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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=374&page=1
The McLibel Interview - Helen Steel and David Morris talk about their battle 
with McDonalds

We would always encourage people to stand up to bullies-whether 
corporations, governments, police or whatever-and refuse to be intimidated 
by legal or other threats. But it's essential to get organized, to refuse to 
be marginalized or criminalized, and to constantly engage with wider 
opposition movements and the public in general. Any movements for change can 
expect to have to resist and overcome repression. We need to work out how 
best to transform court cases into arenas around which public debate and 
struggles can be stimulated and mobilized. 'Natural justice' and 'civil 
society' are stronger than we all realize. The rulings of supposedly 
powerful legal, state and corporate institutions can be successfully 
opposed.

Other articles from the current Spring 2006 issue available online:

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=369&page=1
Political Tiddlywinks and Global Ecocide (APR editorial)

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=372&page=1
Dumbing Us Down: An Interview With John Taylor Gatto

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=371&page=1
Mbanna Kantako: Human Rights Radio Warrior

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=373&page=1
Book Review-Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology

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Sexual Fascism in Progressive America
By "PARIAH"

Progressives in America are rightly concerned about increasing signs of 
fascism in this country, such as a so-called war on terrorism that allows 
massive invasion of privacy and wholesale imprisonment without charge; such 
as state manufacture of propaganda for its own people; such as the assertion 
that anyone who challenges government policies on these matters is a 
traitor; such as a "great leader" who puts himself clearly above and outside 
the law. They ought to be concerned also about another sign of the demise of 
American justice and human decency: scapegoating. One sign of fascism has 
always been the creation of a scapegoated class whom people are taught to 
fear and hate, and whose very existence demands a totalitarian state 
apparatus of surveillance and control. A class whom no-one would dare 
defend.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_21913.shtml
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
John N. Cooper, Axis of Logic

Rather than degenerating into factional, fratracidal conflict over the 
diminishing food supply, Cuba's Peak Oil necessitated societal changes that 
resulted in more and better cooperation among neighbors for the local good 
of communities. Jobs that formerly required heavy industrialization are now 
managed on a much smaller scale using human or animal power in place of 
mechanization.

http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200605/james-howard-kunstler-oil-1.html
Oil Spiel
John Galvin, Outside Magazine

America, Kunstler argues, is about to become one fantastically miserable 
place. Why? Because our entire standard of living is propped up by cheap 
oil, and the days of cheap oil are over. "No combination of alternative 
fuels is going to allow us to run the United States the way we've been used 
to running it," he tells the Dallas crowd. And though tonight he'll resist 
calls to pinpoint when the nightmare will begin, he's told the online 
environmental magazine Grist.org that "we're going to be feeling the pain" 
in as little as three years, and suburban collapse might start in ten.

http://www.ww4report.com/node/1342
"BIONOIA" Part 1: Did U.S. Use Germ Warfare Against DC Peace March?
Mark Sanborne, WW4 Report

In Part 1 of this series, journalist and researcher Mark Sanborne noted how 
the media-fueled fear of microbes-with waves of "bionoia" over anthrax, SARS 
and now bird flu-has been used as a new justification for the national 
security state, even as the Bush administration has sought to erode the 
Biological Weapons Convention.

http://www.ww4report.com/node/1530
"BIONOIA" Part 2: The Nuts, Bolts and Crimes of Biological Warfare
Mark Sanborne, WW4 Report

Part 2 takes a look at how the US has actually spearheaded the development 
of biological weapons-and their use against civilian populations.

http://www.ww4report.com/node/1898
"BIONOA" Part 3: The Mystery of Plum Island: Nazis, Ticks and Weapons of 
Mass Infection
Mark Sanborne, WW4 Report

In this installment, Sanborne explores the possibilities that unusual 
outbreaks of exotic diseases within the United States have been linked to 
the Pentagon's bio-warfare experiments-including some overseen by former 
Nazis.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cantor05062006.html
A Parody of a Protest: We Came, We Marched, And ... ?
Paul Cantor, CounterPunch

We are law abiding citizens in an outlaw nation. For three years now we have 
taken to the streets to protest the war and the occupation. Yet our protests 
have become steadily smaller, less focused, more anemic and ineffectual. 
Hence, one could not be faulted for wondering whether they are organized by 
the Bush administration to allow us to blow off steam. We came, we marched, 
we went home. The next day a story in the New York Times reported we had 
"waved signs, slapped drums or simply enjoyed the pleasant weather." The 
story appeared on page 35. Yes, we had become a joke. We had done nothing to 
prevent business as usual. We hadn't blocked traffic, or taken over 
universities, or prevented army recruiters from visiting high schools. Our 
march, therefore, was a parody of a protest.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1821656.php
Lessons from COINTELPRO: Building a Movement in the Face of Repression
Claude Marks and Kelah Bott, Indybay.org

Recent crackdowns on the animal rights and environmental justice movements 
have left many activists feeling that their communities are under siege. 
>From the prosecution of the SHAC 7 to the arrests of thirteen individuals 
for arsons committed over a ten-year span, a war is being waged against 
these movements by the U.S. government.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1785.html
LA Times Reporters Jump on the Coffin of 14-Year-Old Javier Cortés in Atenco 
to Invent an Untrue Story
Al Giordano, Narco News

The yet-to-be-determined body count of those killed, disappeared, beaten, 
raped and imprisoned from the three-day police riot and house-to-house 
round-up of dissidents in and near San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, included the 
assassination, last Wednesday, of a 14-year-old boy. Javier Cortés had been 
pronounced dead that afternoon and, immediately, officials from the 
government invented a myth designed to protect the assassins - its police 
forces - and to assign blame, instead, to protesting townspeople: They 
claimed that Cortés' own neighbors, during a highway blockade, threw a 
"firecracker" that killed him as he walked to his grandfather's house. The 
state prosecutor then snarled that he would bring homicide charges, too, 
against the protest leaders. The autopsy results, when they were finally 
released, proved the official story to be false: A police bullet killed 
Javier Cortés.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sandronsky060506.html
Equality and Unity: Migrants and Natives
Seth Sandronsky, MR Zine

The impact of the "Day Without Immigrants" boycott and marches across the 
U.S. on May Day is far-reaching.  Crucially, this mass action humanized 
undocumented migrants under economic and political attack. Significantly, 
their lives are moving from the margin to the center of the U.S. public 
mind.  Such social energy has a force of its own.

http://zmagsite.zmag.org/May2006/barsamian0506.html
A World Without Borders
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn, Z Magazine

Skepticism is one of the most important qualities that you can encourage. It 
arises from having students realize that what has been seen as holy is not 
holy, what has been revered is not necessarily to be revered. That the acts 
of the nation which have been romanticized and idealized, those deserve to 
be scrutinized and looked at critically. I remember that a friend of mine 
was teaching his kids in middle school to be skeptical of what they had 
learned about Columbus as the great hero and liberator, expander of 
civilization. One of his students said to him, "Well, if I have been so 
misled about Columbus, I wonder now what else have I been misled about?" So 
that is education in skepticism.

http://www.counterpunch.org/kuehl04152006.html
The Sex Police State: Women as Rapists and Pedophiles?
Michael Kuehl, CounterPunch

Victimologists are scandalized when defenders of Mary Letourneau note the 
youth Vili was exceptionally mature for his age; that he was pubescent at 
age 10 and, though only 13 when their love was consummated, acted more like 
a 16- or 17-year-old; and that he was the aggressor, hounding Mary for sex 
and forcing himself on her the first time they had intercourse. But let's 
assume that Vili forced himself on Mary under different circumstances-i.e, a 
situation in which Mary was in no sense to blame, in which there was no 
prior frendship and she did nothing to encourage his aggressions-and that 
she reported the assault to the police. If so, Vili would have been arrested 
and charged with rape under Washington law.

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NewsWire

http://progressive.org/mag_mc050406
FBI Puts SOA Watch under "Counterterrorism" Surveillances

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/05/1432212
FBI Targeted Freelance Journalist Covering FTAA Miami Talks

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0506-25.htm
A chilling FBI fishing expedition

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16741&ch=infotech
The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On

http://www.alternet.org/rights/35807/
Evidence Surfaces of Bush's Illegal Spying

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060505/pl_afp/usattacksbushwwiii_060505220719
International terrorist, mass murderer, and war criminal George Bush 
declares World War III

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050806Z.shtml
Bush setting up attack on Iran

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2006/04/29/1556379-sun.html
Pesticides may affect penis size

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article362557.ece
Electronic smog: Around your home are countless gadgets whose electrical 
fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and 
cancer

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Fowl-Play-in-Bird-Flu.php
Fowl Play in Bird Flu--No evidence wild migrating birds spread bird flu; 
transnational factory farms, globalised trade in poultry products to blame

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050506HB.shtml
Climate change drives disease to new terrority

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article362549.ece
Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and 
continent's great rivers dry up

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002977626_terrorist07.html
Is ecosabotage terrorism?

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article361911.ece
China attempts to help save the planet? Zero emissions, village-style 
car-free neighbourhoods - and no landfill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12667616/site/newsweek/
Will we hit $100/barrel? Such forecasts, once the province of the 
enviro-fringe, now come from the likes of Goldman Sachs

http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB2ch02_ss2.htm
The coming decline of oil

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200605021527
Venezuela: A sudden plunge in production?

http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/scn/news/news_575050.html
The end of aviation is closing in, energy consultant says

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=3&aid=59111
Some Analysts Warn Gas Prices Could Top $5 A Gallon

http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2006-05-05T161816Z_01_N04429016_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-ENERGY-HURRICANES-DISRUPTIONS-DC.XML
Hurricanes may send energy costs to new highs

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060502_hurricanes_water.html
Hurricane alley heats up

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=59&ItemID=10216
Police brutality in Mexico

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/712874.html
U.S. Congress to vote on bill outlawing funding for Hamas

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