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		<title>The Politics of Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent reports that Britain is facing an increased threat of nuclear attacks by al-Qa&#8217;ida terrorists, according to three counter-terrorism reviews . There was the threat from a radiological &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221;. The report suggested that bomb makers that have been active in Afghanistan could already have the ability to produce a &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221; using information available over the internet.Terrorists could transport an improvised nuclear device on the Thames and detonate it in the heart of London. Other areas thought to be vulnerable included Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow and Belfast. A counter-terrorism report said security around stockpiles of decommissioned material was &#8220;variable and sometimes inadequate leaving materials vulnerable and to theft&#8221;. Since September 11 Britain has been warned of the inevitability of catastrophic terrorist attack. A major new TV documentary claims that the perceived threat is a politically driven fantasy &#8211; and al-Qaida a dark illusion. The Guardian reports that since the attacks on the United States in September 2001, there have been more than a thousand references in British national newspapers, working out at almost one every single day, to the phrase &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221;. There have been articles about how such a device can use ordinary explosives to spread lethal [...]


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		<title>September 11, 2001: reflections on a somewhat unusual act of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an act of war, the al-Qaeda attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre was somewhat unusual,though not unprecedented, in three respects.First, the method used was non-standard.Standard military practice is to blow things and people up by dropping bombs or ﬁring shells and missiles on them. But ﬂying planes right into the target has been done before. Japanese kamikaze pilots used the technique against US warships in the Paciﬁc during World War Two. Second, al-Qaeda is a non-state actor.Such actors rarely have the capacity to carry through such a complex and costly operation.Therefore al-Qaeda must have hadﬁnancial backing from wealthy sponsors &#8211; Osama bin Laden himself comes from an extremely wealthy family &#8211; and the support,or at least complicity, of one or more powerful states. In general, arranging wars is a pastime for members of the capitalist class, though they get hirelings to do the dirty work for them. Working people don’t command the necessary resources. Finally, it is a little unusual for the US to be on the receiving end of a military assault from abroad. For a comparable attack on the continental United States, you have to go back to 1814, when the British army entered [...]


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		<title>Dirty war in Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers in Colombia are amongst the poorest in the world yet live in an area rich in natural resources. Colombia’s complex and on-going war between the government’s armed forces, drug producers and trafﬁckers, leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries, with blurred distinctions between each side, continues. Trade unionists, students, activists, journalists and those accused of collaborating with any side in the conﬂict are potential victims, not just combatants. This is not only a civil conﬂict, for following the globalisation of capital we see the globalisation of the means of defending capital: war. In the late 1980s the Andean Group of governments further liberalized investment regulations to ease the repatriation of proﬁts from foreign investments and to allow a greater foreign involvement in the national economy. This led to the Andean Pact free trade agreement in 1992. The most recent ﬁgures show that free-trade capitalism has done little to beneﬁt workers in Colombia. World Bank ﬁgures show that the national poverty rate declined from 65 percent in 1988 to 64 percent in 1999. According to the FAO, the number of undernourished people in the population decreased from 6.1 million in 1990-92 to 5.7 million in 2000-02. If this is the World Bank’s [...]


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		<title>N. Korea, a nuclear power?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cali Kid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, it was announced by the North Korean government that it was in the possession of nuclear weapons. It is thought that this could be a ploy to instill fear in other countries, particularly in the ﬁve countries that had been involved in disarmaments talks with N. Korea. One newspaper has been quoted about the situation by calling it “a crisis from hell”. At the same time it is thought that perhaps N. Korea is simply blufﬁng to gain leverage on the international community. Amidst the announcement, the US continues to reiterate the importance of restarting the 6 nation disarmament talks that N. Korea backed out of. The ultimate contradiction in this recent announcement is that while the “international community” criticizes N. Korea for its announcement, many of these same countries fully admit to their own possession of nuclear weapons, most of which I do not have to list for you. Do these countries know how silly they sound, when criticizing other countries for obtaining nuclear devices? The US and its allies use their nuclear capabilities as a security blanket, and yet they feel that other countries are not allowed the same option. While it is a relevant point, [...]


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		<title>Bombing Evidence Erased</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting tidbit from Empire Notes The New York Times reports that, according to Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero, before leaving office in April the Aznar administration erased all records related to the Madrid bombings: “There was not a single paper, not a single piece of data in computer form or on paper, absolutely nothing in the executive offices of the presidency because there was a massive erasing,” he said during more than 14 hours of testimony before the parliamentary commission investigating the attacks. The erasure was performed by a private company, because of course corporations always perform tasks better than the government, and the bill for 1200 euros was left behind. Of course, we already know that the Aznar government engaged in a massive campaign to lie about the attacks and place the blame on ETA rather than an Islamist jihadi group, even when the idea was ludicrous from the beginning to anyone familiar with ETA’s MO and that of al-Qaeda-like groups. It also must be observed that often governments infiltrate and use Terrorist groups for their own political uses- a good example being the Red Brigades, etc. in Italy in the P2 scandal. No related posts.


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		<title>Rights And Rules</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/1997/08/rights-and-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 1997 01:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the 1995 Oklahoma bombing and the threat of more terrorist activity, the lawmakers are giving the law-enforcers more power and the courts swifter and more severe punishment for those found guilty. There are those who fear this will infringe on the &#8220;rights&#8221; of the average citizen; rights guaranteed by the constitution. We have all heard the expression, &#8220;fight for your rights.&#8221; The question I have is fairly obvious: if we are guaranteed our rights, why must we fight for them? &#8230; This deserves a derisive chuckle, don&#8217;t you think? How many laws have been enacted in the past 200 years? For whatever reason, a law compels you to refrain from some activity or at times compels you to do something against your wishes, such as paying your taxes each year or perhaps serving time in the military. If you are bent on breaking the law about killing people, military service may be your cup of tea: the more people you kill, the more medals you get. Extraordinary, but true. In the world today there are millions of folks who rely on profits, interest and rents for their livelihood; these people are called capitalists. Most of them are [...]


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