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Anti-war activist Howard Zinn, author of "Peoples History of the United States," believes that a well-defined social movement which has agreement on demands can be an unstoppable force. John Giuffo discusses Zinn's peace activism.

Father Emil Salayta spoke at a church in Ellicott City, on Dec. 22. He is a Catholic priest, of Bedouin stock, associated with the Patriarch of Jerusalem. He said the "Mother Church in the Holy Land is dying." He blamed the "brutal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces" for the problem.

Molly Ivins comments on George W. Bush's recent appointments to head top economic policy positions at the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Resistance was organizing and growing and the Tea Act was the final straw. The citizens of the colonies were preparing to throw off one of the corporations that for almost two hundred years had determined nearly every aspect of their lives through its economic and political power. They were planning to destroy the goods of the world’s largest multinational corporation, intimidate its employees, and face down the guns of the government that supported it."

The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council.

Al Giordano of Narco News Bulletin reports from Venezuela on the situation there. Nessie of San Francisco Indymedia interviews the former political reporter of The Boston Phoenix.

"Socially and psychologically repressed, people are drawn to spectacles of violent conflict that allow their accumulated frustrations to explode in socially condoned orgasms of collective pride and hate. Deprived of significant accomplishments in their own work and leisure, they participate vicariously in military enterprises that have real and undeniable effects."

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