Kucinich Running For President?

The Globalisation Of Democracy -- Outlook India

"Never have there been more electoral democracies - 121 today, by Freedom House's latest count, up from 66 in 1987.

"The spread of democracy within countries, itself an explicit goal of U.S. foreign policy, could increasingly limit America's ability to act unilaterally in world affairs."

Picasso's Guernica covered at UN -- ArtDaily.com

The reproduction of the anti-war painting depicting the horrors of war at the UN has been covered because it would not be an appropriate backdrop for Powell urging war say UN diplomats.

I say: tear down the blue curtain! If you are going to declare war do it in front of a painting depicting war. The reproduction was placed there for precisely that purpose - a reminder of what really happens in war.