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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : International Relations : Iran |
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The United States and the Iranian Election |
by Stephen Zunes
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28 Jun 2005
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At least the Iranian government does not massacre demonstrators by the hundreds or boil dissidents to death, as does the U.S-backed Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. Nor do they usurp most of the nation's riches on themselves and their relatives and keep political control within a single extended family, like the U.S.-backed family dictatorships in Saudi Arabia and the other sheikdoms of the Arabian Peninsula. And, unlike during the recent election day in Egypt under the ruling U.S.-backed Mubarak dictatorship, police in Iran did not escort pro-government thugs to brutally attack a group of women daring to hold a nonviolent protest in support of greater political freedom. |
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News :: Economy |
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Permaculture and Peak Oil |
by Richard Smith
info (nospam) permacult.com.au (unverified) |
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27 Jun 2005
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Peak Oil and Permaculture explains the dynamics of the impending peak in global oil production and the implications for Australian society. Declining energy availability will spell the end of global economic growth and the consumerist culture it supports. |
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Interview :: Latin America |
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Rebellion of the Spirit |
by Leonardo Boff
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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27 Jun 2005
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"For me, this triad (justice, peace and preser-vation of creation) is a little summary of the good news of the gospel. Even if the nature of utopia is never to be completely fulfilled, it shows us the way like a compass and motivates us not to give up." |
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BTL:Progressive Activists and Legislators Challenge Corporate Media's... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
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27 Jun 2005
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..Failure to Cover Downing Street Memo ~ Interview with Danny Schechter, journalist and filmmaker, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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No Apologies, Senator Durbin |
by Sheldon Drobny
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26 Jun 2005
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Senator Durbin would never accuse our soldiers of being Nazis nor would he have ever defamed the 6,000,000 Jews that died in the Holocaust. Just as holocaust is a generic word, it is now capitalized to reflect the World War II phenomenon. But could we not describe the Armenian massacre as a holocaust without disparaging the memory of the 6,000,000 Jews that died in the Nazi genocide? Yet, Christian fundamentalists who constantly exploit the Jewish Holocaust for their advantage soundly criticized Durbin. The hypocrisy of Christian extreme fundamentalism is that it is the very teachings of the Passion stories of the New Testament that created 2,000 years of Christian anti-Judaism which culminated in the Nazi version of pseudo-Darwinian anti-Semitism. Many on the extreme Right claim that the Third Reich was not a theocracy. The fact is that the constitution of the Third Reich did have only one legal religion named in it. It was called The National Reich Church and it exploited the inherent anti-Judaism of the Passion stories. |
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Race and National Origin at Pacifica Why Should You Care? |
by Tom Gomez
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26 Jun 2005
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Turn on your radio. Spin the dial. Companies like clear channel and Cox own well in excess of 3000 broadcast outlets. That's how most of us get our information. Pacifica exists to counter that. It has only 5 stations, but in major cities, With $400,000,000 in assests and 16 million in yearly budget the foundation is the single most valuable asset of the left. Under one vision it would move to the right, under another it would recruit activists to actually create media. |
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Addicted to War: An Insider Examines the Seductive Myths of Militarism |
by Greg Guma
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25 Jun 2005
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They claim that the crisis is permanent and dire, and the only antidote is a heroic form of leadership Andrew J. Bacevich defines as a “weird homegrown variant of the Fuehrer Principle.” He holds back from using the word fascist, but as Willhelm Reich explained in The Mass Psychology of Fascism, identification with a “Fuehrer” forms the psychological basis of national narcissism. In pre-war Germany , “The structure of the fascist proved to be characterized by metaphysical thinking, piety, and the belief in the abstract ethical ideas and the Divine mission of the ‘Fuehrer’,” Reich explained. “These traits rested on a basis of a strong authoritarian fixation to a Fuehrer-ideal or the nation.”
In the United States , other factors cited by Bacevich as contributing to the rise of militarism include Hollywood and evangelical religion. |
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