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August 17, 2003 - 12:12pm -- jim
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Cryptome; reposted by SCP-New York writes:

John Poindexter's DARPA Resignation Letter

13 August 2003. (Thanks to R.)

Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/transc ripts/poindexterletter.pdf

Related news report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51578-20 03Aug12?language=printer

[5 pages.]

JOHN M. POINDEXTER

[3  lines redacted]

 

12 August 2003

 

Dr. Anthony Tether

Director

Defense Advanced Projects Agency

[3 lines redacted]

 


Dear Tony,


After the horrific attacks against the United States on 9/11, I felt compelled
to do what I could to make sure that never happened again. I had been thinking
of how to combat terrorism for some 20 years. I was not anxious to come back
into government, but in discussions with you and others concluded that was
probably tbe best way to explore research and devebpment of infonnation
technologies and concepts to help solve the enormous problems of combating
terrorism. So I agreed to accept an appointment for a limited period of time
to start a new office within DARPA specifically focused on imaginative uses
of new information technology tools to help in the war against terrorism,
Now I have decided it is time for me to step down.

August 11, 2003 - 8:41pm -- nolympics
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"America: Back in the USSR?

A Specter is Haunting the US"

Andrei K. Sitov


(Andrei Sitov is the Washington Bureau Chief for ITAR-TASS News Agency of
Russia. )


For the past 20 years I've been covering the US first as a Soviet and then
as a Russian reporter. Since the end of the Cold War my country has been
trying to become more like America. Meanwhile the US, especially after
9/11, increasingly resembles the old Soviet Union. Please consider:


- The US acts as if it believes it knows what's best not only for the
Americans but for the rest of the world and shows a willingness to force
this belief down other people's throats. For a while - until the terrorist
attacks - its "elite" even toyed with the ridiculous notion of an "end of
history". This is an idea common to all totalitarian regimes (some scholars
say it is rooted in the Armageddon prophecy in the Bible). At least
Fukuyama's version did not envision a blood bath.

August 11, 2003 - 5:36pm -- jim
Announcements
The State

The transcript to the conference:


"Freedom Fries: The French-American
Rift Over Iraq,"

Columbia University, May 22, 2003


has been
published on CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online). CIAO is a
comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It publishes
a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university
research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, proceedings
from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

July 7, 2003 - 1:16pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"The Illusion Is Liberty, The Reality Is Leviathan:

A Voluntaryist Perspective on the Bill of Rights"

Carl Watner


Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began their
deliberations on May 25, 1787. During the hot summer months when their
arguments seemed to extend interminably, Benjamin Franklin observed that
life went on around them despite their debates. At one point, he "is said
to have warned the delegates: 'Gentlemen, you see that in the anarchy in
which we live society manages much as before. Take care, if our disputes
last too long, that the people do not come to think they can very easily
do without us'."(1)

July 3, 2003 - 5:56pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"The World:

Seven Thoughts In May of 2003"

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Originally published in Spanish by www.revistarebeldia.org, translated by irlandesa

Introduction

While the Power's calendars break down, and while the large media
corporations vacillate between those absurdities and tragedies being
staged and promoted by the world?s political class, below, in the great
and extensive basement of the tottering modern Tower of Babel, the
movements are not ceasing and, even though they are still faltering, they
are beginning to regain the word and their ability to act as mirror and
lens. While the politics of discord are being decreed above, in the
basement of the world, the others are finding each other and the other
who, being different, is another below.

July 2, 2003 - 10:50pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

"The Title Structure"

Francisco Trindade


Francisco Trindade's new book is exclusively distributed in electronic format
through the site http://www.franciscotrindade.com (portuguse)

If you are interested in obtaining the book you will have to fill a form
(which is inside http://www.franciscotrindade.com) with the name or nick-name, and, most
importantly, the reason or reasons why you are asking for a copy of the
book.The motivation must be clearly explained.

If the reasons are not considered pertinent the request will not be
satisfied. A Estrutura do Título has the following price: 0.

The Title Structure:

From Globalisation to Self-Management

An exclusive production in electronic format without intermediates between
the author and the reader, and without the problem of money dictating
whatever kind of inhibition. Fuck copyright. Copyfree.

July 2, 2003 - 8:38pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"Lessons from the American Revolution"

John Chuckman, July 2, 2003




Many otherwise well-educated Americans know remarkably little about the actual circumstances of their country's birth. Assumptions about that early period, frequently offered as counterexamples to the current dangerous and dreary American government, too often contain little more than boyish daydreams of nobler times.



America's central myth about its founding goes something like this: An extraordinary bunch of men, dressed in frock coats and wearing powdered wigs, closeted together after a long and heroic war against tyranny, worked unselfishly to give the United States a perfect modern system of government.



Since they were men concerned with rights and abuses and the tyranny of absolute monarchy, they gave Americans a set of basic rights that is the envy of the world.

June 30, 2003 - 8:50pm -- nolympics
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"Are Trotskyites Running the Pentagon?"

Alan Wald

As a scholar researching for several decades the migration of United States intellectuals from Left to Right, I have been startled by the large number of journalistic articles making exaggerated claims about ex-Trotskyist influence on the Bush administration that have been circulating on the internet and appearing in a range of publications. I first noticed these in March 2003, around the time that the collapse of Partisan Review magazine was announced, although some may have appeared earlier.


One of the most dismaying examples can be found in the caricatures presented in Michael Lind's "The Weird Men Behind George W. Bush's War" that appeared in the April 7, 2003 issue of the New Statesman. Lind states that U.S. foreign policy is now being formulated by a circle of "neoconservative defence intellectuals," and that "most " are "products of the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s...." Moreover, Lind claims that their current ideology of "Wilsonianism" is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism."


However, I am not aware that anyone in the group of "neoconservative defence intellectuals" cited by Mr. Lind has ever had an organizational or ideological association with Trotskyism, or with any other wing of the Far Left. Nor do I understand the implications of emphasizing the "Jewish" side of the formula, although many of these individuals may have diverse relations to the Jewish tradition--as do many leading U.S. critics of the recent war in Iraq.

June 2, 2003 - 6:40am -- hydrarchist
News
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Police Raid Targets Media Activists and l'Usine Cultural Centre During

http://www.geneva03.org

A video of the raid can be downloaded using bit torrent or Mldonkey and other p2p applications through the V2V network at the following address: http://coyote1.kein.org/~gnudeo/v2v_usineraid.torrent

Just before nine o'clock on Sunday June 1st, l'Usine -- a cultural
center and space for anti-g8 communications production in Geneva-- was
raided by police. For several days l'Usine had also been the home to
the Geneva03 live-stream project ( http://www.geneva03.org ) that has
provided continuous live coverage of the wide range of demonstrations,
discussions and points of view, which have constituted the opposition
to the G8 Summit.

May 30, 2003 - 6:20pm -- nolympics
News
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nolympics writes "The 'war on terrorism'? Northern Ireland knows something about that particular concept, and is learning more and more about how easily 'on' mutates into 'of'.



The other day an apologist for the security forces said on radio what a tough job cops and soldiers had, working through all the years of the Troubles to "control terrorists". Someone pointed out to him just how terribly apt that verb, 'control', had turned out to be.

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