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June 2003



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General News

"Rebuilding America's Defenses" and the Project for the New American Century
Bette Stockbauer -- June 18, 2003 (Antiwar.com)
"Rebuilding America's Defenses (RAD)" is a policy document published by a neoconservative Washington think tank called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Its pages have been compared to Hitler's Mein Kampf in that they outline an aggressive military plan for U.S. world domination during the coming century. And just as Hitler's book was not taken seriously until after his catastrophic rise to power, so it seems that relatively few Americans are expressing alarm at this published document that is a blueprint for many of the present actions of the Bush administration, actions which have begun to destabilize the balance of power between the nations of the world.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/stockbauer1.html

Habeas Corpus
Kirt Poovey -- JUNE 19, 2003 THU -- PRISON PLANET.com Newswire
Today we lay the Sixth Amendment to rest because it has outlived its usefulness. No longer can we abide by such outdated thoughts of those unenlightened writers of our constitution. Today the bad guy is Al Qaeda - tomorrow it may be you and your friends.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_poovey.html

Inmates Released from Guantanamo Tell Tales of Despair
By CARLOTTA GALL with NEIL A. LEWIS -- 06/17/03: (The New York Times)
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 16 -- Afghans and Pakistanis who were detained for many months by the American military at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba before being released without charges are describing the conditions as so desperate that some captives tried to kill themselves.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3803.htm

From liberation to counter-insurgency
By Jim Lobe -- WASHINGTON - (Asia Times)
It was just 45 days ago that President George W Bush, in a campaign-perfect photo-op, landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California, swaggered across the deck in full flight gear, and declared that Operation Iraqi Freedom had liberated that nation from the evil clutches of former president Saddam Hussein.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF18Ak01.html

AMERICA THE SCARY
By Richard Reeves -- Fri Jun 13, 1:34 PM ET Add Op/Ed - Yahoo News
LONDON -- "America the Scary Bends Democracy; Not the country we thought we knew," was the headline last Monday over the editorial column of the American-friendly Financial Times.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030613/79/4dyhe.html

Commentary: The Ministry of "Truth"
Mick Youther -- Intervention Magazine.com
In George Orwell's 1984, control the news and revise history was the function of the Ministry of Truth; in George Bush's Administration, literary history has become political reality.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=420

In volatile Iraq, US curbs press
US issues an order against inciting attacks on minorities or US troops.
By Ilene R. Prusher -- Christian Science Monitor -- June 19, 2003
BAGHDAD ? The once occasional attacks on US soldiers here are growing deadlier, and more frequent: Wednesday, a US soldier was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting. And outside the former Republican Palace, now the headquarters of the US administration, US troops killed two Iraqis
during a protest by former Iraqi soldiers that spiraled out of control.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0619/p01s01-woiq.html?worldNav

Report Says U.S. Did Target Media Outlets In Gulf War II
A newly released report notes that during the coalition air assault on Iraq, Central Command ��authorized�� bombing strikes against ��media facilities�� in which a number of journalists were killed and employed weapons that human rights groups want banned.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/newsupdatemain.html

Who is Cynthia McKinney
Greg Palast -- June 13, 2003 (AlterNet)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3819.htm

Toward a Just and Peaceful World
by CYNTHIA McKINNEY -- University of California at Berkeley Graduation Ceremony,
African Studies Department, Commencement Address, May 17, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney05202003.html

Assassination and the license to kill
By Richard M Bennett -- June 13, 2003 (AsiaTimes Online)
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Britain's MI6, freed of many of the political and legal shackles imposed in the latter years of the Cold War, are expanding their covert capability and the means to use "executive action", a euphemism for assassination...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF13Ak03.html

U.S. Troops Raid Homes West of Baghdad (Washington Times)
By CHRIS TOMLINSON -- Associated Press Writer
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

Resistance to occupation is growing
US and British troops are being sucked into an Iraqi quagmire
Richard Norton-Taylor and Rory McCarthy in Baghdad
Friday June 13, 2003 (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,976486,00.html

U.S. Forces "Slaughter" Iraqis At Dawn: Eyewitness
Islamonline -- June 14, 2003
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2003-06/14/article01.shtml

Theocracy Must Go the Way of the Shah
The Iranian Revolution, Reloaded?
By RON JACOBS -- June 13, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs06132003.html

Why the US needs this court
America's rejection of the International Criminal Court is a threat to its own security
Steve Crawshaw -- Sunday June 15, 2003 -- The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,976486,00.html

Anti-Imperialism, Then and Now -- -- By ANTHONY GANCARSKI-- June 13, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/gancarski06022003.html

18-year-old figures it out
http://www.rense.com/general38/18.htm

Shi'ite Happens: From Winning a War to Occupying a Nation
By SAUL LANDAU -- June 13, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/

Gilded Cage: Wackenhut��s Free Market in Human Misery (Global Prison Industry)
Greg Palast, June 11, 2003
http://www.guerrillanews.com/corporate_crime/doc2099.html

American Idle: "Dubyatizing" Americans into the GOP Posse
By WAYNE MADSEN -- May 24, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen05242003.html

Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction:
Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
By JOHN W. DEAN -- Friday, Jun. 06, 2003
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html


Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification

Theater of Deception Bush, Sharon and Abbas
By SAM HAMOD -- 08/19/03: (Information Clearinghouse)
George W. Bush, it appears is an adept thespian. Look at the way he kept telling the world that he was "doing all I can not to go to war with Iraq"--when in fact, he'd made the decision months earlier to definitely go to war against Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3836.htm

Why No Objection to Israel��s WMD?
By Hassan Tahsin -- CAIRO, 20 June 2003 (Arab News)
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has spelled out clearly his reasons for accepting the Middle East road map with 14 reservations. During the Aqaba summit on June 6, he said: ��Permanent peace requires permanent security. This permanent security will bring about permanent peace to Israel.�� To accept peace on Sharon��s terms would make the proposed Palestinian state a mockery in the service of Israel��s security.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3848.htm

Road Map to What?
By DAVID VEST -- June 13, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/vest06132003.html

Israeli retaliatory raids enhance Hamas' image
By Joshua Mitnick -- June 13, 2003 -- THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030613-104532-7668r.htm

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Its History, and Some Philosophical Questions it Raises -- Tomis Kapitan
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//courses01/rrtw/Kapitan.htm


North and South Korean Re-unification

France opposes US move against North Korea
US Is Attempting To Persuade Russia, Israel, and Other Nations To Participate In US-led pre-emptive Strike Against North Korea
Dawn The Internet Edition -- By Our Correspondent -- PARIS, June 15
French strategic planners say they're attempting to counter suggestions presently being made by Washington to Moscow, that Russian forces take part in a US-led "preventive" strike on nuclear facilities in North Korea, a French intelligence source said on Sunday.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/newsupdatemain.html

Koreas connect after 50 years
Saturday, June 14, 2003 Posted: 3:10 AM EDT (0710 GMT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea have connected railways across their heavily armed border, re-linking the two countries for the first time in more than a half century.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/14/koreas.railway.ap/index.html

Koreas open frontier for low-key rail ceremony -- By Paul Eckert
SEOUL, June 14 -- South and North Korea opened their heavily militarised frontier briefly on Saturday for a symbolic reconnection of railroad links, a key project agreed at a inter-Korean summit in 2000 but delayed by diplomatic friction.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters06-13-221435.asp?reg=PACRIM

President Offers Olive Branch to North Korea
By Shim Jae-yun -- Staff Reporter -- Korean Herald -- June 16, 2003
President Roh Moo-hyun yesterday indicated that the Seoul government will step up efforts to promote cooperation and exchanges with North Korea by inheriting the spirit of the June 15 inter-Korean summit meeting in 2000.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200306/kt2003061617310210160.htm

U.S. Pulling Troops From Korean DMZ
Jun 5, 1:45 PM (ET) -- By SANG-HUN CHOE
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030605/D7RFO3MG1.html

Dismantling: Pros and Cons Opinions of South Koreans, themselves--for and against the removal of US Troops:
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/030602.html


African Re-unification

Kenya Embassy Bombing:

US embassy bombing case: conspiracy trial perverts judicial system
By Bill Vann -- 22 February 2001 -- WSWS : News & Analysis : North America
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/terr-f22.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/bomb-j08.shtml

Behind the Bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya
What will happen, if . . . ? -- by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. -- August 14, 1998
http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1998/lar_kenya_bombing_2534.html

Bin Laden's Network: Terror Conspiracy or Loose Alliance?
By Colum Lynch and Vernon Loeb -- (Washington Post) Sunday, August 1, 1999; Page A01
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/bincon.htm

Confession
http://www.cipherwar.com/news/01/bin_laden_embassy_bombing_3.htm

Africa Subsidizing the West, Says Museveni Following Meeting With Bush
allAfrica.com -- June 11, 2003 -- Charles Cobb Jr. -- Washington, DC
http://allafrica.com/stories/200306110133.html

'Protecting Africans From Themselves'
The New Yorker's Congo Distortions: An Open Letter to Philip Gourevitch
By ROBIN PHILPOT -- June 7, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/philpot06072003.html

Charles Taylor��s fatal mistake
Radio Netherlands News -- by our Internet desk, 10 June 2003
http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/lib030610.html

Appeal: For African Brothers and Sisters...
by Jean-Pierre Laurent -- June 2003

. . . Dear brothers and sisters
. . . As l do regularly on our list , l am asking anyone of you if he or she would be interrested to help an African blessed family to start a business in order to survive or even take steps toward a good start in life. l know the situation of many families who dont know what they are going to eat tomorrow; everyday is just a matter of survival. My plan is to find another family to help them create a small business for them to live on, and hopefully expand. This is a matter of $200 or $300 -- l do not ask for a long-term support over years; but some money given only once. l am asking--on the other side--for a clear plan of how they want to build up their business.
. . . l know these families personaly, and know also that they are serious and dedicated brothers and sisters.
. . . If anyone is interested, he or she can contact me privatly; and according to your wish, l can bring you in contact with the other family (email adress) or can be a mediator between both sides.
. . . I am sure it will be a very rich experience spiritualy for both sides and our world family will come a little closer.
. . . Thanks in advance.
. . . JP

To Contact JP; see "Laurent Jean-Pierre" in HT Members directory at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomeostaticTruths/members
or through editor's email address, at the bottom of this page.

More on Blessed Families in Africa
Healing Circles ... (2003) by Simon Ndirangu Kingori
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomeostaticTruths/message/1964

Hundreds of thousands flee as fighting spirals
in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewSingleEnv/Democratic+Republic+of+the+CongoProfile+Summary

More on the Congo, and the roots of genocide...
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/030602.html

Africa, Oh Africa: Other News, Controversy, Pros and Cons
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/03Africa06.html


Historisists... Ain't that odd?

New Historicism Explained
http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Explaind/nhistexp.htm

What��s In A Name?
The Curious Case Of ��Neoconservative��
By Paul Gottfried -- April 30, 2003
http://www.vdare.com/gottfried/neoconservative.htm

The Two Political Labels that Matter:
Laissez Faire versus Dictatorship by George F. Smith
http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/laissez_faire_dictatorship.htm

Skulls find backs 'out of Africa' theory
By Clive Cookson, Science Editor
Published: June 11 2003 19:50 | Last Updated: June 11 2003 19:50
The oldest known fossils of modern humans have been discovered in Ethopia. An international team led by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, found the skulls of two adults and a child dating from 160,000 years ago - 40,000 years earlier than the previous oldest remains of Homo sapiens.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1054966007875

The Realm of The Mongols!
Written and maintained by Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway
http://www.coldsiberia.org/

A Review
No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons
By ALEX COOLMAN -- June 9, 2003
. . . That institutional indifference to the problem of sexual assault behind bars is documented in No Escape's final chapter, where Mariner notes that "rape occurs in U.S. prisons because corrections officials, to a surprising extent, do little to stop it from occurring."
. . . Even simple steps that could reduce the likelihood of sexual assault--such as realistic prisoner orientation programs and careful classification of prisoners by risk of victimization--are relatively uncommon, Human Rights Watch reports. Prisoners' complaints of rape are not taken seriously and avenues of legal redress are typically blocked.
. . . "Rape is not an inevitable consequence of prison life, but it certainly is a predictable one if little is done to prevent it and punish it," Mariner concludes.
. . . The two years since No Escape was published have seen a major surge of advocacy to address sexual assault behind bars.
http://www.counterpunch.org/coolman06092003.html

Rent-a-Negro.com
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/SciTech/ayo_rent030612.html


Completed Testament -- Good News / bad news

Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection

The Great Transition (Korean and English Translation)
May 10th, 2003 Hoon-Dok-Hae by Reverend Sun-Myung Moon
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/21DayEngKr1.html

Special "Israel" Report from Rev. Jenkins
The Jerusalem Declaration
http://www.familyfed.org/usa/


Frontlines / Sexual Identity

Heterosexual Society Is Under Siege -- Homo/Hetero In Deadly Rivalry
By Henry Makow, PhD -- 6-17-3
Last week heterosexuals came under attack in many places. In Ontario, courts granted gays permission to marry creating a contentious national rift. In Vancouver, parents narrowly blocked homosexual activists from placing their books on kindergarten curriculum.
http://www.rense.com/general38/heter.htm

Canada's gay Muslims unite to celebrate their faith and their sexuality
STEPHANIE LEVITZ -- TORONTO (CP) - (Cutting Edge News)
When Faisal Alam e-mailed thousands of Muslim students six years ago, asking if any among them were gay, he unknowingly lit a flare that illuminated a community largely hidden in the shadows.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/newsupdatemain.html

Presbyterians Oust Minister Over Gay Marriages
By Lisa Cornwell Associated Press Writer -- Published: Jun 16, 2003
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. (AP) - A Presbyterian minister who continued to marry same-sex couples despite the denomination's order forbidding gay marriages was ousted from the clergy Monday night by a church council.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA4SQPC1HD.html

Debate stirs about gay bishop
By Associated Press, 6/16/2003 -- CONCORD, N.H.
The applause that greeted the election of the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop has given way to fear and sadness in other parts of the country.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/167/metro/Debate_stirs_about_gay_bishop+.shtml

Landmark gay ruling may put Bush in bind
The Supreme Court will decide within the next two weeks one of the most important cases in the history of civil rights for gay Americans, reigniting a battle in the Republican Party that President Bush has delicately sought to avoid...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/15/MN184416.DTL

Untaint My Heart
Raising Teens in an Adult-Cultured World
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/03untainted.html


Frontlines / Species-Race Identity

Drug Turns Crime Victims Into Zombies
By Phil Stewart 6-18-3 -- BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters)
The last thing Andrea Fernandez recalls before being drugged is holding her newborn baby on a Bogota city bus. Police found her three days later, muttering to herself and wandering topless along the median strip of a busy highway. Her face was badly beaten and her son was gone.
http://www.rense.com/general38/frug.htm

Will Human Beings Truly Remain Human?
Transhumanism is a nascent and explicitly eugenic philosophy that advocates seizing control of human evolution through bioengineering...
http://www.breakpoint.org/BiotechPolicy/ChannelRoot/Features/Articles/Will+Human+Beings+Truly+Remain+Human.htm

U.S. Attorney General hiding U.S. Special Virus Program says activist
... SAN DIEGO - Human rights activist Boyd E. Graves was served copy of U.S. Attorney General. John Ashcroft's June 12, 2003 reply to his federal lawsuit compelling the United States provide the full and immediate disclosure of The U.S. Special Virus Program late Friday afternoon.
"We believe the review of the 15 progress reports of the U.S. Special Virus Program will garner our best opportunity to begin the process of dismantling another federal program of human subject experimentation gone awry, Graves said. "The United States must account to the American people and the people of the world for the U.S. Special Virus Program.
... Graves v. United States {02 CV 02396} is scheduled for opening arguments on June 27, 2003 during open court proceedings in the U.S. District Court for Southern California before Clinton era appointee Judge Jeffrey T. Miller.
http://www.boydgraves.com/news/061303.pdf
http://www.boydgraves.com/news/

CBS News Complicity?
Open letter to CBS - June 9, 2003
Forwarded from Dr. Boyd E. Graves
... A trial against the United States for the creation, production and proliferation of HIV/AIDS will begin in the federal court on June 27, 2003, in the Southern District of California. Shortly thereafter the people will name CBS as a co-defendant.
http://www.geocities.com/homeostatictruths/Graves030609.html





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