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The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. - 
Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own [1907]

http://www.consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_101006.pdf
War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for 
Accountability

http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/
Courage to Resist

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New article posted from the Fall 2006 issue:

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=383&page=1
Jeff Monson: The Ultimate Fighting Anarchist
Gabriel Thompson

He's angry right now, even though his combat career in the Ultimate Fighting 
Championship (UFC)-an often bloody tournament that combines martial arts 
disciplines like Brazilian Jujitsu and Muay Thai Kickboxing-is taking off. 
If things keep going this way, he could have a title shot in the heavyweight 
division. So no, it's not his future career prospects that have him pissed. 
It's the state of the world. "I'm not some sort of conspiracy theorist," 
Monson says of his political leanings. "I'm not talking about how the 
government is trying to hide UFOs. I just want to do away with hierarchy. 
I'm saying that our economic system, capitalism, is structured so that it 
only benefits a small percentage of very wealthy people. When I was 
traveling in Brazil, they had us staying at a really posh hotel. Outside the 
hotel there was a mom sleeping on the sidewalk with her two kids. That's 
when reality hits you. What did that woman ever do? Who did she ever hurt?"

Update on title shot:
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=3780
Monson Keeping Things in Perspective before the Big Fight
Thomas Gerbasi, Ultimate Fighting Championship

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=676&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
"Violated Twice:" Mexican Rape Victims are Regularly Denied Abortions
By Kari Lydersen

Women with enough resources can legally pay for an abortion from a private 
clinic if they are raped, but low-income women have nowhere to turn. Las 
Libres provides legal aid and funding for abortions along with peer 
counseling and other services; so far this year they have helped 10 rape 
victims get abortions. The group also works to combat the overall sexism and 
impunity that usually allows rapists to escape unpunished and puts women 
through a "second rape" if they try to report the crime and receive medical 
treatment or an abortion.

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Other articles of interest

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=657
Political Blogging as Hate Crime
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

If Rev. Ted Pike is correct, this blog may soon be illegal. "For the past 
eight years, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has tried 
unsuccessfully to pass its Orwellian federal 'anti-hate' bill. It has failed 
largely for one reason: Republican control of Congress," writes Pike. 
"Repeatedly, Republican opponents of their hate bill, such as Rep. Roy Blunt 
and Sen. Bill Frist have been able, with Republican congressional backing, 
to block passage," but now, with Democrats in control of Congress, "such 
freedom-saving clout no longer exists. ADL's federal thought crimes bill, 
'The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act,' will be reintroduced soon after 
January 1. Since no Democrat in Congress has ever voted against the hate 
bill, it will pass."

http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update61.htm
The Earth Is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing 
Civilization
Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute

Our early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between 
advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the land area that can 
support human habitation, the earth is shrinking. Mounting population 
densities, once generated solely by the addition of over 70 million people 
per year, are now also fueled by the relentless advance of deserts and the 
rise in sea level. The newly established trends of expanding deserts and 
rising seas are both of human origin. The former is primarily the result of 
overstocking grasslands and overplowing land. Rising seas result from 
temperature increases set in motion by carbon released from the burning of 
fossil fuels.

http://www.energybulletin.net/22442.html
Peddling PetroProzac: CERA ignores 10 warning signposts of peak oil
Randy Udall, Jeremy Gilbert, Steve Andrews, Energy Bulletin

Since 1950, global oil production has expanded eightfold, driving a similar 
expansion in economic activity. This era of exponential increase is now 
drawing to a close, even as the oil appetite of China, India and other 
developing countries grows apace. Half the oil ever produced has been 
consumed since 1983. Today, Americans use 140 pounds of petroleum products 
per person per week. We are the Oil Tribe, consuming one-quarter of the 
world's supply. We have built an entire way of life around cheap oil. Our 
land use patterns, agriculture, transportation systems, inefficient 
vehicles, and prosperity. all owe a debt to what Chevron calls "easy oil." A 
number of independent, mainstream analysts have confirmed that growth in 
global oil production may end soon.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/9/2006/2213
Comic-book patriotism
Robert C. Koehler, Free Press

OK, there's no nice, gentle way to put this, Major, but it's time to shatter 
the myth that sustains far too many Americans: Most U.S. military and 
quasi-military operations of the past century-plus have been brutally stupid 
and myopic, racist, cynical and wantonly destructive; they have served the 
interests not of the public but of various multinational corporations, from 
United Fruit to British Petroleum to Halliburton, under the banner of the 
dogma du jour (Manifest Destiny, anti-Communism, war on terror); far from 
protecting your freedom or mine, Major, they have promoted global poverty 
and instability and generated an undercurrent of intense anti-Americanism 
that, as the 9/11 attacks demonstrated, make us anything but safe.

http://www.nswbc.org/Op%20Ed/Op-ed-Part1-Nov15-06.htm
THE HIGHJACKING OF A NATION
Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition

It has been established that two of the 9/11 hijackers had a support network 
in the U.S. that included agents of the Saudi government, and that the Bush 
administration and the FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that 
relationship. In his book, "Intelligence Matters," Senator Bob Graham made 
clear that some details of that financial support from Saudi Arabia were in 
the 27 pages of the congressional inquiry's final report that were blocked 
from release by the administration, despite the pleas of leaders of both 
parties in the House and Senate intelligence committees.

http://www.counterpunch.org/dines11152006.html
Borat: It's a Guy Thing!
Gail Dines, CounterPunch

As a woman, I live in that place between cautious apprehension and 
occasional dread where over half the population resides. When night falls, 
the world becomes a threatening place. Empty streets, parking lots, deserted 
parks and lonely public places are to be avoided at all times. For many 
women, the home is no sanctuary, as this is the place where women are most 
frequently abused and killed. So when Cohen makes misogynist jokes about 
rape, prostitution and incest, they feel anything but funny.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov06/Smith15.htm
A Socialist in the Senate?: The Unfortunate Truth About Bernie Sanders
Ashley Smith, Dissident Voice

Despite his own claims, Sanders has not been an antiwar leader. Ever since 
he won election to the House, he has taken either equivocal positions on 
U.S. wars or outright supported them. His hawkish positions--especially his 
decision to support Bill Clinton's 1999 Kosovo War--drove one of his key 
advisers, Jeremy Brecher, to resign from his staff. Brecher wrote in his 
resignation letter, "Is there a moral limit to the military violence you are 
willing to participate in or support?" So outraged were peace activists over 
Sanders' support of the Kosovo War that they occupied his office in 1999. 
Sanders had them arrested.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061114144158703
Will the real Dr. King please stand up?
Mickey Z, Infoshop News

Surely, today's America would have an orange jumpsuit all ready for the MLK 
that believed, "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what 
kind of extremists we will be" and "When you are right, you cannot be too 
radical."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506R.shtml
First, Re-Open the Libraries
Kelpie Wilson, Truthout

It never got down to actual book-burning, but the Republican choke-hold on 
government would clearly have taken us there. In August, under the guise of 
fiscal responsibility, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency began 
closing most of its research libraries, both to the public and to its own 
staff.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1948162,00.html
Latin America is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite
Richard Gott, The Guardian

The recent explosion of indigenous protest in Latin America, culminating in 
the election this year of Evo Morales, an Aymara indian, as president of 
Bolivia, has highlighted the precarious position of the white-settler elite 
that has dominated the continent for so many centuries.

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NewsWire

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061115085106229
As more graphic novels appear in libraries, so do challenges

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/11/14/ap3174935.html
Feds: 1 percent of web is porn

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/school_of_the_americas
Dismay grows over US torture school

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1948748,00.html
US plans to expand terrorist operations in Iraq

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11664
Deep sea trawling destroying underwater mountains, causing irreparable 
damage to ecosystems

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Climate_Health.html
Warmer world producing sicker world

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/44359/
USA: Wanted from crimes against the planet

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