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November 19-20, 2005

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired
their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we
could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=528&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Celebrate Un-Thanksgiving: An Occupation Worth Applauding
By Mickey Z.

Until the federal penitentiary was closed in 1963, Alcatraz Island was a
place most folks tried to leave. On Nov. 20, 1969, the island's image
underwent a drastic makeover. That was the day thousands of American Indians
began an occupation that would last until June 11, 1971.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=2
A return to tribes
Jan Lundberg, Culture Change

The native American peoples had incredibly rich cultures to match the
incredibly rich natural environment in which they flourished.  The European
invaders justified land-grab and genocide by claiming the "Indians" were
lazy sinners because they were not "productive" in clearing the forests.
The culture that soon dominated the continent is traced to the present,
giving us global climate change. The problem is intractable when
technological "progress" bamboozles the mind and we lose touch with nature.
What has been lost in human life and by snuffing out hundreds of indigenous
languages and cultures is barely fathomed, as is the extinction of three
species each hour nowadays.  The sheer ignorance and greed of the white
invaders also decimated oral histories, customs, knowledge and a spiritual
love of the Earth.  Some kind and reasonable white immigrants came as well,
but could not stop the overall thrust of the conquering society.

http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/11/18/221417/19
Julian Darley and The Relocalization Movement
Dave, The Oil Drum

Even within the peak oil community, Darley is a radical. He believes we must
start preparing now for the end of the Fossil Fuels Age, the "post carbon"
world. As he said at a panel at ASPO-USA, "big energy is destroying the
planet", a remark he repeated in the smaller setting. Darley believes the
200 year old Industrialization pathway has been a huge mistake which our
descendants will pay for. We must start rectifying that mistake immediately.
Humankind has moved too far away from Nature and no longer knows how to live
in local, sustainable communities. Talking to the small Boulder Valley
Relocalization group, Darley emphasized the importance of reduce & produce--
the need to reduce comsumption--especially of energy--you use and produce
whatever you need to live locally as far as that is possible.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Sullivan1120.htm
Searching for Journalistic Integrity
Charles Sullivan, Dissident Voice

The Concord naturalist and writer Henry Thoreau had a great disdain for the
news -- especially that conveyed in the newspapers of his time. Thoreau
never read a newspaper and he was critical of anyone who did. Thoreau
refused to profane his mind with the muck and slime of the daily news,
especially as it related to commerce. Being a critical thinker, Thoreau was
deeply suspicious of anything that appeared in the newspapers.

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/americas-corporatacracy-says-no-mas.html
America's Corporatacracy Says "No MAS"
Jason Miller, Thomas Paine's Corner

Morales and Chavez are both portrayed as "threats" to the United States and
have been characterized as "enemies". It is mind-boggling that the leaders
of the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of humanity can
view these men or their tiny nations (neither of which have the military
might to overpower the state of Rhode Island) as legitimate threats. Is the
US power elite suffering from delusional paranoia? Actually, their fears are
well-founded, but one needs to analyze the situation a bit more closely to
discern the root cause of their trepidations.

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs11192005.html
A Pathetic Congress: If It Walks Like a Withdrawal Resolution, and Talks
Like One, Then Why Won't You Vote For It?
Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch

The Democrats didn't vote for immediate withdrawal. In what can only be
labeled a classic exercise in Orwellian doublespeak and political chicanery,
the Democratic leadership called the GOP resolution a "political stunt" and
voted against the resolution demanding withdrawal. Now, excuse me if I don't
get it, but it seems to me that if one is against the war and wants to see
an immediate withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, then one votes for immediate
withdrawal, no matter who sponsors the legislation.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1118-33.htm
This War Cannot Be Stopped By a Loyal Opposition
Jeremy Scahill, Common Dreams

The Democrats didn't need false intelligence to push them into overthrowing
Saddam Hussein's regime. It was their policy; a policy made the law of the
land not under George W. Bush, but under President Bill Clinton when he
signed the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, formally initiating the process of
regime change in Iraq. Manipulated intelligence is but a small part of a
bigger, bipartisan 15-year assault on Iraq's people. If the Democrats really
want to look at how America was led into this war, they need to go back
further than the current president's inauguration. As bloody and deadly as
the occupation has been, it was Bill Clinton who refined the art of killing
innocent Iraqis following the Gulf War.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=9147
Wasting Fallujah
Scott Morris, ZNet

"Waste the motherfuckers!" screamed across the screen in the outrageous and
hateful film "Rules of Engagement" (2000), and into the streets and
neighborhoods of Fallujah in November 2004.  The film is a Samuel L. Jackson
military vehicle that celebrates US war crimes from Vietnam to the Middle
East, the US slaughter of Muslim civilians, young children included, and
Arab bloodletting in general. It is, of course, one film, among many, that
prepares US audiences for real manifestations of US aggression and war
crimes:  torture, slaughter of civilians, children included, and Iraqi
bloodletting, as was the case in the "wasting" of Fallujah. The ease with
which the US has, for more than 2 ½ years "wasted" Iraqis, the ease with
which culturally we participate in acts of wanton cruelty, demonizing of
Iraqis, savage acts of inhumanity and barbarism, brutish violations of
international conventions and laws, and our willingness to look the other
way in the face of monstrous US induced misery, suffering and death, is
symbolized graphically in the haunting specter of the US "wasting" of
Fallujah one year ago: "Operation Phantom Fury."

http://humanitarian.bloghi.com/2005/11/20/genocide-in-iraq.html
Genocide in Iraq?
David Baake, Humanitarian.bloghi

No country in the world has suffered more sustained misery at the hands of
the American Empire in the post-Soviet era than Iraq, which has been
punished with a degree of ferocity unseen since the invasion of Vietnam.
The people of Iraq have endured horrific tragedies caused by the United
States government during the past 20 years, beginning with the rule of the
ruthless tyrant Saddam Hussein who was armed and aided by the United States
during the 1980s while he may have massacred between 50,000 and 100,000
Iraqis.  Later, when relations between the United States and the dictator
soured, the people of Iraq endured a US invasion in 1991 during which as
many as 100,000 Iraqis died and 300,000 were wounded as a direct result of
the atrocities committed by the US military. During the Gulf War the United
States committed widespread abuses and war crimes, including the infamous
use of bulldozers to plow living, injured, and dead Iraqi soldiers into the
ground, burying some alive.  Civilian targets were purposely attacked, Iraqi
soldiers who had raised a white flag in surrender were mercilessly killed,
and the military used depleted uranium in bullets and missiles, causing
untold suffering including birth disorders and genetic defects

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1646116,00.html
The right to rule ourselves
Haifa Zangana, The Guardian

Faced with US torture, killing and collective punishment of civilians,
support for the Iraqi resistance is growing.

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NewsWire

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
Googlebombing 'failure'

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/wash-post-defends-woodwards-lies.html
Disgusting: Washington Post defends Woodward's lies

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article328217.ece
Global disaster will follow if the ice cap on Greenland melts as scientists
say it is vanishing far faster than even they expected

http://newerainvestor.blogspot.com/2005/11/full-throttle-decline-rates.html
Full Throttle Decline Rates: UK North Sea oil production averaging annual
decline rates of 8%-10%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4449698.stm
Supply fears amid gas price surge in UK

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/103209
Time to discard 50 years of energy myths

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-US-Marines-Used-Thermobaric-Weapons-in-Iraq-12666.shtml
US Marines Used Thermobaric Weapons in Iraq

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/13213806.htm
Record number on hand to protest terrorist school in Fort Benning

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/basq-n19.shtml
Basque separatist leader faces jail for "insulting" the king

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/magazine/20bolivia.html
Che's second coming?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1870755,00.html
Toiling in a Dickensian hell - the miners who fuel China

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