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December 31, 2001 - 1:11pm -- jim
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World War III, Report, #14

By Bill Weinberg, Dec. 29, 2001

SPECIAL HOLIDAY NUCLEAR PARANOIA ISSUE!

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. New Regime Welcomes Foreign Troops; Local Warlords Wary

2. New Regime Pledges Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism

3. Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss--Literally!

4. RAWA Protests New Regime

5. Pentagon Uses Afghans for Cannon Fodder

6. Smart Bombs Not So Smart

7. New Opium War in Making?

8. Did US Use the Nuke in Afghanistan?

9. Nuclear Flashpoint: Kashmir



NEW YORK CITY

1. City Braces for New Year's Eve Nuke Terror

2. Indian Point Nuke Plant Gives Locals Jitters



THE WAR AT HOME

1. Now: Barefoot at Newark

2. Ashcroft Disses Freedom-Nostalgists

3. Amnesty International Criticizes Terror Laws

4. FBI Unveils "Magic Lantern" Cyber-Snoop Tech

5. NYPD Gets More Firepower

6. Jerry Falwell: Mad Magazine's "Dumbest of the Year"



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Does Osama Have the Nuke?

2. Germans at it Again

3. Nuclear Flashpoint: Jerusalem

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT



NEW REGIME WELCOMES FOREIGN TROOPS; LOCAL WARLORDS WARY

Struggling to consolidate control over the local militias who have carved up Afghanistan, US-picked interim prime minister Hamid Karzai named Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum--who had threatened to boycott the new government--as deputy defense minister. After hosting his first Cabinet meeting Dec. 23, Karzai said US and other foreign forces should stay in the country "for as long as it takes" to bring stability. (MSNBC, Dec. 24)

December 28, 2001 - 2:02am -- jim
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World War III Report, #13

By Bill Weinberg, Dec. 22, 2001

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. Interim Regime Inaugurated; US Bombs Dignitaries?

2. RAWA Gets Cabinet Post

3. US Bombing Casualties Top WTC Victims

4. Al-Qaeda Slips Through Net

5. Back from the Brink of Famine

6. Grisly US Propaganda Leaflets

7. US-UK Divisions Over "Peacekeeping Force"

8. US Blocks War Crimes Court



THE NEW GREAT GAME

1. Indo-Pak Saber-Rattling Gets Scary

2. Who's Side is China On?

3. Who's Side is Iran On?

4. Who's Side is Saudi Arabia On?



WHO'S NEXT?

1. Rumsfeld: "Prepare Now For the Next War"

2. Yemen Front Opens

3. Pentagon Trains Philippine Anti-Terror Unit



NEW YORK CITY

1. Ground Zero Toxic Threat Update

2. Did Giuliani Cause 7 WTC Collapse?

3. Indian Point Nuke Plant Draws Protest



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Book: Oil Interests Blocked Terror Probes

2. Petro-Oligarchs Wage Shadow War

3. Kazakhstan Pitches Powell on Pipeline

4. Exxon Praises Kazakhstan Dictatorship as "Democracy"

5. Uzbek Dissident Imprisoned in Prague

6. Turkmenistan: Aspiring Petro-Tyranny

December 21, 2001 - 7:56pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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Anonymous Comrade writes: "Possible Bin Laden "Farewell Message" Posted Online


URL: http://www.ict.org.il/spotlight/det.cfm?id=716


December 9, 2001

A site run by supporters of Osama bin Laden published a letter this
morning, believed by some to be a message of farewell from bin Laden
to his followers. The letter, entitled "Usama bin Laden's Message for
the Youth of the Muslim Ummah" was posted online today on azzam.com, a
known outlet for statements issued by bin Laden's al-Qaida
organization.

The message, addressed to young Muslims, harks back to the defeat of
the USSR in Afghanistan by Muslim fighters, and calls upon Muslims to
rally to the cause of Islam against the only remaining superpower.
However, the letter continues, "We should realise that this life is
temporary and eventually we have to return to Allah...."

December 18, 2001 - 9:25pm -- jim
Announcements
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SUPPORT LEONARD PELTIER

TAKE ACTION ON FEBRUARY 6!

COORDINATE LOCAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Commemorate February 6th by enlisting your friends, family, and communities around "Until Freedom Is Won, the Campaign for Truth and Justice!" Hold events or facilitate activities that will spread awareness about the new strategies, while galvanizing active support. Here are some ideas which have worked well in the past:

December 18, 2001 - 8:40pm -- jim
Announcements
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Training Ban Under Attack

CALL TODAY!

The Pentagon and their congressional allies are making a last-minute attempt to undermine the legislated ban on military training for Indonesia. A ban on IMET (International Military Education and Training) has been in place since 1992.

At the behest of Admiral Dennis C. Blair, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) inserted a provision in the Department of Defense Appropriations bill that provides $21 million to establish a Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program to fund "foreign military officers to attend U.S. military educational institutions and selected regional centers for non-lethal training."

December 18, 2001 - 7:47pm -- jim
Announcements
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Anonymous Comrade writes: "Our Cry Will Be Heard!

Call to Mobilization for the Permanent International Camp
for Social Justice and the Dignity of the Peoples

Dear compa–eros y compa–eras:

From Quito, Ecuador, in the middle of the planet, we send you greetings of solidarity. We are calling on you to be part of the Permanent International Camp for Social Justice and the Dignity of the Peoples, whose aim is to develop a space of action and encounter between persons, organizations and social movements that dedicate ourselves to the construction of a world in which we can all be a part.

December 18, 2001 - 4:13pm -- jim
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Alex LoCascio writes:

Comrades,

I'm very saddened to announce the passing of a veteran of American radicalism.

Martin Glaberman, professor emeritus of Social Science at Wayne State
University in Detroit, passed away on Sunday. An autoworker, shop steward,
and union comitteeman for twenty years, Marty was one of the greats of the
generation of radicals who had come to politics through the American
Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

A comrade of the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James, Marty had left the
Socialist Workers Party twice with his political co-thinkers. When they
broke with the Trotskyist movement definitively in the early 1950s, they
set about to reinvent Marxism in light of conditions in post-WWII America.
Inspired by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, they had an unflagging faith
in the revolutionary potential of the working class, and denounced the
bureaucratic societies of the Eastern Bloc as simply another form of
capitalism.

December 18, 2001 - 3:44pm -- jim
Events
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Dear friends,


International Conference "The Public Eye on Davos" in New York
From January 31 February 3 2002 at the United Nations Church Center (UN Plaza)


Parallel to the World Economic Forum annual meeting, "The Public Eye on DavosÒ was organizing for the third time an independent international conference with representatives from Southern and Northern countries in Davos, when the WEF shifted site to New York. Having already organized various panels, the core group of "The Public Eye on Davos" decided to transfer their conference to New York too.


The thematic focus is on the negative impacts of a one-sided economic globalization, and alternatives to the neoliberal model that are oriented around a socially just and environmentally sustainable development. The program* is divided into thematic blocks. Each block contains a short presentation followed by a moderated panel discussion in which the audience can participate.

December 18, 2001 - 1:38pm -- jim
News
News

Seeing With One Eye

By Sabine Brandt

Orbituary from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

FRANKFURT. In spring 1996, about the time of his 83rd birthday, the writer
Stefan Heym had his last book published. The work titled Der Winter unseres
Mißvergnügens. (The Winter of our Discontent) described what had gone on
behind the propaganda scenes when the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann was
expelled from East Germany in 1976. In the introduction, Heym wrote,
"Looking back, I wish to say that this was the writing on the wall that
announced the end of real Socialism -- there were good reasons why this
precise term had been coined -- the end of this failed revolution, this
republic with no legitimacy."

Over four decades, Heym had repeatedly criticized the East German state,
sometimes acidly, that he had once deliberately chosen as his home, but he
always professed loyalty to it. It was only in this late diary, written at
the end of his life that he completely rejected the construction that would
always respond to his offer of solidarist comradeship with distrust, and in
the end, with blatant enmity.

December 17, 2001 - 2:29pm -- jim
News
News

javier writes: "
Several black communities in the pacific coast of Colombia are being killed
and displaced by paramilitaries in this very moment, in an operation which
will continue in the next days and weeks. This is happening in the same
region where between 100 and 300 people were massacred last Easter, with
the complicity and cooperation of the Colombian army, which is happening
again this time. The objective is to make room for transnational investment
in a region where black and indigenous communities have preserved the
highest density in biodiversity of the world, strategic oil reserves and
projected interoceanic transport megaprojects for international trade.



Below you will find an edited version of the letter that the
Colombia-Canada Solidarity Campaign has sent to the Canadian minister of
foreign affaires, already adapted to be used as model for European groups.
There is also a letter to Pastrana (in Spanish only), sent in another
message. Obviously, non-European groups are also strongly encouraged to
write to your minister, you will have to get rid of the parts that are
specific to Europe.


We know that this sort of lobbying is not the usual form of action
discussed in these lists, but in this very urgent case it is a matter of
life or death; there are no guarantees that it will work, but it is better
than doing nothing. However, actions in (front of) Colombian embassies
and/or companies involved in business with Colombia are surely more effective.

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