Stories from 2002-05-15
"It is America's new reality: security and surveillance. From intense scrutiny at airports to expanded government authority to track Internet use, federal agents now watch American citizens more closely than ever." [more]
"FBI Director Robert Mueller is seeking to address some of the flaws exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks by creating a new terrorism-fighting team in Washington that will oversee all U.S. terrorism investigations worldwide, officials say." [more]
"The U.S. Justice Department has been ordered by three separate courts to ease the obsessive, illegal secrecy it has employed since Sept. 11. The message has yet to sink in. Instead, Attorney General John Ashcroft dismisses the rulings as 'anomalies' and goes on his merry way." [more]
"There is now not the slightest pretence that the scope of the US's regime-change wishlist is in any way tethered to the attacks of Sept. 11." [more]
After weeks of equivocation, the U.S. government has quietly released to Congress a report refuting the Israeli claim that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was directly implicated in the funding and planning of attacks against Israeli civilians. [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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