Fwd: Iraq. 8 million dead already. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

[Rolf Martens]

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>Subject:Iraq.  8 million dead already.
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>From: John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>SHOCKED & HORRIFIED -STOP THE IRAQ WAR. 8 million dead already
>
>AT LEAST 8,000,000 DEAD ALREADY.
>http://www.world-action.co.uk/horrified.html
>
>WHY NOT PRINT ALL THIS OUT AND PUT IT ON YOUR FRIDGE, AND UNDERTAKE TO
>DO ALL YOU CAN TO STOP THE PRESENT MADNESS RAGING OVER ALL THE EARTH.
>Please.
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>"THE HIGH OFFICE OF PRESIDENT HAS BEEN USED TO FOMENT A PLOT TO DESTROY
>THE AMERICAN'S FREEDOM, AND BEFORE I LEAVE OFFICE I MUST INFORM THE
>CITIZEN OF HIS PLIGHT."
>John F. Kennedy at Columbia University,12th November, 1963 - 10 days
>before his murder on November 22, 1963.
>
>"MY GOVERNMENT IS THE WORLD'S LEADING PURVEYOR OF VIOLENCE."
>Martin Luther King, Jnr., 1967.
>
>--
>SHOCKED AND HORRIFIED  BY LARRY MOSQUEDA, PH.D.,
>The Evergreen State College
>15 SEPTEMBER, 2001
>
>Like all Americans, on Tuesday, 9-11, I was  shocked and horrified to
>watch the WTC Twin  Towers attacked by hijacked planes and collapse,
>  resulting in the deaths of perhaps up to 10,000  innocent people.
>
>I had not been that shocked and horrified since  January 16, 1991, when
>then President Bush  attacked Baghdad, and the rest of Iraq and began
>  killing 200,000 people during that "war" (slaughter).
>
>This includes the infamous "highway of death"  in the last days of the
>slaughter when U.S. pilots  literally shot in the back retreating Iraqi
>civilians  and soldiers.
>
>I continue to be horrified by the sanctions on Iraq,  which have
>resulted in the death of over 1,000,000  Iraqis, including over 500,000
>children, about whom  former Secretary of State Madeline Allbright has
>  stated, their deaths "are worth the cost". Over the course of my
>life I have been shocked and  horrified by a variety of U.S.
>governmental actions,  such as the U.S. sponsored coup against
>democracy  in Guatemala in 1954 which resulted in the deaths of  over
>120,000 Guatemalan peasants by U.S. installed  dictatorships over the
>course of four decades.
>
>Last Tuesday's events reminded me of the horror  I felt when the U.S.
>overthrew the government of the  Dominican Republic in 1965 and helped
>to murder  3,000 people. And it reminded me of the shock I felt  in
>1973, when the U.S. sponsored a coup in Chile  against the democratic
>government of Salvador Allende  and helped to murder another 30,000
>people, including  U.S. citizens.
>
>Last Tuesday's events reminded me of the shock and  horror I felt in
>1965 when the U.S. sponsored a coup in  Indonesia that resulted in the
>murder of over 800,000  people, and the subsequent slaughter in 1975 of
>over  250,000 innocent people in East Timor by the Indonesian  regime,
>with the direct complicity of President Ford and  Secretary of State
>Henry Kissinger.
>
>I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during  the U.S.
>sponsored  terrorist contra war (the World Court  declared the U.S.
>government a war criminal in 1984 for  the mining of the harbors)
>against Nicaragua in the 1980s  which resulted in the deaths of over
>30,000 innocent  people (or as the U.S. government used to call them
>  before the term "collateral  damage" was invented -- "soft targets").
>
>I was reminded of being horrified by the U. S. war against  the people
>of El Salvador in the 1980s, which resulted in  the brutal deaths of
>over 80,000 people, or "soft targets".
>
>I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during  the U.S.
>sponsored terror war against the peoples of  southern Africa
>(especially Angola) that began in the  1970's and continues to this
>day, and has resulted in  the  deaths and mutilations of over
>1,000,000.
>
>I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt as the  U.S. invaded
>Panama over the Christmas season  of 1989  and killed over 8,000 in an
>attempt to capture  George H. Bush's CIA partner, now turned enemy,
>  Manual Noriega.
>
>I was reminded of the horror I felt when I learned about  how the Shah
>of  Iran was installed in a U.S. sponsored  brutal coup that resulted
>in the deaths of over 70,000  Iranians from 1952-1979. And the
>continuing shock as  I learned that the Ayatollah Khomani, who
>overthrew the  Shah in 1979, and  who was the U.S. public enemy for
>  decade of the 1980s, was also on the CIA payroll, while  he was in
>exile in Paris in the 1970s.
>
>I was reminded of the shock and horror that I felt as  I learned about
>the  how the U.S. has "manufactured  consent" since 1948 for its
>support of Israel, to the  exclusion of virtually any rights for the
>Palestinians  in their native lands resulting in ever worsening  day-
>to-day conditions for the people of Palestine.
>
>I was shocked as I learned about the hundreds  of towns and 

Fwd: USA. [IAC] Report from June 29 protest in defense of civil rights [WWW.ST

[Rolf Martens]

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>Date:   Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:32:38 +0300
>Subject:USA. [IAC] Report from June 29 protest
> in defense of civil rights
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>From: "Action Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:34:39 -0400
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>Subject: [IAC] Report from June 29 protest in defense of civil rights
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>PRESS RELEASE
>June 29, 2002
>
>ACTIVISTS PROTEST IN DEFENSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE FBI'S
>WASHINGTON D.C. HEADQUARTERS
>*Rallies Also Take Place In Over 30 Cities Around the
>Country
>
>Over 1,000 people came out today to protest the
>Bush/Ashcroft assault on civil rights and civil liberties
>in Washington D.C., demanding the repeal of the USA
>PATRIOT Act and other unconstitutional measures.  Along
>with demonstrations held over the weekend in thirty other
>U.S. cities, the actions launched a nationwide campaign
>called by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition to defend civil
>rights and civil liberties
>
>While the government has tried hard to single out and
>demonize one segment of the population under the phony
>"war on terrorism," today the Arab, South Asian and Muslim
>communities were joined by anti-war activists, civil
>rights attorneys and others who are angry at Bush's
>campaign of racist profiling and mass detentions.
>
>Demonstrators also condemned the monitoring of libraries
>by FBI agents under the USA PATRIOT Act; the elimination
>of basic constitutional protections; the forced
>fingerprinting of immigrants; the mass detentions of Arab
>and Muslim people; and the reinstatement of COINTELPRO and
>Hoover-style harassment by the FBI.
>
>"The Bush administration is criminalizing dissent," said
>Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, an attorney with the Partnership
>for Civil Justice.  "The Bush administration, with an
>all-war all-the-time agenda, knows people will want to
>protest the spending of billions on war while cutting
>school budgets and healthcare.
>
>"Today's demonstration in Washington and in thirty other
>cities signals the beginning of a fightback movement
>against the domestic war being waged against civil
>rights," stated Larry Holmes, a leader of the
>International Action Center and spokesperson for
>A.N.S.W.E.R. "Racial profiling has been an ever-present
>reality for African-American and Latino people and other
>people of color for centuries. Bush and Ashcroft are now
>legally sanctifying this odious  policy under the rubric
>of the War on Terrorism and codifying it in the so-called
>PATRIOT Act," Holmes stated.
>
>"We all have a stake in defending civil rights and this
>demonstration proves that people are responding," stated
>Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of the Muslim American
>Society Freedom Foundation, who served as the co-chair for
>the DC rally.
>
>Tens of thousands of people who were attending the annual
>Folk Life Festival on the Mall in Washington DC saw the
>civil rights march as it wound through the crowded street
>adjoining the Festival. Carrying brightly colored banners
>and signs, the marches distributed thousands of leaflets
>entitled: Why we are Marching to Defend Civil Rights. A
>number of young people in the crowd left the mall and
>joined the march for several blocks as it moved forward
>past the White House for a closing rally.
>
>International A.N.S.W.E.R.
>Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
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Fwd: Join us July 10 in SF - Freedom of Liaoyang 5! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

[Rolf Martens]

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Date:   Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:15:29 -0700
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Demand Freedom of Liaoyang 5!

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IN THIS MESSAGE

1) Introduction: A Revealing Conversation with Chinese
Consulate PR Head in SF

2) Notes on Phone Call with Mr. Hong Li, Head of Public
Relations at the Chinese Consulate

3) Urgent Appeal: July 10 -- International Day of Action
to Free the Liaoyang 5!

4) Support Coupon for International Campaign to Free the
Liaoyang 5!




1) Introduction: A Revealing Conversation with Chinese
Consulate PR Head in SF

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

On Friday, June 28th, I asked Krista Husar, a  volunteer with
the OWC Continuations Committee, if she would call the Chinese
Consulate in San Francisco on behalf of the San Francisco
Labor Council (AFL-CIO) and the OWC Continuations Committee to
set up an appointment with the Consulate on Wednesday, July
10.

On that date we will be sending a representative labor & com-
munity delegation to the Chinese Consulate -- as part of the
July 10 International Day of Action to Free the Liaoyang 5 --
to demand the immediate and unconditional release from prison
of the five unionists in Liaoyang, northeast China, and to
express our strong-felt concern that China should ratify and
implement ILO Conventions 87 and 98, which call for the right
to strike and to form independent trade unions.

[Note: See below the Appeal for the July 10 International Day
of Action to Free the Liaoyang 5. Also visit our web site at
owcinfo.org to read more about the struggle of the Liaoyang
workers and the recent international labor delegation to
Liaoyang organized by the International Liaison Committee for
a Workers' International (ILC).]

Krista, who will be coordinating our July 10 delegation and
rally here in San Francisco, called the Chinese Consulate to
make this appointment and spoke briefly with Mr. Hong Li,
head of Public Relations at the Consulate. I am sending you
below the notes Krista took from this call, which -- as you
will see -- reveal a hardline stance by the Chinese authori-
ties against the Liaoyang 5 and their supporters.

Despite the Consulate's initial refusal to receive our dele-
gation, we will keep calling them to insist that they receive
us. In coordination with the San Francisco Labor Council we
will also organize a noon-time rally and press conference on
July 10 in front of the Chinese Consulate in SF to report on
the outcome of our delegation, to reiterate our demands, and
to provide an update on the struggle of the Liaoyang workers
for their basic rights.

We urge all unionists and supporters of labor rights in the
San Francisco Bay Area to sign the Urgent Appeal below, which
we will submit to the Chinese Consulate on July 10. Our goal
is to submit thousands of signatures on this appeal. (Please
forward this appeal to your contacts and friends.)

We also urge you to join us during your lunch break at 12
noon on July 10 in front of the Chinese Consulate at 1450
Laguna St. (corner of Geary Blvd), near Japantown. We espe-
cially call on union locals, community organizations, and
labor rights groups to contact Krista Husar at 415-626-1175
to help us coordinate this protest action and to have
speakers and banners at the event on July 10.

One final yet important political note: Contrary to what Mr.
Hong Li, head of Public Relations at the Chinese Consulate,
implied in his response to Krista Husar, our campaign is not
marked by any hostility whatsoever towards the People's Re-
public of China and the Chinese people. Its aim is to convey
our solidarity with the Chinese workers who are struggling
for their rights. To defend the right of the Chinese workers
to organize independently is not an attack against China. On
the contrary, it is a condition to allow those who create the
wealth of the country to defend themselves.

The multinational corporations are requesting from those in
power in China the unlimited right to exploit the Chinese
workers. They do not hide the fact that their plans and their
needs require the destructive privatization of State enter-
prises and the dismantling of all systems of social protec-
tion in China. The international financial institutions of
Global Capitalism clearly say that tens of millions of lay-
offs

War Criminal Carter to "mediate" talks between Chavez and oligarchs... [WWW.STOP

[davidquarter]

what's that saying: everything he touches turns into suffering?
Carter to Mediate Venezuela Talks  Sun Jun 30,12:21 PM ET 
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter will visit  Venezuela next week to mediate talks between the government and its  opposition, which have been locked in a power struggle since a failed  coup.
Jennifer McCoy, of the Atlanta-based Carter Center, told reporters  Saturday that Carter may be able to help break the political deadlock  when he visits beginning July 6.
"The delegation has been impressed by the deep commitment to  democracy and strong support among Venezuelans for a peaceful  resolution to the divisions within the country," said McCoy, who headed  Carter Center delegation that met with President Hugo Chavez,  government and opposition politicians and others.
Carter's visit comes at the invitation of Chavez, who is hoping the former  U.S. president can help persuade opposition politicians, business and  labor leaders to join government-sponsored reconciliation talks.
The talks began after Chavez survived an April coup in which military  generals toppled him following an opposition march in which 18 people  died and hundreds were wounded.
The left-leaning former paratrooper regained power in less than 48 hours  after the coup sparked more deadly demonstrations, military protests  and international condemnation.
Chavez promised a more conciliatory government, firing some unpopular  Cabinet ministers and vowing changes to some statist new economic  laws staunchly opposed by the business community.
Prominent opposition parties, however, distrust Chavez and are  campaigning for an early referendum on Chavez's rule. Many  Venezuelans fear a repeat of April's violence.
Despite a deepening economic recession, Chavez still enjoys  widespread support and admiration from millions of poor Venezuelans.  Many believe he liberated the country from the grasp of two corrupt  political parties and admire his efforts to bring social equality to  Venezuela.

Re: "Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch." [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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What f*cking universe has this guy been living in for the last 20
years!!!






To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From:   Steve Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:"Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch." 
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Date sent:  Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
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>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/home/story/ucru/cm_top_top/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/020627/7/1rho8.html
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> DEATH OF A PEACE SALESMAN:
> Thu Jun 27, 7:01 PM ET
> By Ted Rall
>
> Bush's Palestinian Putsch
>
> SAN FRANCISCO-Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch.
>
>   When the Israeli prime minister began demanding that the Palestinian
> Authority jettison Yasser Arafat as its leader a few months back, even
> his fans knew he'd crossed the line. Israel was in no position to give
> the Palestinians this much advice. Sure, Bush had refused to even shake
> Arafat's hand, but the administration hadn't yet endorsed Sharon's
> ridiculous bid to beat the Palestinians by turning their leader into an
> Israeli puppet.
>
>   "(Washington) is not an honest broker or a neutral intermediary; it
> stands completely behind Israel," Hamas politburo member Mousa Abu
> Marzouk told Reuters in Damascus on June 10. Then, in a speech
> seemingly tailor-made to confirm that intifadist statement, George W.
> Bush dangled the possibility of American support for the creation of a
> Palestinian state on the West Bank in exchange for Arafat's ouster:
> "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a
> Palestinian state can be born," he said on June 24. Presumably that
> "new leadership" would be friendly to both American and Israeli
> interests.
>
>   After decades of abstention, the United States is back in the coup
> d'état business. And with the exception of an embarrassingly inept
> attempt to unseat Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez a few months back,
> Bush's back-to-the-'50s retro imperialism is working out fairly
> well...for now.
>
>   The administration rigged Afghanistan's loya jirga to install
> ex-Unocal executive Hamid Karzai as the head of a nation where few
> people had ever heard of him. It converted former Taliban cabana boy
> Gen. Pervez Musharraf into our wholly-owned Pakistani subsidiary. And
> it owes its own existence to the first successful domestic coup d'état
> in American history. Why not, regime tinkerers Rumsfeld and Cheney
> obviously asked themselves, pull off a Palestinian putsch too?
>
>   The Palestinians could obviously do better than Mohammed Abdel-Raouf
> Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. A once-brilliant, charismatic tactician
> whose leadership of the PLO forced the West to consider Palestinian
> independence, 73 years of hard living and Israeli shelling have reduced
> Arafat to a quivering wreck tottering on the brink of senility. Though
> Israel has exaggerated the generosity of the deal he turned down over
> the Jerusalem issue, Arafat clearly failed to understand that the
> favorable tide of Western opinion had crested. He should have signed up
> then and later asked for more-East Jerusalem, a corridor connecting
> Gaza to the West Bank.
>
>   Arafat's undemocratic moderation has become both too strident for the
> West and too soft for his increasingly radicalized people. But he's all
> they've got. He's the Palestinians' George Washington, a military
> leader striving to carve out a state which will someday stamp his
> googly-eyed image on its coins and stamps. At this point his possible
> successors-Mahmoud Abbas, Ahmed Korei, Jibril Rajoub, Mohammed
> Dahlan-just aren't popular enough to run this landlocked hellhole.
> Marwan Barghouthi, a popular Fatah leader currently in jail, wouldn't
> be acceptable to Israel. An independent Palestine can do without
> Arafat, but only after he's served one term leading to a free election.
>
>
>   But none of that matters. If another nation attempted to topple
> George W. Bush, I would be the first to fight to defend my country from
> foreign interference. Illegitimate and harmful though Bush obviously
> is, it's up to Americans to decide whether he should stay in office.
> The same goes for the Palestinians. Getting rid of Arafat may be a good
> decision, but it has to be a Palestinian decision; neither the U.S. or
> Israel has the right to impose new leadership. Certainly neither
> country has the moral authority to do so.
>
>   George W. Bush has made it official: He'll go along with whatever
> Ariel Sharon wants him to do, no matter how immoral, impractical or
> insane. Wait a minute. Who's paying who $3 billion a year, anyway? Bad
> enough we toady up to a country we ought to own, but now the U.S. no
> longer bothers to give even lip service to the principles of national
> s

Observer: Britain silent on 'Butcher of Bahrain' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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Britain silent on 'Butcher of 
Bahrain' 
Tony Thompson, crime 
correspondentSunday 
June 30, 2002The 
Observer 
The Government has been accused of 
stalling attempts to prosecute a British citizen accused of running a brutal 
regime of torture in Bahrain in order to protect the UK's relationship with the 
Arab state. 
Scots-born Colonel Ian Henderson, dubbed the 'Butcher of Bahrain', spent 30 
years as head of the Bahraini secret police. During this time his men allegedly 
detained and tortured thousands of anti-government activists. 
Their activities are said to have included the ransacking of villages, 
sadistic sexual abuse and using power drills to maim prisoners. On many 
occasions they are said to have detained children without informing their 
parents, only to return them months later in body bags. Between 1994 and 1998 at 
least seven people died as a result of torture at the hands of the Bahraini 
regime. 
Human rights organisations have collected evidence from thousands of victims 
of the regime who have provided horrific accounts of the torture they suffered. 
Yaser al-Sayegh's case is typical. 'My wrists were shackled to my ankles and 
they suspended me upside down from a pole,' he said. 'They then beat me on my 
legs and feet and face with iron bars and rubber hoses.' 
Hashem Redha, a Bahrainian pro-democracy activist who now lives in Britain, 
said he was attacked personally by Henderson. 'He tortured me one time. He 
kicked me and shook me two times. He said, "If you like to be hit, we can hit 
you more than that".' 
A Carlton documentary, Blind Eye to the Butcher, to be screened on Wednesday, 
reveals that despite solid evidence torture took place on many occasions, a 
two-year investigation by Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Branch and questions 
being asked in Parliament, Henderson has never been interviewed about the 
allegations. 
However, under international law, he would be responsible for acts of torture 
carried out under his command, regardless of whether he was personally involved. 

A file was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service last August but police 
say they are still waiting for a response. 
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have repeatedly called for an 
investigation into the allegations but believe successive governments have been 
reluctant because of Britain's close ties with the Arab state. Britain has 85 
defence staff based in Bahrain and members of the country's armed forces are 
invited to defence colleges in this country for training. 
Since retirement, Henderson has spent much of his time living at an extensive 
property called Stoke Shallows on the edge of Dartmoor where his neighbours know 
nothing of his past. He continues to travel frequently to Bahrain where he 
remains an adviser. 
In the programme Henderson denies allegations of torture and refused to take 
part in any discussion. However, he issued a statement saying there was no truth 
in any of the allegations. 
The Home Office refused to comment on allegations of torture in Bahrain. 


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Observer: Bye bye American pie [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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Comment 

Bye bye American pie 

Behind the crisis in corporate America is a combination of pernicious 
Southern conservatism and unadulterated greed, argues Will Hutton. 
Will HuttonSunday June 30, 2002The Observer 
The US faces a grave economic 
crisis. The confidence in the balance sheets and reported profitability of 
American companies has been shattered by an orgy of unprecedented corporate 
fraud, plunder and malfeasance that has demanded the connivance of its most 
reputable accounting firms, business leaders and banks. Only last week news 
broke of the biggest ever accounting fraud in history at WorldCom, to be 
followed days later of an epic accounting swindle at Xerox. 
Before them has been a string of others, with Enron the most famous collapse 
of all. The integrity of the entire system for channelling savings into 
investment is now in question as is that of corporate America, just as America's 
debts to foreigners and its own consumers indebtedness have reached 
unsustainable levels. The country has been living beyond its means and inventing 
value when none existed. No one can predict with certainty how this will 
unravel, although the faltering of American consumer confidence and the sell-off 
of the dollar are already pointers. The dollar is threatening to inherit the 
sobriquet of 'toilet currency' once borne by the euro. 
The US can and eventually will recover, but only when it comes to terms with 
the harshest of realities. That it does not possess a uniquely enterprising 
economic and financial model. That the scandals now hitting the headlines are 
not a case of one or two bad apples, but reveal systemic weaknesses in its 
financial system and methods of corporate governance which need root-and- branch 
reform. That American business ethics are abysmally low and require the toughest 
of policing . And that the US, like other economies that have pursued 
unsustainable and foolhardy policies, must go through a period of painful and 
difficult adjustment. 
This is not just a case of companies fudging a billion here or there, as 
President Bush said in his folksy statement on Friday, and hoping nobody 
notices, a problem, as he characterises it, of individual ethics rather than 
systemic deformation. Rather, this is where America's business culture has led, 
legitimised by the conservative ideological barrage now a generation old which 
has transformed American public discourse. Everything should and must be 
pro-market, pro-business and pro-shareholder, a policy platform lubricated by 
colossal infusions of corporate cash into America's money-dominated political 
system. 
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, for example, described the abysmally lax 1996 
Telecoms Act, deregulating the telecoms industry and the precondition for the 
current scandals in the industry, lobbied for ferociously by WorldCom in order 
to unleash market forces, as 'living proof of what unlimited money can do to buy 
influence in the Congress of the United States'. The truth is that American 
business has bought the American executive and legislature alike. 
It is this that makes crafting the right reaction to the crisis so hard. The 
Bush administration has become so attached to the conservative revolution and 
its attendant free-market fundamentalism that the change in thinking it must now 
make threatens to be beyond them, even if its corporate paymasters would allow 
it. 
The need is to reregulate, to recognise business lobbying is primarily 
self-interested and, above all, to insist that successful capitalism is much 
more sophisticated and complex than simply letting fat cats get fatter and 
diminishing all forms of worker protection. The US will find its way back, as it 
has done before, but only when its conservative hegemony and its compromised 
ideas have been broken. 
This will be a Herculean task, for the rise in conservatism has deep roots. 
It is no accident that WorldCom, whose accounting fraud cost $3.8 billion, was 
based in Mississippi and was a generous contributor to its hard-line 
conservative senator, Trent Lott, minority leader in the Senate, as Ed Vulliamy 
reports today. Nor that Enron, whose profits were vastly overstated by 
accounting fiddles, was based in Texas and whose relationship with George Bush 
was so close. 
The states of the Confederacy remain the heartland of the distinct brand of 
American conservatism that combines Christian, market and America-first 
fundamentalism to a unique degree, reinforced in the South by a legacy of barely 
submerged racism. 
The rise of American conservatism has closely followed the rise in the 
economic fortunes of the Confederacy, together with its belief in a 
take-no-prisoners form of capitalism. The new Right thinkers provided the 
intellectual cover, providing populist slogans calling for 'freedom', accusing 
all forms of government of being 'coercive' and deriding the social contract as 
a

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'Revenge', of courseGood thing for (N/S) Americans that the  aboriginals are not as vengeful as our fascist friends in Kosovo...





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aram>HREF="HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK"HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- SERBIAN KOSOVO IS BEING WIPED OFF THE FACE OF  THE EARTH More horrific news is coming from Kosovo; more acts of  vandalism took place in that long-suffering land. Orthodox Serbian  graveyards were desecrated in the town of Djakovica and  Orahovac. Someone destroyed tombstones, leaving their  traces on them: the symbols of an extremist organization of  Albanian guerrillas. Orthodox graveyards in the towns of Siga and  Brestovic (near the city of Pec) suffered even more: vandals  exhumed the graves and scattered the remains of dead Serbs.   The Moscow Patriarchy cited a letter that was written by Bishop  Artemy to the NATO-led peace force (known as KFOR) in  Kosovo. The letter was filled with depression.   The bishop wrote thatover 100 orthodox churches have been  destroyed since the military actions in Kosovo and Metohija and  not less than ten graveyards have desecrated. However, there has  been no legal action taken, not to mention any arrests. Nothing  has been done on the territory that is directly defended by KFOR.  Bishop Artemy believes this is the deliberate policy of the  international community representatives and not any mistake.  Those events were kept secret by the leadership of the  peacemaking force and international organizations for the  protection of human rights. The Albanian police and peacemaking  force prevents the Serbian Patriarchy from documenting such  acts of vandalism.   The Kosovo government completely supports acts of desecration,  taking into consideration the fact that some of its representatives  directly participate in them sometimes. The monument to Serbian  King Stefan Nemanja was demolished on June 4th. The  monument stood in front of the building of the Town-Planning  Ministry of Kosovo, and ministerial officials took a very active  role in the demolition of the monument.   The analysis of events that are happening in Kosovo on a regular  basis made bishop Artemy come to the following conclusion:  KFOR takes part in the elimination of inheritance and culture of  the Serbian Orthodox Church and in the spiritual genocide of the  Serbian nation. The local Albanian government is going to  ensure law and order." They will remove the ruins of orthodox  churches that were destroyed by them. There will soon be  another monument in Djakovica instead of the ruined church: a  monument to the Kosovo Liberation Army.   The Serbian Orthodox Church released an updated edition of the  book Crucified Kosovo, which contained documented evidence  of acts of desecration against Serbian sacred objects and  photographs of ruined temples and eyewitnesses   stories.   Sergey Yugov  PRAVDA.Ru   http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/29/31435.html
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"Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch." [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

[Steve Wagner]

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DEATH OF A PEACE SALESMAN: 
Thu Jun 27, 7:01 PM ET 
By Ted Rall 

Bush's Palestinian Putsch 
  
SAN FRANCISCO-Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch. 

  When the Israeli prime minister began demanding that the Palestinian
Authority jettison Yasser Arafat as its leader a few months back, even
his fans knew he'd crossed the line. Israel was in no position to give
the Palestinians this much advice. Sure, Bush had refused to even shake
Arafat's hand, but the administration hadn't yet endorsed Sharon's
ridiculous bid to beat the Palestinians by turning their leader into an
Israeli puppet. 

  "(Washington) is not an honest broker or a neutral intermediary; it
stands completely behind Israel," Hamas politburo member Mousa Abu
Marzouk told Reuters in Damascus on June 10. Then, in a speech
seemingly tailor-made to confirm that intifadist statement, George W.
Bush dangled the possibility of American support for the creation of a
Palestinian state on the West Bank in exchange for Arafat's ouster:
"Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a
Palestinian state can be born," he said on June 24. Presumably that
"new leadership" would be friendly to both American and Israeli
interests. 

  After decades of abstention, the United States is back in the coup
d'état business. And with the exception of an embarrassingly inept
attempt to unseat Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez a few months back,
Bush's back-to-the-'50s retro imperialism is working out fairly
well...for now. 

  The administration rigged Afghanistan's loya jirga to install
ex-Unocal executive Hamid Karzai as the head of a nation where few
people had ever heard of him. It converted former Taliban cabana boy
Gen. Pervez Musharraf into our wholly-owned Pakistani subsidiary. And
it owes its own existence to the first successful domestic coup d'état
in American history. Why not, regime tinkerers Rumsfeld and Cheney
obviously asked themselves, pull off a Palestinian putsch too? 

  The Palestinians could obviously do better than Mohammed Abdel-Raouf
Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. A once-brilliant, charismatic tactician
whose leadership of the PLO forced the West to consider Palestinian
independence, 73 years of hard living and Israeli shelling have reduced
Arafat to a quivering wreck tottering on the brink of senility. Though
Israel has exaggerated the generosity of the deal he turned down over
the Jerusalem issue, Arafat clearly failed to understand that the
favorable tide of Western opinion had crested. He should have signed up
then and later asked for more-East Jerusalem, a corridor connecting
Gaza to the West Bank. 

  Arafat's undemocratic moderation has become both too strident for the
West and too soft for his increasingly radicalized people. But he's all
they've got. He's the Palestinians' George Washington, a military
leader striving to carve out a state which will someday stamp his
googly-eyed image on its coins and stamps. At this point his possible
successors-Mahmoud Abbas, Ahmed Korei, Jibril Rajoub, Mohammed
Dahlan-just aren't popular enough to run this landlocked hellhole.
Marwan Barghouthi, a popular Fatah leader currently in jail, wouldn't
be acceptable to Israel. An independent Palestine can do without
Arafat, but only after he's served one term leading to a free election.


  But none of that matters. If another nation attempted to topple
George W. Bush, I would be the first to fight to defend my country from
foreign interference. Illegitimate and harmful though Bush obviously
is, it's up to Americans to decide whether he should stay in office.
The same goes for the Palestinians. Getting rid of Arafat may be a good
decision, but it has to be a Palestinian decision; neither the U.S. or
Israel has the right to impose new leadership. Certainly neither
country has the moral authority to do so. 

  George W. Bush has made it official: He'll go along with whatever
Ariel Sharon wants him to do, no matter how immoral, impractical or
insane. Wait a minute. Who's paying who $3 billion a year, anyway? Bad
enough we toady up to a country we ought to own, but now the U.S. no
longer bothers to give even lip service to the principles of national
sovereignty and self-determination-especially in regard to Muslim
countries next to or on top of major oil reserves. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're the biggest, baddest bully on the block right now, but look
out-the people we're stomping on in Pakistan, Afghanistan and now,
Palestine, will be waiting to get even with us down the road. 

(Ted Rall's new book, a graphic travelogue about his recent coverage of
the Afghan war titled "To Afghanistan and Back," is out now. Ordering
and review-copy information are available at ) 


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Pakistanis tell of US prison horror [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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Saturday, 29 June, 2002, 19:44 GMT 20:44 UK 
Pakistanis tell of US prison horror
 
Observers say anti-US feeling is likely to rise










By Owais Tohid BBC reporter in Islamabad 




Pakistanis repatriated in recent days say they have suffered months of "degradation" and "abuse" in prisons across the United States. 





I was shackled and handcuffed - completely bound - and questioned as if I were an associate of Osama Bin Laden 


Mufeed KhanLos Angeles resident Some 131 Pakistanis, many who had lived in the US for years, were deported and flown home two days ago - most charged by US immigration with overstaying their welcome and having invalid documents. 
All were detained in the months after the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington last year. 
The deportees arrived in Islamabad late on Thursday aboard a chartered Portuguese airliner, and were allowed to go to their homes. 





Pakistan is co-operating with America... and America in return is treating Pakistanis as terrorists 


Jahanzeb ZulfikarIowa resident They accuse the US of forcibly sending them back following 11 September, and say the treatment meted out to them in prisons and in detention was inhuman and unjust. 
"I was treated as a terrorist. I was psychologically tortured in the prison," 35-year-old Mufeed Khan told the BBC on Saturday. 
"I was shackled and handcuffed - completely bound - and questioned as if I were an associate of Osama Bin Laden." 
Dream sours 
Mr Khan had lived in America for 11 years and ran a small business in Los Angeles before his detention in February this year. 





 
US attorney-general has led crackdown"For me America was the dreamland. I used to think that I was lucky to live in a liberal and democratic country. 
But the dreamland became hell for me after 11 September," he says. "Even if I was not carrying valid documents to stay there, I did not deserve such treatment. 
"I was treated badly because I am a Muslim. 
"Carrying a Muslim name should not be a crime. Not every Muslim is an extremist or a terrorist." 
'Injustice' 
Like Mr Khan most of the deportees complained of ill treatment by the US authorities. 





Before 11 September we were Pakistani Americans - now we have become aliens who want to destroy America 


Arshad MehmoodChicago resident Jahanzeb Zulfikar, 28, is one of them. He had been detained since April. 
He says he went to the US on a student visa when he was just 17 years old, and was living in Iowa. 
"I never thought I would be put through such mental torture. My rights were abused, my dignity violated and self-respect insulted and compromised in the detention centre," Mr Zulfikar told the BBC. 
"Pakistan is co-operating with America in its fight against terrorists - and America in return is treating Pakistanis as terrorists. 
"Isn't this injustice?" 
Tough laws 
In the aftermath of 11 September, strict legislation regarding immigration was introduced in the US. 
It gave sweeping powers to law enforcement agencies to detain people without charge. 
Many, even within the US, say the measures are "draconian". 
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis are still living in America. 
Since the 1980s, going to America has been a dream for many teenagers who want to make their fortunes in the United States. 
The exodus continued until recently. Many families have moved in their entirety, and are living there illegally. 
'Friend of Osama' 
But those who have been deported say the US authorities want to demoralise and discourage Pakistanis from staying in America. 





Pakistan has been integral to the coalition against terror. This will influence public opinion 


Mohammad Riaz, analyst Arshad Mehmood, who lived in Chicago for almost a decade, has now been sent back. 
"For them (the American authorities) every Pakistani is now an activist of the Taleban or a friend of Osama. They do not want us to live over there. 
"Before 11 September we were Pakistani Americans - now we have become aliens who want to destroy America," Mehmood says. 
"They have deported me and allowed my wife and two children to stay in America. 
"Obviously we cannot live our lives like this. Soon my wife and children are coming to Pakistan," he says. 
'Betrayed' 
Pakistani officials say they are expecting more Pakistani deportees from America. 
The families and friends of those detained or deported are embittered by these accounts. 
There already exists anti-American sentiment in certain elements of society. 
Observers believe these accounts will further spur such feelings, even among those who were not initially hostile. 
"Most of these people are educated. They moved there for better economic opportunities," says one analyst, Mohammad Riaz. "Now people hear of them being treated as criminals. 
"They will feel betrayed, since Pakistan has been integral to the coalition against terror. This will influence public opinion." 
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