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"There's no room to die," complained a woman, surveying the crowd of several hundred antiwar protesters that by 8 a.m. Wednesday were crammed inside the metal barricades strung up by police along the perimeter of Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue. Instead of being able to flood into the plaza and stage a mass die-in to dramatize the death of innocent Iraqis, they were once again being penned in by the NYPD. "Break it up, keep moving," a cop ordered, shoving back the protesters who spilled into 49th Street. "No war, no profits, no business as usual!" chanted the demonstrators, circling...

A rather jaunty sign advertising the grimmest of tasks was pinned up on a small notice board labelled ``Human Shields'' in the airy lobby of the Andalus Hotel Apartments in Baghdad Thursday morning. It sought three additional volunteers to join the 13 already committed to living at the Baghdad South Power Plant to try to prevent it's being bombed in the event of war. ``There is no more important place for a shield to be,'' the notice read. Volunteers from half a dozen nations expect to move into a large, collective dorm room tomorrow at the power plant, a site...

Demonstrations over the weekend show the left's dedication to preserving murderous, dictatorial regimes--no matter what the cost. THERE WAS A TIME--the 1960s, 1970s--when the political left in America favored wars of national liberation in countries ruled by dictators, some of them fascist dictators. True, the left would have installed communist dictatorships in their place. But at least leftists targeted enemies who were corrupt, brutal abusers of human rights. Now the left has flipped. The effect of its crusade against war in Iraq would be the survival--indeed, the strengthening--of Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime. The left has brushed aside the pleas of...

Last night while working and driving through Baltimore City in the Lower Park Heights Area I came across several telephone, street, and red light poles with bright yellow notices on them. Wondering what they were I pulled over, got out of the company car, and walked over to read one. The first goes stop Bush's Racist War...Money for Jobs Health Care and Education. Rally March 1st in Washington DC catch the bus and community meeting on Feb. 22nd. The second read it is about economics, wealth, and money for the poor now. Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield the real axis of evil. Now for...

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) The First Amendment rights of anti-war demonstrators have not been violated by the city's decision to block them from marching past the United Nations on Saturday, a federal judge ruled Monday. Citing "this time of heightened security," U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones said the city's need to protect the public outweighs the right of demonstrators to proceed with plans to march past the UN. "While the court recognizes the distinct importance of marching, the city's restriction on marching is not a restriction on pure speech, but rather a restriction on the manner in which plaintiff...