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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031106C.shtml
Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations,
Part I
By Hope Marston, Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033006E.shtml
Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations,
Part II

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The Conscience of a Nazi: What Immigration Reform Means for the U.S.
by Leslie Radford

The Left today widely acknowledges the emergence in the United States of
three fundamentals of Fascism: corporatism, imperialism, and repression.
What is forgotten is the fourth, equally critical prop to a Fascist state:
scapegoats. Without them, even "good" citizens will question themselves and
their government. With them, the frustration of the volk can play itself out
on the scapegoats, without threat to the state. With the emergence of
punitive immigration laws like Sensenbrenner (HR 4437), communities of
recent immigrants have, understandably, recognized the Fascist implications
of scapegoating with far more clarity than most European-descent people in
the U.S.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=628&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Iraq's US/UK Permanent Bases: Intentional Obfuscation
By Sarah Meyer

There is Pentagon and US governmental obfuscation surrounding United States
permanent bases in Iraq. Whilst Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence,
continues to deny a permanent US presence there, the facts appear to
contradict his statements.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=73753
War Crimes in Iraq
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack
on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with
approval. The attack began with a bombing campaign intended to drive out all
but the adult male population; men ages fifteen to forty-five who attempted
to flee Falluja were turned back. The plans resembled the preliminary stage
of the Srebrenica massacre, though the Serb attackers trucked women and
children out of the city instead of bombing them out. While the preliminary
bombing was under way, Iraqi journalist Nermeen al-Mufti reported from "the
city of minarets [which] once echoed the Euphrates in its beauty and calm
[with its] plentiful water and lush greenery. a summer resort for Iraqis
[where people went] for leisure, for a swim at the nearby Habbaniya lake,
for a kebab meal." She described the fate of victims of these bombing
attacks in which sometimes whole families, including pregnant women and
babies, unable to flee, along with many others, were killed because the
attackers who ordered their flight had cordoned off the city, closing the
exit roads.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/03/1319200
Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and
the Israeli Elections
Democracy Now!

When you talk about the government propaganda system we have to recognize
that that includes the media. It includes the media, the journalists and so
on. That's all part of the propaganda system, very closely linked. There is
virtually no criticism of the war in Iraq. Now, that will surprise
journalists, I suppose. They think they're being very critical, but they're
not. I mean, the kinds of criticism of the war in Iraq that are allowed in
the doctrinal system, media and so on, are the kind of criticisms you heard
about, say, in the German general staff after Stalingrad: it's not working;
it's costing too much; we made a mistake, we should get a different general;
something like that. In fact, it's about at the level of a high school
newspaper cheering the local football team. You don't ask, "Should they
 win?" You ask, "How are we doing?" You know, "Did the coaches make a
mistake? Should we try something else?" That's called criticism.

http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-hassan030406.htm
Thought Control
Ghali Hassan, Countercurrents.org

Like all imperialist forces, the US is heavily relaying on misinformation
propaganda campaign to promote and enhance its imperialist ideology.
Violence and war crimes against defenceless civilians are depicted as
"fighting the enemy". The mass murder of Iraqi civilians by US forces is
normalised and welcomed with deafening silence. The purpose is thought
control, or as it is called "perception management" designed to enhance US
images. The campaign is part of a wider Western strategy to mislead the
public, remove historical memory and justify more wars.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_654.shtml
No yellow ribbons from this ex-marine
Ben Tanosborn, Online Journal

A bold pronouncement saying, "I do not support the troops," is not something
that you expect to read or to hear in the mainstream media. And I hadn't . .
. not until March 27, when a former marine of the Vietnam era had his
sentiments unmistakably expressed in a letter sent to The Oregonian. Defiant
and angry, he started his letter to the editor this way: "OK, if no one else
will say it, I'll say it: 'I do not support the troops.'" No words minced
with this marine . . . as he stood tall, at attention, with a "semper
fidelis" to truth! A paragraph in his letter summed up how he felt: "When I
was 18 and as stupid as all the troops over there now, including the
square-jawed, talking-head generals, I was supposed to be bringing democracy
to a Third World country. It was baloney then and it's baloney now.

http://lefti.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_lefti_archive.html#114404206380555840
Health care in Iraq, then and now
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News

Once considered the best in the region, Iraq's health system currently has
some of the worst health statistics. Diarrhea, measles, respiratory
infections, and malaria -- compounded by under-nutrition affecting 30
percent of children under five -- contribute to excessive rates of infant
and child mortality. Lack of care during pregnancy contributes to high
maternal mortality rates. Tuberculosis and cholera have reemerged.

http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/index.php?p=169
Hands Off Jill Carroll
Rory O'Connor's Blog

The mugging of Jill Carroll by the pathetic likes of John Podhoretz, Don
Imus, and the rest of their wingnut cohort from the right side of the
blogosphere makes me sick. How dare these misguided, ill-informed armchair
analysts unleash their barrage of criticism accusing Carroll of showing "too
much sympathy for her kidnappers."

http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin04012006.html
You're Damn Right Race Matters: The Press Mob, Their Rope and Barry Bonds
Dave Zirin, CounterPunch

Dave Steward, a former 20 game winner and front office exec who now is an
agent, said to one reporter, "People keep talking about how he's not
supposed to keep hitting homers and doing phenomenal things because he's
40-plus. Well, Roger Clemens is 40-plus, too, and nobody ever brings his
name up. Why not? Is it because he's white?" Matt Lawton, who unlike Bonds
has tested positive for steroids, said, "If (Bonds) were white, he'd be a
poster boy in baseball, not an outcast."

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NewsWire

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1746227,00.html
Silence in class: Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of
progressives

http://news.com.com/Drone+aircraft+may+prowl+U.S.+skies/2100-11746_3-6055658.html
Drone aircraft may prowl US skies

http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=119
Freedom House receiving US government money "for clandestine activities
inside Iran"

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1726428.php
Police Militarize Downtown Fresno on Cesar Chavez Day

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/04/03/LetsCheerOurDefeat/
Canada tried to un-ban 'terminator' seeds. Instead, 1.4 billion farmers won

http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/smart_economy/2006/04/start_of_water_.html
The start of Water Wars? Canada's Western prairies face impending water
crisis

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10196
China grapples with growing water shortages

http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Forest/2006.htm
World's forests continue to shrink

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10193
Coral dieoff spreads to the Caribbean

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0403-01.htm
Is it too late to stop global warming?

http://www.alternet.org/audits/34416/
Harvard takes on the Israel lobby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4876176.stm
Shooting of British film maker in Gaza was "cold-blooded murder"

http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/04/04/1519698.html
One million riot in France

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8401.shtml
Iraq much worse off than before we "liberated" it

http://www.imemc.org/content/view/16795/1/
Israeli killer of 13-year old Palestinian girl receives monetary
compensation, promotion in Israeli Army

http://story.seguingazette.com/drudge.html
UT professor says death is imminent

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