-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 164 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to assist RadTimes--> (See ** at end.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --Coming Next: Battle of Quebec --Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land --Making A Killing On Weapons Sales To The Destitute --Working With the Enemy to Feed the World --Lawmakers focus on NSA technology, CIA spies --NSA warns it can't keep up with rapid changes in IT =================================================================== Coming Next: Battle of Quebec Feb. 22, 2001 Workers World MOVEMENT VS. CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION: COMING NEXT: BATTLE OF QUEBEC-- April 20-22 Actions Planned in Canada, Mexico and U.S. By Sarah Sloan In April 2001--one year after protests rocked the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington--activists from the anti-globalization movement will again rise up in protest outside a meeting of capitalist vultures. This time it's the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada--a meeting of heads of state and trade ministers representing every country in the Western Hemisphere except socialist Cuba. There they will discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas. While all of the countries to be represented are capitalist countries, most are also oppressed nations dominated by the United States and other imperialist powers. What is the FTAA? Like NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the FTAA is a plan to facilitate the expansion of finance capital, especially by the United States. The FTAA is meant to expand the NAFTA model to all 34 countries in Western Hemisphere except Cuba, opening them to greater degrees of exploitation by U.S. banks and corporations. NAFTA has meant more sweatshops and more poverty for the people of Mexico. Many small farmers have been driven off their land as a result of U.S. agribusiness flooding the market with goods there. It has also meant layoffs for workers in the U.S. and Canada, and more companies have moved factories to Mexico to exploit cheaper labor. The April 20-22 Summit of the Americas is the third meeting to discuss the FTAA, which is scheduled to be finalized in 2005. This program will go beyond NAFTA, expanding on some of its features, such as the right of corporations to sue governments over laws that infringe upon their profits and their ability to increase the privatization of health care, education and other services. In response, activists will converge in several locations. QUEBEC CITY Major protests are planned in Quebec City April 20-21. Groups organizing include Summit of the Americas Welcoming Committee (CASA) in Quebec, and the Montreal-based groups Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and Operation SalAMI. Workers World spoke to Josina Dunkel, a student at McGill University in Montreal. She said students there expect the demonstrations to be massive. "There is a whole climate around these demonstrations," Dunkel said. "The momentum for them is huge." She reported that the Canadian Federation of Students--the more leftist of the two student unions there--was organizing 50 buses to Quebec. Students at Concordia University are allowed to defer their final exams so they can participate in the protests. A protest is planned at McGill on March 7 to demand academic amnesty so that students there can also defer their exams. "The anti-globalization movement is strong in Canada," Dunkel told WW. "It actually predates the events in Seattle. There was a huge demonstration in Vancouver [against an Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in 1998], which is on the border with Seattle, before the November 1999 World Trade Organization demonstration. It was attacked by cops and followed up with nationwide student organizing. "Campus groups started forming at the beginning of the year to work on the anti-FTAA protests," she added. Activists from Canada will protest as close to the meetings as possible. Many from the U.S. will also head for Quebec, though some are making the decision to concentrate their efforts at the U.S.-Canada border. FROM BUFFALO, N.Y., TO TIJUANA, MEXICO Since a group of Buffalo college students flew to Seattle to attend the anti-WTO protests, various progressive groups in the area have formed the Buffalo Activist Network. Their next focus is organizing regionally for a series of actions beginning April 19 and culminating in a major action on April 22 at the Peace Bridge on the U.S.-Canada border. Groups from New York, Cleveland and many other cities plan to participate. Organizers expect thousands to join in various actions. Activists from New England, meanwhile, will head towards Vermont. There protesters will try to go to Quebec City as well as have actions at the border. Border actions are also planned for the U.S.-Mexico border. A major demonstration is planned for the Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego border area. A legal demonstration is planned to facilitate participation by immigrants and undocumented workers. Organizers are hoping for major mobilizations from the U.S. West Coast and Mexico. LABOR ON BOARD Many Canadian labor unions are gearing up for the protests. The Canadian Union of Public Employees--a huge, militant union of public-sector workers--is mobilizing. >From the U.S., AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Teamsters President James P. Hoffa, and Steel Workers President George Becker have all issued statements opposing the FTAA. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union passed a resolution in December that "supports the efforts to organize protests against the FTAA in Quebec next April and encourages its members who can attend to do so." The ILWU resolution states in part: "The globalizing policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have already extended the harm of the free market to some of the farthest corners of the world. But instead of satisfying international capital's greed, it has only whetted its appetite for more." NAFTA's result, the ILWU said, was the loss of 400,000 jobs from the U.S. and a decline in living standards for Mexican workers. The United Electrical Workers passed a resolution supporting anti-FTAA protests. "Their plan promises to benefit multinational corporations, while destroying good jobs, weakening unions, devastating national economies, sending people into deeper poverty and destroying the environment," said the resolution. It continued: "The trade ministers of the FTAA fear an interruption in the negotiations could halt the entire process. "Tens of thousands of working people and their allies in the student, farm, environmental and human-rights movements succeeded [in disrupting the WTO in Seattle]. We do have the power to stop the FTAA." POST-SEATTLE REPRESSION For U.S. activists, the Quebec City demonstration presents a logistical challenge. Border police have wide discretion to stop entry into Canada. For example, a van carrying New York activists to an organizing meeting in Quebec City was recently stopped at the border. The van was searched and political materials were seized and copied. No one made it to the meeting. This is consistent with the post-Seattle policing strategy that involves not only repression at demonstrations, but attempts to stop them from happening. Organizers for the Jan. 20 protests at George W. Bush's inauguration in Washington and the August 2000 demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles fought and won battles against local police, who attempted to keep demonstrators miles from their targets. In late January, protesters in Davos, Switzerland, prevailed against incredible hurdles set up by authorities, including turning away hundreds at the border, suspension of train service, and liquid cow manure mixed with freezing water shot at them through fire hoses. Police preparations for Quebec City are no less rigorous, according to reports. Plans call for an approximately four- kilometer-long wall to be erected around downtown, in what is already a walled city. SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENT An Associated Press article by Tom Cohen, entitled "Quebec Fortress Prepares for Summit," reads: "The towers and walls built to repel invaders of centuries past no longer suffice for protecting 34 heads of state coming for the Summit of the Americas in April. "So another wall will be built, this one of metal fencing around several square miles of old Quebec City, says [Normand] Houle of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "Riot police will stand guard along the fence in an old- fashioned show of force intended to prevent a burgeoning protest movement from disrupting the three-day summit ... It will be one of the largest security operations in Canadian history... "Houle insists security forces will be ready for anything, even protesters trying to repeat the British tactic from 1759 of climbing the cliffs along the St. Lawrence to attack the bastion of what was then called New France. 'If 2,000 people try to scale the cliff, we'll be there,' he says." Media reports like that are part of a conscious scare campaign to keep activists and other concerned people away from the protests. It also shows that the capitalist state sees this not just as a "burgeoning protest movement" but as a subversive movement. These demonstrations are not simply protests about one issue or another. They are manifestations of a movement that is against the system itself--one that identifies capitalism as the root cause of society's ills and as the enemy. =================================================================== Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land <http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=3413> From Worldwatch Institute Wednesday, February 14, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC - As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future role of the car. Millions of hectares of cropland in the industrial world have been paved over for roads and parking lots. Each U.S. car, for example, requires on average 0.18 acres of paved land for roads and parking space. For every five cars added to the U.S. fleet, an area the size of a football field is covered with asphalt. The United States, with its 214 million motor vehicles, has paved 3.9 million miles of roads, enough to circle the Earth at the equator 157 times. Roads and parking lots cover an estimated 61,000 square miles in the United States, an expanse approaching the 21 million hectares that U.S. farmers planted in wheat last year. In the United States, there are three vehicles for every four people. In Western Europe and Japan, there is typically one for every two people. In developing countries, automobile fleets are still small, cropland is in short supply, and the paving is just getting underway. But, more and more of the 11 million cars added annually to the world's vehicle fleet are found in the developing world. This means that the war between cars and crops is being waged over wheat fields and rice paddies in countries where hunger is common. The outcome of this conflict in populous China and India will affect food security everywhere. If China were to achieve the Japanese automobile ownership rate of one car for every two people, it would have a fleet of 640 million, compared with 13 million today. Assuming 0.02 hectares of paved land per vehicle in China, as in Europe and Japan, such a fleet would require paving nearly 13 million hectares of land, most of which would likely be cropland. This figure is over half of China's 23 million hectares of rice land. India has more than 1 billion people and 8 million motor vehicles. Its fast-growing villages and cities are already encroaching on its cropland. A country projected to add 515 million more people by 2050 cannot afford to cover valuable cropland with asphalt. There is not enough land in China, India, and other densely populated countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, and Mexico to support automobile-centered transportation systems and to feed their people. The time has come to reassess the future of the automobile and to design transportation systems that provide mobility for entire populations without threatening food security. For the complete article, see http://www.worldwatch.org/chairman/issue/010214.html For more information, contact: Reah Janise Kauffman Director of International Publications Worldwatch Institute 202-452-1999 x 514 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/indexia.html =================================================================== International Herald Tribune - February 15, 2001 Making A Killing On Weapons Sales To The Destitute By Cesar Chelala In recent public statements, Pope John Paul II, former President Bill Clinton and the World Bank president James Wolfensohn, have called attention to the urgent need to end world poverty. Lost among their proposals to remedy the situation is the need to curb arms sales, particularly those by leading industrialized nations to heavily indebted developing countries. Curbing those sales to developing countries is not only a critical move toward peace but also a very practical way to diminish poverty. Global arms sales in 1999 rose to $30.3 billion. According to figures from the U.S. Congressional Research Service, the United States strengthened its position as the biggest arms dealer. In 1999, U.S. contractors sold nearly $11.8 billion in weapons. That figure represents more than a third of the world's total, and more than all European countries combined. Since 1990 the United States has exported more than $133 billion worth of weapons to countries around the world. In 1999, Russia's arms sales amounted to $4.8 billion, Germany's to $4 billion and France and Britain's to almost $900 million. Russia was the country which had increased its sales most dramatically, from $2.6 billion in 1998. Russia has begun a major effort to increase its sales to more countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It is estimated that two-thirds of global arms sales go to developing countries. In that regard, the United States and Russia were the leading arms selling countries. Although in recent years the biggest buyers have been in the Middle East, many developing countries, some of them with anti-democratic regimes, have been important buyers. They have purchased arms instead of supporting health and social programs aimed at the poorest sectors of their populations. Pakistan has received missile-related technical assistance from China, which has also provided such technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. The unrestrained proliferation of arms sales to underdeveloped countries not only has hindered their economic development but has also fueled humanitarian crises, particularly in such African countries as Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola and Sierra Leone. While weapons are recycled regionally, significant new shipments continue to reach some of those countries, particularly from China and countries of the former Warsaw Pact. All supplier countries become accomplices in the human rights violations committed with these weapons, as countries which supplied weapons to the Serbs well know. Another example of arms sales increasing the possibility of conflict is the case of Greece and Turkey. Although the two countries have for decades threatened to go to war over Cyprus, in 1997 the United States sold more than $270 million worth of weapons to Greece and almost $750 million worth to Turkey. There is increased pressure for an international code of conduct on arms transfers, with 17 Nobel Peace Prize laureates leading the effort. In 1999 the European Union passed a voluntary code that commits member countries to increased consultations regarding arms sales. The World Bank has applied important measures of debt relief aimed at the poorest, most indebted countries in the world. In Africa, debt repayments consume annually one-third of export earnings. Debt relief, however, is not the only way to combat poverty. Education is one of the most effective measures to diminish it and improve the health status of the poorest sectors of the population. In addition to debt relief measures and providing support to education programs, the World Bank should require that all recipients of aid devote no more than a small percentage of their GNP to arms purchases, and that only for self-defense. ---- The writer, an international medical consultant, contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune. =================================================================== Working With the Enemy to Feed the World http://sanfrancisco.bcentral.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/02/12/editorial2.html San Francisco Business Times By Richard Bensinger February 9, 2001 Workers in union organizing campaigns often have to face the most unprincipled and vicious employer attacks, including personal threats, plant closings and layoffs. As a union organizer, I have been met with the most ruthless opposition from corporate America. You might guess that I don't trust many business leaders. But I am also a pragmatist. I know that in order for us to effect change on a global scale, we often must set aside politics and prejudice. We must work with people and corporations we would otherwise be fighting. Which is why I am so concerned about the raging controversy over the development of genetically modified foods -- foods that may hold the promise to reduce world hunger. There are legitimate fears and concerns about the recent dramatic advances in biotechnology. I am the last person to take on faith the self-administered "research" of the multi-national corporations that are developing and selling genetically modified crops for handsome profits. I don't know enough about the issue of genetically modified foods to say they are a panacea. And I know we can't reduce world hunger by increasing food production through biotechnology without first addressing the complicated political issues within countries that have to do with the distribution of wealth and justice of societies. But ripping down field trials of genetically modified crops makes no sense. They hold the promise of preventing starvation in Third World countries. The catalyst for much of this campaign against biotechnology research is a growing anti-corporate sentiment. Ironically, this crusade against genetically modified foods is being funded by huge corporations that stand to make tremendous profits if they can turn the public against this new technology. Whole Foods Markets, which owns several organic businesses, including Fresh Fields, was labeled by Time magazine as "a billion-dollar juggernaut." It is also one of the leading supporters of the fear-marketing campaign against genetically modified foods. (Full disclosure: Whole Foods founder John Mackey was quoted in Forbes magazine calling unions "parasites.") The reason for the funding is simple. An organic food marketing consultant recently said, "The potential to develop the organic market would be limited if consumers are satisfied with food safety and the furor over genetic modification dies down." Translation: Fear sells. The problem is that Whole Foods and other organic giants stand to gain a financial windfall from the furor over genetic modification that is being generated by activist organizations that these organic companies are funding. Don't get me wrong; I have no problem with organic foods. I actually buy organic food. But in their effort to increase sales by frightening people about modern food technology, these organic food giants threaten the lives of the poorest among us -- the people who are most in need worldwide. People like myself are easily convinced of the evils of behemoth corporations. We hear corporate names like "Monsanto" and "Novartis" and our immediate reaction is to fight. But these businesses do develop products that have the potential to feed millions of hungry people. The lifesaving potential alone should convince us to stand aside and let the research continue. We simply cannot allow ourselves to be led astray by "fear marketing" campaigns designed to increase sales and profits. Rich countries vs. poor I am not alone in my concerns. Former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern is more than the proud embodiment of the Left. He is also currently the American Ambassador to the U.S. Mission of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy. He, too, has objected to the campaign against the biotechnology that may hold the key to saving lives. In his just published book, "The Third Freedom -- Ending Hunger In Our Time," Sen. McGovern writes, "It is probably true that affluent countries can afford to reject scientific agriculture and pay more for foods produced by the so-called natural methods. But the 800 million poor, chronically hungry people of Asia, Africa and Latin America cannot afford such foods. "If further efforts to bring the advantages of science to developing countries are thwarted by ill-advised critics, millions of poor people will pay a painful price -- perhaps the ultimate sacrifice, of life itself." I also understand that the motives of the corporations and their stockholders who profit from modern foods are not to end world hunger. That doesn't matter. Not if you are hungry. ---- Richard Bensinger, former organizing director for the AFL-CIO, is a consultant on union organizing, living in Virginia. =================================================================== Lawmakers focus on NSA technology, CIA spies <http://thestar.com.my/tech/story.asp?file=/2001/2/16/technology/16spytek&sec=technology> 02/16/01 Reuters WASHINGTON: Senior lawmakers who conduct oversight of US intelligence programmes say modernising technology at the National Security Agency (NSA) and beefing up the CIA's spy networks are priorities this year. "Funding NSA for this year and in the future is a very high priority for the committee -- to modernise them, keep them on the cutting edge of technology,'' Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby said in a Reuters interview this week. NSA intercepts communications such as phone calls, e-mail messages and faxes worldwide through listening posts, satellites and other technical means. The agency has been increasingly criticised for not keeping pace with changing technologies. Even NSA Director-General Mike Hayden said on CBS's 60 Minutes II this week: "We are behind the curve in keeping up with the global telecommunications revolution.'' "NSA is an area that is well understood to need realignment with the world as it is today,'' House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss, a Florida Republican, said in an interview. "It's got to be updated.'' More funding to revamp NSA may mean economies elsewhere in the intelligence budget, but neither Goss nor Shelby, an Alabama Republican, would discuss specific programmes. The intelligence budget is classified, but experts estimated the current fiscal year's budget at about US$30bil (RM114bil). The last public figures for the intelligence budget were US$26.7bil (RM101.5bil) in fiscal 1998 and US$26.6bil (RM101.5bil) in fiscal 1997. Fighting "terrorism'' has become an ever greater focus for US intelligence, and lawmakers said more efforts were needed to use spies to collect information. Experts have said the Oct 12 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which killed 17 US sailors, highlighted the need for more spies on the ground to penetrate extremist groups and collect information to prevent such attacks in the future. The Senate Intelligence Committee is completing its own examination of the Cole attack and will issue recommendations addressing any intelligence shortfalls in collecting and disseminating information and issuing threat warnings. The terrorism focus led House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, to establish a new "Working Group on Terrorism'' within the House Intelligence Committee. Both Goss and Shelby saw a need to bolster the CIA's clandestine service which trains officers to go overseas and recruit foreign nationals to spy for America. Senate Intelligence Committee auditors were expected in the next few weeks to complete an analysis of the CIA director's five-year plan to increase the number of spies. The auditors examined recruiting and training for the clandestine service, where the recruits were sent into the field, what threats they were supposed to address and whether the Central Intelligence Agency properly funded the operations. "I believe that the CIA needs to put more and more emphasis on the recruitment, training, and retention of people with various language skills,'' Shelby said. Goss said he would like to see the intelligence community offer the president covert alternatives for handling adverse foreign situations so there could be a course of action other than the diplomatic table or military bombing. "There's got to be something in between,'' Goss said, adding that the goal of the intelligence budget was "more efficient'' rather than bigger. "However my personal estimate would be yes I think we are going to have to ratchet up the intelligence budget a little bit,'' Goss said. "Not because of anything except that we have underinvested for so long that we are exposed where we need not be exposed right now.'' The intelligence community needed to pay attention to new areas of information warfare and space policy, he said. Shelby is planning to resurrect a provision that could impose prison terms on officials who leak classified information. The measure drew fire from news organisations and was vetoed by former President Clinton last year. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, elevated this year to senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had opposed the anti-leak provision last year. She also believes the overall intelligence budget figure should be public. Pelosi, the highest-ranking woman ever on the congressional intelligence committees, said diversity was an issue she wanted to explore in a public hearing. "It's not only in the recruiting but in the opportunities at the highest level of the intelligence community,'' she said. "Put more women chiefs of station in very important stations.'' =================================================================== NSA warns it can't keep up with rapid changes in IT <http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88_STO57808,00.html> By DAN VERTON (February 16, 2001) The National Security Agency, the signals intelligence arm of the Pentagon, is losing the race to keep up with technology, its director says. And the IT industry may be the only thing that can save it. More than a year after the NSA's director, Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, announced his "100 Days of Change" to revamp and revitalize an agency steeped in bureaucracy and outdated technology acquisition practices, the electronic spy chief went public with warnings of technological obsolescence. Hayden told a national television audience this week on CBS's 60 Minutes that the NSA remains behind the rest of the world in keeping up with IT development. "We're behind the curve in keeping up with the global telecommunications revolution," said Hayden. "Our adversary communications are now based upon the developmental cycle of a global industry that is literally moving at the speed of light, ... cell phones, encryption, fiber-optic communications, digital communications," he said. The NSA operates the world's largest pool of supercomputers and eavesdropping networks that are designed to give senior government leaders such as the president real-time intelligence on the activities of terrorists and in world hot spots. However, the spread of encryption, fiber-optic cable and the sheer volume of communications to be intercepted and analyzed have overcome the NSA's ability to maintain the technical edge it once held. The agency's self-proclaimed inability to keep up with commercial technology has led some to suggest that it might be time for the NSA to follow in the footsteps of the CIA and form its own private-sector research firm. In the spring of 1999, the CIA chartered In-Q-Tel Inc., a private, not-for-profit firm dedicated to tapping the private sector's ability to develop cutting-edge IT products that could enhance the agency's intelligence gathering and processing capabilities. Jim Clapper, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency who is now director of intelligence programs at SRA International Inc. in Fair Lakes, Va., said the In-Q-Tel model is a good idea for the NSA. Clapper even went as far as to say that he thinks the In-Q-Tel concept should be expanded to the entire intelligence community as long as proper funding was made available. "The In-Q-Tel concept is a great one and would serve NSA well," said Clapper. "It certainly couldn't hurt," said Allen Thomson, a former CIA scientist. An In-Q-Tel for the NSA would "allow innovators to make money without having to deal with the usual government procurement hassles" and would also act as a buffer to insulate the innovators from bureaucratic problems, he said. A spokesperson for Arlington, Va.,-based In-Q-Tel said the company has briefed a number of other federal agencies on its efforts and "there continues to be strong interest on the part of entrepreneurs" in working with the firm. An NSA spokesperson said an internal agency effort known as Project Trailblazer has been designed to look at ways to improve the agency's technology acquisition process. The NSA is also preparing to release a proposal for a $5 billion outsourcing contract, known as Project Groundbreaker, that will transfer operation of all of its administrative networks to one of three bidders (see story). Olga Grkavac, executive vice president of the Enterprise Solutions Division at the Information Technology Association of America, called Groundbreaker "a very innovative contract" and said the three potential prime contractors -- AT&T Corp., Computer Sciences Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., and Greenbelt, M.D.-based OAO Corp. -- "have the expertise that NSA needs." Bill Crowell, CEO of Cylink Corp. and a former NSA director, said he's "bullish on the concept of In-Q-Tel" and would favor "any effort furthering and leveraging the commercial market." In particular, he said he hoped those efforts would include technology development in the areas of processing, high speed computing, telecommunications, security and storage. But not everybody thinks outsourcing or more money for technology research is the answer. Winn Schwartau, an information warfare expert and president of security consulting firm Interpact Inc. in Seminole, Fla., said the telecommunications revolution is not the problem. Instead, he said the spread of encryption is the problem. "The amount of privacy and anonymity that the bad guys have available to them makes our intelligence job much harder," said Schwartau. "It's like trying to listen in to a [virtual private network]. You cannot do it." Rather, the NSA needs to get back to basics and improve its ability to use human sources and physical taps, he said. "Going after cryptography with technology is not money well spent." =================================================================== "Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control." -Jim Dodge ====================================================== "Communications without intelligence is noise; intelligence without communications is irrelevant." -Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ====================================================== "It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society." -J. 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