The US administration's illegal and immoral behavior is not even confined to outside its borders. You are witnessing daily that under the pretext of “the war on terror,” civil liberties in the United States are being increasingly curtailed. Even the privacy of individuals is fast losing its meaning. Judicial due process and fundamental rights are trampled upon. Private phones are tapped, suspects are arbitrarily arrested, sometimes beaten in the streets, or even shot to death.

Les informamos que la noche del día 24 de noviembre del 2006 las Brigadas populares organizaron la ocupación de un edificio abandonado en el Barrio Serra, región Centro Sur de Belo Horizonte, reivindicando el pedido de las familias sin techo de BH (Belo Horizonte). El inmueble ahora es el hogar de las familias que habían sido desalojadas por falta de pago de los alquileres. La ocupación fue bautizada como Caracol.

Informamos que na Noite do dia 24 de novembro de 2006 as Brigadas Populares organizaram a ocupação de um prédio abandonado no Bairro Serra, região Centro Sul de Belo Horizonte, reivindicando o atendimento das familias sem-teto de BH. O imóvel agora é o lar de familias que haviam sido despejadas por falta de pagamento dos aluguéis, a ocupação foi batizada de Caracol.

Protest at U.S. Military-Training School Builds Campaign to Close School of the Americas/WHINSEC

Interview with Joao da Silva, communications coordinator with the School of the Americas Watch, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

On the third weekend in November, an estimated 20,000 people gathered outside the gates of Fort Benning, Ga., to call for the closure of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC, formerly known as the School of the Americas. Participants came from all over the country to bear witness to the tens of thousands of Latin American civilians who have been killed, and often tortured, with the complicity of their nation's military graduates of the school.

The activists' goal is to close the school either by cutting its funding, or by draining the pool of soldiers from countries throughout Latin America which send a thousand students to attend classes at the school annually. In recent years the largest number of soldiers at WHINSEC have come from Colombia followed by Mexico.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Joao da Silva, communications coordinator with School of the Americas Watch, the organization founded by Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois in 1990 after several priests, who were close friends of his, were murdered by soldiers in El Salvador. Da Silva discusses the increasing collaboration between SOA Watch, human rights groups and progressive political leaders in Latin America. He also describes his group's campaign to pass legislation in the US Congress that would close the school, which got a boost after 20 Congressional supporters of WHINSEC lost their bid for re-election in November.

For more information, visit the School of the Americas Watch's website at www.soaw.org or call their office at (202) 234-3440.

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The John Brown Caucus of SDS/MDS says FIGHT STATE RACISM! STOP THE MURDERS!

18,000 Missing Ballots in Florida's 13th District Underscore Flaws in Electronic Voting System

Interview with Holly Jacobson, co-director of the group Voter Action, conducted by Scott Harris

In Florida, the home of contested elections, the state's 13th Congressional District is the focus of growing national attention after election results there Nov. 7 revealed some 18,000 missing ballots. Initial vote totals had Republican Vern Buchanan with a razor thin edge of only 368 votes over his opponent, Democrat Christine Jennings in the former district of controversial Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.

But after a required recount, the Jennings campaign grew suspicious when they found that more than 18,000 ballots cast in Sarasota County had not included a vote in the House race. Many voters interviewed by the local press said they believed that votes cast on ES&S electronic touch-screen machines had not accurately counted their votes. Because these voting machines have no paper trail, there is no method of locating or recounting the missing ballots. According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, if the lost votes had broken for Jennings by the same percentage as others cast in the county, the Democratic candidate would have won the race by about 600 votes.

Christine Jennings is contesting the result, and along with a group of Sarasota County voters, has filed a suit demanding a new election. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Holly Jacobson, co-founder and co-director of the group Voter Action which has called for a formal, independent investigation of the flaws in the 13th District's electronic voting machinery. She explains why getting all the facts in this contested Florida election could help safeguard the integrity of future elections across the nation.

Contact Voter Action by calling (206) 723-1941, or visit the group's website at www.voteraction.org

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MARK FOLEY AND THE DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION

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The term Green Scare refers to the Red Scares of the early twentieth century, made famous by the McCarthy hearings and the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Green Scare demonstrates a similar systematic criminalization of dissent as the U.S. government is using all its tactics (e.g., grand juries, specialized legislation, paid agents provocateurs) to target the radical environmental and animal rights movements, those who publicly support them, and others who struggle for a healthy, diverse eco-system and the rights of animals.

uk indymedia has been taken control by the state

 http://www.mujca.com

 http://www.mujca.com

With Iraqi deaths already estimated at around 650,000 and the American death toll moving toward 3,000, the US ruling elite’s actions will necessarily intensify the violence in Iraq, resulting in even greater casualties.

Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned Russian spy, has now been directly linked to the Chechnya-Mudjahadeen which of course is allied with Al Qaeda. It can now be reported that the U.S. FBI has tied Litvinenko to the sale of nuclear material to the government of Israel through Zurich, Switzerland. The bagman for all this is none other than Marc Rich.
Litvinenko, with ties to Chechnya and elements of the Russian Israeli Organized Crime Teams was an important individual. His death is not to be dismissed. It can now be reported that Litvinenko was...

Extensive damwage

The Anti Racist fest ii taking place on Dec 16th 2006 in Jacksonville fla to Promote Anti Racism ,Fascism and unity in the world..

National Solidarity Actions with Strikers at Goodyear: Actions in Over 100 Cities Across the US and Canada On December 16.

Brian Campbell, Staff Attorney for the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) was detained at an airport in Manila on December 6, 2006 and denied access to the country because of his support for Filipino human rights activists.

Green Seniors launched on Friday 1st December. Here is a little about what we hope will mobilise a completely different type of environmental campaigner.

A review of news, opinion and photography recorded from the Indymedia Newswire. Free to rebroadcast. The world and recorded for the community archive

Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.

Finally, this Saturday December 9, you can join thousands of Australians nationwide to mark the fifth year of David's detention without trial. Peaceful protests are being coordinated by a coalition of action and human rights groups including Fair Go for David and Amnesty International, with key speakers at each event including Major Mori in Melbourne. Order your own Bring David Hicks Home sign and check out the details of a gathering near you.

Hercule Poirot descubre que el “médium” , en este caso la señora Maigret, no ofrece solamente el soporte del descubrimiento del crimen, que es, en suma, el descubrimiento del autor del mismo, sino que conduce al planteamiento del acto criminal, en este caso, la conspiración mediática; la ya tan mencionada y anunciada “batalla mediática” de la operación Libertad Duradera. En esta carta, el detective sugiere que es necesario, ahora, avanzar en la terapia.

8thDec 2006 Uk TV station Channel 4 broadcast

This year was the 25th Anniversary of the Disabled/Disability Day, so we took the opportunity to set up a small awareness campaign in regards to Medical Cannabis being applied in a truly beneficial status.

Street reactions to Medical Cannabis Campaign. Some positive, some negative but all were informed of the facts.

On Oct. 24th an article was printed called , “Old rats are no dopes” - stating that anti-inflammatory compounds in Cannabis deflect the memory loss associated with Alzheimer’, and could ultimately slow its progression. Statement from Prof. Gary Wenk (Psychology Professor) : That’s not going to cure Alzheimer’s Disease, but it’s going to help a lot because, by reducing inflammation, we’re going to rescue some neurons. We’re going to help you not decay so fast.”.

Uprising Radio: 25th anniversary of Mumia’s Arrest
 http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=987
GUEST: Hans Bennett, Philadelphia based photo-journalist who has been documenting the free-Mumia movement. View his new series on Mumia published in the weeks leading up to December 9:  http://hbjournalist1.googlepages.com/ms

Will the Bush Administration Bow to Public Pressure on Iraq War Policy?

Interview with Rahul Mahajan, journalist and author, conducted by Scott Harris

American voters went to the polls on Nov. 7 and sent a strong message about their anger over the increasingly bloody Iraq war. Near-record disapproval of President Bush's leadership on the war and domestic policy cost the Republicans control of the House and Senate where they had, since 2001, acted essentially as a rubber stamp for the White House.

With the post-election resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and a set of recommendations for change from the Iraq Study Group led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, it appears that the president's "stay the course" policy in Iraq may soon be modified. But recent statements from Bush belie the conventional wisdom that change is coming. On Nov. 30, Bush rejected the idea that policy prescriptions from the Iraq Study Group would pave the way for a graceful U.S. exit out of Iraq.

With the Democrats taking charge of Congress in January, questions about how far the party will go to press for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by wielding the legislature's power of the purse, are still largely unanswered. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with journalist and author Rahul Mahajan, who looks at the worsening civil war conditions in Iraq and the public pressure building on the administration for a rapid end to America's occupation there.

Rahul Mahajan is author of the book, "Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond," published by Seven Stories Press. Read Mahajan's commentaries online at: www.empirenotes.org

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Brazilian entrepreneurs, workers and unemployeds, we need workmanships, projects and initiatives that multiply chances, wages, jobs and businesses, and this will not happen in desirable speed while the Union to spend, as in the year of 2006, 490 billion Reals **(U.S.$ 220.000.000.000, 00) with a presumpted financing of the internal debt next to bankers

"John Howard, he doesn't want (to) bring David Hicks here for so many reasons, because he's a good witness against the crime of the government overseas."

Fascism, in this day and age, seems a rather nebulous concept. I can't count how many times I have asked someone to define fascism only to draw a blank stare or an amibiguous collection of rants against the Anglo-American power structure that, while often true, do little to define fascism.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, speaking in 1873: "I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western plains, in its effect upon the Indians. I would regard it rather as a means of hastening their sense of dependence upon the products of the soil and their own labors."

Latin American Left Continues to Win Electoral Victories

Interview with Laura Carlson, director of the International Relations Center's America's program, conducted by Scott Harris

Over the past five weeks, candidates of left and center-left political parties have won a string of presidential elections in Brazil, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Venezuela. The year began with the stunning electoral triumph of Evo Morales, an Indian activist and advocate for the poor in Bolivia and ended with the re-election of President Hugo Chavez to another six-year term in oil-rich Venezuela. These leaders join incumbent progressive heads of state in Argentina and Uruguay. Powerful left parties are thriving in many other Latin American nations, including Mexico, where the ongoing dispute over a July presidential election has mobilized hundreds of thousands to protest what many believe to be a tainted vote count. There, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of Democratic Revolution and his supporters have carried out a campaign of civil disobedience to underscore their contention that the election was stolen.

During what some observers describe as Latin America's "Pink Tide" revolution, the Bush administration has been unable to exert much influence to reverse the progressive trend. The White House effort to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement to the entire hemisphere in the Free Trade Area of the Americas Treaty has failed. And while President Bush unsuccessfully attempted to blackmail voters in Nicaragua to prevent the election of one-time Cold War foe Daniel Ortega, Washington and Paris together succeeded in ousting Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. An earlier Bush administration effort to overthrow the elected government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 2002 was stopped by an outpouring of popular support for Chavez.

Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Laura Carlson, director of the International Relations Center's America's program. Reached in Mexico City, Carlson examines the economic conditions that have empowered left parties across the hemisphere and the challenges ahead for progressive governments looking to develop a set of alternative development policies outside the control of Washington's free-market orthodoxy.

Contact the International Relations Center's America's program in Mexico City by calling (505) 388-0208 or visit their website at www.Americas.irc-online.org.

Related links:

Foreign Policy in Focus at www.fpif.org

The Democracy Center at www.democracyCTR.org

Council on Hemispheric Affairs at www.coha.org

North American Congress on Latin America at www.nacla.org

International Forum on Globalization at www.ifg.org

Washington Office on Latin America at www.wola.org

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AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) today stepped up efforts to derail attempts at the House of Representatives to initiate Charter Change (Cha Cha), calling the move as nothing more than an attempt to cover up the seething political crisis hounding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA).

“The strongest way to deliver an environmental message and to create an impact is certainly through film…”
(Nick Bonner, cartoonist, landscape artist, filmmaker and NUFF Global ambassador from Beijing, China)

On May 6th Greek activist and anarchist Gerasimos Kiriakopoulos was arrested in Thiseio during the 4th European Social Forum. Below is his Story...

Some amateur bed bug science

His death does not mark the end of Pinochetism. People are declaring themselves admirers of his work. Some more shamefully than others, they declare themselves his admirers, his followers, his heirs. They must pay for his entire legacy. The indictment for the crimes of Pinochet's dictatorship, which the human rights organizations have upheld valiantly and tirelessly for years, against his civilian and military collaborators, does not expire with the death of their leader.

To a good understander few words are enough....

Radical Australian Radio 29:50 mins

Fax/phone before Monday to save priceless Aboriginal culture!


If you care about priceless Aboriginal cultural artefacts being needlessly destroyed, we need you to fax or ring the Australian environment minister RIGHT NOW, or at least before Monday. International support is needed to shame this government.

National Irish Freedom Committee Free-Forum Video Discussion with John Horan of Cabhair in Ireland

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More amateur bed bug science...a study in bed bug etymology

The ongoing imprisonment of Hicks, which is designed to psychologically destroy him, has further underscored the contempt for legal precedent and democratic rights that characterises the entire Australian political establishment.

Iraq Study Group Recommendations Won't End War and Occupation

Interview with Nancy Lessin, cofounder of Military Families Speak Out, conducted by Scott Harris

When the Iraq Study group unveiled their set of 79 recommendations to confront what the panel labeled as a "grave and deteriorating" situation in Iraq, President Bush gave the bipartisan committee's prescriptions a lukewarm reception. Bush now intends to shop around for new ideas on how to proceed with his Iraq War strategy and report to the American people on his new direction after the new year.

Among the Study Group's key recommendations are: the gradual withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops by early 2008; initiate a regional dialogue to include Iran and Syria and applying pressure to the government of Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki to reduce sectarian violence or be subject to cutbacks in U.S. support. Iraq's President Jalal Talabani leveled criticism at the report, saying that it is "not fair, is not just, and it contains some very dangerous articles which undermine the sovereignty of Iraq and the Constitution." Some conservative Republicans were more blunt in their criticism of the report, describing it as defeatist.

As the death toll in Iraq climbs ever higher among the civilian population and U.S. soldiers, the debate in Washington goes on with little input from peace groups and veteran's organizations who continue to call for a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to the U.S. occupation. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Military Families Speak Out co-founder Nancy Lessin, who discusses the Iraq Study Group recommendations and the pressure she feels must be applied to the incoming Democratic Congress to end the war.

Call Military Families Speak Out at (617) 983-0710 or visit their website at www.mfso.org

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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Rally in Hammonton, New Jersey

Help us build a massive mobilization to kick the Klan out of Hammonton!

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* Prepare for public anti-Klan coordinating meetings, as part of a national effort to stop the Klan.
* Raise funds to help with organizing and defense.
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According to Democracy Now! radio show and other reports, at least 1,280 workers have been arrested in a series of immigration raids targeting meatpacking plants owned by the company Swift at Tuesday, December 12th. The raids took place in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa and Minnesota. It marks the largest sweep of its kind ever against a single company.

 http://www.boston911truth.org/teaparty/index.html

....perhaps the most shocking story to emerge amidst the flurry of news stories published last week was a Dec. 8 NBC 10 story reporting that two more people now say that they heard Abu-Jamal confess at the hospital before treatment for his gunshot wound.

A first person account of the marches and rallies after NYPD murder Sean Bell.

An environmental advocacy group asked New Year revelers to opt for emission-free festivities sans firecrackers, fireworks, PVC cannons and the burning of tires and discards for a cleaner society and environment.

Pentagon Misinforms National Guard and Reserve Soldiers About Education Benefits

A report on the dispute between the Pentagon and National Guard and Reserve veterans over eligibility for GI Bill education benefits, produced by Melinda Tuhus

Some American soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and now hoping to start or continue their college education, are being told that they're no longer eligible for GI Bill education benefits. But a law was passed in the early 1990s extending National Guard and Reserve soldier benefits eligibility for a period of time after leaving the service. The Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense disagree on whether the 400,000 service members who have served in these two wars are eligible for up to $300 a month in benefits to pursue an education.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus files this report. She begins by interviewing Jack Mordente, executive director of the National Association of Veterans Program Administrators and director of Veterans Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University, about his efforts to help returning vets secure these benefits.

For more information on G.I. Bill benefits, visit the National Association of Veterans Program Administrators website at www.navpa.org.

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Pentagon Misinforms National Guard and Reserve Soldiers About Education Benefits

A report on the dispute between the Pentagon and National Guard and Reserve veterans over eligibility for GI Bill education benefits, produced by Melinda Tuhus

Some American soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and now hoping to start or continue their college education, are being told that they're no longer eligible for GI Bill education benefits. But a law was passed in the early 1990s extending National Guard and Reserve soldier benefits eligibility for a period of time after leaving the service. The Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense disagree on whether the 400,000 service members who have served in these two wars are eligible for up to $300 a month in benefits to pursue an education.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus files this report. She begins by interviewing Jack Mordente, executive director of the National Association of Veterans Program Administrators and director of Veterans Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University, about his efforts to help returning vets secure these benefits.

For more information on G.I. Bill benefits, visit the National Association of Veterans Program Administrators website at www.navpa.org.

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Grassroots Impeachment Campaign Launches Drive to Remove Bush and Cheney from Office

Interview with Tim Carpenter, director of Progressive Democrats of America, conducted by Scott Harris

A coalition of groups advocating the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney came together on Nov. 11 in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, to launch their grassroots national movement. Groups participating in this first gathering included Gold Star Families for Peace, Democrats.com, Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, Progressive Democrats of America, NOW and the After Downing Street Coalition. The new group, Impeach for Change, set two primary goals: gathering 1 million petition signatures in support of impeachment and forming impeachment committees in all 435 congressional districts to lobby their representatives.

The mobilization of citizens working to remove Bush and Cheney from office comes despite statements from incoming Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and soon-to-be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, that impeachment was "off the table." A pre-election Newsweek poll released on Oct. 21, confirmed what several other surveys have found, that a majority of citizens support the impeachment of the president. As her final defiant act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced impeachment legislation, which her party's leadership declared was dead on arrival.

In their first nationwide action, the impeachment coalition organized 75 events across the U.S. on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. Their activities included meetings, vigils, teach-ins and mock funerals for the Constitution. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Tim Carpenter, national director of Progressive Democrats of America, who describes the objectives of this grassroots impeachment campaign.

For more information on the work of the impeachment coalition, visit the www.afterdowningstreet.org.

"Election Ends One-Party State: How Will Democrats Use Their New Power to Investigate?" Between The Lines Week Ending Nov. 17, 2006, interview with James Ridgeway, investigative journalist, conducted by Scott Harris

Authors of "The Case for Impeachment"- David Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky's website: www.thiscantbehappening.net

"The Impeachment of George W. Bush," by Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation, Jan. 30, 2006

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The U.S. Dept. of Education (DOE) by all appearances is gearing up for a nationwide public-policy-perception battle.

Petition: Why we stand for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq

“Prime Minister Howard followed Bush into the Iraq war debacle - there is absolutely no excuse for making the same mistake twice,” Senator Milne said.

But the facts about his torture seems a little difficult for John Howard's ABC to spit out in today's news! And John Howard's motives should be very clear to everyone. Scapegoats have become the latest fascism.

Despite Chilean Dictator's Death, Fight to Obtain U.S. Documents Related to 1976 Assassination Continues

Interview with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, conducted by Scott Harris

The death of Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet on Dec. 10 ended any further attempts to bring to justice one Latin America's most brutal dictators. The Chilean military, led by Gen. Pinochet staged a bloody coup against the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973. In the years which followed, Pinochet's regime killed nearly 3,200 suspected political opponents, tortured 28,000 and disappeared more than a thousand. During Pinochet's rein of terror, which ended in 1990, hundreds of thousands of Chileans fled their nation to seek refuge around the world.

Official U.S. government documents confirm that President Richard Nixon was complicit in supporting and planning the Chilean coup. In 1976, Pinochet's secret police ordered the car bomb assassination of former Chilean ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier and his associate Ronni Moffett in downtown Washington, D.C. From October 1998 to March 2001, Pinochet was placed under house arrest in London while he awaited Britain's decision on a Spanish request to extradite the general to stand trial on murder and torture charges. Eventually, British authorities released Pinochet to return to Chile after determining that the aging despot was neither physically or mentally fit to stand trial. Pinochet was later discovered to have stolen some $27 million and concealing the money in U.S. and other overseas banks.

At the time of his death, Pinochet was under investigation in multiple human rights cases and under house arrest in Chile. Although he was never brought to trial, the dictator lived to see one of his torture victims, socialist Michelle Bachelet elected Chile's president. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive and author of the book, "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability." Kornbluh looks at the legacy of Augusto Pinochet and continuing demands for the release of U.S. documents related to the dictator's brutal repression.

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* Un integrante de la redacción de El Libertario, vocero de la Comisión de Relaciones Anarquistas de Venezuela, describe y analiza cómo y por qué se ha venido agudizando la represión estatal contra el creciente malestar social que desenmascara el discurso seudo revolucionario del chavismo.

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[There is] no doubt whatsoever of the CIA's involvement and the complicity of the Australian goverment and that view is shared by us and by our counterparts in Indonesia.

United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc. presents its Benedict Arnold list for those Blacks who continue to use the n-word including Daman Wayans.

"I said, I'm not moving and he said, 'I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.' Then he spat in my face and at that point, I was in high adrenaline mode and called him a son-of-a-bitch, which I am not proud of. Then I spat back. At that point, he pushed me down and people on the bus were screaming that I was crazy. Four men surrounded me and slapped my face, punched me in the chest, pulled at my clothes, beat me, kicked me. My snood [hair covering] came off. I was fighting back and kicked one of the men in his privates. I will never forget the look on his face."

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Tinley, like the other military chiefs interviewed in the Age, is not arguing for an end to imperialist military interventions. Under conditions of widespread anti-war sentiment among broad layers of the population, deepening social inequality and increasing hostility to the official political superstructure, he is deeply concerned about the dangers posed to the existing social order when the internal discipline and morale of the military, a crucial component of the capitalist state, is weakened and undermined.

Bush Signs Federal Legislation Expanding Power to Declare Martial Law

Interview with Frank Morales, writer and activist, conducted by Scott Harris

In a legislative maneuver that largely slipped below the media radar screen, Congress passed -- and president Bush signed into law in mid-October -- a measure that will make it easier for American presidents to declare federal marital law. Congress revised the Insurrection Act, bypassing existing prohibitions there and within the Posse Comitatus Act that had prevented the president from deploying U.S. military troops within the nation's borders.

The Defense Authorization Act of 2007 signed into law by Bush in a private White House ceremony, empowers the president to declare a "public emergency," station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder." U. S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont warned that "the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy."

The new law authorizes police to detain and imprison "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists," protesters and other "undesirables." Ominously, in January Congress awarded $385 million to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, for the construction of temporary detention and processing facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S. Frank Morales, an Episcopalian priest at St. Mark's Church in New York City, is a writer and activist. His piece, "Bush Moves Toward Martial Law," is one of the few news stories on these new presidential powers. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Frank Morales about the potential consequences for civil liberties stemming from this change in federal law.

Read Frank Morales' piece, "Bush Moves Toward Martial Law," online at www.TowardFreedom.com

Related links:

"The 2007 Defense Authorization Act and the "Reform" of the Insurrection Act of 1807:Usurpation of Power," By Col. Dan Smith, Counterpunch.org, Nov. 20, 2006

Repeal Section 1076 at finger2006.com

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Steelworkers announce a tenatative agreement at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, potentially ending a 3 month long strike.

Regarding your article 9/12 incidents at cronulla beach I think you were able to capture main points and problems people face in today's age of "fair and balanced" media... sad thing is that 90% of Australians will never benefit from it...

I have two deadlines:
1st deadline: NEED AIR NATIONAL GUARD WOMEN OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND HARASSMENT:

2nd DEADLINE: ALL MILITARY SERVICES MEN AND WOMEN OF SEXUAL ABUSE, HARASSMENT -SYSTEM FAILED THEM.

Report and Photos from Saturdays Rally and Statement from LASNET

The US will not be voted out of Iraq, nor lobbied out, nor petitioned out, and probably not marched out. Who is positioned to take reasoned militant action to end the promise for perpetual mass industrialized slaughter?

Féminismes. Théories, mouvements, conflits
L'homme te la sociéte, number 158

"En France, depuis une décennie, la théorie et le mouvement féministes témoignent d’un renouveau à la fois générationnel et thématique qui marque ce que l’on pourrait baptiser la troisième vague du féminisme français. Ce numéro de L’homme et la société entend faire le point sur ces nouvelles générations intellectuelle et militante, sur leurs liens avec les combats passés, leurs héritages assumés ou contestés et sur leurs luttes présentes. Depuis différentes disciplines, les articles réunis dans ce numéro permettent d’élaborer une cartographie du mouvement, sans éluder les conflits qui le traversent, mais aussi l’originalité et la force problématique qu’il porte au cœur des actuels débats de société".
tity as women, which limits their participation as citizens and, thusly, their access to the political sphere.

The NIFC talks to Mags Glennon, chairperson for the Westmeath Cowpark Users Group who are campaigning to retain the use of community owned land used by landless farmers who pay fees to graze their cattle on these lands. Recently the Westmeath county council -by way of the Department of Agriculture - in Dublin, have decided to sell off the cowparks without warning to the highest bidder; showing little regard for the members of the community who depend on the use of the land for their livestock.

President supported Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

Bush Moves Toward Increasing U.S. Troops in Iraq

Interview with David MacMichael, former CIA analyst, conducted by Scott Harris

In a post-election search for a new direction in his Iraq policy, President Bush not too subtly dismissed recommendations made by the Iraq Study Group led by former Republican Secretary of State James Baker which had proposed a draw down of American soldiers in Iraq beginning early in 2007. Now Bush is considering a temporary increase in the level of U.S troops there by as many as 30,000. The White House is expected to announce a new strategy for Iraq early in the New Year.

Conflicting news reports paint a picture of division among top brass at the Pentagon over for the so-called "surge" plan. The proposal to escalate the Iraq war, detailed in a paper titled, "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," was authored by Frederick W. Kagan, a resident neoconservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

While members of the Bush administration are reportedly closing ranks in support of the plan to pour new U.S. troops into Iraq, recent public opinion polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose escalation of the war. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with former CIA analyst David MacMichael, who examines the "Surge" plan and the likely response from Democrats who take control of Congress in January.

David MacMichael serves on the steering group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Read MacMichael's articles online at www.Counterpunch.org

Related links:

"Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," by Frederick W. Kagan

Download a copy of the Iraq Study Group Report

Bring Them Home Now at www.bringthemhomenow.org

Military Families Speak Out at www.mfso.org

United for Peace and Justice at www.unitedforpeace.org

International Answer at www.internationalanswer.org


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Real Christians Don't Choose war

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The U.S. FDA has once again taken the side of Nazi SS Science in approving the use of cloned animals in food production.

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U.S. Can Do More to Pressure Sudan to Allow U.N. Protective Force in Darfur

Interview with Nii Akuetteh, executive director of Africa Action, conducted by Scott Harris

Despite the presence of a small African Union peacekeeping force numbering about 7,000, fighting continues in the Darfur region of western Sudan where rebel groups seeking autonomy are battling government-backed Arab Janjaweed militias. Now, the war has spilled over into the neighboring country of Chad, where The United Nations reports that more than 70 villages have been attacked, burned or emptied since early November, causing a growing refugee problem there.

With civilians often the target, the deadly conflict in Darfur has cost the lives of more than 200,000 and displaced over 2 million people. U.S. officials have characterized the attacks there as genocide. Recently Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir said he accepts a U.N. package to help end escalating violence in Darfur, and is ready to discuss a ceasefire. But the Sudanese head of state has rejected a Security Council resolution adopted in August that called for more than 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers to replace the African Union force. Hope remains that Sudan may be willing to accept a so-called hybrid protective force made up of both AU and UN troops.

Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Nii Akuetteh, executive director of Africa Action, who describes the urgent need for the international community and the Bush administration to exert pressure on the government of Sudan to allow the deployment of a UN protective force in Darfur.

To obtain a copy of Africa Action's report, "Leveraging New International Action on Darfur," call (202) 546-7961 or visit their website at www.africaaction.org

Related links:

Help Save Darfur at www.SaveDarfur.org

Amnesty International at www.amnesty.org

Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org

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"Eli Lilly Said to Play Down Risk of Top Pill"

The Iraqi leader was not, however, tried and sentenced under the auspices of a working class tribunal. He was the subject of a kangaroo court established by an occupation regime after the invasion and conquest of Iraq by the United States. In other words, his crimes were judged and the penalty imposed by those guilty of even greater crimes than his own.

Copyleft cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists found that at least 55 journalists were killed this year in direct connection to their work. The most violent country was Iraq where 32 journalists lost their lives.

Union Campaign to Organize Smithfield Workers at World's Largest Slaughterhouse

Interview with Gene Bruskin, organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

The recent raid by U.S. immigration enforcement agents at six meat packing plants around the country points to the importance of Latino immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, in what has become a largely non-union workforce. A century ago, Jewish, Polish and other European immigrants worked in the packing plants of the Midwest, along with African Americans who had recently emigrated from the South seeking better opportunities. They helped unionize the thousands of workers in those plants. But times have changed, and much of the workforce is non-union once again.

The United Food and Commercial Workers, or UFCW, is now organizing the mostly African American and Latino immigrant workforce at the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world, run by Smithfield Farms in Tarheel, N.C. The union condemns what it describes as the poverty wages, brutal conditions, and crippling injuries which it says plagues the 5,500 workers who are employed at the plant.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Gene Bruskin, director of the UFCW organizing campaign, who discusses the intense union drive now going on at the Smithfield plant and provides an overview of labor history in this sector of the workforce.

For more information on the Smithfield campaign call the UFCW at (202) 223-3311 or visit the union's website at www.smithfieldjustice.com

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ringing in the New Year with a plan to address the arguably unbearable time it takes for airline passengers to traverse their way through screening checkpoints, The Peacock Report (TPR) has discovered. TSA will achieve this heightened scale of efficiency by joining hands with another hallowed U.S. institution: the advertising industry.

Earlier this month, a student-run non-profit infoshop celebrated its grand opening at The Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia, Washington, USA. Using the guise of a state funded student group, volunteers of The Evergreen Infoshoppe were allotted over $4,000 to purchase radical books, zines, and videos for their lending library and resource center. After only a few weeks of planning, the Infoshoppe now hosts an ever-growing collection in a permanent, centrally located and nearly autonomous location.

Calling All Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians: Converge at the Northeast Anarchist Consulta this February 24th and 25th to strategize and organize for a massive Week of Resistance this May, from our participation in May Day (May 1st) and the movement for migrant workers' rights to the Biotech Convention (coming to Boston May 6-9) and the movement in defense of the earth.