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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=583&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
David Graeber vs. The Wall Street Journal

I must confess myself confused as to why accepting a job teaching and 
conducting research for an annual income roughly equivalent to that of a 
train operator (at roughly twice the hours) qualifies me as a member of the 
employing class. Or is your real point to assert a more general principle: 
'capitalism, love it or leave it'? If so, where exactly am I supposed to go? 
Outer space? Do you really think all employees who don't share their 
employer's economic and political philosophy should be terminated?

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=582&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
ZIONIST DISTORTION OF HISTORY
By Edward C. Corrigan

In an article, "Munich,' the Travesty," published in The Washington Post on 
January 13, 2006 Charles Krauthammer, a well-known Zionist and regular Post 
Columnist, attacks Steven Spielberg's movie for presenting several glimpses 
of the Palestinian perspective. Krauthammer and other critics of Spielberg's 
movie continuously repeat discredited Zionist mythology, distort history, 
ignore inconvenient facts and hide Zionist terrorism, the raping of 
Palestinians, the massacres, the theft of land and ethnic cleansing of the 
Palestinians with the creation of the "Jewish State" in 1948.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060116_the_point_of.php
THE POINT OF NO RETURN: Where James Lovelock Meets BP
Media Lens

That government and big business have perpetrated climate crimes against 
humanity is never news. Instead, a collective insanity of irresponsible 
despair or suffocating silence rules the media. This extends even to those 
editors, journalists and newspapers that the public has been persuaded to 
trust.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/17/news/economy/climate_fortune/index.htm
Cloudy With a Chance of Chaos: Climate change may bring more violent weather 
swings -- and sooner -- than experts had thought
Eugene Linden, Fortune Magazine

A disturbing consensus is emerging among the scientists who study global 
warming: Climate change may bring more violent swings than they ever 
thought, and it may set in sooner.

http://anthropik.com/2006/01/thesis-28-humanity-will-almost-certainly-survive/
Civilization will collapse but humanity will almost certainly survive
Jason Godesky, Anthropik Network

We must remember two crucial facts, both of which are contrary to everything 
we've been raised to believe. First, civilization is fragile, and second, 
humans are not.

http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2006/01/al-be-damned.html
Al Be Damned
Dennis Perrin, Un Fils d'état rouge

Liberals, when not arrogant about their righteousness, can be and usually 
are true suckers & saps. Clinton worship is the main sign, a chance for libs 
to shill for the death penalty, either thru lethal injection or a federal 
assault on private citizens, and to lecture the poor on their bad social 
habits, a Clintonite fave since the early days of welfare "reform." And 
while we wait for the you-know-they're-coming justifications for President 
Hillary, we have the spectacle of online libs fainting and fawning at Al 
Gore's feet. "Not the Al Gore, the guy who headed the most rightwing Dem 
ticket of modern times?" Yep. Him.

http://www.counterpunch.org/damato01182006.html
The Crimes of Jimmy Carter: Democrats and Other False Friends
Paul D'Amato, CounterPunch

When asked if the U.S. should rebuild Vietnam, a country it destroyed at a 
cost of three million Vietnamese lives and 58,000 U.S., his glib response 
was, "Well, the destruction was mutual." The Shah Pahlevi regime, which had 
come to power in Iran in a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953, was renowned for the 
murderous brutality of its secret police. Carter visited the Shah in 1979 
and praised him for his "progressive administration" at a time when the 
Shah's military was gunning down thousands of unarmed demonstrators.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11579.htm
Dusting off the Brown-shirts and Jackboots
Mike Whitney, ICH

Why else would Bush claim the extraordinary powers of a dictator? In just 
months Bush has claimed that he has the right to incarcerate citizens 
without charging them with a crime, torture prisoners, unilaterally declare 
war, and spy on Americans. Why? Is Bin Laden somehow weakened by the steady 
erosion of civil liberties? Or, is the White House cabal anticipating 
massive civil disorder from their planned economic meltdown?

http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html
The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
Krassimir Petrov, Energy Bulletin

The Iranian government has finally developed the ultimate "nuclear" weapon 
that can swiftly destroy the financial system underpinning the American 
Empire. That weapon is the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. 
It will be based on a euro-oil-trading mechanism that naturally implies 
payment for oil in Euro. In economic terms, this represents a much greater 
threat to the hegemony of the dollar than Saddam's, because it will allow 
anyone willing either to buy or to sell oil for Euro to transact on the 
exchange, thus circumventing the U.S. dollar altogether.

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/mickeyz01162006/
Target: Iran ... Here we go again
Mickey Z, Press Action

Now we have Iran...a nation with the audacity to make decisions without 
first asking for U.S. permission. We are faced with the spectacle of America 
(the only nation to have used nuclear weapons on civilians) warning the 
world about how nuclear weapons might, well, be used on civilians. We can't 
allow just anyone to sneak around and acquire such technology (well, except 
Israel). We can't allow those Commie Chinese (Cold War II, anyone?) to arm 
men so evil they might, well, use nuclear weapons on civilians. Before you 
know it, Iran will be using depleted uranium and white phosphorous, abusing 
prisoners, setting up interrogation centers in Eastern Europe, spying on its 
own people, and fixing elections at home and abroad.

http://gowans.blogspot.com/2006/01/why-iran.html
Why Iran?
Stephen Gowans, What's Left

The increasingly frequent demonization of Iranian President Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad in the Western media has become an integral part of the 
stepped-up efforts of Washington, London, the EU-3 and Tel Aviv to bring 
Iran under US control, efforts that may, if scattered newspapers reports are 
to believed, culminate in the aerial bombing by US or Israeli forces or both 
of Iranian nuclear facilities early this spring.

http://www.counterpunch.org/ross01172006.html
Evo Morales and the Zapatistas: Latin America's Indians on the Move ... in 
Different Directions
John Ross, CounterPunch

While Mexico's profoundly Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation 
launches a vehement anti-electoral campaign, dissing the political class, 
eschewing power, and seeking to build autonomous alliances down below, Evo 
Morales, a 46 year-old acculturated Quechua Indian farm leader, will take 
power from the top when he is sworn in as the first Indian president of 
majority-Indian Bolivia.

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NewsWire

http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11362
Is every journalist a plagiarist under today's ethics rules?

http://rense.com/general69/goned.htm
Death Threats End Kurt Nimmo's Writing: Nimmo's Blog 'Another Day in the 
Empire' Is Gone

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002662.html
The Washington Post watchdog needs a watchdog

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/washington-post-ombudsman-says-she.html
Thin-skinned, factually-challenged Washington Post ombudsman says she will 
no longer reply to critics

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=24465&mode=nested&order=0
Howard Kurtz co-authored atrocity in WashPost, aiding and abetting the 
Swiftboating of John Murtha

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/1449228
Independent Journalist Reports on Ongoing Violence in Haiti, Upcoming 
Elections

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2803
CNN hires would-be killer and right-wing nutjob Glenn Beck

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla18jan18,0,4943877.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Witch Hunt: UCLA alumni group tracking 'radical' faculty, offering students 
$100 for information on instructors

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002745560_loompanics18.html
Outlaw publisher calls it quits

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/17/141106.shtml
Big Brother Al: Gore led effort to tap every phone in America

http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5533
Lynne Stewart's translator was railroaded

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=676319
Chomsky states obvious at Dublin lecture: "US is a leading terrorist state"

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/63431.shtml
Karpinski, Ex UK Ambassador Craig Murray to Testify At Bush War Crimes 
Commission

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-16-rice-pakistan_x.htm
Condi Rice refuses to apologize for slaughtering children, civilians

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16588858&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=fury-at-us-bomb-blitz--name_page.html
Fury at US slaughter of civilians: 10,000 demonstrators chant "Death to 
America" in Pakistan

http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=20060117&uc_comic=ru
US Drone Planes Have Near Perfect Record of Failure

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0117-12.htm
Mining for Kids: Children Can't "Opt Out" of Pentagon Recruitment Database

http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpDefense&htmlCategoryID=30&htmlId=4514
Army orders soldiers to leave behind body armor they purchased for 
protection or lose their SGLI benefits

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jan2006/germ-j18.shtml
Germany: spying and discrimination against Muslims

http://www.unknownnews.org/0601200117911epa.html
Three more rescue workers die of 9/11 air pollution poisoning

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060116/OPINION02/601160310/1070/OPINION
Creativity can't be taught, but it can be killed

http://www.terradaily.com/news/Trophy_Hunting_Endorsed_As_Way_To_Save_Lions.html
WTF?!: Trophy Hunting Endorsed As Way To Save Lions

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060118_8113_db039.htm
Forget cheaper oil in 2006

http://www.alternet.org/story/30657/
In midst of Amazonian oil boom, classified documents reveal deep links 
between oil companies and Ecuador's military

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article339109.ece
Shell may pull out of Niger Delta after 17 killed by indigenous resisters 
demanding local control

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1149358,00.html
The Next Energy Crisis?: How the natural-gas shortage is hurting the 
economy--and what it will do to your heating bills

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_wasik&sid=an34gK1QCS.Q
U.S. Consumers Reeling From Higher Debt Burden

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