Truthout: 18 March 2012
Truthout: 18 March 2012
Resistance Builds to NATO's Threat
of Permanent War and Nuclear Dominance
Bernardine
Dohrn and Bill Ayers, Truthout: "The leaders of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ... plan to meet in
Chicago on May 20 and 21. NATO and the G-8's heads of state,
intelligence personnel, foreign ministers and generals,
cabinet members and secret operatives, advisors and
bureaucrats will conspire to extend and defend their obscene
wealth, to exploit the remaining fossil fuels, natural
resources, human labor, and the living planet to the last
drop, and to dominate the people of the global majority."
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Fracking:
Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
Walter Brasch, Dissident
Voice: "A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by
forbidding health care professionals from sharing
information they learn about certain chemicals and
procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic
fracturing ('fracking') ... The law is not only
'unprecedented,' but will 'complicate the ability of health
department to collect information that would reveal trends
that could help us to protect the public health,' says Dr.
Jerome Paulson, director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for
Children's Health and the Environment at the Children's
National Medical Center."
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Re-Occupation and
Police Raid of Zuccotti Park Set Tone for Radical
Spring
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "The brief
re-occupation of Zuccotti Park and its swift re-eviction are
both previews of the season to come. With numbers augmented
by warm weather, St. Patrick’s Day’s festive atmosphere
and the Left Forum conference ... the protesters who took to
Zuccotti Park to celebrate six months of Occupy Wall Street
sent out a mass text on Saturday evening, reading
'OccupyNYC: Liberty Square is being RE-OCCUPIED! 500+ people
and growing! Come on down! Bring blankets & food!' Occupy
Wall Street's message: prepare for a radical spring."
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Missouri Caucuses
Marked by Contention, With No Clear Victor Yet
Dave
Helling, McClatchy Newspapers: "Missouri Republicans met in
more than 100 counties Saturday to begin picking their
presidential nominee at party caucuses marked in some places
by crowded rooms, loud disagreements - and no clear
victor.... Missouri Republicans did not cast direct ballots
for any presidential candidate Saturday. Instead, delegates
picked Saturday will eventually choose 49 of the state's 52
national GOP convention delegates at district conventions in
April and the state convention in June."
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Historical
Account of Class, Race Wars Relevant for Organizers
Today
Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: "Amy Sonnie and
James Tracy's 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels,
and Black Power' zeroes in on this conundrum and explicates
the role white, working-class activists played in several
anti-racist community movements of the 1960s and 70s. The
book highlights the little-known and short-lived organizing
of five groups - Jobs or Income Now Community Union (JOIN),
Rising Up Angry, October 4th Organization, the Young
Patriots and White Lightning - and challenges popular
stereotypes of working-class whites as bigots and male
chauvinists."
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How the
Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force
Their Beliefs on You
Valerie Tarico, AlterNet:
"Beliefs have consequences, and one consequence of
evangelical belief is that decent people end up doing ugly
things in order to recruit converts and save souls. It is
because they care about being good that they do harm. In the
much quoted words of Steven Weinberg, 'With or without
religion, you would have good people doing good things and
evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do
evil things, that takes religion.'"
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Beset by Online
Surveillance and Content Filtering, Netizens Fight
On
Staff, Reporters Without Borders: "The Internet
and social networks have been conclusively established as
tools for protest, campaigning and circulating information,
and as vehicles for freedom.... At the same time, supposedly
democratic countries continued to set a bad example by
yielding to the temptation to prioritize security over other
concerns and by adopting disproportionate measures to
protect copyright. Internet users in 'free' countries have
learned to react in order to protect what they have
won."
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America's Crimes
of War
John LaForge, Consortium News: "A decade into
the Afghan War, the atrocities by US forces - whether
accidental or intentional - keep piling up along with
assurances from American leaders that 'this is not who we
are.' But the unwillingness to impose serious penalties and
the failure to adopt less violent strategies say something
else to many Afghans.... With the long record of massacres
that have gone unpunished or been treated lightly, Afghans
can be forgiven for demanding that the latest Son of Uncle
Sam be turned over to Afghan authorities for trial."
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The People's
Resolution: A Sane Response to the Iranian
"Crisis"
Camillo "Mac" Bica, Z Communications: "I and
other Veterans For Peace from Long Island will be lobbying
members of Congress first to educate them regarding what is
problematic, irresponsible, and even dangerous about Senate
Resolution S. RES. 380 and its counterpart in the House H.
RES. 568. Then, we will encourage our Legislators to
introduce and sponsor what I perhaps hubristically term the
'People's Resolution' as a more sane and efficient
alternative response to the Iranian 'crisis.'"
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Birth Control
McCarthyism
Corey Robin, CoreyRobin.com: "Climbing
aboard the anti-birth control bandwagon, the Arizona Senate
Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 on Monday to endorse
legislation that would: a) give employers the right to deny
health insurance coverage to their employees for religious
reasons; b) give employers the right to ask their employees
whether their birth control prescriptions are for
contraception or other purposes (hormone control, for
example, or acne treatment). There are three things to say
about this legislation."
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Sister, You're an
Addict: Empowerment Is Not Spelled C-R-A-Z-Y
B-U-S-Y
Mary Sojourner, New Clear Vision: "An
epidemic has taken over the young women I speak with - and
their women faculty. Many, indeed a majority, report that
they are exhausted and stressed out.... No matter the
results of your self-exploration, please remember this: with
any addiction, there is a dealer getting rich off the
addict's misery. Who has so many of us in their grip? Who is
profiting off our frantic efforts to stay ahead of
impossible expectations? What could it mean if we began to
refuse to comply?"
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