Updating techniques used in the N30 protests in Seattle, activists are using newer tools like Twitter and microbroadasting to coordinate protester movements in anti-war actions.

Oh my, here's a 1982 music video starring Joseph Beuys. He's singing a song protesting US President Ronald Reagan's defense policy, and it's as unkrautrocklich as imaginable.

The developers of a distributed computing software system want to amend the GNU General Public License to ensure that participants aren't volunteering their machines for military research. The Free Software Foundation is blocking their efforts.

I'm not sure I buy this 100%, but this piece describes the "Stabbed in the Back" rhetorical strategy used by conservatives. They argue that internal disagreement is at fault for disastrous wars like Vietnam and Iraq.

Military academy lawyers send group a nastygram citing trademark infringement. Your tax dollars at work..

Via Chutry, a Union of Concerned Scientists Flash animation that explains why using a tactical nuclear weapons is a bad idea.

We're talking about war coverage in my TV class this week, and I might pass along this classic cartoon satrizing Laura Bush's literacy intiatives.

Pew public opinion poll says "the single word most frequently associated with George W. Bush today is 'incompetent,' and close behind are two other increasingly mentioned descriptors: 'idiot' and 'liar'."

Austin Indymedia reports on a talk given by an FBI officer at UT Law School. I'm not sure how giving food to hungry people is a terrorist act.

Lieutenant General William E. Odom examines the similarities between the American war in Vietnam and our war in Iraq.

For some reason, the Natalie Portman video from SNL last night reminded me of this Norwegian hip-hop clip. Norwegian doesn't strike me as a language particularly suited to hip-hop, but this is better than the Portman clip.

profile of David Rees, creator of "Get Your War On"

Historians against the War conference coming to UT

nice close reading of King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech, applying it to the current Iraq war