January 28, 2004

1. The words Bush used in the state of the union address
2. Syria is still on the radar screen
3.  Bush's economic black hole
4.  A little hope from Tom Hayden
5. A new piece from Arundhati Roy, woman activist from India
6. As if the human toll of war isn't bad enough....
 
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1.  Check out this writer's analysis of the actual words used by Bush in the first part of the address. Do you believe in subliminal messages?
 http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0122-12.htm
 
2.  UPI reports that the US may use air strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, in an area where Syrian troops are deployed. 
 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0123-11.htm
 
Related to this, a top Republican in the Senate is still making noises about Iraq's WMDs being in Syrian, while Colin Powell is saying there is no hard evidence of this and it would not have been to Syria's advantage to hid them.
 
3.  This is a pretty depressing analysis of economic trends - talks about impact on average worker's actual income and how that is decreasing, which of course has a rippling effect throughout the economy. Another slant on what is going on with economic globalization.
 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17614
 
4.  Tom Hayden talks about the Global Peace Movement and the World Social Forums in a pretty hopeful way.
 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17595http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17595
 
5. Roy's speech from the opening of the World Social Forum in India on Jan 16.  She paints a stark picture and outlines what she thinks must be done if we really want to make a difference.
 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17644
 
6.  This piece on the environmental impact of the US military and our wars is just sickening.
 http://antiwar.com/orig/wokusch.php?articleid=1761