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December 27, 2004

Website of the Week
http://inthewake.org/
In the Wake - A Collective Manual-in-progress for Outliving Civilization

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=407&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Civilization Versus Barbarism? An Interview with Noam Chomsky
By M. Junaid Alam

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful
states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that
are called terrorists and subnational groups. I mean just take, say, Iraq.
The best current estimate of deaths after the invasion is 100,000 maybe
more, maybe less. Take a long time for Islamic terrorists to kill 100,000
people. Take say, the most extensive terrorist act attributed to Islamic
terrorists, 9-11. About 3,000 people killed, which is a pretty horrible
atrocity. But as atrocities go, it doesn't rank very high.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23380-2004Dec23.html
A Protester's Precarious But Firm Stand: Activist Goes Out on a Ledge For
New Homeless Shelter
David Montgomery, Washington Post

She is Jamie Loughner, 40, an activist for the homeless who was once
homeless herself. She won't come down. She won't eat, either. She has taken
the traditions of the hunger striker, the flagpole sitter and the tree
sitter and blended them into a new form of protest that has the authorities
baffled and fuming. They, in turn, have upped the ante: They are refusing
her requests for water.

http://www.progress.org/2004/water26.htm
THE PETROLEUM COMMONS: LOCAL, ISLAMIC, AND GLOBAL
George Caffentzis, progress.org

The struggles over the ownership of the two most important political liquids
of this era, petroleum and water, have had different fates. Though water has
been claimed to be either private, state or common property throughout
history, the novel feature of this period has been the move by corporations
to totally privatize it. The powerful struggles against this corporate
privatization of water from Cochabamba in Bolivia to Soweto in South Africa
have focused world attention on the question: Who owns water? The consequent
efforts to keep water as a common property on a local and global level are
now some of the most important initiatives of the anti-globalization
movement. Petroleum, on the other hand, has in the last hundred and fifty
years been considered exclusively as either private or state property.

http://www.sfbayview.com/121504/cheguevaralives121504.shtml
Che Guevara lives in Palestine: Signs of resistance in daily life are
everywhere in occupied Palestine
Arlene Eisen, SF Bay View

They seethe and support or at least applaud the resistance. They find a way
to survive. And, at great risk, a number even travel from one town to
another, somehow avoiding the checkpoints where the heavily armed Israeli
Occupying Forces would deny them a visit to a relative or a shorter walk to
school. Informal networks of friends, trusting strangers, collective taxis,
donkeys, well-worn mountain paths and friendly peasant homes form a modern
underground railroad to assist travelers banned from the roads by the IOF.

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/December/22%20o/Living%20Under%20Fascism%20By%20Rev%20Davidson%20Loehr.htm
Living Under Fascism
Rev Davidson Loehr, Al-Jazeerah

You may wonder why anyone would try to use the word "fascism" in a serious
discussion of where America is today. It sounds like cheap name-calling, or
melodramatic allusion to a slew of old war movies. But I am serious. I don't
mean it as name-calling at all. I mean to persuade you that the style of
governing into which America has slid is most accurately described as
fascism, and that the necessary implications of this fact are rightly
regarded as terrifying. That's what I am about here. And even if I don't
persuade you, I hope to raise the level of your thinking about who and where
we are now, to add some nuance and perhaps some useful insights.

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NewsWire

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1226-04.htm
Emergency Warning as Global Flu Epidemic Fears Grow

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11789045%255E30417,00.html
Grass has become established in Antarctica, showing the continent is warming
to temperatures unseen for 10,000 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26065-2004Dec25.html
Undeniable Global Warming

http://yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_16490.shtml
NASA Finds Polluted Clouds Hold Less Moisture and Cool Earth Less

http://www.businessedge.ca/viewnews.asp?id=7787
Aging oil wells pose threat to environment

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041226/ap/d87754ao0.html
Tens of thousands riot in China city

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