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U. S. Encourages Looting In Iraq?

Article from Sweden’s lagest circulation daily, Dagens Nyheter, Saturday April 11, 2003 http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/ “US FORCES ENCOURAGE LOOTING” By Ole Rothenborg Malmoe. Khaled Bayomi looks a bit surprised when he looks at the American officer on TV regret that they dont have any resources to stop the looting in Baghdad. – I happened to be there […]

Australia And The U S

From a netfriend: 17/4/3 Mr Howard may have thought he had no choice but to go to war, but surely the same request would have gone to New Zealand, Canada and other English-speaking nations, yet only 1 responded, the one that had already indicated that it was prepared to play by the rules of the […]

Human Rights Monitoring In Sudan By Un Rapporteur Is Ended

ended CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE For immediate release April 17 2003 OUTCRY AS HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING IN SUDAN BY UN RAPPORTEUR IS ENDED The world’s premier human rights body has ended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Sudan by a vote of 26 to 24, thereby freeing a country with one of […]

The War In Iraq

‘What kind of community have we become?’ In his April 2003 Newsletter, New South Wales Synod General Secretary, the Rev. Dr Chris Budden, asks the church, “Will we name this war [against Iraq] not simply as wrong but evil?” Dr Budden said, “I have begun this column on the train. It is Wednesday, March 20, […]

Bush Puts God On His Side

BBC NEWS, Last Updated: Sunday, 6 April, 2003, 00:30 GMT 01:30 UK By Tom Carver BBC Washington correspondent Before September 11, President George W Bush kept his evangelical Christian beliefs largely to himself. He had turned to God at the age of 40 as a way of kicking alcoholism, and his faith had kept him […]

A Sermon To President George W. Bush

Brian McLaren is a highly respected American pastor and theologian. He is senior pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, MD.A couple of weeks ago he was on a plane and had had enough of the films to pass the time, when he thought he felt God saying to him “Write a sermon for […]

Ethics Of War

Religion and Ethics Newsletter Following is a brief outline of the stories Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will be covering this week. Stories are updated on the Web site every Friday evening. Visit us on the Web at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics for the full Web companion piece, including the Religious Calendar, weekly polls, our Site of the Month, […]

‘We Go To Liberate’ – A Battlefield Speech

31mar03 Sadly, we don’t go for big speeches. But the British do, and I’ve read few more stirring than this, by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Collins to his 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish, on the eve of battle in Iraq. I never share this page with anyone, but it would be a sin if I didn’t […]

Alternative America

Alternative America: The World Wide Web versus ‘Dubya’ Some commentators have argued that Howard has had to go along with Bush on Iraq in order to ‘honour’ the American alliance. A question that might be asked is which alliance and which America, writes Macquarie University’s Associate Professor Joan Kirkby. Although his electoral mandate is extremely […]

Anti-War Is Not Enough

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-069 (General Information) ANTI-WAR IS NOT ENOUGH by Terry Mattingly It’s no surprise that Johann Christoph Arnold opposes the war in Iraq. The senior elder of the Bruderhof communes in America and England opposed U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, the Holy Week bombings of Serbia, the first Gulf War, the Vietnam War and […]