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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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