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Articles of interest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061022141837898
An Anarchist FAQ: Freedom Interview
Infoshop.org

What is the FAQ? It is a long, but comprehensive, webpage of "Frequently 
Asked Questions" about anarchism on the internet (www.anarchistfaq.org) and 
soon to be a book by AK Press. It covers most of the obvious questions you 
would expect, plus some more obscure ones. It attempts to present anarchism 
as a serious political theory and movement to those interested in finding 
out about it as well as being a resource for anarchists.

http://www.counterpunch.org/makdisi10232006.html
Israel's Cluster Bomb War: "What We Did Was Insane and Monstrous"
Saree Makdisi, CounterPunch

As Egeland noted, the majority of these bombs were dropped in the last three 
days of the war--a time when the U.N. resolution to end the fighting had 
been agreed on, when the war was virtually over, when it was clear that 
Israel had failed to accomplish its declared objectives in launching this 
campaign. Dropped so late in the war, it's hard to imagine what specific 
military objective these bombs could possibly have been meant to accomplish. 
Instead, they seem to have been dropped as a final, gratuitous act of 
violence in a war waged against an entire population. The vast majority of 
the 1,200 Lebanese killed by Israeli bombardments were civilians; one in 
three was a child.

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_23293.shtml
The Case for Iraqi Genocide
Ghali Hassan, Axis of Logic

For nearly sixteen years, U.S. and British forces have been killing Iraqis 
with impunity. The number of Iraqis killed is increasing rapidly and could 
easily reach 3 million if the U.S. refuses to end the Occupation. Iraq is an 
example of how the West uses the word genocide selectively. Genocide is used 
to describe the internal conflict in Sudan (Darfur region), but not the mass 
killing of innocent Iraqis where the U.S. and Britain are the main 
perpetrators of violence and destruction. What is happening in Iraq today is 
genocide, as clearly described by the Genocide Convention.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday/
After Pat's Birthday
Kevin Tillman, Truthdig

Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to 
the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was 
involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from 
Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or 
we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil 
war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something 
like that. Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and 
humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping 
people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with 
anything, secretly torturing them.  Somehow that overt policy of torture 
became the fault of a few "bad apples" in the military.

http://harpers.org/TheNextWar.html
The Next War
Daniel Ellsberg, Harper's Magazine

A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious 
plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the 
dark. The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding 
our overt, open-ended escalation of the Vietnam War, and 2002, the year 
leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In both cases, if one or more 
conscientious insiders had closed the information gap with unauthorized 
disclosures to the public, a disastrous war might have been averted 
entirely.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/36890
Clearing of Maher Arar raises questions about performance of anti-terror 
agencies
Waseem Shehzad, Media Monitors

What the O'Connor report reveals in chilling detail is that officials' and 
intelligence agencies' statements cannot be taken at face value; that there 
are media outlets that thrive on Muslim-bashing, and that Islamophobia has 
become acceptable in Canada, as indeed throughout the West. People's civil 
liberties have been usurped in the name of 'security'. Yet those posing the 
most danger to Canadian security and values are the very people claiming to 
protect them.

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NewsWire

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3794
Group Sues FBI to Disclose Personal-Data 'Warehouse'

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/23/1425232
NYC Student Stopped on Staten Island Ferry For Wearing T-Shirt Saying "We 
Will Not Be Silent" in Arabic

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAY20061019&articleId=3530
No First Amendment Rights in America's Classrooms: Teacher loses job for 
saying peace

http://cbs13.com/topstories/topstories_story_292222927.html
Troops With Stress Disorders Being Redeployed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061021/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths
U.S. terrorist deaths in Iraq hit 2,791

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=17963
Israel admits using phosphorus bombs in Lebanon

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2415492,00.html
Armed resistance movement has emerged in North Korea

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1919117.ece
Cracking up: Ice turning to water, glaciers on the move - and a planet in 
peril

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2214263.cms
Largest hole in the ozone layer ever recorded over Antarctica

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2587932
Greenland ice sheet shrinking fast

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