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October
25 / 26, 2003
Karyn
Strickler
Down
with Big Brother's Spying Eyes
October
24, 2003
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft's
War on Greenpeace
Lenni Brenner
The Demographics of American Jews
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Rockets,
Napalm, Torpedoes and Lies: the Attack on the USS Liberty Revisited
Sarah Weir
Cover-up of the Israeli Attack on the US Liberty
David
Krieger
WMD Found in DC: Bush is the Button
Mohammed Hakki
It's Palestine, Stupid!: Americans and the Middle East
Harry
Browne
Northern
Ireland: the Agreement that Wasn't
October
23, 2003
Diane
Christian
Ruthlessness
Kurt Nimmo
Criticizing Zionism
David Lindorff
A General Theory of Theology
Alan Maass
The Future of the Anti-War Movement
William
Blum
Imperial
Indifference
Stew Albert
A Memo
October
22, 2003
Wayne
Madsen
Religious
Insanity Runs Rampant
Ray McGovern
Holding
Leaders Accountable for Lies
Christopher
Brauchli
There's
No Civilizing the Death Penalty
Elaine
Cassel
Legislators
and Women's Bodies
Bill Glahn
RIAA
Watch: the New Morality of Capitalism
Anthony Arnove
An Interview with Tariq Ali
October 21, 2003
Uri Avnery
The
Beilin Agreement
Robert Jensen
The Fundamentalist General
David
Lindorff
War Dispatch from the NYT: God is on Our Side!
William S. Lind
Bremer is Deaf to History
Bridget
Gibson
Fatal Vision
Alan Haber
A Human Chain for Peace in Ann Arbor
Peter
Linebaugh
On the Bicentennial of the Hanging of Thomas Russell
October
20, 2003
Standard
Schaefer
Chile's
Failed Economy: an Interview with Michael Hudson
Chris
Floyd
Circus Maximus: Arnie, Enron and Bush Maul California
Mark Hand
Democrats Seek to Disappear Chomsky
& Nader
John &
Elaine Mellencamp
Peaceful
World
Elaine
Cassel
God's
General Unmuzzled
October
18 / 19, 2003
Robert
Pollin
Clintonomics:
the Hollow Boom
Gary Leupp
Israel, Syria and Stage Four in the Terror War
Saul Landau
Day of the Gropenfuhrer
Bruce Anderson
The California Recall
John Gershman
Bush in Asia: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Nelson P. Valdes
Bush, Electoral Politics and Cuba's "Illicit Sex Trade"
Kurt Nimmo
Shock Therapy and the Israeli Scenario
Tom Gorman
Al Franken and Al-Shifa
Brian
Cloughley
Public Propaganda and the Iraq War
Joanne Mariner
A New Way to Kill Tigers
Denise
Low
The Cancer of Sprawl
Mickey Z.
The Reverend of Doom
John Chuckman
US Missiles for Israeli Nukes?
George Naggiar
A Veto of Public Diplomacy
Alison
Weir
Death Threats in Berkeley
Benjamin Dangl
Bolivian Govt. Falling Apart
Ron Jacobs
The Politics of Bob Dylan
Fidel Castro
A Review of Garcia Marquez's Memoir
Adam Engel
I Hope My Corpse Gives You the Plague
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert, Guthrie and Greeder
October
17, 2003
Stan Goff
Piss
On My Leg: Perception Control and the Stage Management of War
Newton
Garver
Bolivia
in Turmoil
Standard
Schaefer
Grocery Unions Under Attack
Ben Terrall
The Ordeal of the Lockheed 52
Ron Jacobs
First Syria, Then Iran
David
Lindorff
Michael
Moore Proclaims Mumia Guilty
October
16, 2003
Marjorie
Cohn
Bush
Gunning for Regime Change in Cuba
Gary Leupp
"Getting Better" in Iraq
Norman
Solomon
The US Press and Israel: Brand Loyalty and the Absence of Remorse
Rush Limbaugh
The 10 Most Overrated Athletes of All Time
Lenni
Brenner
I
Didn't Meet Huey Newton. He Met Me
Website of the Day
Time Tested Books
October
15, 2003
Sunil
Sharma / Josh Frank
The
General and the Governor: Two Measures of American Desperation
Forrest
Hylton
Dispatch
from the Bolivian War: "Like Animals They Kill Us"
Brian
Cloughley
Those
Phony Letters: How Bush Uses GIs to Spread Propaganda About Iraq
Ahmad
Faruqui
Lessons
of the October War
Uri Avnery
Three
Days as a Living Shield
Website
of the Day
Rank and File: the New Unity Partnership Document
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
October 14, 2003
Eric Ridenour
Qibya
& Sharon: Anniversary of a Massacre
Elaine
Cassel
The
Disgrace That is Guantanamo
Robert
Jensen
What the "Fighting Sioux" Tells Us About White People
David Lindorff
Talking Turkey About Iraq
Patrick
Cockburn
US Troops Bulldoze Crops
VIPS
One Person Can Make a Difference
Toni Solo
The CAFTA Thumbscrews
Peter
Linebaugh
"Remember
Orr!"
Website
of the Day
BRIDGES
October
11 / 13, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Kay's
Misleading Report; CIA/MI-6 Syrian Plot; Dershowitz Flaps Broken
Wings
Saul Landau
Contradictions: Pumping Empire and Losing Job Muscles
Phillip Cryan
The War on Human Rights in Colombia
Kurt Nimmo
Cuba and the "Necessary Viciousness" of the Bushites
Nelson P. Valdes
Traveling to Cuba: Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Lisa Viscidi
The Guatemalan Elections: Fraud, Intimidation and Indifference
Maria Trigona and Fabian
Pierucci
Allende Lives
Larry
Tuttle
States of Corruption
William A. Cook
Failing America
Brian
Cloughley
US Economic Space and New Zealand
Adrian Zupp
What Would Buddha Do? Why Won't the Dalai Lama Pick a Fight?
Merlin
Chowkwanyun
The Strange and Tragic Case of Sherman Marlin Austin
Ben Tripp
Screw You Right Back: CIA FU!
Lee Ballinger
Grits Ain't Groceries
Mickey Z.
Not All Italians Love Columbus
Bruce
Jackson
On Charles Burnett's "Warming By the Devil's Fire"
William Benzon
The Door is Open: Scorsese's Blues, 2
Adam Engel
The Eyes of Lora Shelley
Walt Brasch
Facing a McBlimp Attack
Poets'
Basement
Mickey Z, Albert, Kearney
October 10, 2003
John Chuckman
Schwarzenegger
and the Lottery Society
Toni Solo
Trashing
Free Software
Chris
Floyd
Body
Blow: Bush Joins the Worldwide War on Women
October
9, 2003
Jennifer
Loewenstein
Bombing
Syria
Ramzi
Kysia
Seeing
the Iraqi People
Fran Shor
Groping the Body Politic
Mark Hand
President Schwarzenegger?
Alexander
Cockburn
Welcome
to Arnold, King for a Day
Website of the Day
The Awful Truth about Wesley Clark
October
8, 2003
David
Lindorff
Schwarzenegger
and the Failure of the Centrist Dems
Ramzy
Baroud
Israel's
WMDs and the West's Double Standard
John Ross
Mexico
Tilts South
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Repub Guru Compares Taxes to the Holocaust
James
Bovard
The
Reagan Roadmap for Antiterrorism Disaster
Michael
Neumann
One
State or Two?
A False Dilemma
October
7, 2003
Uri Avnery
Slow-Motion
Ethnic Cleansing
Stan Goff
Lost in the Translation at Camp Delta
Ron Jacobs
Yom Kippurs, Past and Present
David
Lindorff
Coronado in Iraq
Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Outing a CIA Operative? Why A Special Prosecutor is Required
Cynthia
McKinney
Who Are "We"?
Elaine Cassel
Shock and Awe in the Moussaoui Case
Walter
Lippman
Thoughts on the Cali Recall
Gary Leupp
Israel's
Attack on Syria: Who's on the Wrong Side of History, Now?
Website
of the Day
Cable News Gets in Touch With It's Inner Bigot
October
6, 2003
Robert
Fisk
US
Gave Israel Green Light for Raid on Syria
Forrest
Hylton
Upheaval
in Bolivia: Crisis and Opportunity
Benjamin Dangl
Divisions Deepen in Third Week of Bolivia's Gas War
Bridget
Gibson
Oh, Pioneers!: Bush's New Deal
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey
Wasserman
The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus
Nicole
Gamble
Rios Montt's Campaign Threatens Genocide Trials
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
Website
of the Day
Guerrilla Funk
October
3 / 5, 2003
Tim Wise
The
Other Race Card: Rush and the Politics of White Resentment
Peter
Linebaugh
Rhymsters
and Revolutionaries: Joe Hill and the IWW
Gary Leupp
Occupation
as Rape-Marriage
Bruce
Jackson
Addio
Alle Armi
David Krieger
A Nuclear 9/11?
Ray McGovern
L'Affaire Wilsons: Wives are Now "Fair Game" in Bush's
War on Whistleblowers
Col. Dan Smith
Why Saddam Didn't Come Clean
Mickey
Z.
In Our Own Image: Teaching Iraq How to Deal with Protest
Roger Burbach
Bush Ideologues v. Big Oil in Iraq
John Chuckman
Wesley Clark is Not Cincinnatus
William S. Lind
Versailles on the Potomac
Glen T.
Martin
The Corruptions of Patriotism
Anat Yisraeli
Bereavement as Israeli Ethos
Wayne
Madsen
Can the Republicans Get Much Worse? Sure, They Can
M. Junaid Alam
The Racism Barrier
William
Benzon
Scorsese's Blues
Adam Engel
The Great American Writing Contest
Poets'
Basement
McNeill, Albert, Guthrie
October
2, 2003
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
What's
So Great About Gandhi, Anyway?
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
The
Ashcroft-Rove Connection
Doug Giebel
Kiss and Smear: Novak and the Valerie Plame Affair
Hamid
Dabashi
The Moment of Myth: Edward Said (1935-2003)
Elaine Cassel
Chicago Condemns Patriot Act
Saul Landau
Who
Got Us Into This Mess?
Website of the Day
Last Day to Save Beit Arabiya!
October 1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Married
with Children: the Supremes and Gay Families
Robert
Fisk
Oil,
War and Panic
Ron Jacobs
Xenophobia
as State Policy
Elaine
Cassel
The
Lamo Case: Secret Subpoenas and the Patriot Act
Shyam
Oberoi
Shooting
a Tiger
Toni Solo
Plan Condor, the Sequel?
Sean Donahue
Wesley
Clark and the "No Fly" List
Website of the Day
Downloader Legal Defense Fund
September
30, 2003
After
Dark
Arnold's
1977 Photo Shoot
Dave Lindorff
The
Poll of the Shirt: Bush Isn't Wearing Well
Tom Crumpacker
The
Cuba Fixation: Shaking Down American Travelers
Robert
Fisk
A
Lesson in Obfuscation
Charles
Sullivan
A
Message to Conservatives
Suren Pillay
Edward Said: a South African Perspective
Naeem
Mohaiemen
Said at Oberlin: Hysteria in the Face of Truth
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
Does
a Felon Rove the White House?
Website
of the Day
The Edward Said Page
September 29, 2003
Robert
Fisk
The
Myths of Western Intelligence Agencies
Iain A. Boal
Turn It Up: Pardon Mzwakhe Mbuli!
Lee Sustar
Paul
Krugman: the Last Liberal?
Wayne Madsen
General Envy? Think Shinseki, Not Clark
Benjamin
Dangl
Bolivia's Gas War
Uri Avnery
The
Magnificent 27
Pledge
Drive of the Day
Antiwar.com
September
26 / 28, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Alan
Dershowitz, Plagiarist
David Price
Teaching Suspicions
Saul Landau
Before the Era of Insecurity
Ron Jacobs
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and
the Patriot Act
Brian
Cloughley
The Strangeloves Win Again
Norman Solomon
Wesley and Me: a Real-Life Docudrama
Robert
Fisk
Bomb Shatters Media Illusions
M. Shahid Alam
A Muslim Sage Visits the USA
John Chuckman
American Psycho: Bush at the UN
Mark Schneider
International Direct Action
The Spanish Revolution to the Palestiniana Intifada
William
S. Lind
How $87 Billion Could Buy Some Real Security
Douglas Valentine
Gold Warriors: the Plundering of Asia
Chris
Floyd
Vanishing Act
Elaine Cassel
Play Cat and Moussaoui
Richard
Manning
A Conservatism that Once Conserved
George Naggiar
The Beautiful Mind of Edward Said
Omar Barghouti
Edward Said: a Corporeal Dream Not Yet Realized
Lenni Brenner
Palestine's Loss is America's Loss
Mickey
Z.
Edward Said: a Well-Reasoned Voice
Tanweer Akram
The Legacy of Edward Said
Adam Engel
War in the Smoking Room
Poets' Basement
Katz, Ford, Albert & Guthrie
Website
of the Weekend
Who the Hell is Stew Albert?
September
25, 2003
Edward
Said
Dignity,
Solidarity and the Penal Colony
Robert
Fisk
Fanning
the Flames of Hatred
Sarah
Ferguson
Wolfowitz at the New School
David
Krieger
The
Second Nuclear Age
Bill Glahn
RIAA Doublespeak
Al Krebs
ADM and the New York Times: Covering Up Corporate Crime
Michael
S. Ladah
The Obvious Solution: Give Iraq Back to the Arabs
Fran Shor
Arnold and Wesley
Mustafa
Barghouthi
Edward Said: a Monument to Justice and Human Rights
Alexander Cockburn
Edward Said: a Mighty and Passionate
Heart
Website
of the Day
Edward Said: a Lecture on the Tragedy of Palestine
The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help!
September 24, 2003
Stan Goff
Generational
Casualties: the Toxic Legacy of the Iraq War
William
Blum
Grand Illusions About Wesley Clark
David
Vest
Politics
for Bookies
Jon Brown
Stealing Home: The Real Looting is About to Begin
Robert Fisk
Occupation and Censorship
Latino
Military Families
Bring Our Children Home Now!
Neve Gordon
Sharon's
Preemptive Zeal
Website
of the Day
Bands Against Bush
September
23, 2003
Bernardo
Issel
Dancing
with the Diva: Arianna and Streisand
Gary Leupp
To
Kill a Cat: the Unfortunate Incident at the Baghdad Zoo
Gregory
Wilpert
An
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Steven
Higgs
Going to Jail for the Cause--Part 2: Charity Ryerson, Young and
Radical
Stan Cox
The Cheney Tapes: Can You Handle the Truth?
Robert
Fisk
Another Bloody Day in the Death of Iraq
William S. Lind
Learning from Uncle Abe: Sacking the Incompetent
Elaine
Cassel
First They Come for the Lawyers, Then the Ministers
Yigal
Bronner
The
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Website
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The
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Uri Avnery
The
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Alexander
Cockburn
Lighten
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Peter Linebaugh
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Anne Brodsky
Return
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Saul Landau
Guillermo and Me
Phan Nguyen
Mother Jones Smears Rachel Corrie
Gila Svirsky
Sharon, With Eyes Wide Open
Gary Leupp
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Kurt Nimmo
Colin
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Brian
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Colin Powell's Shame
Carol Norris
The Moral Development of George W. Bush
Bill Glahn
The Real Story Behind RIAA Propaganda
Adam Engel
An Interview with Danny Scechter, the News Dissector
Dave Lindorff
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Mark Scaramella
Contracts and Politics in Iraq
John Ross
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Uribe's Desperate Squeals
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October
25, 2003
A Fairy Tale Without
an Ending
Saving
the Army of Peace
By THOMAS J. NAGY
[This is the text of a speech at the
Gandhi Peace Festival. It is dedicated to the memory of George
Weber, A Canadian member of the Christian Peacemaker Team. Mr.
Weber died in Iraq protecting innocent children from the curse
of invasion and bombs.]
It is very strange and very wonderful to be breathing
the free and peaceful air of Canada in October 2003. Last year
at this time I was breathing stench and fear at a water treatment
plant in Baghdad, Iraq as the U.S. war machine lurched towards
full and massive invasion.
Since today is Saturday, I'll make only
a tiny speech. I'll begin by telling you a fairy tale. Then I'll
end with a tiny speech.
I should warn you, my fairy tale is odd.
This fairy tale has a beginning and a middle. But it still has
no end.
Our actions, day in and day out, will
decide if the fairy tale will have a happy ending or a tragic
ending. If enough of us act every day like Gandhi would act,
then surely the story will have a happy ending.
If we don't, well then, the story will
end tragically...
So here's my Gandhi Peace Festival Fair
Tale
Let's start at the beginning...
Once upon a time, a huge and mighty country
south of the St. Lawrence River and North of the Rio Grande decided
to invade a poor country far away.
Why would a giant wage war on a small
country thousands of miles away? The giant claims to be in terror
of the small and remote country. The giant claims to see weapons
of mass destruction where the rest of the world sees only dying
children and a country dying of the giant's economic sanctions.
Some say the Giant is only making up
excuses to steal the huge pool of oil in the little country.
But the Giant said it is not greedy,
only scared, very scared, so scared it does not care one bit
about the oil.
So the Giant begins loading up bombs
and 200, 000 solders. It starts flying them half way around the
world to make to a huge war.
But before the giant's soldiers and their
bombs and their uranium coated bullets can arrive, something
astonishing happens.
No one had ever seen anything like it
in all the 1000s of years of war after war after war.
Hundreds of people, all friends of the
giant, from every corner of the world, from Canada, from South
Africa, from Japan, from Ireland, from Britain, from Turkey,
from Gandhi's own India, and even from the giant's own United
States of America poured into the little country.
The brave little army of peace gets to
Iraq first. It is no ordinary army. It does not come to destroy,
but to protect and to comfort and to bear witness.
In case you are wondering, now we have
arrived at the middle of the fairy tale.
The giant became furious when it learned
about the Peace Army. The giant was afraid that hundreds of people
from so many countries, including the giant's own country, would
mess up the war. The generals had worked very hard to make a
big war. They did not want any interference. The generals and
the politicians they served did not want all those witnesses.
So the giant started calling the peace
army names, very bad names.
Then the giant warned the peace army
if it did not get out of the way, it would bomb, and bomb and
bomb anyway. The Giant had a talking Bush. Some said it was a
really a babbling Bush. The Bush threatened very bad things if
peace army if it did not get out of the way in 48 hours. The
Giant's talking Bush said he was out of patience. He told the
Peace Army that it was out of time.
The giant thought it was very unfair
to interfere with war. The giant was confused. It did not plan
on meeting a peace army. The giant's talking Bush could not understand
the idea of an unarmed peace army.
The giant paused, reworked its war plan,
and then invaded the poor country of Iraq. It was a short war,
but has become a long occupation -- n occupation that continues
to this day, an occupation that has no end in sight.
Now we approach the end of the fairy
tale.
The giant won the war, but it's still
not happy. It is even more angry and more scared than ever. Its
soldiers who will never get any of the oil continue to die; the
Iraqi people continue to die. Every day the world discovers that
the giant's babbling Bush babbles lies. This war, like all wars,
is built upon lies.
The giant is now turning its legal guns
on the Peace Army. It is especially angry at Americans in the
peace army and is threatening them with huge fines and even prison
if they don't pay up. The peace army says it will pay -- but
not to the babbling Bush. The Peace Army will pay only to relieve
the suffering of the people of Iraq.
What will happen to the peace army? Will
it end up in jail?
That's really up to us.
If we tell the babbling Bush, if we tell
his generals, and his politicians and his beloved CIA and his
Justice Department and his Treasury Department, hands off the
Peace Army, then the Peace Army will grow. It will become so
large that next time anyone threatens a war; the Peace Army will
be able to prevent it. It will get harder and harder to make
war. As the Peace Army grows from 100s to 1000s, to millions,
even the babbling Bush will understand. Maybe even the Bush will
stop babbling and start acting like Gandhi.
What if we don't speak up and say publicly
that it's wrong to punish a Peace Army?
What if we don't demand that even politicians
must defend the Peace Army?
If we don't give the Peace Army a chance
to explain why it went to Iraq and what it saw, then, the Peace
Army will shrink The next war will be easy to make, and peace
will become harder to keep.
Happy ending or tragic ending, it's up
to us.
Now I will make a speech, but only a
tiny Saturday speech.
People sometimes ask where are the heroes.
In fact heroes are all around us waiting
for us to discover them and to help them so that there will be
more heroes.
Let's start right here in Hamilton, Ontario,
the home of the people exposed who exposed publicly funded war
worship and war promotion, and war recruiting called the Hamilton
Air Show. The Hamilton Air Show is toast.
We can turn the highway Hamilton threatens
to build into toast too so that the Red Hill Valley can flourish
if we help the friends of the Red Hill Valley. The government
threatens these folks with huge fines. I'll bet there will be
no fines if Monday morning enough of us phone the mayor.
At McMaster University, we have faculty
like Gary Purdy, Graeme MacQueen, and Joanna Santa Barbara, who
have taken gigantic risks by traveling into conflicts. We have
Ryan Marks who went to Israel/Palestine with the International
Solidarity Movement - not once but twice. We have Rick McCutcheon
who spent a year in Iraq to give children safe water.
Canada gave us Gen. Romeo Dallaire. What
if, day in and day out, we had demanded loud enough that Washington
give General Dallaire the armored personnel carriers he needed
and that Washington had promised? Working with General Dallaire,
we could have spared Rwanda the horror of genocide.
The bad tempered giant with its babbling
Bush is now threatening U.S. members of the Peace Army with huge
fines and even imprisonment. Consider one intended victim, Kathy
Kelly. Shall we make her to visible to punish? Shall we make
the entire Army of Peace too vision to punish?
Kathy Kelly must be a very dangerous
and evil person. The U.S. government has already thrown her into
a maximum security prison for almost a year. What exactly was
her terrible crime? In 1988 she was sentenced to a year in prison
for planting corn at a nuclear missile silo. This dangerous and
evil corn planter was compelled to serve a 9 month stretch in
the U.S. maximum security prison in Lexington, KY. But then Kelly
is a chronic peace criminal. She has worked for peace in the
U.S., Haiti, Bosnia, Latin America and Iraq. She pioneered war
prevention with a peace encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border in
1991. How terrible if there had not been a first invasion of
Iraq, and genocide by sanctions, then another invasion and now
a bloody occupation with no end in sight.
To expose and end the steady-state genocide
by sanctions, Kelly co-founder Voices in the Wilderness. Her
organization awakening many Americans to the economic atomic
bomb called sanctions. She aroused the wrath of the U.S. government
but in the process she ignited the compassion of the world by
publicly and repeatedly defying the total U.S. ban on even toys
and medicine for the children of Iraq not first approved by the
U.S. government.
Much of the rise of the Peace Army is
the work of Kelly and her colleagues. They devised the "Iraq
Peace Team" in 2002 to witness and if possible avert the
U.S. invasion of Iraq earlier this year. She has been nominated
for the Nobel Peace prize, by the American Friends Service Committee.
What do we do, day in and day out, to
prevent wars, invasions, mass killings of civilians by lethal
economic sanctions?
We can protect all of the Kathy Kellys.
We can tell every government even the colossus to the South with
its babbling Bush, that we will not tolerate more wars; that
we demand peace. Concretely, we will not tolerate the punishment
of peacemakers.
We will act and continue to act to honor
and protect all peacekeepers whom war-addicted governments despise.
In this way the size of the Peace Armies that will rush to the
site of future invasions, bombings and economic sanctions will
grow. In this way we will expose and defang forever the monster
called "war". We have ended the horror of official
slavery and official apartheid. By protecting the peacemakers
from their governments, we can make war first impractical then
impossible. We can, working consistently and working together
protect the peacemakers. We can grow the armies of peace until
they grow so huge that they can turn Gandhi's dream into humanity's
reality.
Thomas J. Nagy,
Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor of Peace Studies McMaster
University, Hamilton ON & Associate Professor of Expert Systems
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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