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August 6, 2002
Robert Fisk
The Return
to Afghanistan
Alexander Cockburn
The
Fox in the Pension Fund
August 5, 2002
Rahul Mahajan
Iraq
and the New Great Game
Jordy Cummings
The
Last Frontier of
Israel and Palestine
Bernard Weiner
Inside
Saddam's Diary
Mike Leon
US Mute
to Israeli Brutality
Norman Madarasz
Brazil:
the Most Important Election of 2002?
August 4, 2002
Susan Davis
Fat Americans
August 3, 2002
David Krieger
Nuclear
Apartheid
Gilad Atzmon
The End
of Innocence
Gavin Keeney
Everybody's
a Critic
Alexander Cockburn
Can the Times' Jeff Gerth
Save Dick Cheney?
August 2, 2002
Ralph Nader
The Labor
Party
Chris Floyd
Moral Maze:
Bankruptcy Made Easy
Jeremy Scahill
Saddam,
Chemical Weapons and Donald Rumsfeld
Jeffrey St. Clair
Dark Deeds in the Black Hills:
Daschle Dooms the
Sacred Land of the Sioux
August 1, 2002
Steven Higgs
Activists
Under Siege
Anthony Gancarski
Draft
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Staffing the Latest War
Zeynep Toufe
Invisible
Children: AIDS,
Africa and Selective Vision
Alexander Cockburn
Drivel and Squawk:
Angelina Jolie, the NYT
and the Attack on McKinney
July 31, 2002
Amelia Peltz
Inside
Ramallah:
How Can the World Witness Such Suffering and Do Nothing?
M. Shahid Alam
The Academic
Boycott of Israel
Bernard Weiner
20 Things
We've Learned Since 9/11
Philip Cryan
Discourse
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A Feast
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Sharon's Endgame for Palestine
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Hiroshima
Day
August 6, 2002
We
Must Come Alive
by Bruce Gagnon
Today we gather to remember the victims of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, Japan that were killed by a weapon of mass destruction
by the U.S..
The U.S. is the only nation to use such
a nuclear weapon of mass destruction. And now today, we are ready
to invade Iraq.
We are told that Iraq has weapons of
mass destruction. We are told that Iraq is a rogue state. But
who is the Bush administration fooling? And who is the rogue
state?
It's really all about oil. It's about
control and domination. The New World Order. Corporate globalization.
It's about empire.
What is the number one industrial export
of the U.S. today? Of course it is weapons. And what is the global
marketing strategy for the U.S. number one industrial export?
Conflict, tension, chaos, war. The U.S. is turning the world
into an utter mess.
Since 9-11 we are paying attention to
Central Asia. We now know that Central Asia has some of the largest
deposits of oil and natural gas in the world. We also know that
Central Asia sits on the inland border of China.
We are told by King George II that it
is going to be a long, long war in Central Asia. Permanent U.S.
bases are being set up in the region. We are told that war with
Iraq is inevitable.
More weapons will be produced and used
and will be paid for with U.S. tax dollars. At the same time
we are told there is no money for education, health care, environmental
clean-up, child care, public transit and social security.
We know that big oil will benefit from
the war in Central Asia and the Middle East. It's the New World
Order.
Star Wars is now underway too. Hundreds
and hundreds of billions of dollars will go to the aerospace
industry to create war in the heavens. It's called corporate
welfare.
We are told it's about defending the
American people. King George says he wants to protect us from
the rogue states like North Korea and China. China, with its
20 nuclear missiles that can reach the U.S., while we have over
7,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy China. And if you've
been in Wal-Mart or Kmart lately you know that the U.S. is China's
best customer. China is not going to attack the U.S. It's an
absurd idea.
It's really about control and domination.
The U.S. has it's boot on the necks of the people of the world.
September 11 was a response. People around
the world are getting tired of being controlled and dominated
by the U.S. The U.S. talks alot about democracy, but King George
says that we have to take out Iraq.
Who do we think we are? It's not democracy
when you invade other countries. That's what Hitler did. It's
not moral to surround and starve the children of Iraq. That's
what Hitler did to the Jews.
It's time for the American people to
come alive. We are more worried about our social status than
what we are doing to the world. We're more worried about what
our neighbors think of us than our obligation to take care of
the poor. We're more worried about the stock market than our
obligations to educate our children. We're more worried about
our fancy cars than our obligations to take care of the sick
and the elderly.
Martin Luther King said that America
is a sick society. We lecture the world about weapons of mass
destruction but then at laboratories like Los Alamos here in
New Mexico they are building nuclear weapons, chemical, and biological
weapons. America is a hypocrite nation and we are hypocritical
people.
We say one thing and do another. We all
know about our genocide of Native Americans and African Americans.
We all know how the white man stole native lands. Now the U.S.
empire is moving to steal the oil rich lands in the Middle East
and Central Asia.
We are all responsible. It's our tax
dollars at work. We watch the Democrats and Republicans become
one big war party. We say it does no good to protest. We say
we are tired and hopeless. Our communities build the weapons.
Our sons and daughters kill our so-called "enemies"
and it all benefits the big corporations. The New World Order.
Corporate globalization.
People all over the world are calling
on us to lift the boot off their necks. They no longer have any
respect for the U.S. They see us for the greedy bullies that
we are. When are we going to stop?
Are we going to destroy the world so
that we can control and dominate everyone and everything?
For the sake of the future generations
we must come alive. For the sake of the Mother Earth we must
protest. For the sake of our own conscience we must say NO MORE!
Bruce K. Gagnon
is coordinator of the Global
Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
based in Gainesville, Florida. He can be reached at: globalnet@mindspring.com
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