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 Transfered from old site  Sign up for this weekly newsletter at   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php</A>     My friends are asking me: "Where can I get objective coverage of the   Iraq War?" Help answer them -- vote in our new poll at     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/">http://www.tcgreens.org/</A>     and leave a comment sharing your favorite information sources.     ------     Not Just Bush's War   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html</A>     War Hawks Backtrack, White House “somber"   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html</A>     Bring Our Lads Home -- Send Rumsfeld to War Instead   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html</A>     Radio Giant Agitates For War   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html</A>     "Red Alert" Means Martial Law   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html</A>     Organic Agriculture Helps Fight Cancer   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html</A>     Lack of Skepticism Leads to Poor Reporting on Iraq Weapons Claims   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html</A>     Spectre of McCarthy Haunts Hollywood   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html</A>     Brutality Towards Al-Qaeda Prisoners Endangers US POWs   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html</A>     Abortion foes abandon trial strategy   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html</A>     750 Ithacans March For Peace   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html</A>     Give Protestors a Chance   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html</A>     Monroe County Green's Statement Against War   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html</A>     Subscribe or unsubscribe to this weekly newsletter at   <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/</A>     ---------     Not Just Bush's War     By JERRY GORDON, The Organizer     As president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, George W. Bush   bears direct and personal responsibility for the slaughter of the Iraqi   people currently underway, and for all the other consequences of this   war, including casualties of U.S. troops. But that does not make this   "Bush's war." Such a characterization is both factually wrong and   politically disorienting.     Plans for the conquest of Iraq and U.S. control of its oil were drawn up   decades ago by a group of Washington foreign policy strategists seeking   to ensure U.S. global dominance. It fell to the Bush administration to   attempt to put those plans into effect.     There have been a number of articles published recently which document   the evolution of this strategy. One of the best is by Robert Dreyfuss   titled "Playing for Keeps -- Washington's Endgame for the Persian Gulf,"   which appears in the April 2003 edition of Mother Jones.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html</A>     ---------     War Hawks Backtrack, White House “somber"     Shafi Khan     In the face of fierce Iraqi resistance, Bush administration officials   seem to be backtracking their promises of a quick, painless victory.   Many seem to have forgotten statements made just a few months ago.   Administration hawks who pushed the failed “shock and awe” campaign are   now preparing the American public for a long drawn out conflict.     Richard Perle, the recently resigned chairman of the Defense Policy   Board, in a PBS interview July 11, 2002 called Saddam Hussein’s regime   “a house of cards and said it would collapse at the first whiff of   gunpowder.” Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking to NBC March 16 said,   “My guess is even significant elements of the Republican Guard are   likely as well to want to avoid conflict with the U.S. forces and are   likely to step aside.”     Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, in a speech to the Veterans   of Foreign Wars March 11 said “Over and over, we hear reports of Iraqis   here in the United States who manage to communicate with their friends   and families in Iraq, and what they are hearing is amazing. Their   friends and relatives want to know what is taking the Americans so   long.”     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html</A>     ---------     Bring Our Lads Home -- Send Rumsfeld to War Instead     By Robin Cook/The Sunday Mirror     This was meant to be a quick, easy war. Shortly before I resigned a   Cabinet colleague told me not to worry about the political fall-out.     The war would be finished long before polling day for the May local   elections.     I just hope those who expected a quick victory are proved right. I have   already had my fill of this bloody and unnecessary war. I want our   troops home and I want them home before more of them are killed.     It is OK for Bush to say the war will go on for as long as it takes. He   is sitting pretty in the comfort of Camp David protected by scores of   security men to keep him safe. It is easy to show you are resolute when   you are not one of the poor guys stuck in a sandstorm peering around for   snipers.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html</A>     ---------     Radio Giant Agitates For War     By PAUL KRUGMAN     By and large, recent pro-war rallies haven't drawn nearly as many people   as antiwar rallies, but they have certainly been vehement. One of the   most striking took place after Natalie Maines, lead singer for the Dixie   Chicks, criticized President Bush: a crowd gathered in Louisiana to   watch a 33,000-pound tractor smash a collection of Dixie Chicks CD's,   tapes and other paraphernalia. To those familiar with 20th-century   European history it seemed eerily reminiscent of. . . . But as Sinclair   Lewis said, it can't happen here.     Who has been organizing those pro-war rallies? The answer, it turns out,   is that they are being promoted by key players in the radio industry   with close links to the Bush administration.     The CD-smashing rally was organized by KRMD, part of Cumulus Media, a   radio chain that has banned the Dixie Chicks from its playlists. Most of   the pro-war demonstrations around the country have, however, been   organized by stations owned by Clear Channel Communications, a behemoth   based in San Antonio that controls more than 1,200 stations and   increasingly dominates the airwaves.     The company claims that the demonstrations, which go under the name   Rally for America, reflect the initiative of individual stations. But   this is unlikely: according to Eric Boehlert, who has written revelatory   articles about Clear Channel in Salon, the company is notorious and   widely hated for its iron-fisted centralized control.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html</A>     ---------     "Red Alert" Means Martial Law     By TOM BALDWIN     TRENTON, NJ -- If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the   highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed   by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your   home, the state's anti-terror czar says.     "This state is on top of it," said Sid Caspersen, New Jersey's director   of the office of counter-terrorism.     Caspersen, a former FBI agent, was briefing reporters, alongside Gov.   James E. McGreevey, Thursday, when for the first time he disclosed the   realities of how a red alert would shut the state down.     A red alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move   about and associate.     "Red means all non-critical functions cease," Caspersen said.   "Non-critical would be almost all businesses, except health-related."     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html</A>     ---------     Organic Agriculture Helps Fight Cancer     Plant phenolics (flavonoids) are plant by-products believed to protect   the plant from insect predation, bacterial and fungal infection and   photo-oxidation. This same class of plant chemicals has been found to be   effective in preventing cancer and heart disease, and to combat   age-related neurological dysfunctions.     The main target of these plant chemicals is to protect the cell against   damage caused by active oxygen radicals. Oxygen radicals are generated   from exposure to oxygen that has in turn been activated by exposure to   radiation, heavy metal ions and chemicals. Oxygen radicals cause cancer   by damaging DNA, resulting in mutations; by activating enzymes involved   in regulating cell growth; and by promoting angiogenesis (invasion of   blood vessels into tumours to allow rapid growth of the tumour). Oxygen   radicals are also implicated in cardiovascular disease and age-related   nerve cell damage.     Conventional agriculture depends on heavy applications of chemical   fertilisers, frequent spraying with chemical pesticides and irrigation.   Such practices are believed to inhibit the production of flavonoids. On   the contrary, organic agriculture, which eliminates the use of synthetic   pesticides and chemical fertilizers, creates conditions favourable to   the production of health-enhancing plant flavonoids.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html</A>     ---------     Lack of Skepticism Leads to Poor Reporting on Iraq Weapons Claims     A lack of skepticism toward official U.S. sources has already led   prominent American journalists into embarrassing errors in their   coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to   claims that proof had been found that Iraq possesses banned weapons.     On March 20, the second day of the invasion, U.S. military sources   initially described missiles launched by Iraq as "Scuds"-- the U.S. name   for a Soviet-made missile used by Iraq during the Gulf War. They exceed   the range limits imposed on Iraqi weapons by the 1991 ceasefire   agreement.     While some reporters appropriately sourced the Scud reports to military   officials, and cautioned their audience about the uncertainty of the   identification, others rushed to report claims as facts. NBC's Matt   Lauer's report was definitive: "We understand they have fired three   missiles. One of those was a Scud missile. It was destroyed by a Patriot   missile battery as it headed toward Kuwait."     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html</A>     ---------     Spectre of McCarthy Haunts Hollywood     By Leslie Feinberg     Entertainment moguls are channeling the mean spirit of Joseph McCarthy   in their witch hunts against well-known industry workers who publicly   express opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq.     The Screen Actors Guild board of directors issued a statement on March 3   explaining, "Some have recently suggested that well-known individuals   who express 'unacceptable' views should be punished by losing their   right to work."     The actors' union statement referred to the 1950s "blacklists"--or more   accurately "redlists"--that destroyed many careers and forced others,   like Charlie Chaplin, to flee the country. This rapacious red-baiting   was part of the witch-hunts led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy against   communists and progressives after World War II.     On the same day IATSE, the labor union representing technicians and   other workers in live theatre, film and television production and trade   shows, publicly said that it, "unconditionally concurs with and supports   SAG's statement condemning any hint of blacklisting that is being   threatened as a result of any public statements that disagree with the   current administration's dictates."     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html</A>     ---------     Brutality Towards Al-Qaeda Prisoners Endangers US POWs     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party members are warning that the brutal and   humiliating treatment of al-Qaeda prisoners has put American soldiers   captured by Saddam Hussein's army in grave peril.     "The whole world has seen video footage of shackled and shaved men   transported in plastic containers and confined to cages in Guantanamo,"   said Anita Rios, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "The   world knows that the Pentagon has sent some captive al-Qaeda members to   other nations to be interrogated under torture. In November, 2002, six   al-Qaeda members were executed by a missile launched by a CIA drone in   Yemen. It's possible that Saddam, a murderous dictator, will use this as   a license to visit similar treatment on American soldiers taken captive.   President Bush, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and Attorney General   Ashcroft must order an end to this kind of treatment immediately."     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html</A>     ---------     Abortion foes abandon trial strategy     By Beverly Hiestand and Ellie Dorritie, Buffalo, N.Y.     Right-wing terrorists who want to deny reproductive rights for   women--the right to decide when and if to bear children--had vowed to   use the murder trial of James C. Kopp as a media circus. They had to   shift gears.     In an interview with two reporters from the Buffalo News in the Erie   County Holding Center last November, Kopp admitted that he fatally shot   Dr. Barnett Slepian, a respected ob-gyn doctor who provided abortions.   Slepian was killed in 1998 with a bullet from a high-powered rifle while   at home with his family. However, Kopp denied he had committed any   crime.     Kopp, and the reactionary current that politically supports him, had   announced that they would use the trial to argue that this was an act of   "justifiable homicide" and maintain a media presence throughout the   trial, which had been expected to last about one month.     However, on March 11, Kopp chose a non-jury trial in which no one would   testify. As a result, he was tried on March 17 with no witnesses--not   even Kopp himself. Instead, County Judge Michael L. D'Amico reviewed 35   pages of stipulated facts, listened to attorney arguments and handed   down the guilt verdict the next day.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html</A>     ---------     750 Ithacans March For Peace     Yesterday March 22, 2003 protesters met at Ithaca's Dewitt Park for a   funeral procession through town past the Ithaca Journal and the Ithaca   Times in protest of the war and in remembrance of the lives lost and to   be lost by both the Iraqi and U.S. people and also of the death of truth   in media. Before the march began several statements were read aloud to   the waiting and gathering crowd.     "We come together today to mourn all victims of war â€“ the lives of   Iraqi and U.S. people and to embrace the spirit of nonviolence in   thought, word and deed.     As we walk in this funeral procession please remember the Iraqi mother   who has no place for her children to be safe from U.S. bombs and guns.   Please remember the Iraqi youth who only know [sic] an American that   wants to wage war with them â€“ an 18 year old man in Iraq has spent 13   years of his life being attacked by the U.S. with bombs and sanctions.   Please remember the U.S. soldiers who are being ordered to be ready to   kill another human beingâ€¦who are being exposed to radioactive depleted   uranium particles as they breathe the air where bombs have exploded.   Please remember the children of Iraq and U.S. soldiers, born with birth   defects as a result of their fathers' and mothers' exposure to this DU   poison. Please remember the death of innocence for U.S. children who are   asking their parents, "Am I going to be bombed? Do I have to worry about   this?"     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html</A>     ---------     Give Protestors a Chance     Peter Rosset; March 21, 2003     There comes a time when mild opposition turns to serious concern, when   reasonable voices are ignored, when 'polite' mass turnouts are ignored,   when serious concern turns to anger and outrage. When does that point   come? When is it justified to do something that inconveniences the   morning commute? When international law is violated? When innocent lives   are at stake? When our schools are sacrificed for war? When our votes   are ignored, when polls are ignored, when national and global public   opinion is ignored?     I write this for those who are uncomfortable with anti-war protests that   block streets and inconvenience commuters. I ask you to have an open   mind. Feel free to disagree when you are finished, though I hope you   will come away with new perspective.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html</A>     ---------     Monroe County Green's Statement Against War     My name is Jason Crane, and I'm the chair of the Green Party of Monroe   County. I want to begin by saying that the Green Party unconditionally   opposes this illegal war, and the use of violence in international   affairs.     As Bush's war begins, we're asked to cast aside our opposition and to   support our troops.     I can't do that. I can't pretend that everything we in the peace   movement have been saying has been rendered meaningless by the start of   the war. I can't oppose this illegal conflict, then turn around and   support the illegal actions of our military.     Do I want to see Americans killed in combat? Of course not. No more than   I want to witness the deaths of countless innocent Iraqi men, women and   children. And I sympathize with the mothers and fathers and husbands and   wives and children whose relatives are fighting a war they didn't choose   for a president they didn't elect.     <A HREF="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html</A>     ---------     Subscribe or unsubscribe to this weekly newsletter at   http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/
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 Transfered from old site Sign up for this weekly newsletter at <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/add-self.php</a> My friends are asking me: "Where can I get objective coverage of the Iraq War?" Help answer them -- vote in our new poll at <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/">http://www.tcgreens.org/</a> and leave a comment sharing your favorite information sources. ------ Not Just Bush's War <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html</a> War Hawks Backtrack, White House “somber" <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html</a> Bring Our Lads Home -- Send Rumsfeld to War Instead <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html</a> Radio Giant Agitates For War <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html</a> "Red Alert" Means Martial Law <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html</a> Organic Agriculture Helps Fight Cancer <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html</a> Lack of Skepticism Leads to Poor Reporting on Iraq Weapons Claims <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html</a> Spectre of McCarthy Haunts Hollywood <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html</a> Brutality Towards Al-Qaeda Prisoners Endangers US POWs <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html</a> Abortion foes abandon trial strategy <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html</a> 750 Ithacans March For Peace <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html</a> Give Protestors a Chance <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html</a> Monroe County Green's Statement Against War <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html</a> Subscribe or unsubscribe to this weekly newsletter at <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/</a> --------- Not Just Bush's War By JERRY GORDON, The Organizer As president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, George W. Bush bears direct and personal responsibility for the slaughter of the Iraqi people currently underway, and for all the other consequences of this war, including casualties of U.S. troops. But that does not make this "Bush's war." Such a characterization is both factually wrong and politically disorienting. Plans for the conquest of Iraq and U.S. control of its oil were drawn up decades ago by a group of Washington foreign policy strategists seeking to ensure U.S. global dominance. It fell to the Bush administration to attempt to put those plans into effect. There have been a number of articles published recently which document the evolution of this strategy. One of the best is by Robert Dreyfuss titled "Playing for Keeps -- Washington's Endgame for the Persian Gulf," which appears in the April 2003 edition of Mother Jones. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331070349684.html</a> --------- War Hawks Backtrack, White House “somber" Shafi Khan In the face of fierce Iraqi resistance, Bush administration officials seem to be backtracking their promises of a quick, painless victory. Many seem to have forgotten statements made just a few months ago. Administration hawks who pushed the failed “shock and awe” campaign are now preparing the American public for a long drawn out conflict. Richard Perle, the recently resigned chairman of the Defense Policy Board, in a PBS interview July 11, 2002 called Saddam Hussein’s regime “a house of cards and said it would collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder.” Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking to NBC March 16 said, “My guess is even significant elements of the Republican Guard are likely as well to want to avoid conflict with the U.S. forces and are likely to step aside.” Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars March 11 said “Over and over, we hear reports of Iraqis here in the United States who manage to communicate with their friends and families in Iraq, and what they are hearing is amazing. Their friends and relatives want to know what is taking the Americans so long.” <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030331064619978.html</a> --------- Bring Our Lads Home -- Send Rumsfeld to War Instead By Robin Cook/The Sunday Mirror This was meant to be a quick, easy war. Shortly before I resigned a Cabinet colleague told me not to worry about the political fall-out. The war would be finished long before polling day for the May local elections. I just hope those who expected a quick victory are proved right. I have already had my fill of this bloody and unnecessary war. I want our troops home and I want them home before more of them are killed. It is OK for Bush to say the war will go on for as long as it takes. He is sitting pretty in the comfort of Camp David protected by scores of security men to keep him safe. It is easy to show you are resolute when you are not one of the poor guys stuck in a sandstorm peering around for snipers. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/200303310620566.html</a> --------- Radio Giant Agitates For War By PAUL KRUGMAN By and large, recent pro-war rallies haven't drawn nearly as many people as antiwar rallies, but they have certainly been vehement. One of the most striking took place after Natalie Maines, lead singer for the Dixie Chicks, criticized President Bush: a crowd gathered in Louisiana to watch a 33,000-pound tractor smash a collection of Dixie Chicks CD's, tapes and other paraphernalia. To those familiar with 20th-century European history it seemed eerily reminiscent of. . . . But as Sinclair Lewis said, it can't happen here. Who has been organizing those pro-war rallies? The answer, it turns out, is that they are being promoted by key players in the radio industry with close links to the Bush administration. The CD-smashing rally was organized by KRMD, part of Cumulus Media, a radio chain that has banned the Dixie Chicks from its playlists. Most of the pro-war demonstrations around the country have, however, been organized by stations owned by Clear Channel Communications, a behemoth based in San Antonio that controls more than 1,200 stations and increasingly dominates the airwaves. The company claims that the demonstrations, which go under the name Rally for America, reflect the initiative of individual stations. But this is unlikely: according to Eric Boehlert, who has written revelatory articles about Clear Channel in Salon, the company is notorious and widely hated for its iron-fisted centralized control. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328055221748.html</a> --------- "Red Alert" Means Martial Law By TOM BALDWIN TRENTON, NJ -- If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, the state's anti-terror czar says. "This state is on top of it," said Sid Caspersen, New Jersey's director of the office of counter-terrorism. Caspersen, a former FBI agent, was briefing reporters, alongside Gov. James E. McGreevey, Thursday, when for the first time he disclosed the realities of how a red alert would shut the state down. A red alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move about and associate. "Red means all non-critical functions cease," Caspersen said. "Non-critical would be almost all businesses, except health-related." <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054629483.html</a> --------- Organic Agriculture Helps Fight Cancer Plant phenolics (flavonoids) are plant by-products believed to protect the plant from insect predation, bacterial and fungal infection and photo-oxidation. This same class of plant chemicals has been found to be effective in preventing cancer and heart disease, and to combat age-related neurological dysfunctions. The main target of these plant chemicals is to protect the cell against damage caused by active oxygen radicals. Oxygen radicals are generated from exposure to oxygen that has in turn been activated by exposure to radiation, heavy metal ions and chemicals. Oxygen radicals cause cancer by damaging DNA, resulting in mutations; by activating enzymes involved in regulating cell growth; and by promoting angiogenesis (invasion of blood vessels into tumours to allow rapid growth of the tumour). Oxygen radicals are also implicated in cardiovascular disease and age-related nerve cell damage. Conventional agriculture depends on heavy applications of chemical fertilisers, frequent spraying with chemical pesticides and irrigation. Such practices are believed to inhibit the production of flavonoids. On the contrary, organic agriculture, which eliminates the use of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, creates conditions favourable to the production of health-enhancing plant flavonoids. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030328054301811.html</a> --------- Lack of Skepticism Leads to Poor Reporting on Iraq Weapons Claims A lack of skepticism toward official U.S. sources has already led prominent American journalists into embarrassing errors in their coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to claims that proof had been found that Iraq possesses banned weapons. On March 20, the second day of the invasion, U.S. military sources initially described missiles launched by Iraq as "Scuds"-- the U.S. name for a Soviet-made missile used by Iraq during the Gulf War. They exceed the range limits imposed on Iraqi weapons by the 1991 ceasefire agreement. While some reporters appropriately sourced the Scud reports to military officials, and cautioned their audience about the uncertainty of the identification, others rushed to report claims as facts. NBC's Matt Lauer's report was definitive: "We understand they have fired three missiles. One of those was a Scud missile. It was destroyed by a Patriot missile battery as it headed toward Kuwait." <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327051036793.html</a> --------- Spectre of McCarthy Haunts Hollywood By Leslie Feinberg Entertainment moguls are channeling the mean spirit of Joseph McCarthy in their witch hunts against well-known industry workers who publicly express opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq. The Screen Actors Guild board of directors issued a statement on March 3 explaining, "Some have recently suggested that well-known individuals who express 'unacceptable' views should be punished by losing their right to work." The actors' union statement referred to the 1950s "blacklists"--or more accurately "redlists"--that destroyed many careers and forced others, like Charlie Chaplin, to flee the country. This rapacious red-baiting was part of the witch-hunts led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy against communists and progressives after World War II. On the same day IATSE, the labor union representing technicians and other workers in live theatre, film and television production and trade shows, publicly said that it, "unconditionally concurs with and supports SAG's statement condemning any hint of blacklisting that is being threatened as a result of any public statements that disagree with the current administration's dictates." <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050554158.html</a> --------- Brutality Towards Al-Qaeda Prisoners Endangers US POWs WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party members are warning that the brutal and humiliating treatment of al-Qaeda prisoners has put American soldiers captured by Saddam Hussein's army in grave peril. "The whole world has seen video footage of shackled and shaved men transported in plastic containers and confined to cages in Guantanamo," said Anita Rios, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "The world knows that the Pentagon has sent some captive al-Qaeda members to other nations to be interrogated under torture. In November, 2002, six al-Qaeda members were executed by a missile launched by a CIA drone in Yemen. It's possible that Saddam, a murderous dictator, will use this as a license to visit similar treatment on American soldiers taken captive. President Bush, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Ashcroft must order an end to this kind of treatment immediately." <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030327050329524.html</a> --------- Abortion foes abandon trial strategy By Beverly Hiestand and Ellie Dorritie, Buffalo, N.Y. Right-wing terrorists who want to deny reproductive rights for women--the right to decide when and if to bear children--had vowed to use the murder trial of James C. Kopp as a media circus. They had to shift gears. In an interview with two reporters from the Buffalo News in the Erie County Holding Center last November, Kopp admitted that he fatally shot Dr. Barnett Slepian, a respected ob-gyn doctor who provided abortions. Slepian was killed in 1998 with a bullet from a high-powered rifle while at home with his family. However, Kopp denied he had committed any crime. Kopp, and the reactionary current that politically supports him, had announced that they would use the trial to argue that this was an act of "justifiable homicide" and maintain a media presence throughout the trial, which had been expected to last about one month. However, on March 11, Kopp chose a non-jury trial in which no one would testify. As a result, he was tried on March 17 with no witnesses--not even Kopp himself. Instead, County Judge Michael L. D'Amico reviewed 35 pages of stipulated facts, listened to attorney arguments and handed down the guilt verdict the next day. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326102836507.html</a> --------- 750 Ithacans March For Peace Yesterday March 22, 2003 protesters met at Ithaca's Dewitt Park for a funeral procession through town past the Ithaca Journal and the Ithaca Times in protest of the war and in remembrance of the lives lost and to be lost by both the Iraqi and U.S. people and also of the death of truth in media. Before the march began several statements were read aloud to the waiting and gathering crowd. "We come together today to mourn all victims of war â€“ the lives of Iraqi and U.S. people and to embrace the spirit of nonviolence in thought, word and deed. As we walk in this funeral procession please remember the Iraqi mother who has no place for her children to be safe from U.S. bombs and guns. Please remember the Iraqi youth who only know [sic] an American that wants to wage war with them â€“ an 18 year old man in Iraq has spent 13 years of his life being attacked by the U.S. with bombs and sanctions. Please remember the U.S. soldiers who are being ordered to be ready to kill another human beingâ€¦who are being exposed to radioactive depleted uranium particles as they breathe the air where bombs have exploded. Please remember the children of Iraq and U.S. soldiers, born with birth defects as a result of their fathers' and mothers' exposure to this DU poison. Please remember the death of innocence for U.S. children who are asking their parents, "Am I going to be bombed? Do I have to worry about this?" <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/2003032610232695.html</a> --------- Give Protestors a Chance Peter Rosset; March 21, 2003 There comes a time when mild opposition turns to serious concern, when reasonable voices are ignored, when 'polite' mass turnouts are ignored, when serious concern turns to anger and outrage. When does that point come? When is it justified to do something that inconveniences the morning commute? When international law is violated? When innocent lives are at stake? When our schools are sacrificed for war? When our votes are ignored, when polls are ignored, when national and global public opinion is ignored? I write this for those who are uncomfortable with anti-war protests that block streets and inconvenience commuters. I ask you to have an open mind. Feel free to disagree when you are finished, though I hope you will come away with new perspective. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030326101718602.html</a> --------- Monroe County Green's Statement Against War My name is Jason Crane, and I'm the chair of the Green Party of Monroe County. I want to begin by saying that the Green Party unconditionally opposes this illegal war, and the use of violence in international affairs. As Bush's war begins, we're asked to cast aside our opposition and to support our troops. I can't do that. I can't pretend that everything we in the peace movement have been saying has been rendered meaningless by the start of the war. I can't oppose this illegal conflict, then turn around and support the illegal actions of our military. Do I want to see Americans killed in combat? Of course not. No more than I want to witness the deaths of countless innocent Iraqi men, women and children. And I sympathize with the mothers and fathers and husbands and wives and children whose relatives are fighting a war they didn't choose for a president they didn't elect. <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html">http://www.tcgreens.org/gl/articles/20030325074415686.html</a> --------- Subscribe or unsubscribe to this weekly newsletter at <a href="http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/">http://www.tcgreens.org/auth/</a>
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