Starbucks apologizes for forcing NYC
Starbucks apologizes for forcing NYC rescue workers to pay for water. (snopes.com)
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Starbucks apologizes for forcing NYC rescue workers to pay for water. (snopes.com)
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Civil libertarians—and there aren't many—have to be careful not to believe that the huge popular support for the Bush war effort will make significant resistance nearly impossible. But opposition to a coup d'état against the Bill of Rights is our only alternative to yielding to the beginnings of a police state for an indefinite period.Net Hentoff in a remarkable edition of the Voice. Also: Slowing Ashcroft and A User’s Guide to Antiwar Activism.
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Guardian Unlimited: Now what? - Chewy Q&A goodness. Scroll down for “Who is making money from the terror crisis?”
The Book Forager is a neat interactive tool that I can’t seem to explain right now so just check it out.
ArianaE, an Afghan web portal, has a listing of Afghan restaurants in the US. I’d really like to visit one in the near future. Do you suppose they have many vegetarian options?
The pictured map, uncovered in the files of the Council on Foreign Relations, tells a part of the Afghanistan story that has attracted virtually no attention. Note the proposed pipeline routes and that once the Persian port of Gwendar is reached, the American oil industry is home free.Progressive Review: Give Me a Pipeline or Give Me Death.
slashdot: hackers would be subject to life imprisonment under Ashcroft’s anti-terrorism legislation.
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xowie sez: 10 reasons to oppose the proposed national I.D. card.
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I’d forgotten to keep an eye on think peace, the collaborative weblog started in response to the New War. Also want to watch:
I've realized that almost no one wants the war the government and media have been trying to sell us on for a week. My own father, a supremely patriotic man and an avowed conservative who joined the Navy back in the early 60s, does not want this war. Every veteran I've talked to does not want this war. No one wants terrorists to be able to kill more people, but no one believes this garbage that our only two options are doing nothing and going to war.David Grenier: A new hope.
Al-Hewar Center has a huge page of links to statements and condolences from Arab-American and Muslim-American organizations and personalities.
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Have you heard the good news?
HRW statement on Afghan refugees.
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Read 1/10th of this: End of Liberty? Chilling Maureen Dowd. Scroll down for Susan Sontag. Cory D. on that pimp Larry Ellison. Still more Robert Fisk. Jonathan Gold. On the defense of civil liberties. Jim Washburn. Disgraceful pundits. Derrick Z. Jackson.
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The real fear now is chemical.A "US government adviser" leaking (sp?) to The Sunday Times in an article on the beginning of our New War.
Can you find Afghanistan on a map?
Christopher Hitchens’s latest. (thanks, J.)
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This week’s urban legends.
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War, being a dramatic departure from the stream of events that went before it, is an especially fertile occasion for the pursuit of private agendas. World War I, for example, institutionalized the public relations industry. Most of the founding figures of public relations first came to prominence by participating in the propaganda campaign that persuaded Americans, against great odds, to join the war on the side of France despite isolationist sentiments and the large number of German immigrants in the country. As they built the government's propaganda machinery, they also built the professional networks and personal reputations that guaranteed their success, and the success of public relations as a concept, in the post-war world.Some Notes on War in a World Without Boundaries from Phil Agre, the source of more unadulterated sense than I've seen in a long time. This man is brilliant; subscribe to his Red Rock Eaters mailing list for more.
What new social structures will be institutionalized in the course of the war that is now getting under way? The answer, I think, can be found in plain sight, in the military doctrine that the Bush people have been articulating. ... One of the great dangers of the coming war is that it will institutionalize this kind of warfare, applying it not simply to dangerous individuals in foreign countries but to the civilian populace of the United States.
Who knows what will happen now? Not me, buster. That's why I live out here in the mountains with a flag on my porch and loud Wagner music blaring out of my speakers. I feel lucky, and I have plenty of ammunition. That is God's will, they say, and that is also why I shoot into the darkness at anything that moves.Hunter Thompson thinks WW3 has already begun.
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Three Arab-Americans from Utah have been kicked off a flight from Minneapolis because the other passengers refused to fly with them.Arab-Americans kicked off NWA flight, startribune.com.
"After a few minutes," he recalled later, "the pilot came up to me. . . . He told me that he's not safe with me flying to Dallas."Arab Americans Enduring Hard Stares of Other Fliers, latimes.com
"What do you have against me?" the incredulous passenger asked.
"He just said, 'I'm not going to take you. Myself and my crew are not safe flying with you. They don't feel safe.' "