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Stories from 2002-08-16
"With backbench Labour critics becoming more restless, veteran ex-minister Gerald Kaufman today warns of 'substantial resistance' at Westminster if Mr Blair follows 'the most intellectually backward American president of my lifetime' into the looming conflict." [more]
"The move follows months of criticism from European governments and human rights advocates that individuals whose assets were ordered frozen by the Security Council were deprived of the means to meet their daily living expenses or to hire lawyers to help them challenge the charges." [more]
"The Agni missile, with a range of 1,500 miles, is undergoing field trials and will be introduced into the arsenal of the nation's armed forces, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The most advanced version of the Agni could hit most targets in neighboring Pakistan and reach well into China." [more]
"Those findings are particularly troublesome, taken with the increase in the age of military personnel and the declining interest among high-school males in joining the military. Between 1980 and 1997, the average age of active-duty personnel increased from 25 to 27. And the percentage of high-school males who said they will "definitely" join the military declined from 12 percent in the mid-1980s to 8 percent." [more]
"Airport security screeners may soon try to read the minds of travelers to identify terrorists." [more]
"The retired general, who also advised Presidents Nixon and Ford, predicted that an attack on Iraq could lead to catastrophe.
"Israel would have to expect to be the first casualty, as in 1991 when Saddam sought to bring Israel into the Gulf conflict. This time, using weapons of mass destruction, he might succeed, provoking Israel to respond, perhaps with nuclear weapons, unleashing an Armageddon in the Middle East," Mr Scowcroft wrote in the Wall Street Journal."
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"The Bush administration understands that Mr. Schr–der is in the middle of a hard-fought election campaign and that he is trying to shore up his support among left-wing voters, the officials said. But Washington 'is not happy at the accusation that it is not consulting with its allies' or that Mr. Bush is 'a trigger-happy Texan,' in the words of one senior American official." [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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