March 18 2003

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On the streets of San Francisco:

• Photo Gallery

• Anti-war resource guide Are you unhappy that the United States has invaded Iraq and is generally behaving like an imperialist power? Here are some things you can do about it.

• On the bus
Journalists, lawyers, four-year-olds – the cops were ready to bust anyone Thursday morning
By Steven T. Jones

• On Fire
Bringing the war back home to Baghdad by the Bay
By John Ross

• Life During Wartime: Weekly column by Bay Guardian reporter A.C. Thompson

From Iraq and around the world:

• 'Collateral damage'?
Two missiles from a single American jet kill more than 20 Iraqi civilians before they could be 'liberated' by the nation which destroyed their lives.
By Robert Fisk

• Rally for America ? Most of the pro-war rallies have been organized and sponsored by Clear Channel Entertainment - supporting the administration can only help reduce government threats against CCE expansion. CCE already owns 1,200 U.S. radio stations (about 1 in 10), 19 TV stations, and an expansive concert promotion business. It also controls more than 770,000 outdoor advertising displays. Click for more.

• www.electroniciraq.net is a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness and respected Middle East supplementary news publishers, the Electronic Intifada. The Iraq Diaries section offers eyewitness reports from Iraq, and Electronic Iraq's intention is to publish diary accounts from on the ground during any hostilities. Content from this website can be easily syndicated onto other friendly sites by webmasters.

• Common Dreams has a compilation of progressive news and views on the war.

• Vote to impeach President George W. Bush at http://www.votetoimpeach.org.

• Will the war begin with a lie? Iraq will be invaded or occupied regardless of ultimatum. A media advisory from FAIR.org

• Four historians appeared on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer after Bush declared war on Iraq, but it was Howard Zinn – author of A People's History of the United States – who stole the show.

World reaction: selected links to newspapers around the world as they cover Bush's war declaration

• Making Saddam a martyr Said Aburish, author of a book on Saddam Hussein, talks about how the west has given the Iraqi dictator the role he always longed for

• Only Iraqis can decide Author Neal Ascherson talks about the problems that will emerge after the war andhow the U.S. has no plans whatsoever on how to create a transition to democracy in Iraq

• My family is getting bombed Aida Kaisy, an advertising executive living in london, writes about her family in Baghdad and the horrors her relatives face

• This is not war as we knew it Guardian U.K. columnist Peter Preston explains why public opinion has not rallied to Bush's dehumanized war

• Nicholas Buchele, Arab News, on the "new totalitarian regime"

• Pentagon orders 77,000 bodybags

• The U.K. Guardian

• Le Monde (translated into English through Google)

• The Independent, U.K. main page (Click here for editorials, here for comment)

• Cairo Times, English edition