ROCKERS STRENGTHEN TIES TO SCHOOL WITH BENEFIT SHOW
by Gene Stout, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/216782_pearlqww.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=2
Pearl Jam didn't just rock the house Friday night. It rocked the school. And all for a good cause.

ANGER AND GRIEF MARK SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF IRAQ WAR
Haider Rizvi, The Inter Press Service

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0320-05.htm
We need policies at home to help the poor, not war," said Ted Desoyza, a 76-year-old woman holding a coffin draped in a U.S. flag. "This war is for the big companies and their profits. They have no right to rule our country." "We mourn the death of all," added anther woman who stood next to Desoyza, while holding a coffin draped in black, a symbolic act to mourn the deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians at the hands of U.S. military. [The above photo was taken in central London (England).]

U.S. RALLIES MARK IRAQ ANNIVERSARY, REFLECT ANTI-WAR GROUPS GROWTH, CHALLENGES
Abid Aslam, OneWorld.net
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0321-07.htm

Tens of thousands of protesters ralled in cities and towns across America over the weekend to mark the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and to demand that U.S. troops stationed there be brought home. [The above photo was taken in central Budapest (Hungary).]

WHAT NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND

FOG OF WAR
Dick J. Reavis, AlterNet
Thousands convene in North Carolina to focus the peace movement's gaze on Iraq war veterans, bereaved families, active-duty soldiers and their kin.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21550/

SHILLING FOR STEROIDS
David Borden, DRCNet
If there were any teenagers in America who didn't know that steroids can enhance athleticism, they almost certainly know it now.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/21539/

THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT FAILS LOGIC 101
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
In any freshman course in logic, the White House reasoning would collapse,shot full of holes.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21545/

LESS MONEY FOR WAR
Jack Shanahan, AlterNet
A poll indicates that 65 percent of Americans favor cutting the Pentagon's budget -- and putting that money in domestic programs.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21542/

THE DEMOCRACY LIE
Juan Cole, TomPaine.com
President Bush and his supporters are taking credit for spreading freedom across the Middle East. But where changes are genuinely occurring they have nothing to do with the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21540/

THE CAVERNOUS DIVIDE
Scott Klinger, AlterNet
As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21544/

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through. Marianne Williamson [author of "The Gift of Change"]