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February 18, 2002 - 8:15am -- jim
News

World War III Report, #21

Vigilant, Independent Sentinel of Truth in the War on Terrorism

Bill Weinberg, Feb. 17, 2002

SPECIAL REPORT ON THE CARLYLE GROUP: THE "NEXT ENRON"?

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. Resentment Over Errant Missiles

2. US Troops Charged with Brutality

3. Still No Peace in Paktia

4. Ethnic Cleansing in Dostum's Domain

5. Refugees Flee Warlord Violence

6. Mass Graves Unearthed in Bamiyan

7. Iran Shuts Down Hekmatyar

8. More Weird Psy-Op Airdrops

9. Musharraf Does Washington

10. Pakistan Regime Linked to Reporter Abduction

11. Who Killed Abdul Rahman?

12. Native Seeds to be Repatriated for Afghan Agriculture?



THE NEW GREAT GAME

1. Russia-China-India: The Real Anti-US "Axis"?

2. Iran Tilts to Russia

3. Kazakhstan Woos India on Pipeline

4. Turkmenistan and Karzai in Pipeline Talks



SOUTH ASIA

1. Torture in the Philippines

2. Thousands Protest Australia Refugee Policy



WHO'S NEXT?

1. Just About Everywhere...



NEW YORK CITY

1. Ground Zero Toxic Threat Update

2. WTC Toxic Threat-in India!

3. Giuliani Clings to Control of Twin Towers Fund



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. The Carlyle Group: Incestuous Web of DC Power-Brokers

2. The Carlyle Group's Bin Laden Connection

3. Fun Facts About Carlyle Group

February 17, 2002 - 4:21pm -- nomadlab
Events
News

Anonymous Comrade writes

LOFT DWELLERS UNITE:

The LiveWork Coalition will host a community meeting with loft tenants and elected representatives Wednesday, February 20th.

Join us on Wednesday, February 20th at 7pm, to meet with loft tenants living without protection from harassment and eviction. The meeting will be held at Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center 466 Grand Street in Manhattan.

WHAT IS THE LIVE WORK COALITION?

We are artists and designers living in lofts not covered under the existing Loft Law of 1980. The LiveWork Coalition was officially created when dozens of long-term tenants were evicted from their lofts in DUMBO in December of 2000. Since then, the LiveWork Coalition has received over 1,000 individual responses to an online census form for loft tenants. Under scrutiny by landlords and developers alike, the LiveWork Coalition has gained support from neighborhood businesses, arts organizations, and galleries.

We are continuing to lobby for the passage of the Next Generation Loft Law, A5580. Our coalition is committed to the preservation of our diverse communities and the continuing contributions that our communities bring to our city.

Visit our Web Site for more information:

Live Work Coalition

For more information, please contact:

Raphael Ben-Yehuda

212-947-2761 or 917-669-2761"

February 13, 2002 - 7:25pm -- Uncle Fluffy
Analysis & Polemic
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Anonymous Comrade writes "The turn out for the February 1 anti-World Economic Forum march (15,000 –20,000) surprised everyone: the cops, the media, and perhaps most of all those who had organized the demonstration. Much of the energy on the street was a direct response to the campaign of intimidation carried out by the media on behalf of the WEF and the police. The demonstration tapped into a growing disaffection with capitalism and a general discontent with globalization and corporate governance in the US. For many of those who came out, the press campaign against the demonstrators was a direct assault on civil liberties and real proof that groups like the WEF are incapable of defending their policies when confronted with the meat and bones of democratic discourse.

February 12, 2002 - 12:41pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
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dementia writes "Cool Hunting: How Big Companies Exploit the Anti-Globalization Movement

Did you know what the cool hunters are? Did you accidentally notice lately any advertisements with radical themes or the latest fashion that demonstrates symbols of revolution impressed you? When anti-globalization becomes a mass movement it is easily noticed by the brand companies that they don't want to loose a share from any part of the consumer pie .

February 11, 2002 - 9:54am -- jim
News

Bill Weinberg's World War III Report, #20, Feb. 9, 2002

Independent Sentinel of Truth in the War on Terrorism

SPECIAL REPORT ON NYC WEF PROTESTS

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. US Admits to Bogus Bombing Raids--But Life is Cheap in Afghanistan

2. Kabul Backs Down to Paktia Warlords

3. Kochi Nomads Way of Life Threatened

4. US Pumps Aid into Uzbekistan Torture Regime

5. Pakistan Protecting Osama--With US Connivance?

6. Did Musharraf Regime Aid Group Holding Hostage Reporter?

7. Iran Rattles Saber Back at Bush

8. US and Iran Fund Rival Warlords

9. Bush & Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

10. Compromise on Legal Status of Guantanamo Detainees

THE MIDDLE EAST

1. IDF Resistance Spreads; Sharon Suspends, Jails Reservists

2. Palestinians Consider "Nonviolent Intifada"

3. Israeli Bedouins Launch Rights Campaign

4. US-Israel Joint Exercise Tests "Iraq Scenario"

THE WAR AT HOME

1. Utah Dumbs Down "Terrorism" Definition

2. Free Speech Wins FBI Visit

3. Racial Profiling Gets New Lease on Life

4. Super Bowl Saturated with Propaganda

NEW YORK CITY

1. 200 Arrested at WEF Protests



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Bush Asks Congress to Limit 9-11 Probe

February 9, 2002 - 12:38pm -- jim
Announcements
News

am writes:

Woomera 2002 : Autonomadic Caravan and Festival of Resistance

== an invitation to make the journey ==

Woomera is a remote town, 500 kms from Adelaide (Australia). It is also the centre of an economy of death, suffering and incarceration founded on the dispossession of indigenous lands.

Our humanity is obliterated in Woomera, in the concentration camp, by missiles, by nuclear weapons, by toxic waste, by colonisation, by capitalism, by fear and division.

We are making the journey to discover our humanity in the liberation of those who have been dehumanised.

We are making the journey to refuse the death, pain and confinements that are manufactured in the name of The Economy. We refuse the caging behind razor wire and the new world borders fashioned so that capital, by reserving for itself the 'right' to move around the world, can better enforce austerity, misery, the earth's destruction and the 'race-to-the-bottom'.

In 2002, each of us are making the journey in our own unique way to reveal the connections between dispossession and the enclosures; the dislocations that have occurred and are still occurring in the name of profits, warlords and empire.

We will not mimic what we go to abolish, but instead wish to open a multitude of paths toward a different world.

We invite you to make the journey with us.

More info at http://www.woomera2002.com/
email: infodesk@woomera2002.com

February 5, 2002 - 9:17am -- jim
News

World War III Report #19

Bill Weinberg, Feb. 2, 2002

Vigilant, Independent Sentry of Truth in the War on Terrorism

SPECIAL ISSUE ON ENRON AND ENERGY

"Not since the rise of the railroads more than a century ago has a single industry [energy] placed so many foot soldiers at the top of a new administration." (Newsweek, May 14, 2001)

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. Secret US Casualties in Kandahar?

2. Casualties and Ecological Toll of Bombardment Debated

3. Warlords Still Calling in US Air-strikes Against Rivals?

4. Pashtun Monarchists Stage Armed Protest

5. Northern Alliance Building Parallel Government?

6. Nostalgia for the Taliban--Already!

7. The Real Agenda at Tokyo: Debt Collection?

8. Technocrats Plan Dollarization of Afghanistan



THE MIDDLE EAST

1. Israeli Generals Plot Re-occupation of West Bank & Gaza

2. ...While IDF Troops Pledge Non-Cooperation

3. Al-Qaeda Re-grouping in Lebanon?

4. US-Saudi Rift Widens



WHO'S NEXT?

1. Improbable "Axis of Evil"



THE WAR AT HOME

1. Studies: Fewer Facts in Media Coverage, Public Pleased

2. Closure Through Commercialism



NEW YORK CITY

1. Ground Zero Toxic Threat Update

2. WTC Survivors Protest Evidence Destruction

3. Giuliani's Girlfriend Appointed to Twin Towers Fund



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Enron & the Bush-Cheney Energy Plan

2. Enron & the California Energy Crisis

3. Enron & the Caspian Pipeline

4. Enron in India

5. Enron in Argentina

6. Enron in Croatia

7. Ex-Enron Veeps in the News

January 30, 2002 - 5:45pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
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Arianna writes: "Hi, this is an interview that first appeared in Le Monde and then in La Stampa.
I have quickly translated it into English. See what you think. The original
French and the Italian translation are in links to the newspapers, below. Arianna


"Porto Alegre, Sad Empire": An Interview with Toni Negri

By Stephane Mandard


On the eve of the World Social Forum, which will take place from the 31st of
January till the 5th of February in Porto Alegre, we have interviewed the
Paduan philosopher Toni Negri, charged with armed insurrection and currently
under house arrest.


Numerous representatives of the liberal anti-globalisation movement have
turned Empire, the book you wrote with Michael Hardt, into their 'little red
book'. Do you agree with them?


"Porto Alegre is not the Paris Commune! However, the World Social Forum is
an important moment, a place where an extraordinary generosity and militant
abilities are about to meet. I am in agreement with the spirit and the
objectives of the movement: to construct, at a global level, an opposition
to liberalism and to develop a possible alternative, within the framework of
globalisation. It is a fundamental stage in the construction of a
counter-Empire. The anti-liberal movement, on the other hand, gives
expression to many different positions. And I don't agree with all of them."

January 29, 2002 - 2:02pm -- jim
News

World War III Report, #18

Bill Weinberg, Jan. 26, 2002

Vigilant Ombudsperson in the War on Terrorism

SPECIAL ISSUE: DID HAMID KARZAI WORK FOR UNOCAL?

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

More US Casualties Bring Total to 19 Dead

Afghan Donors Meet in Tokyo

Warlords, Bombardment Devastate Ecology

Warlords Ready to Take On Peacekeepers; Refugees Are Cannon Fodder

Northern Alliance Fractures; Militias Plunder Aid Shipments

Hekmatyar Challenges Gul Agha in Kandahar

Kandahar, Herat Warlords Feud: US-Iran Proxy War?

Green Berets Mix It Up in Kandahar

No Peace in Paktia

Kabul Still Militarized and Dangerous

CIA Gets New War Powers

US Expanding War to Ex-Soviet States?

New York Post Calls for Torture

UK Detainees Face "Barbaric" Conditions

WATCHING THE SHADOWS

Was Karzai a Unocal Consultant?

SOUTH ASIA

India Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile

Calcutta Attack Targets US

Southeast Asia "Terror Web" Busted

Indonesian Troops Kill Aceh Separatist Leader

THE MIDDLE EAST

Israeli Troops Call for Non-Cooperation

Ghosts of Sabra-Shatila Massacre Haunt Lebanon

US Drops Mandatory Purdah for Servicewomen in Arabia

THE BALKANS

Protests in Sarajevo as Bosnia Deports Terror Suspects

Bulgarian, Romanian Troops to Afghanistan

THE WAR AT HOME

Biggest Pentagon Budget Since the Reagan Era

"Patriotism Defense" in Slaying of Afghan-American

January 28, 2002 - 2:52pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
News

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Citibank Trial in Geneva

January 15th , 14 activists went on trial for the occupation of Citibank, Geneva, but for the public (and the media) it was "the trial of Citibank"!

The protestors were among more than 50 activists who had occupied the headquarters of Citibank last May, during a demonstration held to protest against massacres of the afro-Columbian community in Columbia by paramilitary groups. The principal function of the approximately 15,000 paramilitaries is to destroy popular organisations and unions and drive peasant, indigenous and afro-Columbian communities off lands targeted by transnationals. In a number of cases it has been proved that transnationals such as United Brands, British Petroleum or Coca-Cola have been directly involved in killings (Coca-Cola is on trial now in Florida for the assassination of its union leaders in Columbia). The activists said they had no proof that CitiBank had financed paramilitaries, but pointed out that all transnationals and foreign investors in Columbia necessarily profit from a situation in which all forms of worker and peasant organisation are ruthlessly repressed (a union person is killed every two days in Columbia and 10,000 have been declared "military objectives"). Citibank is a major investor (largest foreign and quickest growing bank in the country) which benefits in multiple ways from this institutionalised violence. It also has close ties to the CIA (for example, Montesino the ex-security head of Peru ran his narcotrafic through Citibank.)

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