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"For over a year now many Iraqis have been referring to what is happening in 
their country as genocide. With over 500 Iraqis being killed every single 
day as a direct result of the occupation, it is difficult to argue with 
them." - Dahr Jamail

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ENDGAME International Film Festival 2007
Calling all visionary filmmakers, video artists, and animators!
Deadlines and Entry Fees: The earlybird deadline is February 1, 2007, with 
an entry fee of $20. The final deadline is March 31, 2007, with an entry fee 
of $25.
Awards: There is a grand prize of $1000 (USD). There are also three 
secondary prizes of $250. See http://endgamefilmfest.org/ for more info.

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=657&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
The Great Experiment
By Uri Avnery

Is it possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by 
starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, 
indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close 
cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment 
in order to obtain a definitive answer. The laboratory for the experiment is 
the Gaza Strip, and the guinea pigs are the million and a quarter 
Palestinians living there.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=655&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Dogfight in DC-Full of Barks and Drool, Signifying Nothing
By Ron Jacobs

I haven't read Bob Woodward's new book yet, but I am enjoying the dogfight 
going on between the power elites over its veracity. Just like two dogs 
fighting over last summer's buried bones, the Democrats and Republicans-each 
representing their corporate sponsors in the yard-are snarling and nipping 
at each other's legs and necks.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=656&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
Denouncing Hugo Chavez
And other sports of the rich, infamous and just plain stupid
by Daniel Patrick Welch

When Nelson Mandela visited the US as the apartheid regime was crumbling 
beneath his lifelong struggle, it was demanded of him that he "repudiate" 
Mohamar Khadafi and Fidel Castro. Pictures were circulated of the supposedly 
embarrassing hugs that would make such "repudiation" necessary. Mandela 
refused, of course, clearly seeing the absurdity of bowing to pressure from 
the erstwhile funders of his oppressors to denounce those who had supported 
his struggle for decades. Black protesters of the Vietnam War, urged to 
patriotic duty to kill communists and children halfway around the globe, 
demurred with a similarly poignant retort: "No Viet Cong ever called me 
'Nigger.'"

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Other articles of interest

http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx101306
Peace Activists Beware: Homeland Security May Be Reading Your E-Mail, and 
Passing it on to the Pentagon
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

More information keeps coming out, thanks to the ACLU, about the Bush 
Administration's equation of protest with terrorism-and the snooping it then 
engages in. Homeland Security is monitoring peace groups and even peering at 
their e-mails. "This information is being provided only to alert commanders 
and staff to potential terrorist activity or apprise them of other force 
protection issues." It then shares that information with Joint Terrorism 
Task Forces, which include the FBI and state and local law enforcement, as 
well as with the Pentagon's notorious Talon (Threat and Local Observation 
Notice) program.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/dean1.html
A Terrorist Under Every Bush
Gayle Dean, LewRockwell.com

In a recently filed lawsuit, the ACLU has documented the way that, for 
political reasons, the FBI has expanded the definition of domestic terrorism 
to include mainstream groups who criticize government policy, i.e., groups 
such as Greenpeace, PETA, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 
and the ACLU itself.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct06/Petersen16.htm
Genocide in Iraq: The Numbers Tell the Horrific Story of a Lying Government 
and Complicit Corporate Media
Kim Petersen, Dissident Voice

As reported by BBC News, a forthcoming study in the academic peer review 
journal Lancet estimates the extra number of people killed because of the 
aggression-occupation of Iraq at 655,000 -- up from a previous Lancet study 
that estimated 100,000 deaths since the US-UK attacked Iraq. All the killing 
has its origin in US-UK government lies. Weapons of mass destruction were 
just a pretext as acknowledged by Ziocon Paul Wolfowitz in a Vanity Fair 
interview, and the invasion was a foregone matter as revealed by the Downing 
Street Memos. There is an ongoing genocide in Iraq. What else can over 
600,000 killings be deemed but genocide? A price "worth it"?

http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/
Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America
Stan Goff, Truthdig

Fascism traditionally employs either a master-race or master-culture 
narrative.  This narrative is reinforced for troops on the ground in Iraq by 
the circumstances.  The role of occupier is the role of dominator, and as 
the Stanford Prison Experiment proved dramatically, this dominator role very 
quickly translates into the dehumanization and objectification of the 
dominated.  On the ground, at the infantry level, wars of domination in 
every instance become race wars. The dustup recently about a Marine singing 
a song (which was published on the Internet as a video), called "Hadji 
 Girl," in which he humorously describes killing Iraqi children to the 
raucous applause of his fellow Marines, was hardly a blip in the corporate 
media.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006lydersen_srbernardparish
Still Soaked: Corporate Settlements Don't Do Much for Residents of 
Devastated St. Bernard Parish
Kari Lydersen, Infoshop News

On August 29, 2005, seething floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina lifted a 
huge crude oil storage tank off its base and moved it 33 feet, releasing a 
river of oil that combined with toxic sludge and oozed over and into about 
1,800 homes in St. Bernard Parish about 10 miles east of New Orleans. The 
incident is reportedly the biggest oil spill ever in a residential area. But 
it was also just a more dramatic example of the kind of injuries the 
facility had been inflicting on nearby residents for years.

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NewsWire

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/16/WOLF.TMP
Blogger/anarchist Josh Wolf on his way to becoming longest-jailed journalist 
in U.S. history

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306L.shtml
Defense Department Keeps Massive Database on Anti-War Protesters

http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/13413108.html
US agents question teen: Girl ran anti-Bush page on MySpace

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defensetech.org%2Farchives%2F002844.html
Army "Big Brother" Unit Targets Bloggers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/13/ulloyd.xml
US murdered ITN journalist

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/10/2513_anna_politkovsk.html
Anna Politkovskaya's Last Article Hits Close to Home

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/13/D8KNQMG84.html
Air America goes bankrupt

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1873834.ece
The Real Terrorists: US troops at Guantanamo boast about abusing its kidnap 
victims

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=87913
Seattle Police Arrest Two, Crush Anarchist Near-Revolution

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/10/16/51519/765
Farmers, Ranchers, and the Zapatista Other Campaign Shut Down the Largest 
Salt Mine on Earth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061015/ap_on_sc/spain_fugitive_mink
Eco-heroes free mink from Spain farms

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/washington/16power.html
Power-Grid Report Suggests Some Dark Days Ahead

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/4257816.html
US West is "warming dramatically"

http://www.livescience.com/environment/061012_alaska_lakes.html
Alaskan lakes dry up

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11441
Group warns mountains will lose ice caps

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0c021878-5a16-11db-8f16-0000779e2340.html
Grain stockpiles at lowest level in 25 years

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