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Jul-Dec 2003

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

"‘9/11’" Great Crimes / A Greater Cover-Up
Don Paul & Jim Hoffman, et al 2003

"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 Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis, speaking at the First Congregational Church of Oakland 26jul03 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 US Interventions in Latin America Since 1823 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 is the answer] 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.

Jul-Dec 2003

• Bounding The Global War On Terrorism -  Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) Dec03

• Guantanamo: Mohammad Sagheer vs. Government of USA: Suit for Recovery of Damages and Compensation of US $10.4 Million - Leuren Moret 31dec03

• Schemes, Scandals Top the Year's Business News -  AP 27dec03

• Wen Ho Lee: Manipulating The Media -  SF Chronicle 26dec03

• Unilateralism Has Its Price -  NY Times 25dec03

• The "Food Justice" Movement: Trying to Break the Food Chains - The Black Commentator 25dec03
• Dick Cheney's Empire Christmas Card: "If a sparrow can fall to the ground without His notice, it is likely that an empire can rise without His help?" 24dec03

• Bush: Court Blocks Easing of E.P.A. Rules on Industrial Pollution -  NY Times 24dec03

• Fish Farms: Ranching The Open Sea  - The Oregonian 23dec03

• Report Faults NY City on Health Care for Mentally Ill -  NY Times 23dec03

• What is Public Threshold for Politicians' Lies? Connecticut Governor John Rowland Tries to Find Out -  Christian Science Monitor 23dec03

• Worst Technology of 2003: Diebold Election Systems -  Fortune 22dec03

• California DNA Plan Draws Ire of Civil Libertarians: Ballot Measure to Operate the Largest DNA Database in US -  Reuters 22dec03

• Guantanamo: Ahmad I. al-Halabi: Air Force Drops Three Counts Against Guantanamo Translator -  AP 20dec03

• Guantanamo: Bush Policy on Detainees Is Dealt A Setback by Two Appeals Panels -  Wall Street Journal 19dec03

• Guantanamo: Bush Administration Terror Suspects Belong in U.S. Courts -  AP 18dec03

• Guantanamo: Padilla v. Rumsfeld - Majority Opinion / US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 18dec03

• Kerry Would Expand Military as President by 40,000 Troops - AP 17dec03

• Brazil: No Economy Without Democracy  - Le Monde diplomatique (France) 16dec03
• Guantánamo: Try Detainees or Free Them, 3 Senators Urge -  NY Times 13dec03
• Politics Without Soft Money: Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance leaves GOP with the edge in raising funds - Christian Science Monitor 12dec03
• The Political Consequences of Racist Felony Disenfranchisement -  The Black Commentator 11dec03
• Supreme Court Upholds Key Parts Of New Campaign-Finance Law - several Wall Street Journal & Boston Globe 11dec03
• Father Bill O'Donnell Dies, City’s Beloved Activist Priest -  Berkeley Daily Planet 9dec03
• The SAFETY Act of 2002: Does Its Decision to Protect Antiterrorism Technologies From Tort Lawsuits Make Sense? - Findlaw.com 8dec03
• California: Fight to End Hunger Hits Snag with Governator -  SF Chronicle 8dec03
• New California Farm Law Shields Farms From Protesters -  AP & Bill Text  7dec03
• Stokely Carmichael: Memoirs of a Revolutionist - Book Review / The Nation 8dec03
• Barbra Streisand’s Lawsuit to Silence Coastal Website Dismissed - Press Release / California Coastal Records Project 3dec03
• Powell Puts Terror Fight Appeal to North Africa - International Herald Tribune 3dec03
• Anarchism: Against Capitalism, Against Socialism - News From Nowhere 1dec03
• The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 -  Multiple Corporate 1dec03
• Neocons: The Men Behind the Curtain -  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nov/Dec03
• Tiger Force: The Scalping Party -  Best of Monterey 26nov03
• Privatising the Ocean, the Last Great Mahele? - Jeremy Brown  25nov03
• Woodie Guthrie's Ghost Smiled at Songs Demanding Truth -  NY Times 24nov03
• MI6 Ran 'Dubious' Iraq Campaign: Former US Intelligence Officer Claims Brits Lied - BBC 21nov03
• Bush Popular With Thousands Police Officers in London* -  Washington Post 19nov03
• Electronic Voting Machines: Hackers Threaten to Short-Circuit E-Voting Plans -  London Times (UK) 15nov03
• We Demand Reparations! Speech by Cynthia McKinney / The Black Commentator i.64, 13nov03
• Why Fighting Corruption Helps the Poor -  Christian Science Monitor 13nov03
• Living Under Fascism - David Loehr, Ph.D., Minister / First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas 7nov04
• Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War -  NY Times 6nov03
• The Far-From-Harmless Consequences of Race and Class Stereotypes: Ghettos are Not a Game Part III - The Black Commentator 5nov03
• Wal-Mart: God and Satan in Bentonville - Playboy 1nov2003
• Corruption Thwarts Development - Vital Signs / Worldwatch Institute 2003
• Economy Rockets to 7.2% Growth -  SF Chronicle 31oct03
• Bush Ignores Soldiers' Burials - AlterNet 30oct03
• Wal-Mart No Stranger to Illegal Contract Work -  AP Investigation 30oct03
• Criminal Justice: Beyond Conviction Rates -- Diversion Reduces Crime - SF Chronicle 30oct03
• Lugar Says U.S. Is 'All Thumbs' in Dealing With Muslims - NY Times 29oct03
• Patriot Act Riles An Unlikely Group: Nation's Librarians: Fears About Terrorism Clash With Principles of Privacy - Wall Street Journal 28oct03
• DNA to be Added to Chinese Passport - Beijing Star Daily 28oct03
• Prisons as Mental Institutions: The Mass Incarceration of the Mentally Ill -  Findlaw.com 27oct03
• Welcome to Arnold, King for a Day -  The Nation 27oct03
• 'Winning Modern Wars': Wesley K. Clark's Warpath: Book Review / NY Times 26oct03
• How America is Ravaging the Planet: Road to Ruin -  The Guardian Weekly (UK) 24oct03
• Wal-Mart: More than 300 Illegal Immigrants Seized in Raids on Wal-Mart Stores - AP 24oct03
• Mentally Ill Mistreated in US Prisons: More Mentally Ill in Prison Than in Hospitals -  Human Rights Watch 22oct03
• Report on State Prisons Cites Inmates' Mental Illness - NY Times 22oct03
• Halliburton Seen Paying More Than Locals For Iraq Fuel -  Dow Jones Newswires 22oct03
• The Birds Have Stopped Singing in Afghanistan - Feryal Ali-Gauhar / Tehelka (India) 16oct03
• Bill Gates: Innocents abroad? - The Guardian 16oct03
• Kucinich, Declaring for President, Takes Populist Stance -  NY Times 14oct03
• Ralphs: Thousands of Grocery Clerks Picket Three Major Chains - LA Times 13oct03
• US Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops: Americans accused of brutal 'punishment' tactics against villagers -  The lndependent (UK) 12oct03
• Arkansas Execution: Charles Laverne Singleton to be Cured in order to be Executed -  NY Times 6oct03
• Iraqi Reconstruction: A Broad Plan - NY Times 4oct03
• J.M. Coetzee: South African Wins Nobel Literature Prize: Portrays Desolate Vision Racially Divided Country -  Christian Science Monitor 3oct03
• WMD: David Kay Testifies to Congress on Iraq's WMD: Text of Iraq weapons inspector's congressional testimony, as provided by the CIA AP 2oct03
• Ashcroft: Attorney General Is Closely Linked to Inquiry Figures - NY Times 2oct03
• Mike Leavitt for EPA: Democrats Stage Boycott of Vote on EPA Nominee - LA Times 2oct03
• Critical US Energy Bill Crafted in Secrecy -  Christian Science Monitor 2oct03
• In Search of Monsters to Destroy: American Empire in the New Millennium - Parameters 1oct03
• Pentagon Investigates Movement of Funds: Concealed $20 Million - Washington Post 30sep03
• Homeless: Salvation Army Charging Homeless Families $5 a Night for Shelter - AP 29sep03
• Prisons: Some States Start Trimming Prisoners' Meals -  NY Times 29sep03
• Moon: Property Sales Out of This World: For $19.99, plus tax, anyone can purchase an acre on the moon -  Las Vegas Review-Journal 29sep03
• Senate Digs into Iraq $87 Billion -  Christian Science Monitor 29sep03
• US Remains World's No. 1 Arms Seller: Report - People's Daily (China) 26sep03
• Sharon Determined to Remove Arafat, Even if it Means Hurting Him -  AP 26sep03
• I feel optimistic: Better than Politics as Usual - Commentary / San Francisco Chronicle 26sep03
• Cheney's Ties to Halliburton: Deferred Compensation Package Counts, Report Indicates -  Washington Post 26sep03
  • Cheney: Sen. Lautenberg Releases CRS Report Confirming Cheney's Deferred Salary and Stock Options - Press Release 25sep03
• Poverty Rate Rises for Second Year in Row -  AP 26sep03
• Prisons: Thirty-Two Years After Attica PETER WAGNER & ROSE HEYER / AlterNet 25sep03
• U.S. Tells How Billions of Dollars Would Rebuild Iraq -  Washington Post 25sep03
• Nigerian Islamic Court Clears Amina Lawal of Adultery in Stoning Case - Agence France Presse 25sep03
• Ashcroft's Lightning-Rod Role -  The Christian Science Monitor 24sep03
• Panel of Federal Judges Seeks Repeal of Sentencing Mandate -  Wall Street Journal 24sep03
• Sharon’s Preemptive Zeal - Neve Gordon / Mindfully.org 23sep03
• EPIC Urges HUD to Drop Homeless Surveillance - Comments on Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) to Department of Housing and Urban Development 22sep03
• Order to Cut Plea Bargains Draws Ire: Critics Say Ashcroft Policy Will Hamper Prosecutors, Overload Federal Courts -  Wall Street Journal 23sep0303
• Ashcroft Weighs an Order To Cut Back Plea Bargaining - Wall Street Journal  23sep03
• U.S. Attorneys Required to Seek Maximum Sentence -  LA Times 23sep03
• Ashcroft Limiting Prosecutors' Use of Plea Bargains -  NY Times 23sep03
• Study Finds Net Gain From Pollution Rules: OMB Overturns Past Findings on Benefits -  Washington Post 27sep03
  • OMB Reports to Congress on Progress in Regulatory Reforms [Below] PRESS RELEASE / OMB 22sep03
  • Informing Regulatory Decisions: 2003 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities - OMB 22sep03
• Ashcroft: A Demon for Our Times Editorial / Wall Street Journal 22sep03
• Ashcroft's Tantrum - Editorial / Washington Post 21sep03
• Steel Tariffs Appear to Have Backfired on Bush: More Jobs Lost  - Washington Post 19sep03
• A Visa Battle Pits Homeland Security Against Ohio Nuns - Wall Street Journal 19sep03
• Baghdad: Drug Craze Fuels Murder on Streets of Iraqi Capital  - Guardian Weekly (UK) 18sep03

• Afghanistan and Iraq Tab of $87 Billion Is Submitted -  NY Times 18sep03

• What's Up With The French? The "Not-American" Strategy - The Black Commentator i.56, 18sep03

• Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules -  Washington Post 16sep03

• Antiterror Laws Often Used Against Street Criminals -  AP 15sep03

• Military Offers Condolences, Starts Probe Into Deaths of 8 Iraqi Policemen, 1 Other -  AP & SF Chron. 13sep03

• Reconstruction of Iraq - Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Foreign Affairs / Embassy of France 12sep03

• Wesley Clark's 'High Noon" Moment - The Nation 12sep03

• Clark Stays Noncommittal on White House Run -  Washington Post 12sep03

• A Guide to the Patriot Act, Parts 1-4 Should you be scared of the Patriot Act?  -  Slate11sep03

• "Everything Changed?" Hidden Continuities of Urban Racial Inequality Before and After 9/11  - Black Commentator 11sep03

• US Patriot Act: Faking out the Constitution - SF Chronicle 11sep03

• The Genetically Modified Bomb: Imagine a bomb that only kills Caucasians with red hair. Or short people. Or Arabs. Or Chinese - Common Dreams 10sep03

• Davis Names Huerta to UC Regents Board -  Sacramento Bee 10sep03

• Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General, Responds to Bush's Television Address - Vote To Impeach 10sep03

• Gen. Clark's Critique -  Washington Post 9sep03

• Survey Says Health Insurance Premiums Rose in Past Year -  Washington Post 9sep03

• Bush and the Gang Say, "Give us more!" $87 Billion (and counting) - Paul Goettlich 9sep03

• Bush Likely to Get Money He Sought, Lawmakers Agree  - NY Times 9sep03

• Whose Sacrifice? -  Washington Post 9sep03

• 9/11 Reminds Chinese of America, Global Bully -  SF Chronicle 9sep03

• Rents up About One-Third Since 1999: Burden Grows for Poorer Families -  AP 8sep03

• San Francisco's Homeless Legacy: Two Decades of Failure -  SF Chronicle 7sep03

• If Your Mother's an Addict or in Jail, Chances are You'll Repeat the Pattern - SF Chronicle 7sep03

• Activists See More Violence from Extreme Protesters -  SF Chronicle 6sep03

• Payroll Jobs on Sharp Decline - SF Chronicle 6sep03

• Senior House Democrat Urges Top Defense Hands to Resign -  NY Times 6sep03

• Former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese has a way to slow the exodus of jobs overseas: Put prisoners to work -  Fortune 3sep03

• Courtroom: Torture at the Push of a Button -  Washington Post 28aug03

• 100,000 Could Lose Housing Subsidies, Advocates Warn -  NY Times 5sep03

• U.S. Employers Shed 93,000 Jobs in August -  Washington Post 5sep03

• Retired Marine Gen. Anthony C. Zinni Criticizes Bush's Postwar Policy -  Washington Post 5sep03

• Burton Vows to Fight Newsome's Panhandling Measure -  SF Chronicle 5sep03

• As Prisoners Age, Should They Go Free?  - Christian Science Monitor 5sep03

• 'Far Right Dream Judge' Janice Rogers Brown Joins Lineup of Extremist Appeals Court Nominees -  People for the American Way & NAACP 4sep03

• Despite Bush's Credo, Government Grows  - Wall Street Journal 4sep03

• Killing of Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim is the Start of an Iraqi Civil War -  Pacific News Service 2sep03

• Medical Marijuana: Oakland Hearing to Decide Fate of Pot-Prescribing Doc -  Berkeley Daily Planet 2sep03

• Japanese Peace Constitution: Japanese Seeking Legal Advice at Cal: Legislators May Alter Ban on Military Force -  SF Chronicle 1sep03

• Jesse Jackson Arrested in Yale Protest: Striking University Service and Clerical Workers. -  AP 1sep03

• Christine Todd Whitman: Former US Environmental Chief Under Fire Over Weak 9-11 Health Warnings - Agence France-Presse 31aug03

• Credit Cards: Use of 'Plastic' Changing Rapidly EILEEN ALT POWELL / AP 29aug03

• Chiron Hit by 2 Bombs: Revolutionary Cells Takes Responsibility -  SF Chronicle 29aug03

• Richard A. Grasso Employment Agreement with the New York Stock Exchange (including Proposed Changes) 27aug03

• Reining in Activist Funds: Control the Funds; Business And Economics - The American Enterprise 1sep03

• Racism in Tulia: Texas Governor Pardons 35 Arrested in Tainted Sting: 31 of them African-American - NY Times 23aug03

• 50 Years Later, Iranians Remember US-UK Coup -  Christian Science Monitor 22aug03

• Bush Efforts to Burnish Environmental Credentials, Court Moderate Voters - NY Times 22aug03

• Ashcroft Hawks the Patriot Act: In Defense of the Patriot Act -  Christian Science Monitor (With many additional articles) 20aug03

• Rumsfeld Urged by Reuters to Probe Cameraman's Death - Reuters 20aug03

• Rumsfeld Visits Colombia to Support War against Rebels -  Pravda 20auug03

• Home-Building Activity Is Highest in 17 Years -  Wall Street Journal 19aug03

• Trading in Terror -  InTheseTimes 19aug03

• MacArthur Foundation to Give $50 Million for Studies of Security Issues  - NY Times 19aug03

• Blackout: The Great Darkness:  - Der Spiegel (Germany) 18aug03

• In Mexico, Zapatistas Focus on Politics, Not Conflict  - Christian Science Monitor 18aug03

• Idi Amin Obituary: Like Every African Dictator, He Was Confusion's Masterpiece - The Telegraph (UK) 17aug2003

• Can Truth be Told When Using Selective Information?  - NY Times 17aug03

• Privatization of Police: Making Crime Pay  - SF Chronicle 17aug03

• Closing V.A. Hospitals Has Congress Squirming  - NY Times 16aug03

• Arnold's Enron Connection Worse Than Weed, Steroids - Daily Planet 15aug03

• Free Speech: Government Urges Colleges to Heed First Amendment - Daily Californian 15aug03

• Imperial Racist Fantasies and The Digitalization of Colonialism  - The Black Commentator 14aug03

• Troops in Iraq Face Pay Cut - SF Chronicle 14aug03

• Kenya: A Generation Orphaned by AIDS - Washington Post 13aug03

• Bush Choice to Head E.P.A. Asks Clinton Administrator for Reference -  NY Times 13aug03

• Study of Bush's Psyche Touches a Nerve -  The Guardian (UK) 13aug03

• Iraqi Kids Toil in Dickensian Desperation  - SF Chronicle 13aug03

• Why Bush, GOP Can Block All Inquiries  - USA Today 12aug03

• 'Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush' Coming to Reelection Campaigns and Toy Boxes Near You -  Washington Post 12aug03

• Disabled Soldier Faces Battle in Seeking Benefits  - Wall Street Journal 12aug03

• Prisons Host an Epidemic of Infectious Diseases United States: Sentenced to Sickness  - Le Monde diplomatique (France) 11aug03

• High Court Justice Crusades for Mercy: "Sentences Too Severe, Too Long"  - SF Chronicle 10aug03

• Strained Pension Agency Casts Doubt on its Future -  Washington Post 10aug03

• Iraqi Trailers Made Hydrogen, Not Weapons, DIA Experts Tell Press - Agence France-Presse 9aug03

• White House Sway Is Seen in E.P.A. Response to 9/11  - NY Times 9aug03

• Bush Misuses Science, Report Says: Democrats Say Data Are Distorted to Boost Conservative Policies -  Washington Post 8aug02

  • Report: Politics and the Bush Administration - (Exec Summ) Rep. Henry A Waxman / US House of Rep. Comm. on Gov. Reform 7aug03

• Tunisia Wins Population Battle, And Others See a Policy Model - Wall Street Journal 8augu03

• Russia: US Missile Shield Sparks Space Arms Race Danger -  Pravda (Russia) 8aug03

• Judge Urges Considering Black for Court Post: U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Theodore McMillian -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 7aug03

• Patriot Act: Lawmakers, Many Americans, Having Second Thoughts about Patriot Act - Christian Science Monitor 7aug03

• Ashcroft Intensifies Campaign Against Judges' Soft Sentences -  Wall Street Journal 6aug03

• Patriot Act: Acts of Revision - Editorial / St. Petersburg Times 5aug03

• Patriot Act: Resident Presses Council to Oppose Federal Patriot Act -  Waynesboro Record Herald (PA) 5aug03

• Leo Strauss: The Leo-conservatives -  Der Spiegel  4aug03

• . . . and the Poor Get Poorer -  The Nation 4aug03

• Millions Celebrate Cuban Revolution -  People's Weekly World Newspaper 2aug03

• Fighting for Us: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism (Scott Brown - NYU Press Aug03) -  Reviewed by Marcus Reeves / SF Chronicle 3aug03

• Living in a Kleptocrat Nation - Jim Hightower / Texas Observer 1aug03

• St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay Studies Privatizing Jail Operations  - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1aug03

• African-Americans Look for Better Lives and Race Relations -  Muncie Star Press (Indiana) 1aug03

• Sharon's Wall Blocks the Road Map - National Catholic Reporter 1aug03

• Nightlife in Jerusalem - Neve Gordon 1aug03

• Where do women out-earn men? Hint: not a city - The Christian Science Monitor 1aug03

• Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon - Karen Kwiatkowski / Knight-Ridder / Ohio Beacon Journal 31jul03

• Astronomical Incomes -  AlterNet 31jul03

• Poindexter to Resign: Defense Official - Agence France-Presse 31jul03

• National Urban League: ‘Close Equality Gap' - People's Weekly World Newspaper 31jul03

• United Food and Commercial Workers Union Leader Charges Wal-Mart Hurts Labor  - SF Chronicle 30jul03

• Food Grows Scare as Liberians Go On Waiting for US  - AP 30jul03

• Lawmakers Grill Wolfowitz on Iraq  - Los Angeles Times 30jul03

• NIH: Panel Proposes Changes for National Institutes of Health -  NY Times 30jul03

• Orphans Increase Due to AIDS Deaths - Vital Signs 2003 / Worldwatch Institute 30jul03

• Mexico: Gordillo, Top Union Boss and, She Says, 'No Angel,' Ascends in the Congress -  Wall Street Journal 30jul03

• America is a Religion - George Monbiot / The Guardian (UK) 29jul03

• Pentagon Plan Would OK Bets on Terrorism: DARPA FutureMAP, or "Futures Markets Applied to Prediction" -  AP 28jul03

• One of every 143 U.S. Residents in Prison - AP 27jul03

• At Rikers, 21,000 Hot Dogs Signify City Belt-Tightening, while Mayor Bloomberg has 47 staff members making $100k or more - NY Times 27jul03

• Are Prisons Obsolete? - ANGELA Y. DAVIS Speaking at the First Congregational Church of Oakland 26jul03
• Right-Wing African-American Justice Janice Rogers Brown Picked for US Court -  SF Chronicle 26jul03
• FCC Media Rule Blocked in House in a 400-to-21 Vote  - NY Times 24jul03
• Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud - NY Times 24jul03
  • Analysis of an Electronic Voting System - Kohno, Stubblefield, Rubin, and Wallach 23jul03
• California Governor Gray Davis Recall Election Set for Oct. 7: The first in the US in 82 years - AP & Christian Science Monitor 24jul03
• America Wanted War  - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 24jul03
• Uncle Sam's Regime Change in Iran: Book Review of "All The Shah's Men"  - NY Times 23jul03
• Korean Vietnam Veterans Petition Washington  - Chosun Ilbo (N Korea) 22jul03
• Enraged Liberians Call for U.S. Help as Rebels Attack  -  NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal 22jul03
• Incarceration and Fewer Jobs Cited as Lag on Black Gains - AP 21jul03
• The Weather Underground Documentary: No Regrets  - SF Chronicle 21jul03
• The Wrath of the Conquered -  Der Spiegel (Germany) 21jul03
• Bhopal and Dow: Members of Congress tell Dow, Face Up to Your Bhopal Liabilities - US Congressional Letter to Dow 18jul03
  • Bhopal's Lingering Fumes - Hindustan Times 24jul03
  • US Congresspersons ask Dow Chemical to take Bhopal Disaster Liabilities ICJB Press Release 22jul03
  • After 18 Years, India Wants Anderson ALOKE TIKKU / Statesman (Kolkata, India) 28jun03
• House Republicans Call Police on Democrats: Democrats Call Republicans "Little Fruitcake[s]" - Washington Post 18jul03
• Vieques Celebrates the Navy's Departure  - Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques 19jul03
• Pentagon Retaliates Against GIs Who Spoke Out on TV  - SF Chronicle, Knight Ridder & Punk Planet 18jul03
• Affirmative Action as a Tool of Imperialist Expansion and Aggression  - The Black Commentator i.50, 17jul03
• Peace Activists go to Baghdad to Keep Tabs on Troops, Bechtel, & Halliburton  - SF Chronicle 17jul03
• More than Oil - Mumia Abu-Jamal 16jul03
• Cau Thi Tran: 25-year-old Mother of Two Shot in Kitchen  - San Jose Mercury News 16jul03
• Text of Rep. Bernie Sanders (Independent-VT) Questioning Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan - 15jul03
• Democrat No-Show Equals No Vote, Irate NAACP Hosts Say -  NY Times 15jul03
• Bush 'Bundlers' Take Fundraising to New Level  - Washington Post 14jul03
• Mission to Niger - Robert Novak 14jul2003
• US to Lock Africa in a Military Embrace  - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 10jul03
• United States: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes—Fiscal Transparency -  IMF Country Report No. 03/243 7jul2003
• Wal-Mart: Women vs. Wal-Mart  - Fortune 7jul03
• What I Didn't Find in Africa - Joseph C. Wilson IV / New York Times 6jul2003
• MOVE: May 13, 1985: An Interview with Ramona Africa: What the Corporate Media Didn't Tell You -  Insubordination 4jul03
• Americans Declare Independence - U.S. Newswire / World Wildlife Fund 3jul03 
• South Africa: Pan Africanist Congress Leader Motsoko Pheko Won't Break Bread with Bush - Business Day (South Africa) 3jul03
• Jobless Rate Hits 6.4 Percent, Highest in More Than 9 Years - AP 3jul03
• Bush to Name Ex-Lilly CEO to Run AIDS Fund: Randall Tobias  - Washington Post + NY Times 2jul03
• Patriot Act: Patriot Revolution? Cities From Cambridge to Berkeley Reject Anti-Terror Measure -  ABC News 1jul03

Jan-Jun 2003  - For earlier dates, please select year at top.

More...

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

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

• Patriot Act: 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.

• 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