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Making a Killing: The Military-Industrial Complex and Impacts on the Third World
Written by Aziz Choudry   
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Photo from 917pressIn the late 1990s, well before Bush’s ‘war on terror’, New Zealand TV screened a particularly awful US action drama called ‘Soldier of Fortune Inc.’, about an elite team (composed of former US Marines, Delta Force, CIA, British SAS personnel) who performed ‘unofficial’ covert missions for the US Government. They would get a briefcase full of money from a shadowy military liaison and head to the Middle East, Latin America, Haiti, or the Balkans, or smoke out foreign agents and assorted enemies within the USA, missions for which Washington could claim plausible deniability because none were active duty soldiers. It was a dirty job, but someone had to do it to keep ‘US democracy’ safe, for a price. Sounds familiar?
Apocalypse Now? Miami Model Applied to Republican National Convention in Minnesota
Written by Cyril Mychalejko   
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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Police Force in Miami, 2003
Five years ago this November, the Miami police department, with the assistance of Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal government agencies, unleashed a violent paramilitary occupation of Miami in order to curtail protests against the now defunct proposal to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas. This same anti-protest model will be applied at the September 1-4 Republication National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Georgia On My Mind: From West Point to the Caucasus
Written by Conn Hallinan   
Monday, 18 August 2008
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Georgians Flee Russia
One of the major causes of the recent war in Georgia has nothing to do with the historic tensions that make the Caucasus such a flashpoint between east and west. Certainly the long-stranding ethnic enmity between Ossetians and Georgians played a role, as did the almost visceral dislike between Moscow and Tbilisi. But the origins of the short, brutal war go back six years to a June afternoon at West Point.
Russian-Georgian Conflict: Lies, Truth and the New Cold War
Written by Victor Figueroa Clark   
Monday, 18 August 2008
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Georgian Tanks
The Russian-Georgian conflict is the result of a series of interlinked factors, some old and some much newer, with none of the parties entirely innocent, but for which the lion’s share of the blame must rest with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his backers in the United States and NATO.
Internet Access Fuels Development in War-Torn Uganda
Written by Siena Anstis   
Thursday, 14 August 2008
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Teacher Charles Okumu in Lacor
Not far from the closely packed mud huts of Pabo camp for internally displaced persons in Northern Uganda, the Catholic parish office lights up like a beacon in the inky night of this war-torn area; the region has never had electricity. Last year, the Pabo diocese used a wireless internet connection provided by an NGO to apply for a $40,000 grant for solar panels. Now the health center has an internet phone they can use to call free anywhere in the world, and students at Pabo secondary school are sharing stories of abduction and war on personal blogs.
The Afghan Trap & Déjà vu in Georgia
Written by Greg Guma   
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
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Presidents Saakashvili & Bush
The US government has persistently claimed that its decision to bankroll the overthrow of Afghanistan's government in the final days of the 1970s was a response to the invasion of Soviet troops. But Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's National Security Advisor at the time and now advises Barack Obama, finally admitted the truth in 1998: covert US intervention began months before the USSR sent in troops. "That secret operation was an excellent idea," he crowed. "The effect was to draw the Russians into the Afghan trap."
Communication Breakdown: How Cell Phones Hurt Communities
Written by Benjamin Dangl   
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
ImageIt was a fresh morning after a night of rain and we were hiking up into the mountains in Southern France. The plants and trees glowed with green, vibrant life. Sheep and cows were meandering in the fields, and the sky was blue, stretching out for miles. Then I heard a faint beeping noise that didn’t sound like a bird.
The Freedom Archives: An Interview with Claude Marks
Written by Hans Bennett   
Monday, 11 August 2008
ImageClaude Marks is the director of The Freedom Archives, a San Francisco-based organization. Through the website and email list-serves, Freedom Archives provide a valuable resource documenting both revolutionary struggle and police state repression. Freedom Archives also creates high quality audio and video documentaries, including the recent video about the San Fransisco 8, titled "Legacy of Torture."

Open Forum: Discussing Solzhenitsyn’s Life and Politics
Written by Toward Freedom   
Monday, 11 August 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: ‘Let us change our course!’
Written by Rene Wadlow   
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
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Solzhenitsyn in 1994
The Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died on August 3, 2008, wrote in his most autobiographical novel The First Circle, that "A great writer is, so to speak, a second government. That is why no regime anywhere has ever loved its great writers, only its minor ones."
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