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http://www.altpr.org/apr15/keating.html
Harass the Brass! Mutiny, Fragging and Desertions in the U.S. Military
By Kevin Keating

An examination of what happened to the US military during the Vietnam War
can help us understand the central role the "the military question" will
play in a future revolutionary struggle. It isn't a question of how a
chaotic and rebellious civilian populace can out-gun the well-organized,
disciplined armies of the capitalist state in pitched battle, but of how
this mass movement can cripple the effective fighting capacity of the
military, and bring about the collapse and dispersal of the state's armed
forces. What set of circumstances can compel the inchoate discontentment
endemic in any wartime army or navy to advance to the level of conscious
organized resistance? How fast and how deeply can a subversive consciousness
spread among enlisted people? How can rebels in uniform take effective,
large-scale action against the military machine? This will involve the
sabotage and destruction of sophisticated military technologies, an
irreversible breakdown in the chain-of-command, and a terminal
demoralization of the officer corps. Circumstances must make it clear to
officers that they are fighting a losing war, and that their physical safety
can best be guaranteed if they give up, surrender their weapons and run
away. The "quasi-mutiny" that helped defeat the US in Vietnam offers a
significant precedent for the kind of subversive action revolutionaries will
have to help foment in the fight against 21st century capitalism.

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Is It a State of Crisis Yet?
By Ron Jacobs

Like the PNAC document, the Democrats' paper uses the tragedy of 911 as a
starting point. It continues by supporting the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq
while decrying the fact that no other capitalist country except for Britain
is paying the same price for those adventures as the United States is. As it
rambles on, the paper emphasizes repeatedly the Democratic Party's tradition
of aggressive military intervention throughout the Twentieth Century: Korea,
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Vietnam, the former Yugoslavia, and so on. The
intention of this litany is to prove that the Democrats are just as warlike
as the so-called GOP neocons.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=515&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
BUSHSPEAK: DARK AND GARBLED WORDS
By John Chuckman

A culture of victimization? America is the world authority on that odd
subject. Following 9/11 everything from the giant street signs at doughnut
shops to blinking signs on gas pumps insisted that Americans must never
forget. There were even sweatshirts being sold in supermarkets and gardening
centers. It was all one huge, confused, and dangerous reaction spurred on by
an incompetent man at the top muttering about "with us or against us."

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Other articles of interest

http://www.ccchronicle.com/paper/arts.php?id=1831
The fall of independent publishing?
Hunter Clauss, Alicia Dorr, and Jennifer Sabella, Columbia Chronicle

In 1996, IPA took over Big Top Newsstand Services, a national magazine
distributor. Its mission: to assist clients in networking, lowering costs
and reaching a broader audience. The distributor became the Indy Press
Newsstand Services and currently handles more than 50 independent
publications to hundreds of retailers nationwide. This arm of the IPA
offered independent magazines a chance to get their titles into larger chain
bookstores, companies that no longer accepted just any distributor. But
magazines could soon lose this safety net. Moore, associate editor of Punk
Planet, referred to an e-mail which was sent out by Richard Landry,executive
director of the IPA. The e-mail informed all IPA members that the Indy Press
was "experiencing cash-flow problems that have resulted in late payments."

http://nightlight.typepad.com/nightlight/2005/10/judy_lives_wash.html
Judy lives! Washington Post misleads its readers
R. J. Eskow, Night Light

The Post has shown today that, even as the Administration's matrix of
war-related lies collapses around them, there are journalists willing to
continue playing the government's game.

http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=171
Hey NY Times: Go to Hell You Criminal Bastards!
Jesse, TVNewsLies

The NY Times and the rest of the criminal corporate media are lying
bastards! I can not repeat this enough: none of the information related to
the Plame case that is being presented to the public by the corporate media
is new. It is almost as if they are visiting sites such as TvNewsLIES.org,
Buzzflash.com, Whatreallyhappened.com or the like and skimming through our
archives. They are printing 2-3 year old news stories as if they are
suddenly finding out new information during some kind of journalistic
investigation. There is no investigative journalism taking place. The
criminals who work for the corporate media outlets are not leaving their
desks or lifting their telephone handsets. They are doing google searches
and they are reprinting information that was reported by real investigative
journalists 2-3 years ago. The entire news industry has become Jason Blair!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese234.html
Enduring Television
Charley Reese, LewRockwell.com

One gets tired of seeing television people in their raincoats cavorting
about in the rain and being amazed and astonished by ordinary happenings. A
hurricane involves high winds, large waves, rain and a storm surge. When
they arrive, there is no point in expressing surprise and excitedly
reporting that the surf is rough, the water is rising, the rain is falling
and the wind is blowing.

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main14.asp?filename=hub110505_In_India_CS.asp
A conversation with Arundhati Roy
Amit Sengupta, Tehelka

In India we are at the moment witnessing a sort of fusion between corporate
capitalism and feudalism - it's a deadly cocktail. We see it unfolding
before our eyes. Sometimes it looks as though the result of all this will be
a twisted implementation of the rural employment guarantee act. Half the
population will become Naxalites and the other half will join the security
forces and what Bush said will come true. Everyone will have to choose
whether they're with "us" or with the "terrorists". We will live in an
elaborately administered tyranny.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051028151559119
The New McCarthyism: On the Recent Purge of David Graeber
KK Vega, Fifth Estate via Infoshop.org

Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber's recent purge from Yale
University-coming hot on the heels of the trial-by-media of Native American
radical Ward Churchill-is one of many recent attacks on radical professors
that have shaken the supposedly safe zone of the ostensibly liberal academy.
Graeber's contract was recently not renewed under highly suspicious
circumstances after many years of teaching at the Ivy League school.

http://www.postcarbon.org/node/508
Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture
Lisa Rayner, Post Carbon Institute

Both permaculture design and research into the nature of psychological
trauma were born out of a need to heal. A comparison of the two fields
demonstrates an intrinsic similarity between the principles of permaculture
and the principles of trauma theory. During the coming decades of declining
net energy and ecological collapse, both will be vitally necessary to the
survival of human communities and ecosystems.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/10/25/224914/77
Automobile apartheid -- another lesson from Katrina
Joel S. Hirschhorn, Gristmill

Automobile apartheid means anyone who wants mobility through walking,
cycling, or public transportation suffers discrimination in a built
environment designed for automobiles. In the past 20 years, as automobile
addiction has increased, sprawl has run rampant, the number of trips people
take by walking has decreased by more than 42 percent, and obesity has
skyrocketed. Personal freedom and independence should mean more than the
ability to go wherever one wants, whenever one wants. Americans should also
have the freedom to travel how they want. When cars are the only option,
freedom is diminished.

http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=2
It is within our power - even the Unknown Consumer's!
Jan Lundberg, Culture Change

It is not possible to salvage the U.S. experiment, given its advance into
decline and chaos. Inherent contradictions and hypocrisies have been sure to
exact a price too high to bear. Likewise it is not possible to salvage the
course of our civilization, based -- as the U.S. is -- on endless resource
extraction and ruthless exploitation of nature and of humanity.

http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/35/culture.shtml
Starving in the Land of Plenty: Reverend Billy Predicts the Consumer
Apocalypse
Liz Worth, Clamor

Subcultures that the general public once saw as inherently threatening- like
punk and hip hop- are, for many, now just so many reasons to go shopping.
The words "revolution" and "rebel" have been used to sell everything from
computers to pet care products. Even "guerilla" is fast becoming
predominantly a marketing term, rather than a political tactic.

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10282005.html
Suddenly, Bush Embraces Right of Fair Trials
Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch

When President Bush was confronted by reporters as he left the White House
for Camp David following the announcement of the five indictments of, and
the resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney chief of state I. Lewis
"Scooter" Libby, he offered up a lame comment, which at the same time
exposed him as a grotesque hypocrite. "In our system," he said, "each
individual is presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial." Sure. That's
what will happen with Scooter, and with Karl Rove if he gets indicted when
the other shoe drops. But what about Jose Padilla?

http://www.democratsdiary.co.uk/2005/10/wiped-off-map.html
Wiped off the Map
The Democrat's Diary (UK)

Does calling for the elimination of a state constitute "a crime against
humanity", as Shimon Peres contends? If so, then Ahmadinejad would be joined
in the dock by every Israeli official who has not only advocated but
effected the policy of expansionism that continues to prevent a Palestinian
nation state from emerging. The list would be long and illustrious.

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NewsWire

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/10/20/soldier/
The (really scary) soldier of the future: Thanks to nanotechnology, he'll be 
a lethal superman who can heal himself

http://www.campusantiwar.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=2
Kent State Administration Threatens Iraq Veteran with Expulsion for
Counter-Recruitment Protest

http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=19330&c=86
ACLU of Southern California Demands That School Allow Student to Distribute
Flyers Opposed to Military Recruiters

http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_3155997
Students rally against terrorist recruiters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051030/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusprison
Democracy in action: US unveils new prison camp in northern Iraq

http://www.antiwar.com/ips/kyriakou.php?articleid=7842
Bush: Treaty Outlawing Torture Doesn't Apply Beyond US Soil

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=125457&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28222
SOS written in blood on prison cell wall by Guatanamo detainee who was
repeatedly denied medical treatment

http://www.counterpunch.org/gasper10282005.html
Killing a Voice for Peace: The Race to Execute Tookie Williams

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051028172725422
Anarchist prisoner Harold Thompson attacked by Aryan Brotherhood Nazis in
Prison

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bushmen-forced-from-desert-after-millenniums/2005/10/30/1130607151912.html
Bushmen forced from desert after millenniums

http://english.people.com.cn/200510/29/eng20051029_217618.html
Landless peasant leaders sentenced to 10 years in prison

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-09.htm
The Deadliness Below: Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years
ago present danger now - and the Army doesn't know where they all are

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/observer/story.html?id=6f167b2c-a202-40db-a4f3-dbd64f425778
Global warning: The past two years were the warmest ever recorded in some of
Greenland's coastal communities ... ice didn't form

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article322852.ece
Global warming threatens drought for Mediterranean

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/higherocean30.htm
Higher ocean acidity poses threat to food chain

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/29/national/main994809.shtml
The struggle for power post-Wilma

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30pensions.html
The End of Pensions

http://www.counterpunch.org/bernstein10282005.html
Inflation Up; Wages Down -- Fastest Decline in Real Wages on Record

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-poor-set-to-lose-food-stamps/2005/10/29/1130400390006.html
US poor set to lose food stamps

http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05102606.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y&bounce=y&bounce2=y
Real Estate Bubble? You Bet!

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article323336.ece
Real Life: Ten very surprising things about Iran</a>

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