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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=607&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Facilitating Fascism
by Zbignew Zingh

What kind of doctors has the United States trained who stand by idly while 
prison guards force-feed prisoners in Guantanamo Bay with plastic pipes 
shoved down the noses of the shackled and tortured? What kind of 
psychologists have we educated who assist the Pentagon inventing new ways to 
torture men and women, breaking their minds without breaking their skin; who 
help create government propaganda, plant false news stories, devise 
"psy-ops" to mislead us all? What kind of lawyers are these who work for the 
Department of "Justice", the "Defense" Department, the Pentagon or the White 
House, who waste their careers finding legal loop-holes justifying torture, 
deceit, eavesdropping and imprisonment without charge? What manner of 
scientists, hardware and software engineers have we graduated who dedicate 
their intelligence and creativity to devising deadlier weapons, more 
secretive ways to snoop, and more innovative ways to kill? What types of 
ministers, priests, rabbis, chaplains and reverends are these who mutter 
empty palliatives to their congregations, run through empty chants and 
mindless prayers and paeans to Love and Holiness in pursuit of a Life to 
Come, while today, right now, human carrion burns in their names, and naught 
do they do at all? What types of writers, journalists, editors, reporters, 
actors, what types of men and women are these who slavishly say and write 
and do as they are told knowing that they spread lies and deception and 
blather?

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=606&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Obedient Slaves Have Nothing to Fear
By Kurt Nimmo

Get used to surveillance gadgets mounted above every intersection or inside 
every store. Soon enough, surveillance cameras will be "on downtown streets 
and in apartment complexes, shopping malls and even private homes to fight 
crime during a shortage of police officers," as presaged by Houston Police 
Chief Harold Hurtt. The eventual idea-divorced from crime or security-is as 
Orwell envisioned it some sixty years ago.

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Other articles of interest

http://anthropik.com/2006/02/stone-age-freedom/
Stone Age Freedom
Jason Godesky, Anthropik Network

The Stone Age is making a comeback. It doesn't matter if we want it or not. 
Collapse is inevitable; civilization is unsustainable, and it must end soon, 
one way or another. The key to survival is to separate ourselves from our 
doomed civilization, to ensure that when it dies, we are no longer dependent 
on it.

http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=7253
It's the end of the world as he knows it and Randy White feels fine (sort 
of)
Ian Demsky, Willamette Week

Over the past year or so, White, 29, has gotten serious about throwing off 
the trappings of his old lifestyle, the habits that drove him to use more 
and more of the stuff, but it hasn't been easy. By his own admission, White 
is still hopelessly hooked. It's hard, he confides, when almost everyone you 
know-even your wife-is strung out, too. Randy White is addicted to oil. Then 
again, he would say, so are the rest of us. At least he's trying to do 
something about it.

http://www.fcnp.com/550/peakoil.htm
Cantarell - An Omen?
Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

There are a lot of bad things out there waiting to bite as the world moves 
towards peak oil- Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela, China, globalization, and 
hurricanes to name a few. Last week a new bogeyman arose - super fast oil 
depletion.

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Early_Humans_On_The_Menu.html
Early Humans On The Menu
terradaily.com

You wouldn't know it by current world events, but humans actually evolved to
be peaceful, cooperative and social animals, not the predators modern
mythology would have us believe, says an anthropologist at Washington
University in St. Louis.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html
Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'
Nat Parry, Consortium News

Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham 
suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the 
administration's domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly 
disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1714256,00.html
When it won't need a tyranny to deprive us of our freedom
George Monbiot, The Guardian

The creeping extension of implantation technology will eventually break down 
all the barriers between us and the state.

http://www.prwatch.org/node/4481
The Devil Is in the Lack of Details: The Defense Department's Media 
Contracts
Diane Farsetta, PR Watch

Although they've done their best to keep their spinning from public 
scrutiny, several major incidents have exposed the Bush administration's 
manipulation of news media: The "sell job" for the invasion of Iraq. Payola 
pundits Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus. Stooge 
"reporter" Jeff Gannon / James Guckert. Video news releases determined to be 
covert propaganda by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO).

http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia228.htm
Mainstream Media an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy
Garry Leech, Colombia Journal

A sequence of events transpired over the past few days that perfectly 
illustrate the mainstream media's role as propagandists for the U.S. and 
Colombian governments. These events consisted of the media's coverage of the 
massacre of six family members in Colombia and the release of a United 
Nations human rights report. The problem is rooted in the media's 
over-reliance on official sources, despite being fully aware of a long 
history of lying and manipulation by those sources. The corporate media's 
insistence on continuing this practice makes evident its willingness to 
operate as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy by providing disinformation 
and outright lies to the U.S. public.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB179/
Declassification in Reverse: The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
Matthew M. Aid, National Security Archive

The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 
pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and 
Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the 
World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington 
University. Matthew Aid, author of the report and a visiting fellow at the 
Archive, discovered this secret program through his wide-ranging research in 
intelligence, military, and diplomatic records at NARA and found that the 
CIA and military agencies have reviewed millions of pages at an unknown cost 
to taxpayers in order to sequester documents from collections that had been 
open for years.

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060221_oil_for_the.php
OIL FOR THE KILLING MACHINE - THE BBC ON IRAQ
Media Lens

On its main evening news last week, the BBC's royal and diplomatic 
correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, reported from Baghdad on a video which 
showed (not "appeared to show" as many journalists insist) British troops 
beating a group of young Iraqis. This was unfortunate, Witchell observed, 
because the foreign troops in Iraq are there "in an essentially peacekeeping 
role". Witchell would doubtless reject out of hand the suggestion that 
Soviet troops occupying Afghanistan in the 1980s were there "in an 
essentially peacekeeping role". Likewise, the Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait 
in August 1990. The same unthinking prejudice was exhibited in a Guardian 
leader on the British abuses.

http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=414
The Bourse Conspiracy
Russ Wellen, Freezerbox

Trying to prevent oil from being transacted in euros looks more and more 
like the act of an administration desperate to stall gathering worldwide 
momentum toward the euro. After all, Russia may be on the verge of pricing 
its oil in euros. Meanwhile, in a speech before the House of Representatives 
on February 15, Texas Congressman Ron Paul gave a crash course on how 
printing money that's not backed by gold has put us on a collision course 
with the euro. "Using force," he said, "to compel people to accept money 
without real value can only work in the short run."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060222&articleId=2032
Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research

Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's 
"Non-compliance"?

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/27209
Vaccinating For Profit - From Cradle to Coffin
Evelyn Pringle, Media Monitors

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide 
experiment on our country's youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood 
Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally 
credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and 
politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions. In 
a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand 
profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex's war on 
terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an 
epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children and 
at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of 
other prescription drugs, for the scheme's developers.

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/2006/0206/ini-0396.html
I Glorify in Revolution! So arrest me damn you!
William Bowles, williambowles.info

In actuality, running the risk of being thrown in the slammer for 
'Glorifying terrorism' is the least of our problems as the 'Prevention of 
Terrorism Act' is already wreaking havoc on the citizens of this 'cradle of 
democracy [sic]. From shouting out "nonsense" at the Labour Party Conference 
to attending film festivals or wearing a t-shirt that disses Blair, we are 
all subject to arrest and/or detention under the Prevention of Terrorism 
Act. And it's clear that the police have been given orders to use it to 
intimidate and harass anyone who speaks out or behaves in a way likely to 
bring disrepute on our 'glorious' leaders.

http://crisispapers.org/essays6w/liberty.htm
Slicing Away Liberty: 1933 Germany, 2006 America
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers

What happened in Germany in the 1920s and '30s can teach us much about how a 
nation in a few years can lose its freedom in incremental slices as a result 
of a drumbeat of never-ceasing propaganda, strong-arm tactics, government 
snooping and harassment, manufactured fear of "the other," and wars begun 
abroad with the accompanying rally-'round-the-flag patriotism.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/kumar210206.html
Danish Cartoons: Racism Has No Place on the Left
Deepa Kumar, MR Zine

I've just about had it.  I cannot watch one more episode of the Daily Show 
which makes racist jokes about Arabs and Muslims.  I am sick and tired of 
people who see themselves as part of the left writing articles that put a 
liberal gloss over what is, in essence, a right-wing "clash of 
civilizations" argument.  And I am fed up with an anti-war movement in the 
United States that will do nothing to defend Muslims against all the attacks 
they have faced both domestically and internationally.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/inju-f22.shtml
New television show explodes myths: "In Justice" dramatizes reality of US 
criminal justice system
Debra Watson, WSWS

It is remarkable that ABC's new mid-season drama "In Justice" is on 
television at all. By virtue of its underlying premise, that many innocent 
people are in prison as the result of official malfeasance, the program is 
at odds with every police drama on US television today. Until "In Justice" 
debuted on New Year's Day 2006, the glorification of the draconian 
law-and-order culture in the US was virtually the only approach available on 
network television. In the detective and police dramas that litter nightly 
prime time schedules, hardened cops, clever detectives and stern courts and 
prosecutors work unfailingly to bring in the guilty and mete out severe 
punishment to society's criminal element.

http://progressive.org/mag_intv0306
Cindy Sheehan Interview
David Barsamian, The Progressive

The first thing that strikes you about Cindy Sheehan is she is genuine. 
There is no artifice, power play, or lexical wizardry. She is without 
affectation. And that has enabled her to make an impact. She has reached 
beyond intellectual formulations to get to the heart of the matter.

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NewsWire

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20904&s2=23
CBS correspondent killed story at Pentagon request

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12010.htm
US military still planting stories in Iraq media

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101947.html
Press Can Be Prosecuted for Having Secret Files

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/260424_spies22.html
Peace groups under watch: Authorities spying on non-violent Seattle 
activists

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-25.htm
Train Them Like Rats: Behavior modification boot camps for disaffected 
teenagers stressing conformity, killing creativity and emotional growth

http://www.slweekly.com/article.cfm/justtesting
Is the US govt. making anthrax bombs in Utah?

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/32417/
No Child Left Un-recruited

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2843
School bus drivers latest terror war recruits

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2846
Virginia ACLU Seeks Change in Recruiter-Protester Policy

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/02/20/struggling_for_recruits_army_relaxes_its_rules/
Army relaxing rules as it struggles to snare recruits

http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=8583
Business as Usual for Truth Tellers: At spy agencies, no good deed goes 
unpunished

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0049D873-A7CD-4FF9-8A1B-324E601A2B82.htm
Nearly 100 dead in US custody

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12027.htm
Al Jazeera Reporters Give Bloody First Hand Account of April '04 U.S. Siege 
of Fallujah

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=242
The Askariya Shrine Bombing: Black Ops at Work?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4738436.stm
Ecuador moves to stop oil crisis

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8179.shtml
In the end, it's racism -- Objections to Dubai Ports World's taking over 
operations at six U.S. ports boil down to two: It is Arab-owned, and it is 
based in the Mideast

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Fourfold_Increase_In_British_Radiation_Levels_After_Iraq_Invasion.html
Fourfold Increase In British Radiation Levels After Iraq Invasion

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-27.htm
Hotter, Faster, Worser

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article346706.ece
Killer drought threatens East Africa

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/21/parker/index.html?source=daily
Finger Lickin' Bad: How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-02-22T220732Z_01_N22526687_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-LIFE-WORK-DC.XML
Americans work more, accomplish less

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2847
White House poised to cut food aid for seniors, moms

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