Millions of Americans settle into their couches with bowls of popcorn, bags of potato chips, and diet cola. They enjoy the color pictures on the evening news report of bombs exploding in Afghanistan. Pictures of explosions are always popular in America, no matter what their meaning or origin.
www.counterpunch.org/chuckmanbush.html

Indymedia photos from Argentina
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The State Department is talking to the Advertising Council about crafting a "public diplomacy" campaign to help "sell America" to Muslims upset about the war in Afghanistan. "Overseeing those talks is Charlotte Beers, the new Undersecretary of State for public diplomacy and former advertising executive at J. Walter Thompson who started in the industry marketing Uncle Ben's Rice, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. But Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, suspects that Americanism may be harder to sell than white rice. "The United States lost the public relations war in the Muslim world a long time ago," Siblani said. "They could have the prophet Muhammad doing public relations and it wouldn't help."
www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc266.html

As the cycle of violence continues, what remains of the Israeli political left has been trying to mount some kind of viable opposition. Weekly protests in front of the prime minister's house, scores of soldiers refusing to serve in the occupied territories, and hundreds of people breaking the military siege by transferring basic foodstuffs to Palestinian villages--these are just a few of the activities taking place on a regular basis. They have not, however, managed to challenge the hegemonic spirit of war.
www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/04/news1.shtml

Neither Bruce Willis nor Robert Duvall showed. Bush was inaugurated. A dazed electorate had been body-politic slammed into a deep Florida sinkhole. As we scrambled to clear the cobwebs from our heads, an ominous groan grew to a large rumble emanating from a fleet of conveyances set to dump toxic waste, religious sewage, and corporate effluence upon us. Only those who could tread slime stood any chance of crawling back to dry land.
www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/02074616.htm

This is the bottom line: The gold futures mkt is one of the smallest volume mkts in the world. Yet the short position in gold, via derivatives, is the largest (or 2nd largest after interest rates) in the world. Read that again. Tiny mkt, massive shorts. Shorts total $36bil from reporting banks only. Adding others, the total is easily $50bil. Thermonuclear explosion will result if the gold cartel/monopoly lose control of this mkt. That's why they desperately hammer every rally in gold. They dare not let it rise even for a day lest it attract traders, gold advocates, chartists, funds, & those who understand monetary systemic structure. The shorts are trapped.
www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_01/schultz122801pv.html

Ukraine's powerful communists won a historic victory on Saturday
when a high court rejected as unconstitutional a blanket ban imposed on the Soviet-era communist party a decade ago.
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Did you know that over 70% of processed foods in North America contain untested genetically engineered (GE) ingredients? None of these are even labelled. While governments from China and Russia to Japan and Europe require mandatory labelling of GE food American consumers are left unprotected and are eating in the dark.
www.labelthis.org/

We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century. We believe culture jamming can be to our era what civil rights was to the '60s, what feminism was to the '70s, what environmental activism was to the '80s. It will alter the way we live and think. It will change the way information flows, the way institutions wield power, the way TV stations are run, the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music and culture industries set their agendas. Above all, it will change the way meaning is produced in our society.
adbusters.org/information/network/

In the wake of the revelation of yet another spy scandal involving the Mossad, involving the arrests of the largest spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, and the existence of a huge system that allowed Israel to track telephone calls by media, politicians, law enforcement, indeed all Americans, as well as the means to eavesdrop on actual calls by using the wiretapping system built into the telephone system by an Israeli owned company, any and all reports of this scandal have been met with the charges of "hate speech" and "anti-Semite".
www.whatreallyhappened.com/

A US physicist who went on the run for 16 years has pleaded guilty to unlawfully exporting potential nuclear triggers to a company in Israel in 1982.
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_483273.html

For more than a decade, India and Pakistan have managed their ugly liaison in Kashmir. Now, both sides see reason to threaten war over the disputed territory.
www.smh.com.au/news/0112/29/world/world3.html

India has threatened an all out nuclear war on Pakistan and has moved its forces along side border of Pakistan. A large portion of Pakistani army is occupied sealing off western border with Afghanistan and helping United States find members of terrorist organziation Al-Qaida, headed by Osama bin Laden. United States has blamed Al-Qaida for launching deadliest attack on its soil on September 11 this year. Since then Osama bin Ladin has openly accepted responsibility.
www.paknews.com/flash.php

on those 4000 Israelis
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JFK Jr. was using George magazine to aggressively investigate questions about the Rabin assassination -- a story that has been rigorously censored by every other mainstream American media outlet -- and that he met with Mossad connections shortly before the plane crash, who were "helping" him in the investigation.
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The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, in solidarity with the struggle to remove the U.S. Navy out of Vieques, is forwarding this message about the current Vieques Political Prisoners so that people write to them and the institutions they are in demanding their freedom. Now more than ever, solidarity is needed!!
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With murderous explosions opening the century in New York, Palestine and Kashmir, it is time for the world to fix the responsibility for this awful mess and require the culprit to clean it up. Britain has walked away scot-free from the hell her imperial architects put in place as part of their never-ending scheme to divide, conquer, neutralize and loot the world, not least the Islamic world - like a cunning criminal landlord, smirking as he leaves a house whose roof is set to fall in on its newly independent tenants.
india.indymedia.org/front.php3

You say to yourself; "My country has given me such a miracle plane, and anyway, I have orders to fly thousands of feet high. I will drop my load and no doubt I will come back. At that altitude, there is nothing that can touch me. I will be back." And with that conviction, the next day you climb your beloved hawk, which has never been used in combat yet. Your are anxious to try the real job and finish it, to restore peace in the world. You enter your plane with confidence and you feel proud of your country. It never crossed your mind that you are high above someone else's country, ready to kill citizens that never did anything to any one of your country's citizens or to your family. Again you feel the urgency to hold your family in your arms.
india.indymedia.org/front.php3

COMPELLING EVIDENCE THAT THE SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE USA WERE ORGANIZED, AT LEAST IN PART ,BY USA AUTHORITIES, AS AN EXCUSE TO START AN ALREADY PLANNED WAR IN SOUTH ASIA, AND AS AN EXCUSE TO BEGIN THE BIGGEST ATTACK ON CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE WEST SINCE THE FACIST ERA
india.indymedia.org/front.php3

Tortured Enemy of the State Stephen Ames and his girlfriend Nicole Terry were attacked by Federal Marshalls and Pennsylvania State Police on Friday night who used a Swat Team and high tech weaponry including flash bang stun grenades and snipers after first evacuating the entire neighborhood in High Spire PA due to Ame's threat to defend himself using a 5 gallon tank of gasoline that he allegedly wired to explode if threatened by authorities who in the past had tortured him within the Forensic ward of the Pennsylvania State Prison due to his very efforts to expose the New World Order with in depth legal research.
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In the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 30 armed men stormed Haiti's presidential palace in an apparent coup attempt against the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The attackers, who were reported to have worn the uniforms of the disbanded Haitian Army, killed two policemen before one of their number was killed by police in a six-hour shootout. Haitian authorities captured two suspects involved in the coup attempt, but the others escaped, fleeing toward the border with the Dominican Republic. As reports of the attack reached the Haitian people, thousands of Aristide supporters poured into the streets. Around the country, crowds attacked and killed four people who were suspected of collaborating with the coup plotters.
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Amid tear-gas and sound bombs, five Coloradans joined dozens of Palestinians and over 150 internationals in nonviolently pushing back the Israeli military from their illegal checkpoint near Surda village -- a busy checkpoint between the Palestinian town of Ramallah and Bir Zeit University. For nearly six hours the international activists controlled the checkpoint, denying access to Israeli tanks and armored vehicles and keeping it open to all Palestinian traffic.
rockymountain.indymedia.org/front.php3

A diverse group of five Coloradans promoting peace with justice will join dozens of internationals from around the world in offering an olive branch of peace in Palestine. From Dec. 14th to Jan. 8th, these Coloradans will join with the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank and Gaza to witness and help create a space for both Palestinians and Israelis to end the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank (including E. Jerusalem) and Gaza. Members plan to support Palestinian demonstrations with non-violent direct action, using their privilege as western internationals to dissuade the Israeli military from it?s usual violent repression. "I hope to demonstrate with my presence and actions that Americans care deeply about the fundamental human rights of Palestinians as well as Israelis, and we are willing to defend those rights nonviolently, with our lives, if necessary," says delegation member Val Phillips.
rockymountain.indymedia.org/

The village of Beit Umar lies on the main road between Bethlehem and Hebron, 25 minutes south of Jerusalem. It has 12,000 residents of whom 4,600 are school-age children. Beit Umar has suffered repeated harassment from the Israeli military and since the second Intifada began over a year ago, the main entrance to the village has been closed, forcing its residents to use back roads, which are also frequently closed by the military.
www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/12299.html

Yoav was among the crowd, his back to the [Israeli] policemen. One of them stepped towards Yoav, lightly rested his hand on his back for a few seconds, then raised his other arm, grabbed Yoav by the colar of his jacket and pulled him backwards - fishing him out of the crowd. Then they said he assaulted a policeman.
www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3

International and Palestinian peace activists attacked again
www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3

111th anniversary of Wounded Knee Massacre
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Using the means of the system to reform it are futile because the Complex has all of the cards stacked in its deck. Don't waste your energies on the ballot. True change can only come from a mass spiritual revolution.
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We have a tipline on Enron on our website because we're asking people to give us information that they may have as we take on our own investigation of Enron; especially as we investigate Enron, not only for its financial dealings, but also for the larger political connections that this corporation and its leaders have had with the Bush administration. What has happened with Enron is quite breathtaking. This was the seventh-largest corporation in the country. And it collapsed while its executives were able to walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars. Their employees and their investors were left in the rubble.
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Background on Argentina and the IMF
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Argentina and US Militarism
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As T Friedman said in the NYT: "the hidden hand" of the market is US military force. In otherwords, Since 11 September, the "war on terrorism" has provided a pretext for the rich countries, led by the United States, to further their dominance over world affairs.
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A new website aimed at exposing humanity to the scientific method, rational thought and critical thinking has been launched by one of America's most popular black non-theists.
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Navy Captain Gunther Russbacher is a 29 year veteran of the United States Intelligence Community, (Office of Naval Intelligence, attached to the Central Intelligence Agency). During all of that time he has operated as a deep black covert operative. In 1980 Captain Russbacher flew then vice-presidential candidate George Bush to a secret meeting near Paris in what has become known as "The October Surprise" scandal.
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On 20 December 2001, German TV channel "Das Erste" broadcast its analysis of the White House's translation of the OBL video that George Bush has called a "confession of guilt". On the show "Monitor", two independent translators and an expert on oriental studies found the White House's translation not only to be inaccurate, but "manipulative".
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The Drug Enforcement Agency recently met to consider banning the use of hemp in foods and other household products. Pro-hemp activists gave out hemp food outside the hearings and at a local mall. There was an unfortunate incident involving Santa.
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Activists in the Green Party of the United States are asking the U.S. to hold the government of Israel accountable for the latest wave of bloodshed, and insist that Israel seek negotiation instead of the "War on Terrorism" against the Palestinian people that
Israel's own policy of assassination recently ignited.
www.dc.indymedia.org/front.php3

At synagogues all over America's golden state Jewish mothers now hover over their children who fondly remember once running around the Star-of-David-enameled doors of their synagogue. Now, at Congregation Beth Ami in Santa Rosa, iron gates confine the children to a small courtyard, effectively barricading every entrance to the synagogue but one and making it difficult for grape-juice-stained eight-year-olds to play an intricate game of tag after Saturday morning prayer services.
www.solidmag.org/issue5/antisemitism.shtml

An FBI spokesman confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. government is working on a controversial Internet spying technology, code-named ``Magic Lantern'', which could be used to eavesdrop on computer communications by suspected criminals.
dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011212/tc/tech_magiclantern_dc_1.html

Globally, water has emerged as a central player in conflicts around the world, such as the uprising in Bolivia against the government's attempts there to privatize water resources and distribution. That battle in the Andean highlands was the first in what has turned into a protracted struggle between the Bolivian people and the government and its multi-national corporate allies.
www.dc.indymedia.org/front.php3

The corporate media (of which the Grauniad has long been a particularly offensive member, on account of its fake-"left" credentials) is trying to sell the British public a line: Anti-capitalism is history; the world now revolves around the War on Terror; everything else is irrelevant; Let those noted democrats Bush and Blair do their job in peace.
uk.indymedia.org/front.php3

Three hundred foriegn nationals including fifty Britons succeeded in escorting Palestinian students into the University of Bir Zeit, near Ramallah in the West Bank this morning. The army vehicles at the army check point drove off when they arrived. At 9.05 GMT soldiers started firing tear gas.
uk.indymedia.org/front.php3

On December 19 and 20 the Argentine masses ousted the government of De la Rúa and his hated finance minister, Cavallo. In came the Peronist Rodriguez Saa, a behind-the-scenes manoeuvre aimed at stripping the people from their victory in the streets.
uk.indymedia.org/front.php3

When Australian Prime Minister John Dubya Howard publicly committed Australian troops to the US "War on Terrorism," he found himself up to his elbows in flack from the Australian Armed Forces who were deeply upset when Howard revealed Australia's crack Special Air Services (SAS) were being sent in to assist the Americans.
uk.indymedia.org/front.php3

Streamlining is going on everywhere. To be competitive globally, corporations are consolidating and free-trade zones are being established. Now, in Europe, 12 currencies such as the mark, franc, and shilling--for generations symbols of their respective countries--are making way for one new currency, the euro.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1226_wireeuro.html

He takes his drugs one beautiful, bright, sunny Summer day to an old, dry fountain not far from Strawberry Field and Sheep's Meadow, but still enough out of the way to feel somewhat safe getting high. Taking a seat at the far side of the fountain on a wall at the bottom of a kudzu covered hill, he takes out his paraphernalia, all the tools he needs to get off, and sets to work doing just that. He is a professional, able to get everything done very quickly and surreptitiously, loving nothing more than the kick of getting high out in the open, so blatantly no one ever notices. At least so far. He continuously looks around scoping out the area, noticing 2 or 3 people sitting together off to the right a few hundred feet away under a small tree on the grass, but spots no one else.
He has the needle in his arm quickly, but right as he is shoving in the plunder, pushing the generous speedball into his vein, he distinctly hears a voice from the top of the hill behind him, behind the bushes at the top.
www.drugwar.com/central_park_schizo2.htm

Russia began its farewells to its former communist ally Cuba
as it prepared on Saturday to close a big spy center, ending four
decades of Russian military presence on the Caribbean island.
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Senior Cuban officials voiced their opposition on Saturday to
Washington's plans for housing Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners in a
controversial U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on the communist-run
Caribbean island.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2415

In an attempt to avoid embarrassing Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf and to pre-empt any Indian campaign to extend the war
against terrorism to cover terrorist training camps in Pakistan, the
White House announced Dec 20 it was blocking the assets of LeT which
it described as 'a Kashmiri terrorist organisation' that has
conducted a number of operations against Indian troops and civilian
targets in Kashmir since 1993.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3634

Interesting that it becomes a big story in the Washington Post only
when the UN police are accused of failing to stop kidnapping and
trafficking, but it's not a big story when NATO's allies in the
former socialist world actually do the kidnapping and trafficking.
Also note the misleading headline -- the UN police were never accused of "trafficking," but of ignoring it or failing to stop it.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3637

The only hope of ending the hegemony of the One Behemoth Superpower
is for the rest of the world to join together, stand up to the bully
and face it down. That is beginning to happen around the world.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3641

Over one hundred foreign civilians served as an "international protection force" for Palestinians today and deployed at the Surda military checkpoint (on the road from Ramallah to Birzeit University) to allow Palestinians safe passage to and from work and school.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2295

Protests and vigils in over 115 cities across the globe were carried out Friday December 28 (called for by Women in Black, a rapidly growing group of women interested in peace). The rallies called for ending the continuing Israeli occupation and thus an end to violence. These rallies continue to grow (in Jerusalem yesterday over 5000 demonstrated) and especially attract more and more Jews who are opposed to Israeli expansionist policies.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2300

Farm Subsidy Database
www.ewg.org/farm/home.php

thermonuclear MUCKhead
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Scientists investigating the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam have
found that people living in a so-called hotspot have the highest
blood levels of its poisonous chemical dioxin ever recorded in the
country.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3675

Israel Stabs America In Back-Sells AWACS To Red China
www.rense.com/general18/israelstabeamerica.htm

I don't intend the blasphemous suggestion that Switzerland is the Greatest Country on Earth, but it has a fair claim to be the sanest. It has had less history over the last thousand years than most African countries have had in the last generation. You know the old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." The Swiss have no memory of interesting times. They have a proud history of not making history.
www.sobran.com/columns/011213.shtml

The Americans could have said they were just going after those who
bombed the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon and in that way maintained a certain credibility. Instead the Americans have pulled out all the ready-to-go crusader-like military/CIA plans and have targeted every and anyone either in opposition to American hegemony worldwide or Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. By doing so the Americans have not only lost their credibility they have sparked new and more dangerous escalations of already existing conflicts that had no direct connection to what happened in New York and Washington.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2423

I wonder how many secret trials Bush has had so far? I wonder how many secret executions Bush has carried out?
www.bartcop.com

In the mid-seventies America faced a new and escalating crisis, with US commercial jets being hijacked for geopolitical purposes. Determined to gain the upper hand in this new form of aerial warfare, two American multinationals collaborated with the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) on a project designed to facilitate the remote recovery of hijacked American aircraft. Brilliant both in concept and operation, "Home Run" [not its real code name] allowed specialist ground controllers to listen in to cockpit conversations on the target aircraft, then take absolute control of its computerized flight control system by remote means.
software.design.tripod.com/mirror/homerun.htm

The street thug is only doing what the supermarkets do to the corner shop; what Murdoch does to the small-fry press; what Uncle Sam does to the neighbouring country which can't defend itself against him. I'm bigger and tougher, says the bully, and capitalism likes a callous brute.
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For the past 55 years the United States has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at al-Qaida's door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr. Bush's government.
www.newswatchmagazine.org/weekly_editor/index.htm

The military doctrine of 'Full Spectrum Dominance' is the vision for the twenty first century. As the term implies, superiority over the entire range of battlefield threats, is the goal that will ensure victory. This viewpoint for combat extends it's dogma of mastery, far beyond the field of war. The essence of the political struggle, in this era of total compliance, is complete control. The New World Disorder is about the elimination of all resistance. The front lines are not limited to opposing defenses, they encompass the entire society.
quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/sartre/VIEW/id30.html

US backs Pakistan handling of situation????????
www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Saturday that his government would do its utmost to avoid a war with Pakistan and, in a mellowing of the martial mood in New Delhi , there were credible reports that foreign ministers of both countries could hold bilateral talks on the margins of their meeting at the SAARC ministers' conference in Kathmandu next week.
www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl

Pakistan will not be invited to attend the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Australia in March next year.
www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given deadline of May 31, 2002 to the government to privatize Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and the United Bank Limited (UBL).
www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl

Interior Minister, Moin Haider, on Saturday termed the reports of Osama bin Laden being in Pakistan as wild speculations. Talking to reporters during his visit to the Prisons Staff Training Institute , he said that the troops deployed along the Afghan border were alert to the situation.
www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl

Nineteen Indian soldiers were killed and five injured on Friday when landmines they were laying along the border with Pakistan "accidentally exploded", officials said.
www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl

The Bush family's involvement in drug-running is an open secret, but Dick Cheney's direct link to a global drug pipeline through a US construction company is less well known.
www.nexusmagazine.com/bushcheney.html

This marked escalation in the ISI's support for the Islamist insurgency and terrorism in Kashmir is a direct by-product of Pakistan's national security policy and grand strategy. Ms. Bhutto has repeatedly emphasized the centrality of the annexation of the entire Kashmir for the long-term development of Pakistan. The new rail-line that will connect Karachi and Central Asia must pass through Indian-held Kashmir to be engineeringly and economically effective. Ms. Bhutto's Islamabad considers the opening of the road to Central Asia by using Pakistan as the region's gateway to the Indian Ocean as the key to the growth of Pakistan's commercial activities. Kashmir is also Pakistan's true gateway to the PRC and into Central Asia -- the path of the new Silk Road. And there lies the future and strategic salvation of Pakistan.
freeman.io.com/m_online/bodansky/axis.htm

Cuban officials said Saturday that they oppose the use of the
U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay for detainees from the war in
Afghanistan - mostly because they believe the base should have been
closed decades ago.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2487

Dr Alim Abdul-Hamid's office at Al Mustanseriya Medical College in Baghdad is decorated in bright, cheerful colours, but what he has to say is anything but cheerful. Formerly Dean of Basra Medical College, Abdul-Hamid has had plenty of first-hand experience with Iraq's unprecedented plague of cancers and birth defects.
www.jordantimes.com/Thu/region/region1.htm

More than 700 Israelis and Palestinians packed into a Jerusalem hotel (Saturday) in a rare display of support for peace, creating a new coalition seeking an end to violence and a return to negotiations.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37253-2001Dec28.html

In March 1999, the US Marine Corps staged a practice invasion of the San Francisco Bay Area with a fleet of five battleships, gigantic LCAC hovercraft, dozens of helicopters, hundreds of combat-equipped Marines and 6,000 sailors.
www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spr2000/fe_spr2000wtoriots.html

Noting that it's difficult to place a value on 100-year-old trees, a judge yesterday rejected a recommendation for leniency and sentenced a logger to eight months in prison for chopping down 112 trees in the Wayne National Forest.
groups.yahoo.com/group/anarchopunk/message/7176

Enron's India Disaster
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2491

"Guerrillas don't hold ground," a specialist in information warfare warns those who take comfort in the apparent success of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2492

If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11, please observe a moment of silence for the 5,000 civilian lives lost in the New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania attacks.

While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence for the 130,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take another moment to remember how Americans celebrated and cheered
in the streets.
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War is declared in the wake of the Sept. 11th attack, and fear fuels a kind of public hysteria. It has ever been thus. Thousands of Arab-Americans are being held in secret detention, unable to contact lawyers or families; those who contact lawyers may do so only with the government eavesdropping on attorney-client discussions. Now the Bush administration has announced that military tribunals will be established for those it deems "terrorists," rather than U.S. civil courts. In a time of terror, the question arises, who is a "terrorist"?
www.savepacifica.net/strike/news/audio/mumia/

Conservatives Have No Voice In Media?
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Public campaign to adopt a World Treaty Banning Space-based Weapon
www.peaceinspace.com

Argentine interim President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa resigned on Sunday, the country's second leader in just over a week to quit after violent street protests amid a grinding recession.
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The thesis of this paper is that the great economic and financial cataclysm of the first half of the twentieth century, which we have come to know as the Great Depression, was caused by the Bank of England, the British government, and the City of London. The potential for the Great Depression derived from the economic and human destruction wrought by World War I, which was itself a product of British geopolitics and especially of the British policy, exemplified by King Edward VII, of creating an encircling anti-German alliance in order to wage war. The economic destruction of Europe was continued after 1918 by the Peace of Paris (Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sevres) imposed by the Allies on the defeated Central Powers. Especially important here were the 55 billion gold dollars in reparations inflicted on defeated Germany, along with the war debt burden of the supposedly victorious powers themselves. Never during the 1920's did world trade surpass the levels of 1913. Reparations and war debt were a recipe for economic stagnation.
www.tarpley.net/29crash.htm

The U.S. Monetary System is a Ponzi Debt Scheme
www.norfed.org/jimart.asp

While in Israel, Koresh began having "visions" and developed his
interpretation of end times prophecies. After leaving Israel, Koresh
recruited followers from various countries. He seized leadership control of the Davidians and Mt Carmel in a shootout with Roden.

Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants would be dead or in custody if Northern Alliance fighters had continued to pursue the terrorist leader, one of this country's top commanders and regional powerbrokers claimed Sunday. Instead, said Ismail Khan, governor of Herat province and one of Afghanistan's most successful militia leaders, his troops and other Northern Alliance fighters held back at the request of the West.
www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2001/12/31/herat-usat.htm

Argentina reeled on Monday from the second resignation
of a president in just over a week, as bitterly divided politicians
clashed over who would next lead a country plagued by riots and
recession.
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African AIDS is thought to be a combination of malnutrition and
cryptosporidium diarrhea. Protease inhibitors destroy the intestine
lining by inhibiting cathepsin D, a malthusian nazi recipe for 100
million deaths in Africa and third world countries.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2527

At a time when acts of military aggression perpetrated or planned by the US government are typically justified in the name of fighting "international terrorism," a book has appeared which documents America's role as the organizer of the biggest campaign of terrorism and sabotage since World War II.
www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jun2000/viet-j06.shtml

Since 11th Sept 2001, British Muslims have been the focus of British media and politicians. Their loyalty is being questioned. British nationality will not be granted if they are not well versed in English
language. They are being discouraged to get married from Pakistan. They are also pressurized not to take their children to Pakistan for holidays. They will be prosecuted if they join hands with Taliban in the war against Western Allies.
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Black, un-marked helicopters are not really completely unfamiliar to the world, as they first started making small appearances in the U.S. during the year of 1971. The more frequent appearances around the globe started about eight years ago. These would-appear-to-be military choppers have been seen flying over recently made crop circles in Europe, as well as showing up at cattle mutilation sights.
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U.S. intelligence officials say Pakistani military moves include
large-scale troop movements, the dispersal of fighter aircraft and
preparations for the transportation of nuclear weapons from storage
sites.
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As a close friend of and adviser to Mrs Thatcher, during a time when the Conservative government were being caught out time and again by the BBC, Rothschild was hardly enquiring about power. He was a man with his own malign mission.
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Community activists have called for an independent investigation of the police attack on a peaceful march for imprisoned Black revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal that took place here Dec. 8. They have also demanded that all charges be dropped against six people arrested and brutalized by the unprovoked police assault.
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The European Central Bank is working with technology partners on a hush-hush project to embed radio frequency identification tags into the very fibers of euro bank notes by 2005, EE Times has learned. Intended to foil counterfeiters, the project is developing as Europe prepares for a massive changeover to the euro, and would create an instant mass market for RFID chips, which have long sought profitable application.
www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016

Water will be to the 21st century what oil was to the last - vast fortunes will be made by controlling it and nations will go to war to preserve access to it.
www.abqtrib.com/archives/news01/122701_news_water.shtml

How We Could Still Lose in Afghanistan
www.commondreams.org/views01/1228-01.htm

A central figure in an investigation into the desecration of graves at two Florida Jewish cemeteries is dead of an apparent suicide, police said Thursday.
www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/27/cemetery.scandal.suicide/index.html

The academic stars of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department are considering leaving for rival Princeton, in an open challenge to the new president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers.
www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/education/29HARV.html

For the past year, hundreds of museum curators, professional historians and cultural critics have accused Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small of permitting corporate and private donors to purchase the right to define and interpret museum exhibits.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

Early last month, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department held a two-day meeting on U.S. policy toward Venezuela. Similar such meetings took place in 1953, 1963, and 1973, as well as before coups in Guatemala, Brazil and Argentina. It should send a deep chill down the backs of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the populist coalition that took power in 1998.
www.examiner.com/sfx/templates/printer.jsp

IBM USA knew that its Hollerith machines were needed and used in the camps. IBM USA kept careful records of where its leased property was located and played an active role in servicing these machines, training its clients how to use them, and providing punch cards and other supplies. IBM USA's inventories of 1940 and 1941 indicate that the company knew which Hollerith machines were located in camps, along with their serial numbers and the amount they were being paid for the lease of each machine. At Dachau alone there were approximately 24 IBM sorters, tabulators and printers.
www.cmht.com/casewatch/inprint/ipibmoped.htm

The EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) came briefly to the
worlds attention when they seized several towns in Chiapas on New Years Day in 1994. This image of a new armed rebel movement in the period when such movements were meant to have recognized their own redundancy was startling and demonstrated that history was not yet over.
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An array of Zionist Lobby organizations, all deeply tied to Mega and to the remnants of the 1980s "X Committee" of Jonathan Jay Pollard spy fame, are fully activated to bury the story about the Israeli drug and espionage operations against the United States, and their possible links to the events of Sept. 11. EIRNS has confirmed that Camera ("Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America") has launched an e-mail, fax, and phone call campaign, to force Fox TV to drop its probe of the Israeli dope, spy, and terror scandal (indeed, Fox has removed the transcripts of the coverage from its website).
www.larouchepub.com/pr/2001/011229bury_spy_story.html

FARC new years message
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How the IMF Messed Up Argentina
emperors-clothes.com/news/argen.htm

The following is an edited version of a 112-page "Special Report to the European Parliament" prepared by the Omega Foundation for the European Parliament's department of Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA). While this report and its subsequent updates are widely known throughout Europe, it has never appeared in the US media.
www.indymedia.org/front.php3

Far from the American media machine, two French authors have released a report outlining U.S. attempts to finesse the issue of Osama bin Laden long before Al Qaeda struck on September 11. Based on extensive firsthand reporting, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié write in their book, Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth, that the Bush administration went so far as to consider waging war against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban last summer. Brisard and Dasquié argue the U.S. cared more about getting access to the region's oil than about getting the head of Osama bin Laden.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0201/ridgeway.php

We know we have a drunken felon driving the bus -- we are all
being quiet and humoring that drunken felon until the moment when
we can safely and legally subdue him and render him harmless.
Make no mistake, everyone knows, everyone is concerned, everyone
is looking for the right way to correct the problem.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2540

These days, the brazen belligerence of the US goes way beyond arrogance and all the way to hubris, the old Greek conception of a pride so overweening that it literally begs to be toppled, like Icarus felled for daring to approach the sun.
www.antiwar.com/justin/j123101.html

The Southern California JDL head isn't the outcast the Jewish community is now trying to portray him as. In fact, he was selected to be the presenter to the former Prime Minister of Canada of an honorary Degree from Tel Aviv University at a Synagogue in the most exclusive neighbourhood of Montreal in 1994.
www.rense.com/general18/JDLbombingsuspect.htm

Relatives and lawyers for two Jewish Defense League members charged with plotting to bomb a mosque and a congressman's office said on Thursday the men were innocent and set up by a "crazy" man working as a confidential government informant.
www.rense.com/general18/militantjewishactivists.htm

A Nobel Peace Prize winner has joined court action seeking to try former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger for torture, disappearances and murders in South America during his time in office.
www.bilderberg.org/kissing.htm

This is your long-held view (Tikkun, p. 46, Vol. 4, No. 5). You add that "the collision of two nationalisms led directly to the creation of the Arab refugee problem". The overwhelming evidence of thousands of testimonies of refugees, now supported by evidence in the declassified Israeli, British and American files, give a different and more graphic picture. It clearly shows a pattern of a determined, well-planned and sustained campaign (till today) of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. Zionists wanted Palestine Arabrein. If Zionists wanted to 'share' land, the Palestinians would have welcomed them as they did German Templars, Circassians, Bosnians, Armenians and others. In fact that is what they did until the infamous Balfour declaration.
al-awda.org/ror_tikkun_debate.htm

By getting Giuliani-flunkie Nick Scopetta appointed Bloomberg's new Fire Commissioner (Scopetta was never even a fireman) and by taking NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik and most of the other top aides into the new consulting company he heads, Giuliani has insured that his crimes will remain hidden for a long time. Scopetta will keep the Fire Department's investigation into why WTC7 collapsed low key and keep Giuliani from ever being directly blamed for it or many other other scandals involving the FDNY, the WTC deaths, the EMS etc. As Giuliani consulting firm partners the other top aides will be unable or unwilling to testify truthfully in depositions, lawsuits and any criminal investigations, against the man who is still their boss, Adolf Giuliani. He's even arranged to keep his same NYPD bodyguards after he leaves office, at taxpayer expense.
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The suit alleges the regulations are unconstitutional because the
government would have access to personal medical records without a
warrant. They would also impede patient-physician communication and intrude upon states' maintenance of personal medical records.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2521

Fifteen European prime ministers met at a castle in the Laeken neighborhood of Brussels Dec. 14-16. They were determined to unite Europe on the basis of strengthening capitalism and reducing social services, while establishing a common police force and a Reaction Force" for military interventions.

In response, some 80,000 workers demonstrated for social justice on Dec. 13. The next day another 20,000 people, saying "another Europe is possible," called for an end to the war on Afghanistan.
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This is an assault on history, on the public's understanding of its
government and on the principle of accountability. And why? No cited abuse of the system was proclaimed as provoking the order, and with his handlers sharply limiting open-forum press conferences, the chances for asking Bush are scant.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2545

­­Three of Israel's five leading banks are under investigation by French
authorities as part of a larger, ongoing probe of a money-laundering network between France and Israel.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2525

"Jewish suicide bombers? Impossible!" cry critics. However, the fact is that there is a "suicide tradition" that is a much-revered part of Jewish history -- going back to the famous mass suicide at Masada by Jewish zealots.
www.arabnews.com/Article.asp

Hai Au Huynh, and many others were victims of a police riot, and an open attempt of state terrorism. Daniel Valme, Heather Strausberger, Matthew Warfield, Teishan Latner, Jeffrey Daitson, Tristan Ahtone, and the Rev. Kabutzu Malone were also arrested.
groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2546

In the early days of the Oslo peace process, numerous activists
in the peace and environmental camps in Israel and the Palestinian
Authority called for the creation of joint non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) to confront the region's environmental ills. Such groups are often the largest, best-funded environmental organizations in the Palestinian Authority. Yet they have faced serious challenges of legitimacy, even prior to the current intifada, and have been largely unable to survive conflictual periods with their mandates and organizations intact. This study examines a number of such joint environmental NGOs, assesses their responses to the decline in the peace process, and discusses the failure implicit in the strategy of approaching environmental cooperation primarily as a vehicle for promoting coexistence and peace.
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Dissociative Identity Disorder "DID" (formerly termed Multiple Personality Disorder) is the mind's sane defense to an insane situation. It is a way of dealing with trauma that is literally "too horrible to comprehend". Incestuous rape violates primitive instincts and surpasses pain tolerance. By compartmentalizing the memory of such horrendous abuse, the rest of the mind can function "normally" as though nothing has happened. This compartmentalization is created by the brain actually shutting down neuron pathways to a
specific part of the brain.
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Canadian newspaper readers are being warned not to expect a balanced opinion from their dailies after executive orders from the country's largest media corporation were given to run a select number of national editorials and homogenize remaining editorials across the country so as not to, among other things, reflect negatively on Israel's occupation of Arab land.
www.dailystar.com.lb/29_12_01/art20.htm

Defense relations between Israel and India have grown so strong that some say Israel is replacing Russia as India's main arms supplier.
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A TELEVISION documentary in which Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign minister, discloses for the first time details about Israel's acquisition of nuclear weapons is to be broadcast in the Arab world. It is intended, at a time of rising tensions, as a warning.
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Copy Of Complaint Against JDL Terrorist Irv Rubin
news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jdl/usrubin121201cmp1.pdf

Hamed Karzai, head of the Afghan provisional government, has cooperated with the Americans since the years of Afghan jihad [war] against the Soviets in the 1980s and has ties with the CIA--in coordination and cooperation with the CIA, he carried out a large-scale covert operation inside Afghanistan with the objective of igniting a popular uprising against the Taleban regime. Karzai later worked as a consultant for the huge US oil group Unocal, which had supported the Taleban movement and sought to construct a pipeline to transport oil and gas from the Islamic republics of Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan.
www.indymedia.org/front.php3

India, which had earlier condemned suicide attack on Israel that had left more than 25 Israelis dead, reacted sharply over the heightened and highly disproportionate Israeli retaliations against the Palestinian population. It said that the acts of violence cannot be justified on any grounds.
www.milligazette.com/Archives/01012002/0101200209.htm

Some opponents of the war theorise that the Bin Laden in the film was a lookalike, others claim images of him had been manipulated. It was also pointed out that it was surprising that a man with the ability to organise the attacks on America would be naive enough to confess on tape. And some observers point out that Bin Laden appears to be wearing a ring on his right hand. In previous film of Bin Laden released by him, he has worn no jewellery apart from a watch.
www.milligazette.com/Archives/01012002/0101200241.htm

Most Americans listening to the President did not know that the United States supplied Iraq with much of the raw material for creating a chemical and biological warfare program. Nor did the media report that U.S. companies sold Iraq more than $1 billion worth of the components needed to build nuclear weapons and diverse types of missiles, including the infamous Scud.

When Iraq engaged in chemical and biological warfare in the 1980s, barely a peep of moral outrage could be heard from Washington, as it kept supplying Saddam with the materials he needed to build weapons.
www.milligazette.com/Archives/01012002/0101200243.htm

Thousands of people have been killed by the US just for dreaming of freedom. So who are the "freedom loving people" President Bush talks about? asks Harold Pinter, one of the world's most celebrated contemporary playwrights and essayists, in an essay in the special issue of The Little Magazine on terror in the context of September 11 and the Afghan War.
www.milligazette.com/Archives/15122001/1512200148.htm

Police raided the offices of Jihadi outfits in different parts of Karachi and took some people into custody on Sunday. Police raided the office of Lashkar-i-Taiba in Gulshan-i- Iqbal and questioned some people present at the time, police sources said.
www.dawn.com/2001/12/31/top9.htm

Talks between the Afghan government and British military officials, expected to yield a final agreement on the deployment of a UN-mandated peacekeeping force, ended without result on Sunday.
www.dawn.com/2001/12/31/top12.htm

Pakistani and Indian forces exchanged fire on Sunday along the Line of Control (LoC), the United News of India (UNI) said. Quoting Indian military sources , the agency said the Pakistan Rangers fired heavy machineguns and tracers at Indian outposts in the Akhnoor, Samba and Ranbir Singh Pura sectors.
www.dawn.com/2001/12/31/top14.htm

The foreign office on Monday cautiously welcomed a reconciliatory message emanating from New Delhi which spoke of exhausting diplomatic channels for defusing tension with Pakistan.
www.dawn.com/2002/01/01/top3.htm

A large number of Pakistan Rangers, deployed in Karachi in aid of the police for maintaining law and order, has been withdrawn and sent to eastern border of the country.
www.dawn.com/2002/01/01/top8.htm

11 killed in Kashmir violence
www.dawn.com/2002/01/01/top18.htm

On the west side of Anniston, the poor side of Anniston, the people ate dirt. They called it "Alabama clay" and cooked it for extra flavor. They also grew berries in their gardens, raised hogs in their back yards, caught bass in the murky streams where their children swam and played and were baptized. They didn't know their dirt and yards and bass and kids -- along with the acrid air they breathed -- were all contaminated with chemicals. They didn't know they lived in one of the most polluted patches of America.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46648-2001Dec31.html

President Hugo Chavez celebrated a contentious new oil law
that entered into effect Tuesday, telling supporters that Venezuela is
beginning the New Year with a "new oil strategy."
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