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March 21, 2003 - 11:21am -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Technology

mobiustrip44 writes "the ap reports today that a group of israeli peace activists were distributing mystical literature to jews and palestinians on the jerusalem/ramallah border in hopes of triggering a spiritual resolution to the ongoing israeli/arab conflict. among the activists were jews and christians, but primarily they were members of a fringe islamic sect known as the druzes.

March 21, 2003 - 11:14am -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
News

Check out www.jakeneck.coma nice site from a NYC surrealist blogging upstart. - h.
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mobiustrip44 writes ..... need a good reason to reject the war in iraq? couldn't give two fucks about iraqi civillians or the general corruption of our own administration? well in that case, how 'bout thinking about our boys overseas?



check your headlines: 16 soldiers died today when a ch-46 helicopter crashed in kuwait. incidentally, the ch-46 is the brother of boeing's ch-47, a chopper known for its "substandard and dangerous" construction, that at one point led to a $54 million lawsuit filed by the department of defense against the manufacturer. sure, boeing was found guilty and lost the suit. they're still the number two defense contractor in the nation. but, that's ok... they've paid their debt to society in campaign contributions.

March 21, 2003 - 9:27am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

Anonymous Comrade writes

"American Empire and the Emergence of a Global Ruling
Class"

Joe R. Golowka

Traditionally, the radical left has viewed international relations in
the past 50 years through a paradigm of the American empire.
The United States is viewed as the latest and most powerful
imperialist power, dominating over the rest of the globe. During
the cold war this was sometimes viewed as a dual-empire
scenario; with the American empire competing with the Soviet
empire.

March 20, 2003 - 8:52am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

jinx writes:


"The Ides of March"

Partha Chatterjee

There is a gnawing sense of inevitability in the way things are

moving. The flood is rising inch by inch; the only question is

when the dike will burst. Except, this is not a natural disaster

waiting to happen. These are events fully under the control of

world leaders playing for high stakes. Why is the world being

pushed to the precipice?

March 20, 2003 - 8:37am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Practicing Anti-Capitalism"

An Interview with Brian Holmes



After the World-InfoCon conference in Amsterdam Brian Holmes, writer, art critic and translator told World-Information.Org (http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992006691 /1046966843) about his collaboration with the French artist group Bureau 'Études in mapping capitalist structures.

March 20, 2003 - 8:29am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
News

Aonymous Comrade writes:

"Not Oil, But Dollars vs. Euros"

Geoffrey Heard

Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his
administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you
consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war with
Iraq. The war in Iraq is actually the US and Europe going head to head on
economic leadership of the world.

March 19, 2003 - 8:28pm -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Technology

Louis Lingg writes:
"The National Defense University has posted on its website the text of Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, published in 1996 and written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade with L.A. "Bud" Edney, Fred M. Franks, Charles A. Horner, Jonathan T. Howe, and Keith Brendley.

An excerpt from the book's Prologue:


Since before Sun Tzu and the earliest chroniclers of war recorded their observations, strategists

and generals have been tantalized and confounded by the elusive goal of destroying the adversary's

will to resist before, during, and after battle. Today, we believe that an unusual opportunity exists to

determine whether or not this long-sought strategic goal of affecting the will, understanding, and

perception of an adversary can be brought closer to fruition. Even if this task cannot be

accomplished, we believe that, at the very minimum, such an effort will enhance and improve the

ability of our military forces to carry out their missions more successfully through identifying and

reinforcing particular points of leverage in the conflict and by identifying and creating additional

options and choices for employing our forces more effectively.

March 19, 2003 - 8:21pm -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
News

Louis Lingg writes
Dissent Magazine posted the following brief piece by Iraqi dissident architect and author Kanan Makiya (Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, published under the psuedonym Samir Khalil).

I
support a war on the grounds that the current regime of the Ba'ath
Party in Iraq is a criminal state that has gone beyond the pale
even as judged by the very low standards of the Middle East region,
and certainly of the international community. My position rests
on the exceptional nature of Ba'athi totalitarianism in Iraq (and
is therefore not extendable to all the nasty states that exist
in the world). Moreover, it derives from the particular historical
experience-dating back to the 1991 Gulf War-that binds the United
States to Iraq. The outcome of that war, which left the dictator
in place and precipitated one of the harshest sanction regimes
of recent times, places an extraordinary moral responsibility
upon the shoulders of the United States to finish that which it
in a very important sense left unfinished. Such a responsibility
might not exist were it not for that particular historical experience.
One does not transport half a million men halfway across the world
and then leave the people of a country, who were not responsible
for their state's outrage, broken and bleeding for ten years with
no end in sight to the torment that they are going through.

March 18, 2003 - 8:00am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Prisons & Prisoners

Anarchist Prisoners' Legal Aid Network writes:

"This statement was sent to a contact of the Anarchist Prisoners' Legal Aid Network by anarchist prisoner Rob los Ricos (Robert Thaxton). This is being circulated for March 18th, the International Day for Political Prisoners and anniversary of the Paris Commune. Listed after the statement are ways which you can help Rob."

"Circle A Cellmates"

Rob (Los Ricos) Thaxton

"I find you guilty."

This year started on an interesting note. On January 2nd, Oregon Department of Corrections Security Threat Group manager came by to visit. He threatened to send me into exile in Eastern Oregon -- far from my daughter in Portland -- if I didn't move out of the cell I shared with Brian McCarvill. Brian is currently suing ODOC over their mailroom policies, which result in the rejection of anarchist literature sent to him. This has been something that has bothered me the past 3 years -- I have over 200 mail violations notices concerning letters and publications sent to me here in prison. Their favorite reasons for such "violations" are because the publications are
"anarchist-related" or because of "STG symbol" -- in this case, a circled "a", a symbol used internationally for "anarchy".

March 17, 2003 - 1:01pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
News

"Rachel Corrie, In Memoriam"

Peter Bohmer

Rachel Corrie was an incredibly good person. I mourn and am very saddened

by her murder yesterday, March 16th, 2003. She was killed by a bulldozer as

the Israeli military ran over her as she was protesting the destruction of

Palestinian homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

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