Solutions for America
Answering A.N.S.W.E.R. on Iraq
visitors
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: |
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
this person asked to be removed
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
raindog - earthling, California
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| Jihad | Fighting Radical Jihaddists | 9/6/06 |
| 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 | 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 | 2/17/03 | |
| Iraq | Peaceful Occupation of Iraq | 2/17/03 |
| 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 | 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 |
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| 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 |