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Articles that reference Norm

  • No Justification (March 19, 2003)
    ...asualties and devastation, that will not justify overturning international norms developed over sixty years. Nor can it legitimize a worldview that will ma...
  • Multinationals Show Their Global Muscle (March 23, 2004)
    ...eeting in Geneva, is expected to avoid any vote and instead to return the "Norms on Business and Human Rights" to its drafting committee because political...
  • Russian Minister Says Iraq Attack a Mistake (February 5, 2004)
    ...t of this situation and methods to solve the Iraq problem in line with the norms of international law, and about ways to ensure a better life for the Iraqi...
  • Germany to Limit Evidence It Provides to US (June 11, 2002)
    ...eground, but it's well understood in the United States that constitutional norms must be respected," Schroeder said. Moussaoui was arrested last summer...
  • Bush Seeks Balance Leading Nation, Party (March 4, 2002)
    ...g or postponing his trip or his attendance at a Minneapolis fundraiser for Norm Coleman, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Vice President Cheney...
  • A Moral Campaign to End the Occupation (July 15, 2002)
    ...ates. In a region where repressive governments and unjust policies are the norm, Israel is certainly more democratic than its neighbors. This does not mak...
  • The Anti-War Non-March (February 14, 2003)
    ...r First Amendment law. It is crucial, however, that this not become the norm. Officials cannot decide that from now on marching will be limited to ethn...
  • Administration Balks At 'Gay' In Gay Suicide Conference (February 16, 2005)
    ...dies show that LGBT suicide rates are three times higher than the national norm, with suicides among teens the highest. But the name change was not the...
  • The Real Battle Comes After the War (March 8, 2002)
    ...he pattern of victories followed by hard campaigning has actually been the norm. Just as in Vietnam, the Americans should have looked at history but on th...
  • The World Waits (September 10, 2002)
    ...ined its sudden urgency to punish his decade-old defiance of international norms. This is particularly true given how the Iraq focus distracts from the lar...
  • Amnesty: Iraq War Increased Fear, Insecurity (May 28, 2003)
    ...d have been unacceptable on September 10, 2001, is now becoming almost the norm," Amnesty's Secretary-General Irene Khan told a news conference, accusing...
  • The Legality of Using Force (September 21, 2002)
    ...extreme cases, and to make collective, multinational security measures the norm. This is not the time for Congress to eliminate these long-standing res...
  • US 'Virtual' War Protest Jams Congressional Phones (February 26, 2003)
    ...had received 400 calls in the first three hours of the day, well above the norm. At Nebraska Republican Charles Hagel's office, a spokeswoman said the fro...
  • Perils of Preemptive War (September 23, 2002)
    ...mption means the end of the system of international institutions, laws and norms that we have worked to build for more than half a century. To his credit,...
  • The 'Iraqization' Scam (April 20, 2004)
    ...Iraq from the kind of brutal oppression or chaotic war that constitute the norm, and not the exception, to life in the Middle East and much of the world. ...
  • Nuclear-Powered Drone Aircraft on Drawing Board (February 19, 2003)
    ...f UAVs is that they do not put pilots' lives at risk, and they are now the norm for many reconnaissance and even attack missions. The endurance of a f...
  • Rape in Darfur (October 27, 2004)
    ...reating the International Criminal Court. But while the necessary legal norms exist, the will to enforce them often does not. Because of deeply-rooted d...
  • What the New Southern Sudan Leaders Must Do (August 8, 2005)
    ...ions is hardly favourable for the establishment of humanitarian values and norms. The armed liberation struggle was not suitable for establishing democrati...
  • Journalist and Commentator Farai Chideya Speaks (March 5, 2002)
    ...r her work and cutting-edge analysis of current sociological and political norms. Frequently appearing on BET News, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX, she was named to N...
  • Iraq Policy Is Broken (July 14, 2003)
    ... will be a small one, about 9,000 (as opposed to 15,000, which is more the norm). I'm not a military expert, but can this work as a fighting force? Th...
  • Army Censors Reporters (November 26, 2003)
    ...ough to speak for themselves. Monday's rules of engagement were not the norm at presidential appearances I've attended. When then-President Clinton hon...
  • Political War Games Take Off (October 8, 2002)
    ...WASHINGTON—NORM COLEMAN, who officially is aghast that anyone would politicize a matter as...
  • Death Camps in North Korea (February 1, 2004)
    ...n is absolutely horrific,' Spring said. 'It is totally unacceptable by any norms of civilised society. It makes it even more urgent to convince the North K...
  • Immigration Reform and National Security (September 16, 2002)
    ... authorities with suspicion and to regard breaking the law as the accepted norm. In times like these, it is arguably suicidal. The changes Mr. Bush and...
  • Worried About Economy, Americans Oppose War (October 7, 2002)
    ...the economy for instance,” says a former soldier who introduces himself as Norm. Others nod. There is only one ex-serviceman among half-dozen who is for i...
  • Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave (May 3, 2004)
    ... at Saddam's old prison Abu Grahib show that suffering and cruelty are the norm under U.S. occupation. "This torture will not pass without punishment," he...
  • Mandela Blasts US Attack Threats (September 2, 2002)
    ...ntry decides to overthrow another country's government, this will create a norm," he said. And a group of 37 Protestant and other church leaders from N...
  • Powell Asks Bush to Reverse Stand on War Captives (January 27, 2002)
    ...m is different, and it is hard to know how to apply existing international norms to this new kind of conflict." The administration decided on Jan. 18 th...
  • UK, EU to Protest US Military Tribunals (July 7, 2003)
    ... strategy before it causes any further affront to international fair trial norms and any more damage to its own reputation." While the rules for the com...
  • Dick Armey: Unprovoked Attack on Iraq Un-American (August 9, 2002)
    ...and that attacking Iraq without a specific provocation would violate those norms. "He has a right to hold dominion within his own national boundaries, a...
  • Super Puppeteer (September 2, 2002)
    ...he first time since World War II, Washington is seeking to impose American norms across the world. And many nations across the world seem to have lost the...
  • What Do You Mean, 'Terrorist'? (April 7, 2002)
    ...srael, as American officials often note, is a democracy accountable to the norms of international law. The practical effect is that only the Palestinians,...
  • Violence in Iraq Continues to Spread (August 11, 2003)
    ...as electricity, water and gasoline. Long gasoline lines have become the norm in Baghdad, with residents waiting for up to two hours in blistering heat....
  • No Kharabba at the End of the Tunnel (July 19, 2003)
    ...sition to democracy — as Washington promised the world. Chaos is still the norm. Even with Bremer's council up and running, the whole mindset, from an Ame...
  • Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music (November 21, 2001)
    ...inty over fairness and resolution of doubts in favor of the accused—as the norm rather than the exception. This must never be allowed to happen, if our li...
  • Border Line (April 23, 2003)
    ...p. A trickle of a few thousand refugees here and there will become the new norm — and a program that used to set the United States apart from Europe will...
  • Nepal's Leader to Seek Help from Bush (May 4, 2002)
    ...of extrajudicial killings in custody, and criticized for not upholding the norms of Nepal's constitution and laws. The Maoists are criticized for execut...
  • Millions Protest War Plans (February 16, 2003)
    ...ng to change the region’s map. “The U.S. wants to encroach upon our own norms, concepts and principles,” she said in Damascus. “They are reminding us of...
  • Recovering the Power of the Global Grassroots in the Anti-War Movement (June 2, 2003)
    ...lity to stop war but in its potentiality to again make self-management the norm for contemporary political struggles. Such a commitment to nonhierarchical...
  • Court Order (July 21, 2003)
    ...signed to legally codify America's status as an exception to international norms. Even if you believe that such status is somehow our birthright, you can't...
  • After Madrid, Does Urban Life Have a Future? (March 22, 2004)
    ..., during a prolonged heatwave, more than 30,000 Europeans in excess of the norm died (15,000-plus in France, 6,000 in Spain and 2,000 in England) and thou...
  • War Profiteering (May 13, 2002)
    ...Congress got into the act. It wasn't until October 9 that Roche wrote Rep. Norm Dicks, a Washington Democrat, to ask for the tankers. The Air Force hadn't...
  • Orange Agents (February 15, 2003)
    ...o boost ratings." "That terror alert logo is totally inexcusable," says Norm Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and autho...
  • Information and the Fusion of Spatialites (January 1, 1996)
    ... originated locally are fused with global social networks, which set their norms of behavior accordingly. Place Production The emergence of global...
  • The Height Gap (April 5, 2004)
    ...eight of Mexican-American teen-agers has nearly reached the United States’ norm. It’s that norm, and not the immigrants, that has failed to rise. If th...
  • Culture Industry Reconsidered (September 1, 1975)
    ...ithout concrete specificity, is futile; the appeal to the dissemination of norms, without these ever proving themselves in reality or before consciousness,...
  • Hundreds Sit in Custody and Ask, 'Why?' (November 25, 2001)
    ... tourist visas nearly a year ago, hoping for a taste of the relaxed social norms that draw so many from the Middle East to the suburbs outside of Disneylan...
  • Climate Change a National Security Threat (January 26, 2004)
    ...arvard archeologist Steven LeBlanc has noted, wars over resources were the norm until about three centuries ago. When such conflicts broke out, 25% of a p...
  • In Torture We Trust? (March 31, 2003)
    ...ure becomes common practice, it severely undermines a society's democratic norms. As Shibley Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland and an expe...
  • The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
    ...ong America has been a global Gulliver strapped down by Lilliputians — the norms and institutions of the global system. They feel vindicated in their asser...
  • The Very, Very Personal is the Political (February 15, 2004)
    ...le from the South whose data leans liberal), or those who flout geographic norms (a potential 19-year-old Republican voter living in a Democratic household...
  • Women Waging Peace (May 15, 2001)
    ...ng women to pick up the food for their families, despite contrary cultural norms. In Pristina, Kosovo, Vjosa Dobruna, a pediatric neurologist and human...
  • Many Balk at Preparations for War Against Iraq (August 8, 2002)
    ...nd Arab writers warned that if the U.S. step outside international law and norms in attacking Iraq would set a dangerous precedent. European dailies, notin...
  • Plan B (June 28, 2004)
    ...dish aspirations for autonomy in Iraq. Betrayal and violence became the norm in the next two decades. Inside Iraq, the Kurds were brutally repressed by...
  • All the President's Votes? (October 14, 2003)
    ... result in Baldwin County was full of wild deviations from the statistical norms established both by this and preceding elections. And he adds: "There is s...
  • American Primacy in Perspective (July 1, 2002)
    ...y in the economic realm. This general tendency toward bandwagoning was the norm before September 11 and has only become more pronounced since then. Con...
  • Charter of the Hamas (August 10, 2002)
    ...quest, for all generations of Muslims until the Day of Resurrection. This [norm] has prevailed since the commanders of the Muslim armies completed the con...
  • Selective Intelligence (May 12, 2003)
    ... be closely linked to deception. Indeed, it suggests that deception is the norm in political life, and the hope, to say nothing of the expectation, of est...
  • The Oil We Eat: Following The Food Chain Back To Iraq (July 23, 2004)
    ...o use visionary agronomist Wes Jackson’s phrase. This is the plant world’s norm. There is a very narrow group of annuals, however, that grow in patches...
  • The Degeneration of the Liberals (January 18, 2003)
    ...andom and extensive DNA dragnets in different jurisdictions, violating all norms against "compelled self-incrimination and unreasonable search and seizure....
  • Important Commandments to the Mujahidin and in Reply to the Defeatists (July 5, 2004)
    ... In this year also, God increased snow, rain, and cold, contrary to the norm, until most people hated it. We told them: Don't hate that, as this is God...
  • The Sunshine Warrior (September 22, 2002)
    ...," but ardent on the subject of certain regimes he regarded as outside the norms of civilized behavior, including the radical Baath party of Iraq and Muamm...
  • Creating the Enemy (March 22, 2004)
    ...indiscriminate use of force. An international order based around sovereign norms and nation states gave rise to political violence linked to national liber...
  • Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
    ... that it wanted to keep the state companies in public hands, or, as is the norm in the Gulf region, to bar foreign firms from owning 100 percent of nation...
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.