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Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. 
Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an 
exit strategy. - Tina Fey

http://mollysavestheday.blogspot.com/2006/02/for-women-of-south-dakota-abortion.html
For the women of South Dakota: an abortion manual

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=611&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
South Dakota's Slide to Theocracy
by Mike Whitney

Rounds' spearheads a coterie of finger-wagging zealots who see it as their 
religious duty to force others to accept their blinkered dogma. Their 
contempt for individual freedom is barely concealed behind their pretensions 
about "loving their fellow man" or "turning the other cheek". Love, however, 
never enters into the equation; their real intention is to imbue their 
convictions with the power of the law; ensuring that others conform to their 
wacky ideas. This is how they seek political vindication for, what amounts 
to, self-righteous discrimination. The right to choose is the right to have 
sovereignty over one's own body.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=612&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Coalition Mobilizes for Man's Rights in US Courts
By Sonia Nettnin

A US citizen for almost 30 years and a resident of Bridgeview, IL Salah has 
been charged in both the State of Israel and the US for allegedly funneling 
money to the Palestinian Occupied Territories and into Israel for Hamas 
military operations in 1993. In the upcoming trial scheduled for October 
2006 US prosecutors want to use the 1993 Hebrew statements signed by Salah 
while he was in Israeli custody as evidence. Salah's lawyers have filed a 
motion to suppress the statements. They say Salah was tortured into signing 
the 1993 confessions and that the confessions are in a language Salah does 
not understand.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.countercurrents.org/eriqat130306.htm
The End Of Civilization
Dave Eriqat, Countercurrents.org

One way to keep the truth from people, aside from today's favored approach 
of simply suppressing it, is to feed them a steady diet of compelling 
distractions. Elections are one such distraction. Elections arouse peoples' 
passions and keep them entertained for weeks or months. Elections even give 
people the illusion of participation, when, in fact, elections mean 
absolutely nothing in a country like the United States, which is run by 
money. Of course, elections are run by, and legitimized by governments.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=9885
Inviting Anarchy Into My Home
Liz Seymour, ZNet

After Isabell came home from college an anarchist herself, I began to put 
aside my preconceptions about these people - as disorderly, violent and 
destructive - and to see them as a community dedicated to replacing 
hierarchy with consensus and cooperation. (Isabell once described them as 
Quakers who swear a lot.) Over time I found myself drawn to their hopeful 
view that people know best what is best for them and to their determination, 
naïve or not, to build a better world right away. Anarchism, at least as 
practiced here, seemed to be more about building community gardens and 
making your own fun than about black bandannas and confrontations with the 
riot police (although it was about those things, too).

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=263
Big Brother's Youth League Snoops Colorado Teacher
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

In Orwell's novel 1984, Big Brother's Youth League and the Spies harassed 
Winston Smith, accused him of thought crime, threatened to turn him in to 
the Ministry and have him sent to the salt mines. Jay Bennish, high school 
teacher in Aurora, Colorado, was not threatened like Winton Smith, although 
a student spy tape recorded his comments in the classroom and now it appears 
Bennish, who compared Bush to Hitler, will lose his job.

http://www.counterpunch.org/rosenfeld03102006.html
War on the First Amendment: The Great Green Scare and the Fed's "Case" 
Against Rod Coronado
Ben Rosenfeld, CounterPunch

The federal government has been champing at the bit to put Rod Coronado back 
in prison since the moment he got out in 1999, refusing to repent for his 
role in a 1992 arson at a Michigan State University fur research lab. 
Federal officials have publicly branded Coronado a leader of the Animal 
Liberation Front, even though the ALF is apparently non-hierarchical. He is, 
however, an unabashed advocate of property destruction in defense of 
animals, and his indictment in San Diego in February, for giving a speech in 
which he explained how the incendiary devices used in the Michigan arson 
were made, is a flimsy pretext to punish him for his radical views.

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/03/09/coverstory.html
BOOM! Who are the real terrorists?
Alan Pittman, Eugene Weekly

Environmental activists are calling the "ecoterrorism" crackdown a "green 
scare," comparing it to the "red scare" periods of anti-communist repression 
and civil rights abuses after World War I and in the 1950s. Jim Flynn, a 
local Earth First! activist, said that after the indictments "people were 
quite intimidated" in the environmental protest movement. John Zerzan, a 
local anarchist author, said the arrests and the recent conviction of seven 
animal rights activists in California for what they wrote on a website "is 
very scary." Zerzan said the government is pushing back the line on what 
before was considered free speech. "That's a police state kind of move."

http://www.metroland.net/back_issues/vol29_no10/features.html
A Matter of Authority
Shawn Stone, Metroland

For 20 years, the Critical Art Ensemble have made challenging 
interventionist art-now one of their members may spend 20 years in federal 
prison for it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031306J.shtml
War Crimes: Goose and Gander
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout

We will also never see a trial in the ICTY for Bill Clinton, Madeleine 
Albright or Wesley Clark for the 1999 US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Nor 
will George W. Bush, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld be prosecuted by an 
international tribunal for their war crimes in Iraq.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0313-29.htm
Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can't Talk Anymore
Jeremy Scahill, Common Dreams

What the corporate media overwhelmingly ignores in Milosevic's death is what 
they ignored in his life as well--his intimate knowledge of US war crimes in 
Yugoslavia. While Milosevic was undoubtedly a war criminal who deserved to 
be tried for his crimes, he was also the only man in the unique position of 
being able to expose and detail the full extent of the US role in the bloody 
disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In fact, that is precisely what 
he was fighting to do at his war crimes trial when he died.

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=21544&s2=15
THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM - THE SHAME OF THE NATION AND CRIME AGAINST 
HUMANITY
Stephen Lendman, Uruknet.info

No, not the one you think, outrageous as it is. I'm referring to the US 
prison system that's with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the 
gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 
million as of June, 2004 and growing larger by about 900 new inmates every 
week. Blacks (mostly poor and disadvantaged) especially are affected. While 
they make up just 12.3% of the population, they account for half the prison 
population, and their numbers there have grown fivefold in the last 25 
years. Hispanics (also poor) account for another 15%.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1731009,00.html
Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington's grip
Noam Chomsky, The Guardian

The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of 
independence in the global south.

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_21285.shtml
Mass Starvation and Democracy Prevention
Ghali Hassan, Axis of Logic

To satisfy it Zionist ideology, Israel is proceeding to impose a Nazi-like 
economic siege over nearly 4 million defenceless Palestinians, intended to 
starve them into surrendering their democratic freedoms.

http://www.williambowles.info//ini/2006/0306/ini-0398.html
The US Government's Nuremberg Crime
William Bowles, williambowles.info

In exploring the nature of the US bioweapons programme Boyle also reveals 
the complicity of the universities and of the scientists employed in 
bioweapons development with billions of dollars of funding being channelled 
into campuses not only across the US but also overseas. He even warns them 
that they too are liable to life imprisonment for their work on bioweapons.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=527&Itemid=1
Fighting for Their Lies: The Deadly Delusions of America's Troops
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

While much has been made of the recent poll showing that a majority of U.S. 
troops on the ground in Iraq think we should get out - heartening news for 
all those who oppose Bush's bloodsoaked war crime - the poll contained 
another revelation that should disturb anyone - anti-war or pro-war - who 
still believes in American democracy: the fact that some 85 percent of US 
forces in Iraq believe they are fighting to avenge Saddam Hussein's role in 
the September 11 attacks.

http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418
Heart Attack
Alexander Zaitchick, Freezerbox

"There is a clear understanding [on the part of Islamist groups] that if you 
want to hit America or the West, you go after oil, which is right in their 
backyard," says Luft. "They don't have to go all the way to New York and 
deal with the INS and FBI."
That the pipeline attacks have undermined more than just the U.S. occupation 
in Iraq was first recognized by Osama bin Laden in an audiotape released 
Dec. of 2004. In the tape he called upon his followers to "focus your 
operations on the oil, especially in Iraq and in the Gulf, as this would 
mean [the West's] death."

http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=2
Petrocollapse: your basic wake-up call plus caveat
Jan Lundberg, Culture Change

Peak oil extraction is estimated to be upon us, with natural gas soon to 
follow, indicating a free fall to an uncertain minimum-energy universal 
lifestyle. Anyone who really believes that some alternative form of energy 
will ride in like a knight in shining armor to save us is sadly misinformed.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060327/henwood
Leaking Bubble
Doug Henwood, The Nation

People haven't merely been buying houses, they've been conducting scary 
experiments in financial innovation. Time was, you had to come up with a 
hefty down payment to buy a house. No longer: In 2005 the median first-time 
buyer put down only 2 percent of the sales price, and 43 percent made no 
down payment at all. And almost a third of new mortgages in 2004 and '05 
were at adjustable rates (because the initial payments are lower than on 
fixed-rate loans). At earlier peaks interest rates were near cyclical highs, 
but the past few years have seen the lowest interest rates in a generation. 
So adjustable mortgages are likely to adjust only one way: up.

http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin03102006.html
Lynching Barry Bonds
Dave Zirin, CounterPunch

McCovey also raised the idea that people who call for "hanging Bonds" 
summarily dismiss: that racism is an unspoken part of this discussion. 
"Knowing what I have gone through in sports, there are always those little, 
you know, racial overtones," said McCovey, who started his career in the Jim 
Crow south of the 1950s. McCovey also pointed out the hypocrisy of how Mark 
McGwire, even after his sad congressional testimony, was viewed as a tragic 
figure, not an evil one like Bonds. "I don't think it would be this big a 
deal if McGwire was still playing and was in the same shoes chasing that 
record," he said. "I don't think they would be spending all this time to dig 
all this dirt up on him. [Racism] is a thing that we have to live with that 
people don't even realize."

http://www.alternet.org/story/33245/
Not Your Parents' Protest Music
Naeem Mohaiemen, AlterNet

The burgeoning politi-punk band Outernational discusses what it means to be 
revolutionary.

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NewsWire

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12307.htm
Big Brother is listening

http://www.counterpunch.org/shore03102006.html
FBI grills professor over support of Venezuela

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/milo-m13.shtml
Media lies and hypocrisy in wake of Milosevic's death

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/blog/2006/03/bush_declares_war_on_freedom_o.html
Bush declares war on freedom of the press

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060303/ts_nm/iraq_usa_newspapers_dc
US military to continue to pay Iraqi media to plant stories

http://austin.indymedia.org/newswire/display/26784/index.php
FBI Officer Speaks at Law School, lists Indymedia aned Food Not Bombs on 
"Terrorist Watch List"

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2006/20060302_4370.html
Centcom team engages bloggers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11751418/
Pentagon admits errors it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to 
database of possible domestic terrorist threats

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/corr-m03.shtml
Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by NY theater group

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030306_scf_eviction.shtml
LA's South Central Farm Receives Eviction Notice

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=1716820
Ready or not, bird flu is coming to America

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/03/10/oilsands-chipewyan060310.html
Reports of serious illnesses, including a rare cancer, in a small First 
Nations community near the province's oilsands

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article350785.ece
Death of the world's rivers

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/03/04/study_finds_pesticides_taint_most_us_streams/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+National+News
Pesticides linked to cancer, birth defects, and neurological disorders 
contaminate almost all of the nation's rivers and streams

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1729253,00.html
Pollution soaring to crisis levels in Arctic; Scientists plead for action to 
save poles from 'tipping point' disaster

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=8477
Melting Antarctica causing sea levels to rise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1723120,00.html
Oops, we helped ruin the planet

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2074838,00.html
Thirst for oil threatens a fifth of the world's fresh water

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article351121.ece
Burst oil pipeline causes catastrophe in Alaska

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4803460.stm
Sharp rise in CO2 levels recorded

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10057
Canada has warmest winter on record, shatters previous record

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article351135.ece
Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/410770/scientists_confirm_historic_massive_flood_in_climate_change/index.html
Scientists confirm massive historic flooding in climate change

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=21293&s2=08
8000 desert during Iraq war

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SHR20060302&articleId=2057
US Government kills its own soldiers..and us..and lies.and signs deals

http://truth-about-iraqis.blogspot.com/2006/03/us-contractor-arrested-with-explosives.html
US contractor arrested with explosives: More US security contractors caught 
trying to kill Iraqis?

http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20060312-073227-3194r
US military plans to create insect cyborgs

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=21548&s2=15
U.S. military airstrikes significantly increased in Iraq

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm
U.S. invasion responsible deaths of over 250,000 civilians in Iraq

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12216.htm
14,000 detained without trial in Iraq

http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/252066.shtml
High school students raped by Marine recruiters found guilty, set free

http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/580/580_12_Immigrants.shtml
300,000 march for immigrant rights

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