On The March

October 17th, 2006 at 07:36 Björn Hallberg

• Facing Up To 30 Years in Prison, Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Speaks Out As She Heads To Courthouse for Sentencing In the end she got 28 months for breaking the Kafkaesque silence surrounding the case. "Many argue that the government’s aim is to discourage them from representing unpopular clients." Ironically, the trial was held in the same courthouse that once tried and convicted the Rosenbergs on bogus charges. Weasel words indeed.
• CENTCOM harasses bloggers By new mass-emailings designed to sway a few insecure individuals and make them mouthpieces for the official propaganda.
• Judt at War: Two New York Talks by Israel Critic Canceled Tony Judt, Professor of European history at New York University has two concurrent speaking engagements cancelled after the ADL and the Jewish mafia throw their weight around.
• Pro-Israel Group Tops List of Congressional Travel Sponsors American Israel Education Foundation "spent $583,131, sponsoring 62 trips to Israel for lawmakers, their relatives and staff from July 2005 to July 2006." The organization is closely linked to AIPAC.
• Crisis of the U.S. Dollar System Just waiting for the inevitable.
• Revolution revisited The Budapest uprising in 1956 and the American involvement which played the Hungarians like pawns. Plus, when will Americas numerous attempts to squash popular protests, like the Kwangju uprising, elicit mainstream bemoanment.
• Taking the terror hoax mainstream 1: Chertoff: The Internet is turning people into terrorists Time to make war on the Internet? How predictable.
• Taking the terror hoax mainstream 2: No-Fly lists even dumber than suspected No surprise: They’re meaningless but they do maintain the idea that terrorists are everywhere, and anyone. Like the attack on the wired world, the governments of the world, spearheaded by the US, are reasserting a more oppressive state in the wake of the loss of public confidence.

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