From: John McAuliff <jmcauliff@ffrd.org>
Subject: multi media
 

I have to thank Donna Anderton for alerting me to this lighter look at the impending catastrophe.

Click here: http://www.markfiore.com/animation/corrections.swf

Nightine tonight is about the oil issue:

TONIGHT'S SUBJECT: (with apologies to the Beverly Hillbillies) It's all
about oil… black gold… Texas tea.  As we talk about war with Iraq, the
question of oil looms over it all. What will war do to prices? And perhaps
most important, who will control the Iraqi oil fields after a war?

and Bill Moyers tackles the issue on PBS:

NOW with Bill Moyers Examines Viewpoints on War In the next two episodes the PBS public affairs program NOW with Bill Moyers, airing Fridays at 9 p.m., in most cities, (check local listings at www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) examines the varying viewpoints on the possible war with Iraq. On Friday October 4, Bill Moyers will interview Republican U.S. Representative from Texas Ron Paul, who will discuss his opposition to the war in Iraq. A member of the House Committee on International Relations, Paul is one of only few dissenting voices in Congress on the U.S. going to war with Iraq.

        On Friday October 11, the program examines public arguments being made against going to war by a number of community-based groups including the National Council of Churches, Veterans for Peace, Voices in the Wilderness, and Black Voices for Peace. In a thoughtful and measured documentary segment, NOW illuminates the issues on the minds of these groups' leaders: the impact of the war on the black community, the possibility of continuing sanctions, the human tragedy at stake, and the high financial cost of war with so many ongoing domestic problems.

        Share your views on the issues by joining the post-broadcast discussion online at www.pbs.org/now. To find out more about upcoming NOW programs, subscribe to NOW's e-newsletter at www.pbs.org/now/newsletter.html.


Finally, a teaser from the mainstream media regarding the path we are being led down, similar to the April New Yorker article:

 Atlanta Journal-Constitution  9/29/02

 The president's real goal in Iraq

 By JAY BOOKMAN (Deputy Editor of the Editorial Page)

 The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the
 Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always
 seemed contrived and artificial.

In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence.  The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something
was missing.

In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into
place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about
weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions.

 This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of
the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole
responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the
culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those
who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global
domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our
enemies always claimed we were. Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves.

The entire article can be found at http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html