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...when Okuyama was promoting Japan's multilateralism, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was across town paying his respects at Yasukuni Shrine?a highly controversial memorial to Japan's war dead, including an assortment of convicted war criminals. Although Koizumi later bafflingly claimed that his visit was designed to "reaffirm our antiwar position," most observers declared it a foolishly provocative affront to South Korea and China?the very nations Japan was supposedly reaching out to. By the time the evening news hit the airwaves, the prospect of Japan organizing an international peace coalition was dead...
...Antiwar activists like to accuse the Bush Administration of waging a "war without end," but in the case of Iraq the more appropriate phrase might be "war without a beginning." Thursday's report to the UN Security Council by the officials leading arms inspection efforts in Iraq gave the strongest indication yet that the inspection process won't yield a definitive judgment on whether the country is conducting prohibited weapons programs by the January 27 deadline. The most dovish voices in the Bush war party - Secretary of State Colin Powell and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - are warning that...
Elswit lives near scruffy MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. She fits the profile of the eager young progressive: her tastes run to mountain climbing, experimental art and the Buddhist religious scholar Thich Nhat Nanh. But she's no flake. Elswit is the closest thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar...
Some of the antiwar vets plan to attend rallies in Washington this week, hoping to bring more Gulf War veterans to the cause. But like the rest of the antiwar activists, Sheehan-Miles has plenty of persuading to do. In late September, he set up an antiwar website veteransforcommonsense.org and sent out e-mail messages to all the veterans he knew, encouraging them to sign a statement that calls on the White House to get U.N. Security Council authorization before mounting an invasion. So far, about 300 vets have signed on. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis...
DIED. PHILIP BERRIGAN, 79, former priest whose fight against the Vietnam War and nuclear arms helped inspire a generation of antiwar dissenters; of cancer; in Baltimore, Md. Berrigan led the Catonsville Nine, which staged one of the era's most dramatic protests, dousing a bonfire of draft records with homemade napalm in a Catonsville, Md., parking...