Stories from 2002-07-17
"With folks at the summit such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who stole his last election, and Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, who refuses to hold an election, the question is: How real can this be?" [more]
"If Ashcroft wishes to assess the likely effect of the snooping regime he is about to implement, he could ask postal workers from the old days in Prague to explain what happens to a society's sense of solidarity when everybody on the block assumes that the mailman is telling the secret police that Comrade X has been reading bourgeois books." [more]
The official "quickly emphasized that he had no evidence that bin Laden was dead, but his comments suggest that the FBI has no intelligence that proves bin Laden is alive." [more]
"Under increasing domestic political pressure for a tough response to a deadly attack Saturday night in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government renewed its call today for the United States to declare Pakistan a terrorist state for failing to dismantle a 'terrorist infrastructure' inside its borders." [more]
"Trained FBI agents had [information about] radical Islamic fundamentalists trying to learn how to fly airplanes and they couldn't handle that, but suddenly they're going to be able to handle thousands of unsubstantiated tips from the person reading your electric meter? ... This doesn't make us more secure. I think this turns us into a nation of paranoids," Leahy said. [more]
"The president said by the grace of Almighty Allah the armed forces had the capacity to not only defend every inch of the motherland but also to strike a telling blow to anyone who dared to challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country." [more]
"Three months before Pakistani elections, many expect the US to effectively support military rule no matter how elections go. In light of this public suspicion, Pakistan could be vulnerable to new terrorist attacks. In Karachi and Islamabad, where four terrorist attacks against Westerners have taken place in the past four months, security has become especially tight." [more]
"More than 5 million soldiers were let go all over the world between 1987-1994, according to Henry Sanchez of Rutgers University. Professional soldiers, suddenly unemployed in a hostile civilian environment, resorted to mercenariship." [more]
"After some turns and twists, the group's outside leaders accepted the call for ending the campaign made by the imprisoned leaders in the endóleading to the all-out termination of the group's seven-year antigovernment campaign, in which about 1,200 people were killed." [more]
"The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is pushing a series of sweeping proposals that will weaken congressional supervision of the Pentagon and give the military more freedom to manage itself." [more]
"US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has issued a stern warning to his staff about the dangers of leaking military secrets to the media — in an internal memo disclosed to the media." [more]
"An authoritative UN study concludes that Arab states are among the most backward in the world in education and research investment." [more]
"UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and an EU foreign policy team said they would continue to work with Mr Arafat, despite US attempts to marginalise the democratically elected leader." [more]
"European and Russian leaders on Tuesday insisted that Yassir Arafat was the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people, while the US softened its stance, saying Mr Arafat could maintain a figurehead position." [more]
"U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit on Tuesday that U.S. military action against Iraq is a distinct possibility whether or not Turkey, a major regional ally, supports the move, Turkish foreign ministry sources said." [more]
"In Afghanistan as in every war, corporations play a central role to protect their interestsówhether those interests are the profits from waging war or the geostrategic spoils of war." [more]
"The four-star general in charge of defending the United States against attack said he would favor changes in existing law to give greater domestic powers to the military to protect the country against terrorist strikes. The Bush administration has directed lawyers in the Departments of Justice and Defense to review the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and any other laws that sharply restrict the military's ability to participate in domestic law enforcement. Any changes would be subject to Congressional approval." [more]
"Polls show Americans are wary of a war, which may force Bush to do more selling." [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]
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