http://anarchismtoday.org/ AnarchismToday.org en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:08 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly AnarchismToday.org News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://anarchismtoday.org/images/logobluegrey.gif http://anarchismtoday.org/ http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=122.html Israel ready to annihilate 70 million Iranians By Roland Michel Tremblay Could what the Jewish historian Professor Benny Morris says in the New York Times be true? That if Israel fails in the next four to seven months to destroy anything that remotely smells like radiation in Iran, Israel will simply annihilate all 70 million Iranians through a full blown nuclear war, all within the next seven months? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:08 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=121.html Source: Democracy Now! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Her Opposition to Impeachment: “If Somebody Had a Crime that the President Had Committed, That Would Be a Different Story.” On Monday, Rep. Pelosi appeared on ABC’s The View and suggested impeachment is off the table because there is no evidence President Bush has committed any criminal acts. We ask Rep. Dennis Kucinich for a response. Kucinich recently introduced a single article of impeachment against President Bush. The article accuses Bush of deceiving Congress to authorize the invasion of Iraq. JOY BEHAR: You’ve ruled against impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney, and now Kucinich is trying to pass that. Why do you insist on not impeaching these people, so that the world and America can really see the crimes that they’ve committed? REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well, I think that it—I think it was important, when I became Speaker—and it’s, by the way, a very important position—President, Vice President, Speaker of the House—I saw it as my responsibility to try to bring a much divided country together to the extent that we could. I thought that impeachment would be divisive for the country. In terms of what we wanted—set out to do, we wanted to raise the minimum wage, give the biggest increase in veterans benefits to veterans in the seventy-seven-year history, then pass research for stem cell research, all of that. This week, we’re going to pass equal pay for equal work. It has been a long time in coming—pay equity. We’re going to pass legislations for product safety, for toys that children put in their—there’s an agenda that you have to get done. You have to try to do it in a bipartisan way. The President has to sign it. If somebody had a crime that the President had committed, that would be a different story. It appears aggression, the "supreme international crime" in the words of the Nuremberg Tribunal, isn't considered a crime by Rep. Pelosi...-Andy More... Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:08 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=120.html Linux kernel version 2.6.26 has been released. The Linux kernel is a free and Open Source operating system core. Announcement on the Linux Kernel Mailing List Changelog at KernelNewbies.org Downloads and more at kernel.org On a related note, I've written a guide to utilizing multiple processors for compiling, and also for creating Debian kernel packages: Linux SMP Tips I've posted a blog on some of the parallels between free software and anarchism. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:17:55 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=119.html Source: Slashdot Posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @09:29PM from the terrism-is-the-root-password-to-the-academy dept. D Afifi writes "Two political researchers at the University of Nottingham, in the UK, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for downloading Al-Qaida material from a US government website. The material was to be used for research in terrorist tactics. There has been a huge public outcry, with university staff planning a march to demonstrate against the attack on academic freedom. Yet, one of the students, an Algerian, is still held in custody under immigration charges and is being fast-tracked for deportation." Excerpted from the above links: "If he is taken to Algeria, he may be subjected to severe human rights violations after his involvement in this case. He has been in the UK for 13 years. His work is here, his friends are here, his life is here." Of his detention, Sabir said: "I was absolutely broken. I didn't sleep. I'd close my eyes then hear the keys clanking and I would be up again. As I realised the severity I thought I'd end up in Belmarsh with the nutcases. It was psychological torture. "On Tuesday they read me a statement confirming it was an illegal document which shouldn't be used for research purposes. To this day no one has ever clarified that point. They released me. I was shaking violently, I fell against the wall, then on the floor and I just cried." Bettina Rentz, a lecturer in international security and Sabir's personal tutor, said: "He's a serious student, who works very hard and wants a career in academia. This is a great concern for our academic freedom but also for the climate on campus." Wed, 28 May 2008 13:34:18 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=118.html 01:00 20 May 2008 NewScientist.com news service Bob Holmes ...Science teaching experts say they are not surprised to find such a large number of science teachers advocating creationism. "It seems a bit high, but I am not shocked by it," says Linda Froschauer, past president of the National Science Teachers Association based in Arlington, Virginia. "We do know there's a problem out there, and this gives more credibility to the issue." ...The survey also showed that teachers who had taken more science courses themselves – and especially those who had taken a course in evolutionary biology – devoted more class time to evolution than teachers with weaker science backgrounds. This may be because better-prepared teachers are more confident in dealing with students' questions about a sensitive subject, says Berkman, who notes that requiring all science teachers to take a course in evolutionary biology could have a big impact on the teaching of evolution in the schools. Read more... Wed, 21 May 2008 01:40:16 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=117.html Source: Democracy Now! "The New York Times has revealed new details on how the Pentagon recruited more than seventy-five retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. The Times reported the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance. We speak with Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) and Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting." Download MP3 AMY GOODMAN: Right now we turn to the ‘Pentagon’s Pundits.” The corporate media’s reliance on retired military officers for on-air commentary is well known. From the lead-up to the Iraq war to the present day, dozens of pro-war former military officials have appeared on the major news networks billed as impartial experts. This is a brief excerpt of the documentary Independent Media in a Time of War by the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center. MICHAEL MOORE: I would like tonight to call for a removal, an immediate removal, of all US troops from CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, NBC, all of them. CNN ANCHOR: Via phone by General Franks. COL. MIKE TURNER: The embed program, I think, is just superb. MSNBC EMBED: We have three aircraft carrier battle groups. MSNBC EMBED: Still a great deal of activity. NBC EMBED: Just like out of an action movie. GEN. WESLEY CLARK: We’ve hit, we’ve struck, You can hear the sort of adrenaline pumping. VICE ADM. DENNIS McGINN: We are coming, and you can’t do anything about it. AMY GOODMAN: Media critics have long pointed out the discrepancy between the overwhelming number of pro-war military voices versus the almost complete absence of antiwar voices. It turns out the pro-war slant of military analysts was in fact part of a carefully orchestrated propaganda effort from the Pentagon. The New York Times has revealed the Pentagon recruited more than seventy-five retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war. Newly disclosed Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as “message force multipliers” or “surrogates” who could be counted on to deliver administration themes and messages to millions of Americans in the form of their own opinions. The so-called analysts were given classified Pentagon briefings, provided with Pentagon-approved talking points and given free trips to Iraq and other sites paid for by the Pentagon. Their involvement was ultimately approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Retired Green Beret Robert Bevelacqua, a former Fox News analyst, said, “It was [the Pentagon] saying, ‘We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.’” The Pentagon even hired a private contractor to monitor the analysts’ broadcast interviews. Brent Krueger, a senior official who helped oversee the propaganda effort, said, “We were able to click on every single station, and every one of our folks were up there delivering our message. You’d look at them and say, ‘This is working.’” The propaganda campaign also extended into the nation’s newspapers. Nine of the Pentagon-connected analysts wrote op-ed articles for the New York Times, and the Pentagon helped two retired military officers write a piece for the Wall Street Journal. Many of the same retired military officers also have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they were asked to assess on air. In interviews, at least two so-called analysts admitted to deliberately tempering their on-air comments out of fear of losing military contracts for their firms. Officials from NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN all admitted to being unaware of their analysts business interests in the war. Fox News declined to comment for the New York Times. The Times reports the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance. Click "Read more" for more media formats and a transcript. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:40:26 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=116.html It was called “The Freedom Bug.” In the early 1990’s church bells rang while the Iron Curtain came down across Europe. In less than a decade the number of democratic countries went from 69 to 118. As democracy spread, so did slavery. Within two decades, politics lost control, and economics has become a dark force in the hands of ruthless new entrepreneurs. From the European sex trade to the Chinese counterfeit industries, from internet fraud to the fish pirates of the Baltic Sea, Rogue Economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare. Trapped inside the ‘Market Matrix’, a web of economic and commercial illusions, consumers are at the mercy of this new force. Shockingly, they are at the same time victims and unwilling partners of the rogue forces unleashed by globalization. The global subprime crisis, the swift rise of the super-rich, as well as the illegal businesses ranging on the Internet are all part of this phenomenon, but so is our daily shopping. The shelves of supermarkets are full of rogue products; some are produced by today’s slaves. As in the film The Matrix, the world we live in is an illusion. If we break through the Market Matrix we discover that our planet is being reshaped by dark economic forces creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy world of consumerism. The world has been overrun by organizations, both private and public, that have accumulated vast fortunes and enormous political influence by regulating, containing, and manipulating the market to their own advantage. From Eastern Europe’s booming sex trade industry to China’s “online sweatshops,” from al-Qaeda’s underwriters to America’s bankruptcy and lending scandals, Rogue Economics exposes the paradoxical economic connections of the new global marketplace. But all of this has happened before. Rogue Economics is part of society’s DNA, it lurks in the background wherever there is economic development, resurfacing during times of great transformation when politics loses control of economics. Rogue Economics flourished during the Gold Rush and the Industrial Revolution and it reigns again today. Rogue Economics is the engine of progress and today it exposes the paradoxical economic connections of the global market and the reveals the making of a new economic and political system. To view further work by Loretta Napoleoni please visit: www.lorettanapoleoni.org Is that not the coolest flash banner you've ever seen? -personman Loretta Napoleoni recently appeared on Democracy Now!: Download MP3 Click Read more for a transcript. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:14:06 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=115.html Source: Democracy Now! & IVAW Like the 1971 gathering organized by VVAW, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Iraq Veterans Against the War, or IVAW, held a Winter Soldier gathering where veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan told of atrocities and horrors of war they witnessed or participated in themselves... Transcripts, mp3 downloads, and other media options are available at the links. 3/14/08 Winter Soldier: Hundreds of Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gather to Testify in Echo of 1971 Vietnam Hearings 3/17/08 Winter Soldier: US Vets, Active-Duty Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan Testify About the Horrors of War [flash width=400 height=300 bgcolor=000000]http://www.archive.org/download/dn2008-0317_vid/dn2008-0317.flv[/flash] [flash width=432 height=344 lightcolor=CC9900 backcolor=000000 frontcolor=CCCCCC image=http://anarchismtoday.org/images/dntv.jpg]http://www.archive.org/download/dn2008-0317_vid/dn2008-0317.flv[/flash] 3/18/08 Winter Soldier CONT’D: US Vets, Active-Duty Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan Testify About the Horrors of War 3/19/08 Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Winter Soldier Hearings Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:04:14 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=114.html Source: www.socialistworld.net/ via google video. SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story. The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people in the U.S. and around the world protested on their behalf. Nearly eighty years later, the story continues to have great resonance, as America once again grapples with issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants. SACCO AND VANZETTI brings to life the personal, political, and legal aspects of this heartbreaking story. The powerful prison writings of Sacco and Vanzetti are read by actors John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub. A chorus of passionate commentators propels the narrative, including a number of older people with personal connections to the story. Artwork, music, poetry, and feature film clips about the case are interwoven into the storytelling. Through the tragic story of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the inspiring images of those who keep their memories alive, audiences will experience a universal, and very timely, tale of official injustice and human resilience. BUY THE FILM firstrunfeatures.com/s...tidvd.html www.willowpondfilms.co...zetti.html Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:13:35 GMT http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=112.html From Democracy Now! William F. Buckley Dies at 82; A Look Back at his 1969 Debate with Noam Chomsky on Vietnam William F. Buckley, Jr. died yesterday at the age of eighty-two. He was the founder of the conservative magazine National Review and the television show Firing Line. In 1969, he invited Noam Chomsky on his show to discuss the Vietnam War. We play an excerpt...Click "Read more" for a transcript. Source: Infoshop, Dennis Perrin William F. Buckley, Jr.: Socked in the God Damned Face by Dennis Perrin Excerpt: "But above all else, WFB was a dedicated warmonger, advocating imperial violence throughout much of his career. He was especially keen on slaughtering Vietnamese, calling the U.S. carpet-bombing and napalming of those people a form of tough "love." Yet despite his support of killing millions in Southeast Asia, he wasn't as eloquent a defender of mass murder as advertised. In 1969, on his talk show "Firing Line," Buckley tried to make his genocidal case to Noam Chomsky, who promptly and efficiently took Buckley apart, piece by rancid piece. It was one of the rare instances in which Buckley allowed a superior debater and intellect to appear on the same stage. He didn't make that mistake again, not with Chomsky, anyway. Watch and see what a man looks like when he's drowning on dry land." Dennis Perrin's Blog Story at Infoshop There are some comments and debate regarding his legacy on DemocracticUnderground.com Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:56:30 GMT