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The best allies money can buy From the Chicago Tribune “U.S. woos war allies with cash, weaponsIraq’s neighbors swap staging sites for billions in aid The coalition of the willing, said security analyst Loren Thompson, “is really a coalition of…

Vaclav Havel steps down as Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela are my political heros. Both led that rarest of all political events; a non-violent revolution – Mandela in South Africa, Havel in Czechoslovakia. These were the people who…

Space shuttle The L.A. Times reports the space shuttles are so old that replacement parts are difficult to find, that engineers sometimes use eBay to find them, and that the computer processors used is the Intel 8086. The 8086 is the processor used…

Feb 15. Worldwide peace rallies So far the Feb 15 peace rallies will be in dozens of cities worldwide. The biggest rally in the US will unquestionably be in NYC, and was called by United For Peace. Hey, NYC hasn’t had…

Feb 4. No War for Oil day On Feb 4 “hundreds of gas stations across the country and around the world will be targeted as we send a clear message that access to oil is not worth war.” “Leafleting, vigils,…