SPECIAL: WAR ON TERRORISM

• Paul Loeb - Breaking the cycles of violence Focus on causes, and search for political not military solutions
• Arundhati Roy (Guardian) - We are not on the side of the warmongers Freedom and justice for all
• Chalmers Johnson (TomPaine.com) - Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire | More
• Benjamin Barber (Atlantic Monthly) - Jihad vs McWorld: nationalism and globalism threaten democracy
• Karen Armstrong - Fundamentalism as a reaction against modernity (from The Battle for God)
• William Pfaff (International Herald Tribune) - Traditional culture strikes back
• Eqbal Ahmad - Terrorism: theirs and ours One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
• Seumas Milne (Guardian) - What powerful states call terrorism may be an inevitable response to injustice
• Ilangkai Tamil Sangam - States, dissidents, and terrorism: lessons of the American Revolution
• John Pilger - The world's worst terrorists are based in Washington
• Edward Herman & David Peterson (ZNet) - Who terrorizes whom?
• Lev Grinberg - Israel's state terrorism | Robert Scheer - Sharon as oppressor | Michael Lerner - Healing the world: security through justice | Robert Fisk - Truth liberates | Apartheid | Genocide
  
• John Pilger (Mirror) - Hidden agenda: the war against terrorism is a fraud
• John Pilger (Observer) - The great charade (from The New Rulers of the World) | War on Iraq | More
• John Pilger (New Statesman) - Provoking terrorism: Washington's grand strategy of world domination
• Michael Meacher (Guardian) - This war on terrorism is bogus: 9/11 pretext for US global domination
• George Monbiot (Guardian) - The logic of empire and non-cooperation as the US threatens the world
• Howard Zinn (Boston Globe) - The case against preemptive war on Iraq | More
• Kevin Martin - US doctrine of preemptive war is an invitation to global anarchy
• Robert Scheer (WorkingForChange) - Domino theory frames war on terror as new cold war
• John le Carré (Times) - The United States of America has gone mad
• Günter Grass (Los Angeles Times) - The US betrays its core values
• Arundhati Roy - A slave of the American Empire criticizes her king
• Gore Vidal & Mark Davis (SBS Dateline) - The erosion of the American Dream (transcript)
• Tariq Ali & David Barsamian (Z Magazine) - Imperialism: then and now (on The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity)
• Eduardo Galeano (La Jornada) - The war
• Susan George (New Internationalist) - On The Debt Boomerang
• Andrew Simms (Resurgence) - Causes of conflict: peace is impossible in an unfair world
• Oscar Arias (Miami Herald) - Missile defense is misdirected: the true enemy of peace is poverty
• Gilbert Achcar (Le Monde Diplomatique) - The specter of bioterrorism: the poor man's atom bomb
• Center for Constitutional Rights - An alternative to the US employment of military force
• Eric Foner (The Nation) - The most patriotic act: the unyielding defense of civil liberties | Dare call it treason
• Patricia Williams (Observer) - This dangerous patriot's game with dictatorial laws
• Michael Ratner (Le Monde Diplomatique) - America no longer the land of the free | Choosing permanent war
• Nat Hentoff (Village Voice) - War on liberty: neo-McCarthyism | Wiretap dragnet | Military tribunals | More
• Gary Younge (Guardian) - War against the weak: draconian laws are more likely to deny basic rights to the vulnerable than to catch any terrorists
• Jack Balkin - In giving up our rights, we would lose the war
• Michael Ignatieff (New York Times) - Is the human rights era ending?
• Alexander Meiklejohn - Freedom of speech
• Arthur Schlesinger - Criticism as true patriotism: against the preventive war doctrine | Full text
• James Carroll (Boston Globe) - We love America for its capacity for self-criticism and change
• Gary Younge (Guardian) - Corporate media in US: "dissent is immoral"
• Gary Hart (Huffington Post) - Moral authority: the protesters were right
• Norman Solomon (Media Beat) - Bad news when madmen lead the blind
• Norman Solomon - War, social justice, and anti-democratic media
• Orville Schell - Why the press failed
• Jeremy Scahill (The Nation) - The war on Al Jazeera
• Sheldon Wolin (Newsday) - American empire as corporate totalitarianism
• Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber - Doublespeak in war propaganda (from Weapons of Mass Deception)
• Wendell Berry (Orion) - For a peaceful America: responsible citizens and a sustainable economy
• David Orr (Orion) - A just and sustainable way of life: next American Revolution against corporate rule
• Langdon Winner (NetFuture) - Putting trust in small-scale technology | More
• Andrew Kimbrell (Tikkun) - Confronting evil: the restoration of human scale in our technological system
• Karen Armstrong (Guardian) - No more exclusion: a one-world mentality for a safer and more just world | More
• Karen Armstrong et al. (Sojourners) - Fundamentalism and the modern world: the way of compassion
• Benjamin Barber (Financial Times) - More democracy as the way out of global war over modernity
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (Washington Post) - Stop the paranoia of the US war on terror against Islamo-fascism. We need a global alliance of moderates against extremism and terrorism
• James Morone (American Prospect) - In God's name: fighting evil and the way of peace, liberty and justice
• Robert Jay Lifton - From Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World
• Robert Jay Lifton & Sarah van Gelder (Yes!) - The impulse to apocalyptic violence
• The Progressive - Bush's messianic and apocalyptic militarism | More
• James Carroll - On Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War (interview)
• James Carroll (Boston Globe) - Bush's war against evil a product of his moral void
• Jim Wallis (Sojourners) - Dangerous religion: Bush confuses American empire with God
• Kevin Phillips (Washington Post) - On American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
• William Pfaff (International Herald Tribune) - The philosophers of chaos reap a whirlwind
• Shadia Drury - Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives: saving America from liberty and democracy
• Shadia Drury (Free Inquiry) - Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor | Fyodor Dostoyevsky's legend
• Gary Younge (Guardian) - Lots of wars on terror: when the powerful crush and fear the powerless
• Walden Bello (Yes!) - Prospect of endless war: the bankrupt US policy to victimize the world's poor
• David Korten (Yes!) - Our time to choose: the false security of military and police suppression, or the true security of a world that works for all
• Jeffrey Sachs (Boston Globe) - The fantasy of hegemony or the true security of compassion | More
• David Krieger (Common Dreams) - US must wake up from militarism and authoritarianism to positive leadership for a more democratic and sustainable world
• Foreign Policy in Focus - Our fateful choice: global leader or global cop
• Phyllis Bennis (TomPaine.com) - Bush's declaration of war on the world
• Chalmers Johnson - American Empire (interview)
• Chalmers Johnson & Marc Cooper (LA Weekly) - Criticize the republic to save it
• Chalmers Johnson - From The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
• Chalmers Johnson (In Motion) - American Empire | The scourge of militarism: Rome and America | More
• Andrew Bacevich - From The New American Militarism
• William Fulbright - From The Arrogance of Power
• David Ray Griffin - 9/11 and the American Empire
• Peter Dale Scott - Terror, oil and the "shadow government" (from The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America)
• Al Gore - Constitutional crisis: democracy in peril as Bush attacks the rule of law | Impeachment | House resolution
• Charley Reese - Instead of a never ending "war on terror", focus on the perpetrators and on finding political solutions
• Robert Bowman (National Catholic Reporter) - Truth is, we're terrorized because we're hated. We should do good instead of evil
• Oscar Arias - The struggle for peace and justice
• Susan Sontag (The Nation) - Of courage and resistance
• Michael Nagler (Yes!) - The time for nonviolence has come
• Kevin Danaher & Jason Mark (AlterNet) - Grassroots globalization gets real

The threat of mass destruction and the continuing arms race

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