- The Earth is not dying; it is being killed, not by corporations
or institutions, although they certainly play their roles, but by real
people, with names, faces and addresses,(1) whose actions and decisions
mean "war," "death," "starvation," "illness,"
"deforestation," "flooding," "drought," "the
expansion of the Ozone Hole," "climate change," "violent
storms," "the end of the Cenozoic Era."(2) Fascism and
the struggle against fascism shaped the twentieth century. Ostensibly,
we have been told, "Democracy triumphed." But the anti-fascists
in Europe, after World War II, were soon labeled "communists"
and crushed in country after country, while Nazi's and their intelligence
network were absorbed into the "Central Intelligence Agency."
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- The C.I.A. has continually overturned "democracy"
in country after country for the benefit of corporation after corporation.(3)
According to the dictionary, "Fascism is a system of government that
exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging
of state and business leadership, together with a belligerent nationalism."
Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany are the classic examples of "fascist
countries." During the "Cold War" the C.I.A. consistently
exaggerated the Soviet threat to justify the build-up in nuclear weapons
and frighten Americans into supporting the misnamed "Defense Department."
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- With the emergence of powerful "transnational corporations"
and "transnational institutions"- created by the Bretton Woods
Agreement (the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank,), later the
World Trade Organization, (not too mention the less formal Bilderbergers,
Trilateral Commission, World Economic Forum ), military alliances such
as N.A.T.O. , and the growth of "U.N. peacekeeping forces," a
new "transnational fascism" has come into being. Allegiance to
any particular country is superceded by an allegiance to corporate profits,
dividing the global elites from the vast majority of the world's people.
The collusion between corrupt elites in Third World countries who sell
off their countries' natural and human resources and the corporate elite
in industrialized countries who maximize profits, by taking full advantage
of cheap labor in other countries and downsizing their operations in the
United States (or England or Japan or Germany, where "labor costs"
are high) show that economic status reveals more about loyalties than nationality.
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- While economics paints itself as far too complex for
most people to fathom, there is a great simplicity to the evolving corporate
dominated economic system which places the highest possible value on "profits"
or "money" and does not value "human lives" or "the
ecosystems" upon which all Life depends. The heart of the global economy
remains a "war economy " which is the most lucrative business
on the planet; it is in the economic interests of all the major powers
to have a war going on.(4) Enemies, particularly "terrorists"
justify the "police state" and the construction of more weapons
and "defense systems." Despite the horrific loss of life during
all the conflicts in the twentieth century, more people were killed by
their own governments than by any wars between nation states. The more
"military training" the U.S. offers its' friends, the greater
the human rights' abuse in those friends' countries- Colombia is a prime
example of this. More and more, war itself is being "privatized,"
outsourced to mercenaries. The giant oil companies depend upon the military
or private armies to aid in the construction and defense of their operations.
Cheney's, Halliburton,(5) serves the oil industry and the military providing
"support services," living off of US wars and "counter-insurgency"
operations in Algeria, Angola, Bosnia, Burma, Croatia, Haiti, Kuwait, Nigeria,
Russia, Rwanda, and Somalia and elsewhere. Just recently its offshoot,
Brown and Root, won the lucrative supply contract for the operations in
Afghanistan, hardly a surprise in the revolving door between the government
and the major military contractors.
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- There is little moral qualm to selling arms to both sides
in a conflict, particularly in the "Third World" where the understated
concern of the "elite" is "over-population"- not "over-consumption."
Subtly the racist nature of institutions encourages the idea that "resources
are limited," "there are too many people," "fewer of
'them' means 'more for us,'" "wars, while unpleasant, aren't
so bad, if they benefit 'us.'" Control is paramount, peace, justice,
democracy our luxuries to be sacrificed, if they hinder or threaten the
dominant powers.
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- With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States
has had to struggle to create the "enemies" necessary to justify
its outrageous military budget. The C.I.A. created the 'monsters'- "Noriega,
Hussein, Osama bin Laden," In the book, Dollars for Terror- The United
States and Islam, Richard Labeviere, chronicles the relationship between
the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and their joint effort to create the Al Qaeda
network, "Mercenaries for Corporate Globalization. "(6) Al Qaeda
complements corporate control. They are conveniently a target in Afghanistan
where we wish to construct bases and control the regions oil and drugs,
but Al Qaeda is quietly supported by the U.S. military in Chechnya, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Bosnia where their agenda dovetails perfectly with U.S. aims.
The Bin Laden family itself has close financial links with the the Bush
family and the Carlyle Group (the 9th largest defense contractor in the
U.S) illustrates how both families profit financially from the new "War."
Whilst 1600 innocent people of Middle Eastern descent are rounded up for
questioning in the wake of 9-11, the supposedly "estranged Bin Laden
family" are escorted and flown out of the country on a military plane
(when no one else in the country can even fly), and certainly not "questioned
by the F.B.I." despite the finger waving at the supposed "mastermind,"
Osama Bin Laden.(7)
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- Just what role did the C.I.A. play in 9-11? Why was the
head of Pakistani Intelligence, Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad, in the U.S.
meeting with the C.I.A. at the time. Bush sent him to Afghanistan to demand
"Osama bin Laden." We know that what Bush really wanted was war,
troops were moved into place, the plans had been crafted well before September.
When this was printed in the Times of India:
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- The US authorities sought "Ahmad's" removal
after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed
Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen. Mahmoud.
Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly
to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played
by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said
that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the
FBI in tracing and establishing the link.
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- Ahmad lost his job, but he was not apprehended or questioned
by U.S. authorities.(8) The mounting evidence, from the fact that no planes
were scrambled to intercept the hijacked planes, in complete violation
of standard FAA procedures, to the lies of top officials, and the fake
evidence used to target selected "culprits" lead me to believe
that the U.S. was complicite in the September 11th attacks.
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- For decades the C.I.A. has waged a relentless propaganda
campaign to persuade Americans that "their security lies in an overwhelming
technologically superior military force." For decades the C.I.A. has
had "practice" terrorizing and taking over smaller countries.
One third of its budget is devoted to "propaganda" and much of
that is directed towards influencing the American public. No matter that
"Star Wars" isn't technologically feasible or that it would spur
a new arms race, or that is has been designed to overtly allow the "U.S."
to dominate and control the world,(9) the boondoggle means profit to a
small global elite, and will allow that global elite to threaten and terrorize
the rest of the world.
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- At this point, the words "us" "them"
"we" "U.S." "transnational elites" become
a bit cloudy, just as fascism has evolved from a couple of countries to
a phenomena recognized as "Corporate Globalization" which institutionalizes
the dominance of corporations over governments, removes decision making
from elected officials to unelected trade bureaucrats, allows corporations
to sue governments to wipe out any environmental or pesky labor laws which
stand in their way of "profits."(10) Military pressure is applied
to gain local (sometimes state or national) compliance with the transnational
corporate agenda. Global elites, such as Henry Kissinger, play dual roles,
guiding the hand of the C.I.A. to overthrow "out of line" heads
of state, (such as Allende), orchestrating the bombing of Cambodia and
other countries (when that seems "necessary"), then putting on
a new "hat," advising Chinese oil companies, in the wake of 9-11.(11)
While Clinton was in power, the Bush gang were investing billions and making
deals with the countries of Asia. (12) These global statesmen, certainly
are not thinking of "America" first as they create the architecture
for a "New World Order" where corporations rule. Despite the
rhetoric that demonizes our enemies, including China, on September 17th,
China quietly joined the World Trade Organization; the Chinese elite and
the American elite have far more in common with each other (making profits
and controlling the masses) than differences.
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- It is ominous to think of the occult symbolism of 9-11,
the anniversary of the Chilean coup, a sacred day for Nazi's, and the U.N.
declared "International Day of Peace." Orwell's 1984 is echoed
in the rhetoric and behaviour of the White House, and sadly in Congress,
who but for a few wonderfully brave examples seem to blithely go along
with the "Big Lie" unquestioningly.
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- On September 11th and the following day, I was more terrified
by the media beating the drums for war, than the actual event. It was months
before I was able to put the pieces together, to see that the best historical
parallel to 9-11 is that of the Reichstag Fire which enabled Hitler to
eliminate his opposition, consolidate his power, wipe out democracy in
Germany, and install himself as dictator.(13)
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- The Patriot Act, the Anti-Terrorist Act, the Homeland
Security Act are direct assaults upon the Constitution, the Bill of Rights
and Democracy.(14) Worse, these pieces of legislation are being mirrored
worldwide to criminalize and discourage dissent everywhere. The War on
Communism, was replaced by the War on Drugs, and now by the War on Terrorism-
broadly defined as any opposition to official power. No matter if the U.S.
is the only country to be convicted of Terrorism by the World Court, or
that our behaviour as a nation is blatantly illegal and evokes the world's
anger; this will not be mentioned by a subservient press. We've lost so
much, regressing to before the Magna Carta, to the time of the Inquisition,
the times of torture, secret evidence, and secret executions. The heart
of the Magna Carta is that no man- even the king- is above the law.
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- The lies and secrecy which shroud the occupant of the
Oval Office, the "National Security Council," violate this fundamental
principal, and permit known criminals to wield great power and public office.
We have learned that Bush illegally obtained office through a systemic
purging of legitimate black voters in Florida,(15) plus the blatantly political
ruling of a biased Supreme Court.
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- The only real visible beneficiaries of 9-11 appear to
be the military-industrial-complex/the Bush Administration/multinational
oil corporations/drug traffickers, and regimes such as Israel who feel
justified in using military force against "dissent/terrorists"
within their borders. The corporate press has swallowed the whole story,
hook, line and sinker, refusing to ask hard questions, cheerleading an
attack by the wealthiest country in the world against the poorest, silent
on the startlingly mercenary motives (installing ex-Unocal representatives
to head the Interim government and represent "U.S." interests
in the region), and virtually denying access to information that would
reveal the magnitude of the suffering, deprivation and death which has
befallen the Afghan people, as a result of the war.
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- Not heartening are the assurances that this is only stage
one of a long war which the U.S. wants to expand to countless other countries,
Iraq being the favored target, while even more repressive legislation is
being pushed through Congress and the States. The politicians assure us
that there will be more terrorist attacks and prepare "smallpox vaccines"
for every citizen in the U.S.. We are being psychologically prepared for
the next assault.
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- I think the greatest threat to "the Powers that
be" are an informed American public. Only an informed American public
could rein in the "War on Terrorism," bring to heel an unelected
politician whose catastrophic policies threaten all people, everywhere.
Granted, I doubt if "W" thought up all this stuff, all by himself,
but he is going along with it. Occasionally his dad calls him up to tell
him when he messed up, and to get him to remember what he is "supposed
to do or say." Those of us, within the U.S., have an especially great
responsibility right now, to prevent our government from committing even
worse "Crimes Against Humanity."
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- They are capable of staging "another terrorist attack"
in the U.S. to expand the war to Phase Two, both abroad and here. So time
is of the essence. Michael Ruppert and Dr. Len Horowitz have warned people
about the Model Emergency Health Powers Act, which would allow governors
to declare an emergency, force vaccinations, quarantine or isolation upon
people, as well as seize of property, and require people to actively "provide
services" during an emergency.(16) Are the deaths of fourteen of the
world's top microbiologists a warning that designer communicable disease
is being prepared for release?(17) The draconian legislature is bad enough,
but the companies that are coming up with "smallpox vaccines for the
entire U.S. population" bear scrutiny. They are the same that provided
poison gas for Hitler's gas chambers,(18) linked to the contaminated vaccines
that spread AIDS in Africa,(19) and linked to the infected blood that killed
thousands of hemophiliacs in industrialized countries.(20)
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- Consider the monopolization of land, money, food, communications,
energy, water by transnational corporations, and the global elite. Are
they monopolizing the world's resources that human life depend upon for
the benefit of humanity or to increase their wealth and power? What does
the track record show?
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- How do the legal, financial, and medical systems mirror
the political system?
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- The companies- BASF, Bayer and Hoechst were responsible
for Hitler's dash for power, as well as the main beneficiaries of his conquests,
they were the 100% owners of IG Auschwitz, the largest industrial complex
outside Germany. The concentration camp Auschwitz was a forced labour camp
for this company. IG Farben Board member, Fritz ter Meer testified during
the Nuremberg trials that "There was no harm done to the prisoners,
because they were to be killed anyway." He was sentenced to 7 years
imprisonment for "slavery and looting." He was released in 1952.
From 1956-1964 he was the chairman of the board of Bayer AG. In 1962 he
was one of the architects of the Codex Alimentarius commission which is
sponsored by the United Nations and the World Health Organization, and
supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Codex Alimentarius
Commission wants to BAN all current over the counter sales of herbs, vitamins,
amino acids, minerals, and all other supplements. The pharmaceutical companies
are planning a global takeover of the vitamin-herb industry, and within
a few short years, they will have succeeded by pushing competitors out
of the field. They are planning to do it very quietly and carefully through
GATT and the Codex Commission. Will our lives and health be sacrificed
again for profits, and control?(20)
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- I used to wonder whether those in power were really stupid
or evil. It seems so short-sighted to kill the planet, if you want to live.
Someone kindly pointed out to me that "Evil is applied stupidity."
Dr. M. Scott Peck wrote "I defined evil as 'the exercise of political
power that is the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert
coercion in order to avoid...spiritual growth'".
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- I can't agree with Bush's "Axis of Evil" definition.
"Racism, Poverty and War" strike me as the real evils on the
global scale.
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- But people are making the decisions, and on a personal
level, we need to ask "Why?" How could someone knowingly cause
the deaths of hundreds, thousands or millions of other people?
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- Aung Sung Suu Kyi wrote: "It is not power that corrupts,
but fear -- fear of losing power and fear of the scourge of those who wield
it."
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- Those in power live in fear, and the dominant system
depends upon Fear and Greed to control humanity.
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- Much as I abhor the policies of the Bush Administration,
I do feel sorry for "Dubya," imagine having Bush Sr. as your
father, Director of the C.I.A, getting initiated into the Skull and Bones
at Yale. I fear that the global elite were traumatized as children, and
never really bonded with their parents or learned to love. I believe it
is our love of life which makes us human, and care so deeply about others,
the planet.
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- Psychologist Erich Fromm defines the struggle between
Good and Evil as biophilia (the love of life) vs necrophilia (the love
of death). "The necrophilous person is driven by the desire to transform
the organic into the inorganic, to approach life mechanically as if all
living persons were things," he writes. "The necrophilous person
can relate to an object - a flower or a person - only if he possesses it;
hence a threat to his possession is a threat to himself... He loves control
and in the act of controlling he kills life... 'Law and order' for them
are idols..." I believe that it is the inability to love "oneself,"
the hatred of oneself, which makes someone incapable of loving others,
that allows one to condemn "humanity" as evil and rationalize
the manipulations, controls or elimination of people perceived to be "uncontrollable"
or a "threat."
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- Our challenge, those who love life and care deeply about
the future, humanity, justice, peace is how to transform people, society,
and institutions from those which are concentrating wealth and power, destroying
the Earth in the process, to those which respect, honor, and value life
and nourish peace, freedom, healthy relationships between all Life. Humor,
Love, Courage, Truth, Hope and Compassion, are the most powerful tools
that we have.
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- In New York, when we demonstrated against the World Economic
Forum, we used humor, song, art to convey our messages. #1- Another World
is Possible! #2- They are all Enron; We are all Argentina. The forces of
life must rein in the forces of death. The War on Terrorism is a Big Lie;
it is truly a War on Democracy, Peace and Freedom everywhere. True national
security means healthy relationships between all people, a thriving biosphere,
meeting the needs of all, as declared in the International Declaration
of Human Rights; secrecy, weapons of mass destruction, designating the
bulk of humanity's resources and intellectual ability towards the military
is a "threat" to all.
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- Last February there was a national day of solidarity
with the "disappeared in America;"(21) we wore blue triangles
to remind people of that time when
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- "In Germany first they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for
the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came
for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade
unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because
I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left
to speak up." explained Pastor Martin Niemoller (who ended up in a
concentration camp.) NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP!
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- Loudly, clearly, with love, humor, passion, creativity
to awaken those living in fear or denial to their connection with the human
race, to our responsibility, to our mutual dream and hope for a peaceful,
just, joyful, healthy world.
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- I wear many hats; I am a member of Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, but I also work with a multitude of groups
challenging corporate rule, militarism, injustice. One of these groups
hopes to nurture a national movement of solidarity on June 6th and encourages
people to organize events along this theme: Not In Our Name: The Pledge
to Resist
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- We believe that as people living in the United States
it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government,
in our names
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- Not in our name will you wage endless war there can be
no more deaths no more transfusions of blood for oil
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- Not in our name will you invade countries bomb civilians,
kill more children letting history take its course over the graves of the
nameless
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- Not in our name will you erode the very freedoms you
have claimed to fight for
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- Not by our hands will we supply weapons and funding for
the annihilation of families on foreign soil
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- Not by our mouths will we let fear silence us
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- Not by our hearts will we allow whole peoples or countries
to be deemed evil
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- Not by our will and Not in our name
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- We pledge resistance
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- We pledge alliance with those who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity
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- We pledge to make common cause with the people of the
world to bring about justice freedom and peace
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- Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real
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- Footnotes-
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- (1) Utah Phillips
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- (2)"400 Biologists agreed that at the current rates
of extinction, we are at the end of Cenozoic Era." Source: Elisabet
Sahtouris, Evolutionary Biologist
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- (3) Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies, and
Global Economics
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- (5) from The United States of Oil by Damien Caveli (among
others)
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- (6) Dollars for Terror- The United States and Islam,
Labeviere, Algora Publishing, New York, 2000
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- (7) See The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence
(ISI) in the September 11 Attacks by Michel Chossudovsky
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- (9) Best articulated by the U.S.Space Agency, itself!
Exposed by Karl Grossman's outstanding work, as well as the Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. "Weapons in Space are
the Police of Globalization."
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- (10) See Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch to get more
information on the W.T.O. and regional trade pacts which are advancing
the W.T.O. agenda.
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- (11) Associated Press, Hong Kong, October 29, 2002
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- (12) The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection? by Ron Callari,
Albion Monitor, February 28, 2002
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- (13) The Reichstag Fire
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- (14) No War Against Afghanistan!by Francis Boyle
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- (15) The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
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- (16) The Model Emergency Health Powers Act Threatens
Health and Democracy, California Bill 1763 is challenged March 21, 2002.
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- (17) A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your
Health by Michael Davidson and Michael Ruppert (18) US GAO TO REPORT ON
LABORATORY BIRTH OF AIDS by Dr. Boyd E. Graves
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- (19) Bayer... knowingly selling HIV-tainted Blood to
Hemphiliacs murdering thousands.
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- (20) The Pharmaceutical Republic of Germany -- From "Arbeit
mach frei" to "Codex Alimentarius"
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- (21) National Day of Solidarity With Arab and Muslim
Immigrants February 20, 2002
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- (22) Not in Our Name- Pledge of Resistance June 6, 2002
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