Last week, we published what I believe to be the best issue in ETS!'s history--a special double issue, on the occasion of our fifth anniversary, with five pages of historical material and 11 pages of our usual fine news and commentary. (We've known for a long time that we have enough material to print 11 pages, or more, every issue, but we haven't had the money.)

The day that issue came out, it was rendered largely moot by the horrific events in New York. For that reason--and because, as a consequence, the country, at this writing (on Sunday), is hurtling toward war--we are publishing this emergency four-page issue with commentary to try to put into perspective the enormous events now happening. Normal features like Nature & Politics, Focus on the Corporation, and other columns will return next week. Since Reclaim Our History and Activist Calendar covered a full two-week period last week, they are not repeated here; the calendar listings cover only events related to peace efforts.

Our plan is to go back to our eight-page, bi-weekly schedule, beginning with our regularly scheduled issue next week (Sept. 26). However, especially if war should begin, we'd like very much to return to weekly publication while it's underway.

While the advent of the Internet has made finding alternative opinions on enormous, breaking stories far easier than it was during, say, the Gulf War, it's only seen by people looking for it. The advantage of a free print publication is that it reaches folks who aren't already concerned about our government's response--and reaching the general public is the peace movement's only chance to create a political movement that can keep our government from making terrible mistakes.

At present, we don't have the money to do that. Two additional eight-page issues a month would cost us about $1,200 a month, for as long as it took. Two extra four-page issues (like this one) would run about $800. If you'd like to see this happen, please send your donations today to Eat the State!, P.O. Box 85541, Seattle WA 98145. If we don't have enough extra money to print weekly, we'll instead spend all donations received to print and distributing extra copies of our bi-weekly editions.

Thank you for your support and help during this tragic and critically important time. --The Editors

[Much additional great material, from Geov Parrish and many others, can be found at www.workingforchange.com and www.alternet.org]