---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:42:37 -0400 From: Eric Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sfp lists For those of you who have had enough of listservers as an alternative medium, the end may be in sight, when like most of our fellow-citizens without PCs the only source of information will be CNN, G&M, NY Times, etc. See Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's "Manufacturing Consent" to understand what that means! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A study prepared for the US military on what they call "Netwar" concludes that they must center attention on countering the activities of NGOs using Internet communication. The study was sponsored by the US Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence and was produced in the RAND Arroyo Center's Strategy and Doctrine Program. The Arroyo Center is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the United States Army. Based on an analysis of the international solidarity developed by NGOs in support of the Zapatistas, it particularly targets the APC as a network for NGOs. The following quote indicates the thrust of the study: "The most important remains the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), which, as discussed earlier, is a worldwide partnership of member networks (like Peacenet and Conflictnet) that provides low-cost computer communications services and information-sharing tools to individuals and NGOs working on social issues." The full report (in Adobe Acrobat format) is at: http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/MR994.pdf/ see also eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/mediamentor Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com --- end of forward --- -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
