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http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20323
Tom Tomorrow: the innocent have nothing to hide

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Articles of interest

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact
THE IRAN PLANS: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting 
the bomb?
Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker

The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to 
stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine 
activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air 
attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said 
that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of 
American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect 
targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority 
groups.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Sharma07.htm
I Do Believe We Have a Death Threat
Sunil K. Sharma, Dissident Voice

CounterPunch co-editor Jeffrey St. Clair this morning brought to my 
attention a screed by a disturbed individual named George M. Weinert V of 
Chicago, Illinois, whose blog, American Jihad, features a March 24, 2006 
article (to put it charitably) that reads clearly as an incitement to 
violence . . .  a call to "hunt down the treasonous operators" of Dissident 
Voice, CounterPunch, Uruknet, and other "radical left wing hippy commie 
Muslim sucking" (wow, what a mouthful) web sites. Particularly singled out 
for targeting in Weinert's deranged ramblings are Dissident Voice 
contributing writers Mike Whitney, Ken Sanders, as well as our friend and 
past contributing writer Kurt Nimmo. Weinert is hardly subtle in issuing 
what is clearly a death threat against us.

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col340.htm
Closing the Secret School: Suddenly there's fertile ground for human rights 
in South America
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders

Something was missing when Father Roy Bourgeois and several companions 
traveled through South America last month: fear. Or rather, as he said it, 
almost reverently, "FEAR-R-R-R" - a big, lingering, life-shaping word, 
clotted with grief and inexpressible rage. As he spoke the word, it was 
alive with the memory of midnight knocks and disappeared loved ones, the 
reality of life under the oligarchies and terror regimes that subdued the 
poor in Latin America for so long.

http://bad.eserver.org/editors/2006/antiimmigrantimpulse.html
The Anti-Immigrant Impulse in U.S. Comedy
Pancho McFarland, Bad Subjects

Evening comedy in the U.S. uses racist depictions of immigrants to gain 
laughs and ratings while misleading the public about the importance of 
immigrants to our economy and culture.

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NewsWire

http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=8827
Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America? You bet it does

http://progressive.org/mag_apb040606
Israel controversy threatens free speech

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70619-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
Whistleblower outs NSA spy room

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/leak-a08.shtml
Bush approved security leak to smear war critic

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060408/wl_mideast_afp/usirannuclearmilitary
US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18766793-1702,00.html
Iran shoots down unmanned spy plane

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=23540
Iraqis struggle to cope with lower food rations: subsidies slashed in face 
of mounting deprivation

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/131/31/
An out of control profession: infant mental health now targeted by 
psychiatry industry

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060405_virtual_pandemic.html
Virtual pandemic: 90 days to infect all of US

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline
Massive Gas Pipeline to Pierce the Amazon: Project Will Devastate South 
America's Rainforests, Water and Climate

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13130-2124287,00.html
World cannot meet oil demand

http://braytonlaw.com/news/mednews/040706_cell_phones.htm
Cell phones may increase brain tumor risk

http://www.alternet.org/story/34529/
Crumbling Under Debt: Americans relying on borrowed money to maintain 
standard of living

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