Chicago Tribune

"If Hendon had his way, the cameras would be eliminated altogether because, he said, they stigmatize neighborhoods as crime-ridden ghettos--now called 'blue-light districts'--and are an intrusion into privacy." [more]

"From what we can piece together from his actions and statements, Sharon's vision includes offloading to a faux Palestinian state the burden of Gaza, political responsibility for Palestinians in the West Bank, and a significant number of Israeli citizens of Arab origin as well. Such an arrangement would closely resemble efforts by South Africa's apartheid rulers to maintain white rule and strip black citizens of their rights as South Africans by creating ostensibly independent states for them known as Bantustans" [more]

"Rumblings of discontent have come from the army chief of staff and four former chiefs of the security services, from members of Sharon's governing coalition and from opposition politicians who have forged their own model peace agreement with Palestinian counterparts." [more]

"Jailed for months with case pending, Pakistani gives up." [more]

"A plane filled with deportees provides a glimpse into an initiative aimed at men from Islamic nations. Justified in the name of security, it hasn't yielded a single public charge of terrorism." [more]

"British armored vehicles patrolled Basra's streets as crowds barricaded roads and hurled chunks of concrete at passing cars in a second day of demonstrations. British forces guarded gasoline stations and rationed fuel in an effort to contain the violence." [more]

"Anti-war protesters swiftly answered the onset of war with a national campaign of civil disobedience, including a seemingly spontaneous march by an estimated 10,000 people that shut down Lake Shore Drive Thursday night, leading to arrests by the busload." [more]

"Overriding global protests and the concerns of longtime allies, President Bush ordered the first pre-emptive war in modern American history, sending U.S. forces into Iraq and warning the American people Wednesday night that his drive to topple Saddam Hussein could be long and difficult." [more]

"Some of the biggest rallies this month have endorsed President Bush's strategy against Saddam Hussein, and the common thread linking most of them is Clear Channel Worldwide Inc., the nation's largest owner of radio stations." [more]

" 'Peace! Peace! Peace!' screamed South African Bishop Desmond Tutu from a platform in the middle of Manhattan's First Avenue. The Nobel Peace Prize winner exhorted President Bush, 'Listen to the voice of the people because, many times, the voice of the people is the voice of God.' " [more]

"[The] message was shared Saturday by thousands of protesters in Chicago and millions around the world: No war in Iraq. The rally was part of a global wave of protest that started early Saturday in New Zealand and rolled west to North America." [more]

" 'We are the seeds of conscience," [one minister said]. 'The church must be prophetic or it will be pathetic.' " [more]

The AU "would commit every nation on the continent to the fundamental democratic principle that governments exist to serve their people, not to be served by them. And it would give to all the right to intervene to end gross violations of human rights and the democratic principle in any." [more]

"The public can and should be trusted with information, including information that might be alarming. The warnings of terrorist plots timed to the Millennium celebrations are a case in point. People were told of the possibility, no one panicked, security was tightened. At least one apparent plot was stopped." [more]

"Outside this country, there is a widespread belief that U.S. military deployments in Central Asia mostly are about oil." [more]

"Afghans will be armed with a United Nations warning of unrest if $100 million is not injected immediately into the crippled Afghan bureaucracy. Street crime, already high, could spiral out of control, UN officials said. The nation's shaky leadership faces the danger of being toppled before it even has a chance to begin meaningful work, they added." [more]

"Saudi Arabia would probably refuse to allow us to fly missions from its air bases. Iran, fearful of being next on our list of targets, would actively resist our efforts. The Arab world would take about three seconds to unite against us, [and] 'Europe would have many very, very serious questions about that,' says German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, which is how diplomats say 'Fuhgeddaboudit.' Even the ever-loyal British reject the idea." [more]