Stories from 2002-12-05
"The impatience in Washington and Baghdad over the pace and character of the inspections did not appear serious enough for the Bush administration or the government of President Saddam Hussein to walk away from the process. But it dramatized the intense political pressure facing the U.N. inspectors, whose work has become what amounts to a tripwire for possible U.S. military action to destroy Hussein's three-decade rule." [more]
"Turks overwhelmingly oppose the use of a key U.S. air base in their country in any possible attack against Iraq, a new survey found, underscoring the difficulties faced by Turkey's leaders if they assist in the U.S. campaign against Baghdad." [more]
"Activists of every stripe are flocking to cyberspace because of the speed and affordability of Internet communication. Ordinary citizens are swarming there, too, in search of information, dialogue and involvement. The Internet is fast becoming an integral part of grassroots politicking, not only because it's the most efficient organizing tool ever invented but also because it is 'a transforming medium capable of changing how people become engaged with politics.' " [more]
"Suspicion about U.S. motives in Iraq coupled with the widely held beliefs that the United States routinely ignores the interests of other nations and doesn't do enough to help solve global problems have battered the nation's image around the world." [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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