News is not doing it's job
Archives of MESSAGE BOARDS cover: The Letters from Ron Cantrel are written from the streets of Jerusalem. He is an old friend of mine and Editor for Bridges for Peace. Read his Words of what is REALLY happening in Jerusalem.
Our references to Kosovo predates the current record of Destruction. See Kosovo Site. All but 6 churches have been destroyed since Nato And the US let the KLA take over the situation. The KLA is the Muslum Extreemist group started by Osama Ben Laden. We have seen The end of Christianity in Kosovo Since June 2000. And we were Worried about Ethnic Cleansing. You have to do extensive research on The internet news options to see many things our governments are leaving Out of the news. Like the murder of 8 million christians and non muslums Since 1988. Seems like a big story to me,,,,,, But we don’t want to Worry Americans so they stop shopping…… Editor, Mike. ARCHIVES FOLLOW

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Ron Cantrel Letters from Jerusalem
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Ron's Second Letter
Many have already made up their minds on the creation/evolution issue. However, some may still be undecided or don't think that it is an important issue. Regardless of where you stand, you should take (navigate) this course with the idea of learning and becoming equipped to defend your belief (faith).

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The Bush administration continues to press for a war on Iraq, bullying members of the United Nations even as it threatens to go forward alone. A significant percent of Americans and all our allies agree: a unilateral strike against Baghdad is both unwarranted and potentially disastrous.

This content file offers readers breaking news, the best analysis, activism resources, and timely information they need to resist this precipitous rush to war. Questions? Comments? Visit our forum or email this content file's editor, Lakshmi Chaudhry.

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Archives of MESSAGE BOARDS for CrossRoads Network CRN The Letters from Ron Cantrel are written from the streets of Jerusalem. He is an old friend of mine and Editor for Bridges for Peace. Read his Words of what is REALLY happening in Jerusalem. Our references to Kosovo predates the current record of Destruction. See Kosovo Site. All but 6 churches have been destroyed since Nato And the US let the KLA take over the situation. The KLA is the Muslum Extreemist group started by Osama Ben Laden. We have seen The end of Christianity in Kosovo Since June 2000. And we were Worried about Ethnic Cleansing. You have to do extensive research on The internet news options to see many things our governments are leaving Out of the news. Like the murder of 8 million christians and non muslums Since 1988. Seems like a big story to me,,,,,, But we don’t want to Worry Americans so they stop shopping…… Editor, Mike

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Seven Arguments Against the War on Iraq
Stephen Zunes lists the primary reasons why an attack on Baghdad will be both disastrous and wrong.

Movie Madness
Home of The Alternative Movie Awards.

EnviroHealth
From climate change to medical news.

MediaCulture
The culture and politics of media.

Rights & Liberties
Human rights and civil liberties.

DrugReporter
News from the front lines of the drug war.

A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
A list of military interventions from 1880 to 1999.

Jihad Vs. McWorld
Benjamin Barber's seminal argument that the two axial principles of our age -- tribalism and globalism -- clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy.

United for Peace
Web resource put together by a collaboration of national and international peace and social justice organizations led by Global Exchange.

IraqAction.org
An online media and activists' resource center for groups and activists who are working to end the war against the people of Iraq.

Education for Peace in Iraq
Working to improve conditions in Iraq through education and advocacy, not war.

AntiWar.com
A libertarian anti-war site that offers breaking news, analysis, and opinion on the war on Iraq.

UNMOVIC
The U.N. organization that monitors and verifies Iraqi compliance with Security Council resolutions banning the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.

Who Is Saddam Hussein?
A BBC profile of the Iraqi dictator, accompanied by in-depth background information on Iraq.

US Labor Against the War
Major unions and labor councils across the land have passed resolutions in support of inspections and advocating efforts for a peaceful resolution.

Discussion

News Log
Links to news as it happens.

The mother of all propaganda wars
Mark Lawson at the Guardian notes that the generals are already leading the journalists for a merry dance -- a la Norman Schwartzkopf -- tricking them into spreading misinformation that serves their needs. The most recent example: the report that Saddam's men dressed in U.S. and British military uniforms will massacre their own civilians.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000456.html.

Turkish army enters Kurdistan
In a move designed to infuriate the Pentagon, Turkey has begun sending troops across the border into Iraqi Kurdistan. While there are only 1000 troops at the moment and 5000 more on the way, it may open the door to a "war within a war" between the Turks as Kurdish fighters.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000455.html.

George Bush's bad hair day
BBC has been forced to apologize profusely for airing footage of Dubya getting his hair primped just minutes before he announced the decision to go to war on Wednesday night. You can see a very short version of this controversial feed at the Smoking Gun website.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000454.html.

Operation Loss of Liberty
This has paved the way for "Operation Liberty Shield," the immigration sweep featuring mass arrests for often minor immigration violations and "voluntary interviews" with as many as 11,000 Iraqis across the country, whether or not they are here legally. In just one state, Colorado, the Feds are moving today to arrest 50 Iraqis, a tenth of the state's Iraqi population, and to interview another 150, the Denver Post reports.

"The country is at war. That's really the bottom line here," said Bill Strassberger, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, explaining nothing.
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While we were sleeping...
According to USA Today, the FBI has been granted the authority from Attorney General John Ashcroft to arrest people on immigration charges if they are believed to pose a wartime threat. (Previously it was only INS and customs agents who could do this.) Typically for the Bush gang, this increase in police powers was not made public but rather was "confirmed Wednesday by two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity."
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000452.html.

Different strokes
Protest photos on Yahoo! show the amazing diversity of demonstrations happening around the world and around the clock, from violent clashes in Egypt to ghostly vigils in D.C. In San Franciso, where for two days the downtown canyons have been full of protestor-police standoffs, cranky motorists, neat lines of b&w cop Harleys, wailing fire engines and hovering helicopters, some crafty critics have quietly pasted fake headlines on the local daily newspaper in boxes throughout the financial district: "Bush Murders Thousands -- Apathetic America Does Nothing." "Bush Declares Himself Emperor." "Bush to Iraq: I Must Kill to Satisfy Satan."
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000450.html.

Artists respond
Artists United to Win Without War will initiate a speaking tour of college campuses to help build and sustain opposition to the war. Many actors associated with the group will wear "Peace Pins" at the Oscars, including Salma Hayek, Ben Affleck, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey, Kirstin Dunst, Ed Norton, and Julianne Moore.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000449.html.

"Shock and Awe" has begun
The BBC reports that cruise missiles and precision bombs are raining down on Baghdad and other major cities. According to the Pentagon, several hundred targets will be hit in the coming hours. Reuters correspondent Khaled Oweis says, "The earth is literally shaking in Baghdad."
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000448.html.

Support the troops: Bring them home

Bring Them Home Now is "a network of concerned Americans who wish to protect our men and women in uniform" by bringing them home. As they say: "We believe that the proposed war on Iraq is unnecessary and immoral. Under such circumstances the only way to be pro-soldier is to be anti-war."
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000447.html.

Chicagoans March
Yesterday 4,000 protesters including activists from Chicagoans Against War on Iraq peacefully gathered at Federal Plaza to express outrage over the war. But when the group shut down the Lake Shore thoroughfare things got a bit messy when police cornered protesters on Chicgago Ave. and arrested hundreds of them on charges that few were informed of.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000446.html.

SF protests turning ugly

There have been several huge, mostly peaceful protests in San Francisco over the last six weeks. But the mood has changed since the bombs started falling in Baghdad, with the protesters' tactics growing more extreme and the cop's reactions getting more harsh. Yesterday Lisa Rein videotaped a cop hitting a passerby with a baton. Her video interview (4mb .mov) with the 17-year old girl is chilling.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000445.html.

A weekend of protests
The antiwar movement is just getting started. More than 1500 people were arrested from Washington to San Francisco while students staged a walk-out on 200 campuses across the nation yesterday. At least 100 protests are planned for Friday and Saturday, says the Win Without War coalition. They include nonviolent civil disobedience actions planned by the Iraq Pledge of Resistance in 11 cities.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000444.html.

Neocon guru touts death of U.N.
Two days into the war and the wackos are already crawling out of the woodwork. Here is Richard Perle, the chair of the Defense Policy Board and the singlemost important influence on Dubya's foreign policy, on the U.N.: "Saddam Hussein's reign of terror is about to end. He will go quickly, but not alone: in a parting irony, he will take the UN down with him. Well, not the whole UN. The 'good works' part will survive, the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies will remain, the chatterbox on the Hudson will continue to bleat."
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000443.html.

'All of us seem calm'
Wade Hudson, a resident of tiny Boulder Creek, California, is a writer, anti-poverty worker, former mental health counselor, and lifelong community organizer. He is also in Baghdad, and writing daily public letters about life under fire.
Posted on http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/03/000442.html.

World Wide March Exceeds 200 Million

Has it come to this?
ActForChange.com has an email action asking the White House not to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iraq. Meanwhile, at least one cultural critic, the inimitable Heather Havrilesky, thinks the media is showing signs of being disappointed by the "slow" start to the war: "You can almost hear them muttering to each other behind the scenes, 'Where's the shock and awe? We were promised shock and awe, damn it!'"
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