Spy Towers on the US Border
counterpunch,

Boeing has enlisted the aid of Elbit Systems, Israel's major defense contractor, to construct high-tech surveillance along the border of the U.S. and Mexico. So far, the high-tech fiasco is not working and Arizona residents are organizing a lawsuit to halt government spying on U.S. citizens.


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The brain drain
posted by F Espinoza,

Our world order appears to have been designed to foster the egoism, individualism and dehumanization of humanity...
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Dr. Wasfi: "For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day."
Dahlia Wasfi, MD,

Dr. Wasfi concluded her prepared remarks with this question: " Since 1958, Iraqis have hoped that each regime change might bring a better life. Have they hit rock bottom now?"
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US facility in Armenia to spy on Iran
APA ,

The US Global Gold Corporation (GGC) will complete the gold exploration in Arevis village of Sisyan region, Armenia by the end of 2007, APA reports quoting Armenian press. The gold deposit is situated on the border with Nakhchivan province of Azerbaijan.


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Inside the US's regime-change school
at,

The highly secretive nature of the workshops meant that they were misleadingly advertised in the lobby of the hotel as a conference by the "Griffin Hospital". The organizers, instructors and students identified themselves through aliases and were instructed to communicate with one another after the course was over through Hushmail accounts, an encrypted e-mail service that claims to be hack-proof.

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Chile's Iraq Mercenaries
Mike Hager,

Under Investigation by U.N. Group

Hired Mercenaries Are Second Largest 'Coalition Force' in Iraq
A United Nations work group arrived in Chile today to begin investigating the recruitment of Chilean mercenaries in the American war in Iraq. The U.N. Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries (UNWG) also hopes to get Chile to sign on to the 1989 U.N. Mercenary Convention aimed at restricting mercenary activity.

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PHILIPPINES: leader killed by Maoist rebels
PDSP,

San Pablo City, A woman peace advocate and the local head of the social movement Aksyon Sambayanan (People's Action) was killed Monday night by armed men believed to be members of the Maoist New People’s Army (NPA).


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One man stops a $475 million Iraq contract
Exposing the Matrix,

Brian X. Scott, a 53-year-old Colorado man, filed the complaint in early April. He argues that the military’s use of private security contractors is “against America’s core values” and violates an 1893 law that prohibits the government from hiring quasi-military forces.
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Lebanon's proxy war
AL-AHRAM ,

Numerous factors pose a threat to Lebanon's sovereignty,
writes Serene Assir

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China Supports Syria's right to Golan
sana ,

Premier of the Chinese State Council Wen Jiabao on Tuesday underlined his country's support to Syria's right to restore the occupied Syrian Golan.

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ON THE RELEASE OF KA BEL ( CRISPIN BELTRAN)
AJLPP-USA,

On behalf of the Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP), we extend our felicitations and congratulations on the release of ANAKPAWIS representative. Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran after more than one year and four months of detention and the junking of the cases against progressive party list representatives and other people’s activist leaders by the Supreme Court.

We in the AJLPP and our allied organizations like the International ANSWER, the international anti-war and the anti-racist coalition in the United States, are greatly and deeply inspired by Ka Bel’s determination and the movement’s persistent and just struggle for justice, social and national liberation.

To Ka. Bel annd to all our comrades in struggle, MABUHAY KAYO!
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“Peace Mom” (Cindy Sheehan) leads Freedom Fig
NOMOREWAR_FORISRAEL,

“Peace Mom” (Cindy Sheehan) leads Freedom Fighters in War on Pelosi
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Commemorate the 115th Year of the Katipunan
Alliance for A Just and Lasting Peace (AJLPP),

On July 7, 1892, three dedicated patriot, Andres Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata and Ladislao Diwa founded the Katipunan, the secret society of patriots in a house in Azcaraga Street in Manila. The Katipunan was organized after the Spanish authorities clamped down on the La Liga Filipina, founded by Jose Rizal and only lasted for several days until it was outlawed in July 2, 1892.

By August 23, 1896, when the Spanish authorities discovered the organization, it has organized an undeground network of more than 30, 000 members all over the nation it was ready to launch the armed revolution against Spain.

Today, we are not farther from the same unjust and repressive conditions under Spain. The US-Arroyo regime on July 15, 2007 will implement a new martial rule system under a law named Human Security Act or the Anti-Terror Law abhorred by the people.

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Audio of Webster Tarpley's Talk in S.D. 7/8
al uh looyah,

This is links to audio of a presentation given by Webster Tarpley July 8, 2007 in San Diego.
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September 15 — Protest in Washington DC
ANSWER Coaltion,

September 15 — Turn Up the Heat in Washington DC!
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David Cole on Why We're Losing Terror War
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University and attorney who's represented some of the victims of the U.S.'s judicial abuses in the so-called "war on terror" before the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke at the Lyceum Theatre in Horton Plaza June 26 in an appearance sponsored by the San Diego Public Library. Cole said that the flagrant violations of due process and human rights committed by the Bush administration have not only weakened America's standing in the world community, but there have actually been more terror incidents against Americans worldwide than there were before 9/11.
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Help to break media silence on the Cuban Five
posted by F Espinoza,

Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Great Britain (and everywhere) helps to break media silence on Miami 5...
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PASTORS FOR PEACE IN SAN DIEGO JULY 9
KATHLEEN HUGHART,

San Diegans have a chance to visit with west coast travelers on their way to Cuba on Monday, July 9, 4-7 PM, at the Malcolm X Public Library, 5148 Market St. in San Diego. The big yellow school bus loaded with humanitarian aid will be in the library parking lot all afternoon. Meanwhile, inside the library, you'll have a chance to learn more about this year's travel challenge, plus hear from people who have recently visited Cuba.
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Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate
nt ,

In commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers — and routinely and strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department.

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President blackmailed by convicted felon
Digery Cohen,

Congress to investigate
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The killing machine...
posted by F Espinoza,

It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign governments. Suddenly the publication is halted and it is delayed one day. No coherent explanation was given. Perhaps someone in the White House looked over the material...
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Blair begins his deception mission
Uri Avnery,

lsrael’s occupation eludes the lips of Arabs and Israelis, Blair begins his deception mission

Uri Avnery considers the main outcome of the latest Sharm el-Sheikh conference – the tabooing of the word “occupation” – and considers why Tony Blair has been appointed Quartet envoy – “to provide the Palestinians and the world media with an illusion of progress”.

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In the military, thinking of joining?
email,

video of presentation at AFSC in Pasadena during 2002
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Murciélagos, papagayos y otros bichos...
posted by F Espinoza,

Aunque se busque con lupa y detenimiento en la página web de presentación de la Casa de América de Madrid, o en su agenda correspondiente al mes de Julio 2007, alguna información sobre el evento a realizarse en la sede el próximo 4 de Julio, denominado: “Un encuentro por la democracia y la libertad en Europa y las Américas”, o "IV Foro Atlántico"...
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UCSD Students Remember George Winne, Jr.'s 1970 Self-Immolation
queer-j brad,

George Winne, Jr., who self-immolated in Revelle Plaza at UCSD May 10, 1970 in protest of the Vietnam genocide, was memorialized by UCSD undergraduate students Christin Turner and Sasanna Yee on June 7.

Winne was a former ROTC student at UCSD not associated with the widespread student protest movement at that time, and had developed an interest in Eastern philosophy. He followed americans Alice Herz, Norman Morrison (outside of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office) and Roger Allen LaPorte (all in 1965) in employing self-immolation as a protest against the attack on Vietnam. Winne self-immolated next to a sign that read "in god's name stop the war," and was quickly tackled and put out by a safety officer or a student, but died 10 hours later after asking his mother to write a letter to Nixon telling him to end the war.

Winne's action prompted a phone call from Nixon's administration to university administrators, and his sacrifice, along with student activism, caused administrators to redesign the rapidly growing campus to discourage large gatherings of students in uncontrolled settings.

The permanent memorial to Winne -- a skeletal art piece overlayed on an arrangement of bricks (not unlike those on which he self-immolated) and a difficult to locate plaque -- sits in a secluded, wooded area well-removed from the site of the event, close to the fountain in Revelle Plaza.

As part of a Social Architectures class, Turner and Yee designed and built a temporary memorial on the fountain that projects the permanent memorial to the place where Winne self-immolated. Turner expressed the hope that "the atmosphere of UCSD back then wasn't a dead thing of the past and could possibly repeat itself."

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PEACE ACTIVIST FACES TRIAL
Stephanie Cauchon,

The City Attorney’s office has filed charges against Dr. Robert Omar Clay, one of four individuals arrested Sept. 25, 2006, when the Jail Bush contingent of San Diego Civil Disobedients moved their downtown protest of the crimes of the Bush Administration onto Broadway, blocking traffic.

The four were arrested, cited and released. It is unclear why local authorities filed charges against Dr. Clay and not the other three participants in the civil disobedience action. Dr. Clay is a physicist and nuclear weapons analyst, and associate of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

At the trial Dr. Clay will seek to present a necessity defense, drawing from the tradition of non-violent civil disobedience practiced by peacemakers such as Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. Clay felt it necessary to violate the law to prevent a greater harm, in defense of our democracy and the lives of innocent people. He believed it to be the only means left to call attention to the failure of our representatives in Washington to protect our constitution and our nation from the severe and imminent threat posed by the Bush administration, and to end the violations of national and international law.

CALL TO ACTION for TUESDAY 6/26/07:
* PEACEFUL PRESENCE AT TRIAL gather 8:00 am San Diego Superior Court 220 Broadway, look for person with peace sign for directions
* DEMONSTRATION 5:30 to 6:00 pm Horton Plaza, in front of the Lyceum Theater

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"Demonstration" Government in Palestine
Stephen Lendman,

US-Israeli led coup against the democratically elected Hamas government
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Webster Tarpley to Speak in S.D. July 8th
San Diegans for 9/11 Truth,

Webster Griffin Tarpley, 9/11 Truth Activist and Author of "9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA" will speak Sunday July 8th at 6:30 pm at Joyce Beers Community Center, 3900 Vermont St., SD 92103
Hillcrest/Uptown Shopping Center - 2 blocks north of University Ave
Suggested donation $5-10---students free
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SUMAMA SA MARTSA-RALLY HUNYO 24 SA LA
AJLPP-USA,

Nanawagan ang lahat ng mga grupong nagtataguyod para sa ganap na karapatan para sa lahat ng migrante lalo na sa lahat ng mga Pilipino na aktibong lumahok sa demosntrasyon sa Linggo, Hunyo 24, 2007 sa Hollywood and Vine sa Los Angeles.

Gusto ng mga naghaharing uri na sila ang magdesisyon kung ano ang kapalaran ng 12 millyong migrante at manggagawang walang papeles na tinatwag nilang “ilegal’ dito sa Amerika. Ang sabi natin at HINDI! HINDI tayo papayag na alisin nila ang petisyon para sa mga pamilya at ibawal ang pagpepetisyon ng mga magulang at mga kapatid. Hindi rin tayo payag na ipalit nila sa batas sa family reunification ang “ guest worker program” na nakabatay sa mga puntos na masyadong magulo at hindi maintindihan at pabor sa mga kapitalista

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Pelosi, Hillary, & Co: funded by Lockheed
Peacemaker,

Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Lieberman each received $10,000 in campaign contributions from neocon-linked weapons maker Lockheed-Martin's PAC (Political Action Committee) during the 2006 election cycle. Could this be one reason Pelosi and Hillary refuse to stand firmly for peace while Lieberman blatantly calls for even wider war?

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