“When they’re fighting really desperately, [it means
that] there are top people.”

Peter Baker’s terrifying report from
the latest front.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/articles/A38514-2002Mar4.html

 

“America is more than what Bush and Rumsfeld and the
others say it is.”

Edward Said on the true state of the nation.

https://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/575/op2.htm

 

“Peak oil is a turning point for
Mankind.”

Texans repent: The end is near.

https://www.mbendi.co.za/indy/oilg/p0070.htm

 

“It’s very ironic that President Bush should
be seen as weakening [the Clean Air Act], an environmental law tightened by
his father.”

The EPA’s head of regulatory enforcement
quits in protest.

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0228-05.htm

 

“People living in heavily polluted metropolitan
areas are 16 percent more at risk of dying of lung cancer than peoplein less
polluted areas.”

New study proves air pollution causes
cancer. Really.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/articles/A42730-2002Mar5.html

 

“Have you heard the song? It
really sucks.”

The country’s at war, and Ashcroft
sings.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,661458,00.html

 

“Batman was unavailable to the panicked
citizens of N.Y. on 9/11 . . . because he is private property.”

Can we have our superheroes back
now?

https://shift.com/mag/10.1/html/10.1feature001a.asp

 

“A possible reason for the tremor was the Americans’
large-scale use of powerful bombs.”

War and Afghanistan’s earthquake.

https://library.northernlight.com/FD20020305220000020.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

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