ARCATA, Calif. -- This North Coast city may look sweet -- old, low-to-the-ground buildings, town square with a bronze statue of William McKinley, ambling pickup trucks -- but it acts like a radical.Arcata was one of the first cities to pass resolutions against global warming and a unilateral war in Iraq. Last month, it joined the rising chorus of municipalities to pass a … [Read more...] about -Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act
-Rumsfeld Calls for Regime Change in North Korea
A secret Donald Rumsfeld memorandum calling for regime change in North Korea was leaked yesterday, opening a fresh foreign policy split in the Bush administration.The classified discussion paper, circulated by the defense secretary, appears to cut directly across State Department plans to disarm Kim Jong-il, the North's dictator, through threats leavened by promises that his … [Read more...] about -Rumsfeld Calls for Regime Change in North Korea
-US Plan to Bomb North Korea
THE Pentagon has produced detailed plans to bomb North Korea's nuclear plant at Yongbyon if the communist rogue state goes ahead with reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel rods that would yield it enough plutonium for half a dozen nuclear weapons within six months.According to well-informed Canberra sources close to US thinking, the elaborate Pentagon plan also involves a US … [Read more...] about -US Plan to Bomb North Korea
-Blix: ‘US Undermined Inspectors’
American officials tried to discredit the work of inspectors in Iraq to further their own case for war, the chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has charged.Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix speaks to the media at the United Nations, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff) In an interview with the BBC, Mr Blix said American officials leaked suggestions … [Read more...] about -Blix: ‘US Undermined Inspectors’
-Tim Robbins Censored on the NBC TODAY TV show
Reprinted from the Internation Green Network Japan mailing list"A conversation about free speech and free expression was cut off mid sentence as the network went to black. Television history was made, as million of American's got to watch in real time just how powerful and inescapable censorship can be. Robbins wasn't revealing troop locations, or giving aid and comfort to … [Read more...] about -Tim Robbins Censored on the NBC TODAY TV show