United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy.

The Swami Beyondananda offers more sage counsel.[1]  --  For further pearls of wisdom, see his web site....

Mark Drolette hasn't read any of these reports about the latest National Intelligence Estimate, but that's just time management on his part.  --  And besides, he remembers the time "when I and several million of my closest friends around the globe took to the streets repeatedly to loudly proclaim, among other things, that an illegal, immoral, and unprovoked attack on a pipsqueak nation like Iraq that had nothing to do with 9/11 . . . would, indeed, foment at least slight resentment against the United States and possibly prompt otherwise peace-loving individuals to want to exact revenge on those who killed their families, destroyed their homes, occupied their country and looted their resources for no good reason."[1]  --  D'ya think?  --  The report he'd actually take the time to read, he says, is the one entitled “The Just Plain Intelligent Report on the Storming of the White House and the Capitol; the Arrest, Conviction, and Imprisonment of the Bush Administration and Ninety-Nine Percent of Congress on Charges of Treason, War Crimes, Dereliction of Duty and General Nincompoopery; and the Upcoming Convening of the Constitution Reconstitution Convention.” ...

Thanks to its terror threat level system, "America is the only nation on the planet that kindly informs bombers, hijackers, and berserkers the days on which they won't be monitored," Greg Palast noted Monday.[1]  --  "You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to get a jump on George Bush's team.  --  There are three possible explanations for the Administration's publishing a good-day-for-bombing color guidebook.  --  1. God is on Osama's side.  --  2. George is on Osama's side.  --  3. Fear sells better than sex.  --  A gold star if you picked #3."  --  For Palast, "War on Terror is class war by other means -- to keep you from asking for real protection from true menace, the landlords of our nation give you fake protection from manufactured dangers. And they remind you to be afraid every time you fly to see Aunt Millie and have to give up your hemorrhoid ointment to the underpaid guy in the bell-hop suit with a security badge." ...

If you're rich and famous, your chances of dying in combat in Iraq are small.  --  But there are other perils lurking among "the small but poetic category of problems unique to the rich and famous," Jacob Weisberg pointed out in Wednesday's Financial Times of London.[1] ...

This letter on the Senate's recent vote to make English the official language of the U.S. was published in Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle.[1] ...

Last month Roddy McCorley (no doubt a pen name, since "Roddy McCorley" is a famous Irish folk song) was inspired by George W. Bush's "I'm the decider" quip to write a poem.[1]  --  ". . . I finally realized what 'I'm the decider' reminds me of.  It sounds like something a character in a Dr. Seuss book might say. . . ."

UFPPC's Kristi Nebel shares some thoughts about a curious event that occurred last Thursday while she was protesting the war in Iraq....