Expelling the Demons of the Opiate
Manuel Valenzuela,

Must read analysis, criticism and commentary on human religions. Very thought provoking stuff! As is part one and two of this series. Do yourself a favor and read these important essays.
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BuchCo: Real 911 Criminals
Ravenaeus,

Less "circumstancial" evidence has been used in court to convict "supposed" terrorists, much less with regard to associations, organizational connections, and actual pre-event statements of intent....
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Lies, Libel, "Little Eichmanns"...and,
Ravenaeus,

Though proven to be libel, slander, propaganda, rhetoric, disinformation, and deception, the US conglomerate media is unquestioningly followed by the Bush-Messiah fellowship. Blindly and blatantly following news organizations that continue to report in exact contrast to the rest of the world and against the facts of the situations that really exist....
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Two sisters: Giuliana and Mithal
Giulio Stocchi,

The text you are about to read is a combination of words that were all written by Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist kidnapped in Irak (for more news about Giuliana you can see:  http://www.rsf.fr/sgrena-en.php3).
Some of them were part of her appeal contained in the video released by her captors (capitalized verses) and the others are from an article she wrote on July 1, 2004 about Mithal, an Iraqi woman detained in Abu Grahib.
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Reservist says, 'I won't fight for profit'
Carl Webb,

by Dustin Langley

Carl Webb is very clear about what he is doing: "I'm refusing to go to war because I do not believe the U.S. is on the right track. I think this war is not about liberating people, it's about oppressing them. It's a war that's being fought for profit."
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Awaiting the Prisoner of Zion ...
Mary La Rosa,

....: Israel has created a purgatory in which a free man is held prisoner because of nineteen year old memories in a fifty year old brain. What sensible motivation deprives a free man of his right to leave and make a new life?
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Grandpa Jeanmarie : Hassan and Ismaël (mainte
jeanmarry,

My children, I have a dream to come to plant an olive-tree of peace on the border of your two countries

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Where Flags Do Not Rise
Manuel Valenzuela,

thought provoking essay on nationalism, patriotism, and on theories behind the nation state and its effect on humanity
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ICAHD Launches Bottom-up E-mail Campaign
ICAHD,

A new campaign from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions to apply more international pressure to the Israeli government.
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Challenging White Supremacy
The ORGANIC Collective,

Attached is an updated flyer...

Please RSVP by emailing info at ORGANICcollective d0t org or calling if you intend on coming to this workshop.
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2004's Top War Profiteers
populist,

A list of the top corporate war profiteers from 2004.
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Albert Einstein Letter Condemns Israeli Nazis
Albert Einstein's ,

Albert Einstein's letter to the New York Times.


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Video: Shows the Real Face of the U.S. Occupa
ICH,

How the U.S. military occupation looks from the other end of the gun barrel.



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Linking the American Left to Terror
Lloyd Hart,

Linking the American Left to Terror-The Stewart Conviction

Lloyd Hart

The true meaning of the radical persecution of civil-rights attorney Lynne Stewart is simply to link the American left wing with terrorism. It has been part of the Bush regimes' strategy from the very beginning. "If you're not with us your against us." Any criticism of the Bush regime is off-limits. Any defense of civil rights the Bush regime opposes is off limits.

Attorney General John Ashcroft himself warned the senators in direct testimony who were questioning his administration of the Patriot act and the very rules that were used to destroy attorney client privilege that led to the targeted persecution of Lynne Stewart that they're very criticism was giving aid and comfort to America's enemies, the terrorists.

By linking America's left-wing directly through Lynne Stewart's conviction to terrorism in the minds of all of those that voted for Bush and those that didn't the Bush regime is hardening the political landscape to an extreme not seen since the targeted persecution of the enlightened left in the 1950s. Giving those that support the Bush regime the very justification to view America's political left as villains on par with the terrorists and therefore except the persecution of the American left as terrorists.

These practices have been used over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again throughout history against the enlightened people of the world by a small minority of the extraordinarily violent individuals who use their violence and accumulated power to suppress open and enlightened societies. This is what is going on here.

Lynne Stewart did absolutely nothing wrong other than exercise her rights to free speech and client Attorney privilege. Her persecution is simply political and a travesty of justice. The Bush regime wants us all to shake in our boots. To shut our mouths. To stop marching. To stop educating the American public to the truth of the illegitimacy of the Bush regime as the election rigging, violent out-of-control torturing war criminals they really are.

The question that comes to mind now is, are you shaking in your boots? Will you lend power to the Bush regime to persecute the American left? How many people on the left will simplistically interpret the government's case against Lynne Stewart which required the government to take away Lynne Stewart's freedom of speech and attorney-client privilege in order to secure a conviction as the moronic statements I have already begun to see since the conviction across the web that "she crossed the line and therefore deserves her conviction."

This is exactly the kind of simplistic interpretation the Bush regime is counting on from the weaker elements on the left. They're counting on the weaklings to fold their tents and turn against Lynne Stewart and therefore turn against civil rights, free-speech and therefore attorney-client privilege.

If the Government can listen in on attorney client conversations the government can discover the very strategy of defense including the evidence and testimony the clients and attorneys intend to use therefore removing jurisprudence from the American system of justice.

If an attorney cannot tell the American public and for that matter the world what the opinion of their client happens to be on a matter without fear of prosecution then free speech in America is truly dead.

And in fact it should be the government itself that should be held to blame for Sheik's prolonged stay in America. Why did American officials all of sudden stop the process of deporting the Sheik prior to the first World Trade Center bombing? Why did the FBI official not to agree to pay the informant inside of the Sheik's organization who was proven right about the first World Trade Center bombing. What was it the FBI did not want anyone to find out about the Sheik prior to the first World Trade Center bombing.

The Lynne Stewart conviction should be overturned on all counts and the government should be forced to renumerate the terrible cost that it has exacted upon Lynne Stewart with the added punitive damages that the Bush regime is attempting to do away with along with the jurisprudence in the American system of justice that the American public has come to depend upon.

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Empire and Social Insecurity:
duko,

It was hard to sit still and watch his smug bully’s face
during the February 2 State of the Union speech. It was infuriating
to watch the standing ovations of the surrounding Congress, or hear
the fawning patter of the news media.

In official traditions, the President tells Congress each year how
the "Union" (meaning the United States) is doing. In
reality, the State of the Union speech is a "bully pulpit"
where presidents build public support for their next actions.

George W. Bush didn’t dare breathe a word of truth about the
real "State of the Union." Bush couldn’t
mention how most of the planet thinks he is a bloody cowboy who wants
to rule like a new Roman emperor. He didn’t mention how the
invasion of Iraq has turned into a brutal counterinsurgency. He
didn’t discuss how bitterly the U.S. "homeland" is
divided between "two Americas"—half of which hates
the sight of him.



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Art of War : War
Larmee,

War
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Killers without Borders
Mohammed,

The world waits for america to get her due, for the murders of many many thousands of innocent people, your day is fast approaching.
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Cutting Off the Supply LIne
J S Winn,

For those who are tired of the Bull and can't Bear it any longer, this article offers insight into the corporate machinations behind the war in Iraq and suggests a way to fight back. There is only one place where corporations feel the consequences of their actions, and that is in their bottom line---money. Cutting Off the Supply Line suggests a rational for the Iraqi incursion and a way to let corporations know We Won't Take it Anymore!
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City Manager Responds to J20 Arrests
san diego indymedia,

...with outright lies...
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Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Deceptions
Ravenaeus,

For nearly as long as the Unlawful Occupation of Palestine the US media has delivered a very skewed view of the conflict. The omission of fact, the one-sided reports, and the lack of any real insight within their reports have blatantly increased since the creation of an estimated 50 Public Relations organizations directly tied to the Nation of Israel.
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When the authorities deny terrorism
Danny P.,

Downplaying the radical Islamic ritual murder of Christian Egyptian family in Jersey City, N.J. is part of a much wider problem — one that's been ongoing for years
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Ex-GI gets out of US 2 grow food
culture change,

Featured article at Culture change, website with info about peak oil and the upcoming collapse of the petroleum economy. This Ex-GI is living the simple life in the Ukraine raising veggies and food..
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The reasons of the 9/11 attacks
Inkarri Olarte,

Many people in the United States of America do not know the reasons behind the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001. They ignore that it was a backlash of the US foreign policy pursued for many years during the suffocating Cold War.
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Emperors and Chicken Hawks
Gary Sudborough,

The difference between Roman emperors and the present day versions of the same.
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"Pagan" land and migration from persecution
luna moth,

This is mostly ancient history comparison between persecution of Jewish people and native americans..
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Author Speaks on Revolution in Nepal
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Author and journalist Li Onesto spoke at Casa del Libro bookstore in Hillcrest February 1 about her new book, "Dispatches from the People's War in Nepal." In an unexpectedly timely appearance — the day she spoke Nepal's king suspended the constitution and all civil liberties — she explained the politics of the Nepalese People's Army and its political arm, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). She said the People's Army controls much of rural Nepal and is in the next-to-last stage of its struggle, but fears intervention from the U.S., U.K., India or China if it actually takes state power.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Filner for Congress
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger‘s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club gave progressive Democratic Congressmember Bob Filner an early endorsement against moderate state legislator Juan Vargas, who will run against him in the 2006 Democratic primary. Filner, who participated in direct action for civil rights long before he sought elective office, told club members at their January 27 meeting that only a combination of aggressive street activism and involvement in electoral politics will enable progressives to defeat the Bush agenda.
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A One-Way Ticket
Jana,

On January 29, 2004, Jerusalem Bus 19 was targeted by a martyrdom operation resulting in the deaths of eleven passengers and the wounding of fifty more. The bomber laced his explosives with metal shards for maximum lethality.


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The Drums of War
Gary Sudborough,

The probable propaganda techniques for the next war and the reasons I believe it will be against Iran.
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The Antiwar Movement's Awakening
Manuel Valenzuela,

what are we waiting for? time to take our country back! let it commence.



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