Speech of Uri Avnery, on behalf of Gush Shalom, at joint
Israeli-Palestinian mass demonstration against the Wall, Abu Dis, 7
February, 2004
(Translated from Hebrew)

We stand here, in the shadow of the monster, and call to the Israeli
public:
Don’t say: We did not know!
Don’t say: We did not see!
Don’t say: We did not hear!
We stand in the shadow of the monster – the monster that kills peace,
the monster that kills co-existence, the monster the kills security, the
monster that kills Jerusalem and the whole country.

To the creators of this monster we say:
YOU build a wall. WE build a bridge.
YOU build a wall of hatred, a wall of separation, a wall of apartheid.
WE build a bridge between the two peoples, a bridge of peace, a bridge
of togetherness.( Read more... )

February 8, 2004

OP-ED COLUMNIST

Murder Most Fowl

By MAUREEN DOWD

       "Dadburn," Rummy fumed, squinting through his wireless glasses
and waving his shotgun in the air. "A trained ape could
       have found a little something in that stinking cesspool. Can you
believe that tweedy blabbermouth David Kay came
back without even a germ? Goodness gracious, wasn't he working for us?"

Dick Cheney didn't answer. He was even more immobile than usual, in his
jungle cammies in the field of the Rolling Rock Club in
Pennsylvania. Nino, his partner in electoral manipulation and fowl
assassination, was at his side, smoking and sipping
Montepulciano from a silver thermos.

One thing Rummy admired about Dick. He never cracked under pressure.
Look at Martha Stewart. When her story fell apart,
she turned into a trembly bowl of Jell-O, something she would never be
caught dead serving.( Read more... )

E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com


              Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

February 8, 2004

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Making the Facts Fit the Case for War

By RICHARD GOODWIN

     CONCORD, Mass.

In 1846 President James Polk announced that Mexican troops had fired on
American soldiers on American soil, and he took the
country to a war that eventually gained it California, New Mexico and
Arizona. Was the disputed soil ours? Probably not. Did
Polk distort the information he had? Almost certainly. He wanted the
territory, and he needed a war to get it.

A first-term representative warned that if you "allow the president to
invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it
necessary to repel an invasion . . . you allow him to make war at
pleasure." For these words, Abraham Lincoln received the
usual reward of political courage: he forfeited any chance of a return
to Congress and was retired to private life for more than a
decade. (Although he would do quite well after that.)( Read more... )

washingtonpost.com

Four Steps to Better Intelligence

By Jane Harman

Sunday, February 8, 2004; Page B07

At least five extensive inquiries have already been conducted regarding
the prewar intelligence on
Iraq, and every one of them has been sharply critical. While another
investigation may tell us a few
things we don't yet know, we cannot wait until after November to begin
making needed
improvements. Waiting will freeze in place an intolerable national
security situation: shattered U.S.
credibility and deeply flawed intelligence.( Read more... )

Gain weight, lose your love life with McDiet?

Documentary showing the alarming effects of 30 days of

McDonald's meals on its director takes Sundance Festival by storm

By David Usborne in New York

25 January 2004

Normally sane actors have been known to gain or lose huge amounts of weight for their art. Think of Renée
Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary. Directors, of course, never have to undergo such torture. Or so it used to
be, until Morgan Spurlock had a bright idea for a film project.

The first clue to his particular misery comes in the title of his documentary, which has become the darling of
this year's Sundance Film Festival. It is called Super Size Me: A Film of Epic Portions and it is a sometimes comic
but serious look at America's addiction to fast food.

Spurlock, a 6ft 2in New Yorker of usually cast-iron constitution, made himself the guinea pig in this dogged
investigation into the effects of fast food on the body. He ate only at McDonald's for a month - three meals,
every day - and took a camera crew along to record it. If a server offered to super-size his order, he was
obliged to accept - and to ingest everything, gherkins and all.

Neither Spurlock, 33, nor the three doctors who agreed to monitor his health during the experiment was
prepared for the degree of ruin it would wreak on his body. Within days, he was vomiting up his burgers
and battling with headaches and depression. And his sex drive vanished.( Read more... )

Hi chris,

we don't actually have subscriptions, as we only come out once or twice a
year.  we only come out once or twice a year because we're intent on
producing the kind of material that takes time and defies subscription
bases. we're working on the next issue, which should be out mid-2004. if
you'd like, i'd be happy to put you on our list of folks who will be
notified when the next volume hits the stands.

in the meantime, thanks so much for your interest, which we all take very
gladly to heart.  hope you find out efforts worthy.

best

gil
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[The first segment tonight reported on the American evangelical
Christians. It said there are 70 million of them, and they provide 40%
of Bush's voters. If you have been worried about Islamic fundamentalism
and extremism, better to start worrying even more about this part of our
body politic, and what they believe is in store for you if you do not
subscribe to their ideology. And among them are not only Bush, Ashcroft,
and DeLay, but many others in power today. Here is the transcript.]

Rise Of The Righteous Army
Feb. 8, 2004

Evangelical Christians form one of the most potent forces in American
politics and society. They are people who place their faith, a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ, above everything else in their
lives and hope to spread that Gospel to the world.( Read more... )
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