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October 2001 Archive
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
- Headlines for October 31, 2001
- "The War On Terrorism Is a Fraud"
- The Oil Slicked Road to War in Afghanistan: A Conversation with Ahmed Rashid
- Deliberate Discrimination: Women’s Health Conditions in Afghanistan
- Pakistani Author and Playwright Tariq Ali Is Detained at the Munich Airport
- Red Cross Raises Half a Billion After World Trade Center Disaster, Then Announces It Won’tspend All of the Money On Its Victims
- Fundamentalism: An Old Friend and New Enemy, a Conversation with Egyptian Feminist and Author Nawal El Saadawi
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
- Headlines for October 30, 2001
- Militant Pakistanis Block Silk Route to China with Landmines and Take Over a Town: Aconversation with a Secular Anti-War Activist About Peaceful Protest in Pakistan
- Pakistani U.N. Reporter Beaten Unconscious in Brooklyn; British Media Workers Protestcensorship at the BBC
- Bush Promotes $100 Billion Economic Stimulus Package Consisting of Tax Cuts for the Wealthyand Corporate Rebates
- "High Jack This Fags": Where Gay Men and Lesbians Fit Into the New World Disorder
- "Rebuilding New York for New Yorkers: A Forum to Discuss Rebuilding Our Lives with Dignityfor All"
Monday, October 29, 2001
- Headlines for October 29, 2001
- As the World Discusses Power-Sharing Afghanistan’s Government Between Taliban and Northernalliance, Afghan Women Ask Who Is Going to Represent Their Concerns
- Bush Signs Legislation Vastly Expanding Federal Powers to Wiretap, Eavesdrop, Detain Anddeport
- "Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York’s World Trade Center"
- Postal Workers Go to Court to Force Closure of NYC Post Office
- A Look at the World’s Largest Anthrax Dump and Open Air Testing Site for Biological Weapons
- A West African Perspective On Terrorism and the US Attacks On Afghanistan
Friday, October 26, 2001
- Headlines for October 26, 2001
- US Bombs Red Cross in Kabul, As Three Children Die in Another Attack; a Conversation Withpakistan-Based Journalist Richard Lloyd Parry
- As U.S. Drops Anti-Personnel Cluster Bombs On Afghanistan, a Look at the Bombs’ Impact On Civilians From Laos to Cambodia
- Senate Overturns Global Gag Rule Barring Funding for Reproductive Rights Groups Around Theworld
- Toxic Zone: World Trade Center Clean-Up Workers Face Hazardous Conditions
- An Afghani Feminist Just Returned From Northern Afghanistan Tells of Life Under the Taliban
- Senate Passes So-Called "Anti-Terrorism Bill"
Thursday, October 25, 2001
- Headlines for October 25, 2001
- Bush Administration Raises Prospect of Attack On Iraq As Federal Officials Point to Homefront As Source of Anthrax
- Massacre in the West Bank: Palestinians Say Israeli Soldiers Have Killed 50 in the Last Weekas They Invade West Bank Towns
- Leading Mexican Human Rights Activist Assassinated
- Ira Announces Partial Disarmament
- Leading Muslim Scholar Looks at Islam As a Theology of Both Liberation and Fundamentalism
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
- Headlines for October 24, 2001
- As U.S. Officials Criticize the "CNN of the Arab World," a Look at Who the CNN of the Western World Chooses As Its Experts
- After the Attacks of September 11th, Conditions Worsen in Factories and Thousands of Garment workers Are Thrown Out of Bangladesh Sweatshops
- Anthrax Threat Spreads As Pentagon Develops New Bioweapons Strains As Part of Its So-Calledwar On Terrorism; a Continuing Discussion with Noam Chomsky
- Listeners Call in From Around the Country Reporting On Local Peace Work
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
- Headlines for October 23, 2001
- Postal Union Leaders Say Two Anthrax Deaths Could Have Been Prevented If Officials Hadlistened to Workers
- Sponsors of State Terror Enlist in the Fight Against Terrorism: An Hour with Professor Noamchomsky
- Cipro: The Battle Over Bayer
- A Case in Domestic Terrorism: A Look at the Violence Against Abortion Providers
Monday, October 22, 2001
- Headlines for October 22, 2001
- Historian and Activist Howard Zinn Speaks On the US War Against Afghanistan, US Wars Gone By, and the Prospects for a Humane US Foreign Policy
- Howard Zinn, Continued
- How the US Baited the Soviet Union Into Invading Afghanistan; Or, "What Is More Important?... Some Agitated Muslims, Or... The End of the Cold War?"
- As US Officials Blame Iraq for Anthrax, a Look at US and Western Support for Iraq’s Biological and Chemical Weapons Program and for Iraq’s Invasion of Iran
- Iran Negotiates Between Opposition to the Taliban and Opposition to US Policy; and, the History of US Intervention in Iran
Friday, October 19, 2001
- Headlines for October 19, 2001
- Postal Workers Test Positive for Anthrax, and They Wonder What’s Being Done to Protect Them
- Indian Novelist and Activist Arundhati Roy Speaks On War, Terror and the Logic of Empire
- Politics and P.R. at APEC Summit: Bush and Jiang Pledge Themselves Partners in Fightingterror As US Pummels Afghanistan and China Executes Muslim Dissidents
- As US Bombs, Afghan Refugees Speak Out On the Impact of Decades of War in Their Country
- Activists Around the Country Speak Out
Thursday, October 18, 2001
- Headlines for October 18, 2001
- After Over 30 People Are Exposed to Anthrax From a Letter to Senator Daschle, the House Shuts Down and Senate Offices Close
- Has Panic Over Bioterrorism Eclipsed the Threat of Nuclear Attacks?
- Don’t See, Don’t Tell: Pentagon Buys Up the Satellite Imagery of Afghanistan
- Bush Administration Orders Stricter Limits On Public Access to Government Information
- As U.S. Attacks Front-Line Taliban Troops, Paving Way for Northern Alliance to Takemazar-I-Sharif, a Discussion with An Afghan Journalist in Pakistan
- Princeton Scientist and Peace Activist Zia Mian
- Who Fights? In Afghanistan, Child Soldiers; in the U.S. Military: Young, Poor People of Color
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
- Headlines for October 17, 2001
- Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: Bush Administration Ignores Instability of Saudi Royal Family at Its Peril; "What Went Wrong? The CIA and the Failure of American Intelligence"
- Airborn Anthrax: Over 20 People in Daschle’s Office Test Positive to Exposure, But There Is Still No Viable Vaccine
- U.S. War in Afghanistan Causes Surge in Conscientious Objectors
- Over 100 Abortion Clinics Targeted with Anthrax Threats
- As Secretary Colin Powell Visits India and Pakistan This Week, Relations Between the Nuclear Rivals Deteriorate
- An Estimated 200,000 March in Italy, in the First Protest Since Police Killed a G8 Demonstrator; Thousands More Shut Down Toronto in Canada
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
- Headlines for October 16, 2001
- A Thousand People Pack a Local School Board Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, to Debate the Pledge of Allegiance
- The New Mccarthyism? City University of New York Chancellor, Board of Trustees, Denounce Professors Critical of U.S. Foreign Policy
- Many Are the Crimes: Mccarthyism in America
- An Hour with the "Father of Peace Studies," Johan Galtung
Monday, October 15, 2001
- Headlines for October 15, 2001
- As Anthrax Threats Spread Across U.S. and the World, the One U.S. Company Licensed to Make the Vaccine Fails FDA Tests, Hasn’t Produced a Single Dose Since 1998
- As Congress Considers Federalizing Airport Screeners, the Nation’s Largest Airport Security Company Is Accused of Massive Security Violations
- Worldwide Protests Against Star Wars and Attacks in Afghanistan
- Senior Military Officer Sues Defense Department for Innoculating Soldiers Against Anthrax with An Experimental, Sickness-Causing Vaccine
- Turkish Government Cracks Down On Anti-War Demonstrators and Hunger Strikers
- Vietnam Veterans Speak Out Against Military Strikes Against Afghanistan
Friday, October 12, 2001
- Headlines for October 12, 2001
- Kofi Annan and UN Awarded Nobel Peace Prize As US and Britain Bomb Afghanistan
- US Bombs Afghanistan for Sixth Consecutive Day As Civilian Casualties Continue to Rise
- A Middle Eastern Professor Is Suspended After a Fox TV Interview Alleges Ties to Terrorist Groups
- Activists Who Disarm British Nuclear Submarines Win the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize
- Privacy Under Siege: The FBI’s Carnivore Surveillance Device
- Canadian Women’s Rights Activist Investigated By Royal Canadian Mounted Police for Speaking Out Against US Foreign Policy
- UN Warns of Humanitarian Disaster in Afghanistan
Thursday, October 11, 2001
- Headlines for October 11, 2001
- Anthrax for Export
- Nuclear Weapons in the U.S. Are Vulnerable to Attacks That Would Dwarf Chernobyl
- University Workers Walk Out On Patriotism As the US Wages War
- The Major TV Networks Crack Down — On Themselves — to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan
- FBI Announces Launch of Criminal Investigation As Third Anthrax Case Is Found
- The Major TV Networks Crack Down — On Themselves — to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
- Headlines for October 10, 2001
- Palestinian Authority Joins Israeli Military in Cracking Down On Palestinian Dissent, Killing Two Anti-War Protesters
- FBI Questions Pacifist Group Women in Black: A Roundtable with Members From Berkeley to Newyork to Jerusalem
- Youth Protest for Peace in Bush’s Back Yard
- As the U.S. Rushes to Support to the Northern Alliance, Human Rights Watch Declares the Group Is Responsible for Widespread Human Rights Violations
- Trading On Tragedy: Congress Pushes Trade Promotion Authority
- As Bush Fights So-Called War On Terrorism Abroad, U.S. Harbors Cuban Terrorists in Miami
Tuesday, October 09, 2001
- Headlines for October 09, 2001
- London’s "Special Relationship" with Washington: A History of U.S.-British Collaboration In War and Covert Actions
- Paramedic Who Was 200 Feet From the World Trade Center When It Collapsed Describes His Experience, Slams Washington’s War On Afghanistan
- U.S. Tells U.N. Security Council That U.S. May Attack Other Countries: A Discussion On The U.N. and NATO
- Pakistan Detains 3 Leading Muslim Clerics As Protests Sweep Pakistan, India and London
- U.S. Missiles Destroy U.N. Landmine Removal Office, Killing 4 U.N. Workers
- Yemeni Man Shot to Death Near Fresno, California
- Local Activists Organize Against Violence in Olympia, Washington
Monday, October 08, 2001
- Headlines for October 08, 2001
- The US and Britain Attack Afghanistan with Bombers and Cruise Missiles to Condemnation In much of the Muslim World
- International Aid Agencies Denounce US Aid Drops As a Pr Move As Bombing Worsens A Humanitarian Catastrophe
- Thousands of People in New York and Students Around the Country Protest US and British Attacks in Spite of a Media Blackout
- Students Around the Country Organize Walkout to Protest War
- The US and Britain Attack Afghanistan with Bombers and Cruise Missiles to Condemnation Inmuch of the Muslim World
- International Aid Agencies Denounce US Aid As a Pr Move, Saying US and British Bombingworsens a Humanitarian Catastrophe
- Thousands of People Around the Country Denounce US and British Attacks
Friday, October 05, 2001
- Headlines for October 05, 2001
- As Washington Mobilizes for War, Abdeen Jaarra and Manning Marable Speak Out for Peace
- As Washington Tries to Build a Coalition to Support An Attack On Afghanistan, It Tries To Censor the Largest Cable Network in the Arab World: A Roundtable On Media Coverage
- Family Members of Undocumented Immigrants Who Were Killed in the World Trade Center Attackare Afraid to Ask for Help, Part Two
Thursday, October 04, 2001
- Headlines for October 04, 2001
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Struggles Against the Taliban and The U.S.-Funded Northern Alliance
- US Ignores Human Rights Abuses in Uzbekistan to Gain Access to Military Facilities
- Tajikistan Becomes Major Transshipment Point for World’s Heroin Even As US Courts It to Use Military Facilities
- As General Accounting Office Warns We Aren’t Prepared for a Bioterror Attack, Centers Fordisease Control in Atlanta Are Placed Under Gag Order
- Congress Nears Dramatic Expansion of Police and Surveillance Powers
- Soa Protestors Acquitted, Say Bush Should Fight Taxpayer Funded Terrorism at Home
- Family Members of Undocumented Immigrants Who Were Killed in the World Trade Center Attackare Afraid to Ask for Help
Wednesday, October 03, 2001
- Headlines for October 03, 2001
- U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan Look for Targets to Bomb–Not Bin Laden
- Arab, Asian Taxi Drivers Beaten and Harassed in New York and Around the World
- A Grieving Activist Who Lost Her Stepmother Walks Door to Door for Peace
- Arab and Muslim Students Have Their Records Pulled By the FBI and Face Widespreaddiscrimination at College
- "Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security"- a Forum
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
- Headlines for October 02, 2001
- NATO Declares There Is Clear Evidence That Bin Laden Is Guilty — a Look at the Fbi Investigation Into the September 11 Attacks
- The Justice Department Jails Hundreds On Minor Immigration Violations and Arrests More Than a Dozen On No Charges at All
- Northern Ireland Struggles to Distance Itself From Terrorism Even As a Belfast Reporter Isgunned Down By Paramilitary Loyalists
- Gandhi’s Bithday, Part I: On Gandhi’s Birthday, India- Administered Kashmir Reels From The Car Bomb That Killed More Than 30 People
- Gandhi’s Birthday, Part II: A Choice Between "Civilization and the Terrorists"? The United Nations Adopts Tough Anti-Terrorism Resolution
- Sounds of Anti War Protest in Washington, DC
Monday, October 01, 2001
- Headlines for October 01, 2001
- Thousands Take to the Streets in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. to Call for Peace And Justice
- Peace Activists and Anti Capitalist Demonstrators Are Penned in By Police in the Streets Ofwashington, DC
- "Merchants of Death": Weapons Industry Sees Rising Profits
- "Don’t Turn This Tragedy Into a War": A Washington, D.C. Teach-in
Job Openings
Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
