Yearly Archives: 2003

Dublin, Ireland – Well over 100,000 people attended anti-war demonstrations in Dublin and Belfast yesterday adding their voice to the millions around the world expressing opposition to the expected US-led war in Iraq. Singers, political figures and clergymen joined demonstrators … Continue reading →

A week later, 100,000 turned out in San Francisco and nearly as many in Washington, D.C., to protest the war. A neoconservative smear campaign was launched that tried to label the protestors radical leftists, but these were not just the … Continue reading →

Hours before the top U.N. arms inspectors give a report to the U.N. Security Council that could influence the chance or timing of any war, Saddam also reiterated that Iraq was free of any such weapons, a claim the United … Continue reading →

Mark Crispin Miller, author of “The Bush Dyslexicon” and “Boxed In: The Culture of TV,” wishes he could still talk only of television, unleashing barbs like “Big Brother Is You Watching.” Now he can’t. In Miller’s view, America’s great independent … Continue reading →

More than 2000 Scots soldiers are awaiting official notification to leave their base near Bergen, Germany, for the Gulf. Yesterday, the last Challenger II tanks of the 7th Armoured Brigade were delivered to the ferry port of Emden. There they … Continue reading →

I was then 20-year-old, naive, uneducated, with zero knowledge of politics. Arriving in Korea we hiked up steep mountains as replacements. Departing soldiers made puns while we remained silent not knowing what lay ahead—it was nighttime. At daybreak, a devastated … Continue reading →

The new arrivals, the first wave of more than 14,000 seaborne Marines expected to land in the region in coming weeks, include a highly trained special missions unit with experience in carrying out tactical raids, including seizure of enemy command … Continue reading →

“Toxic Sludge is Good For You” (Chapter 10) The Mother of All Clients by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops led by dictator Saddam Hussein invaded the oil-producing nation of Kuwait. Like Noriega in Panama, … Continue reading →

Peace Begins in the Neighborhood Seattle, Washington – “Forty-nine, fifty,” said Daniel Schwenk, while working his way along a row of protesters waving “No Iraq War” signs to Lake Forest Park’s evening rush hour. “I wasn’t counting,” he quipped. “I … Continue reading →

Shortly after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government surveyed the sorts of air defense systems available from a variety of agencies – for use here, or elsewhere in the country. The government then conducted experiments to … Continue reading →