During a week of war fever, the news media gave rein to hysteria -- and, critics say, let color-coded terror alerts serve the White House agenda. [Salon.com]

Security in Publishing. More than 20 leading scientific journals have made a pact to censor articles that they believe could compromise national security, regardless of their scientific merit. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Hundreds of thousands turn out for a massive antiwar protest, and it's decidedly a Big Apple crowd -- from black-masked anarchists to shrinks against war and "yuppies for peace." [Salon.com]

Nato agrees to end one of the worst splits in the history of the alliance - and will send military aid to Turkey, its only member bordering on Iraq. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

Source: Seumas Milne, Thursday February 13, 2003, The Guardian