[NOTE: Bookmark this thread, check it often! International press coverage of war build-up, and more.]
VETO INFORMATION: Russia: dawn.com
INTRODUCTORY QUESTION ORIGINATING THIS THREAD: Message 18590808
"If seeing a "Terror Alert: High" sign on your TV screen makes you feel edgy, imagine what it's like to be living in Baghdad or Basra. For people in the United States, the odds that terrorism will strike close to home are very small compared to the chances that any particular Iraqi family will be decimated before summer."--Norman Solomon
IRAQ SMOKING GUN; AL QAEDA CONNECTION: users.pandora.be boston.com news24.com smh.com.au news.independent.co.uk latimes.com thenation.com argument.independent.co.uk english.pravda.ru atimes.com atimes.com rense.com scoop.co.nz villagevoice.com counterpunch.org boston.com
02/15/03 WORLDWIDE PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS (press coverage): Message 18597020 ips-dc.org
WAR POLLS: [NOTE: CNBC-Hardball (2/18/03) notes 42% of Americans believe Saddam involved with 9/11]
September 9, 2003 to February 16, 2003 (multiple polls): Message 18612600 Feb. 12-13 and Feb. 14-18--Pew Research Center Poll globeandmail.ca Feb. 17-19--Gallup Poll gallup.com
FEBRUARY 14, 2003 SECURITY COUNCIL MINISTERS MEETING: Message 18597040
CONTACT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: sf.indymedia.org
CONTACT THE WHITE HOUSE: Message 18441715
US AND UN ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP: unausa.org
ECONOMICS OF THE WAR: guardian.co.uk nytimes.com usgovinfo.about.com news.bbc.co.uk christiansciencemonitor.com nytimes.com nytimes.com weekly.ahram.org.eg stuff.co.nz
US STOCK MARKET AND THE WAR: money.cnn.com
THE BATTLE ITSELF (projections/technology/casualties): [NOTE: 42% of Iraq's population are children.] atimes.com atimes.com nytimes.com suntimes.com commondreams.org cbsnews.com zmag.org fas.org boston.com cnn.com strategypage.com thebulletin.org janes.com smh.com.au newscientist.com worldnetdaily.com arabnews.com
AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: weekly.ahram.org.eg zmag.org thestate.com politics.guardian.co.uk newyorker.com newsday.com smh.com.au nytimes.com smh.com.au story.news.yahoo.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com smh.com.au
ABOUT THE MEDIA (perspectives): rense.com browndailyherald.com smh.com.au atlanta.creativeloafing.com rense.com guardian.co.uk arabnews.com
HEADS UP ALERTS FILE: news.independent.co.uk arabicnews.com tehrantimes.com dw-world.de guardian.co.uk reuters.com news.bbc.co.uk newsday.com washingtonpost.com news.independent.co.uk truthout.org counterpunch.org atimes.com news.sify.com abcnews.go.com mirror.co.uk rnw.nl smh.com.au arabnews.com story.news.yahoo.com newsday.com guardian.co.uk news.independent.co.uk timesonline.co.uk timesonline.co.uk newsday.com straitstimes.asia1.com.sg straitstimes.asia1.com.sg dailytimes.com.pk dailytimes.com.pk news.independent.co.uk usatoday.com euobserver.com english.peopledaily.com.cn upi.com cnn.com cnn.com foreignpolicy.com timesonline.co.uk themoscowtimes.com news.independent.co.uk arabicnews.com abcnews.go.com news.bbc.co.uk washingtonpost.com guardian.co.uk news.bbc.co.uk theaustralian.news.com.au counterpunch.org
BACKGROUND: Who is Saddam Hussein--February 10, 2002: cbc.ca A Muslim Perspective: atimes.com George W. Bush and Religion: counterpunch.org History of Al Qaeda: fas.org Past Wars and Conflicts: users.erols.com 1987--Iran-Contra Report coursesa.matrix.msu.edu July 25, 1990 (Glaspie/Hussein/Aziz): chss.montclair.edu June 3, 1997: newamericancentury.org March 2, 1999: washingtonpost.com June 2000 (Arms Control Association): armscontrol.org December 21, 2001: wsfi.net July 30, 2002: news.bbc.co.uk August 1, 2002: pbs.org August 28, 2002: globalpolicy.org August 29, 2002: csmonitor.com zmag.org September 9, 2002: cnn.com October 16, 2002: atimes.com October 28, 2002: globalpolicy.org November 2002: scn.org November 14, 2002: guardian.co.uk November 15, 2003: mnet.co.za November 15, 2002: ksg.harvard.edu December 28, 2002: smh.com.au January 12, 2003: pqasb.pqarchiver.com January-February 2003 (Foreign Affairs Issue): nytimes.com February 20, 2003: Message 18608829
GET UP TO SPEED: fpif.org guardian.co.uk weekly.ahram.org.eg zmag.org latimes.com commondreams.org star.arabia.com portal.telegraph.co.uk aclu.org publicintegrity.org newsday.com newsday.com bulletin.ninemsn.com.au. globalpolicy.org guardian.co.uk history.searchbeat.com newsday.com cnn.com cbsnews.com newsday.com michaelparenti.org bullatomsci.org globalpolicy.org globalpolicy.org island.net tompaine.com chicagotribune.com guardian.co.uk un.org srch1.un.org weekly.ahram.org.eg ratical.org Message 18548647 abcnews.go.com cgi1.usatoday.com truthout.org cursor.org truthout.org guardian.co.uk latimes.com Message 18441715 zmag.org Message 18435987 nonviolence.org
HIGHLIGHTS: pbs.org theatlantic.com millennium-ark.net fas.org dawn.com cns.miis.edu dfw.com cfr.org flashpoints.net dodccrp.org newsoftheworld.co.uk Message 18578370 Message 18493981 news.bbc.co.uk alternet.org progressive.org inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dschedule la.indymedia.org usinfo.state.gov wais.stanford.edu thenation.com cyprus-mail.com gmasw.com observer.co.uk
CHRONOLOGY OF WAR BUILD-UP:
January 5, 2003 to January 31, 2003: Message 18584946
February 2003: g2mil.com
February 1, 2003 to February 15, 2003: Message 18613171
February 16, 2003: observer.co.uk news.independent.co.uk news.independent.co.uk observer.co.uk observer.co.uk nytimes.com newsday.com February 17, 2003: news.independent.co.uk nytimes.com smh.com.au zmag.org fas.org boston.com mirror.co.uk washingtonpost.com nydailynews.com February 18, 2003: washingtonpost.com smh.com.au news.independent.co.uk csmonitor.com csmonitor.com moscowtimes.ru moscowtimes.ru washingtonpost.com latimes.com news.bbc.co.uk nytimes.com reuters.com guardian.co.uk dw-world.de english.peopledaily.com.cn story.news.yahoo.com February 19, 2003: arabnews.com tehrantimes.com smh.com.au smh.com.au abcnews.go.com newscientist.com reuters.com newsday.com wnd.com nytimes.com February 20, 2003: news.independent.co.uk newsday.com smh.com.au mirror.co.uk atimes.com dawn.com globeandmail.ca nandotimes.com nandotimes.com nytimes.com February 21, 2003: arabnews.com smh.com.au smh.com.au smh.com.au theaustralian.news.com.au theaustralian.news.com.au globeandmail.ca newsday.com newsday.com latimes.com nytimes.com timesonline.co.uk February 22, 2003: smh.com.au February 23, 2003: President Bush--Please Don't Start the War!!! |