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Greetings, The current issue of our magazine is now online. The theme of this issue is: "POWER POLITICS: Oil, Terror and the War Against Afghanistan." Click the links below to read the articles. I hope you'll find this material informative, interesting and useful. Richard Sanders Coordinator, COAT P.S. For info on receiving a hard copy of our magazine, see the end of this email. ==================================================== Issue #46 Press for Conversion! Dec 2001 Published quarterly by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) ---------------------------------------------------- POWER POLITICS: Oil, Terror and the War Against Afghanistan ==================================================== PIPELINE POLITICS Oil Interests: Bush Obstructed FBI Investigation By V.K.Shashikumar http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ oil_french_book.htm U.S. Agents Told: Back Off the bin Ladens From the Sydney Morning Herald http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ more_on_carlyle.htm U.S.-Taliban Relations: Friend Turns Fiend By Ishtiaq Ahmad, Lecturer, International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ oil_us_taliban_relations.htm U.S. statement when the Talibhan took Kabul, 1996 By Glyn Davies, U.S. State Department spokesperson http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/us_terror_afg han_history_hajibullah.htm The New Great Game: Oil Politics in Central Asia By Ted Rall, social commentator, cartoonist and columnist. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ oil_rall.htm The Strategic Importance of Central Asian Oil Quotations from: Dick Cheney, Doug Bereutter, Mortimer Zuckerman, Bill Richardson, Richard Perle, Center for Security Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ quotes.htm Strange Bedfellows: The Bush and bin Laden Families.12 By the Intelligence Newsletter http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/bin_laden_tie s_to_bush.htm The Carlyle Group From various sources http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ carlyle_group.htm Bush League: Mixing Oil, Big Money and Politics From various sources http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ oil_bush_cabinet.htm Unocal Testimony on U.S. Interests in Afghanistan By John Maresca, Vice President, International Relations, Unocal Corp. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ oil_unocal_short.htm Unocal links to U.S. military and CIA By Oregon Peaceworks http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ oil_unocal_links.htm HYPOCRISY and STATE TERROR Hidden Agendas of State Terror By John Pilger, Former chief foreign correspondent, UK Mirror. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ us_terror_pilger.htm Northern Alliance By Human Rights Watch http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_ northern_alliance.htm Who is Osama Bin Laden By Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/bin_laden_cho ssudovsky.htm U.S. Provoked the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/us_terror_afg han_history_brzezinski.htm Hatch would Arm bin Laden Again By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair, co-authors, Whiteout: CIA, Drugs and the Press. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/bin_laden_orr in_hatch%20quote.htm IMPUNITY from INTERNATIONAL LAW Above the Law: U.S.-sponsored Terrorism By Peter Dale Scott, professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/us_terror_afg hanistan_scott.htm Why the War Against Afghanistan is Illegal By Arnold J.Chien, Associate Researcher, Institute for Health and Social Justice. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/legality_civi lian_toll.htm I.C.C.: Impunity for U.S. Soldiers? By Adam Porter http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/legality_us_a nd_icc.htm Military Courts: Part of a Constitutional Coup By Professor Francis Boyle, Professor, International Law, University of Illinois College of Law. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/legality_us_p olice_state_boyle.htm Federalist Society By the Institute of Democratic Studies http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/legality_us_p olice_state_fed_soc.htm Assaulting the U.S. Constitution By Matthew Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive magazine. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/legality_us_p olice_state_rothschild.htm The History of Bioterrorism in America By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, COAT. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/history_of_bi owarfare_in_usa.htm Bill C-35: Diplomatic Immunity for Terrorists By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, COAT. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/legality_bill _c35.htm CALL for NONVIOLENCE "Vigil for Nonviolence," Ottawa, Oct. 6 By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, COAT. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_int ro.htm 135 NGO Endorsements for Vigil http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/135_ngos_endo rsment.htm We are all Iraqis and Afghanis now! By Carolyn Langdon, Co-Chair, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_lan gdon.htm Linking Peace and Anti-Corporate Globalization By Mel Watkins, President, Science for Peace. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_wat kins.htm The New Cold War and State Terrorism By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, COAT. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_ric hard.htm Resistance is Growing By Terry Wolfwood, Board member, Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_wol fwood.htm Vieques: Big Resistance from a Small Island By Moraima Rivera, a native, farmer and activist from Puerto Rico. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_riv era.htm Cry for Action to Oppose Cold, Corporate Fascism By Lazar Puhalo, Archbishop, Canadian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_arc hbishop_lazar.htm Resisting Canada's Space War Research in Ottawa By Laurel Smith, Homes Not Bombs, Toronto. http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_lau rel_smith.htm Every Life Counts By Radmila Swann, President, Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/coat_oct6_rad mila.htm +===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+ "Press for Conversion!" 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