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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 Allegiance to any particular country is superceded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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