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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061127/clm518.html?.v=46
Radio Spoof Draws Support for Nazi-Like Treatment of U.S. Muslims

A parody of anti-Muslim bigotry on a Washington, D.C., radio station drew 
support for treating American Muslims in a manner similar to how the Jewish 
community was targeted in Nazi Germany.

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"I believe that God wants me to be president."  -- George W. Bush

"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all 
people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany." -- Adolph Hitler

"My administration has focused the nation's resources on our highest
priority - protecting our citizens and our homeland." -- George Bush

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great
nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our
homeland." -- Adolph Hitler

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=690
Clueless in America: Feeding the Tape Worms of Desire
By Charles Sullivan

Whatever the origins of the grossly inflated American self image, it is, in 
part, the paradigm behind the ideology of Manifest Destiny--a force that 
continues rampaging and pillaging most of the world in its quest for markets 
and wealth. Thus we witness the tragic consequences of the preservation of 
the American Way--a wrath the rest of the world is expected to incur with 
gratitude. We cannot recognize that the American Dream is the world's 
nightmare. Our gluttonous wants, we think, supersede the right of other 
people to exist. The gilded highway is built upon the bones of the victims 
of genocide and empire, and that is what makes our ride into oblivion so 
smooth.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=689
Vietnam, Iraq, and the M Word
By Mickey Z.

In 1966, David Lawrence, editor of U.S. News & World Report, wrote: "What 
the
United States is doing in Vietnam is the most significant example of 
philanthropy extended by one people to another that we have witnessed in our 
times." When challenged with stories of American atrocities in Vietnam, 
Lawrence corrected his little gaffe, "Primitive peoples with savagery in 
their hearts have to be helped to understand the true basis of a civilized 
existence."

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Other articles of interest

http://nyc.indymedia.org/or/2006/11/80090.html
The Closure of Clamor Magazine
Clamor published over 1000 writers and artists in its 7-year, 38-issue run

We're writing to you today because we've decided to stop publishing Clamor. 
We set out to create an independent magazine that would bulldoze borders, 
defy dogma, and inspire instigation. We wanted to create a magazine that 
extended the vibrancy of the underground zine community to a larger general 
audience and share the enthusiasm and energy we saw in our fellow 
do-it-yourselfers. We intended to redefine the progressive magazine. And 
while we feel like we accomplished those goals at various stages, one goal 
we never fully realized is that of making Clamor economically sustainable.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=943&Itemid=135
The Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

It seems that this very enthusiastic promoter of the unprovoked war of 
aggression against Iraq -- which he proudly called "a war of choice," 
apparently not realizing that he was parroting the propagandists of the Nazi 
regime that killed millions of his ethnic kindred -- has now discovered that 
Iraqi Arabs are hopeless, worthless barbarians, broken by "1,000 years of 
Arab-Muslim authoritarianism" and can only be held together by an "iron 
fist."

http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-2/611/611_08_Kennedys.shtml
The myth of the Kennedys
Joe Allen, Socialist Worker

The greatest of all the myths about the Kennedys is that if the two brothers 
had lived, then much of the "turmoil" of the 1960s, particularly the U.S. 
war in Vietnam, would have been avoided. For many liberals, Robert Kennedy's 
assassination represented "the end of the '60s"-- the end of the road for 
progressive political change and the beginning of three decades of 
conservative rule.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906D.shtml
Torture, the Geneva Conventions and the School of the Americas
Ann Wright, Truthout

I had served three years in the middle 1980s with the US military's Southern 
Command in Panama while the School of the Americas was still located there. 
People in Central and South America were tortured by members of their 
militaries throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Terrible periods of torture in 
Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras were conducted by 
members of militaries from those countries. Some of the known torturers 
attended the School of the Americas.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy29.html
Supporting Death and Destruction
Michael Gaddy, LewRockwell.com

It would appear there are still a number of people out there who believe it 
is actually possible to support the troops without supporting the war they 
are participating in. I received comments such as "I can't believe you were 
a soldier and are showing such contempt for those in uniform," and a 
multitude of clichés such as "support the warrior, not the war." Until one 
can fully comprehend the words of General Butler, they will never be able to 
discern that one cannot support the criminal without supporting the crime.

http://www.davidswanson.org/?q=node/665
Be All That You Can Be: Leave the Army
David Swanson, davidswanson.org

Approximately 6,000 Americans have refused to report for duty or deserted in 
order to avoid taking part in this war, or to avoid taking further part in 
it. Many have objected to the stop loss program that requires them to serve 
longer than they had agreed to. Others have objected to the rationale behind 
the war and the horrors that are part of it. Many are best able to support 
their families by avoiding military service that is poorly compensated. In 
the cases we know the most about, one motivation for desertion that is 
clearly absent is cowardice. While quiet desertion tends not to result in 
any penalty, public opposition and resistance often means prison.

http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=2
Tipping point: energy
Jan Lundberg, Culture Change

The energy crisis is really a culture crisis, as King said. Do we have the 
wisdom to at least acknowledge what kind of a ride we've been on? Now that 
the world passed the energy tipping point, we need to take a non-energy 
approach to the problem and emancipate ourselves from the domination of 
technology wielded by profiteers, thrill seekers and numbed consumers.

http://www.alternet.org/stories/44915/
Meth: The Overstated Addiction
Margaret Dooley, Drug Policy Alliance via Alternet

There is no indication that methamphetamine use is increasing. The 
proportion of Americans who use methamphetamine on a monthly basis has 
hovered in the range of 0.2 percent-0.3 percent since 1999. In fact, 
according to the 2005 Monitoring the Future survey, the percentage of high 
school seniors who reported using methamphetamine in the last year fell to a 
low of 2.5 percent in 2005. (Use of depressants, meanwhile, increased from a 
low of 2.8 percent in 1992 to around 7 percent in 2005.)

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2398.html
The Coup d'Etat in Mexico
Al Giordano, Narco News

As a new regime prepares to seize control December 1, promising a new wave 
of repression, the antidote is being born from below.

http://www.counterpunch.org/gause11292006.html
Where Murderers Still Stalk the Streets, Protected by the Police
Dispatch from Oaxaca: Where Murderers Still Stalk the Streets, Protected by 
the Police
Rochelle Gause, CounterPunch

Running as fast as I can, surrounded by hundreds of others, I can hear 
screams behind me. Glancing back, through the darkness of night I can only 
differentiate between the masses running with me and the federal police by 
the light reflecting off their shields and face masks. They are still 
advancing. A hand pushes my left shoulder and I realize there are medics 
behind me trying to run from the police while carrying a man on a stretcher 
clasping a bloody cloth to his head. The medics are trying to reach the 
makeshift clinic that the movement set up in a building just a few feet 
ahead. I continue to run block after block as more people pour in from side 
streets. The police are obviously advancing on multiple streets 
simultaneously. Panic is starting to set in. Rushing through my mind are the 
stories I have listened too over an over in the past two weeks while 
interviewing those who have suffered human rights violations at the hands of 
the federal police; the stories of sexual assault, of beatings, of 
psychological torture, of death threats.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/29/1438234
How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets and FBI
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now

Ali Mohamed was a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle who operated 
freely within the United States for years before 9/11. Despite being a top 
al Qaeda operative, he managed to become a naturalized US citizen, join the 
US Army, get posted to the military base where Green Berets and Delta Force 
train and infiltrate both the CIA and FBI. And while he was an FBI informant 
he smuggled bin Laden in and out of Afghanistan and helped plan the attacks 
on US embassies in Africa. He ended up playing a pivotal role in 9/11.

http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2006/11/radio-interview-is-honoring-mumia_29.html
RADIO INTERVIEW: Is Honoring Mumia A Crime?
Hans Bennett, Insubordination Blog

Telephone interviews with Peter J. Wirs (Chairman of Philadelphia's 59th 
Republican Ward Executive Committee) and Robert R. Bryan, (Attorney for 
Mumia Abu-Jamal) about the new criminal charges filed against two French 
cities supporting journalist and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/cp11302006.html
The Arrest of Gerardo Bonilla: Acclaimed Muralist Among Oaxaca's Disappeared

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15770.htm
Iranian President Ahmadinejad's letter to the American people

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L27909414&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-3
Iraq's oil industry collapsing

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0648,lombardi,75156,2.html
Death by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392872
 Global warming making conditions ripe for dangerous gas buildup at bottom 
of ocean to bubble up and wipe out most life on Earth

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1959556,00.html
Climate Time Bomb: Global warming storing enormous amounts of heat in the 
waters of the north Atlantic

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3881816a7693,00.html
Scientists warn Ross Ice Shelf could collapse quickly, triggering dramatic 
rise in sea levels

http://www.sierralegal.org/m_archive/pr06_11_29.html
US, Canadian cities fouling the Great Lakes with raw sewage

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2023835.ece
Climate change already affecting UK's marine life

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10676-can-flu-viruses-survive-winter-in-frozen-lakes.html
Evidence of flu viruses frozen in Siberian lakes prompts researchers to 
examine possibility global warming may release microbes

http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB2ch06_ss4.htm
Throwaway economy in trouble

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