11.30.2003

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Shop til you're dropped. Another reason to observe Buy Nothing Day: when the 6 a.m. siren blew at a Florida Wal-Mart on Friday morning,...
11.27.2003

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Photos from the front lines Leif Utne prefaces his photos from the FTAA conference in Miami with these words: For all the horror of the Mia...
11.26.2003

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Beating Bush beyond the grave : Remember how Sally Baron, a 71-year old Wisconsinite who died in August, requested in her obituary that memo...

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W's illegal W? When Bush flubbed a line in the State of the Union--the one where he referred to unconventional weapons delivered in a ...
11.25.2003

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It's a start. At Fort Carson yesterday the president met with 98 relatives of 26 soldiers killed in Iraq--only the third such meeting. ...

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The Moral Myth of War George Monbiot parses the moral arguments trotted out to justify war in Iraq: The key point, overlooked by all those...
11.24.2003

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Weekend news General Wesley Clark , on Bush's new ad campaign that questions the patriotism of Democrats: "I'm not critical of...
11.23.2003

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FTAA action alert: activists jailed and allegedly tortured Reports of violence at the Miami FTAA conference and in area jails, from United f...
11.22.2003

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And in other news Spam rage? Charles Booker of San Francisco was arrested this week in what may be the first case of spam rage : angered by...

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Repression in Miami: A model for Homeland Security? Two weeks ago, Miami mayor Manuel Rodriguez called the police build-up in anticipation o...
11.21.2003

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Bush's bashing: new ad campaign questions Dems' patriotism In its first TV commercial of the election campaign, the Bush administrat...

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Why George loves Jacko William Rivers Pitt writes : Enron, the stock market, the reasons for September 11, the nomination of Henry Kissinger...
11.20.2003

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Leif and Pat and the FTAA In an unlikely encounter in the Minneapolis/St.Paul airport on his way to cover the Free Trade Area of the America...

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Perle admits war was illegal From The Guardian : International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after th...
11.19.2003

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This just in: antiwar protesters are evil The rightwing group AIM--ironically "Accuracy in Media"--has figured it all out: antiwar...
11.18.2003

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Open Letters The Guardian prints 60 open letters to George Bush from people all over Great Britain: playwright Harold Pinter, Conservative...

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Tunisian cyber-dissident freed In an alarming number of countries around the globe, badmouthing the power elite can land you in jail. Zouhai...

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News of note A new report by the prestigious Centre for Strategic and International Studies , written by Dr. Anthony Cordesman, paints a gri...

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Militarizing Marketing The new Converse—recently bought out by Nike—is pinning its hopes for brand-name rebirth on the Loaded Weapon basket...

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Militarizing Marketing 2 For all of its merits, our military is not, and cannot be, a democratic institution. The administration, and often ...