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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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almarst2002 - 09:56pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8628 of 8638)

Powell's Dubious Case for War Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus There are clear contradictions between Powell's Security Council speech and Hans Blix's recent report on the UN inspectors' findings. - http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15108

almarst2002 - 10:00pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8629 of 8638)

Making Up the Case for War Robert Scheer, WorkingForChange.com Contrary to his own advice, Colin Powell will transparently lie to a skeptical Security Council to justify our cobbled-together rationale for going to war. - http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15114

lchic - 10:08pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8630 of 8638)
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DOCUMENTARY SERIES - PAKISTAN PICTURES - Power Dressing

This episode follows Amber Shamsi, a young woman journalist for The Herald, the colour monthly magazine of a leading English language newspaper in Pakistan, who is investigating a new cultural phenomenon. Well-to-do middle class housewives, used to dressing in a more Western style, are adopting the practice of wearing the hijab, the Muslim headdress, traditionally worn by the poor and ill-educated. Amber interviews some new hijabis in order to write her piece. The contrast between her lifestyle and theirs is very striking. Even more of a contrast are the life choices of three models, including supermodel Tanya Shafi, who are doing the exact opposite – taking off their veils and much else besides to earn a good living as Western-style models. (From the UK, in English). G CC

lchic - 10:11pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8631 of 8638)
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Iraq - OWES ...

Russians - $10bn | French - $2bn

How do they get paid if Iraq is crippled.

lchic - 10:15pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8632 of 8638)
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""North Korea is entitled to launch a pre-emptive strike against the US rather than wait until the American military have finished with Iraq, the North's foreign ministry told the Guardian yesterday.

Warning that the current nuclear crisis is worse than that in 1994, when the peninsula stood on the brink of oblivion, a ministry spokesman called on Britain to use its influence with Washington to avert war.

"The United States says that after Iraq, we are next",

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,889679,00.html

almarst2002 - 10:33pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8633 of 8638)

In Yugoslavia we have seen the legitimization of "humanitarian" bombing. Now US added the pre-emptive war to the menue of international norms.

almarst2002 - 10:43pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8634 of 8638)

The Pentagon says there has been a sudden rise in suicide attempts by al-Qaida detainees at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. - http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=6E2E5814-CD32-4482-96223FDC2718FE20

lchic - 12:08am Feb 6, 2003 EST (# 8635 of 8638)
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Yugoslavia: The end of an anachronism / Patrick Moore

The name "Yugoslavia" may not be much longer for this world. Its disappearance is long overdue.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/3ac1108f3f57ccf1c1256b60005f66fb?OpenDocument

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