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Summer 2007 Vol. 8 Issue 2
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>in this issue:
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> Peak Oil and the Inflation Lie, by Larry Chin
> Iraq on my Mind, by Dahr Jamail
> Language, Liberation and Development; approach methodologies for a postcolonial africa, by Kum’a Ndumbe III> In Search of Congo's Coltan, by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele
EYE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:
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> The Struggle, by John Pilger
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> Oppression, Conscience, Government, Patriotism, Democracy
> Ending the Occupation of America
> The Grand Illusion, by Victor Saraiva
> Priorities, by Ralph Nader
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>Essays & articles of interest published by other sites:
American Civil Liberties Union:
Special Reports:
2 years after Katrina
http://www.aclu.org/brokenpromises
Government Spying
Coalition Challenges New Homeland Security
Rule
The
U.S. government is violating its treaty obligations under the Convention Against
Torture by attempting to deport Sameh Khouzam.
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/workplace/31494prs20070829.html
ACLU Asks Court to Bar Egyptian's Deportation to
Torture
http://ttp//www.aclu.org/immigrants/asylum/31507prs20070830.html
Gonzales Resignation Does Not Pardon President’s Abuse of Power
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/31468prs20070827.html
ACLU Fact Sheet on the “Police America
Act"
The
so-called “Protect America Act of 2007," which we are calling the “Police
America Act," allows for massive, untargeted collection of international
communications without court order or meaningful oversight by either Congress or
the courts. It contains virtually no protections for the U.S. end of the phone
call or email, leaving decisions about the collection, mining and use of
Americans’ private communications up to this administration. http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/31203res20070807.html
50 Books That'll Boost Your Civil Liberties Savvy
INTERACTIVE FEATURES
> The Drug War Clock: See
What the War on Drugs Is Costing You
> Survey: What Age Is Considered
"Adult" in America?
>
Justice Match: Learn How Your Views Align With the U.S. Supreme Court
Justices
Authorities Target Political Groups
ACTIVIST TOOLKIT
http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AP_effective_activism
Amnesty International
Latest Reports from
AI:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-recent/reports
Guatemala: Presidential Candidates Must Resolve Legacy of
Conflict
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR340212007
Close Guantánamo
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/guantanamobay-index-eng
LIBRARY
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
The arms trade is out of control.
Worldwide, arms are fueling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses.
EPIC
“National Network” of Fusion Centers Raises Specter of
COINTELPRO
http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0607/default.html
http://www.epic.org/privacy/fusion/crs_fusionrpt.pdf
Medical Privacy Petition
http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/petition
EPIC
PRIVACY.ORG
DoD Recruiting Database
http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html
GREENPEACE
Greener Computer
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/greening-of-apple-310507/greencomputerchallenge
How the World Bank and HSBC are Investing in
Deforestation
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/world-bank-congo-forest_300807
Hiroshima's Legacy
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/hiroshima-legacy-06082007
Solar Generation
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/solargen/sign-up
PODCAST: Whales and U.S. Military Sonar Noise Pollution
BECOME A CYBERACTIVIST
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/getinvolved/sign-up
Eco Headlines by email
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/subscribe3
Human Rights Watch Reports:
HRW 2006 WORLD REPORT
VIDEO: Ban Cluster Munitions
Short
film documenting the lethal effects of the use of cluster munitions worldwide,
with commentary, new statistics and analysis from military experts at Human
Rights Watch. http://hrw.org/campaigns/clusters/video2.htm
Support the Child Soldier Prevention Act of
2007
http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/child_soldiers/index.htm
TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL 2007-2008
http://www.hrw.org/iff/2007/traveling/titles.html
Beijing 2008
China’s Olympian Human Rights
Challenges
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/china/beijing08/
SLIDESHOW: Guantanamo 5 Years Later
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/guantanamo/2007/index.htm
Global Campaigns:
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Human Rights
in the U.S.
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa&c=usdom
Every recognized
country in the world, except for the United States and the collapsed state of
Somalia, has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
pledging to uphold its protections for children. Today the convention
stands as the single most widely ratified treaty in
existence.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/promises/
IRIN NEWS Reports:
Irin
Photo Gallery
http://www.irinnews.org/photogallery/iringallery.asp
Latest Audio Programs IRIN RADIO
http://www.irinnews.org/radio/default.asp
Weekly Reports
Asia,
Africa, & the Middle East
http://www.irinnews.org/Weeklies.aspx
Humanitarian Country
Profiles
http://www.irinnews.org/country-profile.aspx
Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations
TI has defined five global priorities in the fight against corruption:
Corruption
in politics
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/corruption_politics
Corruption
in public contracting
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/public_contracting
Corruption
in the private sector
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector
International
anti-corruption conventions
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/international_conventions
Poverty
and development
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/aid_corruption
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/public_contracting
Organized Crime and Corruption Information:
Global Corruption Report 2007
Special
focus: Corruption and Judicial
Systems
http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr/download_gcr#download
Global Corruption Report 2006
Special focus: Corruption and Health
Launched 1 February 2006, TI’s Global Corruption Report details how corruption deprives millions of access to essential health care and helps spawn drug – resistant strains of deadly diseases.
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm
Transparency International’s Web Portal on Anti-Corruption Resources (CORIS) http://www.corisweb.org/
PREVENTING CORRUPTION ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2005/16_03_2005_construct_projects
http://www.transparency.org/tools/contracting/construction_projects
A Special Report, IPS News,
Corruption depletes national wealth. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary infrastructure projects. "Corruption remains one of the greatest obstacles to economic and social development," says Helen Sutch, of the World Bank. Read IPS special coverage.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/corruption/index.asp
Business Principles for Countering Bribery
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector/business_principles
Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit
http://www.transparency.org/tools/e_toolkit
Costs of Corruption in Public Contracting
http://www.transparency.org/content/download/12496/120034
Anti-Corruption Handbook
National Whistleblower Center http://www.whistleblowers.org/
Govt
Doctors Get Whistleblower Protection
http://www.whistleblowers.org/Govt_Doctors_Get_Whistleblower_Protection.htm
International Call to Boycott U.S. Multinationals
http://www.boycottbush.org/index_en.php
GARY WEBB'S DARK ALLIANCE SERIES
re-posted by NARCONEWS
GARY WEBB: In His Own
Words
Tribute
to the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA’s
involvement in the importation of cocaine into the US
http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/viewer.php?id=30&spd=hi
Dark Alliance: Day One
America's
'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug
pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras by Gary Webb
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1main.htm
Testimony
links U.S. to drugs-guns trade
Dealers
got their 'own little arsenal' by Gary Webb
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1list.htm
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/webintro.mov
Dark
Alliance: Day
Two
The
Crack Epidemic's Shadowy Origins, By Gary Webb
If they'd been
in a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway
Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. This odd trio -- a
smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager -- made fortunes creating
the first mass market in America for a product so hellishly desirable that
consumers will literally kill to get it: ''crack'' cocaine. Federal
lawmen will tell you plenty about Rick Ross, mostly about the evils he visited
upon black neighborhoods by spreading the crack plague in Los Angeles and cities
as far east as Cincinnati. On Aug. 23, they hope, Freeway Rick will be sentenced
to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2main.htm
Drug agent thought she was onto something
big
On a November afternoon in 1981, San Francisco DEA agent Sandra Smith inadvertently uncovered the first direct link between cocaine and the secret army the Central Intelligence Agency was assembling to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Smith, one of the first female Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Bay Area, was investigating rumors that a cocaine ring run by Norwin Meneses was bringing drugs into California and, for some reason, sending weapons down to Central America. It was, she said, ''the only (case) that I ever worked, in all the time I worked there, that I thought was really big.'' http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2frog.htm
Drug expert: 'Crack' born in San Francisco Bay Area in
'74
Though Miami and Los Angeles are commonly regarded as
the twin cradles of ''crack'' cocaine, the first government-financed study of
cocaine smoking concluded that it was actually born here, in the San Francisco
Bay Area, in January 1974. After comedian Richard Pryor nearly immolated himself
during a cocaine-smoking binge in 1980, the National Institute on Drug Abuse
hired UCLA drug expert Ronald K. Siegel to look into the then-unfamiliar
practice. Siegel, the first scientist to document crack's use in the United
States, traced the smoking habit back to 1930, when Colombians first started
it.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2rock.htm
Dark Alliance: Day
Three
War
on Drugs Has Unequal Impact on Blacks in U.S.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day3main.htm
On PEACE:
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors:
Why Question the Military's JROTC
Program?
http://www.objector.org/jrotc/why.html
Before You Enlist...
You
wouldn't buy a car without looking under the hood. Don't enlist before you check
out the reality of military life that lies behind the glamorous television ads
and glossy brochures. http://www.objector.org/before-you-enlist.html
Get the Military Out of Our Schools
Are students getting a balanced education about the military? http://www.objector.org/
GI Rights Training
Train to Help Stop the Military Machine! Or at Least to slow it down. http://www.objector.org/gitraining060325.html
Tools for Activists
http://www.objector.org/moos/strategies.html
Protect Children not Guns 2007
report
Each
and every day in America we continue to lose far too many children to gun
violence in towns, cities and rural areas all across the United States. Data
from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that
every day, nearly eight children or teens are killed by gun violence in
America — 235 each month.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/Protect_Chidren_Not_Guns_2007.pdf?docID=3221
Protect Children not Guns 2006 Report
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/gunrpt_revised06.pdf?docID=1761
Children Still Neglected Two Years After
Katrina
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=newsroom_20070830_Katrina
Katrinas Children
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/Katrina_report07.pdf?docID=3721
Groups to Court: Stop NAFTA Truck Pilot
Program
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2497
How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the Environment
http://69.63.136.213/documents/HotProfitsGlobalWarming.pdf
Latest Public Citizen Action Items
http://www.citizen.org/action/
Tracking
the activities of special interests.
Auto and Truck Safety
http://www.citizen.org/autosafety/
Auto Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=5730
Asbestos Industry http://www.citizen.org/documents/master%20report.pdf
Congress & the Lobbying Industry http://www.citizen.org/documents/DeLay_Lby_Fndr_Tbl.pdf
http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/documents/RevovDoor.pdf
Energy Industry http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/dirtiest_plants2.pdf
Gambling Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=5771
Health Care & Pharmaceutical Industries http://www.citizen.org/documents/MedicareDrugWarReportREVISED72104.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/documents/DrugImportationFactSheet.pdf
Homeland Security Industries http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF1B7.pdf
Tobacco Industry
http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/articles.cfm?ID=800
Medical Malpractice Facts
Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby
http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/medmal/
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