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Stories from 2002-09-16
"A librarian who is served with a warrant must surrender records of the patron's book borrowing or Internet use and is prohibited from revealing the search to anyone — including the patron. The Justice Department has refused to tell Congress how the law is being used, saying the information is classified." [more]
"Washington's souring relations with Germany reflect how far the US has gone in using the pain of last September as justification for a single-minded dismissal of criticism." [more]
"Just over a year ago, President Vicente Fox of Mexico visited Washington to press forward with a deal he and President Bush were hatching on immigration reform. Today, that deal is all but dead." [more]
"Iraq unconditionally accepted the return of U.N. weapons inspectors late Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said." [more]
"So far the Bush administration's foreign policy team has manifested all the symptoms of groupthink that Janis identified." [more]
"It has to be one or the other, right? Either the whole push towards war in Iraq is a Karl Rovian ploy to change the conversation and save the GOP from annihilation at the polls in November, or it is an actual charge into battle for reasons codified in the Republican Party platform before George W. Bush even became the nominee. / The simple, monstrous truth of the matter is that both of these scenarios are in play simultaneously, linked by political opportunism and the desires of empire."
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"Ý'We have seen since the president's speech a rallying of support for his approach, and a coalescence around the idea that the UN must act, and it must act against more than a decade of Iraq's flouting of the will of the international community,' an official said, referring to President George W. Bush's address at the United Nations on Thursday. But another official added: 'Frankly, we haven't seen the comments in any detail yet. It's for the Saudis to explain, and we can't go into it too much just yet.'Ý" [more]
"A substantial minority of Americans are unable to identify as an ally a country we defended at a cost of 54,000 lives. The real reason should be pretty obvious. Despite a brief post-9/11 campaign to convince ourselves otherwise, Americans remain stubbornly uninterested in foreign affairs. This condition may improve slightly in instances of frequent exposure (In addition to being our fifth most popular enemy, Israel places fourth among our allies), but it is, by all evidence, chronic." [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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