The United States and United Kingdom move on to war against Iraq, which has oil, but avoid war against Korea, which does not have oil. Robert Fisk comments on the double standard.

The hidden history of the nuclear issue and U.S-North Korean relations. How the Bush Administration deliberately created a crisis in international relations

Dennis Halliday was the chief UN relief co-ordinator for Iraq who resigned due to the failings of the sanctions regime. Nyier Abdou discussed with Halliday the sanctions, the United Nations, and the role of the United States.

Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970: "Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised--Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."

A growing number of American Jews representing such organizations as Not in My Name, Jews against the Occupation, Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel and A Jewish Voice for Peace, have come to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of occupation. They contend that peace and occupation don't exactly mix. Leah Harris of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel comments.

The Baltimore Sun reports (without a severely negative slant!) on the growth and plans of the Baltimore peace movement, mentioning the AFSC, Ellen Barfield and Voices in the Wilderness, and Citizens for Peace.

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 30, 2002, that Army reservists, who have refused to serve in the Occupied Territories, for "reason of conscience," cannot be exempted from military duty. This decision makes a mockery of justice. It ignored the main issue-that Israel's occupation is illegal, violates international law, and that the reservists, under the Nuremberg precedents, have a right to refuse to serve there.

The Reagan administration and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons "almost daily" against Iran.