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Stories from 2003-03-17

Federal Reserve

Lawrence F. Kaplan | New Republic | March 17, 2003

"Rather than allowing Iraqis to create a federal state—which is to say, a democratic one—Foggy Bottom, which lost the argument over whether to topple an authoritarian central government in Baghdad, has settled for the next best thing: an authoritarian central government under U.S. control." [more]

On the Murder of Rachel Corrie

ISM Media | Scoop | March 17, 2003

"In Rafah, Gaza Strip today Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American woman from Olympia, Washington, who was a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by the Israeli Army." [more]

Resigning MP Receives Standing Ovation

STAFF | British Broadcasting Corporation | March 17, 2003

"Robin Cook has won an unprecedented standing ovation in the [British] House of Commons after telling MPs why he resigned from the government over the looming war with Iraq." [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.