqi Resistance Strikes a Chord With Locals on Mideast Street  - Wall Street Journal 26mar03

• Annan ‘Increasingly Concerned’ by Civilian Casualties in Iraq - Press Release / UN 26mar03

• Can War Outlays Give Bump To Defense-Industry Stocks?  - Wall Street Journal 25mar03

• Draconian Anti-Terrorism Bill Written by Portland, Oregon Police Detective - The Oregonian 24mar03

• America Had No Verdun -  Interview of German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer / Der Spiegel (Germany) 24mar03

• Bush Dreams of Changing Not Just Regime but Region  - Wall Street Journal 21mar03

• War in Iraq: Jubilation Turns to Hate as Aid Arrives  - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 20mar03

• INS's Part in the War on Terrorism: Keshav Jiwnani is Not the Enemy  - SF Bay Guardian 18mar03

• Michael Moore: Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War 17mar03

• Waves of War Protests Roll Around the World - AP 21mar03

• S. African President Regrets US-led War on Iraq - People's Daily (Beijing ) 20mar03

• US-Led War Might Prevail In Court Despite Backlash  - Wall Street Journal 20mar03

• The Americas: A Whole Continent against the War  - Pravda (Russia) 19may03
• 'Operation Liberty Shield' Security Measures  - AP 18mar03
• Some 'Mystified' by Award to Scalia for Free Speech  - LA Times 18mar03
• Antonin Scalia: Good for GM, Bad for Racial Fairness -  LA Times 18mar03

• US Unilateralism Worries Trade Officials  - NY Times 17mar03

• Putin Calls War Against Iraq a 'Mistake'  - Voice of America 17mar03
• Robin Cook Resigns from Tony Blair's Cabinet over Iraq Crisis - BBC (UK) 17mar03
• American Protester Killed by Israeli Bulldozer in Gaza - NY Times 16mar03
• Middlesex and the Limitations of Myth  - Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) News Spring03
• Warren Langley, Former President of the Pacific Exchange Arrested at His 1st Protest - SF Chronicle 15mar03

• Kiss Your Internet Good-bye - Servando González aft.14mar03

• The Paradox of American Power: Commentary / People's Daily (Beijing Time) 14mar03
• China Warns US not to Send Wrong Signals to Taiwan - People's Daily (Beijing) 14mar03
• Empire: Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy: Buy One, Get One Free - Arundhati Roy at the Riverside Church, Harlem, New York City 13may03
• Civilising the Torture Trade  - The Guardian (UK) 13mar03
• On Rights and Responsibilities in the Modern World (Text in English and Russian) - Pravda (Moscow) 12mar03 
• Open Letter to Jacques Chirac & Gerhard Schröder  - International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) 12mar03
• Keep the U.N. United - KOFI A. ANNAN / Wall Street Journal 11mar03
• America's Second Experiment with Democracy  - AgbioIndia 10mar03

• Journalists: Pentagon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq  - GuluFuture 10mar03

• Budget Cuts Imperil Youth Crime Programs  - NY Times 9mar03
• Smart People Working Collectively can be Dumber Than the Sum of their Brains -  NY Times 9mar03
• China Supports Joint Declaration of France, Germany and Russia - People's Daily (Beijing) 7mar03
• Top UN Inspectors Criticize CIA Data on Iraqi Sites  - LA Times 8mar03
• Stock Market Posts Second Weekly Decline  -  AP 8mar03
• Jobs Plunge 308,000 Amid War Worries  - Reuters 7mar03
• Remarks by France's Foreign Minister to United Nations Security Council  - NY Times 7mar03
• In Talk of War, Cost Is Avoided  - Washington Post 7mar03
• Thousands of Russians Volunteer to Defend Iraq  - Pravda 6mar03
• America Reaps the Failure of Diplomacy  - Financial Times (UK) 6mar03
• US Abstains in United Nations War on Tobacco  - Boston Globe 5mar03
• U.S. Bastards? More than Half of the Canadians Polled Said Yes: Parrish the Thought  - Globe and Mail (Toronto) 4mar03
• Russia May Use Veto - Reuters 4mar03
• CROSS THE LINE !: Anti-War Leaders Take it to The Next Level - SF Chronicle 3mar03
• Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios  - NY Times 3mar03
• US Bugs UN Security Council Delegations in New York  - The Observer (UK) 2mar03
• The Subversive Army of the Superpower  - Der Spiegel (Germany) 1mar03
• Venezua: Chavez Moves Against Right-Wing Leaders  - Socialist Action Mar03
• Michael Lerner: Red-Baiting in the New Antiwar Movement  - Socialist Action  Mar03
• Why War is Futile - Jonathan Schell  / Harpers Mar03
• Brazil: Reclaiming the Promised Land  - Street Spirit Mar03
• The Emergence of Compulsory Schooling and Anarchist Resistance  - Institute for Social Ecology Mar03

• Review of The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen - Pesticides and You Winter03

• Bush Kicks Off Department of Homeland Security with $33 billion 1st Year Budget  - AP 28feb03
• Diplomat Resigns Because of Bush War Policy: John Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell 27feb03
• Oregon Senate Bill 742 Creates Crime of Terrorism Punishable by Life Imprisonment - Oregon State Senator John Minnis 27feb03
• Memorandum Opposing U.S. Iraq Policy  -  France, Germany and Russia NY Times 25feb03
• San Francisco Chronicle Tally of Demonstrators Flawed - Bill Hackwell / Opinion / SF Chronicle 25feb03
• America's Initiative and Passivity: Analysis - People's Daily (Beijing) 25feb03
• Fortress America  - NY Times Magazine 23feb03
• US Terror and Torture in the Philippines  - The Progressive Response 24feb03
• UC Berkeley Public Health Stacks Now Classified - Leuren Moret 22feb03
• War and Iraq: The Economic Risks - The Economist (UK) 22feb03
• More Suicide Attempts at Guantanamo  - AP 19feb03
• Bush: 10 Million People is 'Focus Group' Antiwar Protests Fail to Sway Bush on Plans for Iraq  - NY Times 19feb03
• Hugo Chavez: The Media Against Democracy - Naomi Kline / The Guardian (UK) 18feb03
• Rupert Murdoch: Their Master's Voice - The Guardian (UK) 17feb03
• NATO at Risk: Europe's Groundswell: Public Opinion  - NY Times 17feb03
• 10 Million Worldwide Protest Bush's War  - InTheseTimes 18feb03  [W, better listen up buddy-boy]
• Millions Around Globe Protest Iraq War AP 16feb03
• Russia Joins Franco-German Anti-war Camp - People's Daily (Beijing) 14feb03
• USA PATRIOT ACT:  California Library Association Resolution  - California Library Association 12feb03
• Debunking Conspiracy Theorists -  Maritimes Independent Media Centre 12feb03
• Who is the Real Christie Whitman?  - LA Times 10feb03
• Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act  - The Center For Public Integrity 7feb0
• Mandela Rebukes Bush Over Crisis With Iraq  - NY Times 1feb03
• George W's Caesar Salad: A Recipe For Disaster  - Funny Times Feb03
• Horatio Alger on Crack: Fighting Greed and Corruption in Government is Going to Require Making New Friends - Granny D / Orion Magazine Feb03
• STREET SHEET Spotlights the Most Remarkable News Story of 2002 - Street Sheet (San Francisco) Feb03
• Riot Gear: Monterey Co. Spending $100,00 on Turtle Suits - AP 28jan03
• Nobel Laureates Sign Against a War Without International Support  - NY Times 28jan03
• Bush's War Mentality - TERRY JONES (of Monty Python fame) / The Observer (UK) 26jan03
• Rumsfeld Widens Gap with 'Old' Europeans  - SF Chronicle 25jan03
• Carlyle Group Setting Their Sights on Galp? The Portugal News 24jan04
• France and Germany Draw a Line, Against Washington  - NY Times 23jan03
• Academic Research Tainted by Commercial Funding: Medical Tests Skewed, Study Finds  - LA Times 22jan03

• Gandhi's influence on Martin Luther King  - SF Chronicle 20jan03

• Huge Protests for Peace: Thousands in S.F. Demand Bush Abandon War Plans  - SF Chronicle 19jan03

• Fearing a Class System in the Classroom; A Strict Curriculum, but Only for Failing Schools, Mostly in Poor Areas of New York -  New York Times 19jan03

• Education and Correctional Populations - U.S. Department of Justice Office Statistics 17jan03

• Raytheon Elects Warren B. Rudman Lead Director -  Press Release 14jan03

• Rules on Environment Concern Pentagon: Military Says Laws Inhibit Training  - Washington Post 13jan02

• Causa Belli: Four-Line Poem Sparks Big Fuss - LA Times 10jan03

• One Generation to Save World, Worldwatch Report Warns  - Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• The Skeptical Environmentalist Author Found Guilty of Scientific Dishonesty - Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty 7jan03

• Israel: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Linked to Corruption as Scandal Widens Ahead of Elections  - AP 7jan03

• Calling All Nine Million Plus - Deb Reich 7jan03

• Helen Thomas at Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer  - Office of the Press Secretary 6jan03

• How important is the right of privacy to our democracy? Fundamental Right - TWO CENTS / SF Chronicle 5jan02

• Stop the Everyday War  - Slingshot 4jan03

• Research Funding Hit by Terror Fears  - AP 3jan02

• Government Openness at Issue as Bush Holds Onto Records  - NY Times 3jan03

• Dennis Kucinich: Fervently Unconventional -  Christian Science Monitor 2jan03

• N. Irish Ethnic Cleansing Mulled in 70's  - AP 1jan03

• New Years Greetings From a Political Prisoner: Father Louis Vitale / Street Sheet Jan03

• Dead People Don't Count: San Francisco Mayor's Office Annual Homeless Count - Street Sheet Jan03

• Black Power of the Purse / A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America / Lizabeth Cohen Jan03

• God Bless America - Harold Pinter / Nobel Laureate (2005) 1jan2003

For earlier dates, please select year at top.

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

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• "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

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