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Answering A.N.S.W.E.R. on Iraq

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ANSWER (www.internationalANSWER.org ) is a coalition of antiwar activists
who put out a sheet  of alleged myths http://www.internationalanswer.org/pdf/iraqfactsheet.pdf
to which I respond below:

ANSWER's Asserted Myths Response to ANSWER
1. Iraq seeks to dominate the middle east.  
Iraq views Kuwait as the 19th province of Iraq.  Iraq believes in attacking its neighbors.
2. ANSWER falsely states that the UN Security Council cannot authorize ... a war of aggression..
To the contrary:

United Nations Charter Article 42
Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such
action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.
3. ANSWER states that the US Congress can't authorize military action not approved by the UN.   It is not true.
4.  ANSWER claims that the US seeks to recolonize Iraq. If America were a colonial power we would still be in the Philippines, Cuba, Germany, and Japan.
5.  ANSWER states that Iraq is not a threat to any other country because it doesn't have the finances.   Iraq pays the families of Palestinian suicide
bombers $25,000 per bomber.  Iraq uses smuggled oil revenue to pay for refurbished tank engines.  Iraq pays for 6,000 nuclear engineers -- what are
they for?
6.  ANSWER said Iraq didn't throw out the weapons inspectors in 1998.   That may be true.  BUT Iraq physically threatened the inspectors and impeded their efforts.
7.  ANSWER opposes the sanctions as an alternative approach to military action.  
ANSWER basically wants hands off Iraq.  It would seem to follow that ANSWER supported the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as did the Palestinians and the Jordanians.

ANSWER's position might be better understood since their membership and supporters include Palestinian and Iraqi support groups.  See below.

This list was copied from their web page:
http://www.internationalanswer.org/endorsers.html


8.  ANSWER opposes the US and Britain defending the lives of the Kurds and the Shiites by using the no-fly zones.  
ANSWER feels that massacring Kurds
and Shiites are an internal matter for Iraq.
9.  ANSWER asserts that the vast majority of the people oppose attacking Iraq.  Polls show a majority of Americans support attacking Iraq with UN support.   ANSWER asserts that no country in the middle east supports the war.  Qatar and Bahrain and Kuwait provide bases.  Saudi Arabia has asked to be in charge to the post war Iraq.
10.  ANSWER says war would be bad for the economy.   I agree.  9/11 was very bad for the economy.  The Gulf War was bad for the economy.   America is
more of a peace time economy.  But sometimes economic sacrifice is justified.  Bush should postpone the tax cut until the war is over.  He
shouldn't short change soldiers' dependents education as he is planning now.
11.  ANSWER says the war will be long and painful.   Plan on it.
12.  ANSWER says Gulf War syndrome was caused by depleted uranium bullets. They ignore the poison gas used by Iraq.  Also they don't indicate that Iraqi survivors suffered likewise.

Since we have found no WMD in Iraq after the 2002 invasion, it would appear that poison gas wasn't used in the 2002 war.

It is not clear that poison gas wasn't a factor in the 1991 war.  Our troops were stupidly ordered to blow up a weapons dump that could have cause blow-back on them.

There is substantial evidence that depleted uranium may have been a factor in some Gulf War syndrome cases.

Our government owes it to vets to honestly diagnose and treat ailments that are caused by the war -- even if we cause them.

 

Cliff Lazar
2/21/03

I wonder who these ANSWER guys are and where they get their funding?  Well here is their steering committee:

ANSWER Steering Committee:

 

IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Free Palestine Alliance - U.S.
Partnership for Civil Justice - LDEF
Nicaragua Network
Bayan - USA/International
Korea Truth Commission
International Action Center
Muslim Student Association of the U.S./Canada
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Mexico Solidarity Network
Middle East Children's Alliance

List of Coalition Co-Signers:  (as of November 06, 2004 )

* denotes organization listed for ID purposes only

Ramsey Clark - former U.S. Attorney General

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton - Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan

American Muslims for Global Peace

Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition, NY & NJ

Barbara Lubin - Executive Director, Middle East Children's Alliance

Jews Against the Occupation

Rev. Lucius Walker - Pastors for Peace

Rev. Graylan Hagler - Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church, Washington DC

Rev. Curtis Gatewood - Durham, North Carolina

Rev. Cecil Williams - Glide Memorial Church, Washington, DC

Robert Meeropol - Executive Director, Rosenberg Fund for Children*

Teresa Gutierrez - Co-Director, International Action Center, NYC

Karen Talbot - International Center for Peace & Justice

Committee for a Democratic Palestine

Ismael Guadalupe - Committee for Rescue & Development in Vieques, Puerto Rico

Michel Chossudovsky - Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada

Green Party USA

Howard Zinn - historian and author

Michael Parenti Ph.D. - author of 'America Besieged'

Dick Gregory - comedian

David Clennon - actor

Ben DuPuy - former Deputy Ambassador-at-Large, Haiti

School Of the Americas Watch

Humdan Durrani - President, Muslim Student Association of Richland College, Dallas, Texas

Eric Mar - Commissioner, San Francisco Board of Education; CFA/CTA; Asian American Studies San Francisco State University*, California

Chuck Turner - council member, Boston City Council, District 7*, Massachusetts

Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition of New York and New Jersey

Hoshikawa Jun - Director, Yakushima Institute, Kagoshima-ken, Japan

John Gilbert - university instructor and national coordinator, University Foreign Language Instructors, SNUR-CGIL (University & Research Union) and CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro -- General Confederation of Italian Labor)*, Florence, Italy

Ajmal Pashtoonyar - President, Afghan Youth Organization (AYO), St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Muslims Against Racism and War

Rev. Phil Wheaton - Committee for Indigenous Solidarity (CIS), Washington, DC

Tom Nagy - professor, George Washington University*, Washington DC

Nania Kaur Dhingra - Sikh Student Organization, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Martín Espada - poet

Sakhi for South Asian Women

Women for Afghan Women

Stephanie Simard - Co-president, Simmons College Feminist Union, Women's Fightback Network, Boston, Massachusetts

Michele Naar-Obed - Plowshares activist, Jonah House, Baltimore

Pam Africa - International Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Michel Collon - author and journalist, Belgium

Left Turn

Heidelberg Forum Against Militarism and War, Germany

Italian Tribunal on NATO Crimes in Yugoslavia, Italy

Helena Papadopoulos - Researcher, Center for the Comparative Study of Law and Society, Rabieh, Lebanon

Elmar Schmaehling - Retired Admiral, German Navy, Germany

Wolfgang Richter - President, European Peace Forum, Germany

Issam Makhoul - member of the Knesset, Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (HADASH), Israel

Sally Davies - President, AFSCME Local 1072

Craig Newman - Chief Steward, AFSCME Local 1072

Eric Easton - Vice President, National Action Network, Baltimore, Maryland

Rev. David Carl Olson - Community Church of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Baltimore Coalition Against the War, Maryland

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Baltimore and Cantonsville Chapters, Maryland

Ricardo Juarez - Pasamontañas

Nino Pasti Foundation, Rome, Italy

Tobias Pflueger & Claudia Haydt - Information-Post on Militarism, Germany

New Communist Party of the Netherlands, Netherlands

African Immigrant and Refugee Coalition of North America

Dominican Workers Party, NYC

Chuck Kaufman - National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network

NISGUA - the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatamala

Ray LaForest - Labor Organizer, District Council 1707 AFSCME, NYC

Heidi Boghosian - Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

Tom Hansen - Mexico Solidarity Network, Washington, DC

Kriss Worthington - Berkeley City Council, Berkeley, California

Leonora Foerstal - Women for Mutual Security

Asha A. Samad - Human Rights Center

April 25 Movement of the Dominican Republic

Njeri Shakur - Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement

Michel Shehadeh - Los Angeles 8 Case Respondent, Los Angeles, California

Muslim Student & Faculty Association

Emmanunel M. Hizon - National Student Coordinator, Movement for the Advancement of Student Power, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines

Saad Kadhim - West Harlem Coalition, New York City

Leslie Feinberg - transgender author and Co-Founder, Rainbow Flags for Mumia

Kadouri Al Kaysi - Committee in Support of Iraqi People, New York City

Aisha Sabadia - Muslim Student Union, Amnesty*, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Minnie Bruce Pratt - writer and anti-racist activist

Vieques Support Campaign, NYC

All Peoples Congress, Baltimore, Maryland

Unity for Action, Baltimore, Maryland

Sharon Ceci - Shop Steward, UFCW Local 27, Baltimore, Maryland

Mitchel Cohen - Green Party USA and Brooklyn Greens, Brooklyn, New York

Milos Raickovich - College of Staten Island, CUNY*, Staten Island, New York

Carlos Eden - Raweshrar Project for Indigenous People, Chile

Jamie York - Cuba Advocate Newsletter*, Montana

Brian Barraza - Association of Mexican Workers, NYC

Justin Vitiello - professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

John Kim - Veterans for Peace, NYC Chapter, NYC

Mahtowin Munro & Moonanum James - United American Indians of New England

SAFRAD Somali Association

Monica Moorehead - Workers World Party

Arab Cause Solidarity Committee, Madrid, Spain

Korea Truth Commission

Congress for Korean Reunification

Struggle Against War Coalition, Italy

Trades Union International of Building and Wood Workers, Finland

LEF Foundation, St. Helena, California

SEIU Local 1877, San Francisco, California

Vanguard Public Foundation, San Francisco, California

Consuela Lee - musician

Bohemian Grove Action Network, Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County Free Press, California

Susan E. Davis - co-chair, New York Local, National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, NYC

James Lafferty - National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles, California

Campaign Against Racism & War, Oberlin, Ohio

Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist

Dr. Pol De Vos - President, Anti-Imperialist League, Belgium

Refuse and Resist

Dr. Bert De Belder - Coordinator, Third World Medical Aid, Belgium

Dr. Jean Pestieau - professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, California

California Prison Focus

Anuradha Mittal - Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Sandra Robertson - Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger

Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition of Massachusetts

Radio Arabiyat, Boston, Massachusetts

Vanessa Marques - Portuguese-American Relief for Palestine

Rima Anabtawi - Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coordinating Committee

Committee to Defend Amer Jubran and Palestinian Free Speech Rights

Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, Atlanta, Georgia

Masjid Al Muminun, Atlanta, Georgia

Hadayai Majeed - Muslim Women's Political Action Committee

Gloria La Riva - West Coast Regional Co-Director, International Action Center, San Francisco, California

Julia Yonetani - researcher, University of the Ryukyus*, Okinawa

Eliseo Ramírez - Director Política, Internacional de Voz Proletaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ali Baghdadi - editor, Arab Journal, Woodridge, Illinois

Claire Alby - documentary filmmaker, Paris, France

Gil Ben Aych - philosopher and writer, Paris, France

Debbie Anderson - founder, The Rosa Luxemburg Collective, McDonough, New York

Prof. Peter Erlinder - professor of law and former president, National Lawyers Guild, St. Paul, Minnesota

Yafar Gonzalez Bornez - Madrasa Islamica Imam Ar-Rida (A.S.) - UMMAH, Granada, España

Abigal Coburn - student, Friends World Program*, Southampton, New York

Ian Harvey - Florida Education Association, AFL-CIO*, Naples, Florida

Kevin Ramirez - Military Out of Our Schools coordinator, Central Committee for Consientious Objectors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Richard Hugus - Cape Cod Coalition Against Iraq Sanctions, Falmouth, Massachusetts

Sergio Sánchez - Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Utopía Universitaria, Caracas, Venezuela

Vera Vratusa-Zunjic - Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology*, Beograd, Yugoslavia

Steven Gillis - Executive Board, USWA local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers, Boston, Massachusetts

Gerry Scoppettuolo - Director of Education, South New Hampshire HIV/AIDS Task Force

Keith McHenry - co-founder, Food Not Bombs, Tucson, Arizona

Teresa and Blase Bonpane - Office of the Americas, Los Angeles, California

Mohau Pheko - Pan Africanist Women's Organisation of Azania, Johannesburg, South Africa

Seena Yacoob - Researcher, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Evangelos Mahairas - Honorary President, World Peace Council, Greece

Mark Taylor - professor, Princeton Theological Seminary*, Educators for Mumia

David Sole - President, UAW Local 2334, Detroit, Michigan

Nadine Rosa-Rosso - General Secretary, Workers' Party of Belgium, Belgium

Stan Goff - writer and organizer, North Carolina Network for Popular Democracy, Raleigh, North Carolina

Sidney J. Gluck - Chairman, US-China Society of Friends

Veronica Golos - poet, NYC

David Obiekwe Quarter - Toronto, Canada

Richard Roper - England

Mark Burwinkel - Cincinnati, Ohio

Lee Mager - London, England

Heather Cottin - Long Island, New York

Beatriz Morales - Madrid, Spain

Campaign Against Plan Colombia, Barcelona, Spain

Garibaldi Collective, Barcelona, Spain

Batasana, Euskal, Basque Country

Karim Lopez - Institute for Mass Communications

Oklahoma Socialist Cooperative, Oklahoma

Radical Women

Freedom Socialist Party

Johnnie Stevens - People's Video Network, NYC

Arab Women's Solidarity Association, San Francisco Chapter, San Francisco, California

Savas Michael-Matsas - General Secretary, Christian Rakovsky Balkan Socialist Center, Athens, Attica, Greece

A Jewish Voice for Peace, San Francisco, California

Marco Frucht - Editor and Publisher, Activist Times, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Greg Miaskiewicz - Adams County Green Party, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

G.N. Saibaba - general secretary, AIPRF, India

Klaus von Raussendorff - Anti-Imperialistische Korrespondenz, Bonn, Germany

Arab Cause Solidarity Committee, Spain

Mimi Adams - Arab-Jewish Dialog*, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gavan McCormack - Australian National University*, Canberra, Australia

Bay Area CISPES, San Francisco, California

Bündnis Global Gegen Krieg (Global Alliance Against War), From, Germany

Saundra McMillan - professor, California State University at Long Beach*, Long Beach, California

Jason Johnston - Campaign Against Racism and War, Oberlin, Ohio

Campaña Contra Plan Colombia (Campaign Against Plan Colombia)

Robert Franck - professor, Catholic University of Louvain*, Belgium

Michael Green - Executive Director, Center for Environmental Health, San Francisco, California

Aton Ra - Center of Strategic Future, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

College Voice

Roy Rollin - College Voice, NYC

Committee on US-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR), Ithaca, New York

Manfred Eber - Chairperson, Communist Party of Austria, Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria

H. Charfo - Head of the Department of International Relations, Central Committee, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, Praha, Czech Republic

Marina Drummer - Community Futures Collective

Brett de Bary - Professor of Asian Studies, Cornell University*, Ithaca, New York

Greg Ericson - Founder, freepressinternational.com, Austin, Texas

Justin Bendell - Fuguers Cove Collective*, Madison, Wisconsin

Patrik Köbele - Chairman, German Communist Party, Ruhr-Westfalen, Germany

Giorgio Ellero - Gruppo Zastava Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Dennis Apel - Guadalupe Catholic Worker, Guadalupe, California

Alex Plows - Gwynedd and Mon Earth First!, Gwynedd, Wales

Claudia Haydt - board member, IMI-Informationsstelle Militarisierung, Tuebingen, Germany

Tobias Pflueger - chairman, IMI-Informationsstelle Militarisierung, Tuebingen, Germany

Karim Lopez - Institute for Mass Communications/ HYP-HOP*, Brooklyn, New York

Hugh Stephens - Secretary, Institute for Independence Studies*, London, England

Adam Blunt - philosopher, International Action Center - Bridgewater State College Chapter, Canton, Massachusetts

Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada

Marília Rondani - Núcleo de Meio Ambiente da União de Mulheres de São Paulo, Brasil

Falco Accame - former president of the Defense Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, Italian Tribunal on NATO crimes in Jugoslavia, Italy

Peter Cadogan - chairperson, London Alliance for Local Democracy, London, England

Tim King - farmer, Long Prairie River Stewardship Project, Long Prairie, Minnesota

Media Monitors Network Southern (mediamonitors.net), California

Taijun Nishida - No More War*, Hiroshima, Japan

Kevan Hudson - Director, Ogoni Solidarity Network, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Joshua Thomason - Co-Chairperson, Oklahoma Socialist Cooperative, Chickasha, Missouri

Joseph P. Horgan - Shop steward - IBT shop, OPEIU Local 2*, Kensington, Maryland

Athos Fava - Secretary for International Relations, Partido Comunista de la Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Patricio Echegary - General Secretary, Partido Comunista de la Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Elizabeth O'Nan - Director, Protect All Children's Environment (PACE), Marion, North Carolina

Judith Detert-Moriarty - Rock County Citizens for Peace, Janesville, Wisconsin

Wendy Strebe - Rural Community Assistance*, Las Vegas, Nevada

David San Martín - Sentimientos Kontra el Poder, Getafe (Madrid), Spain

Bet Power - Director, Sexual Minorities Archive, Northampton, Massachusetts

Daniel Golovaty Cursino - Shalom Salam Paz*, Brasil

Fausto Schiavetto - Soccorso Popolare (Popular Aid) - Padova, Padova, Italy

David A. Smith - Editor, Social Problems, Irvine, California

Spanish Campaign for Lifting the Sanctions on Iraq, Spain

Olivera Pavlovic - doctor professor, Yugoslavia

Aisha Sabadia - Muslim Student Union, Amnesty*, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Susanne Kelly - secretary-treasurer, Local 334 OPEIU*, Richmond, Virginia

Saif Bonar - Surf London, London, England

Thomas Claesson - Teachers League of Sweden*, Skärhamn, Tjörn, Sweden

Justin Vitiello - Professor of Italian, Temple University*, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jamie York - The Cuba Advocate Newsletter*, Deer Lodge, Montana

Linda Wolf - Director, The Daughters Sisters Project, Bainbridge Island, Washington

Maher Kouraytem - The Lebanese Communist Party, Beirut, Lebanon

United Public Housing Residents, Washington, DC

Judith Kegan Gardiner - Director of Graduate Studies in English and Professor of English and of Gender & Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago* 

Claudio Moffa - professor of History of Afro-Asian countries, University of Teramo

Vietnam Veterans Against The War Anti Imperialist

Voice of Yugo-Diaspora

Jutta Burghardt - former Director, World Food Programme in Iraq*, Sankt Augustin, Netherlands

Arthur Staats, PhD - Professor (Emeritus) of Psychology

Dale Sophiea and Elania Nanopoulos

Felicity Arbuthnot - journalist, England

Leila Sansour - T.V. Producer, London, England

Lester Schonbrun - Oakland, California

Muna Hamzeh - author and journalist, Austin, Texas

Riem Farahat - Long Beach, California

Seemin Qayum - New York City

Susan Peters - New York City

Keiko Kani - researcher and environmental specialist, Konan, Aichi, Japan

Tracey McPartlan - Director, 11th Hour Group*, Lennox Head, New South Wales, Australia

N. Falciatano - Animal Defense League*, Los Angeles, California

Donnie Quest - student organizer, AxCx Punks*, Laramie, Wyoming

Ross Stuart Marat - Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance*, Luton, England

Kathleen Semanski - student activist, Boston University*, West Hartford, Connecticut

Ian M. Betteridge - Publishing Administrator, British Medical Journal*, Brighton, East Sussex, England

Phil Runkel - archivist, Catholic Worker, Marquette University*, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Hillel Barak - Committee for One Democratic & Secular Republic*, Beit Shemesh, Israel

Kathryn M. Daly - law student, CUNY Law School, Flushing, New York

Eduardo Unda Sanzana - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Soton*, Southampton, England

Brian Shea - Disabled Peoples Liberation Front, Boston, Massachusetts

Paul Davidson - Euro-Cuba News, London, England

Alexis Ponce - Vocero Nacional, Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos (APDH) del Ecuador, Quito

Soledad Paz, Argentina

Bernd Hamm - Professor of Sociology, Jean Monnet Professor of European Studies and Director, Center for European Studies, University of Trier*, Germany

Stratis Kounias - University of Athens*, Greece

Grace de Haro - APDH Human Rights Organization, Argentina

Ramiro Gonzalez - Argentina

Martin S. Past - coordinator of international activities, Peace Office Netherlands

Wanda Colón Cortés - Proyecto Caribeño de Justicia y Paz, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Randolph Carter Richter - First Church of Christ, Scientist, Denver & Boston*, Lakewood, Colorado

Dorothy Byrne - Green Political Party, St. Petersburg, Florida

Roz Rayner-Rix - Hambleton Area Belly Dance Association*, Dalton, Thirsk, England

Mickey Gibson - Harmonic Arts/West*, Bainbridge Island, Washington

Michael Gene Ratkewicz - Account Executive, HotJobs.com*, San Francisco, California

Tomiyama Ichiro - staff member, IMPACTION*, Kyoto, Japan

Mindy Stone - Indian River Green Party, Vero Beach, Florida

William D. Fusfield - Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh*, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Tony Robertson - Community Worker, Micah, Inc.*, South Brisbane, Australia

Nick Valvo - student, Oberlin College*, Oberlin, Ohio

Eric Scheinert - member, Ryan White Care Council, PHHASE, Inc. Compassion House, Lakeland, Florida

Joan Clingan - educator and anti-racist, Prescott College Master of Arts Program*, Prescott, Arizona

Brent Buell - writer, teacher and civil rights activist, Professional Staff Congress*, New York City

Bobbie Dee Flowers - College Assistant/Site Coordinator, RB/LIU*, New York City

Steven Schroeder - Instructor in Philosophy and Liberal Studies, Roosevelt University*, Chicago, Illinois

Tian Harter - member, Santa Clara County Green Party, Mountain View, California

Mick Dunford - Honorary Editor, Regional Studies, School of European Studies, University of Sussex*, Brighton, England

David Muller - South Movement, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dave Havard - Deacon, St. Margaret's Anglican Church*, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nancy Bauer - Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University*, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts

Nathan A. Hawks - webmaster, WarOnWar.org*, Metairie, Louisiana

Kristin Andrews - Facilitator, Watauga Green Party, Banner Elk, North Carolina

Stephanie Carlisle - Wesleyan University*, Middletown, Connecticut

Damien Lawson - Western Suburbs Legal Service, Newport, Victoria, Australia

Norwood Orrick - Programmer, WMNF Community Radio*, Tampa, Florida

Dhruti Contractor - Graduate Student, Yale University*, New Haven, Connecticut

Michael Petrs - Young Democratic Socialists*, Avon Lake, Ohio

rev les ego - Linguistics Editor, Zentences, New York City

David Klein - in-home-services social worker, SEIU*, Altadena, California

Alex Holcombe - organizer, San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice*, San Diego California U.S.

Diane McKay - adjunct professor, Rutgers University*, New York City, New York

Stefano Perale - dottore, Manitese-Venezia*, Ve-Mestre, Italy

Sheila Howlett - Peace Activist, Kawartha Ploughshares*, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Kristen Gregg - marketing director, HEAL Foundation, Memphis, Tennessee

Teddy Yoshikami - public and multicultural programming, American Museum of Natural History*, Brooklyn, New York

Audrey Williams - President Afrimerica, Inc., The African Stock Exchange Development Corporation, Dover, Delaware

Mary Zoeter - ESL tutor and president, Action for Animals Network, Alexandria, Virginia

Adele Macy - Weaverville, North Carolina

Ahmed Tar - Lomita, California

Alex Koppelman - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Andrea Boudreau - Columbus, Ohio

Andrea Ginsky - Sarasota, Florida

Andrea Janette Long - Atlanta, Georgia

Andrea Scharnau - Arlington, Virginia

Andrew Bruce - Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Antonie Brinkmann - Bremen, Germany

Antony Schofield - mental health advocate, England

Anuradha Sachdev - Los Angeles, California

Ari Weinstein - Working-Class Fighter, Moscow, Idaho

Arthur Lam - Chicago, Illinois

Ashley E. McClure - Seattle, Washington

Astrid Muender - Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Ben - Melbourne, Florida

Brandon Stevens - Fairview Park, Ohio

Brittany Gravely - Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Carole Brow - Clements, California

Caroline Nappo - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Catherine M. Stanford - Saratoga Springs, New York

Catherine Wanliss - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cathy Swedlund - Sapello, New Mexico

Chao-ju Chen - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Charlotte Fisler - Allentown, Pennsylvania

Chrissie Esch - Hillsdale, New York

Claudia Camba - Argentina

Cressida Magaro - Leonardtown, Maryland

Dan Nagle - Santee, California

David Asbury - Wilmington, Delaware

David Beaudin - Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada

David Kellum - Arlington, Virginia

Day Irmiter - Tucson, Arizona

Debbie and Fred Anderson - McDonough, New York

Dereka Rushbrook - Tucson, Arizona

Domenica Nieddu - Santa Fe, New Mexico

Dousset François - Paris, France

Dr. Hilda Lopez Laval 

Dr. Kristina Boerger - NYC

Dr. Shihab Kuran - Bridgewater, New Jersey

Eileen Welch - Washington, DC

Emily Petry - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eric Bourgeois - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Erika - Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Erin Stropes - Glendale, Wisconsin

Eva Schmidt - Morgantown, West Virginia

Eve Powers - Eugene, Oregon

Gery Armsby - activist and grant writer, Brooklyn, New York

Gregory Sanders - Carrollton, Georgia

Heather Starr - Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico

Heinz-Juergen Haettig - Freiburg, Germany

Helen C. Sumerwell - Washington, DC

Henry N. Lawrence III - Panama, Florida

Hiroko Kawabe - staff member, Kobe YWCA*, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

Inés Fernández

Ingrid and Christophe Grillet-Aubert - Paris, France

James A. Ward - South Point, Ohio

Jane Rowland Brady - Surfside, California

Jason Pfaff - student, musician, poet

Jeffrey B. Davidson - actor, Woodbridge, Virginia

Jennifer Kirby - Jackson, Montana

Jessica Cohen - Lynwood, Connecticut

John Vickery - adult educator

Joseph Backus - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Juanita Filip - bi-lingual teacher, Westfield, Massachusetts

Jun Ishiura - manager, Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan

Karen Ann Gallagher Waggoner - Item Processing/Taping Dept. Lead, Felton, Delaware

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Kenneth V. King, Jr. - seminarian, Oakland, California

Kevin M. Martin - Dayville, Connecticut

Kinsey Oleman - Dayton, Ohio

Kris Bauer - San Francisco, California

Leah Hesla - Austin, Texas

Lee Mager - London, England

Ludwig Heinrich - Lennox Head, New South Wales, Australia

Luisa Brehm - ethnologist and human rights activist, Lisboa, Portugal

Marco Rodrigues - Yonkers, New York

Margaret James - Aberdeen, South Dakota

Margaret Robinson - Erlanger, Kentucky

Marilyn Gill - La Mesa, California

Mark J. Burwinkel - Cincinnati, Ohio

Mary Kate Farley - administrative assistant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mary Yingst - Denton, Texas

Matt Fiocchi - student, Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin

Matthew Johnson - Harrisonburg, Virginia

Matthew Yezuita - Somerville, Massachusetts

Megan McDaniel - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Michael Flanagan - Boulder, Colorado

Morgan Russell - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Nancy Cuffman - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Nancy Moreno - Miami, Florida

Nathan - university instructor, Baltimore, Maryland

Panayiotis Papadopoulos - Student, Sparta, Greece

Paul Ratcliffe - translator, Cambridge, England

Phoebe Brow - Lawrence, Kansas

Phyllis J. Machelor - Casa Grande, Arizona

Pink Noise - Berlin, Germany

Randy Larr Hendrickson - full time worker, Sun Valley, California

Richard Martin - Tampa, Florida

Robbie Holden - Newark, New Jersey

Roger James

Roger Lagassé - Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada

Roland Dion - San Diego, California

RoseMarie - Kenilworth, New Jersey

Ruei-Suei Sun - Los Angeles, California

Sam Archer - Brookline, Massachusetts

Sara Powell - Annandale, Virginia

Sarah Lonberg-Lew - Gloucester, Massachusetts

Satya Rudin - Margate, Florida

Sayel Cortes - Student, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

Seiko Kumano - Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shay Stewart-Bouley - Chicago, Illinois

Sonjia Hyon - student, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Teresa Damron - Eugene, Oregon

Theau Yannis - Costa Mesa, California

Thomas King - citizen for justice and peace, West Jordan, Utah

Tia Wallach - Lakeside, California

Tommy McNamara - New York City

Tracy Carcione - Teaneck, New Jersey

Victoria D. Gaines - psychiatric escapee and activist, Hagertown, Maryland

Dianne S. Lobes - peace activist, WAND*, Eugene, Oregon

Robert Lophovsky - adjunct faculty, University of Dayton*, Dayton, Ohio

Allen Campbell - Edgemere, New York

Cary Birdsall - teacher, Talkeetna, Alaska

Chris "The Anarchist" Ryan - community organizer and activist, Columbus, Ohio

Emily Roscia - recent law graduate

Margot Sheehan - writer and graphic artist, Hoboken, New Jersey

Maribeth Botts - writer and musician, LaFeria, Texas

Noriko Kokubun - university professor, Yokohama, Japan

Oona Besman - academic and activist, Columbus, Ohio

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Hezbollah Getting Actionable Intelligence on Hezbollah 8/12/06
Intelligent Design Intelligent Design 12/23/05
Katrina Paying for Katrina 9/23/05
Katrina A Dialogue on the Katrina aftermath 9/8/05
Katrina Katrina, What to Do
Lessons from Katrina
9/2/05
FBI Secret Searches Limit FBI Administrative Authority 1/17/05
Iraq Blunders Predictions of Blunders in Iraq 1/17/05
Media Bias Charles Krauthammer Asserts and Distorts About Media Bias 1/16/05
Tsunami Diego Garcia may have been damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami 1/2/05
Single Life Getting from Living Together to Marriage 10/15/04
Income Distribution Economics

The Lorenz Curve and the Gini Coefficient are Misleading             

10/11/04
Indifada Jonathan Cook's Advocacy of Palestinian Indifada Violence 9/2/04
Fahrenheit 911 Fahrenheit 911: Critique and Response 7/30/04
Jobs Economics Jobs Creation Policies 7/24/04
LNG Long Beach Mitsubishi Should Not Lie About LNG in Long Beach 4/29/04
Wounded Veterans and Dependents Petition for Fair Treatment of Wounded Veterans and Dependents of Those Killed in Action in Iraq and Afghanistan 12/06/03
Bigotry Prayer vs. Self-Defense 11/17/03
Iraq Building the Iraqi Economy 8/29/03
Computer Viruses Fighting Viruses Effectively 9/2/03
Noah Winer Response to MoveOn.Org's Explanation 7/10/03
Indifada Response to MoveOn.Org's Pro-Palestinian Bulletin 7/10/03
al Queda Is Tom Clancy a Source of Ideas for al Queda? 5/12/03
Tax Cuts Employment Scoring of Proposed Tax Cuts 5/9/03
Laci Peterson Laci Peterson -- Possible Scenarios 4/15/03
Iraq Implications of Rapid Conquest -- More Nukes 4/14/03
Iraq Answering A.N.S.W.E.R. on Iraq 2/21/03
Iraq

Alternative to War:  Occupy the No-Fly Zones

2/17/03
Iraq Peaceful Occupation of Iraq 2/17/03
Iraq

Should We Go to War with Iraq?

2/14/03
Black Holes Black Hole Genesis 3/8/03, 7/2/04
Space Shuttle

Find the Columbia Space Shuttle's External Tank Terrorist or hunter?

2/4/03
Iraq

Sadam's 6,000 Nuclear Engineers

1/30/03
Iraq

Partition Iraq and Solve The Sadam Hussein Problem

07/28/92
Islam Uber Alles Islam Uber Alles Should we slow the march of Islam?  
Economics Balancing US Exports
Full Employment Through Capital Gains
 
Politics The Differences between Democrats and Republicans, a dialog  
Divorce Divorce Super Fund, Let Spouses Afford to Re-marry  
Drugs, Crime Legalize Addicts Not Drugs  
Air Pollution Solving Smog in Cities with Inversion Layers (Coming)  
Science The Cause of TWA 800  
Medicine Protect seniors with large type on prescription bottles and medical equipment  
Discrimination Ending Men-Only Clubs If it's Social, it doesn't need a tax deduction  
Air Safety Stinger Missile Defense  
Links Russ Abbott
http://russabbott.blogspot.com.
computer science, politics
7/24/04