Stories from 2002-05-02
"The two Congressional resolutions were non-binding, but they put the legislative branch of the American government on record as backing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's military steps, even as President Bush was calling on Israel to end its 'occupation' of several Palestinian towns and calling on Yasir Arafat to show more leadership." [more]
"European leaders differ sharply with the Bush administration on the Middle East, believing that U.S. policy has been too sympathetic to the Israelis. The Europeans have challenged the administration's willingness to mount a military campaign against Iraq and its seeming inclination to use military force to deal with other threats as well. They are battling the Bush administration on steel tariffs in a dispute that threatens to become a full-blown trade war. And they complain that America no longer consults Europe first on global security issues, as it did during the Cold War." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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.
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