Archive for February, 2003
Media freed from yoke of conservative “objectivity” to speak the truth.
Ordinarily jaded and cynical journalists and their editors seem of late to have entirely lost their grounding in reality. Constrained for years by a tradition that requires them to remain scrupulously “objective” and devoid of ideology, they have allowed themselves to be manipulated into the role of little more than purveyors of government press releases. […]
No War Wikki!!!
Even though I didn’t get any offers for hosting of the No War Wikki, I’ve got it up and running!!! Right now there is no actual content, but anyone who registers as a user can add content. Please check out the site, and help make it work! There is information on the main page about […]
Afghan Teacher Training
The Afghanistan Government and Unicef will this week begin a new training programme for teachers before they go back to the classroom to begin the new school year in March.
It is expected that as many as four million Afghan children will return to school, many of them to catch up on the education they missed […]
Bush takes time out to suppress freedom of speech
The Bush administration filed a brief in support of a city government’s attempts to suppress a march which was protesting their policies.
Thanks to Atrios for finding this. Full story here.
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Hundreds of thousands of people around the world staged antiwar protests in scores of cities
…. hmmm I’m pretty sure it was in the millions from what I’ve read. Hell, even the NY Times admits that there were nearly a million in London alone. But in any case, the NY Times does have some great […]
Over six million!
More than six million protesters took to the streets around the globe on Saturday to send a passionate message to President Bush not to invade Iraq and to give peace a chance.
I don’t think this story has even gotten the attention it deserves. I mean, has there ever been an international protest on this scale […]
Just 2,000 but somehow more amazing than 10 times that many somewhere else
About 2,000 antiwar protestors, both Jews and Palestinians, marched peacefully in central Tel Aviv for about 90 minutes early tonight. Many waved Israeli and Palestinian flags and carried pictures of gas masks and placards reading, “Drop Bush Not Bombs.”
In the Washington Post.
Most Diverse Peace Protest
Three years after vast crowds turned out around the world to celebrate the new millennium, millions gathered again yesterday in a darker mood of impending conflict, forming a patchwork of demonstrations that together, organizers said, made up the largest, most diverse peace protest since the Vietnam War.
From the NY Times, actually doing a decent job […]
A site to warm the hearts on a cold day.
From Newsweek:
It was a site to warm the hearts of those opposed to war in Iraq the world over: On a wintry London afternoon, a dense, banner-waving, chanting, mass of marchers was so large that it took more than four hours to cover the three-mile route through the city center. By the end of the […]
Trunk-mounted labs “unworkable”!
Newsweek debunks Powell’s UN power-point presentation for war. Most importantly, they show just how questionable some of his most damming assertions are. Here is what they have to say about those truck-mounted weapons labs, which I discussed in my last post:
Biowar experts concede that no scheme is too crazy for Saddam. Still, they say, truck-mounted […]
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