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BUSH IN A BOTTLE
By John Chuckman

These rumors have sparked stories of the dangers of a drunken President, but
I think these stories are misguided. If true, Bush's drinking is a
development we should welcome. There is, in fact, less danger from a drunken
Bush, and his return to drinking would provide one of the most fitting
possible outcomes for his destructive, miserable time in office, a political
version, if you will, of time wounds all heels.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=492&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
The Right to Armed Struggle (In memory of Filiberto Ojeda Rios)
By Mickey Z.

When early American revolutionaries chanted, "Give me liberty or give me
death" and complained of having but one life to give for their country, they
became the heroes of our history textbooks. But, thanks to the power of the
U.S. media and education industries, the Puerto Rican nationalists who
dedicated their lives to independence are known as criminals, fanatics, and
assassins.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/34/culture.shtml
Under Attack: Free Speech on Campus
Justin M. Park, Clamor

Churchill said the support he's received from everyday people has been
immense: "Baggage men, people on the street. They understand the resonance
of 'fuck you.' They have a sense that I said 'fuck you' to these people and
that's alright by them." But he warned against activists focusing too much
on any one professor's cause saying, "Writing letters for me and such is all
good but we got a national problem here. People need to stand on their
rights and understand this isn't just about me." Indeed, there are probably
many less visible professors who are disappearing from campuses with little
more than a squeak, for example Churchill's colleague and environmental
activist Adrienne Anderson, let go due to "curriculum changes" only days
after Churchill made headlines.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Burstyn0924.htm
Prime Time Propaganda
Barbara Sumner Burstyn, Dissident Voice

USA Today reported in March that Homeland Security, following most other
branches of the military, has hired a Hollywood liaison to work with
moviemakers and scriptwriters. Script approval can mean access to military
facilities, equipment, and personnel, saving producers millions of dollars
simply by tweaking their scripts to serve a right-wing political agenda.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1576615,00.html
The logic of colonial rule
Tariq Ali, The Guardian

There is now near-universal agreement that the western occupation of Iraq
has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster; first for the people of Iraq,
second for the soldiers sent by scoundrel politicians to die in a foreign
land. The grammar of deceit utilised by Bush, Blair and sundry neocon/neolib
apologists to justify the war has lost all credibility. Despite the embedded
journalists and non-stop propaganda, the bloody images refuse to go away:
the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops is the only meaningful
solution.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html
War Pornography: Gore-for-porn swap by US soldiers in Iraq makes Abu Ghraib
look like kid stuff.
Chris Thompson, East Bay Express

The captions that accompany these images, which were apparently written by
the soldiers who posted them, laugh and gloat over the bodies. The soldier
who posted a picture of a corpse lying in a pool of his own brains and
entrails wrote, "What every Iraqi should look like." The photograph of a
corpse whose jaw has apparently rotted away, leaving a gaping set of upper
teeth, bears the caption: "bad day for this dude." One soldier posted three
photographs of corpses lying in the street and titled his collection, "die
haji die." The soldiers take pride, even joy, in displaying the dead.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/the_porn_of_war
The Porn of War
George Zornick, The Nation

As the Internet has given bloggers powerful tools of communication outside
the realm of the mainstream media, it has also given soldiers the ability to
relay their experiences in ways Americans will never get from traditional
news sources. But the posts on www.nowthatsfuckedup.com are not meant to
subvert the sanitized mainstream media with the goal of waking the general
public up to the horrors of war. Rather, all of the posters--and many of the
site's patrons--appear to regard the combat photos with sadistic glee, and
pathological wisecracks follow almost every post.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0924-30.htm
US Has Sanctioned Torture for Far Too Long
Jennifer K. Harbury, Newsday

Given the extraordinary flow of disclosures, confirming the use of identical
U.S. torture practices throughout Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo, the "bad
apple" defense is coy at best. It is impossible for so many soldiers to
dream up identical techniques by coincidence. We are dealing with official
policy, not individual excess. Legal responsibility goes all the way to the
top. We must also remember that these horrific practices were not invented
during the war against terror. Throughout Latin America, secretly held
prisoners were subjected to raging dogs, excruciating positions, simulated
drownings, long-term sleep and food deprivation, blasting noises and
terrifying threats.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/puer-s27.shtml
FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure
Bill Van Auken, WSWS

The fatal September 23 shooting of Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto
Ojeda Rios represents an act of state terror and cold-blooded murder by the
US government. It is one more proof that in the name of a "global war on
terrorism," Washington has arrogated to itself the right to conduct
political assassinations and act as judge, jury and executioner against
opponents of US policies and interests.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/maloney.php?articleid=7382
No Child Left Alive: Desperate for warm bodies, the military targets your
child
C.J. Maloney, Antiwar.com

For the federal government to illegally decree that we must be forced to
open our children's lives to the military reeks of tyranny. If our children
belong not to us but to the federal government, what exactly is the meaning
of this freedom we all keep yapping about?

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/1720177.php
Of Chavistas and Anarquistas: Brief Sketch
Michael Staudenmaier and Anne Carlson, SF Indymedia

For almost a month, from mid-November until mid-December, 2004, we traveled
in Venezuela, meeting an array of politically engaged activists from a
variety of perspectives. Without a doubt, the foremost lesson we learned
during our brief time there concerned the complexity of the social and
political situation in the country, which has been consistently
over-simplified in the United States. Where the mainstream media in this
country portrays President Hugo Chavez as the next Fidel Castro, busily
turning Venezuela into a Communist (or at least anti-US) dictatorship, the
US left in general has welcomed Chavez uncritically as the new face of
progressive struggle in Latin America. North American anarchists, meanwhile,
struggle to understand the situation, and are too often torn between these
two opposing but comparably one-sided perspectives.

http://www.alternet.org/story/25920/
When Opportunity Knocks, Conservatives Answer
Diane Farsetta, PR Watch

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, right-wing groups pounced on opportunities
to nurture their pet projects.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050924&articleId=991
US Northern Command and Hurricane Rita
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research

There are indications that the Bush Administration is preparing to enact
far-reaching emergency procedures in response to Hurricane Rita, which could
potentially lead the country into a situation of Martial Law.

http://www.counterpunch.org/sale09242005.html
Secession from the Empire
Kirkpatrick Sale and Thomas Naylor

In answer to a growing swell of interest in realistic responses to the
excesses of the present American empire, The Middlebury Institute has been
launched by a group of activists and professionals to promote the serious
study of separatism, secession, self-determination and similar devolutionary
trends and developments, on both national and international scales.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/klein
Purging the Poor
Naomi Klein, The Nation

New Orleans is already displaying signs of a demographic shift so dramatic
that some evacuees describe it as "ethnic cleansing." Before Mayor Ray Nagin
called for a second evacuation, the people streaming back into dry areas
were mostly white, while those with no homes to return to are overwhelmingly
black. This, we are assured, is not a conspiracy; it's simple geography--a
reflection of the fact that wealth in New Orleans buys altitude.

http://getunderground.com/features/article.cfm?Article_ID=1894
Comments on Progress
Phil Torres, Get Underground

What is progress? It seems to have something to do with technology and the
notion that society, with the help of technology, is moving towards a goal
which most would describe as "an easy life." This teleological conception of
progress is ubiquitous today, and I believe in need of serious scrutiny.

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NewsWire

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1578134,00.html
US military told al-Jazeera cameraman being held at Guantánamo Bay he would
be released if he agreed to spy on journalists

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/1720059.php
FBI Agents assassinate Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/26/anthrax_shopping_spree/
US Army goes on shopping spree for anthrax

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/14622.asp
Entire 101st Airborne Division--20,000 troops in all--Deploying to Iraq

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article314944.ece
US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every
rebel killed

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=16075&s2=24
New accounts of torture by US terror thugs

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article314735.ece
Soldier's chilling testimony fuels demonstrations against Iraq war

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/stock_troop2.html
In 1 year, Halliburton's stock doubles as troop deaths double

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1577798,00.html
Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises a measly $600

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050922-024816-1505r
Internet users thinking they can hide anonymously may soon get an awakening

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401701.html
Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets: Demonstration Is Largest in Capital Since
U.S. Military Invaded Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0926-12.htm
Cindy Sheehan arrested

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2158.shtml
Judge Censors Testimony, Charges St. Patrick's Four Members with Contempt

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050923191132991
Hurricane Care Not Warfare March Shuts Down Recruiting Center

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/saudis-warn-region-is-on-brink-of-war/2005/09/23/1126982230843.html?oneclick=true
Saudis warn region is on brink of war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1575268,00.html?gusrc=rss
Haitian children sold as slave labourers and prostitutes

http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=1051
Full-scale crackdown on Bushmen: Leaders imprisoned, children arrested,
resisters shot

http://farmweek.ilfb.org/viewdocument.asp?did=8379&drvid=105&r=0.81831&r=0.6571924&r=0.3722345
Fertilizer Costs Soar; Farmers Face Tough Decisions

http://www.energybulletin.net/9147.html
Energy shock: Driving us back to the way we were

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GI22Ak01.html
The failed American mission to steal Iraqi oil

http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15274619&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=474107&rfi=6
Natural gas woes bigger story than crude oil

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8886
Spring snowmelt in Alaska's Arctic occurring earlier, accelerating the
region's climate change

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/science/22sturgeon.html
Sturgeon Stocks Are in Decline Around World

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/755497.stm
Dawn of a thirsty century

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