Newsday

"Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush." [more]

"The merchandise sold on www.georgewbushstore.com includes a $49.95 fleece pullover, embroidered with the Bush-Cheney '04 logo and bearing a label stating it was made in Burma, now Myanmar." [more]

"The jamming concept originated in Israel in the early '90s and is currently used by U.S. troops in Iraq. The United States has tested an air-dropped cell-phone jammer, WolfPack, that can knock out all cell-phone traffic in a combat zone." [more]

"Bolton testified that Syria and Libya had weapons of mass destruction programs that must be 'rolled back' and eliminated. [He] said diplomacy is the administration's preferred approach but that 'every tool in our nonproliferation toolbox' was an option. Bolton refused to rule out 'regime change' as an administration option in Syria." [more]

"The senior administration official identified two of the Defense officials who met with Ghorbanifar as Harold Rhode, Feith's top Middle East specialist, and Larry Franklin, a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst on loan to the undersecretary's office." [more]

"Like previous forms of totalitarianism, the Bush administration boasts a reckless unilateralism that believes the United States can demand unquestioning support, on terms it dictates; ignores treaties and violates international law at will; invades other countries without provocation; and incarcerates persons indefinitely without charging them with a crime or allowing access to counsel." [more]

"An Iraqi scientist who has provided what the White House yesterday called key components and blueprints for an illicit nuclear program was initially ignored by the Pentagon and jailed by U.S. military forces in Baghdad as he tried to get the materials into American hands." [more]

"The consequences of failure rates are magnified by the numbers of grenades used: To destroy one air-defense system covering 100 square yards requires 75 rockets, each carrying 644 grenades — a total of 48,300. The 16 percent failure rate listed by the Pentagon produces 7,728 unexploded grenades, scattering them over 600 square yards." [more]

"Yesterday, a new diverse, anti-war movement was born on the streets of New York." [more]

"Police last night said the arrests were mostly for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. To manage crowds that were larger than expected, the Police Department's highest ranking uniformed official, Chief of Department Joseph Esposito, declared a Level 4 mobilization, the force's largest emergency deployment." [more]

"It's a strategy of the stockyards applied to people, and called, appropriately, 'the pens.' " [more]

"The big crowd yesterday was in New York City, but people in dozens of cities across the country held peace demonstrations as well." [more]

"Specifically, Haight's ruling expands the department's investigatory powers, allowing all branches to investigate suspected political activity. Under the Handschu guidelines, such investigations were limited to one unit, the Public Security Section." [more]

"The Pentagon is considering whether to dispatch additional forces to the Pacific Ocean as a warning to North Korea that the United States could stop any attack even while embroiled in an Iraqi invasion, defense officials said. Some U.S. ships, fighter jets and bombers have been alerted for a possible deployment." [more]

"Thousands of immigrants across the United States ... are panicking — and in some cases packing their bags — this week as the Immigration and Naturalization Service launches the third stage of a program to track immigrants from the Middle East and other predominantly Muslim nations." [more]

"As President George W. Bush prepared to address the nation tonight about Iraq, as many as 15,000 anti-war demononstrators filled Central Park's East Meadow yesterday to stage a four-hour rally." [more]

"U.S. retaliation has increased in severity and frequency in recent weeks, drawing criticism yesterday from Russia's Foreign Ministry. In a statement, the ministry charged that the stepped-up bombing runs were making it harder to forge a political and diplomatic solution to prevent war." [more]

"The CDC and a biological sample company, the American Type Culture Collection, sent strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus." [more]

"Unfortunately my warnings were not heeded. In December, 1998, continued manipulation of the UNSCOM inspection process by the United States led to a fabricated crisis that had nothing to do with legitimate disarmament. This crisis led to the United States ordering UNSCOM inspectors out of Iraq two days before the start of Operation Desert Fox, a 72-hour bombing campaign executed by the United States and Great Britain that lacked Security Council authority. Worse, the majority of the targets bombed were derived from the unique access the UNSCOM inspectors had enjoyed in Iraq, and had more to do with the security of Saddam Hussein than weapons of mass destruction. Largely because of this, Iraq has to date refused to allow inspectors back to work. The ensuing uncertainty has created an atmosphere that teeters on the brink of war." [more]

There "are the freedoms the Bush administration says it wants women to have. It leaves out, though, the part about a woman's freedom to control her reproductive health." [more]