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Taser Nation: Pain Compliance 101
Written by Dr. Andrew Bosworth   
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

ImageA decade ago, ordinary Americans would not have tolerated such widespread use of the Taser, a stun gun delivering a 50,000-volt shock. They would not have tolerated the electrocution of unarmed, non-threatening civilians without following the normal "escalation of force" policy. Ironically, American political leaders and the media once cast aspersion on the regimes of Guatemala and Argentina, which used cattle-prods on prisoners. Cattle-prods only deliver 25,000-volt shocks, half that of the Taser.

Thai Opposition to Potash Mine Becomes Community-Wide Fight
Written by Tanya Roberts-Davis   
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
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Nuentang Taamain
Entering the North-Eastern Thai village of Ban Nonsomboon, one could be fooled by the appearance of rural tranquility: Children, parents and elders chat amongst themselves, relaxing in hammocks and sharing baskets of freshly cooked sticky rice. It doesn't take long, however, to notice the banners, stickers and posters throughout the community declaring, “No to Potash Mining!” Green flags signifying a commitment to a toxic-chemical-free zone wave in the breeze.
Queer India: The Fire Inside
Written by Nick Harvey   
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
ImageLesbianism in India has traditionally been the great unmentionable – and the treatment meted out to women who love women still leads many couples to opt for suicide pacts, often burning themselves to death. But in the wake of a groundbreaking film, lesbians are asserting themselves more – and seeing some encouraging signs of change.
Confronting the Military Industrial Complex
Written by Benjamin Dangl   
Thursday, 13 November 2008
ImageOn November 1st, in Montpelier, the capital of Vermont, one hundred activists gathered to protest against General Dynamics, a weapons manufacturer operating in the state. Speaking to the crowd in front of the statehouse, VT-based filmmaker Eugene Jarecki talked about the presidential election and activism. "There’s a moment of real crossroads here," he said. "But it’s a crossroad for all of us not to be happy and go to bed but for all of us to be absolutely unrelenting and dissatisfied until real change happens."
Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s ‘Black Boxes’
Written by Christopher Parsons   
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
ImageThere are plans to deploy ‘black boxes’ in UK ISPs’ networking hubs so that the government can capture and record every website that UK citizens visit. A similar operation is in full swing in the United States, where the NSA has hooked up their own ‘black boxes’ to American Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) networks to capture ‘questionable content’ passing through these networks. Unlike the Americans, who only examine questionable content, the UK government is planning to develop a database to hold the contents of all messages passing along their nations’ telecommunications networks.
Rebuild Local Food Economies: Report from International Small Farmer Movements
Written by Institute for Social Ecology   
Monday, 10 November 2008
Photo: Sebastiao Salgado
Brazil's MST
Today’s food and energy crises are demonstrating what small-scale family farmers and rural peoples around the world have been saying for years:  without support for local agriculture everywhere, hunger can grow anywhere. Rodrigo Lopes of the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) and Stephen Bartlett of Agricultural Missions (based in Kentucky) are touring the US this month, aiming to clarify why this is so. Both groups are part of La Via Campesina, an autonomist, multicultural international movement of peasants, small farmers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth, and agricultural workers.
The Case for U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Written by Sameer Dossani   
Monday, 10 November 2008

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US Troops in Afghanistan
In recent history, two concepts of justice have stood out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed in a kind of justice that could only be achieved when systematic oppression had been eliminated from the world. George W. Bush, on the other hand, believed in the justice of old Western movies and gunfights. When he inherits the Bush legacy on January 21st, 2009, Barack Obama will have to choose between these two approaches. The decision he makes will reverberate around the world and be one of the first indicators of whether "Change We Can Believe In" was merely good sloganeering.

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