Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Saddam Didn't Steal My 401(k) QUOTE OF THE DAY "We are not doing it to defeat terrorism (it will have the exact opposite effect), or to make the streets safer for our children, or because they've found big scary weapons of mass destruction (they haven't -- not a one) -- or even for Iraq's own good. And to believe we are is, quite simply, to be wholly misinformed and openly, flagrantly, deliberately deceived." - - Mark Morford RHINO HERE: This Saturday, January 18th will be the NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON to demand: NO WAR AGAINST IRAQ & ELIMINATE U.S. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Rally at 11AM on West side of Capitol Building - March on Washington DC Navy Yard Joint Action in San Francisco - 11AM at Market & Embarcadero - March to Civic Center DETAILS AT: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#scenario For those not familiar with historian Howard Zinn, his book A People's History of the United States, is a classic from the last century (& millennium) written from the POV of the people who the official historians left out of the history books (also available in audio book read by Matt Damon). Since its publication in 1980 it's become a touchstone of dissident thought in America. An excerpt covering 1945-1960 is at: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html And then there's Bill Moyers, near the top of the list of Rhino's heros, his most recent effort if the PBS series entitled, "NOW". Recently Moyers has been speaking with people who take different positions about the impending war with Iraq. Last Friday he spoke with with Zinn, who is opposed to the impending war and argues his case in his new book, Terrorism and War. They dialog on the U.S., terrorism & Iraq. Read an excerpt from the conversation at: http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/01/10_Zinn.html The Bottom Line is a pull no punches piece from the S.F. Gate columnist Mark Morford. S.F. Gate is the internet portal of the San Francisco Chronicle and Morford writes a left leaning column & newsletter called "The Morning Fix". When you subscribe to his work, you have to read the following disclaimer: "SF GATE MORNING FIX: Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, a very skewed email column and newsletter, highly opinionated and expertly written, edited, and sporadically spell-checked by SF Gate columnist Mark Morford somewhere between his morning pedicure/colonic and his heavily medicated regression therapy treatment/wine tasting. **PLEASE NOTE: May contain strong language, irony, deadpan humor, and occasional pointed remarks about the NRA, the Catholic church, and liquid cheese products. Not suitable for anyone who loves pleated khakis, pink wine, or Meg Ryan movies. Opinions expressed in this newsletter are usually those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of SF Gate or Hearst Communications." http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/archive/ 8:42:49 AM    comment

"Happy Imbeciles At War; Massive U.S. Military Buildup, Billions of Dollars, A Useless Enemy, And No One Seems to Know Why by Mark Morford, SF Gate, 1/10/03 This is not a war. Iraq will not be a war. Do we understand this? We do not seem to understand this. This is heavily corporatized power brokers killing each other for oil and capital. Oh yes it is. Let's be perfectly clear. You cannot have a war when the so-called enemy has done nothing to provoke you and is absolutely no threat to your national safety and has no significant military force and has negligible chance of even setting off a firecracker near your own overwhelming death machines, and whose only weapons of minimal destruction are the rusty short-range warheads and biochemical agents we sold him 20 years ago, and kept selling to him, even after we knew he was gassing his own people. You cannot have a war when there is nothing to fight against, when it's essentially going to be a huge U.S. military stomping/bombing exercise, when, just like Afghanistan, we stand to suffer zero U.S. casualties (except for those we seem to kill ourselves), and we just bomb and bomb and kill and kill and shrug. Let us look closer:... SEE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/01/10/notes011003.DTL "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. COMMENT ON TODAY'S BLOG / SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. 8:22:02 AM    comment

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