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IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.
In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, (…)

Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Inter Press Service Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8 by Mario Osava
CURITIBA, Brazil - Environmental and indigenous activists are leaving the 8th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8) with a sense of disappointment, because of the absence both of practical decisions and of their participation in key negotiations.
COP8 was a "failure," according to Greenpeace (…)

Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by the
by Rachel Uranga
Marches, walkouts and calls for a boycott.
The immigrants-rights protests of the past week have sparked Latinos’ passion like nothing since the farm workers marches and grape boycotts led by Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and ’70s - drawing political parallels and generational ties.
Considered by many to be the first to attract Latinos to a massive U.S. social-justice movement, the legacy and tactics of Chavez - whose birthday is (…)

Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Toronto Star
No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke: Defence research agency creates landmine-sniffing bugs
by Lynda Hurst
A rocky foreign terrain. Platoons of remotely controlled cyborg-insects sniffing out landmines, transmitting their location back to human handlers.
Can you picture it? No?
Well, that’s the difference between you and the scientists, "extreme thinkers," at DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, where soldier (…)

Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Independent/UK
Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects. But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has received any compensation.
On a table in the dimly lit room lay a small white bundle, tied with a silver ribbon. With a brilliant smile and a barked order, Professor Nguyen Thi Phuong had directed me to the morgue (…)

March 29, 2006
Atrocities By Any Other Name...
Recent reports from Iraq indicate beyond doubt that the U.S. occupation army has embarked on a new "tactic" from its menu of atrocities, in an attempt to counter the burgeoning Iraqi resistance attacks against its soldiers. "Old-style" massacres of Iraqis have become so commonplace lately that even Iraqi "allies" of the U.S. were forced to unreservedly condemn them.
Among Western governments, alas, silence prevails. After all, the massacre (…)

April 1 / 2, 2006
A Review of Anthony Arnove’s "Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal"
Coherent. That’s the one word review of Anthony Arnove’s latest book, Iraq:The Logic of Withdrawal. Incoherent. That’s what Washington’s policy in Iraq seems to be. What makes Arnove’s book so important is that he dissects that policy and proves that the war in Iraq is not an incoherent bumble that’s gone awry. In fact, as Arnove makes abundantly clear, it’s US foreign policy as it’s always been. This remains (…)

http://brickburner.blogs.com/
Jeffrey St. Clair is the co-editor of CounterPunch (online at CounterPunch.org) and the author of numerous books, most recently Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror (Common Courage Press 2006). He recently spoke with me about his latest book.
Joshua Frank: Jeff, it’s been three long years since the US invaded Iraq and there has been a mountain of speculation as to the real motives for the war and occupation: Was it (…)

From AxisofLogic.com
(published here in English, Spanish and German) By Phil Ochs; translations by Germán Leyens, Nancy Almendras and Nadine Discenza ; introduction by Axis of Logic Eds. Jan 7, 2006, 10:31
It is 40 years since this song was written and performed by Phil Ochs. At the time, it was simply one more reason for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to mercilessly harass Ochs for his ‘anti-Americanism’.
But the man would not bend. He was passionate about reforming the (…)

"The American movement against the Vietnam War was the most successful antiwar movement in US history. During the Johnson administration, it played a significant role in constraining the war and was a major factor in the administration’s policy reversal in 1968. During the Nixon years, it hastened US troop withdrawals, continued to restrain the war, fed the deterioration in US troop morale and discipline (which provided additional impetus to US troop withdrawals), and promoted congressional (…)