Attacking Iran with nuclear weapons, no matter how small, is evil.. Once the American public becomes fully aware that military action involves nuclear weapons, public support will quickly disappear. A great catastrophe will have been averted.

AltPress E-Newsletter No 14 Feb 2006
By Alternative Press Center

The Alternative Press Center's "Picks of the Month!" Links to articles on African-American & Hurricane Katrina, Zapatistas & Mexican politics (SP), the Middle East after Ariel Sharon, California's execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the corporate press as one of Wal-Mart's biggest cheerleaders, Bolivia & revolution in the Andes….

Thoughts upon the queen's birthday

Attacking Iran and courting disaster will provide the Straussian neocons with the perfect excuse to turn America into a dictatorship under the exigencies of nuclear war.

today's entry is part of a series of the writer's discoveries in his mother's homeland of panama

Is the Danish cartoons controversy an issue of Islam versus Secularism? A commentary by 'The Independent's Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk.

Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is a philosopher and leading spokesman for Muslims in Europe. Famously, the U.S. has denied him a visa to come to American to teach at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book is "Western Muslims and the Future of Islam" (Oxford University Press, 2003). He spoke with Nathan Gardels from Switzerland. Ramadan argues that the Danish cartoon controversy is not a matter of free speech, but civic responsibility.

The final bill will be much higher than previously reckoned - between $1 trillion and $2 trillion.