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Stories from 2003-07-18

A Kind of Fascism is Replacing Our Democracy

Sheldon S. Wolin | Newsday | July 18, 2003

"Like previous forms of totalitarianism, the Bush administration boasts a reckless unilateralism that believes the United States can demand unquestioning support, on terms it dictates; ignores treaties and violates international law at will; invades other countries without provocation; and incarcerates persons indefinitely without charging them with a crime or allowing access to counsel." [more]

Afghan Women Still Being Arrested for 'Moral' Crimes

Kimberly Sevcik | Mother Jones | July 18, 2003

"In Zebak province, in the country's northeast, regional commanders are forcing women into marriage, threatening their families' lives if they decline. And although the central government insists that women are no longer being arrested for "moral" crimes, police continue to jail women for adultery and eloping, often without trial or even so much as a witness against them." [more]

Body 'Matches' Iraq Expert

STAFF | British Broadcasting Corporation | July 18, 2003

"Dr Kelly, 59, had been caught up in a row between the BBC and the government about the use of intelligence reports in the run-up to the war with Iraq." [more]

Transcript: CIA Official Believes Bush Risks US's Security

Mark Follman | Salon | July 18, 2003

"A CIA veteran says a growing faction of the U.S. intelligence community is furious over the way the administration corrupted the system — and that the nation's security is at grave risk." [more]

From Heroes to Targets?

Michelle Goldberg | Salon | July 18, 2003

"The U.S. occupation of Iraq has turned into a daily debacle, say experts, because the Washington ideologues who planned the war were living in a fantasy." [more]

Reading the Wrong Thing in Public Can Get You in Trouble

Marc Schultz | Creative Loafing Atlanta | July 18, 2003

" 'I'll tell you what, Marc. Someone in the shop that day saw you reading something, and thought it looked suspicious enough to call us about. So that's why we're here, just checking it out. Like I said, there's no problem. We'd just like to get to the bottom of this. Now if we can't, then you may have a problem. And you don't want that.' " [more]

Southern Afghanistan Suffers as Aid Groups Threatened

Owais Tohid | Christian Science Monitor | July 18, 2003

"By all appearances, insurgents have consciously turned against foreign aid workers despite work done during the days of the mujahideen resistance and Taliban rule. Attacks on their local helpers as well suggest that more than xenophobia is at work. Rather, the attacks seem part of a concerted effort to undermine the reconstruction work itself." [more]

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