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October 28, 2005

10.28.05 | Riots in Toledo; Internalizing Media Racism; "Multicultural" Columbus

	October 28, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: Analysis and photos of the riots in Ohio; attempts to "multiculturalize" Columbus Day; local groups pick up FEMA's slack in New Orleans; why true media literacy must include an analysis of race and racial stereotypes; "selective logging" still destroying the rainforest; the Millions More Movement; Mahmood Mamdani talks about US proxy war and the creation of radical Islamism; the US government intervenes in the stock market; radical artist accused of bioterrorism; Howard Zinn weighs in on real justice and the Supreme Court; and more.

This Week's Picks:

Something's Happenin' Here: An On-The-Ground Analysis of the North Toledo Riots
The images on FOX News were harrowing: rioting blacks kicking in the door of a Toledo bar owned by an 86-year old man, looters throwing furniture out a window, and a building in flames. The mainstream media, dominated by the early FOX coverage, reinforced the notion that urban America is a wild, dangerous place where chaos is only a moment away. This is just the sort of simple message that appeals to law-and-order types, or, for that matter, to hate groups like the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and its colorful spokesman, Bill White. Unfortunately, the reasons for the North Toledo riot last week defy such undemanding analysis.
Michael Brooks and Isis (photographer) | Clamor Magazine
http://www.clamormagazine.org/passions

New Orleans Activists Fill Aid Gaps Left by FEMA, Red Cross
Rather than wait for help from giant institutions preoccupied elsewhere, and instead of building a legacy of dependence, local groups have sprung up to recover poor and working-class neighborhoods through collective organizing.
Jessica Azulay | The NewStandard
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2519

On National Commemorations in the Age of Empire: Multicultural Columbus
I don't believe that most Americans want to be global imperialists who value things like genocide and slavery, yet history proves time and again that they will allow their government to act in their name in precisely these ways. Why?
Scott Richard Lyons | CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.com/lyons10192005.html

Media Matters
To many people of color, there seems little reason to believe what's being written when the nation's thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations spew out the same messages and the same stereotypes where people of color are concerned. Often, the biggest or most sensational stories about people of color gravitate toward crime, drugs and violence to such an extent that it not only skews the public's perception, but warps reality altogether. What?s worse, people of color begin internalizing these concepts about themselves early on in their exposure to media; and even a college education doesn?t guarantee that a person has a solid sense of how many forms of media have historically played into—even generated—racist stereotypes in American society.
Silja J.A. Talvi | Colors NW
http://www.colorsnw.com/cover_story.html

CARTOON | CreativityTM
Ask your doctor.
Shannon Wheeler | Too Much Coffee Man
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Selective Logging Fails to Sustain Rainforest
A four-year, comprehensive survey of the Amazon Basin in Brazil reveals that selective logging—the practice of cutting down just one or two tree species in an area—creates an additional 60 to 123 percent more damage than deforestation alone.
Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=000408CE-6EF8-1358-AEF883414B7F0000

MMM: The Quest for a "Movement"
The Millions More Movement is a mass reaffirmation of the existence of an African American polity, a form of Black nationhood that yearns for unity and autonomy in the struggle against white supremacy, and for its own sake. The quest for independent political action—which includes the option of forging strategic or tactical alliances with other groups—is a Black historical constant.
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble | Black Commentator
http://www.blackcommentator.com/155/155_cover_mmm.html

AUDIO | Whose Terrorism?
Is political terror a phenomenon we can attribute to Islamic, or any other, culture? What's the real relationship between terrorism and religious fundamentalism? In Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Mahmood Mamdani opens a window onto the Cold War and the US's role in the emergence of violent Islamist ideologues.
C.S. Soong (host) | Against the Grain
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio10.24.05.mp3

Move Over, Adam Smith
John Embry and Andrew Hepburn provide a valuable entry into the world of finance. The two analysts illuminate the shadowy trail of the "Plunge Protection Team" in its apparent mission to rig the American stock markets.
John Embry & Andrew Hepburn | Japan Focus / ZNet
Excerpt from executive summary: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=8973
Full report (pdf): http://japanfocus.org/423.pdf

Prisoner of Art
Steve Kurtz, of the Critical Art Ensemble, was just another subversive US artist—until the FBI accused him of bio-terrorism.
Christopher Turner | The Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1596029,00.html

It's Not up to the Court
It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.
Howard Zinn | The Progressive
http://progressive.org/mag_zinn1105

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Erica Wetter, Adam Barker
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October 19, 2005

10.19.05 | Avian Flu; Black Panther Party Anniversary; The End of Suburbia

	October 19, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: Commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party; Mike Davis talks about poverty, disease, and the global threat of avian flu; how capitalism produces pandemics; even in a carefully-scripted PR stunt, Bush manages to sound completely incompetent; class, race, and military recruitment on college campuses; the roots of the Guerra de la Tierra in Bolivia; military blogs; the end of suburbia; foraging for fruit in downtown LA; billboard busting in Australia; and much, much more.

This Week's Picks:

They Haven't Forgotten; Neither Should We—The Black Panthers Revisited
If a single date can be assigned to an historical event that developed over the course of a decade, then October 15, 1966 would be the date given as the day that the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was formed by two young men in Oakland, California. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton—two Black brothers attending community college who were frustrated with the existing rights groups on campus, in large part because they did not speak to the concerns or emotions of African-Americans on the streets.
Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.com/jacobs10142005.html

AUDIO/VIDEO | The Global Threat of Avian Flu
An interview with Mike Davis, the renowned urban theorist and author of City of Quartz. His latest book, The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu, warns that the possibility of an Avian Flu pandemic will become a "fundamental test of human solidarity."
Mike Davis interviewed by Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/19/1332209

Industrialized Greed Produces Pandemics
The natural thrust of capitalism is to push into the natural world with haste, so as to win in the race to exploit; and the natural product of capitalism is a wealthy elite and a mass of poverty. Disease springs out of the struggles of poverty.
Manuel García, Jr. | Dissident Voice
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Garcia1011.htm

VIDEO | The Great PR Train Wreck
Check out these clips from the latest Bush propaganda fiasco: A rehearsed dialogue with soldiers in Iraq runs awry when (a) Bush trips over every single line and (b) the press corps catches wind of just how choreographed the stunt was. "Now, when the president asks you if you were in New York, don't answer right away - take a little breath first. This is a really important message." Clips in three parts, taken from MSNBC coverage.
Onegoodmove.org
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002474.html#002474

Bush to Appoint Someone To Be in Charge of the Country
In response to increasing criticism of his handling of the war in Iraq and the disaster in the Gulf Coast, as well as other issues, such as Social Security reform, the national deficit, and rising gas prices, President Bush is expected to appoint someone to run the U.S. as soon as Friday.
The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41444

Protest and Pushback on Campus
Last week, we brought you news of the brutalizing and arrest of Tariq Khan, a student at George Mason University who had been protesting military recruitment on campus. This week, a look at the larger movement against campus recruitment—and why protesters at some colleges are experiencing more repression than others. Says Holyoke sophomore Charles Peterson, "It's OK for Amherst or Hampshire College to have politics, but once working-class students start protesting, then state cops in riot gear get called in."
Ryan Grim | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051031/protest_and_pushback_on_campus

Land War in Bolivia
Bolivia may have gained international recognition for recent uprisings around water and gas, but this Guerra de la Tierra (Land War) is a daily bloody backdrop to the mass mobilizations that capture the world's attention. It's a battle for survival and sovereignty being waged in every corner of the country; a power conflict that is, in essence, rooted in colonial history of the white elite and the indigenous majority.
Jean Friedsky | The Narco News
http://www.narconews.com/Issue39/article1470.html

Venezuela to Expel U.S. Evangelical Group
Venezuela will expel the U.S. evangelical group New Tribes Mission, which has been active in indigenous communities along the southern border with Colombia and Brazil since 1946, President Hugo Chávez announced. "They will leave Venezuela," said the president. "They are agents of imperialist penetration. They gather sensitive and strategic information and are exploiting the Indians. So they will leave, and I don't care two hoots about the international consequences that this decision could bring."
Humberto Márquez | IPS
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30610

AUDIO | The End of Suburbia
Barry Silverthorn and Greg Greene talk about their documentary "The End of Suburbia," Peak Oil, and the consensus trance.
Maggie Hughes | The Other Side (Hosted at the A-Infos Radio Project)
http://www.radio4all.net/play.php/playlist-Urban%20Sprawl-Urban%20Sprawl:%20the%20Other%20Side-End%20of%20Suburbia.pls?version_id=17053&
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State of the Art: Military Blogs
Since combat began in Iraq in March 2003, "milblogs," as they're called, have been cropping up in increasing numbers. Some are sophomoric and laced with obscenities, while others offer frank and poignant accounts of what it's like to fight this war. Their popularity has drawn the interest of book publishers, along with the scrutiny of military higher-ups concerned that milblogs could breach operational security.
Columbia Journalism Review | Daniel Schulman
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/5/stateoftheart.asp

Big Brother Knows What You Are Printing
A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The US Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.
Electronic Frontier Foundation / Infoshop.org
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051018061359887

Scared Straight
From the rules for clients of Refuge, a Memphis-based rehabilitation program run by Love in Action, a "Christ-centered ministry." The Refuge program caters to adolescents "struggling with broken and addictive behaviors," including sexual promiscuity and homosexuality. Clients live at home or in a hotel with a parent or guardian and usually participate in Refuge for two weeks, with the option of a six-week extension.
Harper's
http://www.harpers.org/ScaredStraight.html

INTERACTIVE | Fallen Fruit
When three professsors from CalArts discovered that by California law, any fruit growing on or over public land is available to the public, they founded Fallen Fruit, a project that promotes urban food gathering. Fallen Fruit, based in Los Angeles, charts "public" fruit trees throughout the city, organizes group foraging expeditions, and plans to expand into other cities and venues—including a program called "Buddy Bags" in New York, which would collect bakery and restaurant refuse and assemble bags of clean, sanitary food to be given to the homeless.
Fallen Fruit
http://www.fallenfruit.org

SLIDE SHOW | Billboard Busters
The Sydney Morning Herald presents a multimedia profile of The Lonely Station, an activist network that has for several years been heavily involved in busting billboards across Australia. Equipped with buckets of glue and a wicked sense of humour, The Lonely Station targets everything from Australia's part in the occupation of Iraq to the decimation of Tasmania's old-growth forests.
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/jamming/bbustersSMH.html

Un-American Girls?
Donald Wildmon, head flamethrower at everybody's favorite conservative censorship group, the American Family Association, is all up in the grill of American Girl. Why? Well, the historical-doll peddler recently teamed with Girls Inc., a nonprofit advocacy organization devoted to fostering self-esteem and well-being in girls.
Andi Zeisler | Bitch
http://www.bitchmagazine.com/blogtest/archives/2005_10.html#000139

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Erica Wetter, Adam Barker
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali

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October 12, 2005

10.12.05 | The End of Cheap Oil; UNICEF Bombs the Smurfs; Student Brutalized for Protesting Military Recruiters

	October 12, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: Why our oil-driven lifestyles are going to run into the ground, very soon; the hurricane you probably haven't heard too much about; journalist suggests that open borders solve border crises; 2/3 of the country thinks the US is on the wrong track; UNICEF bombs The Smurfs; previously unseen FBI reports on the Nation of Islam; the real Hugo Chavez; looking a little closer at the drafting of the Iraqi constitution; Pakistani-American college student beaten up by cops for protesting military recruitment; and much more—take a look.

This Week's Picks:

The End of Cheap Oil
Yes, there is still oil out there—both reserves that we know of, and sources still to be found. But in the rush to satisfy our ever increasing appetite for oil, we have used up almost all the oil that is easy, and therefore cheap, to obtain. The century long era of low-priced oil, and with it everything upon which our lifestyles depend, is about to end.
Dan Box | The Ecologist / Autonomy & Solidarity
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1555

The Other Hurricane
The Guatemalan government on Sunday reported that 519 people have died in the wake of last week's hurricane and an additional 338 are missing across the country. Nearly 90,000 people are living in shelters, including 3,000 in 31 makeshift camps here. "There is sadness, hunger and desperation," said Alfonso Ochoa, a reporter with El Orbe newspaper. "We need more help." Summing up the devastation to all of Central America and Mexico, Ochoa said, "This is a disaster much greater than in Louisiana, but it isn't getting the same attention."
Alex Renderos and Reed Johnson | LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-stan10oct10,0,2197478.story?coll=la-story-footer

Open Borders Solve Border Crises
"People want to come north," said Peter Laufer, author of Wetback Nation, "and we want them to be here." With that, the former NBC News correspondent, Latin American war reporter and radio host opened his remarks at "Immigration Wars: Open or Closed Borders?", a forum with economist Benjamin Powell on September 21.
Pete Micek | Pacific News Service
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=56da84eecd77d87a06006e083dacd16e

VIDEO | UNICEF Bombs the Smurfs in New Ad Campaign
The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes. The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/08/wsmurf08.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/08/ixhome.html
Watch the ad (NOTE: poor quality, and audio in Dutch only): http://movies.crooksandliars.com/N_051004_unicef_oorlogskinderen-20051004-132858-HB.mov

Two-Thirds of the US Thinks Country is on the Wrong Track
According to an AP/Ipsos poll, those most likely to have lost confidence about the nation's direction over the past year include white evangelicals, down 30 percentage points since November, Republican women, down 28 points, Southerners, down 26 points, and suburban men, down 20 points.
AP/Truthout.org
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100705S.shtml

CARTOON | Asking For It

Mikhaela Reid | The Boiling Point
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Previously Unseen FBI Research Reports on the Nation of Islam
The FBI has released the two reports on the Nation of Islam. We've scanned and posted them above. They're based on often obscure public-source documents, internal NOI literature, and confidential material, such as informants and FBI investigative files. Both reports were originally classified "Confidential" and were declassified in 1977, although they don't seem to have been publicly released until now. In the monographs, the FBI refers to the NOI as a "fanatical, all-Negro cult in the United States which is based on a distorted interpretation of the religious principles of Islam and is motivated by hatred of the white race."
The Memory Hole
http://www.thememoryhole.org/fbi/noi.htm

War Child
Over 35 years since returning home from the Vietnam War, a former US soldier has returned a poignant diary he recovered from a young Vietcong military doctor. The diary has sparked a patriotic revival in Vietnam, turning the two former enemies into national heroes.
David McNeill / Japan Focus via ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=8889

INTERVIEW | Hugo Chavez and His Bolivarian Revolution
That Chavez is genuinely popular in Venezuela, and increasingly throughout Latin America, is cause for neither surprise nor alarm, according to Richard Gott, whose book, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution (Verso), recently updated and reissued, is the first account in English to place Chavez in historical and intellectual perspective.
Julian Brookes | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/09/richard_gott.html

Investors' Rights Trump Social Justice in Iraq
The drafting of Iraq's constitution has been portrayed as a conflict between Sunnis and Shiites and Kurds. Herbert Docena explains how the US got its way in another conflict— that over Iraq's oil and economy.
Herbert Docena | Red Pepper
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/iraq/x-oct05-docena.htm

VIDEO | Booked for Safekeeping
Fascinating documentary made to train police officers in the assistance and management of mentally ill and confused persons, produced in New Orleans by eminent filmmaker George C. Stoney using real New Orleans police officers as actors. A little-known ethnographic classic that is strongly rooted in the place where it was made.
Stoney Associates/Archive.org
http://www.archive.org/details/Bookedfo1960

Student Brutalized by Cops, Right-Wing Students, for Protesting Recruiters
Tariq Khan, a Pakistani-American who served four years in the United States Air Force as munitions personnel was beaten and brutalized by right-wing students and campus police last Thursday at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

M. Junaid Alam | Left Hook
http://lefthook.org/Ground/Alam100505.html

- Media Picks Contributing Editor: Adam Barker
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali

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October 07, 2005

10.07.05 | God Talks to Bush; Big Pharma Claims PMS to be Mental Illness; Bicycles Outsell Cars in US

	October 7, 2005 Edition
"The Best of the Rest of the Web"

THiS WEEK: Bush claims that god told him to invade Iraq; FBI assassinates prominent Puerto Rican nationalist; oil unions stay strong in Iraq; US and Israel collaborate on regime change in Syria; aborting white babies—to reduce crime, of course; Bush compares the dangers of political Islam to those once presented by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot; the attempt to frame PMS as a mental illness; profiles of activist women in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Afghanistan; International Atomic Energy Agency wins Nobel Prize; bicycle sales surpass cars; and much more.

This Week's Picks:

God Talks to Bush About Iraq, Palestine
George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."
Ewen MacAskill | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1586978,00.html

AUDIO | FBI Assassinates Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios
For the past four decades Filiberto Ojeda Rios had been a leading figure in the fight for Puerto Rican independence and against U.S. colonial rule. He was wanted by the FBI for his role in a 1983 bank heist. Amy Goodman interviews Juan-Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua, Puerto Rican political analyst and radio host regarding Rios' death.
Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/sept/audio/dn20050926.ra&proto=rtsp&start=50:02.5

CARTOON | Modern Cures for Modern Ills
Shannon Wheeler | Too Much Coffee Man
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Iraqi Unions Defy Privatization
Originally organized under the British in the early 1920s, the oil union has always been the heart of the Iraq's labor movement. Today, the oil union is once again Iraq?s largest, most powerful labor organization, with 23,000 members in southern Iraq. Together with two other labor federations and a handful of independent professional associations, the labor movement is now the biggest secular institution in Iraqi civil society?and the one most opposed to Bush?s privatization schemes.
David Bacon | The Progressive
http://progressive.org/?q=mag_bacon1005

US Consults Israel Over Syria Regime Change
The rule of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad appears to be coming to an end, in light of allegations of Syria's involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—as well as, according to the US, involvement in the Iraq insurgency. And the US and Israel are all too eager to collaborate on the potential installation of a new president more in line with their plans for the Middle East.
Middle East Times
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20051003-083626-6877r

Abort Every White Baby!
Justin Felix replies to Bill Bennett with a new "modest proposal" of his own on how to reduce crime.
Justin Felix | ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=8853

Bush Warns of "Radical Islamic Empire"
In an attempt to drum up support for the war on Iraq, Bush delivered a speech to the National Endowment for Democracy on Thursday on the need for an ongoing offensive against terrorists who seek to establish a "radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia,'' calling the war against political Islam ""the great challenge of our new century."
Marc Sandalow | San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/07/BUSH.TMP

A Disease for Every Pill
Big Pharma has found another new mega-market: women of childbearing age. The emotional ups and downs of the menstrual cycle are no longer considered normal, but rather signs of treatable mental illness.
Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051017/moynihan

AUDIO | Women Rising
Women continue to be underrepresented in media coverage (both mainstream and independent) of civil rights, environmental, and justice movements. This week, the National Radio Project profiles three remarkable women most of us have never heard of: Shereen Essof, an advocate for democracy and land rights for women in Zimbabwe; Sahar Saba, a leader in RAWA, the underground resistance organization struggling for women's rights and democracy in Afghanistan; and Wendy Pekeur, who represents farmworkers in South Africa.
Sandina Robbins | National Radio Project
http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2005/4005.html

Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
A coordinated campaign by conservative lawmakers and the FBI aims to label environmental protests the newest form of terrorism.
Kelly Hearn | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/26077

Nukes for Peace, Revisited
The International Atomic Energy Agency has actually won the Nobel Peace Prize this year (2005). The only more inappropriate winners would be the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) or the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), or perhaps the nuclear industry itself. This award by the Nobel Committee amounts to an endorsement of the continued creation of ever-increasing piles of dangerous, terrorist-targeted nuclear waste from nuclear power plants, whose byproduct is the very same bomb material the IAEA claims to be opposing, and has hoodwinked the world into thinking it is stopping the proliferation of.
Russell D. Hoffman | Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.com/hoffman10072005.html

US Nuclear Warplans Fly Around the Internet
"Even in an unclassified world this is not the kind of thing you want flying around the Internet," says Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita. He was talking about a document, yanked from a Pentagon website on September 19th, which outlines US nuclear warfighting plans, including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons and the use of nukes in conventional war.
Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/nuclear-warplans-101

Bicycle Sales Overtake Cars
In a country where most of the population still relies heavily on cars, some 87 million people have climbed on a bike in the past year.
World War 4 Report/AFP
http://www.ww4report.com/node/1154

- Media Picks Contributing Editors: Erica Wetter, Adam Barker
- Media Picks compiled and edited by Erin Wiegand and Brian Awehali

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