International law professor Francis A. Boyle calls for impeachment: "The only way we can prevent a war is to go after the chain of command here. And the chain of command is the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary of Defense."

December 24, 2002

Boyle wrote the first draft of the impeachment resolution against George H.W. Bush that was introduced by Rep. Gonzalez in 1991. He has offered to help any member of Congress who is willing to introduce an impeachment resolution against President Bush. He has called for the following from Americans:

  1. "Contact your member in the House of Representatives. It must be in the House of Representatives. A bill of impeachment starts in the House with a bill introduced by a member of the House. Tell that member of the House of Representatives that you support this campaign to impeach President Bush Jr. along the lines of Henry B. Gonzalez against President Bush Sr., and that their chief of staff should get in touch with me [Professor Boyle] to draft a revised bill of impeachment to be submitted into the new House of Representatives as soon as they convene in mid-January. That's what we need." (Click here to view Rep. Gonzalez's 1991 impeachment resolution)

  2. "We also need tens of thousands of people taking to the streets, exercising their First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition your government for redress of grievances. And with signs, and protests, and banners saying, 'Impeach Bush.' We need to get that message through to Bush Jr. Recall that Bush Jr. lost the election. He stole the election at the United States Supreme Court. This man knows that he lost, and he is desperately doing everything possible to try to win a legitimate mandate in 2004. So we have to send a message to him -- the American people -- that if he goes to war against Iraq, we will do our best to impeach him and make sure he doesn't win anything in 2004. And here I agree with the Congressman up in Oregon saying that we need a million people to take to the streets. Direct action. That's what we need."

"We're wasting our time going to the Supreme Court, or federal district courts, which Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr. have packed with right-wing reactionary judges from this Federalist Society cabal. Again, it's really going to be up to the American people. No judge is going to pull our chestnuts out of the fire. If we want a democracy, a republic, a constitution, and the rule of law, we are going to have to take these matters into our own hands. And again, I agree with the congressman up in Oregon who said we need a million people to take to the streets and what I would like those million people doing is chanting 'Impeach Bush.' [...] We have to do all that we can to get the million people out on the streets marching, protesting, demonstrating, and chanting 'Impeach Bush.' That message will get through. Because if there's one thing we know, this guy wants his own mandate, and he knows he doesn't have it from the American people. We also know that a majority of the American people voted against Bush Jr. We know it, he knows it. So we need to mobilize those people who voted for other candidates and get them out there as well. This is democracy in action. And this is what we're going to have to do to prevent a war against Iraq for oil, and to preserve a republic, and a constitution, and the rule of law here in the United States."

British Trident Ploughshares activists boarded a Trident submarine in November 2002, sounded the alarm, and informed workers that the submarine was illegal

"At this stage we were not really sure about what to do. After we had been inside the submarine, and seen the holes on the outside were they fire the missiles, we decided to press an alarm button. The first alarm button we found didn't work, so we went to the other side of the submarine and found two fire alarm buttons. We pressed the first one at 11.30pm according to the police, and we had probably been on and inside of the sub for 20 minutes. Nothing happened in a couple of minutes, so we pressed the other alarm too. Then lots of workers, maybe 10 to 20 came up from the lower parts of the submarine, just where we were standing.

"We explained to them that we were from Trident Ploughshares and that the submarine is illegal, but they seemed to be more keen on having a break than to discuss legal matters with us! So they went to a nearby building. After another couple of minutes security staff turned up and showed us the way to the office just next to the sub. The walls in there were covered with electrical diagrams of the missile system and other things I didn't understand. The staff offered us tea and coffee and we were chatting for a while until the police turned up and arrested us at 11.55."

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A woman removing possessions from her Hebron home, after the IDF demolished it Friday. (Photo: AP)

"The soldiers hid behind our backs as they pushed us forward. Then they put their guns on our shoulders and began shooting. We felt our eardrums burning, but when we tried to put our hands over our ears, they beat our hands away. The noise was terrible because the gun was right next to my ear."

[...] "We had previously seized this building, so we were concerned that explosives would be waiting for us when we came back. Acting according to customary practice in such cases, we took a Palestinian who lived nearby and had him comb the site. He opened all the doors and cabinets, and didn't find anything. We shook his hand and said thanks."

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Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks on nuclear war

"The cause of the nuclear arms race and the situation in the world today is the minds of these men running this country -- and in other countries too but mostly the United States -- and it's important that we psychoanalyze these people for the public health of the planet. And if we find they are mentally or psychologically inappropriate for our survival, they must be removed from office on an urgency basis. [Long applause]"

"[...] It's Jefferson who said an informed democracy will behave in a responsible fashion and this democracy is almost totally uninformed, hence the voting patterns... [Interrupted by thunderous applause]"

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"Our quality of life peaked in 1974. It's all downhill now."

by George Monbiot

With the turning of every year, we expect our lives to improve. As long as the economy continues to grow, we imagine, the world will become a more congenial place in which to live. There is no basis for this belief. If we take into account such factors as pollution and the depletion of natural capital, we see that the quality of life peaked in the UK in 1974 and in the US in 1968, and has been falling ever since. We are going backwards.

The reason should not be hard to grasp. Our economic system depends upon never-ending growth, yet we live in a world with finite resources. Our expectation of progress is, as a result, a delusion.

This is the great heresy of our times, the fundamental truth which cannot be spoken. It is dismissed as furiously by those who possess power today - governments, business, the media - as the discovery that the earth orbits the sun was denounced by the late medieval church. Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.

Capitalism is a millenarian cult, raised to the status of a world religion. Like communism, it is built upon the myth of endless exploitation. Just as Christians imagine that their God will deliver them from death, capitalists believe that theirs will deliver them from finity. The world's resources, they assert, have been granted eternal life.

The briefest reflection will show that this cannot be true. The laws of thermodynamics impose inherent limits upon biological production. Even the repayment of debt, the pre-requisite of capitalism, is mathematically possible only in the short-term. As Heinrich Haussmann has shown, a single pfennig invested at 5% compounded interest in the year AD 0 would, by 1990, have reaped a volume of gold 134bn times the weight of the planet. Capitalism seeks a value of production commensurate with the repayment of debt.

Now, despite the endless denials, it is clear that the wall towards which we are accelerating is not very far away. Within five or 10 years, the global consumption of oil is likely to outstrip supply. Every year, up to 75bn tonnes of topsoil are washed into the sea as a result of unsustainable farming, which equates to the loss of around 9m hectares of productive land.

As a result, we can maintain current levels of food production only with the application of phosphate, but phosphate reserves are likely to be exhausted within 80 years. Forty per cent of the world's food is produced with the help of irrigation; some of the key aquifers are already running dry as a result of overuse.

One reason why we fail to understand a concept as simple as finity is that our religion was founded upon the use of other people's resources: the gold, rubber and timber of Latin America; the spices, cotton and dyes of the East Indies; the labour and land of Africa. The frontier of exploitation seemed, to the early colonists, infinitely expandable. Now that geographical expansion has reached its limits, capitalism has moved its frontier from space to time: seizing resources from an infinite future.

An entire industry has been built upon the denial of ecological constraints. Every national newspaper in Britain lamented the "disappointing" volume of sales before Christmas. Sky News devoted much of its Christmas Eve coverage to live reports from Brent Cross, relaying the terrifying intelligence that we were facing "the worst Christmas for shopping since 2000". The survival of humanity has been displaced in the newspapers by the quarterly results of companies selling tableware and knickers.

Partly because they have been brainwashed by the corporate media, partly because of the scale of the moral challenge with which finity confronts them, many people respond to the heresy with unmediated savagery.

Last week this column discussed the competition for global grain supplies between humans and livestock. One correspondent, a man named David Roucek, wrote to inform me that the problem is the result of people "breeding indiscriminately ... When a woman has displayed evidence that she totally disregards the welfare of her offspring by continuing to breed children she cannot support, she has committed a crime and must be punished. The punishment? She must be sterilised to prevent her from perpetrating her crimes upon more innocent children."

There is no doubt that a rising population is one of the factors which threatens the world's capacity to support its people, but human population growth is being massively outstripped by the growth in the number of farm animals. While the rich world's consumption is supposed to be boundless, the human population is likely to peak within the next few decades. But population growth is the one factor for which the poor can be blamed and from which the rich can be excused, so it is the one factor which is repeatedly emphasised.

It is possible to change the way we live. The economist Bernard Lietaer has shown how a system based upon negative rates of interest would ensure that we accord greater economic value to future resources than to present ones. By shifting taxation from employment to environmental destruction, governments could tax over-consumption out of existence. But everyone who holds power today knows that her political survival depends upon stealing from the future to give to the present.

Overturning this calculation is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. We need to reverse not only the fundamental presumptions of political and economic life, but also the polarity of our moral compass. Everything we thought was good - giving more exciting presents to our children, flying to a friend's wedding, even buying newspapers - turns out also to be bad. It is, perhaps, hardly surprising that so many deny the problem with such religious zeal. But to live in these times without striving to change them is like watching, with serenity, the oncoming truck in your path.

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Reverend James Lawson speaks out in favor of peace, justice and "passionate nonviolence" and against globalization, violence, militarization, injustice and war on Iraq


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"Let me say something about this now that I hate to say, but which I think I must say, and that's this: for the last generation -- 30 years -- I have been convinced that the number one enemy of justice and peace in the world is the United States. [Applause] That's a sobering thought, friends. Let's recognize that the mythology of our land is that we are the most beneficent, altruistic nation that has ever lived, and that our behavior domestically, and internationally, has ever been benign -- for liberty, for freedom, and so forth and so on."

"Globalization [...] is nothing but certain folk in our land, largely white males, largely white supremist males, who have decided to take over the cloak of the last 500 years of colonialism and imperialism, and document it, and forge it, into the 21st century for another hundred years. That's what's going on. Globalization is nothing but the effort to spread plantation capitalism all around the world.

"[...] There is something deep within my soul as a human being and as a man that thinks it's despicable and obscene for the Bushes and the Rumsfelds and the others to make decisions for war in which it's the women and children of the world who are the victims. That is not humanity. It is not manliness. It is shameful. And how soon will some of us begin to say this and write this so that we can begin to turn the attitude in this land that makes war a play game so long as there are not American casualties? [...] I cannot figure out any sort of God who is more concerned about my granddaughter than the children of Iraq, the ones I saw in the hospitals in Basra and Baghdad. If that is the kind of God we have, then I want nothing to do with that God.

"[...] It's just as critical for us to recognize how in the economic order may be the worst form of violence that the world is experiencing today, globalization and the like.

"[...] When will we the people America wake up and say, 'no more'? When we withdraw our support. [...] Across these 400 years of history as we have done despicable things to our own people and to other people, there has developed what Norman Mailer has called a 'hollow soul,' and I think that's a good term in America -- what Wendell Berry has called 'the hidden wound' -- it's in all of us that needs to be healed. We have developed a mythological idolatry where we are consumed with shame and guilt and denial that we have issues among ourselves that need to be faced and probed and examined in order for us to get some healing." -- Reverend James Lawson, pastor emeritus at Hobman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles.

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US no longer used as an example of free and fair elections in the world


Clad in a garment inspired by the American flag, Shida Pegahi, right, says she is demonstrating against what she sees as a takeover of the U.S. government by the Christian right. (GENARO MOLINA / LAT) Source: LA Times

Kenyan human rights leader Koigi wa Wamwere talks about how struggling democracy advocates no longer point to the United States as a model for free and fair elections because after the stolen election of 2000, the US is now associated with corrupt and rigged elections

"Our struggle for democracy has been very badly affected by the setbacks that American democracy has itself suffered. Well before 911, we saw the election in Florida, which came out as a stolen election, and this was a very big blow. Let me explain that before, whenever we struggled, whenever we asked for free and fair elections, we always pointed to America as the place with free and fair elections and we would say, 'We want free and fair elections as they have them in America.' After Florida, we cannot say that any more, because if we say that we want free and fair elections, American-style, [President Daniel arap] Moi will be the first one to say, 'Sure, I will give you exactly that.'"

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US still involved in torture

Doublespeak: "The picture that emerges is of a brass-knuckled quest for information, often in concert with allies of dubious human rights reputation, in which the traditional lines between right and wrong, legal and inhumane, are evolving and blurred."

English: "The US is torturing people."

Thursday, 26 December, 2002

The Washington Post has broken a story containing allegations of torture of suspected al-Qaeda detainees. If true, these allegations "would place the United States in violation of some of the most fundamental prohibitions of international human rights law," according to Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

"'If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job,' said one official who has supervised the capture and transfer of accused terrorists. 'I don't think we want to be promoting a view of zero tolerance on this. That was the whole problem for a long time with the CIA.'"

"[...]'This is a very highly classified area, but I have to say that all you need to know: There was a before 9/11, and there was an after 9/11,' [Cofer] Black said. 'After 9/11 the gloves come off.'" [see below for some of the history of CIA torture before 9/11]

"[...] captives are often 'softened up' by MPs and U.S. Army Special Forces troops who beat them up and confine them in tiny rooms. The alleged terrorists are commonly blindfolded and thrown into walls, bound in painful positions, subjected to loud noises and deprived of sleep."

"[...] 'pain control [in wounded patients] is a very subjective thing.'"

"[...] After years of fruitless talks in Egypt, President Bill Clinton cut off funding and cooperation with the directorate of Egypt's general intelligence service, whose torture of suspects has been a perennial theme in State Department human rights reports.

"'You can be sure,' one Bush administration official said, 'that we are not spending a lot of time on that now.'"

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"If they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" -- James Baldwin, An Open Letter to my Sister, Miss Angela Davis

Mass roundups, detentions, and deportations based on national and ethnic identity

The DOJ rounds up, detains, and deports unspecified numbers of Arabs and Muslims under fundamentalist Christian John Ashcroft, who has praised -- and been praised by -- neo-Confederate white supremacist magazine Southern Partisan

Saturday, 21 December, 2002

"It's a human thing. It's a wake-up call." -- Iranian-American Attorney Banafsheh Akhlaghi, speaking out against the detention of her clients and hundreds of other men from Muslim nations last week in Los Angeles

Article 7
Crimes against humanity

1.    For the purpose of this Statute, 'crime against humanity' means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

[...]

(d)    Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e)    Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

[...]

(h)    Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i)    Enforced disappearance of persons; [...]

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The reign of the obscurantists

The "compassionate conservative" Commander-in-Chief threatens to nuke Iraq. The DOJ carries out mass roundups, detentions, and deportations based on ethnic and national identity under fundamentalist Christian with neo-Confederate links John Ashcroft. Trent Lott resurrects Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat/segregationist presidential campaign -- again.


Gisroo Mohajeri is comforted by her husband, Ali Mohajeri, a U.S. citizen, outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Her son was taken into custody when the two came to the INS office to voluntality register the teenager under a new anti-terrorism program. (Photo: Associated Press. Story: Houston Chronicle. Click here for full story.)

"[I]t is a great mistake to suppose that the only writers who matter are those whom the educated in their saner moments can take seriously. There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility. And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history." -- Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: the Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, p. 18.

"Yes, I'm deeply concerned about the words expressed by Senator Lott at Strom Thurmond's birthday party. But I'm even more concerned about the words he used to EXPLAIN them. He said he wasn't praising Senator Thurmond's past racial stance, but he liked his commitment to a 'strong defense' and his 'fiscal conservatism.'

"Before the Civil War the Democratic slave masters used to have anti-black conventions where they called us 'out-our-names.' But after the Civil War, when they had lost power and were trying to get it back, they knew they had to change their language. So instead of holding anti-black conventions, the same former Democratic slave masters had anti-taxpayer conventions - since they were being taxed to pay for the new freedmen's education, health care, and housing. They were known as fiscal conservatives, and they called the Radical Republicans of that day - who were supporting such programs - 'tax and spend liberals.' That's the origin of the phrase!

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Trent Lott supported white supremacist group John Ashcroft praises white supremacist magazine Greg Palast: Florida's 'Disappeared Voters': Disfranchised by the GOP

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"But what about the 'defense' part that Senator Lott liked? Well, these fiscal conservatives aren't fiscally conservative when it comes to spending $400 billion annually on the military. They're not fiscally conservative when it comes spending $200 billion or more to invade Iraq. They're not fiscally conservative when it comes to granting the top 1% of wealthy Americans the lion's share of a $1.35 trillion tax cut, and making it permanent, which will create record deficits as far as the eye can see.

"They're only fiscally conservative when it comes providing all Americans with high quality health care, providing all Americans with a high quality public education, providing all Americans with affordable housing, or providing all Americans with a clean environment.

"So when these politicians get up and say they're fiscal conservatives, they're calling you 'out-your-name' again . . . only this time it's by another, more clever name. So I'm more concerned about the EXPLANATION Senator Lott gave than I am about the original words that stirred all the controversy!" -- Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., in an address delivered to the RainbowPUSH Coalition, Saturday, December 14, 2002

"Since September 11, we have all been brought to the point of recognizing the pervasive power of religions to shape all kinds of events [...] We are dealing with ancient religious convictions and memories, and they are driving forces in the modern world. The secular press just doesn't get it, but it seems to me there's no other way to understand this." -- Timothy Weber, qtd. in Rod Dreher: Red-Heifer Days Click here to view what David Landau of Ha'aretz would call the "four-legged bomb"!

"In short, compassionate conservatism is a taxpayer-funded mission to allow religious groups to provide most government social programs, allowing them to operate homeless shelters, drug-treatment programs, pregnancy-counselling services, prisons and unemployment offices -- even if their mission is to convert their clients to religious faith." -- Doug Saunders, Bush's Christian Guru Marvin Olasky Aims to Reshape America: But Opponents Fear Reversal of Country's Principles

"I'd become accustomed to George W. Bush's use of the word evil until he told the nation this last spring, 'The evil one is among us.' Anyone with a passing understanding of the evangelical world of Bush' [sic] faith knows he was referring to the Antichrist. The implications of this are grave beyond telling and yet scarcely ever noted in the public discourse. On the eve of a misguided war the Commander in Chief of the most powerful military force in human history has located American foreign policy within a Biblical narrative that leads inexorably towards the plains of Megiddo, roughly fifty five miles northwest of Jerusalem: the battle of Armageddon. Two essential questions, as impertinent as they are imperative, need to be asked: Mr. President, as a born-again Christian is it not true that you regard this as the end times prophesied in the Bible? In what way does your religious understanding of apocalypse inform American policy in the Mideast?" -- Michael Ortiz Hill, Bush's Armageddon Obsession: The Looking Glass War

"The agreement between the CCC's [Council of Conservative Citizens, the white-supremacist group with which Trent Lott had extensive associations] agenda and the agendas of too many mainstream politicians should serve as a warning to journalists against drawing too fine a distinction between old-school racism and the newer code-word variety driving much of the current political debate." -- Mikal Muharrar, in a FAIR Press Release, December 22, 1998 [note the date]

Newsflash: the news about Trent Lott is not news.


Iranian-Americans protest government discrimination based on ethnic identity. Source: Iranian.com.

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Sheryl Crow: "NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GO TO SLEEP"

In an open letter posted to her website entitled "Why I Do Not Believe in His War....A Note From Sheryl Crow," artist Sheryl Crow urged Americans to stay engaged by writing in capital letters, "NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GO TO SLEEP."

Crow writes:

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GO TO SLEEP. Our culture is choosing to do just that because the issues are too much to comprehend. The attacks on 9-11 were forewarned. They had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein. And while Saddam is an evil person, the strategy of "Let's hit him before he hits us" is not a viable solution to anything. Terrorist attacks will continue as a reaction to the hate felt for our country. Why is no one discussing solutions to the very real feelings of hate and distrust felt for our great country and it's policies? One has only to read European newspapers to get a glimpse into how our policies are perceived. I believe the only answer to not having enemies is to start living as allies...not as bullies who need to control the economies of other countries. Ridding Iraq of Saddam will not solve the problem of hate for America.

And I believe America is full of good people who are not being given all of the information needed to truly understand the stance being taken on our behalf otherwise we would not support entering such a heinous exchange.

It is my desire for all of us seeking understanding to find truth, and through truth, peace. It is not okay to believe in the bill of goods we are being sold just because it is masked under the definition of "patriotism." This is not that. This is greed and we, as a nation, are better than that.

If a nuclear strike takes place, the devastation of the world's environment will suffer catastrophically. We are taunting Saddam by making statements, such as the front page headline in the New York Post last week saying "WE WILL NUKE YOU." This is not a game. This will be war like we've never known it.

Click here to read the letter

Crow is not the only artist who has spoken up against the Bush administration's plan to wage aggressive war against Iraq. Janeane Garofalo and others have also come out against the war. See Stars Shot Down Over Iraq, and Janeane Garofalo on Bill O'Reilly.

"Focus on War and Economy" -- item #1 in Karl Rove's "Republican Strategy", June 4, 2002

Wednesday, 18 December, 2002

Back in june, someone dropped a floppy disk containing two powerpoint presentations -- one by Karl Rove, one by Kenneth Mehlman -- on the street in DC (Buzzflash, Roll Call). It got picked up and circulated around, posted on the internet, and Mehlman even admitted that he didn't know how it leaked. Click here to view Karl Rove's explicit enumeration of war as the top priority of the Republican Fall election strategy (page 20).

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"Forward Command Post" aims to preempt children's natural aversion to killing

Monday, 16 December 2002

A children's toy called "Forward Command Post" features a two-story dollhouse-style civilian home with two walls knocked out by bombs and artillery; burn marks on, bullet holes in, and large chunks of plaster falling off of the remaining inner walls; a hole in the roof; large portions of the facade cracked and exploded; and 5 sections of the balcony railing completely blown out.

The only remaining possessions of the nonexistent civilian occupants are a table and chair set upstairs and a coffee table downstairs. Both are utilized by the two "authentic, fully poseable modern military action figures" which now occupy the house and have filled it with ammo boxes, fuel drums, sandbags, a tripod-mounted large-calibre machine gun, a field artillery launcher, a bazooka, a smaller machine gun, and a shovel. One of the "authentic, fully poseable modern military action figures" patrols the top balcony, the other one sits downstairs. Field rations are set up on the table upstairs, and a prominent sign resembling an eviction notice is posted outside.

According to KMart's Bluelight Internet Service, the toy is suitable for children 3 and up. JCPenney's Forward Command Post page says that the toy is suitable for children 5 and up, and offers companion toys, including a $39.99 "Combat Tank," a $24.99 "World Peace Keepers Battle Station," and a $29.99 "Combat Helicopter."

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Kissinger resigns as chairman of inquiry into September 11 attacks

Saturday, 14 December 2002

Faced with a choice between his new appointment as the head of an inquiry investigating the September 11 attacks and keeping his business contacts secret, Henry Kissinger last night chose the path of discretion and resigned from the inquiry.

Nationwide protests against Bush administration's planned war against Iraq

Wednesday, 11 December 2002

Philip Berrigan dies at age 79

Sunday, 08 December 2002

"I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself." -- Philip Berrigan, quoted in Jacques Kelly and Carl Schoettler's Philip Berrigan, Apostle of Peace, Dies at Age 79: Josephite Father Called Protests 'Prophetic Acts'

"I was going over the prophecy of Isaiah, in the second chapter. ... He speaks of beating swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. That's the word of God spoken to us. He says the time of peace will come where the nations, everybody, will be doing this, destroying the implements of war and we won't train for war again.

"That's your authority. We're bringing that to pass right now because those planes - once you've disarmed them, they can't fly until they repair them. So we're bringing that to pass ... and that's what we're commanded to do." -- Philip Berrigan, quoted in Carl Schoettler's Berrigan still rails against war

What the World Thinks in 2002

Highlights from the Pew Center report on how the global publics view their lives, their countries, the world, and America

Wednesday, 04 December 2002 Click here to view the report.

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The decline and fall of the American empire

Monday, 02 December 2002

An expert on geopolitics says forget Islamic terrorism -- the real future threat to America's supremacy will come from Europe.

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