A Palestinian grandmother weeps at the destruction of her home by the Israeli army (Darren Ell)
In the shocked aftermath of September 11, 2001, the United States launched its 'war on terrorism,' a global crusade which could continue without end. The result was a huge leap in military spending, and a crackdown on hard-earned civil liberties at home.
But even as the US prepared the machinery of war, millions and millions of the world's citizens stood together for peace and justice. Everyday, around the planet, ordinary people like you are fighting for their rights, for the Earth, and for their very survival itself.
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SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES "The hope of the world rests on each of our shoulders," said Jackie Hudson, a 68-year old nun sent to prison for pouring her blood on a U.S. missile. "We are doing our part. What about you?" Trial update:TOP STORY
When the U.S. military responded to an alarm at the Minuteman missile silo on Oct. 6, soldiers found a group of nuns waiting for them, singing, praying and chanting atop a missile bunker. The women had cut through a fence and smeared crosses in their own blood on the silo lid. They tapped on silo with hammers in a symbolic attempt to oppose their country's war.
A federal U.S. judge sentenced three pacifist nuns to at least 2 1/2 years in prison Friday for symbolically damaging a nuclear missile silo during an anti-war protest last fall.
The death of five civilians in Baghdad at the hands of the U.S. army has prompted condemnation from many Iraqis at what they call heavy-handed and uncaring tactics.
What Team Bush faces in Iraq is more than guerrilla war. It is the first major crack in the larger neo-con fantasy of a forced reorganization of the Mideast.
Half a dozen U.S. defense contractors, including industry leader Lockheed Martin, posted higher quarterly earnings and revenues on Thursday, boosted by the ramp-up in U.S. military spending.
The White House launches a political counterattack as Bush's approval rating slides, casualties mount in Iraq and questions linger about the case for war.
HUMOUR Ari & I
by Russell Mokhiber (Alternet, USA) July 16, 2003
Bush's spokesman Ari Fleischer caps his White House career with this ridiculously informative press briefing on corporate crime.
David Kelly, the British weapons expert who committed suicide last week, was broken by a terrible burden: the weight of an absolutely terrible question.
On the steel torsos of their missiles, adolescent American soldiers scrawl colourful messages in childish handwriting: For Saddam, from the Fat Boy Posse. A building goes down. A marketplace. A home. A girl who loves a boy. A child who only ever wanted to play with his older brother's marbles.
Undoubtedly, all the die hard political partisans were shocked this week when Bill Clinton came out and essentially exonerated the Bush administration for its manipulation of critical intelligence and lying to the world in support of its drive to war.
A group of activists and organizations from different backgrounds who are interested in ending the sanctions and stopping the war. Members of the group are active in trade unions, business, community groups, religious groups and on the campuses. We are an open campaign that anyone or any group is welcome to join.
Ready to work for peace? By signing the Pledge for Peace, you can commit to taking some action(s) to promote peace and end racism, and know that thousands of others have as well.
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A news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness and respected Middle East news publishers, the Electronic Intifada.
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism > A broad coalition of peace groups, religious organizations, student groups, anti-globalization, and anti-racism groups. It is organizing major demonstrations in Washington DC for peace and justice.
The human rights of civilians in Iraq are under threat: from their own government, from the impact of post-Gulf war sanctions, and from the possibility of renewed military intervention.
CANESI is a network of organizations and individuals in Canada who are compelled to respond to the injustice, death and suffering in Iraq that result from the UN sanctions.
An international peace network started in Israel in 1988 by women protesting against Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Women in Black is not an organization, but a means of mobilization and a formula for action.
"The hope of the world rests on each of our shoulders," said Jackie Hudson, a 68-year old nun sent to prison for pouring her blood on a U.S. missile. "We are doing our part. What about you?" 
Ready to work for peace? By signing the Pledge for Peace, you can commit to taking some action(s) to promote peace and end racism, and know that thousands of others have as well.
