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Stories from 2002-05-15

Big Brother Is Watching, Listening

John Blackstone | CBS News | May 15, 2002

"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 Chief to Propose New Terror Unit

John Solomon | Associated Press | May 15, 2002

"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]

Surreptitious Jailings an Affront

STAFF | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | May 15, 2002

"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]

The Axis of Nonsense

Andrew Murray | Guardian | May 15, 2002

"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]

US Report Refutes Israeli Terror Claims

Eli J. Lake | United Press International | May 15, 2002

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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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.