Live from Baghdad — Where is Raed is a Blogger-powered weblog straight from the heart of the matter. MSNBC.com spotlights Raed in its section on Blogspotting.
The power of the blog was given its due on the NBC-tv news tonight as well, as a segment featured Eli Pariser , the force behind moveon.org, who orchestrated so many of the planet wide-war protests from his laptop, and internet culture chronicler Harold Rheingold, who spoke to the power that blogging brings to empowering citizens to organzize efficiently and effectively. In three days, moveon.org managed to organize a level of organized protests that it took three years for protest organizers to do for the Viet Nam war.
Now, that’s “power to the people!”

Welcome to Kevin Sites’s new weblog from Iraq. Sites is a CNN correspondent, but his weblog is his personal journal. Check out his recent photos.
On Monday, he posted his feelings about blogging:
It’s good to be in the blogosphere.
Xeni and John, I hope you two are incredibly proud of yourselves. Look at all of the people responding, because you put this blog out there. This experience has really made me rethink my rather orthodox views of reaching folks via mass media. Blogging is an incredible tool, with amazing potential. The feedback readers are posting motivates me to provide as much as I can for all of these folks hungry for first-hand info. Will probably have another full story today — plus, will try to send some photos from Halabja taken yesterday, horrible Internet connections permitting. You guys are my heroes.
First-hand bloginfo from Iraq. Wow!

This, in response to jfcates’ request:
1. Where do I stand on the eve of this war?
See here and here and here……
2. Has my position caused arguments with friends or family?
Not a one. Just take a look at my son’s weblog here.
3. Is there some other issue making me grind my teeth?
Figuring out how to psyche myself up to move myself and my 87 year old mother to a less expensive housing arrangement.
So, there you are.

We Americans are the Greeks of our day, and as we now go to war, we should appreciate not only the beauty of the tale, but also the warnings within it.
So ends “Cassandra Speaks” by Nicholas Kristof (NY Times).
Some statements from the article:
— Troy offers us three lessons about war.
— Agamemnon was the Donald Rumsfeld of his day, needlessly angering his key allies.
–Troy’s fundamental failing was not a military one.
–So, by Zeus, that third lesson from Troy is the paramount need to listen to skeptical voices.
But Bush listens to his own personal god, not to the millions of Cassandras who circle the planet in candlelight.

I took these photos at a candlelight peace vigil in which I participated tonight. It took place at the busiest intersection in the Albany area, less than 3 miles from where I live, and it was too close for me to be comfortable if I didn

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This is Blogsister Anita Roddick — socially responsible corporate entrepreneur/founder of The Body Shop, author of several books on those subjects; internationally known advocate for human rights, fair trade, the environment, peace, and any number of issues that specifically affect women; and current Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Russell Sage College in Troy — and me in my Blogsisters T-shirt.
I scooted over to the college to have a chance to meet her in person, since I do buy her products and have great respect for the business models she maintains and inspires.
Her current project is organzing a March 10 Virtual Anti-war March in London.
What a woman. If she were an American citizen, we should draft her to run for American President.