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TAKE THE DEAL: TAKE ON OSAMA'S OFFER
by Richard Oxman, Alternative Press Review

The only thing that's crucial is that we take his advice to not place much
significance on whether or not Bush or Kerry becomes his Official Nemesis,
and get down to the business of ensuring the safety of his people. No more
Beirut buildings going down, no more Twin Tower tricks. No more Baghdad
babies on a skewer, no more New York cops down the sewer. Cease and desist
with twisting their wrist, and we'll find...they won't resist. In other
words, "stop bothering them," as Howard Zinn has put in from the podium many
times.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=361&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Moving On: Liberation from the ABB Straitjacket
By Mark Hand, Press Action

The lefty, left-libertarian, anarchist, progressive Anybody But Bushers of
2004 aren't likely to change their political allegiance or strategy in
election seasons to come. Instead of seeking to disrupt and unseat the
political establishment, many of these lefty ABBers are demonstrating their
preference to engage in the surreal art of total compromise to the
Democratic Party for the sake of ousting a Republican incumbent.

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Beyond the Mainstream Blog

http://beyondthemainstream.blogspot.com/2004/10/terror-democracy.html
Terror and Democracy

When 3,000 people were killed on 9/11 in the United States of America, it
was called a barbaric act of terrorism. When 100,000 Iraqis are killed, it
is called an act of liberation and "bringing democracy to Iraq."

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Other articles of interest

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1546/
The End is Near
Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times

Fossil fuels, so easily set alight! Yes, and as Bush and Kerry are out
campaigning, we are presently touching off nearly the very last whiffs and
drops and chunks of them. All lights are about to go out. No more
electricity. All forms of transportation are about to stop, and the planet
Earth will soon have a crust of skulls and bones and dead machinery. And
nobody can do a thing about it. It's too late in the game. Don't spoil the
party, but here's the truth: We have squandered our planet's resources,
including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there 
isn't
going to be one.

http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10894/
Huge Iraqi Civilian Deaths - Democratic Imperialism Kills
by Gideon Polya, Media Monitors Network

A simple example from UNICEF data reveals the horrendous magnitude of the
human cost in Iraq and Afghanistan of what has been described by a noted
proponent of the US- and UK-led Coalitions as "democratic imperialism" (I
would prefer the more precise term of "democratic Nazism").

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NewsWire

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB140/index.htm
Pentagon Censors Chain of Command on Abu Ghraib

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_us_military
U.S. Extends Iraq Tours for 6,500 Troops

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1340271,00.html
Major assault heralded as US artillery pounds Falluja

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/31/1099219992846.html?oneclick=true
Arafat possibly poisoned: doctors

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/10/29/news/arctic.html
Arctic undergoing profound changes

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-8/p30.html
The discovery of rapid climate change

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=275
Texas energy company may get rights to drill in pristine swathe of a New
Mexico national forest

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-fringe29oct29,1,6920659.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Germany's Radical Makeover: Once a place of social experimentation by
anarchists and other free spirits, the nation has grown more staid

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