Wednesday, February 05, 2003

http://www.truthout.org/
The page above includes link after link after link about the anti-war movement. I don't endorse everything there, but probably most of it.
I'm sitting here at work, and in a few minutes Colin Powell is going to start speaking at the UN, in front of a shrouded "Guernica".
It's great to have an administartion thattraffics in metaphors: they block off Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the country was founded; Ashcroft drapes a blanket of the statue of Justice, citing discomfort with her boobs: no justice isn't only blind, she's had the wool pulled over her eyes. And now, Picasso's Guernica, which hangs in the UN, a monument to the horrors of war has a curtain over that as well. As Maureen Dowd writes in the Times today "Mr. Powell can't very well seduce the world into bombing Iraq surrounded on camera by shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and horses."