From the editor's desk

4 Global Apartheid in the Twenty-first Century
by Manning Marable
To understand the war against terrorism, we must understand global apartheid: the ideologies of Reaganism"free markets, unregulated corporations, nuclear and conventional weapons build-up, suppression of civil liberties, campaigns against terrorism and communism"have been central to the current Bush administration's pursuit of a war against Iraq

8 Silence is Betrayal
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle"when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream

8 National Health and Welfare"Losing Ground
by Mary Anderson Cooper
When the most affluent 5% flourishes while everyone else in the nation loses ground, it is clear that national priorities are not in order

11 "Collateral Damage": Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq
by John Loretz
Lost in the white noise about regime change, terrorism, and "moral clarity" was any attention to the predictable effects of war on the Iraqi people, who were the primary casualties of the 1991 Gulf War and are certain to suffer on a large scale in a new war

12 Busting Sanctions"Nutrition in Iraq
by Ramsi Kysia
Economic sanctions are intended to damage economies and increase poverty. Increased poverty means increased malnutrition.

13 The Spoils of War
by Helen Caldicott
It's important that we recall the medical consequences of the last Persian Gulf war. It was, in effect, a nuclear war

14 How War Left the Law Behind
by Michael J. Glennon
Given the contradiction between the mandate of the UN Charter and the US view on Iraq and Kosovo, what has happened to the law?

15 Canadian Citizen Weapons Inspectors Gear Up for Local Visits to Arms Manufacturers
from Homes not Bombs
If the people of Canada knew the nature of these military "products" coming off Canadian assembly lines, they would demand that this stop

17 Reports from Fort Benning, GA
by Lindsey Gaydos, Hannah Zwirner, and Clara Hendricks
If ever there were a terrorist training school, our own SOA would be it....I heard each name as a face and a life, with a mother and father, and dreams

19 Conscientious Objectors in Prison World-wide
from War Resisters' International
People don't know the name of the concept, but draft evasion, desertion, and refusal are on the rise

21 A Letter of Response to the General
by Yigal Bronner
If "military needs" lead us to lay siege to, hunt down, and starve a whole people, then these "needs" are terribly wrong

22 Living with the Holocaust:The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
by Sara Roy
In the post-Holocaust world, Jewish memory has faltered in one critical respect: it has excluded the reality of Palestinian suffering and Jewish culpability therein

26 Central and South Asian Dimensions of Global War
by Zia Mian
We are laying the basis in Pakistan for an armed Islamic underground revolutionary movement, because the policies that Musharraf will follow will be tied much more closely to what Washington wants than what the people of Pakistan want

28 Afghanistan's Natural Heritage: Problems and Perspectives
by Daud Saba
For sustainability to work we have to do more than love our country in words. We have to love our physical land"the placenta of soil that nourishes us and upon which we depend. Our land does not need us, but we do need it

30 PIECES Events, Resources, Opportunities, Campaigns, Gatherings

32 Feminists in the Front: Protest Performance by Radical Cheerleaders
by Valerie Bassett
They looked and sounded suspiciously like cheerleaders: air-slicing kicks, tight, percussive chants, and hip-grinding grooves. Yet these were not the cheers I remember from high school

SHORT TAKES
TANF Update, p. 10
What Do We Mean by a Fast, p. 10
Immigrants and Marriage, p. 10
From Poverty to Punishment, p. 10
Iraq Resources on the World Wide Web, p 16
Letters: Bill Thompson, Pamela Dow, Michael Nagler, p. 16
Information for Conscientious Objectors, p. 18
Pastor Niemöller, Updated, p. 18
Christmas in the Trenches, p. 20
Quaker Humanitarian Service in Postwar Germany, p. 20

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