URLs to materials on antiwar activism and opinion in India.
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Americans must now feel what the rest of us have known- INDEPENDENT (UK) article by Ariel Dorfman (3 Oct 2001): What has come to an explosive conclusion, of course, is (North) America's famous exceptionalism, that attitude which allowed the citizens of this country to imagine themselves as beyond the sorrows and calamities that have plagued less fortunate peoples around the world.pop
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Who Dares the Untouchables? The Myth of American Supremacy- NigeriaWorld article by Annie Brisibe (20 Sept 2001): What does the US think, that in an unjust and an undemocratic world created by them and NATO, with people hungry, angry and dying that there would be PEACE?pop
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Decent people reject terrorism & US bombing at the same time- INT HERALD TRIBUNE op-ed by Chandra Muzaffar (5 Nov 2001): A dangerous idea is gaining currency in the US administration and among a significant segment of the American public: If a person does not support the U.S.-led bombing, it means that he or she backs Osama bin Laden and the Qaida network. [The author is president of the International Movement for a Just World, an NGO based in Kuala Lumpur.]
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Evil Empire - Innocent Citizens- Independent Media Center article by Puthiya Kalacharam (24 Sept 2001): Now America is seething with Anger. The Anger is caused not by the loss of lives. It’s the indignation to the “Great Nation”. America wants Retribution.
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Labor candidate out of step over terror- THE AGE (Australia) article by Louise Dodson (2 Nov 2001): Two Labor candidates, Peter Knott and Con O'Neill, have embarrassed party leader Kim Beazley by blaming American foreign policy for the terrorist attacks masterminded by Osama bin Laden.
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Roots of Conflict- GUARDIAN (UK) commentary by Umberto Eco (13 Oct 2001): All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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Russia slams US over war effort- WorldNetDaily article by Toby Westerman (30 Oct 2001): While publicly proclaiming its support of the U.S. anti-terror efforts against the Taliban regime, Moscow is describing American efforts as "cynically" directed against the people of Afghanistan.
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Teen slaps Prince Charles in face with flower to protest Britain's war role- BOSTON GLOBE article by Michael Lyons (10 Nov 2001): RIGA, Latvia -- A 16-year-old girl slapped Prince Charles' face with a red carnation Thursday as he stopped during a tour of downtown Riga to talk with a group of children.
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The 'War' on Terrorism- Article by Ramesh Thakur, vice rector (Peace and Governance) at United Nations University in Tokyo and a specialist on security issues. Dr. Thakur argues that terrorism is a global problem, and that the attack on the United States was an attack on the whole world community. He maintains that therefore the response cannot
be unilateral, but must involve forging alliances with other countries to enforce international laws and norms.
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