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the Student Environmental Action
Coalition here at Illinois State University is holding a regional
conferenceabout nuclear power February 20-22.

http://www.nukereality.org

Status Report - January 31, 2004:

This is a status report on the rapidly expanding support for the "Open Letter from the Arab American and Muslim Community to the US Anti-War Movement," and on the political program of the March 20 national mobilization.

What was initiated on January 12, 2004, as an Open Letter from 41 Arab-American and Muslim organizations in the United States and Canada, today carries the weight of more than 222 signatory organizations (listed below) supported by great many thousands of activists and community members, including national networks, solidarity groups and anti-war coalitions from coast to coast.( Read more... )

G.W. BUSH- THE THIEF, THE LIAR - ANTI-WAR, ANTI-BUSH FLASH..url

http://www.bushflash.com/

I am now 50 years, and a male. I'm now disabled with "crippling" PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I live here in Cleveland, Ohio with my wife, Aileen. She has literally saved my life more times than I can count. Without her loving warmth and kindness I would never have survived my nervous breakdown. I would have died. There has not been one single day, in all of the seven years that we have been, 'spiritually married, where I have not lived with a growing love and appreciation for the honor to be able to share our lives together.

http://windgate.info/

According to Senator John Kerry's personal
financial disclosure forms filed in 2003 he has
between 1,000,000 and 5,000,000 invested in
WalMart stock.

Also included in his investment portfolio:

Over 1,000,000 in Gannett Newpapers
Over 1,000,000 in Pfizer
Between 15,000 and 50,000 in Exxon Mobil
Between 15,000 and 50,000 in Proctor and Gamble Company
Another 15,000 to 50,000 listed as Proctor and Gamble (w/o "company")

Not to mention countless millions upon millions in various mutual and index funds.

All this and more at http://www.opensecrets.org

Now who do you think should be the next president?

an amazing photo collage collection goto

http://www.daysofmylife.org/photomontage/diary_project/2004/002/001.html

    There is a very interesting and informative article by Peter Waldman
(front page) in today's Wall Street Journal on Bernard Lewis, the
Princeton professor emeritus who is the intellectual guru of the neocons
who have created a new foreign policy for the U.S., which turns out to
be "imperialism" in the Lewis formulation, believe it or not. The
article mentions many of his disciples or acolytes now in positions of
power, and some fellow true believers of the past and present--Perle,
Wolfowitz, Frum, Rove, Rice, Ajami, Chalabi, Cheney, Henry Jackson,
Patrick Moynihan, Abrams, Gaffney, Harold Rhode, Golda Meir, Ariel
Sharon, Amnon Cohen, Kissinger. A couple of critics are also mentioned:
Juan Cole, Ilan Pappe.
    The WSJ, pillar of capitalism, won't let me download this article
from their website without either paying them $79, or $39 if I am
already a subscriber to the print edition. This is a very clever pricing
strategy to get people to subscribe to the print edition. But in my case
that would only add to the daily pile of half (or less) read newspapers.
They encourage you to subscribe to the print edition in order to
increase their paid circulation (on which advertising rates are based),
and they offer you nothing free (what capitalist would?). This is unlike
the New York Times (one week free downloading from the website) and the
Washington Post (two weeks free downloading), which are certainly
capitalist, but a more moderate version.
    Now an appeal: if anyone of this "band of brothers" (that's y'all,
with a southern accent) is able to download this article, by being an
online WSJ subscriber or a print subscriber, please email it to me, as I
would like to circulate it to the rest of the gang. I await your
response, with advance gratitude. Support from capitalists would be
equally welcome.

--
Robert V. Keeley

stop the presses by Eric Alterman

'Sorry' Seems to Be the Hardest Word

[from the February 16, 2004 issue]

OK, Saddam's in jail and Iraq is the fifty-first (and best-funded)
state. Are we better off than we were a year ago?

Slate's Jacob Weisberg asked a prominent group of "liberal hawks" to
reassess their support for the war in light of what we
now know. While he does not bring up issues relating to the
Administration's morality or mendacity--not to mention the horrible
precedent of the world's only superpower launching an allegedly
"preventive" war--Weisberg offers a useful summary of what's
gone wrong from a narrowly pragmatic point of view:

There is "the huge and growing cost of the invasion and occupation: in
American lives (we're about to hit 500 dead and several
thousand more have been injured); in money (more than $160 billion in
borrowed funds); and in terms of lost opportunity (we
might have found Osama Bin Laden by now if we'd committed some of those
resources to Afghanistan). Most significant are
the least tangible costs: increased hatred for the United States, which
both fosters future terrorism and undermines the
international support we will need to fight terrorism effectively for
many years to come."( Read more... )

    [Much thanks to The Nation for permitting this article to be
circulated.]

Subject to Debate by Katha Pollitt

Judy, Judy, Judy

[from the February 16, 2004 issue]

I used to think we should get rid of First Ladies. Plenty of countries
manage without a national wife: Cherie Blair aside (and
how long would Britain's answer to Hillary have lasted over here?), can
you name the spouse of the man who leads France,
Germany, China, Canada or Russia? And no, "Mrs. Putin" doesn't count as
a correct answer. Is Lula married? What about
Ariel Sharon? Is there a Mrs. General Musharraf ready with a nice cup of
tea when her man comes home after walking the
nuclear weapons? Do you care? The ongoing public inquest into Dr. Judith
Steinberg makes me see, however, that we need
First Ladies: Without them, American women might actually believe that
they are liberated, that modern marriage is an equal
partnership, that the work they are trained for and paid to do is
important whether or not they are married, and that it is socially
acceptable for adult women in the year 2004 to possess distinct
personalities--even quirks! Without First Ladies, a woman
might imagine that whether she keeps or changes her name is a private,
personal choice, the way the young post-post-feminists
always insist it is when they write those annoying articles explaining
why they are now calling themselves Mrs. My Husband.( Read more... )

Four Months Before the War: The Battle in the Pentagon


On November 5, 2002, the Republicans regained control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House in national midterm elections. On November 8 the UN Security Council voted 15-0 in favor of Resolution 1441, threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it could not prove that it had abandoned its weapons programs.( Read more... )

Bob,

 Per your request:

Ed Kane


A Historian's Take on Islam
Steers U.S. in Terrorism Fight
Bernard Lewis's Blueprint -- 
Sowing Arab Democracy -- 
Is Facing a Test in Iraq
By PETER WALDMAN 
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Bernard Lewis often tells audiences about an encounter he once had in Jordan. 
The Princeton University historian, author of more than 20 books on Islam and 
the Middle East, says he was chatting with Arab friends in Amman when one of 
them trotted out an argument familiar in that part of the world.
"We have time, we can wait," he quotes the Jordanian as saying. "We got rid 
of the Crusaders. We got rid of the Turks. We'll get rid of the Jews."
Hearing this claim "one too many times," Mr. Lewis says, he politely shot 
back, "Excuse me, but you've got your history wrong. The Turks got rid of the 
Crusaders. The British got rid of the Turks. The Jews got rid of the British. I 
wonder who is coming here next."( Read more... )