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Stories from 2002-08-20
"It is absurd for the United States to demand democracy and respect for human rights only when it applies to others," Bernal said. [more]
"'We have approximately 80 members of Team Alpha, Fifth Company, 19th Special Forces who have been activated to support Operation Enduring Freedom,' said Capt. Denise Varner, a California National Guard spokeswoman. 'They will be deploying soon for a classified destination.'" [more]
"Inside, piles of 110-pound sacks of sugar and rice and boxes of milk covered the floor. Writing on the sacks indicated they were imported under the oil-for-food program that allows Iraq to sell unlimited quantities of oil provided the proceeds go for food, medicine and other supplies." [more]
"Anti-Americanism is not just a hysterical judgment popular on the political fringe. It has become a principle of some committed democrats and this, unfortunately, makes a great deal of sense when it comes to the war on terrorism." [more]
"A rocket fired by unidentified attackers landed close to a U.S. special forces base in eastern Afghanistan( news - web sites) early on Monday but caused no casualties, the U.S. military said." [more]
"Doomed by the incoherence of a foreign policy defined largely by biblical notions of the struggle between good and evil, the Bush administration thrashes about in its hunt for the devil. Sadly, all that has produced are shopworn enemies that were once our surrogates in battles we would rather forget." [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] |
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