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Political demonstrations are the classic example, but the action doesn't have to be political or ever take to the streets. More than 400,000 antiwar protesters last Wednesday jammed switchboards in the White House and Congress with a flood of phone calls, faxes and e-mails in what was billed as the first nationwide virtual demonstration. On the same day in Rio de Janeiro, according to Brazilian authorities, a jailed Brazilian druglord known as Fernandinho Beira-Mar coordinated a round of riots, bombs and bus burnings from his prison cell using a smuggled cell phone...
...that doesn't include members of sleeper cells that may be lying in wait across the region. What's more, a U.S.-led war in Iraq could be a powerful rallying issue for terrorists at large. Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, expects a "flood of new recruits" into radical groups if war breaks out. "That means," he warns, "that intelligence agencies have no way of knowing where they're going to come from." In other words, we may soon be facing more Balis and more Davaos...
Much of the flood of anti-war poetry has been in direct response to the Laura Bushism, “There is nothing political about American literature.” With anti-Americanism spreading and war stewing, the librarian-turned-First Lady has turned to poetry readings and literature symposia to revive “the crux of what America is.” Understood in these terms, poetry can feed the American soul, so long as it does not question...
...Sanders didn’t lend Pacelli’s title enough prestige, the young Colonel can also count among his honorary peers Colonel Fred Astaire and Colonel John Paul II. Both are celebrated figures in colonel lore—Astaire for helping relieve the effects of the Flood of 1937 with a fund-raising show, and the Pope for “mentioning the Colonels to the Heavenly Father.” The colonels’ website, www.kycolonels.org, is also a one-stop shop for colonel merchandise, from official golf towels and “Taste of Kentucky?...
...problem will take almost as much arm twisting and sweet talking as convincing the Europeans to climb on board for Baghdad. South Korea continues a unilateral policy of engagement with North Korea that amounts to appeasement. China's goal is to prop up North Korea rather than risk a flood of refugees. Japan wavers between resolve and cowardice...