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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lchic - 04:28pm Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4316 of 4324)

EU threatens $14bn imports
The EU yesterday stepped up pressure on the American government in its long-running trade row over illegal tax breaks when it threatened to exert punitive tariffs on thousands of exports, from nuclear reactor parts to chewing gum.

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Brussels won the right from the WTO last month to impose $4bn worth of sanctions on US goods

Business leaders yesterday urged the commission to take care of detonating what Washington has described as a nuclear weapon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,791993,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/0,7368,396838,00.html

lchic - 04:33pm Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4317 of 4324)

Vision for peace - Clinton

http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,788135,00.html

http://www.observer.co.uk/

lchic - 04:42pm Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4318 of 4324)

Aug 18 "" It is a persistent misconception that the United States - where free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution - has a vigorous tradition of dissent and protest. Just as conservatives fail to see how unusual the quiet, relatively crime-free 1950s were, so leftists forget that the fractious 1960s were an anomaly. Americans remain likely to identify with government policy, especially in international affairs where there is something of a national consensus that the U.S. should present a united front to the rest of the world. So I suppose I should not have been surprised at the near-unanimous support for the Bush administration after the September 11 attacks. All the same, my first reaction was something like shock. My wife and I had watched the president's speech to Congress, and we wondered how his stiff, choppy, overly-scripted delivery could possibly be mistaken for strength. http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,776006,00.html (links via http://www.whythiswar.com/ )

lchic - 04:49pm Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4319 of 4324)

Baghdad's plan is to refocus international attention ...

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=207876&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
( Isreali labour party media )

lchic - 05:06pm Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4320 of 4324)

Harvey Pitt security commisions exchange sce - says he doesn't listen to politicians - rather investors .... and when they complain - he listens

... would any former investors re Bush Cheney gutting of companies be complaining loudly?

lchic - 05:32pm Sep 14, 2002 EST (# 4321 of 4324)

Fisk

http://www.independent.co.uk/search.jsp?keywords=robert%20Fisk&field=byline
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/

Mad Meets the FBI
Why Alfred E Neuman made J Edgar Hoover and his boys so raving Mad Newly released files show that the satirical magazine enraged the FBI
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=333300
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/

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