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I highly recommend joining the Popular resistance newsletter, as non Corporate news is rather hard to come by all things considered... Here are the firt 2 links for those who don't want to see the graphics that go with the articles in the LUV news. http://www.popularresistance.org/popular-resistance-newsletter-announcing-our-new-website-popularresistance-org/ http://www.popularresistance.org/ Scott JOIN THE POPULAR RESISTANCE Yesterday, Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese announced their new web site, Popular Resistance, at Alternet. Here's their first newsletter, and we recommend you subscribe to it. Here's their website, covering actions going on around the country, mostly not being covered by mainstream media. One way that social movements are crushed is the silence of mainstream media. If few people know an action occurred, is is usually not very effective, and corporate media make sure the masses don't understand the issues, covering them unfairly to the public interest when they do give coverage. You may join at no cost, donate, and participate. Send them your own local actions so your friends and neighbors might find out what you are doing, since they won't be reading about it in the local newspaper. If this grows and captures a lot of eyeballs, it can significantly change the world for the better, but it will take a willingness by individuals to get involved. NEWS OF THE MORNING ON THE SURVEILLANCE STATE The "Justice" Department will hold meetings to explain its spying on journalists, but those who attend must be sworn to secrecy, as they will be "off the record." Can't let the unwashed masses know why their press require spying, in the Land of the Free. But may we count on the government to at least protect us, if it doesn't protect the press? Glenn Greenwald tells us President Obama's choice for FBI Director is the guy who approved the warrantless wiretapping program under the Bush regime, James Comey. Obama had previously considered Comey for the Supreme Court, but couldn't get support from the liberals to sell out at that lofty level. But, combing through this morning's news, is there any hope that we can at least get support from a think tank that purports to represent progressives, The Center for American Progress? Sadly, they are on the take from the corporations, but appear to fear that the liberals will find out. The disparate groups calling themselves the "Syrian rebels" are as often at each other's throats as they are fighting the Syrian government. Many are from other nations, many are religious fanatics who have been fighting against US forces, and some even identify with being "al Qaeda." Here's a piece in al Jazeera this morning saying the Syrian rebels will not even show up for the peace talks in Geneva. They are upset that Hezbollah forces out of Lebanon are fighting them. They are demanding that foreign Hezbollah forces withdraw, without admitting that many of their own are just as foreign (one Russian piece we cited reported 70% of the "Syrian rebels" are from nations outside of Syria) . American mainstream media are reporting official propaganda, which is why most Americans have their heads filled with thoughts of "evil Syrians who may be bombed," as they once had their heads filled with "Evil Libyans, evil Iraqis, evil Afghanis who may be bombed." The propaganda always comes first, then the massive bombing campaigns. I listened to Andrea Mitchell (wife of the former chairman of the Fed and corporate-viewpoint "journalist") yesterday on MSNBC goading one guest after another when their rhetoric fell short of bombing Syria, "We must do something, people are dying." When corporate journalists take that tone, it usually means that "we" are about to add greatly to the numbers of people dying, as we've done in so many countries since this phony "war on terrorism" began. All of the people calling themselves "journalists" who appear on my cable TV, with channels going up into the thousands, seem eager for more war, casually pointing to countries on the globe that will be next to be bombed, without ever hinting at the massive horror that the populations of those nations experience. If we had a free mainstream media at least one of them would support the Russian peace process, or some diplomatic alternative. Syria is the current target, and the ruling Forces of Greed won't stop demonizing the Syrian government until they get a docile government in power that will turn over resources to the transnational corporations, kneel submissively before the Empire, and make wage slaves of their population on behalf of globalization. The Obama regime doesn't even seem to be concerned that they might end up with a far more extreme government than the Taliban, who were created in the aftermath of the Carter-Reagan Mujahadeen terrorists released on the people of Afghanistan. And why, one should ask, don't they care if new Osama bin Ladens take power from this? Is it because it would "justify" more Pentagon appropriations, and a continuance of the lucrative madness for corporate profit? --Jack Balkwill Chaos in the Ranks Syrian Rebels Turn on Their Political Leadership by PATRICK COCKBURN Syrian rebel groups have strongly criticised their political leadership outside Syria, saying it has no real connection to the rebellion and calling for half of its members to be drawn from fighters inside the country. The rebuke follows a chaotic week for the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and is likely to further undermine the standing of the opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad which has been treated by its foreign backers as if it were capable of replacing Mr Assad and its regime. A meeting of the exiled SNC in Istanbul has still not decided if it will attend a peace conference in Geneva, tentatively planned for June, and, if so, who should attend. It is also deadlocked about Western-supported proposals to broaden the membership of the 60-member coalition with more secular representatives. The statement issued in the name of the Revolutionary Movement in Syria said that the failure of the opposition had opened the door to blatant interference by outside powers. This is probably a reference primarily to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which support different opposition factions; Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which is regarded with suspicion by the Saudis. As serious diplomatic moves aimed at a negotiated settlement initiated by the US and Russia begin, the total disarray and rancorous disagreements of the Syrian opposition will seriously hamper efforts by their foreign backers to support them as the new leadership of Syria. The Revolutionary Movement of Syria said it could not bestow legitimacy upon any political body that subverts the revolution. Moaz al-Khatib, the former leader of the coalition, said he had stepped down because he had no influence and the group was a proxy for Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The chaos in opposition ranks is also likely to discredit the EU decision to end the arms embargo on supplying weapons to the rebels. Russia warned that the decision would damage plans for peace talks being made by Russia and the US. In response, Russia has already said it will send ground-to-air S-300 missiles to Syria, while Israel has said it will act to stop their delivery. Meanwhile, inside Syria elite troops are being sent to reinforce the government offensive against the town of Qusayr outside Homs, near the Lebanese border. Rebels there have been under heavy attack for a week but are still holding out in parts of the town, which is heavily damaged. Fighters from Hezbollah in Lebanon are for the first time playing a central and open role in the fighting, which has also been joined, on the rebel side, by Sunni fighters from Lebanon. In a further development, Britain said it had sent a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with new information of alleged chemical-weapons use by the Syrian government. 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