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October 2007
by Frances Hogan, M.D.
On Sept. 12, I was fortunate to be a part of a Green Party delegation to Senator Patty Murray’s office. We met with Ardis Dumont, Senator Murray’s Director of Special Projects, to talk about the impending US military action against Iran.
We were from Iran, Pakistan, India, as well as the Puget Sound area, and counted Muslims, Jews, and Christians among us. Individuals represented various groups: American Muslims of Puget Sound (AMPS), Ground Zero, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), One Earth, StandUp! Seattle, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Raging . . .
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June 2006
by Marco Rosaire Rossi
Despite the lofty rhetoric, the United States did not fight the Cold War against the tyranny of Communism. The former Soviet Union was a side issue for the United States. The primary targets and victims of the Cold War, both domestically and abroad, were democratic forces that could demonstrate that more inclusive social systems -- particularly economic and political - are possible. It was often the case, as in Central and South America, that United States sought to drive left-leaning political systems into the arms of the Soviets as a pretext for military invasion. For . . .
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April 2006
by Doug Nielson
On Saturday March 18th Maria Cantwell and Barack Obama made a campaign appearance at Garfield High School in Seattle. Stand Up! Seattle made an appearance also displaying a banner that read, "MARIA CANT. SAY NO TO WAR" and "DON'T BARACK O BOMB IRAN." Our primary purpose was to expose Senator Cantwell for the unrepentent war criminal that she is.
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April 2006
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Banner unfurled as Maria Cantwell begins a speech at Garfield High School in Seattle. (Photo by Alexander King)
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July 2005
by Norman Solomon
Keep them behind the war curve.
While some Americans are exposing the deception for the latest war, steadily lay the groundwork for the next one.
Focus plenty of news reports on alienated youth in Iran, spotlighting despair that borders on nihilism. Meanwhile, give scant media attention to the growth of civil society, with many thousands of Iranian young people and their elders striving to create a diffuse yet coherent social movement for democracy and human rights.
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May 2005
by Alice Zillah
At the Support the Truth event on February 18, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told an Olympia audience that the Bush administration had reviewed plans in October 2004 to attack Iran in June of 2005. "The Pentagon was told to be prepared to launch a massive aerial attack against Iran, Iraq's neighbor to the east, in order to destroy the Iranian nuclear program."
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